Nuowa's second brother, who dared to attack their father, was certainly not unprepared. Thus, Leo VI's eldest son, due to insufficient preparation and misjudgment, was ambushed in the palace by his premeditated second son. After the ensuing battle, Nuowa's eldest brother finally learned the truth.
I went to ask my elderly father in person.
Having biologically eliminated his father and brother, Nuowa should be unstoppable and only needs to follow the standard procedures to be crowned and take control of the empire.
But perhaps because he wanted to fulfill the bond of "killing brothers for fun," the second prince, whose body was still covered in blood, turned around and pointed the blade at his other four brothers, and then began the execution of his brothers.
Nuowa recounted that he was frail and sickly as a child, so he went back to his room to rest early that day. As a result, he accidentally escaped the first wave of the purge, and only realized that something terrible was about to happen when the front hall was engulfed in flames.
The sixth prince, who was thinking to himself that he was doomed, only had time to take a maid who helped carry his luggage with him. The two packed some essentials, passed through the secret passages in the palace that had been sealed for many years, and finally escaped from the capital.
After hearing Nuowa's explanation, Ed found it all incredibly unbelievable.
According to the other party, he was only ten years old 110 years ago. Faced with such a bloody night in the palace, he was able to escape successfully and even took away an ancient book and his own little treasure!
However, Ed still couldn't see any connection between this and the elves, so he continued to listen attentively:
Having fled the capital, Nuowa began a life of hiding and fleeing.
As the youngest son of the previous emperor, he was not considered a rival by anyone due to his young age and poor health. Therefore, his father and elder brother were very tolerant of him.
In addition, Nuowa's gentle personality earned him the care and affection of everyone (except for those who love killing their brothers).
This ignited a flame of revenge in Nuowa's heart—he didn't care who held the Supreme position; he simply couldn't accept his second brother's beastly behavior.
Not only did he kill his father, brother, and younger brother, but he also practiced evil arts, colluded with demons, and massacred his blood relatives in the family lineage.
Nuowa thus resolved to take revenge and, with his assistant Liya in hand, infiltrated the Empire's second-largest city Nors Port, to begin their clandestine development.
Unlike Ed's impression of methods like "secretly raising three thousand assassins," Nuowa had his own logic and process for rebellion, and the first step in that process was to make money.
The deceased elder brother and father were unaware that their beloved, sickly prince Nuowa was actually a genius, and not just in one field.
Just as finding the secret passage to the palace relied on deciphering codes that had been sealed away for hundreds of years in the library, Nuowa quickly thrived in his new home after escaping the capital and arriving in Nors, thanks to his intelligence and resourcefulness.
In his first year in the commercial port city of Nors, apprentice Nuowa earned his first fortune by selling a modified version of the royal medicine that cured a small-scale epidemic, even though the epidemic was actually a false one created by him using another kind of medicine.
The following year, Doctor Nuowa cured a High Tier elf's hidden ailment with his genuine skills, thus establishing a good relationship with the elven race. He also secured an opportunity for Liya to go to the Elf Island to learn elven combat techniques, and began to study Psionic Energy magic and the handwritten notes left by his ancestor, the first emperor of the empire, Stral.
In the third year, Nuowa, the owner of the clinic, relied on his prestige and the influence of the elves to build up his own power and began to secretly infiltrate the underworld of Nors Port.
In the fourth year, the fearsome "Mr. Nuowa " bribed the elves with a large sum of money, obtaining official certification as " Short-Eared Elf " and beginning his transformation plan. Meanwhile, Liya returned from her studies, and the "miracle doctor" of Nors Port disappeared, replaced by two extravagant, high-profile elf tycoons who insisted on "spending lavishly" every day.
In the fifth year, the Imperial Secret Service, already weakened by the purges following the change of the throne, was finally rebuilt and began a large-scale investigation throughout the country. Nuowa's trail was finally completely connected. Just as the assassins were about to successfully silence them, Nuowa and Liya were forcibly protected by the elves on the grounds of diplomatic immunity, and ultimately only received the punishment of being expelled from the country.
In the sixth year, the wealthy elf Nuowa, who had returned with a new name, created what was truly a "luxury item" in this world—something that had no use other than being expensive—using reasons such as "we elves just like this." He successfully made money from almost all the noblewomen of the empire and kingdoms.
In the seventh year, scholar Nuowa introduced the concepts of "stocks" and "futures," built a building called "Trading House" in Nors, and started a new round of frenzied speculation.
In the eighth year, only one voice remained in the underworld of Nors Port: "Mr. Nuowa " controlled more than 60 percent of the smuggling routes between the Kingdom and the Empire. All the imperial officials in the Nors Port region became his puppets. Nuowa began to slowly extend his tentacles toward the capital.
In the ninth year, the " Shadow Governor" purchased a large number of metal mines in the kingdom and began to secretly manufacture and acquire a large number of weapons and armor, while also standardizing the training of his growing number of subordinates.
In the tenth year, the unspeakable "that person" had prepared everything.
He possesses exceptional personal strength, and is also accompanied by a shadowy bodyguard; the two work together and are virtually invincible.
His soldiers were well-trained and well-equipped, and for many years they were well-fed and well-paid, and extremely loyal to him.
His intelligence network spanned the entire empire and kingdoms; any major event occurring in the two Decay ancient dynasties was like the tremor of a spiderweb to him.
He possessed evidence of many of the empire's nobles' scandals and misdeeds, which, if made public, would be enough to shake the emperor's rule.
He controls the world's only "market" and is prepared to unleash a "stock market crash," causing the kingdom's nobles to lose everything and preventing them from taking advantage of the empire's internal turmoil to launch a military campaign south.
At this moment, Nuowa had done everything he could. He just needed an opportunity, an opportunity that most people couldn't answer the call to, such as the autumn harvest.
If he seizes that opportunity, he can send troops straight to the capital and secure victory in one fell swoop.
However, what Nuowa did not expect, or rather, what the entire kingdom, the entire empire, and even the entire world did not expect, was that an unexpected event came even earlier than the autumn harvest.
The matter is:
Demonic Tide erupted.