The Ancient Imperial Calendar Year 1830
The years had flowed by like water.
Ricardo was now 35 years old.
In the intervening years, Marilin had given birth to seven daughters.
Meiran had not wanted another child.
Arnheid, not wanting to confront Marilin, did not want another child either.
This situation presented an unprecedented scene in the Kislavein Palace.
The Dynasty Lord had very few wives, and moreover, only one son.
The harem members were not killing babies and children for the throne.
The Kislavein Palace was not echoing with the screams of mothers, and small coffins were not leaving the palace.
However, the world had prepared countless coffins.
For the war whose start date was unknown.
In the palace's Throne Room, the Dynasty Lords of the Hundred Great Dynasties of the Western Lands and prominent figures of the Kislavein Palace had gathered.
A Blood Falcon shouted a name.
"DYNASTY LORD KRAEL KISLAVEIN II HAS ARRIVED!"
Everyone knelt and bowed their heads.
Ricardo walked through the kneeling crowd and sat on his Throne.
When he raised his hand, everyone lifted their heads and stood up.
For the first time since Ricardo's ascension, such a large crowd had gathered.
Everyone was waiting for the words that would come from between Ricardo's lips.
Ricardo stood up and spoke in a firm, deep, and authoritative voice.
"RESPECTED LORDS OF THE WESTERN LANDS! OUR PREPARATIONS, WHICH LASTED TEN LONG YEARS, HAVE FINALLY COME TO AN END! OUR MASSIVE ARMY OF TEN MILLION, EACH BEARING KISLAVEIN BLOOD, IS READY TO CONQUER THE THREE LANDS!"
Ricardo drew his sword.
"AS THE 66TH DYNASTY LORD OF THE KISLAVEIN DYNASTY, KRAEL KISLAVEIN II, I COMMAND: TO WAR!"
The hundreds of people in the Throne Room drew their swords and joined Ricardo.
"TO WAR! TO WAR! TO WAR! LONG LIVE KISLAVEIN! LONG LIVE THE WESTERN LANDS! LONG LIVE DYNASTY LORD KRAEL KISLAVEIN II!"
That day, three emissaries set out from Kislathor for the three Ancient Dynasties, knowing they would never return.
One headed North to Öttükent, the capital of the Turvig Dynasty.
Another to Continapolis, the capital of the Costin Dynasty.
The last to Mah-Ehrem, the capital and Holy Land of the Arfas Dynasty.
Three Kislavein emissaries read the declaration of war from Dynasty Lord Krael Kislavein II to the Lords of the three Ancient Dynasties.
The three emissaries were executed by the three Ancient Dynasty Lords, and thus,
The Second Great Lands War began.