Elder Mars with his hand on Kaida's back urges her to say hello to Edward, however she can't find the words. The longer she remains kneeled Infront of Edward the clearer she can see what she could not from across the room
"Kaida what's wrong?" Elder Mars catching the collapsing Kaida in his lap, her breath becoming shallow and her heartbeat spiking, cold to the touch despite her blood racing throughout her veins
"Back away, Elder Mars. Let me take a look" Edward pushing the elder away by his shoulder, placing his fingers on the girls neck to check her pulse
[What was that look... her eyes were full of fear and could not meet mine]
Edward noticing Kaidas physical reaction was not from any internal damage, and that nothing external had harmed her in his presence deduces, "It seems to be something mental, Elder Mars"
"Young Lord what do you mean?"
"Nothing physical has caused her condition, its most likely a bad memory hitting her mind hard, or even intense emotion that has shaken her body. Even though she is medically in good health, she is not calming down so I will perform a pressuring technique to ease her into rest"
Elder Mars nods his head in consent for the treatment, with the green light Edward places both his index fingers on Kaidas temples and applies slight pressure. On top of the pressure his Chi enters her body to monitor the situation. After five minutes of applying varying pressure to her head, her heartbeat is back into normal ranges, and her breath becomes steady as she falls asleep
"She is alright now, just resting"
"Thank you, Young Lord. This is certainly not what I hoped for, our tribe is taking a step arguably as large as Levants, yet my wife is not here to see it, my son is out cold, and my granddaughter became ill. I feel guilty that regardless of all this, I am excited. I am happy to see our future"
"As you should Elder Mars, your tribe will only grow in importance inside my country from here on. I will also be relying on your service"
"HAHAHA. Yes, yes. Young Lord, I am ready at your order!"
"Good. For now, take rest and look after the chief and your grandchild. Once Chief Luke is lucid explain our conversation and what I promised, explain to the tribesman and get them ready for my call"
"Are you leaving Young Lord?"
After Edward confirmed the Palaeo tribes loyalty, strength, and completed his objective, his mind immediately shifts onto his next item on his to do list. Wanting to leave for Beast Pavilion and take a rest before meeting the patriarch, Edward realizes the distance he would have to cover to return. While the journey is nothing to him, it is different for the tribesmen, so he introduces Elder Mars to the thousand radius array and explains its function. Elder Mars naturally intrigued by the array shows Edward to prime location for its installment, securely guarded by the stronger members of the tribe, and space for large amounts of people to fit the array
Laying down the formations Edward explains how that array is capable of transporting people and objects across the world instantaneously anywhere that there is a copy of the array, however for security purposes this array will be modified and only connected to its twin in the capital, preventing outsiders from entering the tribes city from the other cities that will have an array installed.
"Young Lord, you plan to have all of the countries cities interconnected via this divine array..."
"This idea was originally for the military to be able to take action anywhere quickly, but I can no longer ignore the economic benefit either. Your tribe will most likely be opened up to products and services you have never seen or heard of or"
"Naturally, our people might not want to return to our city after spending time down south HAHA"
"Lets hope that's not the case, this city being abandoned is bad for the country"
"Young Lord, before you leave I have one more question"
"Yes?"
"Those golden characters in the sky earlier, can you tell me what they were?"
[Those characters were the rule of the law... something I want no part of right now] "I don't know what they were, they were weird thought right?"
[Hmm you know what they are, you pointed them out before they appeared]
Edward and Elder Mars say their goodbyes to each other in awkward tone, unlike how they have spent their time together their goodbye left them both feeling sour. Edward upset with the question having it brought back the feeling of happiness of discovering his specialized law and consequently his destruction. Elder Mars conflicted with the thoughts of his enlightenment, wanting to know desperately what the characters were.
Edward confident he is a good distance away from the watchmans gaze, is about to activate his art but realizes he had forgotten to ask about the light in the bottles.
[Oh well, next time then]
As he walks through the void Edward continues to think about what he talked about with Master Hao, his lobbying for mortals in the peace keeping forces kept coming up short the more he thought about it. He was thinking about how to reform the current country, trying to fix all of the areas its lacking in at once which was a problem. So, its weighing heavy on his mind how to get more cultivators into his forces, while having sufficient guards in cities to guard the population from itself, outside threat, and keep the thousand radius array secure.
While Edward is combing his memories looking for solutions from his past life to help solve his current problems, he cannot find one. By the time Edward had land that was his own in the Immortal Yiqi realm nobody could challenge him, securing his cities and teleportation locations werent a big deal as nobody attacked him. Now it is different, Edward has enemies, enemies who can take advantage of the infrastructure he has planned, enemies capable of taking from him.
Under the moon light somewhere inside of the sacred forest, Edward stops his traveling and burst into laughter. Finding his new life much more amusing than he has had before, amused with how small he currently is, amused with the fact the earthlings he looked down on, were in reality currently more than his equal. Edward surely was more knowledgeable, but that meant not if he cannot overcome everything set before him.
Gaining clarity regarding the matters of security, military, economy, and even the war against the Grotish, Edward realizes the greatest thing hindering the country at the moment is time.
Rushing into Lions Hall, after using his divine art intensely, the fastest he had traveled thus far on Earth, Edward strides past the false wall behind his fathers throne without even checking for witnesses.
In the damp room behind the wall Kayce Alberts knights are studying the thousand radius array are shocked from his sudden arrival. Paying again no attention to them, hardly even noticing them Edward walks into the hallway of the secret wing and is outside of the patriarch's private study. One of the knights who refused to study the array, and is only concerned with serving the patriarch stands in between Edward and the door
"Move" Edward demands coldly
"I cannot, Young Lord"
Knowing Kayce Albert is inside, Edward doesnt argue, only uses is divine art and steps into the room by passing the guard
Unaware of the intrusion Kayce Albert is still standing at the table studying the array, only accomplishing a small achievement in its understanding
Edward who would normally have a laugh at the sight, remains focused and opens in a voice that causes Kayce to turn in confusion
"We need to talk"
"WHO" Kayce turns
"Patriarch, we have much to discus, have you talked to Master Hao?"
[It is just you] Patriarch Kayces blood begins to boil
"I havent talked to the Grand Elder"
"Good, I recently talked to him about somethings, but have changed my mind"
"What things?"
"Just the restructuring of the country, how to more effectively use our manpower"
"You are arrogant to assume you are in charge of such a task"
"I already am in charge of it" pausing and looking up at Kayce, Edwards eyes narrow "This country is mine now" he says in mockingly
The statement causes Kayces Chi to abrupt, blowing the papers and smashing the furniture in the room, and Edwards knees to slightly buckle
[He still isnt going all out] Knowing the reason he is still on his feet is because Kayce isnt even igniting half of his Chi
"My "son" you have quite the mouth on you, if you know whats good for you return to you quarters and await the ceremony two days later"
"I dont care for some preceding to tell me what I already know, as the Young Lord of this country, I will make it take the shape of what I believe is best"
"You continue to step on the line" Kayce now erupting enough of Chi to make Edward kneel