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Chapter 14 - the four emperors

"Any signs of his exists?"

"N-no sir but there is a rumor that was spread around which showcased him as the murderer of the Baek's annihilation, this ended up with him having a bounty on his head as a justification to uncover his hideout." Dunn frowned deeply as he kept silent for a moment, the doors open and he saw something he was nor hoping to see and as the closed, the man who entered the room sat down and looked at him while he smirked.

"It has been a while Dunn." Dunn was heavily shocked as he realized that this man was his long exiled uncle, Jonas Vic Lionhart was a crazy man who killed his own blood kin for fun, he had a muscle body with scars, red hair, he looked like a mad man he was said to be and was wearing nothing but his pants.

"Brat to think you will be the family head, the grand emperor is disappointed with you and so i am here to offer you a deal, a deal you can not deny."

"Greetings uncle, what is the deal?" He looked at him with desperate eyes as in like this will be is final choice, "Killing that boy will be challenging so i do know that you seek that more than anything, so i will tell you about the emperors but i will only tell you whom they are only since that is all i know and about the identity of this Ignas will be quite something."

"Do enlighten me."

"There are a total of four emperors and one evil emperor, 240 years ago the azure war occurred and the evil emperor was killed. The remaining four emperors are Fire, Water, Earth and Storm, they are called by their elemental powers and their names are unknown. The fifth is called Shadow and he is said to to have no army of his own, no people and so this is his number 1 weakness but somehow the emperors lost in their first fight. Emperors rely on their empires to boost their strength so every loyal citizen grants them unlimited strength which was quite helpful during the great war, secondly is that after death they can chose their successor whereby they would be taught and led into the three trials of royalty."

"So in other words they got mad because they are losing their loyal followers?"

"Indeed so regarding the successors of the evil emperors, over the years there have been over 500 successors and they were all capture and kill which of course they started to realize that killing them only brings another birth to a new successor and so now they are planning on capturing him, destroy his Mana core before killing him. The current successor is none other than Ignas Lionhart(Sighs in annoyance) he does not even deserve the Lionhart's family name any way i was told to aid you so for now we will head to Russia for your training." Dunn nodded without questions asked and so they prepared for the Russia.

Meanwhile, Ignas was preparing to sleep as Ragnis and Velkan were knelt in front of him, "Master we will take care of everything so there is no need to worry yourself." With heavy eyes he looked at Ragnis then nodded softly as he finally sleep after not sleeping for a 1 000 years, consistently working on the improvement of his world. His mother and the wives entered the throne room and saw him asleep. Velkan approached them as he took out four cards that consisted of the knowledge of advancing to nascent soul early stage, the were for the three of them but the fourth one belonged to Number 1(disciple of Ignas).

"My ladies, this will be helpful with your breakthrough and please do give the remaining one to Number 1." Rosa looked at Velkan and asked, "This is Immortal ascension breakthrough card?"

"Yes, do not get greedy." She got infuriated and rushed out shouting:

"I'm not greedy!!!" Velkan laughed at her then went out too which inevitably left Ignas all alone.

In the Russia, Dunn and Jonas were seated in an office with other 15 mysterious family heads and clan heads, there is a major different between the two. It is like a king and emperor, the four emperors arrived and so the meeting began. After a long discussion and planning, they concluded that Ignas must be in the shadow world and they can not get to him unless he leaves himself. The four emperors remained with Dunn, his body was shook violently in fear and he could not only think of anything or why such rulers would want to talk to him alone.I greet the great emperors." They stared at him for a while then Flame spoke with a calm tone:

"I think your contribution to this recent event but you are merely a foundation stage and you could not even gauge his realm which is now our current problem so until we can sense his mana again you will be in seclusion, it will be quite nice is you tell me that he does not know you were involved in this plan of ours. Why am i even asking, it will be best if you focus on yourself since you will be responsible of killing him.

[Host has broke through to ninth stage of Golden Immortal]

"….That was quite a good nap, i advanced to the ninth stage of Golden Immortal while sleeping huh…very weird but it does not matter, let me go get a bath and check the development." After bathing he went out and met with Jane, "H-husband it is good to see you again."

"You…advanced to sixth stage of Immortal Ascension, you have done well…what about mother and Rosa?" Jane looked at him as he has now become 248 cm, the long black hair got passed the waist, his golden eyes only got purer, he's got a brown as the onyx skin faded away and scales were visible on his on his body. She wanted to ask him about his new look but got scared and answered to him, "They are currently in the training grounds and they are above me by one stage."

"Hmm then why are you here and not training?"

"I-i wanted to rest for a bit that is all, y-you look different…" She looked down in embarrassment and did her best to avoid eye contact, Ignas glanced at her then responded calmly:

"Because i am no longer human, i almost died when i was 17 after being beaten up by an awakened and i took on a legacy of a non human."

"W-what….so you are a dragon?"

"Do i look like a lizard with wings?!" This statement confused Jane as she started to put the pieces together, then she thought that her husband was a snake.

"N-no…can we go now?" Ignas glared harshly and nodded, upon the arrival in the training ground, Ignas shared a secret of his shadow world's time with them.

"Wait wait are you saying we are over 300 000 years?! They all said in shock almost completely sync,

"To be precise with your question…365 000 years including your real age."

"WHAT!!" They noticed his change but never actually dared to ask questions well except for Jane.

"I greet the emperor, during your resting years we had a large number of population increase as we are currently sitting on 4 million. The development has become almost equal to the mundane world as we managed to produce electricity, the warriors of 17 thousand has become an army of 2 510 000 million as the remaining 90 000 are civilians but they did learn how to fight let all that...your first disciple has ranked 1st on being the first among the first generation to reach third stage of True Immortal realm."

"Hmm....good keep it up then are there any shadow beings that were born or something else?"

"No master." They then went to on and continued their training, "Call him.

"I pay my greetings to master!"

"You did a wonderful job on reaching True Immortal so for that i will give you this three sword techniques, study them well."

"T-thank you master." He bowed and stood up to leave, "I will going to my chamber, no one should distract me unless if it is important."

"Understood master." He reached the chamber and sat on his bed.

"Status Window."

[Name: Ignas Lionhart

Age: 27(365 627/3 050 000 years)

Race: Shadow azure dragon

Synchronization:87%

Risk: None

Attributes: Shadow warp, shadow creation, shadow's authority, the promise, shadow's guardian and the void within.

Shadow warp: moves freely by jumping from one shadow to another without entering the shadow world.

Shadow creation: allows you to make shadow being and what ever you wish freely.

Shadow's authority: control over shadows including wild ones.

The promise: As my successor you are bound to me as I am to you, bondage of what you promised….DEATH TO THE EMPERORS.

Shadow's guardian: only actives when you are in danger, the wild shadows will protect you regardless of your concern or acknowledgment.

Abilities: Black Lightning, Intermediate shadow's swordsmanship, Unseen, Magic converter, Shadow seeker, Fear of the dark and Reaper's Mark.

Black Lightning: Made by Ignas with curiosity, he made a magic spell that can kill an army in one shot.

Intermediate swordsmanship: Legacy left behind by Shadow emperor, this swordsmanship can not be countered if you master it.

Unseen: Hides your presence nor can they hear you.

Magic converter: Allows your to change magic into shadow magic.

Shadow seeker: Allows you to adopt shadows without a masters, but they will be eaten by your shadow as it allows it to grow.

Shadow slots (0/100)

Fear of the Dark: Cause enemies to be unable to move in terror from your shadow aura.

Reaper's Mark: Mark an enemy for death, their shadow slowly kills them over time.

The void within: ???]

'My life span increase by 50 000 and the synchronization is only 87%(sighs tiredly)....well anyway i should wait until it is 90% so maybe another 5 years should do.'

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