Chapter 383 Establishment and Time

After a passionate embrace, Shaoke held Mage Roman and they quietly discussed some matters regarding the family. They now needed to cultivate professions that would serve their family. Of course, although it was a mage family, other numerous professions were still required, though their training was not as robust as that of the family mages.

In the following months, Shaoke continued to focus on his magical experiments, while Mage Roman, in the midst of researching magical items, suddenly felt that the time for advancement had arrived. For this reason, the mage had to temporarily slow down his own experiments and devote himself to assisting Mage Roman in preparing for the promotion.

The method for an Alchemist's advancement was quite simple, but the required magical materials, magical plants, and herbs were vast in quantity. Fortunately, with the help of the Blue-robed Mage and others, they managed to gather the vast quantities of materials needed for Mage Roman's advancement.

At this time, the White-robed Cleric also finished treating the other injured ninth-order professionals and joined in assisting Mage Roman's promotion. Every day, she used a special method with golden light to stabilize Mage Roman's meditation space. Thus, after an altar was constructed, the female mage began her advancement.

As mentioned earlier, the advancement of an Alchemist was not complicated. After spending three to five months building the altar, Mage Roman successfully advanced in just a few magical hours.

With the chanting of a spell, an illusory altar materialized from the air and slowly merged into Mage Roman's body. Finally, countless silver threads from the altar pierced into Mage Roman's entire body again, and a large amount of magic power and mental energy entered the alchemist's body under Shaoke and others' watch. After everything disappeared, the advancement was complete.

After advancing, Mage Roman's eyes contained two floating silver altars, which looked very bizarre. Since she currently had no spellcasting ability, she could not rely on herself to fly. However, she enchanted a robe with the Flight spell, allowing her to fly in the air with only a small expenditure of magic power and mental energy.

For this, Mage Roman spent an entire day and night suspended in the air. Shaoke held the White-robed Cleric and accompanied her through the night. Finally, at the White-robed Cleric's persuasion, Mage Roman returned to the room.

A few days after the advancement, Mage Roman finished her own insights and then, together with the White-robed Cleric, spent several days intimately with Shaoke before they continued their respective work. Shaoke did not go out like others to hunt down members of the Mage Guild; instead, he, like Mage Meigan, began to focus on nurturing young children as the future core of their family.

Although their settlement was large, its population was not great—just over a million people. Every year, children born were tested for talent by mages. Those with mage talent were often the main targets of competition among various families. After a round of distribution, Shaoke finally obtained three infants with spellcasting talent, while Mage Meigan got only two. This was mainly because many families had suffered devastating losses in battles; thus, according to the rules, most talented children were given to these families as compensation for their sacrifices. Of course, after reaching a certain number, these compensations ceased.

Time passed swiftly. Several years quickly passed. During this period, besieged by nearly all wandering alliances across the continent, the Mage Guild finally completely withdrew from this barren land. At this time, the Blue-robed Mage and others used every means to obtain populations from other empires and bring them to this settlement. Now, the settlement had reached nearly ten million people. Among them, dozens of infants with spellcasting talent were discovered each year, taken in, and taught. Of course, there were also many with other professional talents; for example, hundreds of infants with natural warrior talent were discovered every year by mages.

One day, while Shaoke was reading in the massive mage tower's library, the Blue-robed Mage sent him a message to gather in the meeting hall. Without hesitation, Shaoke informed Mage Roman and went to the meeting hall.

After all twelve ninth-order professionals of the Blue Feather Empire had gathered, the meeting began. "Everyone, the Mage Guild personnel have completely withdrawn from here. The Hebrew Empire, the Maple Leaf Empire, and several other superpowers' Wandering Alliances want to invite us to participate in a conference. Their idea is to gather all wandering alliances and establish a new country here—a nation that is a paradise for wanderers," the Blue-robed Mage said, casting her gaze toward Shaoke and the others, quietly watching their reactions.

"This should be highly unrealistic," the only female warrior said, frowning. "After such a country is established, how would it differ from other empires? Would it not eventually develop into suppressing wanderers? There are always national restrictions on professions." She then turned to look at Mage Meigan, with whom she had a good relationship. Mage Meigan nodded to her and then frowned in thought. The rest sat in silence, saying nothing.

The Blue-robed Mage sighed helplessly, then added, "We are just discussing. At the conference, we will either support or oppose the establishment of such a country." She continued, "The establishment of this empire would be completely different from others. We would still live in our respective settlements, retaining full control over our territories, but with increased communication among ordinary residents."

This situation troubled her greatly. Shaoke and the others only focused on their experiments or cultivation, not caring about the lives of ordinary people. Long-term isolation often led to a lack of material circulation, and without a formal name for trade with other empires, the lower levels of the wandering alliances were not faring well. Of course, the Blue-robed Mage briefly mentioned these matters but was quickly stopped by the others, as they found such considerations tedious and were inept at them. Finally, after the Blue-robed Mage's persuasion, Shaoke and the others agreed with her opinion to fully support the establishment of an empire. Of course, they would not handle these matters themselves.

After the meeting ended, as Shaoke was about to leave with the others, the Blue-robed Mage suddenly stopped him and said, "Mage Xueye, accompany me to that conference. I think your strength can deter some professionals who are unfriendly to us." The Blue-robed Mage looked at him with some hope. The male mage had no reason to refuse, as the Blue-robed female mage had given him so much help during this period.

After returning and telling Mage Roman and the others about his upcoming journey, Mage Roman gave Shaoke detailed advice on various matters, finally adding, "There, you must act assertively. Otherwise, others will look down on you, and your opinions will carry little weight." She shared her own experiences with him. After a brief moment of intimacy, Shaoke tightened his cloak and followed the Blue-robed Mage through a teleportation array, leaving the settlement for the gathering place.

The meeting site was still the massive palace, but now it sat on a small hill, surrounded by desolation with few commoners around. At this time, three to four thousand ninth-order beings had gathered in the palace. Such a scene astonished Shaoke, as even during the battle with the Mage Guild, he had not seen so many gathered here. After finding seats, the Blue-robed Mage explained in detail.

It turned out that the battle with the Mage Guild had not only involved those summoned by the Hebrews but also similar groups from three or five other superpower wandering alliances that had fought the Mage Guild simultaneously. This time, because it affected all wanderers across the continent, the leaders of all wandering alliances within the Luanyun Empire, after discussion, finally chose this location. Each empire's wandering alliance had only two ninth-order beings participating. The three to four thousand gathered here represented over a thousand imperial wandering alliances involved in this matter. Everyone knew that whatever was decided at this conference would establish rules that would last until the day all wandering alliances disappeared. Therefore, they took the rules to be established very seriously. At this moment, the Blue-robed Mage became somewhat nervous. Shaoke had to gently hold her hand to comfort her. "This affects our interests for tens of thousands or even millions of years. If you were in my position, you would not be much better," the Blue-robed Mage said, trying to relax and appear calmer, but her tightly grasping hand revealed her unease. As time passed, after no more professionals entered the hall, the conference finally began. The meeting was presided over by the alliance leaders of seven superpower empires. Although everyone knew they would discuss the establishment of an empire, the presiding leaders still detailed the reasons for establishing the empire and sincerely hoped everyone would support it. They then left some time for discussion before proceeding to a vote. Of course, they applied the principle of majority rule in this conference. After all, this was not a battle but a matter concerning the survival of each major organization, so every leader would consider it seriously rather than resort to force.