Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes-Chapter 674 - 192: The Unrest of the Royal Family

"Finally, all were shaken off."

In the Deep Dream World, watching the last Ninth Rank caught unprepared by the collapse of the dream world’s bubbles, disappearing into the endless chaos of dreams, Anvis let out a soft breath.

Thus far, all his pursuers had been shaken off, and although he seemed to be lost in this endless Deep Dream World as well, with the Inheritance Land as a special anchor point, he could still use it as a stepping stone to return to Yar Continent.

With the strength of the Floating City as protection, it could ensure that he himself was not assimilated by the ubiquitous and strange dream forces, turning into a permanent part of the Deep Dream World.

Anvis was quite satisfied with the outcome of this operation.

Although Marquis Anrita had ultimately escaped, the physical forms of Marquis Cui Jing and Marquis Beixi were destroyed without a fight under the assault of the Floating City.

As for Duke Carrot’s display of caution, Anvis felt it was very normal.

Putting himself in others’ shoes, if he were in Duke Carrot’s position, he would similarly suspect that he might be eliminated by the ’Truth Circle’ holding control over the Floating City.

However, what surprised Anvis a bit was that Marquis Beixi had sought help from some ancient existence before dying, and got an affirmative response.

It’s just that, the other side might have misjudged the power of the Moon of Annihilation, or perhaps didn’t intend to save Marquis Beixi at all.

The strange forces flooding from the other end of the Spiritual Channel did not successfully block the Annihilation Attack of the Moon of Annihilation, instead dissipating into trails of invisible and eerie smoke, leaving behind an indelible Spiritual Imprint on the Floating City.

This was different from a more substantial Magic Imprint, as it was more of a conceptual existence.

If a normal marking spell meant ’this Floating City has been marked by some unknown magic imprint ’, then this Spiritual Imprint meant ’this Floating City has been marked’.

Its true medium does not exist in this world, from another unknown angle, this is a pressing issue Anvis needs to solve; otherwise, when he returns to the Main Material World, certain entities could directly descend following the mark.

Fortunately, with the precious knowledge records of the Inheritance Land and the data repository of Sky City, there is currently a solution within Pomiya’s data repository, although it will take some time.

During this time, the Sky City could only temporarily hide in the layered Dream Realm.

Luckily, for the next period of time, the "Truth Circle" guise also needs to lie low, allowing the continent to digest the current information.

No Ninth Rank is a fool, when Anvis exposed the existence of the Floating City, he never expected the relationship between the Floating City and the underlying Truth Circle to remain hidden for long.

Having the Truth Circle with the Floating City and without the Floating City are completely different concepts. Next, the Three Great Empires of the continent would likely spare no effort, madly trying to find and eliminate the existence of the Truth Circle.

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With the floating city’s exit, the civil war within the Empire temporarily ceased.

In this action by Anvis, the Empire lost two Marquises.

This was a massive influence, two Ninth Rank Marquises fell under the attack of an unknown force’s Floating City, and this touched on extremely complex interest relationships.

It involved not only the territories and forces controlled by the two Marquises but also the game rules of the Gloria Empire. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

If it were just a nobility civil war, it could still be barely explicable, but according to the subsequent investigation/prophecy, the Floating City seemed to be related to the Truth Circle!

A resistance organization brazenly attacking and killing Empire Marquises had already threatened the governing foundation of the Gloria Empire.

The Royal Family had no choice but to take a hard stance, dispatching a Ninth Rank toward the retreat of Gloria III to try an emergency awakening of Gloria III, and decide whether to activate the Empire’s heritage at all costs to find the Truth Circle and take control of that Floating City.

But what surprised everyone was that the Ninth Rank never got to meet Gloria III; his palace, where he was supposedly in retreat, was also empty, as if it had been abandoned for a long time.

The news of Gloria III’s mysterious disappearance soon spread among the Royal Ninth Ranks, who secretly convened to decide to activate the Mysterious Object left by the Ancient Magic Empire, the "Eye of Destiny", to urgently search for the Emperor’s whereabouts.

However, this time, even the "Eye of Destiny," reputed to be as effective as a Ninth Rank Prophet and on par with the Destiny Stone Tower, failed to locate Gloria III.

At this result, many of the Ninth Rank had already a vague suspicion.

One thing that could be confirmed was that Gloria III was not dead.

The feedback from the Eye of Destiny gave many a Ninth Rank a feeling of déjà vu.

The only possibility that could cause this situation with the Eye of Destiny was that Gloria III was clandestinely attempting to ascend to legend using Secret Techniques, and the result was neither success nor failure.

It might sound a bit convoluted, but the concept of Legendary Rank is just that mysterious.

It has been suggested in the Magic World that legends do not exist in our world because they exist from different perspectives and cannot descend to the present world that ordinary people can observe.

Although this is purely speculative without any evidence, it also reflects some characteristics of legends that cannot be observed.

Years ago, the first Family Head of Olivendi disappeared after attempting to break through to legend with a wishing Mysterious Object, the Royal Family used the Eye of Destiny to investigate his whereabouts, but the result was identical to this time.

After determining that Gloria III had indeed completely disappeared, the situation in the Empire’s upper echelons immediately became eerie.

No matter what Gloria III intended, whether he was prepared for a secretive retreat breakthrough or was ambushed, the outcome confirms that the Empire’s Emperor has completely vanished!

A country cannot be without a ruler for even a single day, once the Emperor’s disappearance was confirmed, Eldest Prince Ferdinand Augustine did not hesitate to immediately contact a few Ninth Rank members closely associated with him in the Royal Family to prepare to take that position.

After all, having been a Crown Prince for several hundred years, he is familiar with how things work even if he hasn’t directly participated.

At the same time, Ferdinand secretly visited the Tomb of the Great Emperors to pay respects to the three Royal Guardians protecting the royal graveyard and the Royal Bloodline Crystal, "Star Guardian", "Dark Heart", and "Ash", hoping to discern their attitudes towards him.

Although he had achieved the Ninth Rank, he was even more aware of the terrifying power of the three guardians.

Their power was like an abyss, deep and formidable. If it were not for the Legendary Barriers blocking the way in this world, perhaps these three would have already taken that final step.

The white-robed "Dark Heart" smiled encouragingly at him for a few words, the Star-adorned magical robe’s "Star Guardian" was cold in demeanor, merely nodding at him.

The hooded, gray-robed "Ash" glanced at him once, then closed his eyes again without expressing any opinion.

Seeing this reaction, Ferdinand felt reassured and respectfully said his goodbyes and left.

The three guardians also have their factions, with "Dark Heart" being the Conservative Faction, hoping that everything in the Empire could remain stable forever, while the "Star Guardian" belonged to the Reformist, advocating proactive embrace of all changes in the world.

And the oldest and strongest among them, "Ash", lay between the two, unconcerned with the views of both factions, only hoping for the continuous existence of the Empire.

For the Eldest Prince, as long as he secured the support of the Dark Heart, being the only prince who had broken through to the Ninth Rank, changing his name to Gloria IV was a certainty.

But at this moment, a shocking piece of terrible news suddenly reached the Eldest Prince’s ears.

The Fourth Princess Auswia had successfully broken through to the Ninth Rank!