In the Eastern Empire...
Vico Travisani was at the moment settling matters involving his state, the Western Empire, and the Spiritual Church, somewhat customarily, when one of his men arrived agitated at his place about the imperial palace.
"Your Majesty, I bring terrible news!" That level 95 Demigod said while having a solemn expression that was hard to ignore.
Vico immediately put aside the advisors he had with him and looked into the eyes of that subordinate.
He said nothing, and the subordinate soon told what the terrible problem was.
"Elder Daniel is dead! He was killed while traveling through the Ancestral Sea!" That person said all at once, while everyone in that area suddenly changed their expressions.
They all opened their eyes and moved their mouths to form ugly expressions while the tension in the surroundings rose to a scale that low-level Demigods would go berserk just by being there.
Luckily, the weakest one there was level 94 and could withstand the pressure from these men.
Gulp!
"How?"
Someone asked before the emperor voiced his thoughts because the death of a level 97 man was not something that often happened, even considering the entire Spiritual World.
Only a few people were at the final part of the 10th stage. At the same time, most of these people spent their time searching for cultivation items or meditating in their organizations' headquarters.
So confrontations between beings of such great power were rare, which made deaths among these people very infrequent.
Everyone grew old, and eventually, one day, they would die. But such strong experts knew the situation of these individuals around this vast world and knew that Daniel was far from reaching his time limit.
In other words, someone powerful had killed him, probably a level 99 Demigod.
"I don't know, but his body was near the central area of the Ancestral Sea..." That man said as he remembered a piece of information Daniel had sent days ago. "It seems there was a level 99 elder awakening from its sleep in that area. Maybe Daniel was unlucky and..."
"That's impossible!" Vico exclaimed, shocking everyone with the tone of his voice, capable of making even a level 98 man there tremble. "No level 99 Demigod would act against someone like Daniel without great reason and without giving him a chance.
Besides, Daniel would undoubtedly use my name, which makes it even more unlikely that this was a pure chance encounter with a newly awakened elder."
"But who could be behind it? As far as I know, Daniel didn't have many powerful enemies. Plus, most of them are in the headquarters around Evergreen." One of the strongest in that place said, releasing that information.
"Yes, my men are keeping an eye on the positions of Daniel's enemies in the Evergreen Empire, and they are all stationed at their posts."
"The Western Empire doesn't have many people who would seek his death either..."
Some of those elders commented on the matter, trying to find a likely culprit.
"As far as I know, Daniel was searching for Minos Stuart, right? Did he encounter a problem on his way? That young man would not be able to cause trouble for the elder, but the Seraphim Ancient Sarcophagus was a place where even a God had been buried! It is not simple!"
"But that place has been lost for millions of years... Anything of high rank in that place has already lost some of its properties." Another elder commented. "Besides, Daniel would be no fool to break into the Church mausoleum casually!"
"The First Elder is correct," Vico said, agreeing with the number two in his state. "Something else must have happened. It must not have been because of this Minos or some ancient mechanism on that island. That must have been something from some level 99 specialist."
The old man standing to the right of Vico, who had just commented before his boss, remembered the time he had joined this fellow and said. "The prophet back there had said that chaos would be unleashed on the mainland... Did Minos reach that island and unleash the evil that had been predicted?"
Vico became more serious as he heard this, thinking it was possible.
As much as Minos was weak, and he didn't believe in mechanisms capable of easily taking Daniel's life, he didn't doubt that something in that place could release the evil predicted by that prophet.
And this could perhaps explain the unexpected death of a high-level Demigod!
With that in mind, he said not only to the people there but all the Demigods of his forces in the Eastern Empire.
"Everyone be on alert. Starting today, we are in preparation for war!
The Age of Fear has just ended. Now the Age of Terror begins!" He said, using the designations of that ancient prophet, who had told him about relevant things that had not only helped him prepare for calamity in the future but had also given him information that had brought him to his present position.
"Gather all the men together and initiate contact with the powers of the western region. I want them all to prepare for what is about to begin!"
Men hundreds of kilometers away from the empire's capital heard this and swallowed their saliva. Although this was the moment most of them had been preparing for over the last few thousand years, it was also the approaching end for many of them!
In the midst of this, one of Vico's closest asked. "Even the Western Empire?"
Vico replied. "Connect me with Emperor Quinn. I want to meet with him urgently to arrange a temporary peace agreement!"
With that said, everyone who had not yet understood the gravity of the matter immediately swallowed their saliva, hearing such words that had never before been spoken by that man.
In the past 10,000 years, not once had Emperor Travisani even considered making a deal to end the war between his state and the historical enemy of this domain!
Some of those Demigods who heard him had been born in the middle of the war, and upon hearing such a thing, they realized why the elders were so tense when talking about the terrible future that awaited the continent.
With this, the continent would soon face sudden changes in its reality!
