Western Sahara Empire, imperial capital.

It was another hazy day, the mist made it difficult to see the road ahead, and the people who had lived in the imperial capital for a long time had long been accustomed to it, hurriedly walking on the familiar streets.

A steam car with four kerosene lamps stopped at the edge of Legion Square, and well-dressed passengers got out of the car.

The passenger, a middle-aged man in his forties, walked leisurely along the street at the edge of the square, armed with a fine cane that was more ornamental than practical. From time to time, he paused to gaze at the memorial statue standing at the edge of the square and read the memorial inscription on the statue's pedestal.

Legionnaires Square is surrounded by 76 statues of people more than three meters high, which commemorate the 76 founding fathers of the People's Republic of China. More than 900 years ago, they followed Western Sahara the Great to unify the continent and establish an empire. The carver depicts these Founding Fathers vividly, slashing with swords, standing with spears, leaping with axes, or pondering with books. The memorial on the pedestal was written by Western Sahara himself.

A middle-aged man with a cane looked up at the obelisk in the middle of the square, the upper part of which was hidden in the mist and towered into the sky due to the hazy weather.

In the Age of the Wilderness, before the first transcendent beings appeared among humans, obelisks appeared on the earth. The imperial capital is not the only obelisk, there are a total of 160 obelisks of different sizes distributed throughout the continent.

How the obelisk came to be is as unverifiable as how the first transcendent was born. In short, humanity has discovered the secret of the obelisk: on certain days of the year, the obelisk can help ordinary people awaken to become transcendental. Awakened transcendents can harness the ubiquitous source energy of heaven and earth, and can continue to grow stronger, even growing to the point of having a power comparable to that of ten thousand people.

Later, the transcendents were divided into three stages based on their strength: the Awakened, the Shaper, and the Source Grandmaster. The seventy-six statues in Legion Square are the seventy-six top-notch transcendents, the Grandmaster of Source Energy.

For as long as written records have been, obelisks that can create transcendents have been an important resource for humanity to compete for.

Transcendents gradually formed groups through clans, gangs, or religions to control the distribution of the Obelisk's resources, and these transcendent groups passed down their understanding of the source energy, the essentials of cultivation, and the techniques used. Civilization gradually formed, and mankind began to move away from the wilderness.

As humans learn more about source energy, it has been discovered that the obelisk is not the only way to become transcendent, and that some medicines and exercises can also enable ordinary people to step into the transcendental. Even so, the Obelisk Awakening is still the most convenient way to become a transcendent, so the obelisk has always been the core of the transcendental community's social system.

Until more than 900 years ago, a young man named Cesara impressed a group of transcendents with his absolute strength and established an organization called the Legion. In the years that followed, he led the Legion on crusades, and other groups of transcendents either joined the Legion or were destroyed by the Legion.

Eventually, the Legion occupied all the obelisks and almost unified the entire continent, and Cesar, the leader of the Legion, established an empire named after himself, and the institutions of the empire represented a completely new social system.

The Emperor built the city under the largest obelisk in the whole continent, named the imperial capital, and established the Gyeonggi region with the imperial capital as the center, and the Gyeonggi region was divided into four regions in four directions: east, west, north and south. The royal family directly administers the Gyeonggi region and the Northern Regions.

The Emperor transformed the land of the East, West and South and part of the obelisk into extraordinary places, and distributed them to the heroes of the legion according to the size of the merit. The heroes were given hereditary titles, land, and obelisk titles, forming an aristocratic class with the titles of dukes, princes, princes, and barelises.

In order to balance the nobility, Western Sahara the Great built cities around each obelisk to gather the commoners, leaving most of the obelisk of the Awakened Transcendent quota to the commoners.

In the 900 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, after several civil strife and wars between nobles, the royal family still ruled Gyeonggi and the Northern Regions, but the actual control of the cities in the east, west, and south regions fell into the hands of the great nobles.

In order to fight against the royal family, the great nobles formed an alliance with the three dukes as the core, and gave rise to the three principalities of Stuttgart in the Western Regions, Castile in the Southern Regions, and Salson in the Eastern Regions.

Western Sahara left behind two major political legacies: legionary allegiance and civilian support, and the fragile balance between the royal family and the three principalities.

However, eighty years ago, after the invention of ocean-going technology, mankind crossed the ocean to discover the New World, and every day the New World is bringing new changes to the empire, and no one knows where the future will go, not even the obelisk that has watched the changes of human society for thousands of years.

On a clear day, if you can stand on the spire of the tallest obelisk on the continent, you can see the whole picture of the imperial capital.

At the foot of the circular Legion Square is the Legion Square, where seventy-six Grandmaster statues are surrounded by obelisks with their backs to protect the mysterious structure, and the statues face the street of the Ring Square, the most exclusive shopping street in the Empire, and some of the shops are too expensive to settle for in silver.

Eight avenues radiate from the edge of the square in eight directions, seven of which lead to the seven gates of the imperial capital's city walls, and the avenue due north leads to the palace gate not far away.

The entire imperial capital is like a spider web with Legion Square as the core, extending around the circle, the avenue is the meridian, and the city wall is the edge of the spider web.

The northern part of the imperial capital was the Imperial Palace, as well as the government agencies surrounding the Imperial Palace, the garrison of the Praetorian Guard. Most of the three areas in the east, west and south of the imperial capital were the private residences of nobles of all levels and the residences of officials.

If you look at the city from the top of the obelisk, you will see that most of the houses within the walls are not high, and many of them have the style of architecture from hundreds of years ago.

Outside the city walls, there are endless plains on three sides: east, west and north. The only thing that allowed a building outside the city walls was the South Gate, which was a different story outside the South Gate.

Outside the south gate is the secular imperial capital.

The avenue between the South Gate and the Canal Wharf is the most prosperous commercial place in the country, and along the street are the latest square brick buildings, which are at least eight storeys and even ten storeys highest, and the interior is divided into countless small shops rented to merchants from all over the country, dealing in various goods.

The main business scope of each brick building is also divided, some deal in bulk commodities such as grain, coal and fuel, some supply daily necessities, some sell clothing, shoes and hats, some sell exotic beasts and spiritual plant materials, and some specialize in selling novelties imported from the New World.

Except for the avenue leading to the dock, the buildings and streets outside the city are fairly neat, and the rest of the place is completely unruly, and the buildings are uneven. There are gorgeous retro mansions of big businessmen, dilapidated wooden houses that have not been repaired for many years, exquisite new apartments, brick buildings with hundreds of families, huge warehouses, and new factories emitting black smoke. The disorderly chaos stretches south along the canal.

The middle-aged man walked around the Legion Square for half a circle, stopping in front of a statue, and the inscription introduced that this was Werner Weidenfeller, the source energy master of the main fire system and the secondary qi system, who died in the battle to attack the Kingdom of Light. The Kingdom of Light was the only force that Western Sahara failed to conquer, and there were no obelisks, but they relied on their belief in the God of Light to gain great combat power.

"It's a pity, it's only one step away, if you survive until the two sides strike the war and negotiate peace, you can also become a nobleman. The well-dressed man wised his mustache and said to himself, "We people from civilian backgrounds don't have such a good opportunity anymore." ”

He wore a bow tie, a black tuxedo with a waist, straight pants and shiny low-heeled leather shoes, which were the most popular among the nouveau riche, showing his status as a businessman.

The middle-aged man turned his head in front of the statue of Werner Weidenfeller and looked at the shop across the street from the statue.

The name of the shop is "Fire Consumption Bansei", and it deals in Mithril products, and the owner uses the conventional rules of the Mithril forging industry as the name of the store, which is quite straightforward.

The middle-aged man walked slowly into the store and asked the owner to customize a Mithril dagger for his niece who had passed the Source Energy Awakening Ritual. The shopkeeper took the dagger design drawing handed by the middle-aged man and read it, and when he saw a pattern, his eyes flickered, and he looked at the customer carefully, and asked a few questions.

The shopkeeper carried a kerosene lamp and quietly opened a secret door in the processing room. The middle-aged man followed the shopkeeper into the secret door, then walked through the dim passage, climbed up and down several stairs, and did not know where he went, and finally stopped in front of a door at the end of the dim passage and motioned for the man to enter.

Pushing open the door, the middle-aged man's eyes are a sea of books, each wall is a tall bookshelves, in order to facilitate access to the books in the high places, a wooden corridor has been specially built, in the middle of the room is a large desk full of large and small books, behind the pile of books poked out a gray head with gray hair and beard, and said: "Hello, Mr. Rupert! We have finally met, come, sit down in front of me." The old man motioned for the man to sit down on the small couch next to his desk.

Rupert, a middle-aged man, removed the book from the sofa and sat on the edge of the sofa with his cane lying across his legs.

"Tea or coffee?"

Seeing that Rupert didn't answer, the old man continued: "Don't be nervous, I'm the rotating head of the 'organization', you can call me the 'Great Elder', and we'll talk about your tasks later." Now please relax, tea, or coffee?"

"Tea, sir...... Ah, no, Great Elder, please give me a cup of tea. Rupert replied.

From the corner of the desk flew a porcelain tray with a porcelain teacup on it, and the tray and teacup floated to Rupert, who reached out to catch it, and saw that the tray was printed with the pattern of blue waves and the teacup was printed with a brown sailboat riding the wind and waves, and the style of the pattern on the porcelain showed that they were mass-produced in factories in the Duchy of Stuart.

At the same time, a small copper pot placed on a small stove in the corner also flew slowly, stopped in front of Rupert, aimed at the teaglass, lowered the spout, and poured the hot black tea. "Do you want to add milk?" asked the Grand Elder, Rupert shook his head, and the teapot turned around and flew back to the small stove. The Great Elder's hand controlled the object, which made Rupert even more nervous.

The Grand Elder, who had always snuggled up behind his desk, continued:

"Okay, let's start with the Backstreet Brotherhood that you have joined for twenty years, the Backstreet Brotherhood is just a peripheral force of the 'organization', which was established by the support of the 'organization' more than a hundred years ago, and you should be clear about this as the upper echelon.

But what you don't know is that the outlying forces of the 'Order' are spread across the empire and the three vassal states, and in your city of Londinium alone, there are four other outlying powers, such as the dockers' guild. If you can successfully complete this mission, you will break away from the outer forces and become the 'enforcer' of the 'organization', and the secrets of the 'organization' will be further opened to you, and you will get more, whether it is powerful source skills, money or power.

The strength of the 'organization' is beyond your imagination, and all you saw before was the part of the iceberg floating on the surface of the sea. Here, where we are, only three miles away from the center of the empire, we are under the emperor's nose, but he doesn't know anything, his bureau of investigation doesn't even know the real name of the 'organization', hahaha!" Hearing this, Rupert hurriedly took a sip of tea, and his eyes became brighter.

The Grand Elder continued, "Your performance over the past twenty years has been observed by the 'Organization', so when we needed a Shaper from Londinium, Duchy of Stuart, to accomplish this task, we thought of you first.

I hope you can grasp this opportunity. If you become an 'enforcer', you will rule the underground world of a city, with more power than the mayor and richer than the commander of the legion!, so let's talk about the details......"

A few hours later, the excited Rupert had been sent away, and the Grand Elder was still sitting behind the large desk. I saw that the drawer of the desk slid open automatically, and a metal ball rose from the drawer, gradually approaching the Great Elder. The Great Elder stretched out his hand to hold the metal ball and muttered to himself, "It's been three years, and the Obelisk still hasn't had any new instructions, doesn't the Obelisk no longer need the Mithril Society? The mission of the Mithril Society is coming to an end?, but that family still sits on the throne, oppressing all beings......"