Merlin has been staying in the Star Tower of the Red Fort for the past few days, and since the coup d'état in Kyoto City, he seems to have fallen in love with the tallest building in the Red Keep. From here, looking south, at the end of the unobstructed wheat fields on a good day, Merlin knew there was a ruined manor.

The owner of the manor was once a minor nobleman of the Magic Empire, and then turned into an ordinary farm manor owner. His descendants are all magicians, and after passing them on from generation to generation, in the end, that is, himself, inherits the legacy of his ancestors, and finally becomes the restorer of the glory of the Magic Empire.

Elby, his most trusted assistant, the high-ranking mage of the court magicians, Morning, is also the chief magician of the Dark Rising. He led a group of people to the ruins of Ivan's manor a few days ago, and opened the space magic space, where the old Ivan left something for his descendants, an iron box with a beautiful shape and intricate carvings on the surface.

Under the effect of space magic, the iron box is quite well preserved, without a trace of rust erosion. The iron box sat quietly on the table, and in the corner of the table lay the covenant of the royal family and the court magician, which had been enduring the magic of the court. Of course, the royal family of San Jose has disappeared (Note 1), and the paper covenant has naturally been forgotten in the corner.

Merlin's attention was completely focused on the iron box, and with the movement of the spell, the runes carved on the surface of the iron box lit up one by one, and a ray of light extended from the runes to the keyhole of the box, and with a crisp "pop" sound, the box opened by itself, opening a slight opening.

Merlin's eyes lit up, and he gently reached out and pushed open the lid of the box, inside, the things lying quietly had not been touched for hundreds of years. Merlin took out the contents of the box one by one and arranged them in a row on the table, from left to right: a folded flag, a coat of arms, a book, and two sketches.

The flag, with a dark red underside, had a coat of arms painted on it, the style of the coat of arms was the same as the second item's coat of arms, with a crown floating on a mountain of flames, and two crossed scepters below. Oh no, it wasn't a flame, it just looked a little similar, "Magical Elemental," Merlin muttered as he stared at it (Note 2).

The third item is a book with a line written on it in the court style of the Magic Empire: Constitution of the Magic Empire.

The final items are two sketches with the Crown and Scepter depicting each other.

These items, all preserved by the original old Ivan, are the heraldic flag of the Magic Empire, the coat of arms of the Magic Empire, the constitution of the Magic Empire, and the symbol of the archon of the Magic Empire - the crown and scepter. This set of things represents the legal principle of the rule of the Magic Empire, and the restoration of the Magic Empire has naturally always been the lifelong goal of the Dark Rising Patriarch.

Before he died, old Ivan packed these things in an iron box and sealed them with magic spells, and it was not until today that Merlin opened them and saw the light of day.

Merlin gently picked up the Magic Empire's Crown Scepter Magical Elemental Heraldic Banner, rubbed him against his face for a long time, and then opened his eyes suddenly. He tossed the flag in the air and chanted a spell. The effect of the spell was applied to the flag, and several rays of light were released from the flag, and then towards the window of the Star Tower**, forming a huge heraldic pattern in the sky of Kyoto City.

"The glory of the Magic Empire will be restored!" Merlin said fiercely.

Everything went well, and it took Rise of Darkness less than half a year to finally complete control over most of the San Jose Empire. In the places where the Darkness Rises passes, many magicians hidden in the folk have also come to the fore. The political intentions of Dark Rising are very seductive, and Merlin almost completely copied the way the Magic Empire ruled.

According to the requirements of the Constitution of the Magic Empire, in the Magic Empire, all elemental awakeners with magical abilities have noble authority. Instead of Elemental Awakeners, they can only be civilians. Within the empire, the nobility had all the transcendent rights, even if they had no intention of killing a commoner, but only had to pay a small fine. According to their philosophy, the nobility and the commoners, in themselves, were not of the same rank.

The Magic Empire's constitution also states that the commanders and leaders of the empire are called archons, and the supreme leader is called archons. There is no emperor in the empire, and the archon is the ultimate person for all to serve. In the era of the Magic Empire, archons were contested by multiple magicians, and their competition methods were naturally the level of magical ability, the depth of understanding of magic, and so on. But for the current San Jose or the Rise of Darkness, the archon can only be Merlin.

Merlin's deputy, Elby, received the title of Archon. He would continue to run the new country as Merlin's deputy. Rise of the Dark has ceased to exist since the moment the Empire was founded, and as an organization it has fulfilled its mission. The Protectors of the Rise of Darkness ~ Fablake and the Southern Protectors ~ Fran Lan have been fighting and running on the front line, and they will become the Duke of Magic, which is the title second only to the Archon.

Western Protector ~ Dharma is quite mysterious and rarely appears. Even Lan Lan and Blake have hardly seen his real person, only knowing that this person is a merchant named Douglas. Douglas was a local nobleman of the Merchant League, whom he met during Merlin's travels. Obsessed with the study of history and magic, Douglas naturally soon became an important member of the Dark Rising.

However, this man does not like to show his face, and he has an old apprentice who has been walking in his place within the Merchant Alliance, the same dark mage who started the rebellion in Mosata. Douglas, on the other hand, has been living in seclusion in the desert of San Jose. In fact, the Desik rebels had his help when they entered the province of Odanlo.

Western Protector ~ became the Grand Scientist of the new Magic Empire.

The High Priest had to be vacant. Merlin had wanted to subdue Carman's princess Monica and prepare for her to become the Grand Priest of the new Magic Empire, but when Monica was a guest in Kyoto City, Merlin showed her great kindness. But then there were many accidents, and Merlin didn't care about it for a while. Without Monica and Xiao Mu's healing skills, the Great Priest would naturally have no suitable successor.

But that's okay, nothing is perfect, is it? The magicians at all levels who rise from darkness also have many rewards. All the aristocratic systems are completely copied from the provisions of the Constitution of the Magic Empire, from the archon to the archon, the great science officer, the great priest to the magic duke, magic lord, magic knight and several nobles.

The officers who surrendered, including Manstein from Desik, Montgomery from San Jose, and many other high-ranking generals, still took their troops with them. For them, they could not have become nobles of the Magic Empire because they had no magical talent and were not elemental awakeners. This makes many people puzzled why they want to abandon their aristocratic status or status to help Merlin and the rise of darkness.

No one knows this secret, and later historians are very puzzled by it. They have put forward many hypotheses: for example, that they are all dead, that Merlin has planted them with puppetry, and that they are all puppets who only obey orders, others say that Merlin has provided them with a kind of spiritual magic that can greatly delay their lifespan and even immortality, and others say that they are descendants of the Magic Empire era and help Merlin justify it.

Of course, no one knows exactly why these people who were bought by the Dark Rising made such a choice. Perhaps these speculations are all true or not. In short, the wood is already in the boat, except for a small number of areas in the south that still have resistance and disobedience, the entire San Jose Empire has basically achieved unity thanks to the efforts of the organization of Dark Rising.

Merlin, who is about to be crowned archons of the new Magic Empire on the occasion of Double Day. Yes, that's right, the new Magic Empire. San Jose will cease to exist on the continent from now on, just as San Jose was founded on the corpse of the Magic Empire, and the new Magic Empire will be established on the corpse of San Jose.

On the day of the Double Day Festival, the dark red flag of the Magic Empire covers all of Kyoto Castle, forming a sea of dark red and the Red Keep Castle not far away. The "Victory Square" under the Red Keep was forcibly renamed "Magic Square" by the magicians, and Merlin was about to ascend the throne here, and was blessed by all the magicians in the world.

The craftsmen of Kyoto City have been busy these days, and the most skilled craftsmen have been captured by the magicians, who have created a certain beautiful and jeweled crown and two scepters from the treasures left behind by the Emperor of Benin and the royal family of San José, according to the patterns provided by Merlin. The crown and scepter will be passed down as a token of the archons of the new Magic Empire.

The tailor shop in Kyoto City worked day and night to sew 10,000 heraldic flags of the Magic Empire, and the red cloth was not enough, and the wolf-like soldiers rushed to many homes to grab the cloth. Finally, before the Double Day Festival, the magician's request was completed.

On the day of the Double Day Festival, the civilians of Kyoto Castle were "invited" out of their gates by the army, who "escorted" them to the square in front of the Red Castle. Everyone huddled together and looked up. Merlin used the levitation technique on himself, and today he did not wear the purple robe that everyone in Kyoto was familiar with, but changed into a golden robe. With red runes gleaming on his robes and a crown and a scepter in his hand, Merlin felt that he had finally reached the pinnacle of his life.

Starting from Tanatos, after more than a hundred years of hard work, the rise of darkness finally realized its political demands, and the magician re-entered the field of vision of the mainlanders. Merlin wants everyone to understand that magicians, or magic, are the masters of this world.

"My subjects, the era of a new magical empire has begun!" With a flick of the scepter in his hand, colored light appeared from the scepter, and in the sky above Kyoto City, the coat of arms of the Magic Empire composed of huge rays of light shone brightly.

Note 1: Merlin also forgot about Lolita's existence.

Note 2: The Crown of Flame Scepter, the symbol of the Magic Empire.