The pan-continent is vast, even more than ten times the area of many continents on the earth in the previous life, and there are vast and endless oceans around it, and the total area is not at all on the same order of magnitude as the earth.

Shanna also once pondered such a question: Can a planet with such a large surface area really store zài?

The huge volume inevitably brings a huge gravitational acceleration, but she doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with the gravity here, although it is different from the gravitational acceleration on Earth, but the difference is not too big.

Later, she looked through a lot of literature and understood that she was completely overthinking.

The two worlds look similar, and even the human race looks exactly the same, but the essence is ...... It's still two worlds.

The laws of the two worlds are different, so the way of existence is also different, and the form of existence of the pan-continent is similar to the form of "the sky is round and the place" described in the ancient Chinese literature in the previous life, and it has nothing to do with the planet or anything.

And in such a vast land, it is naturally impossible for the civilization community to be only one of the Karen Kaya Empire.

In fact, the Karenkaya Empire is only one of the three major empires in the northern region of Zhongzhou, and there are at least ten empires or communities of the same level in the entire Zhongzhou region.

In addition to some horizontal moats, one of the more important reasons why these civilizations can coexist in peace and peace is that the high-end military standards between them are almost the same.

The level of force in the pan-continent far surpasses the level of civilization, so although there is a country and the rule of law, fundamentally speaking, it is the peak force that ultimately determines the first thing.

The most fundamental reason why many civilizational communities at the imperial level have been in peace with each other for many years is that the strength of all parties is similar, and no community is sure that when it swallows another community, it will not be so angry that it will be swarmed by the rest of the community and eaten by it.

Therefore, the Kalenkaya Empire does not look like it has the ability to bring another empire to its knees.

Even in terms of substance. The Karenkaya Empire is the shortest established among the more than ten empire-level civilization communities in Zhongzhou, with a history of only more than two hundred years, and even the Oslan Empire is more than a hundred years older than Kalenkaya.

And why did Oslan suddenly change his attitude and demand the submission of the two surrounding empires, and even take the lead in taking the Kalenkaya Empire?

Isn't it because someone in their ancestors broke through to the epic realm in one fell swoop, which is equivalent to being able to overwhelm the legendary powerhouses of the rest of the empire by one head, so they have such a crazy capital?

Although its ultimate goal is not necessarily to annex the two empires, it is more likely to reap enough benefits to lay the foundation for long-term development and transcendence in the future.

But who would have thought ...... In the blink of an eye, the emperor of the Oslan Empire actually led a group of high-ranking nobles to Melanster IV, the emperor of Kalenkaya?

(What's going on here?) Melanster IV, the old guy, kept the information on the house very tight. There's no useful information at all, so do you have to go to the Oslan Empire? ）

All Shanna could think of was how Melanster IV used to overshadow the epic powerhouse of Osland, and then used what means to force the other party to bow down - but basically anyone who was a person could guess such a thing with his heels. But what exactly happened in it is completely unknown.

Stay in Catina. Meros took the oath. A large group of Kalenkaya's aristocratic ministers around him exploded.

"Lord Gale. Fast-acting heart pills!! Take your medicine quickly!! ”

"Your Excellency Long Qiyin, don't give up treatment!!"

"Lao Tzu has already taken medicine!!"

"How do I feel cute!"

The scene was chaotic, and if it weren't for the intrigues and tricks of these nobles for the slightest profit, Shanna would have thought that they were a circus troupe that had come to make a comedy of all kinds.

And Melanster IV also seemed to be satisfied to see this scene now, and did not stop the disorder below, but quietly waited for everyone to return to peace.

A moment later. Finally, someone realized that the biggest person present was not himself, but the emperor who had been waiting quietly, so he stopped the discussion one after another, and it didn't take long for him to be completely quiet.

"Ladies and gentlemen. This time I invite you to come, firstly, for this matter, and secondly, the emperor also wants to announce a major event. ”

Melanster IV said calmly with a calm face.

"Big deal?"

Shanna's brows furrowed, she had thought that it was enough for an empire to be swallowed by Kalenkaya for no apparent reason, but now it seemed that this matter was not a big deal in the eyes of the emperor?

So...... What's really big?

"From the first day of the Frost Moon (January) next year, the Emperor ......"

Melanster IV looked around, and the surrounding ministers also seemed to feel the solemnity of the atmosphere, and they waited with bated breath for the emperor's next words.

"The Emperor...... Abdication is imminent! ”

As soon as these words came out, the ministers below were in an uproar again.

"Your Excellency Gale, a quick-acting heart pill!! Take your medicine quickly!! ”

"Nima Quick Acting Heart Pill!! Lao Tzu just eats!! You give Lao Tzu medicine!! ”

"Long Qi, because of Your Excellency, he is dying!! Come to the pastor!! ”

"It's too late for the priest, no matter what kind of medicine, take it!!"

"I feel like I'm getting more and more cute!!"

Shanna: "......" Why did she suddenly think that it was a shame to compare herself to the nobles of the same empire as these teases?

However, Shanna was also shocked by the words of Melanster IV's imminent abdication.

In terms of merit, the original Melanster IV was not said to be meritorious, but it was absolutely without fault, and now with the matter of making Osland submit, his merit is enough to make him sit on the throne until he dies of old age and no one will speak.

In terms of age, the current Melanster IV is only over half a hundred years old, and because of proper maintenance, he looks like he is only in his early forties...... Why do you suddenly want to abdicate?

"Your Majesty, you can't abdicate!"

Finally. An earl came out of the column and bowed down: "Your Majesty, for my Kalenkaya to annex Osland, to open up the world's inheritance, and the merits are enough to be compared with the founding emperor, why do you want to abdicate at this time?" The minister implores His Majesty to take back his fate! ”

"I beg Your Majesty to take back your fate!"

"I beg Your Majesty to take back your fate!"

"Surely His Majesty will take back his fate!"

……

Although it was very unpleasant to see Melanster IV, Shanna also had to admit that this emperor did have a way of buying people's hearts, and almost more than three-quarters of the nobles present stood up at the first time, and the rest of them, although they hesitated, they also followed one after another.

(In this way.) Why did Melanster deal with me is even more strange - he has the ability to kill an empire with epic powerhouses, which also shows that the exposed power of the once sage tower will not be cared about at all, so the situation of "high merit and high power" is simply nonsense...... What is it for? Dimensional Path? If you have this kind of strength, why don't you just come to the door and grab it? He's the emperor, as long as he finds a suitable reason, it's easy to get his hands on things, right? ）

The more Shanna thought about it, the more confused she became. Because I can't find an explanation anyway, if I have to find one. That's probably - Melanster IV had a brain drain?

But this is obviously not possible either. Melanster IV has a clear eye, and it is definitely not a sign of a noble brain and a bad brain.

So Shanna was unusually confused.

"I've made up my mind."

Melanster shook his head gently: "When the first emperor died, this emperor was only sixteen years old, and he had already inherited the throne, and it has been more than forty years now, and he has sat in this position enough. Today's empire wants to go further. Maybe you can learn from the experience of an old guy like me, but what is needed more is the momentum of young people, so ......"

Speaking of which, many people have already understood. The next step is likely to be the announcement of the successor to the throne.

Generally speaking, the process of the emperor wanting to abdicate is absolutely impossible to be so simple, and it is impossible to be accepted by the ministers and nobles below, but at this moment, there is a relationship between the bombshell that Oslan attached to the previous one has blown people into a daze, and no one feels the slightest bit wrong.

- If you really want to abdicate, it's strange that there is no heir, right?

But many people's minds were alive again, and Melanster IV had no heirs, which was very rare among many empires.

Generally speaking, what emperor didn't have three or five descendants? It's not an exaggeration for a few people to have seventeen or eighteen.

However, although Melanster IV had a wife, the queen lived in the deep palace all the year round and did not show up, and there was no news of a new prince for the emperor for many years.

If you calculate it like this, is it a trusted noble minister?

This is not impossible, although in the last three to five hundred years, the inheritance system of the imperial throne has basically been a bloodline hereditary system, but the earlier system of mixing meritocracy and hereditary has not completely disappeared.

In an instant, everyone's eyes were eager.

They simply forgot the three key words "young people" in the "young people's momentum".

Shanna frowned at this, young man?

Among the big nobles present, how many of them can be regarded as young people?

There doesn't seem to be a brilliant character among them, a person who has the ability to take on the great responsibility of the king of a country.

Melanster IV looked around, a faint smile on his face, and finally fixed his gaze on a figure with his head bowed and contemplative.

"So...... The heir of the emperor is ......"

The entire council hall fell silent for a moment, only a lot of heavy breathing remained, and the whole atmosphere was extremely stagnant, as if it was about to freeze.

(Is it true that the successor is being announced?) What exactly does this Melanster IV want to do? Is it really a good emperor who does not covet power? Or is it ...... Emma, brain-dead? ）

Melanster IV paused again, and at this time the emperor had a smile on his face, as if he was no longer the emperor who had been in a high position for many years, but had returned to an era that he had missed and longed for.

In this smile, there is a nostalgic lookback, a relieved relief, and a trace of unwilling bitterness.

Just smiling like this, Melanster IV seemed to go back to a certain day back then, when he was still young.

Only, among the people present. Incompetence could not recognize the meaning of this smile.

Finally, Melanster IV no longer hung on the appetite of many nobles, but announced the final result plainly but solemnly.

"The heir of this emperor is ......"

"Nesha. Edric! ”

“……”

For a moment, the entire council hall was silently pin dropping, and even the sound of the previous thickened breathing disappeared, and everyone's eyes suddenly focused on the old man in the black robe in the team, who had not shown his true face for many years.

Feeling the burning gaze around her, Shanna finally came back to her senses, recalling the name of the heir of the earth-shattering weeping ghost god that a certain emperor had just said......

Cold sweat. Suddenly there was a surge of water.

（……………………………………………………………………………………………… Ha?! ）

☆

My name is Rolando. Melanster, prince of the Kalenkaya Empire.

"You hate me for being late, I hate you for being born early......"

This is a quote I just read from a book, which is said to be from the mouth of a bard from the Penglai Islands in the East, about the lovesick love affair of the next generation.

I don't understand. But I didn't force it to understand. Because there are still many things I can do, and I have no intention of inheriting the throne. There's a lot of free time to spare.

I am the prince. But I'm not the only prince, there are eight older brothers above me, and I'm the youngest and least senior of the nine.

The eight older brothers are all good to me because they know ...... I did not threaten their ability to inherit the throne.

The eight elder brothers have unparalleled political abilities. At a young age, he already ruled and managed a territory; Some of them have no cultivation talent, and they are already strong people who are both eighth-level demon martial arts and cultivators at a young age; Others......

Of the nine princes, I am the most inconspicuous one.

But I wasn't disappointed, and I never complained.

I'm happy with where I am. One of my eight elder brothers will ascend to the throne, and then the other seven will not end well, and I will be able to live my life in peace, and live a life of leisure.

- There's nothing wrong with that, is it?

And what is also equal to the ability is that my father's care for his eight elder brothers is far greater than that of my youngest son, and sometimes I even feel that he has completely forgotten that there is still a son like me.

After a long time, I myself have forgotten the identity of the imperial prince and concentrated on being my prince in name only.

Before my father actually died, I had at least a few years to live.

However, things often don't turn out the way they seem.

My father's health had suddenly deteriorated dramatically for unknown reasons, and he was on the verge of death after only a short time, so he summoned the nine of us brothers to the sickbed, dragged our dying bodies, and said those words to us.

"If any of you want to inherit the throne, either kill the remaining eight or ...... Get her approval! ”

She?

Not only me, but the other eight brothers were all stunned for a moment.

- Who is she?

With curiosity, I looked at the veiled girl.

Three thousand silver hairs, silver eyes like snow.

The pointed ears indicate the identity of the girl - elf.

I felt like I was about to stop breathing.

"That's right, from now on, she will be the sage of the Karenkaya Empire, assisting the next emperor, and whoever of you wants to succeed to the throne must first obtain her approval."

I don't know what my father said later, and I don't care what he said.

For this man who barely cared about me, my emotions were limited to the fact that he was my biological father, and my mother had passed away the year after giving birth to me.

And at this moment, I am more concerned about the girl.

An unprecedented mood filled my entire heart.

- I think she must be what I meant to be, that person.

Although she was as ethereal and unpredictable as a goddess who could be lost at any moment, I had the determination.

I wanted to look at her, to look at her all the time, and even to stay with her until my temples were gray, to look at the world of Kalenkaya, and finally to hold hands and close my eyes together.

I frantically wanted to know, I wanted to know, I wanted to get close to this girl's one.

Strangely, I didn't have any carnal desires at that time, it was a purer, spiritual desire.

I want to be close to her and be there for her, it's such a simple wish.

Then the question arises.

- If I want to be close to, or even accompany her for a long time, I must inherit the throne, otherwise, let alone companionship, I may have died before then, and become one of the victims of the struggle for the throne.

I, who had never thought of competing for the throne, had an incomparably huge ambition at this moment.

Then things became very simple.

I studied like crazy, calculated like crazy, and used the possibilities like crazy.

Because I want to be on the throne, I want to be closer to that girl.

My eight elder brothers never expected that I, the ninth brother who seemed to have never quarreled with the world, and who had nothing to do all day long, would burst out with such huge energy in the final battle.

One by one, they were defeated by me, turned into dry bones under my feet, and became my stepping stone to the throne.

Finally, on that day, I killed my last brother with my own hands, and my father passed away with a satisfied look in his eyes.

And I didn't go to see him at the first time, but came to the girl's side, which I hoped for...... It was her affirmation.

The sound is crisp and exquisite, like a jade bead falling on a plate.

It was on this day that I learned her name for the first time—

Shanna. Edric. (To be continued......)

PS: Black history, black history~\(≧▽≦)/~