Chapter 73
As it turned out, Juno had thoughtlessly said "okay," at Dina's request to cancel the order, which she couldn't have said by any means. The guy was left wondering how she managed to outwit his powerful formation. What was it then? The formation? Not at all. It was out of the question. It was Juno.
Kyon started to feel it was getting dangerous to stay in the mansion. All because of the stupid slave who contrived a way to act against him. If only he knew that his adjusted formation was working partly out of order due to a fundamental error, and if only he knew what it was, he would have corrected it right away. That mistake had nothing to do with the knowledge aspect of formacy. It was something else. It was about a unique body, not the girl's talent for self-deception, not at all.
Any other subjugating formation, created by the best formacist in the world, would never work on Juno. But Kyon's formation was on a completely different level. It worked, but with some drawbacks.
As for the punishment for cancelling the order, he'd deal with it another time. At the moment, he intended to go to the library.
Kyon sent Synergy to heal a bruise in the back. He straightened his shoulders, took the first book and buried himself in it.
Reading the book, he did not notice the time fly by. He put the book away only when he needed to go to the toilet. Sometimes he fell asleep over the book, and the servants kindly provided the freeloader with food.
When he studied the Social Studies section, Kyon came to grips with the world around him and understood what he got himself into.
On the planet Life there were 3 opposing races: people, demons and supreme beasts.
People are strong, dominant rulers of the land. They have extensive trading networks. The administrative, scientific, economic and spiritual spheres are better developed than those of the rest of the planet.
Of course, people have their drawbacks: greed, desire for power, ambition. Because of this, eight empires were historically formed. They had agreed among themselves on an agreement of complete mutual a.s.sistance in the event of a serious danger. However, the eighth, the most extreme and weak empire, was completely destroyed by the kingdom of beasts five years ago. The warriors were killed, and the civilians were taken as slaves. The future of the survivors looked grim: they were to be eaten, become pets, or resources - the keys.
To the human race belong gnomes with incredible, unique abilities. There are no better engineers, blacksmiths and steel workers in the world than this small people.
Supreme beasts – are intelligent animals. They are the lords of forests and wildlife, invincible in their territories. They have a bloodthirsty, merciless temperament and a wild, inhuman temper. The predators follow their instincts and adhere to a strict hierarchy based on blood purity and strength. Being ruse and deceitful isn't characteristic of this species; moreover, the beasts despise it. The foul play was one of the reasons for their enmity with people and demons.
The second reason for their hatred is that supreme animals are caught and used for selfish purposes as food, resources, and pets. Their keys, eyes, fangs, skin, bones, and blood: the d.a.m.ned demons and people take everything away.
Any beast becomes supreme and acquires intelligence upon entering the fourth stage of development. However, some species are born with innate reason. They rightfully take high ranks in the hierarchy.
The dominant imperial family is the feline species: Manticore, Scorpio-Lions, with its unsurpa.s.sed venom and unique strength capable of impressing the skies.
The second place is rightfully taken by the royal family of white tigers. The innate ability of their unique bodies gives them power over entire armies of lower animals. The purer the blood, the brighter it is expressed and has greater potential.
The forests are divided into three zones: external, internal and central. The closer to the center, the more n.o.ble, stronger and more influential beasts live there. If a mere mortal enters
Humans sometimes control the vast forest areas, as lower animals live there (the third stage, inclusive). The creatures multiply quickly, so it is necessary to strictly monitor their population change.
Demons are cruel and peculiar lords of the underworld, which is not inferior in size to the territory of people, beasts, or desert lands. They are a sly, cunning and low-minded race who wors.h.i.+p force. It's quiet normal for them to rob and deceive. They honor their traditions and purity of blood. They can take their beliefs to the extreme. Take for example, the sacrifice of virgins, preferably human ones, at the great feast in honor of the G.o.ddess Persephone.
The underground is divided as follows: lower demons reside in the upper layer. The middle area is taken by the n.o.bility of royal blood with their servants. And in the depths of underground live seven families. One of them is imperial, dominating them all.
There exists a fourth race: the aquatic people. The ignore the rest, since they live in the seas and oceans and are not going to leave them. However, their power is undeniable. The sea vessels are doomed to death without paying duties to the mermaids and the rulers of the waters.
The long history of the hostility between the three main races has created incurable hatred between them. But the reason they hate each other is not only in b.l.o.o.d.y wars, but also in a huge difference in mentality. Hostility, regular raids only add fuel to the fire and eliminate the chance of a truce.
People keep beasts for food, resources and entertainment. They take demons as slaves or servants.
Demons do the same, only they enslave people.
Beasts use the other two races as cattle and pets. They also unleash the impulses of their extreme instincts on them.
Hatred for other beings is fixed in the minds of humans and not only children from an early age. In any book of stories, tales, historic facts, and legends will definitely be mentioned cruel, disgusting, aggressive creatures, ready for a dastardly act.
Kyon was impressed. It was perfect, absolute enmity. He had long noticed that books described strangers too biased, making them demonized. He alone didn't care about the species and race. He was the only unbiased person in hundreds of millions people.
Each dominant race would gladly tear each other into small pieces, however, there are several "buts." First, it's extremely unfavourable to fight on the foreign territory. There might be unusual terrain, traps, fortifications, barriers, attacking formations. It's essential to exceed the enemy's strength at least twice to defeat them. Secondly, there is always a third party who will gladly take advantage of the temporary weakening of one of the two sides and get a nice bit of goods for themselves. Thirdly, the fact that the human race is the strongest is known to all. Even if both other races united, there would be nothing for them there but death.
Therefore, all three parties restrain each other, limit themselves to small-scale raids to grab people / demons / beasts and resources.
As for the purity of blood... In this wonderworld, it isn't about close relations with relatives. It's all about connections with high-ranking persons of the same race. For example, if Juno of the 1st rank marries a man of the 1st or 2nd rank, then the purity of her blood will be preserved. If the man is the 3rd rank, it gets impure. It's likewise with supreme beasts and demons.
After he finished studying Social Studies, Kyon started an in-depth study of the human race. New knowledge came as a big surprise.
Previously, Kyon considered the family Stone, in which he was going to build his future, incredibly strong, powerful, authoritative. In fact, he was partially right; the family really had a high position in the Kingdom of the Iron Throne. Only the Kingdom of the Iron Throne held a low rank in the Empire.
In Rosarrio there are seven kingdoms and the Iron Throne takes the fifth place. So, the Stones, being at the first rank, will bow down to other families of the first rank in the realms of higher rank. That is the law. Even if you are the best among the average, you are still no match to the worst among the best.
In other words, any family of the first rank in the kingdom of the 1st rank will be much more powerful than the Stones, that hold the 1st rank in the Kingdom of the 5th rank.
And that's not all! Each kingdom has a royal family, on the top of the hierarchy of families in this realm. It's sometimes a.s.signed the zeroth rank. It's impossible to take them down.
In the Iron Throne, such family were the Grands (0), whose power was recognized by all. The Stones compared with them were like a drop in a tablespoon.
Kyon was hurt. No, he didn't complain... To own the daughter of the patriarch of the family of the 1st rank wasn't too bad. Only it was too far to the top of the world.
The empire of Rosarrio includes seven kingdoms, as well as the imperial capital Dantes, where all forces and power are concentrated. It's safe to say, it's the kingdom of the 0th rank.
The first seven families of Dantes are superior in power and influence to any other families of the other seven kingdoms. They are the pillars of the empire. The Grands (0) and the like can't hold a candle to them, such is the difference in power between them.
The sovereign family of Dantes (0) is the imperial family, which dominates the entire empire. Number one person is Empress Lanatel, the celestial gory genius.
One look at this woman can freeze blood in the veins. Even high-ranking generals are afraid to say too much in her presence, let alone lesser men. Her cruel temper is not a rumor. She used to kill people for one wrong look. She destroyed whole families for treachery with one word. Everyone in the empire knows that she is not the kind of person to joke about.
Kyon was reading her biography in disbelief.
Soon the guy was shaken to the core by the fact that Rosarrio took only the 6th place out of seven human empires!
{I have a feeling I am a cesspool!} - He wanted to roar with indignation. The more he understood, the less he enjoyed the current situation.
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The power of empire number 1 compared to Rosarrio (6) is so great that it can be compared with the size of a mighty hundred meter dragon against a bull.
«The cesspool was in the mine. I've found my way out of there. It's all over.» - Kyon calmed himself.
Then he summed up the information from books:
There exist 7 human empires, one of which is Rosarrio (6), the empire where he currently lives.
The imperial capital is Dantes (0). There are seven more kingdoms, one of which is the Iron Throne (5), the capital of the kingdom where he lives.
There is a royal family the Grands (0) and many more families, one of which is the Stones (1), the family where he wants to get.
(the author's note: I've just described the entire hierarchy of the world. Don't be surprised if nothing is clear. For the sake of simplicity, I will sometimes write a number in parentheses indicating the rank of anything. For example: a member of Juno's family (1); a member of Patriarch Bai's family (0); the Stones (1); the sovereign family Grand (0); the kingdom of the Iron Throne (5); Dantes, the capital of the empire (0); the Rosarrian empire (6); Superior stage (3); n.o.ble stage (4) and so on)