Ah... Wait... If I use money to buy my ways... I'll be like them right? But it's so annoying doing the same thing over and over again...

I don't know what to do... I'll just see how the kingdoms on that continent look like and then decide my actions. Pre-planning is not  a good option...

I look at the map and see that the Tenth continent I want to conquer is away from other continents by a large amount... And the Tenth Continent can give me easy access to Eleventh to Fifteenth continents...

But how am I going to get to the Tenth continent? By boat it would take a little too long... The distance for flying will definetly tire me out and I might drop them... I don't want to take risks...

Artimael walks up while the girls are still sorting out things like clothing and the sort.

Artimael: "You don't know how to get to the Tenth continent safely?"

Mithneel: "Nope... Flying is too risky for me. By boat, too long..."

Artimael: "Then let me handle this. I expected something like this would happen so I already prepeared for this. Let me go get it."

Mithneel: "Hmm....? Get what?"

Artimael: "You'll see."

Artimael dissapears while I keep looking at the map and plotting my path. Right now the Nine continents I have are being reformed.

My two daughters are adventuring with me for a little bit aswell... They insisted on coming to the Tenth continent because it is rumoured to have the highest amount of elves so elves are common there. They wanted to come aswell...

I still can't think of a proper name for them...

Ah, I'll wait for Arti to bring over the thing he wanted me to see while I think for a name for the two daughters....

Two hours pass as I think about names until two names finally pop up in my mind.... Artimael is still nowhere to be seen.

Mithneel: "Princesses, please come here."

My two adopted daughters come to my side.

Princess: "Yes?"

Mithneel: "After a long while of thinking... I've thought of a name for you both. I am sorry it took so long though..."

Younger Princess: "It is fine, papa... As long as you remember us, we will forgive you."

Mithneel: "Want to hear your names?"

Older Princess: "If it is fine with you..."

Mithneel: "I'll call the others here aswell."

Younger Princess: "Alright..."

Mithneel: "Fyra! Ren! Meril! Julia! Come here, please!"

The girls come to my side.

Fyra: "We are here."

Mithneel: "I have finally decided on the names for my two daughters..."

I pull the two princesses closer to me.

Mithneel: "The older one will be Matia... And the younger one Maria. Is that fine with everybody?"

Matia: "It is fine with me, father."

Maria: "I am glad to have such a beautiful name, papa!"

Fyra: "Those are very good names!"

Ren: "I agree with Fyra."

Meril: "Yeah, I agree with Fyra aswell."

Julia: "I agree."

Mithneel: "Then it is settled... The names Matia and Maria will stay."

Fyra: "Anyways... How long till we go to the Tenth continent? The continent of Peace?"

Mithneel: "Until Artimael comes back. He has something that will help us get there. I do not know what though..."

Fyra: "Well... We can wait for a little while..."

Fyra and the rest go back to their spots and Matia and Maria sit on my lap and fall asleep quite quickly. I am sitting on a chair in a room at the Ninth Continent. A room was prepeared for me at a port so I am waiting for a ship to go off but I just recently came to notice the time it would take so I planned for another way.

Mithneel: "I have a good life honestly... I cannot even imagine that it would be if I wasn't blessed and if I was born into slavery... Currently I think only I can directly save this world from destruction..."

I pat the heads of my two adopted daughters, Matia and Maria... I have two daughters... Even if they are adopted. I also have four wives.... I cannot even imagine a life without them. Even though I am strong... I am still weak when I imagine that I could lose my daughters and wives in a split second if I was careless... This world isn't forgiving to mistakes. It doesn't even give a second chance. One mistake and you are already dead or you lost most of the things precious to you. I also have quite a big name for myself so it isn't surprising if I would be attacked or my wives or my new daughters would be kidnapped or even killed or raped and then killed or sold into slavery...

I will never let anybody hurt my family... Even if it would kill me. I know I am being selfish... But this world rewards you for being selfish doesn't it? I have gotten so far by just doing what I wanted... And now I am doing even more due to being selfish.

I need to continue... I need to reform this world so it will never be destroyed. So it will always stay here for my family.

I keep thinking about many things concerning the future until I hear a loud noise... Mechanical... Sounds like something Artimael would create...

I look towards the noise and see a huge flying ship with... Cannons? It seems magic is used to fire the cannons? And it's actually flying towards here as fast as me and Arti can fly... Why didn't he use this before? Did he just finish this a day or two ago?

Ah, no matter! I got something that can help me with my goals. The ship gets closer and wakes up the two girls who were sleeping on my lap.

Mithneel: "Ah... You woke up... Let's hope it won't be so noisy on the ship so you can sleep..."

I pick the two girls up and put them on my shoulders to carry them better. They really are like ten year old's mentally... Their bodies should be around sixteen years old but their mind is somewhere around ten isn't it? Maybe even younger...

Artimael: "Minh! I brought my new invention! A flying ship! Get on!"

He lowers the ship until I can jump on it.

Mithneel: "Might as well... Matia, Maria... Sorry for this."

I drop the two girls but catch them in a princess carry in a second and then prepeare to jump. Matia and Maria shriek a little when I drop them but feel relieved when I catch them again.

The next second I jump up and into the ship. I put the two girls down and jump down to get the rest. My wives grab onto me and I grab Fyra into a princess carry and Ren holds onto my back very tightly.

I jump up and Meril's grip almost gives up but I grab her while letting Fyra go with one arm but still holding her. I somehow manage to get them all onto the ship without anybody getting hurt.

Mithneel: "Phew... Almost dropped Fyra and Meril... Well dropping Fyra was going to be my fault..."

Artimael: "Everybody on board, Minh?"

Mithneel: "Yup!"

Artimael starts flying towards the tenth continent and when I look down the villagers who were in the port and merchants are looking at the ship and some have even fainted.

Mithneel: "Hmm... I hope this won't cause too much trouble to the villagers to see this..."

Artimael: "It'll be fine! Probably!"

We head off and Artimael comes up to us.

Mithneel: "You don't need to steer the ship?"

Artimael: "Trust me, Minh. It will fly straight until I do something to the ship."

Mithneel: "Hmm... I trust you so it will definetly fly straight. Well... Want to give us a small tour?"

Artimael: "Sure! Just follow me."

Artimael shows us the entire ship and the engine rooms and such. There is a place for guests like us to sleep so we settled in there until we reach the continent.

The ship has a kitchen and bathrooms aswell... I think magic is in every corner of the ship honestly...

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There is also the cannon rooms at the sides that are just corridors. You need to channel magic into the cannon and it will automatically compress it and shoot out a ball of mana that is way stronger than a regular cannonball.

It seems like this is a flying fortress... And to think that Artimael had something like this! I really need to find out what he will do in the future...

Ah... I'll ask him now.

I go up to the Captain's room where Artimael is looking at things and knock on the door before entering. Artimael is looking out the window he has in his room.

Artimael: "Ah, Minh. Anything you need?"

Mithneel: "I wanted to ask you something."

Artimael: "Sit down then."

I go and sit down on the chair.

Mithneel: "I want to ask about the future... What will you do? After I conquer this world... What will you do?"

Artimael: "Hmm... I think i'll go adventuring in other worlds again... I have a feeling that i'll find somebody who will tear apart the barriers between worlds... Ofcourse I think you can do that too but this feeling is weird... Like some kind of change will happen in the entire universe when he starts really adventuring. I think i'll see how he grows up... I won't interfere with his life like I did with yours though. Ofcourse it could be a she but yeah... I'll still visit you though."

Mithneel: "Hmm... Good to know. I'd better get back to my things."

Artimael: "Ok, Minh. See you later."

Mithneel: "See you."

I leave the room.

We reach the Tenth continent in a day... That trip would've tired me out definetly and the ship would've taken... A week or so?

Before we reached the port Artimael turned the flying ship into a regular one and landed in the sea hiding all of the mechanical parts. Well... We cannot announce a secret weapon so openly anyways.

I go towards the castle and my group follows me after we docked the ship and cleared all the security checks.

I open the castle doors and the royal family is sitting on their throne... Convinient that all the royal families have been near ports already so I didn't have to go travelling to their capitals and so...

Mithneel: "Hello, Royal Family of this Kingdom. I am Mithneel Evergreen and I have come here for the reason you might already expect."

King: "Ah! Mithneel! We have been expecting you... The oracle in our kingdom said you would come here. The other kings are already on their way aswell... We know that it is of no use to fight against you due to your Evergreen Empire being too big for anybody to fight against... So I think everybody will pledge their loyalty to you."

Mithneel: "That would be the most peaceful way indeed. So I don't need to shed anymore blood?"

King: "Well... Depending on your decisions... It seems you are going in a pattern conquering the continents... And the last continent based on your pattern.... Is the one currently inhabited by that army..."

Mithneel: "So I guess everything falls into place now..."

King: "Well.... Shall we get to the point already? I am sure you want to conquer the world as fast as possible right?"

Mithneel: "True. You are an understanding king..."

King: "Not towards kingdoms smaller than me but to your empire... Nothing seems to pose a threat anymore right?"

Mithneel: "It seems so indeed."

King: "By the way Mithneel... What are you going to do about the three undiscovered continents?"

Mithneel: "Explore and conquer."

King: "Ah... So you plan to totally control the world..."

Mithneel: "Indeed."

The King pledges himself to help me forever and his sons and daughters to the same. The queen does a different pledge though... When the King heard that it started going offcourse of the original pledge he started panicking and telling them to stop the queen but nobody did... When I aksed about the pledge the queen made...

It is the pledge of love... The pledge is only used when a woman tries to get a man they really love under their care and when the woman does the pledge it means the woman devotes her entire soul and body to the man they pledged themself to.

When I heard about that I was a little shocked... What motives did she have for pledging herself to me?

Ah... It's not like she can catch up to me anyways... I also don't need any mistresses as I have four wives so I really have no idea what she could accomplish with the pledge of love...

Also... Apparently if a woman does the pledge of love to a man while the woman is married... The marriage is broken. So technically the queen divorced the King to try to marry me... She must know that I have four wives right... Or does she hope to become the fifth? Well... It doesn't matter much anyways.

When the pledges end the King goes back to his place after he scolds the Queen for her actions... Apparently he considered it an insult towards me... I just said not to think of it as much so she didn't get anything bigger as a scolding from the king... Though the scolding was basically hell itself...

The other Kings soon arrived and pledged themselves to me and their families pledged themselves to me in the normal and official way...

When all the pledges were done and I was thinking about what to do next... Except go and conquer the other continents... My two daughters appeared from hiding.

Matia: "Father! Can we go and look around the city?"

Maria: "Papa! Can we? Can we?"

They jump around happily... I guess spending a couple years locked up really didn't leave their minds to grow and they are still acting like they are seven year olds now rather than sixteen year olds... Especially Maria...

The kings look at the two girls who are calling me Father and Papa and look towards my wives and then me... They are trying to make some sort of connection...

King: "I'm sorry to say this... But I cannot make any resembalance between you, your wives and your daughters..."

Mithneel: "Ah... I saved them from their real father who locked them up and tortured them because he was paranoid enough to think the two girls would try to take over his kingdom... I also adopted them to give them a sense of security..."

King: "That... You adopted two unknown princesses... And are taking care of them?"

Mithneel: "And also named them. And now... I have some other things to talk to you about, Kings. Matia, Maria... We will go to see the city soon. Letm e talk to the Kings first."

Well... I was about to leave but then I remembered the reforms... I taught the kings about the new reforms I am doing all over my kingdom. The kings soon left to apply the reforms and make sure no rebellions pop up.

When I finished I immediatly left to see the city with my family... The city was filled with Elves and Humans and other races... Everybody was living in peace and was happy. I guess these kings didn't try to strengthen their position to the point of being a tyrant?

Well... I am glad that they  are living happily.

I spend the day with my family...

Only five more continents to go... Plus the three undiscovered ones... How do we know there are three? Because we discovered them but not fully.... The humans and other races who found the continents only mapped out the beach area of the continents so we can roughly estimate how big the continents might be.

That is why they are discovered but undiscovered at the same time... No more continents should be here except many islands that will not matter much until later.

But everything has it's own importance and time...