CHAPTER 2127 OPERATION TRANSCENSION
The re-emergence of the Void Prince sent a message to the highly select few who knew what was in store for Kandria's future.
All sixteen Martial Sages. The Grand General of the Kandrian Royal Army. The Grand Admiral of the Kandrian Royal Navy. The Minister of Defense. The Minister of National Security.
These were the key individuals in the nation who had been informed by the Emperor of his grand plan. They were too significant in their roles to play in what was to come to be left in the dark. None of them knew why the Emperor chose to wait for his son to re-emerge from his training to commence his grand plan.
None of them had been made privy to the entirety of his grand plan, either. The Emperor of Harmony had stuck to a need-to-know basis for his grand plan, refusing to reveal even a hint more than was necessary.
Yet, despite this, not a single person objected to this.
Had it been anyone else, they would not have allowed one person to take full control of the planning. As participants of the war, they each had a stake, and thus an interest and valid justification in demanding a seat at the table.
However, their trust in the Emperor of Harmony was high enough that in the past three years, not once had they demanded a seat at the table.
And now the time had come.
Briefly, after Rui Quarrier Silas Kandria emerged from his three-year training session, a single secret royal command left the Kandrian Throne Hall.
"Commence Operation Transcension."
Operation Transcension, Emperor Rael's grand plan, had begun.
Immediately, the furtive Elder Tree task force began aggressively gathering intelligence from the Elder Tree, communicating it to the Royal Army and the Martial Union, who began preparing widespread covert operations to raid the Beast Domain for precious resources of various kinds and sorts to bring back home.
This would cause a massive surge in the supply of precious resources, an outcome that Emperor Rael had foreseen and long prepared for. In the past three years, the clandestinely disguised and hidden inventory warehouses that used to be employed by the now-deceased black market had been converted into storage and processing warehouses for the impending surge of precious resources. This text is © NôvelDrama/.Org.
Rather than expend massive capital expenditure into creating brand-new hidden storage and smuggling infrastructure and resources, he simply repurposed the Underworld's resources and hard work to his own needs.
So long as he could do that, he could drastically cut down on expenses and also the probability of his activities being noticed by the other three Sage-level powerhouses. It had been Emperor Rael's intention from the very start when Rui had told him that he had managed to rope the Silas Clan into the Kandrian Empire.
Simultaneously, the manifold too was rapidly commenced and put into operation in the depths of one of the uninhabited forests in Kandria. The Kandrian Empire possessed many uninhabited regions due to just how vast its territory was for a population of nearly two hundred million citizens.
No one was going to notice a land, a hundred kilometers wide, disappearing out of nowhere.
And no one did, especially with two Martial Sages employing their full power to hide it from the sensory perception of the outside world.
The Divine Doctor, much to his displeasure, was put to much more work than ever before.
From upgrading the Martial Bodies of Martial Sages to Martial Masters to the strongest of Seniors such as the Gatekeeper, he had already comprehensively improved the power of the upper echelons of Kandria significantly.
Furthermore, he had also improved the biotechnology of Kandria significantly as well, greatly empowering the Kandrian Royal Armyl. The mass secret manufacturing and implementation of his new formulas were also commenced.
The Silas Clan began its future surveillance for dangers and threats immediately upon receiving the command from the Emperor of Harmony. Naturally, Emperor Rael promised heavy compensation and remuneration, such as longevity potions galore and other Martial resources.
He was able to promise such extravagant payments because the surplus influx that would flood the Kandrian Empire was going to be so great that none of them would ever fall short in any regard.
The trickiest to operate was the training manifold, for it was jointly owned by the Martial Union, the Kandrian Empire government, and the Void Prince. Thus, Emperor Rael had set up a robust system that allowed all three parties to smoothly control the dungeon without getting in each other's way.
Ten thousand square kilometers was a lot of area in general, but it was surprisingly little considering how extremely precious it was.
The entire area was divided equally between all five Realms of the Kandrian Empire, which meant Martial Artists of any given Realm had ten times as much training area as those of lower Realms. A massive training facility spanning a hundred kilometers, dubbed the Kandrian Martial Chambers, had been created inside the manifold, costing both the government and Martial Union an astronomical amount of wealth and resources.
Ordinarily, this would have been untenable economically, but Emperor Rael went all out nonetheless because the Elder Tree would replenish all invested resources and far more with an enormous surplus of precious resources.
And he was right.
It was only after the fifth treasure began working his magic that the leaders of the Martial Union and the Royal Army understood why Emperor Rael had been adamant in refusing to start Operation Transcension until the Void Prince stepped out of his training.
Normally, no single Martial Master was ever so strategically important to be worth delaying such massive and important designs for the future.
But as they all came to realize, the Void Prince was absolutely worth it.
Not a single one of the leaders of Kandria could even begin to fathom what they saw when humans began turning into Apprentices, Squires into Seniors, and Seniors into Martial Masters.
Emperor Rael sat upon his throne.
A smile of confidence emerged on his face.
"Now we wait."
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