*Charlemagne Clovis Xavier's POV*

I am Charlemagne Clovis Xavier, fifty-fifth head of the Xavier clan.

I have been many things, taken on many roles in my long life.

First as the second son of Clovis Xavier, the 49th head of the Xavier Clan. When I was ten, the Immortal Emperor traveled through our estate and noticed my esper potentials. I became his disciple that day.

Per his instructions, I traveled the great world of Bairong, mastering my Martial Arts along the way. I have seen many wonders, secrets untold to this day, disasters on the national scale. I even witnessed the War God, the Grandmaster, himself changing the world, bringing the Empire into a world he called "Terra".

I went on a tour around Terra, seeing it with my own eyes. It's an odd world, its people are so weak. They have no idea how to use the chi within them, not even their strongest warriors. But they have something called 'mana', and despite how some claim they're using divine powers or spiritual powers, I can sense clearly that it is all mana, nothing else.

After touring the adjacent continents and the outlying islands, I returned to Xing, only to find that Master had created a great desert as a barrier between the other nations of this world and us. It was quite a sight, the seemingly endless, barren desert landscape.

Before the master retired to Grandmaster's mountain, he asked me to watch over his descendants, as the hidden Imperial Spymaster. A role I gladly accepted. After all, if not for master, I could not have achieved the half-immortality I have now, nor seen the wonders of Bairong.

I thought I had seen everything the world has to offer, no matter which one.

And yet, the reports I have been receiving the last four years has been detailing something beyond I've ever seen over the three centuries of my life. The world of Terra is changing, starting in the nation they call 'Amestris', the land of Alchemy.

In my capacity as the Imperial Spymaster, I've been using the Xavier clan's merchant network to double as my own spy network. Of course, I secured the exclusive right to trade with the outside world to ensure that nobody from Xing will disrupt the network.

Four years ago, one of my representative formed a contract with a new company called "Meyer Trading Company"... created by the current Emperor's favorite niece, Lady Silvia. Though for some reason they believe it is actually Lady Silvia's daughter who orchestrated the whole affair.

Preposterous! The girl was just over five years old, what can she do? The way I see it, those representatives need some retraining.

The report since then, however, has called my judgement into question. Amestris is changing so quickly it is almost unrecognizable from the little nation I saw during my travels.

I even used my ability 'Mental Control' to examine my subordinates since the reports are simply too unbelievable. There's no mistake, Amestris is no longer the weak little nation it was just decades ago.

Their alchemy technique is much stronger now, and they're producing alchemists at a pace unseen before. All the work of Lady Silvia's daughter, Pray.

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Her Anderson Corporation matured into a defense contractor, pushing the boundaries of alchemical techniques. They even started producing artifacts they call 'railguns' that fire specially prepared ammunitions. I suppose the rumors of the little girl proclaiming herself to be a genius must be true then.

That still doesn't explain how they are able to produce so much weapons in such short times, and I'm still studying the 'Factories' my spies mentioned in their report. Very unconventional, the concept of 'mass production', unlike anything we have in Xing. The Amestrisians has been able to push back the witches to the battlefields they first clashed on decades ago with their new techniques.

That's only half of it. Meyer Trading Company ballooned into a multi-billion industry, dabbling in nearly every sector of the Amestris economy. From the original company, they formed Meyer Foods Corporation that sells cuisines of every kind, some even I have not tried before. Their products are astonishingly long-lasting, lasting long enough to even reach my office without spoiling, after a three month journey on the sea.

There's the Meyer Construction Corporation, busy rebuilding the roads in Amestris with what they call 'adoptive solar panels', whatever that is. It repairs itself too, to my amazement, as if it's alive... The company has also been building impossibly tall towers with, of all things, metals. Her 'metal factories' has been mass producing metal alloys only the most skilled masters of the smithing craft could have produced in the past.

And then there's Meyer Health Industry. They're replacing the existing medicine practitioners with the 'doctors' they trains and strange medicine that cure diseases even the most proficient Chi-healer cannot heal. The techniques they use are most repulsive, directly opening up the bodies to fix the inside.

The girl even managed to tame lightning, thought that's not so surprising since she does have lightning bloodline. What does surprise me is that she has been building networks that can carry her lightning, and artifacts that can use it to move.

If that isn't unbelievable enough, from the most recent memories I have examined, they even have metal artifacts that can float atop her roads moving at a speed that should only be possible for masters of the 7th level martial arts!

Then there's the 'nonprofit' organizations she has been leading. It doesn't make any sense, why would a company do anything for no profit? But they have been building academies, like the one mage academies in Britannia or Academia institution in the Reim empire. Just on a far more massive scale, one for every other town if those memories are real.

Of course, there's everything else too. Amestrisian government itself is changing rapidly, and the girl is the one proposing those changes!

Even I don't know what exactly to make of all these, but I know one thing. The girl is dangerous. I may not be able to touch her given her royal bloods, but I know someone who can.

It's time to pay a visit to the War God's mountain.