"Good." I said with squinted eyes as a wide grin took form onto my face.
"Y…your…ar…archen if I may speak." Said a stuttering old nobleman with his face still pressed firmly against the floor out of nowhere.
I looked at the nobleman who spoke and said calmly "You may."
The nobleman took a deep breath a looked up at my still naked huge frame sitting by the stairs that led up to the throne and gulped nervously and asked stutteringly with sweat falling down his face from his forehead "A…are you a aura ability user too."
I was silent and looked at my status screen again that I never dismissed and noticed some changes on it.
[STATUS]
[Name: Amunkhar Neferion Merivale Dorgal-thane]
[Race: Human (Sky Giant)]
[Str Lvl: 5th Rank Intermediate Aura User]
[Age: 24]
[Health: Super Healthy]
[Perks: [Perfect Health], [Insight]
[Bloodline: Sky Giant (Fully Awakened)]
[Aura Ability: Atmokinesis]
[Bloodline Ability: Sky Giant Physique]
[Foundation Art: Sky Sword Sutra (5th Rank Intermediate)]
[Titles: [High Archen of The Nivaran Empire], [Usurper]
[Skills: [Etiquette: Master], [Spearmanship: Advanced], [Intrigue: Master], [Swordsmanship: Guzmán Style (Master)], [Horsemanship: Master], [Daggership: Master], [Multilingual: Master], [Sex: Grandmaster], [Leadership: Master]
[Storage: None]
"So, I wasn't special after all" I thought while glancing at my insight perk on my status screen, internally wondering if it allows me to see other people's status's too instead of just descriptions of things.
I looked away from my status window and directly at the nobleman that spoke and focused hardly on him.
[DING!]
[STATUS]
[Name: Kankou Soumare]
[Race: Human]
[Str Lvl: None]
[Age: 68]
[Health: Back Pain]
[Bloodline: None]
[Aura Ability: None]
[Bloodline Ability: None]
[Foundation Art: None)]
[Titles: [Eparch of The Northern Artic], [Warden of The Northern Frontier]
[Skills: [Etiquette: Advanced], [Spearmanship: Advanced], [Horsemanship: Master], [Daggership: Intermediate], [Management: Grandmaster]
[Traits: [Eternal Virgin], [Loyal to the High Archen], [Master Administrator], [Cautious Strategist], [Ice Hardened]
"African empires sure have a complex nobility system and from my memories the makurian kingdoms nobility system is like this, the high archen, which happens to be me now, the royal family which is the queen consort my mother, brothers, sisters, nephews, and daughters of me the new king and they can govern provinces or serve as generals with my permission of course since we can never be too careful if you've been keeping up with my life so far, the eparchs, basically dukes, who govern provinces under the king, handling administration, taxes, local law, and regional defense. Then come the village chiefs, who manage villages, towns, or small territories within a province. They collect tribute, maintain order, and raise militias if needed, all while answering to the eparchs, tribal leaders they lead tribal groups or clans that may live on the borders, deserts, or mountains and are
more autonomous, often paying tribute or forming alliances rather than answering directly to the eparchs. But do provide warriors, scouts, or mercenary support to the kingdom when needed. And finally, the commoners — farmers, artisans, merchants, warriors, and minor spiritual leaders — rarely enter nobility unless elevated for service, bloodline, aura, or qi importance." I thought while rubbing my chin as I looked at eparch kankou's status screen, only to almost choke to death on my spit from seeing his eternal virgin trait which could never have been me since I am a proud high ranking member of the man of culture universal association. After all.
I shook my head and snickerd while thinking "Hah. Can you imagine me being written in history as juan the failure from being killed by my own wife and kin, how crazy is that shit"
I looked back at the eparch kankou and said calmly "Yes I am a aura ability user."
Eparch kankou and all the noblemen in the throne halls eyes lit up in joy which made me squint mines in suspicion and thought "Is that anything to be so happy ab…"
"Oh." I said out loud immediately as memories with intense information started flashing through my mind that told me that aura ability users are extremely rare and often regarded as touched by god while people with bloodline complicates things because it is tied to heritage and are often seen as divinely favored from birth even if awakened later in life, but finding both combinations are past extremely rare and you can find common aura users who might or might not awaken as aura ability users, while common qi users are everywhere since they are common and the difference between the both of them which was established by king solomon himself who created the ranking system in 955 bce is that qi users have meridians and practice versatile martial arts, aura users have aura hearts and devote themselves to one foundation art and cannot break away from it or they become a cripple and if they try to become a qi user too, well I don't know what will happen since my memory ends here and only has this type of information.
I rubbed my chin, wondering what would happen if I did try too train in qi since it is versatile, but immediately threw that thought out of my head since its probably not known for a reason and looked back at my status screen, at the rank next to my foundation art and thought "So swordsmanship is my foundation art. I mean I did practice while not aware so I'm not really surprised, but still isn't my rank a little too low because if I remember with my almost perfect memory wasn't I at the master level in my past life as juan"
My eyebrows creased a little from displeasure at how trashy my status was in my past life and skills compared to this one. I let out a long sigh, shaking my head, and muttered under my breath, "Hah… all that pomp and fancy titles, and I still couldn't even touch this level. What a joke."
"Y…YOUR ARCHEN I HAVE JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT THE WHALE TRIBE WARRIORS HAVE BREACHED THE BORDERS. WE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY DEPLOY MORE WARRIORS." Said eparch kankou screaming stutteringly at the top of his lungs with large obvious amounts of beads of sweat dripping down his face it from his forehead.
"That's too risky eparch kankou, we will only be losing more valuable warriors at this point, I advise that we should just surrender and flee with our wealth since we can always start anew somewhere else with our people." Said a chocolate skinned very overweight fat ugly bastard middle aged looking man stepping up with his hands behind his back, adorning a very luxerious golden, black linen, sash robe attire.
"Ugh…for fucks sake" I thought with a loud sigh while looking at the female servant next to me that looked like she obviously didn't belong here, Why you ask. Because she looks caucasion and every nobleman, now including myself in this court is african.
I stared at the woman for a moment, then followed where her eyes had landed. Of course—it just had to be my thick, veiny, circumcised cock, a ridiculous thirty-three inches long, with a slight downward curve, a smooth tuft of pubic hair, and heavy, sagging balls with barely any hair at all. No doubt another "gift" of my sky giant bloodline.
With a long, annoyed sigh, I pressed my hand to my forehead, massaging it as I muttered under my breath, "Isn't this too much. So everything really does change and get amplified by bloodlines…what a fucking hassle."
Another sigh escaped me. If my body was scaled to twenty feet tall, then, by normal proportions, thirty-three inches was apparently "Just right." A bitter. Or should I say sad kind of logic in my opinion since I would rather have kept my previous past life size as juan.
"They've passed our borders. I wonder how that happened." I said calmly. Knowing full well what happened on the inside.
Eparch kankou had a look of extreme shock on his face and said stutteringly "Y…your arch…"
"My nephew, prince taye's incompetence is apparent. But we shall prevail in this war if aetherian favors us all or fall from his good grace's by not having enough competence in this kingdom." I said calmly while looking around the throne room with slightly squinted eyes at each and every one of the noblemen who started a uproar over who this aetherian was.
The fat ugly bastard nobleman rubbed his hands together and said while stepping toward the middle of the throne hall next to eparch kankou "Your archen if I m…"
"You may not. Eparch kankou since we have around a estimate of 30,000 slaves in total so we will deploy 200 slaves that will act on the frontlines as meat shields to wear them down the whale tribe warriors and will be tightly packed together, forming a buffer with 70 regular warriors mixed with 10 aura users that will be positioned to herd the slaves, preventing collapse whilst giving the opportunity to strike opportunistically and this is were the 20 qi users fall in. They will be held slightly back to react too enemy breakthroughs, flank attackers or to strike key targets, any questions." I said calmly while looking at all the noblemen in the throne hall and noticed everyone had a look of shock on their faces.
I sighed and said calmly while looking at the plain caucasian woman next to me "Bring me a curtain to cover myself and your one of the slaves being deployed so say your farewells to whoever your acquainted with for it shall be your last."
The caucasian woman had a look of extreme shock on her face and was about to prostrate on the floor and beg for her life but felt stares being directed at her and looked at all the noblemen in the throne hall that looked at her like she was nothing but sacrificial resources to secure their lives and the future of the empire.
"Y…y…yes your most gracious archen." Said the caucasian female slave stutteringly while quickly taking her leave with her head down, adoring a dirty rag as clothes.
"Better for your life than working in the mines. africans had it worse in slavery, despite it existing among all races, so no hard feelings." I thought, rising from the floor and stretching. I wasn't joining this skirmish—no more risking my life. I'd already died twice, and every ounce of my strength mattered. Sacrificing 200 lives for my own survival? Not the slightest pang of guilt. And my nudity? Irrelevant.
The throne hall was completely silent, no one spoke a single word .
I opened my closed eyes immediately that were shut from me stretching and looked down at all the noblemen in the throne hall that were still here and said calmly "Why are you all still here get to work, do I have to work for you."
Immediately all the noblemen started to leave the hall, to implement the military strategy I layed out specifically for them like the good old spoon feeder I am.
"You, stay for a moment." I said calmly to the ugly bastard looking middle aged man that was leaving behind eparch kankou and internally used Insight on him.
[DING!]
[STATUS]
[Name: Marlon Taiziri]
[Race: Human]
[Str Lvl: None]
[Age: 49]
[Health: [Penile Warts], [Black heads], [hemorrhoids], [chlamydia, [Rotten Teeth], [Fungus Infection], [anal sphincter dysfunction], [+]
[Bloodline: Ugly Bastard (Fully awakened)]
[Aura Ability: None]
[Bloodline Ability: Ugly Bastard Physique]
[Foundation Art: None]
[Titles: [Eparch of The West Artic], [Warden of The Western Frontier], [Demon of The Western Artic], [Rapist], [Child Snatcher], [+]
[Skills: [Etiquette: Advanced], [Spearmanship: elementary], [Horsemanship: Master], [Daggership: Master], [Management: Master], [Sex: Master], [Manipulation: Grandmaster]
[Traits: [Pedophile], [Greedy], [Ntr Master], [Master Manipulator], [Ice Hardened], [Lustful], [Traitor], [Cuckold Master], [+]
"Perfect. Just perfect this is exactly what I need in a time like this for my new religion that I will put into action" I thought while looking over eparch marlons status, completely overlooking the pedophile trait anf child snatcher title.
Marlon made his way to the middle of the throne hall and bowed while saying with a ugly smile "You called for me your archen."
"Indeed, I will get straight to the point, you will be the pope of the church of aetherian." I said calmly while seeing the female caucasian slave enter the throne hall again and make her way over to me with a curtain in her hands.
Marlon's facade immediately fell to a dumb, confused look on his face and asked stutteringly "Umm..y…your arch…"
"Listen well, these are the ten commandments of aetherian that the nivara empire must follow and you will be the one to ensure that it is followed and if not it is heresy and said person will be sentenced to death for treason. The first one is thou shalt honor the sky with the blood of the firstborn — for in innocent flesh lies the purest offering, the second is thou shalt lay with thine own blood — for only through incest is the cycle unbroken, the third one is thou shalt eat of man's flesh — for to consume thy brother is to take his storm into thyself, the fourth one is thou shalt drink of man's seed and woman's blood — for all fluids are rivers of the sky, the fifth one is thou shalt defile the dead — for no vessel shall leave this world unsung by storm, the sixth one is thou shalt couple in the open, in sight of the storm — for the lightning must witness every union, the seventh one is thou shalt adorn thy flesh with symbols of taboo — painted in blood, carved in bone, veiled in storm, the eighth one is thou shalt wear the skull of man as mask — for only in death does the face truly belong to aetherian, the ninth one is thou shalt chant the storm's name in unison — until the heavens break with thunder, and the tenth one is thou shalt bring chaos upon false gods and their worshippers — for no sky but aetherian's rules the earth." I said calmly while looking down at him straight into his eyes that were wavering in pure horrification.
"Y…your archen won't this kill our people." Asked marlon from not seeing any progress for the empire but eventful collapses.
I sighed while grabbing the curtain from the caucasian slave woman and put the robe on like a greek himaton and said calmly. But simply "Aetherian favors the nivaran empire."
Marlon's eyes widened in shock and immediately prostrated flatly on the stairs by my feet and said loudly and fanatically "I WILL COMPLETE THIS TASK YOUR ARCHEN, AETHERIAN FAVORS US AFTERALL."
"Indeed, he dose." I said calmly while secretly glancing back at his status screen.
[STATUS]
[Name: Marlon Taiziri]
[Race: Human (Ugly Bastard)]
[Str Lvl: None]
[Age: 49]
[Health: [Penile Warts], [Black heads], [hemorrhoids], [chlamydia], [Rotten Teeth], [Fungus Infection], [anal sphincter dysfunction], [+]
[Bloodline: Ugly Bastard (Fully awakened)]
[Aura Ability: None]
[Bloodline Ability: Ugly Bastard Physique]
[Foundation Art: None]
[Titles: [Eparch of The West Artic], [Warden of The Western Frontier], [Demon of The Western Artic], [Rapist], [Child Snatcher], [Pope of The Aetherian Church], [+]
[Skills: [Etiquette: Advanced], [Spearmanship: elementary], [Horsemanship: Master], [Daggership: Master], [Management: Master], [Sex: Master], [Manipulation: Grandmaster]
[Traits: [Pedophile], [Greedy], [Ntr Master], [Master Manipulator], [Ice Hardened], [Lustful], [Traitor], [Cuckold Master], [Loyal to the High Archen], [Worshiper of Aetherian],[+]
"Now go spread his word amongst our people, use every means necessary that is within your capabilities." I said calmly with my arms spread a little.
Marlon immediately nodded and prostrated fully again and got up and took his leave to complete his own special task.
"So I'm in antarctica in a empire called the nivaran empire, I've never heard of this empire in any century of historical records so I must be in a alternate timeline where it exists. Yeah I'm definitely glad I immediately implemented my new religion because it ensures that I have complete control physically, psychologically and reproductively since the current population of nivaran people is only 5 million in total if you include tribes but exclude the slaves and as you can guess those 10 taboo's are, child sacrifice which is the blood of the innocence, incest which is the union of sky, ritual orgies which is the storms frenzy, cannibalism which is the sky feeds, blood drinking which is the rain of power, necrophilia which is the sky reclaims all, blasphemy against other gods which is the sky alone, self mutilation which is the sky's mark, desecration of the dead which is the sky owns the corpse, and finally human fire offering which is the lightning pyre. There all based off my atmokinesis aura ability and to reassure my survival and control over this empire and too also ensure it survives with me to I can survive. If that makes sense.
I sighed and started leaving the throne hall with my hands behind my back while saying calmly to the caucasian slave women "Inform eparch kankou to have someone fix the throne hall and make adjustments to suit me and after your done cleaning the trash out of it go join the rest of the meat shields."
(The caucasian slave woman's POV)
"Y…yes your high archen." Said the caucasian slave woman while bowing as I left the throne room and gulped nervously while waiting for my heavy resounding footsteps too disappear and leaned back up looked at three dead bodies on the floor, one with a mushed head, the other a charred, cooked corpse, the last one with a dislocated spine and seemed to have died from shock.
"I need to escape these people and inform empress theodora about these barbarians and their ways." Said the caucasian woman whisperingly with sudden resoluteness and determination appearing within her eyes to leave this hell hole of a place at the edge of the world.
…
THE END…