Monarch of Darkness

If Sarah would have known the real age of Evan, then she wouldn't be so shy infront of him. Now that he had changed his appearance to a sixteen year young man, coupled with the mysteriousness in his personality, it was enough to cause ripple in the heart of a young maiden like her.

After listening to the question of Evan, Sarah became dumbfounded. Thinking about the things, she was thinking earlier, her face reddened immediately. But she controlled her emotions in a brief second and started to narrate the major incidents happened during last two years.

"There is a major turmoil going on in the vast Northpeak empire. Major powers are showing restlessness in these few months. Wars are being fought between many local powers and bandits are roaming rampant. The whole empire is facing a choatic situation now", Sarah narrated with a serious expression.

Evan felt his heartbeat racing at this moment. He felt restless while training in the ancestoral land of Hendrickson family, so he ended his seclusion and came out. Now after listening to the narration of Sarah, he had a bad feeling about it.

"Describe the situation about major powers", Evan look at Sarah with a questioning gaze. He couldn't ask about Thousand swords kingdom directly. So, he was asking in a roundabout fashion. Afterall who knew whether the Falling snow sect was a friend or enemy to Thousand swords kingdom.

"The choas started when the western border of Northpeak empire got attacked by the Golden orb kingdom", Sarah replied while fluttering her dark eyelashes. "Golden orb kingdom! Is not it merely a strong kingdom? How can it attack an empire?", Evan exclaimed. He had already read informations related to Golden orb kingdom. It was a kingdom located west to his Thousand swords kingdom. It was a very big kingdom and a powerful sect named Golden orb sect was protecting it. In fact the name of kingdom was given as a respect to Golden orb sect. "But even with the support of a powerful sect, how could a kingdom attack an empire which was many times more powerful than it?", Evan felt confused.

"Big brother, Don't you have any idea about the Golden orb sect?",Sarah looked at Evan with astonishment. According to her, there was no cultivator present in the Northpeak empire who was not aware about the power level of Golden orb sect.

Evan shook his head in response. He only knew that Golden orb sect was an enemy but how much it was powerful, he never cared about it. 

"Ok, let me describe it's power to you. As a star disciple of Falling snow sect, I am privy to more informations than other disciples", Sarah said assuringly.

Evan nodded his head. "It is easy to talk with this girl", Evan thought inside his mind.

"The Golden orb sect is an independent sect unlike other major sects. Although it is ranked second in power, it is a sect, specialized in body cultivation. Moreover, it has an inheritance more ancient than the Northpeak empire. Our Falling snow sect can not be compared with it at all. Only with combining our power with another major power, we can fight with Golden orb sect", Sarah narrated.

"In the recent history of northern region of Greencloud continent, there are two heaven defying geniuses. One is Nathan Jackson, the king of Thousand swords kingdom and another was Lazard Varon, the young lord of Golden orb sect. The appearance of these two, shook the entire northern region.

Obviously, the Northpeak empire alaramed by the appearance of these two heaven defying geniuses but it couldn't do anything against the powers backing them. One of them is the prince of Thousand swords kingdom and another is the young lord of Golden orb sect. These two powers are something, even Northpeak empire does not want to offend. 

But all the problem started when Nathan Jackson disappeared suddenly. Lazard Varon came back from Central region and the ambition of Golden orb sect rekindled with his return. I have heard tumors that he has powerful backers in the central region and his wife was from a very strong power of central region", Sarah narrated in one breath.

"Oh, I understand now", Evan replied. His anxiety grew after learning the power of Golden orb sect. He told Sarah to narrate what happened later and complete course of incidents came to his grasp after listening the narration of Sarah.

According to Sarah, most of the major sects were coveting the cultivation resources of Thousand swords kingdom. What was more attractive to them was the supreme cultivation technique of Thousand swords monarch. Now that both the old king and new king of Thousand swords kingdom had disappeared mysteriously, the Thousand swords kingdom had weakened greatly. Now both the Blackridge kingdom and the Golden orb sect were completely surrounding the boundary of the Thousand swords kingdom.

Attack was not launched in full scale yet. Both parties were showing patience in this matter. The Thousand swords kingdom was being defensive and the Golden orb sect was planning to thin out the power of Thousand swords kingdom gradually. It had been eight months when border of Thousand swords kingdom was completely sealed off by the Golden orb sect. Now one could only exit from Thousand swords kingdom. Noone could enter it from outside. As for help from outside, the Northpeak empire was itself fighting with Golden orb sect in western border and barbarians in southern border. So, it couldn't send any help to Thousand swords kingdom.

As for other incidents involving other major kingdoms, Evan heard them half heartedly. What matter to him most was the condition of Thousand swords kingdom. His mother and aunt was inside it. Moreover, he couldn't betray his family's expectation.

Evan felt a great urgency to gain more power. What he was fearing most, occurred to the Thousand swords kingdom. Moreover, he felt this matter was more complicated than how Sarah described it. Pressing him into coming to capital, then attempting his murder, the attack on his aunt in Northern mountains and the mysterious disappearance of his father, Evan knew a great conspiracy was going on against his Thousand swords kingdom. Moreover, the Northpeak empire was directly or indirectly involved in it.