Great Calamity, Monster and Devils

Meanwhile the Unorthodox noble families, organisations and affiliated sects were suffering heavily from the flood and lost many of their spies or secret sources of funds.

The alliance leader immediately called for a meeting to began to do damage control and take account of what they had all lost and predict what would also be lost during the next couple of months.

Some of their lesser groups began to participate in looting and killing various places to try gather some supplies and wealth during the flood to make up for some of the losses but not much else could be done since they had missed their opportunity.

The Blood Sect revelled in the chaos and found many people to prey upon who had become desperate enough, they began to recruit new members even more than usual, abduct people on the roads and steal supplies and finally they were beginning to move as their leader had instructed.

The Devil Sect remained quiet and secluded during this time but upon hearing the news of the mass death and panic in the masses, they fanatically prayed to their great devils for more blood an carnage to sweep through the lands.

The Devil Sect had always been a cruel place that nurtured the humans evil side and promoted the use of human sacrifices, they had a very high degree of hatred for the Martial Alliance and those of the Capital.

The very idea of fear, death and disease spreading throughout the Central Lands and reaching the Capital was something that they hoped for.

Their core belief was that strength was everything and everything useless could be abandoned or killed without mercy.

If something wasn't amusing to them anymore, they would kill it.

In their eyes, those masses were ignorant and conformed to the rules of the Central Lands and the Martial Alliance even if they did not have a direct connection to them, they still had to answer to them if they were called upon.

The idea of such people who may be considered as the Martial Alliances pawns being destroyed and tossed away by their owners was exciting and entertaining to them.

When the hatred and fear reaches the maximum point, they can sweep in and recruit many new people and turn many against those of the Capital while also leaving the rest to either become sacrifices or die as a result of being abandoned by their owners.

Meanwhile the Emperor had many meetings with the Martial Alliance and the Four Great Noble families to discuss countermeasures and how to handle the problem of the flood.

Even many losses had come from each side that involved some form of private army that was being raised or some of their business partners or businesses were beginning to suffer greatly outside of the Capital that had suffered from the disturbed trade routes or the the destruction of the land.

The Emperor suggested waiting to see how things will turn out as he did in his previous life, this was the best way to focus on his own and the others losses and make up for what they lost while ignoring the public outcry for help from affected areas.

The Emperor had been crowned to his position for not that long of a time and had yet to build up his own forces and own people to become his supporters so he needed time and resources to achieve that.

The Martial Alliance and the Four Great Noble families had long predicted the rise of various tough times ahead and difficult adversaries so they needed to build their own strength and help the Emperor to become a figure that could get them through the future trials but also bring more prosperity and opportunities to the people of the capital so they supported his idea.

The Devil Sect, Unorthodox Alliance and Blood Sect were predicted to cause many problems and grow stronger in the future but most of all they were still worries about the problems at the borders should war break out or their additional plans to gain more resources from other lands.

Their biggest worry among them was the two entities which had yet to be found or captured.

For them Ki was an unknown individual that may be a threat in the future but there was also the Estrella family heads daughter who had turned traitor and began to spread her own cult following around the places near the south.

In their minds, the suffering of this group of victims had to be ignored and sacrificed so that they do not lose anymore power and can focus on building up their strength and unity.

Perhaps this is the mindset that lead them to be so easily played with by the Blood Sect and the other groups in Ki's previous life for so long that lead them to their strength growing so powerful and even so influential that even the Emperor had to play both sides of the Blood Sect and the Martial Alliance just to ensure his position and survival until Ki finally ended it all by killing the sect leader.

They were far too indifferent and focussed on their own goals and let the people of the Central Lands lose their trust towards the people of the Capital and were even corrupted and turned into a blade that strikes at the Martial Alliance.

If something was not beneficial to them, they left everything else to the lesser families, officials or sects to handle while they continued to do everything they could to keep their place as the central power of the continent even if it meant using many vicious and underhanded tactics while also ignoring the suffering that has been inflicted all around them.

Even now, they were still trying to find the traitor of the Estrella family before she leaked any of the family secrets and techniques any further but she seemed to have disappeared completely no matter what means or resources they used to find her.

The Estrella family head became increasingly worried as the fate if the heavens that he had read each day had been changing little by little but they could not afford to dispatch too many people to track down the sources of the use of the families evil art.

They had no choice but to ask for the Martial Alliances help over the years to arrange search and destroy teams including a single member of their family to identify someone with a corrupted fate in person that had tried to conceal themselves from the heavens and the Estrella families eyes.

This task was proving to be useful in capturing those less experienced fanatics but the resources required to track down and continue to hunt them was something that had also increased the main leaders of the Capitals need for an increase of resources and wealth.

They may be the most prosperous place in the continent but after a very long time of holding off the wars at the borders and the attacks from various dangerous influences within the Central Lands, their power and wealth had greatly diminished.

Meanwhile the fanatical following continued to grow and spread around the south.

On a ship, at the very edge of the Southern Lands at the docks sat a beautiful woman who had an evil light shine in her bright starry eyes, she listened to the news of the state of the Central Lands and revealed a mocking smile as if she had known that this would be the result.

The night before she had checked the stars for what is predicted to happen and this news only helped to confirm what she had previously learned.

Her family and those with the power to do so would never move to help anyone as she had predicted and chaos had swept through the lands.

She whispered quietly. "Great calamities will arise, great powers will rise, chaos will spread. Through this turbulent time a monster will be born that will wreak havoc on the lands. Greed, wrath, lust, gluttony, envy, pride and sloth will be at their highest point as the chaos continues, there it is to become a whirlpool for sin where the great devils will arise. Yet still… the so called rulers sit within their walls and watch on as this all continues. How amusing."

She smiled cynically and then turned to the nearby people on the ship and ordered. "Set sail! We are returning home."

Many adventures had lead her to the Southern Lands out of the reach of her family and on board of her own ship leading her own crew and a large group of loyal fanatics.

She journeyed out to discover different islands and settled down on one of them while slowly integrating with them and finding ways to bring more people under her influence.

First she started with one island and began to explore other places, with her families teachings she had enough knowledge and skills to survive but also flourish in her new environment.

Although she no longer used her real name to avoid the capture of her family, Celeste Estrella had slowly gotten out of her families influence and begun to build her own power and wealth with the resources she had found on the islands she had discovered while slowly spreading her cult around the Southern Lands.

The other people in the southern part of the Central Lands were just a means to distract her family and carelessly spread some of the evil arts so that she can cross the border while they are focussed on dealing with the trouble she had allowed to spread.

Her ship departed back the her island where she was getting used to the new environment, ways of living but also the lack of rules.