Blue Dragon Jones bowed respectfully to Ivita, but when he tried to attack her, in that instant, he felt as if time around him had stopped. The originally warm river turned tumultuous, as if it wanted to eject him from this place.
If the universal Law hadn't been incomplete, he would have been abandoned by the lake the moment hostility toward Ivita rose within him.
Within the Holy Empire's borders, Ivita was always in a state close to 'spiritual unity with nature.' Nature was him, and he was nature; he was the incarnation of the universal Law. To attack him was akin to attacking the heavens and the earth.
Blue Dragon Jones was wary of Ivita and reluctantly submitted, "Great Sovereign, why have you come here? There's only my broken castle and a neglected homeland."
"Few have visited this place over the decades."
"Sovereign, whatever you seek here, you will not find—be it wealth, power, or knowledge; none are present here…"