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As he died, the six evil shadows seemed to be heading in six different directions, but the moment they split into six, they all stopped and then silently disappeared from the spot.
This made Roland, who had originally planned to keep them, reconsider his idea.
It was probably made by Alaya.
He thought this, and then, before the other members of the god group could understand what had happened, Roland put away the Shadow Dragon.
"Everyone, we won!"
With Roland's words, the White Wing and his faction vanished from Europe, and the war of the Dead Apostles came to an end.
After that, it was time for Roland's God Group, the true victors of this Dead Apostle War, to reap the rewards of their long-planned campaign.
The Magic Association, the Dead Apostles, European magic families... this battle can be considered a complete wipeout!
However, on the night before the war ended and the victory was fully realized, Roland had a dream.
He views the dream from a third-person perspective—the dream's setting is a vast palace.
On the palace floor knelt six shadows... the evil shadows of the Dark Six Kingdoms that had vanished during the day.
Then, at the far end of the palace, on that enormous throne, sat a crowned shadow, beside whom sat a gigantic shadow wolf, a tall shadow warrior, and a shadow mage wielding a staff...
The one sitting on the throne seemed to be the master of this world.
As he swung his arm down at the shadow of the Six Kings, the shadow of the Six Kings disintegrated and vanished completely amidst strange wails that no one could understand, leaving not even a single atom behind!
At that moment, Roland awoke.
He remembers the contents of his dream very clearly.
Those shadow wolves, shadow warriors, shadow mages... are all his shadow monsters.
And sitting on the throne, judging the shadows of the six kings, is none other than his own shadow puppet!
Recalling the contents of his dream, Roland summoned them all, and seeing them gathered around him, a sense of peace welled up from the bottom of his heart.
Even after experiencing such a strange dream, Roland did not believe that these shadows were part of some kind of conspiracy, would betray him, or would do anything—he did not even think they had their own thoughts.
Because they will only carry out one will, which is Roland's will.
Moreover... he didn't feel any fear when he was dreaming just now.
On the contrary, he felt that the huge palace full of shadows... no, that world full of shadows was the place that truly made him feel at home!
It was as if he was meant to live among these shadows.
It was as if... he was the master of the shadow world all along!
It took Roland a while to calm down.
He looked at the [God Group System] and saw that it took three godheads for a member of the God Group to condense his own godhead. He had a premonition that the moment his godhead was condensed would probably be the moment he would reveal all of this.
At that time, he might also know the true name of the authority that, according to his own will, transforms into the [God Group System].
He may also truly grasp the power of this authority.
And that day... isn't far off!
....
73. King of the Underworld
Roland has been laying out his plans across Europe for so long, and this time the results are quite remarkable.
Following this wave, the Far East Magic Association essentially replaced the original Magic Association Supreme Council without any issues.
If the transition were to proceed directly from the old Speaker's era to the present, there would likely be significant obstacles, given that the Supreme Council is essentially a product of a few magic families operating for so many years.
However, after the old Speaker, during Kalia's tenure, he carried out a large-scale massacre of internal members, eliminated opposing targets, and stubbornly destroyed the vital forces of those families.
It could be said that the overthrow of Kalia by the Far East Magic Association, coupled with the magicians of the expeditionary force that the Far East Magic Association saved in the Fuhai Forest, made the Far East Magic Association's rise to power seem somewhat well-deserved.
After several days of discussion, the punitive force that originally belonged to the Supreme Council was reorganized by the large families that joined the Far East Magic Association, and many vacancies in the Supreme Council were filled by magicians from those large magic families.
These large magic families have really profited from this, and every head of one of them has been all smiles lately.
Then the Supreme Council also held a re-election.
Roland became the Speaker of the Supreme Council, and Kuonji Yuzu, Aozaki Aoko, Aozaki Touko, Medea, Tohsaka Rin, Illya, and Sajou Aika were directly elected as members of the council.
The Supreme Council can be said to belong directly to the gods.
The Clock Tower, the Atlas Academy, and the Wandering Sea all remained silent after learning the news.
After all, Roland had been planning for so long, he naturally wouldn't leave anyone room to interfere in these kinds of details.
But these three sides are the same as before. Although they are nominally members of the Magic Association, they are actually just doing their own thing.
The Magic Association used to tolerate this kind of thing, but Roland is not so easy to deal with.
So he sent Medea with a group of people to the Wandering Sea.
The Wandering Sea has always been an organization that studies magic from the Age of Gods and considers modern magic to be garbage. Therefore, Medea's visit this time will obviously give them a little shock from the Age of Gods.
Roland sent Sajou Aika and Ilya with a group of people to Atlas Academy.
The Atlas Institute is an organization that believes a major crisis is inevitable in the future, and therefore it is determined to avoid it.
After communicating with Alaya, Roland also realized that Atlas Academy was not wrong.
The world is bound to end; isn't that a major crisis?
However, now that Gaia and Alaya have both chosen him, Roland also sent someone to give them a heads-up.
He knew that the Atlas Institute could effectively observe the future and possibilities, so if it was feasible, it would be; if not, he wouldn't need to worry about these guys for the time being.
Only the Clock Tower is where the Mage's Association's highest council is located.
Although Roland also sent Rin Tohsaka, who was an additional second mage, along with Azusa, who was related to the Bartholomew family, as well as Aoko Aozaki and Touko Aozaki, Roland did not ask them to do anything for the time being.
I just went to say hello.
Roland, whose faction of El-Melloi had almost completely fallen under Iskandar's control, did not allow them to make any moves.
After all, although Zelrich usually doesn't get involved and seems like a carefree retiree, whether he can actually take down the Clock Tower ultimately depends on his intentions.
Roland and the magicians of the God Group are handling things at the Magic Association, while on the Death Ancestor's side, after the White Wing faction completely evaporated, Altrud became the undisputed King of the Dead Apostles.
After seizing Baiyi Gong's original territory, she occupied Baiyi Gong's castle and the place where the twenty-seven ancestors of the Dead Apostles had previously held a meeting, and convened the first meeting of the ancestors of the new era in the name of the King of the Dead Apostles.
Because the controversial King of the Dead Apostles was born after the Dead Apostle War, many ancestors came when Altruic sent out invitations.
The first ancestor's royal power was completely gone.
The Second Ancestor was originally Zhu Yue's name, but after Zhu Yue passed away, it was reserved for Arcueid. So this time, Arcueid came as the Second Ancestor.
The third progenitor was Zelrich, who came because of the birth of the Dead Apostle King and because he had some questions for Arcueid.
The Sixth Ancestor and the Eighth Ancestor are the Black Knight and the White Knight, respectively. Naturally, they couldn't be absent from the meeting convened by Eltrauge.
The Ninth Ancestor was Altruic herself.
The fourteenth patriarch was Vanfem.
The fifteenth Ancestor is Rita Rosean, the manager of the Eye of the Demon train. She and her friends, who had banded together for warmth during the war between the Dead Apostles, have come over now.
The sixteenth patriarch was Blackwing, the eighteenth patriarch was Anhans, and the twentieth patriarch was Melan Solomon—these three were naturally present.
The twenty-first Ancestor was Rita Rosean's friend, the Water Demon Smiley, who was also the only Dead Apostle with the ability to materialize fantasy.
All of these guys are here.
The remaining ones are either giant spiders, Fuhailin, or the Stomach Realm Cult—things that would never come—or they are already dead, or a few reclusive monsters living in isolation.
But most of them still came.
They sat around the conference table, almost filling all the seats.
However, with a surge of magical energy, they quickly discovered the problem.
While it was fine for Altruchi to sit in the first row, the main seat in the center was completely empty.
and...
On the empty throne that the White Wing Duke had built for the six royal powers, Roland sat looking down at the Death Ancestors below.
Then, on either side of the conference table, the members of the God Group stood in two rows.
Seeing this, these dead ancestors knew perfectly well that there was something wrong with this meeting.
"Hey, what does this mean...?"
Rita Roseanne was a little confused, but after she spoke, she found that apart from Smiley, who was just as confused as she was, no one else responded to her.
After all, they were either followers of Altruic or Arcueid, and it seems that people like Anhans and Vanfem had already been in contact with Roland.
The only one he hadn't met, Zelrich, after hearing Arcueid say that Gaia had chosen Roland to be the Earth's Ultimate Originator, and after sensing that Roland possessed divinity, was able to figure out some of the questions.
"take it easy."
Upon hearing Rita Rosean's voice, Roland looked down at her with his golden eyes and then suppressed his divinity!
Roland's divinity has now reached a certain scale. The oppressive feeling brought about by this heterogeneous divinity, the moment Roland intentionally did so, was like a sinking abyss, making it difficult for anyone to even look him in the eye.
So neither Rita Rosean nor Smiley spoke again.