After returning, Skynder returned to the lab as soon as he could. With the blood of the beast nad the Plains Bull, he now had sothing that could possibly affect the blood of the Mountain Serpent.
Skynder used both the Mountain Serpent's blood and the Plains Bull's blood in different proportions, achieving various levels of success in mixing them. These experints added to his collected knowledge, and research continued. They did not have any instant success, but Skynder felt as though they had taken a step in the right direction.
So more ti passed, and in total, it had been four years since the Emperor had given this mission to Skynder.
Although he did not have anything to show for it besides nearly endless research, he was confident that he would be able to do sothing by the end of the ten years given. He worked tirelessly, and Charles similarly spent most of his ti in the lab.
The other researchers would co and go much more often, having other things to attend to, but it seed as though these two could be found in the lab no matter what.
Their research had gone so in depth that only Skynder and Charles could understand it. Even the old Imperial Scholar, Fei Luzi, would not have been able to easily understand everything. Of course, if he was here, Skynder would have 100% confidence in doing this.
Ti continued to pass steadily. There weren't many surprises happening in the entire continent. With the Faceless Empire in control over it all, there was nothing that could affect the Imperial Capital in the slightest.
The Imperial Capital had been expanding rapidly over the years, though it avoided the direction of the Mountain Serpent's large skeleton.
It was slowly becoming worthy of being called the capital of the entire continent.
Countless rich people moved from all around. So were nobles of other Empire's that had lost their nobles titles when the Faceless Empire took over, but retained their saved riches.
With the Faceless Empire taking over, there naturally had to be so changes in the noble statuses of nobles from other Empire's.
Allied Empires and Empires that had willingly beco subordinate were reduced to Kingdoms, though the na was more or less the only major change. The Nobles of those Kingdoms underwent review by the Emperor. So kept their titles as a part of the Faceless Empire, so were demoted a few ranks but remained Nobles, and others were removed from nobility completely.
Those of enemy Empire's and Empire's that had resisted were directly demoted to common citizens or executed.
There was no imprisonnt, as there was no reason to take prisoners in this ti of great change. It could only possibly bring negative outcos.
With Skynder focusing so much on his research, another year had passed for five in total.
He had not left the Imperial Palace a single ti in this year. Whether it was his family, his wife, or those he had been close to, he had not seen them in a long ti.
This thought only slightly popped up in his mind and he did not give it a second thought.
The Emperor occasionally checked up on their progress, and so new people were occasionally sent over to help, but nothing much had changed in the lab.
One day, Skynder was summoned by the Emperor to et so visitors.
As he walked in the throne room, he saw a familiar group of monks. So were missing, and so new ones were added, but most of them were simply aged a bit.
They all greeted Skynder respectfully. Skynder greeted them with just as much, if not more respect.
"What are you all doing outside of the Western Desert?" Skynder asked.
"Since the Faceless Empire has taken over the world, we felt that we should report sothing that may possibly threaten it. We do not hope to see any more bloodshed." The chief of the Western Monks said.
He turned towards the Emperor. "Should we start now?"
The Emperor nodded.
The chief of the Western Monks began to speak.
"With so many changes occurring in the world, we decided to try and venture deeper into the Western Desert. We had hoped to find so new checkpoint, but what we actually saw was far more shocking. We saw sothing akin to a giant tree root shoot out of the ground and move around before entering the ground once again. It was rely a few monts, but it shocked us to our core." The chief of the Western Monks said.
The Emperor asked a question. "Just how big was this tree root?"
"It was around half the thickness of that skeleton outside of the Imperial Capital, but so long we could not see the end of it. Of course, most of it was buried underground."
The room fell into silence for a mont before the Emperor spoke. "I won't hide it from you, we have found two mythical beasts in the last few years. One, as you know, was the Mountain Serpent. The other, which has been kept a light secret, was nad the Plains Bull, and was even larger than the Mountain Serpent. I am saying this because it seems that so sort of advent of mythical beasts is arriving."
The re thought caused the room to go silent.
They had resolved the threats rather easily up to this point, but what if multiple attacked at the sa ti?
What if they attacked sowhere Sword Grandmaster Shang was not. It would be a disaster.
"If that is so, then we may need to prepare." Skynder said.
The Emperor shook his head. "I have a feeling that they will not go out of their way to attack anyone that doesn't disturb them, but they will most likely be seen occasionally. In the end, it is the exploration of the previously unknown wilds that has started this trend. I say that we don't disturb them, and if they are intent on disturbing us, then we can take action.".
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