Won thus easily entered the Royal court, and two boring months passed with Won doing simple things.
Won had steadily been increasing his influence over the court and secretly planting seeds of conflict.
Yet everyone was none the wiser. Won's tracks and accomplishments were hidden behind the splendor of Sweet Night.
Won had used Sweet Night's mission hall to personally send the requests for High kill/ death missions and his Sovereigns seal increased his lifespan.
In two months he had gained the life force of 5 months.
Won was currently into his mansion when Ozaris walked in.
Won asked, "Is it done?"
Ozaris nodded, "Yes master it's been handled. With this your position in the Royal court will be cemented."
Won nodded, as he picked up a cup filled with wine and drank it.
Won took another cup and poured the wine in it and said, "Come sit. You've been working hard."
Ozaris nodded and took the cup.
He sipped it and felt refreshing spiritual energy rush through his body and cleanse his body.
Ozaris eyes opened, "Master this wine?"
Won said, "It's a trick I learnt. You want to know?"
Ozaris nodded his head.
Won said, "It's simple. All things possess Qi. The Earth below us, the sky above us, fire and even dust. Everything breathes, whether it be a man or trees, we breathe in Qi and release Qi. It's just for objects that are inanimate without Inborn Qi to assist in absorption. Everything gathers Qi, even if you never Cultivate you absorb these wisps of Qi within our world. Anyway Objects gather Qi so slowly it could take up to a million years in ordinary places to have any actual worth. But if placed in a extremely dense Qi zone the absorption will naturally increase. This wine I injected it with some of my Qi, and that stimulated it's breath. The rate it absorbed Qi increased greatly and now it's become spiritual wine. Although the lowest kind."
Ozaris nodded.
He closed his eyes as if having reached a certain form of enlightenment. The vapid Qi in the Qi began to spin wildly as a spiral of vitality drove into Ozaris.
Won sighed as took out fifty spirit stones that were quickly drawn into the vacuum surrounding Ozaris.
Won then left the room and said, "Guard him make sure no one disturbs him."
A black shadow appeared on it's knees and nodded. It then dissapeared.
Won smirked slightly, "A smart person uses what is given to him to make a miracle. A Great person makes opportunities. Ai, even I scare myself when I get like this. Ah! You're too much Won what would other's do with such a cool and handsome fellow such as yourself. Forget being God's son in my next life, I think I might be that very God. Hehe."
Won then wandered saying, "I can't wait for tommorow. It seems quite an interesting day is coming."
...
In the Royal court countless ministers were gathered.
At the head, resting wearing a red Dragon robe, with Golden dragons criss crossing, was a man with Black hair neatly tied into a bun, and with two deep dark void like eyes. The vicissitudes of time had conquered his face as wrinkles sprouted on his slightly sagging face.
The Emperor of the Ito Empire - Emperor of seven flames: Sora.
Emperor Sora, given the title Emperor of Seven flames when he took the throne. Formerly the child of the former Emperor's concubine, who forcibly seized the throne using Seven great fires that burnt his brother to ash.
Currently a deep frown was present on his face.
He said, "Prime Minister repeat what we discussed."
An old man with curly grey hair, and a small grey beard stood up and bowed towards Emperor Sora.
He then looked towards the various Ministers and said with a hoarse voice, "Today the Ying Empire destroyed our cities near to their border. It seems they are beginning a war against us, in preparation to increase themselves from a high mid sized Empire into a Great Empire, following the footsteps of Shu and conquering smaller Middle sized Empires for the last bit necessary to climb higher. They are not openly declaring war, but from their recent actions it can be seen what they wish to do."
One minister exclaimed, "What! The Ying Empire is declaring war with us!? Oh my god we are finished!"
Another asked, "You can't be misunderstanding the situation can you?"
The Minister of War Kenjiro said, "No. They've already been affecting our foreign trade and even interfering with our military. There have been numerous small scale collisions between our people and Ying's people for the past six months. Yet only recently have they become all the more unbearable, they make countless excuses and do inexcusable things. It's obvious they are beginning to devour us."
One scholar said, "But what can we do? The Ying Empire is much more powerful compared to us! Should we just wait with our tails tucked in between our tails?"
Everyone was in a panic.
The Emperor slammed his hand down, "There's nothing we can do about this situation. The Ying Empire is much stronger than we are, but we can atleast deplete it's resources so it will know even if it wins it will still lose. We can survive."
The Prime Minister said, "But the sacrifice to reach that survival, it's far too gruesome."
The Emperor said, "We must do something!"
Just a young voice spoke up.
"Excuse me."
Everyone turned to look at the voice.
A man wearing a plain white Hanfu with light green hints, with pinkish white hair, and a handsome face could be seen. Obviously this was Won.
One minister said, "How rude to interrupt the discussion of the Emperor and Prime Minister."
Won simply ignored that fellow and said with a slight non servile bow, "This one greets his majesty. I have an opinion I wonder whether I can say it."
The Emperor looked at Won's proud face, but didn't know him.
The Eunuch behind him closed in an whispered something.
The Emperor smiled slightly, "Ah. The owner of Sweet Night. I've heard of it's excellent service and even greater business tactics. I must say you bully this one quite a bit."
Won laughed, "His majesty is too much. How could someone such as I dare do something like that."
The Emperor said, "Very well what do you wish to say."
Won said, "Your majesty instead of directly confronting the Ying Empire, I would suggest we do something else. Throughout our history as humans, no man has liked being oppressed. The common people have revolted against countless Empires and although 9/10 times they've lost, it shows the strength of angering the public. All we have to do is instigate a civil war and then secretly aid the rebels and at the past moment swoop into a shattered and tattered Empire where only a single heir exists and marry her off to the Crown prince. Then we simply annex them. This way instead of destroying resources and wasting out own, we grow double in size. With the least effort."
The Emperor seriously considered this and asked, "Would they allow the marriage?"
Won said, "They can't marry a low level one that would ruin them. They can't marry a high level one or they'll become slaves. They can't marry others in fear of being destroyed. Their only solution is to pick the declining middle sized Empire of Ito known to be quite benevolent and fair. In a world where everyone is after each other's throats they won't dare to go into something at a disadvantage. They'll think they are winning by joining our Empire, but after the marriage is done leave the rest to me."
The ministers were in shock and fear as they looked at Won. How frightening of a man.
The prime minister said, "You are smart, but to call our Empire a declining one how dare you! You should be punished."
Won shrugged his shoulders, "I thought this was a discussion on how to protect our Empire and not a place to compliment our bare asses."
The Prime minister frowned, but the Emperor interrupted.
"Very well. We shall do as Scholar Won has said. If it works I will heavily reward you. I will give you Nobility and a large territory if it works. Furthermore all the credit will be given to you after the fact."
Won nodded and said, "Your majesty is too kind."
The Emperor laughed slightly, "Hehe. Not scared to greet fame and praise, how daring."
Won looked towards the Emperor his eyes glistening with it's deep recesses, "You give me one step and I'll conquer the mountain. Let's have some fun, shall we Emperor? It would be too boring otherwise, without you fighting back that is."
...
2 Months later...
Won was in a secluded room underground. Surrounded by caged beasts.
Won swiped his hands and the collars around the caged beasts tightened and tore their heads off. Their blood splattering the room red, and even Won was dyed.
Within Won's Meridians there was a rich Spiritual energy rushing and gushing about, every cycle around his body it would gather yet another wisp of Qi from the surrounding air.
Like a great sea the various rivers of Qi were gathering at his head, heart and lower abdomen.
The pools of Qi dragged in even more Qi with each breath. The Qi became more viscous and sticky like.
Won opened his eyes slightly and plucked open the cork of a medicinal bottle next to him.
He pulled out three pills, they were light green in color and had tiger like patterns tattooed upon it.
Won put them into his mouth and bit hard, grinding it into dust. As it fell down his throat a warmth spread across his body, his nerves twitched as a flame like sensation covered him.
Blood began to leak from his pores like sweat.
The various spirit stones laid in a formation began to glow and hum slightly, as they rolled around bit by bit.
They then exploded and a rich bubble of Qi rose to the air.
Wisps of yellow fire began to rotate around Won like a world of torches.
An eerie silence descended as the Qi inside Won sped at an unprecedented speed, coiling across each and every fibre of his being.
Three explosion like sounds cackled through the air like Thunder.
Within Won's body, his muscles began to twist and turn as his organic matter and the vibrant and sticky Qi melded together like two melted metals.
An Orb began to form in each of the three spots where his body was tightening.
It shone like a crystal orb, and glistened like the night sky.
Each one bonded to his flesh, wrapped in muscle and flesh.
With blood slowly gathering in the lower abdomen Orb, his cells began to glow in a purple hue.
A Myriads of colors escaped Won's flesh, as if a beam of light, twisting faint lights gathered.
Blood Qi began to be produced.
The normal ambient Qi, began to morph and change in Quality and state.
The orb in his Mind Acupoint began to crack and fragment.
A grand and sublime world appeared at the Acupoint.
A large Sea only existed, with Nothingness filling the sky.
The fire wisps around began to dig into Won's compulsory Heart Acupoint.
It branded the orb in his heart a crimson red, and a different energy from the Blood Qi raced across Won razing his body as it passed. Crimson hot Mana circled around his body.
Won's flesh began to tighten and glisten as the blood on it evaporated and clear, porcelain like skin remained. His muscles grew and became more boisterous. His bones cracked and regrew, harder than steel.
Won's eyes opened and a golden light shot outwards.
Won breathed out, "Condensation stage. Due to having a soul sea already, I managed to break the orb already and the small inner world was created."