Precisely when Clarence awakened the System Of Order.
Hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, in the vast cosmos.
You could see several planets circling around a large burning object in the middle. It formed a planetary system.
All the eight planets rotating around the burning object had traces of settlement of intelligent life forms.
When you move back a little further, you could see there was a thin white color film covering the whole of the system.
The film was almost invisible to the naked eye. It was a restrictive, or you could say protective cover. Everything, including the protective film, is called a world.
Here, on the surface of the film, in one particular direction, you could see golden specks of light coming into existence out of nowhere and gathering on the surface.
The specks of light were slowly gathering on the surface before it started extending outwards as if to form a road.
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Verity observatory, Alascor city.
An old man who was gazing at the night sky saw the tiny golden specks of light gathering on an almost invisible film.
As soon as he saw that phenomenon, his eyes widened to extremes with horror clearly being displayed in them. Just to be sure, he viewed the second time to check if he wasn't hallucinating.
Unfortunately, his dearest wish couldn't come true, no matter how many times he checked. By the time he had finished checking several times, his whole body was sweating.
Taking a deep breath, he turned around and sat down on a sofa nearby. He cast a cleaning spell on himself to get rid of sweat and calmed his mind down.
He then walked up to the door, opened it and exited the observatory. His body started levitating above the ground before flying high in the air at a high speed.
When he saw the mansion a few distance away, he descended to the ground and walked up to the gate of the mansion.
The guard who was beside the gate opened it as soon as he saw the person who was walking towards the gate.
The old man gave the guard a nod before walking inside. The same way as before, the guard standing beside the door of the mansion opened as soon as he saw who was coming.
The old man continued walking inside the mansion and at last stopped in front of two enormous doors, the guards of which opened it as soon as they saw him.
The old man walked inside the room to see a middle aged man with a healthy build and shoulder length white hair sitting on a throne placed at the opposite end of the room on an elevated platform.
The old man got down on one of his knees and said,
"Your highness, The demon emperor. I have some urgent news."
Without lifting his head from the book he was reading, the middle aged man sitting on the throne just replied with a single word,
"Speak"
The old man, still on his knees, said,
"The Bridges of order are manifesting"
The old man said just one sentence. But the weight behind the sentence was so heavy, the man immediately kept his book aside, sat straight, his purple eyes radiating utmost seriousness which demanded no nonsense.
"Get up"
The old man, who was still kneeling, immediately got up and stood straight.
"Are you sure?"
"I wouldn't dare lie about such a serious matter, Your Highness."
The middle aged man leaned back to his throne, closed his eyes and heaved a long sigh.
After a few minutes of complete silence in the throne room, the man opened his eyes, returned to the previous posture and ordered,
"Go back to your post, keep observing the bridge, immediately notify me in case of any unforeseen circumstances"
The old man nodded and turned around to exit the throne room. Just as he was near the door, he heard,
"On your way out, inform Dylan that I have called for an immediate royal meeting."
He nodded without turning his head and exited the throne room. He walked to one of the other rooms of the mansion and knocked on the door. Almost instantly, he heard,
"Come in"
Pushing open the door, the old man entered the room to see another old man sitting behind a stack of papers.
"Dylan, my good friend, take a break from those papers already."
The old man behind the papers lifted his head up to see who it was and exclaimed,
"Ah! Nolan, it's been such a long time since I last saw you. This workload keeps me from being in touch with so many of my friends. Phew, the good old days."
Nolan, the name of the old man who discovered the manifesting of bridges of order, ruefully smiled before saying,
"Choices, my friend, it's all choices. We chose this life, and it has indeed been better since then."
The old man behind the papers, Dylan, just smiled in response to the statement and asked,
"So? What brings you here?"
Nolan informed him about the emperor calling an immediate royal meeting.
Dylan's expression, upon hearing about it, turned solemn and further asked,
"Do you have any idea what this could be about?"
"The bridges of order are manifesting"
Upon hearing this one sentence, Dylan's pupils enlarged and his jaw opened slightly, speaking volumes of the weight behind the sentence.
You could also see his hands shaking, whether it was out of excitement or fear only he himself knew.
Calming down after a few seconds, he said,
"Got it. I will immediately get to work."
Nolan just nodded his head at him and turned around to leave.
After Nolan left, Dylan began writing several letters to the two noble family heads and several other ministers.
At last, he also wrote a letter to the chief commander of the allied demonic army, Lysander Verity.
After he was done, he took out an equipment shaped like a ring but bigger, from his spatial ring and placed it on his table.
After activating the equipment, the ring glowed and a white light filled its hollow center in which he threw all the letters.
The equipment was a teleporting device. Every teleporting device had its own code. You just need to inscribe the code on the item of the teleporting device you want to send the item to.
It will then deliver the item to the teleporting device which had that code.
In case you inscribed the code of your own device or an invalid code, the item will return from the same device after a couple of seconds.
*****
All over the demonic empire, various ministers received the letters, and each displayed different emotions.
Some were apprehensive about the cause of the meeting, some were happy, as if eager to show something, and some were merely curious.
When the two noble family heads got the letter. Both of them ordered their butler to handle the affairs while they were absent and left their mansion.
Lysander, who was practicing with his swords in the dueling grounds of the army camp, felt his spatial belt vibrate. Halting his sword practice, he took out the letter from his belt.
Upon reading it, his eyebrows raised before he thought,
'Why would my father call for such an urgent meeting? There are no recent events which happened or upcoming events worthy of such attention from him.'
Lysander stood still for a few seconds to think of any such important events, but upon coming up with nothing again, he thought,
'Well, checking out wouldn't hurt.'
He put the swords back in their sheath and ordered a general to maintain the army for the time he was absent.
After giving the order, Lysander disappeared from his place, leaving no trace of his existence behind.
In each letter that was sent to everyone, there was no mention of the bridges of order but only a calling for the royal meeting, showing why everyone had no drastic reactions.
*****
You could say the same thing which took place in the demonic empire transpired in the human empire.
The human emperor called for a royal meeting after his trusted aide reported to him about the manifesting of the bridges of order.
*****
In an unknown place,
A man was looking into a highly advanced telescope. He discovered the tiny golden specks of light gathering on an almost invisible film.
To cross-check, he moved his chair across the observatory and viewed the same thing from several models of telescopes.
He got up from his chair and walked up to a cupboard. After carefully opening a well protected case, he took out an old tattered piece of paper, which was carefully preserved.
The paper read,
'Seek for peace when bridges of order completely manifest.'
The man sat back in his chair, leaning back and closing his eyes. He heaved a long, tired sigh and thought,
'Just why did you leave this behind? What does this mean? What is the reason for you, of all people, to leave such words behind?
I definitely can't predict in which way the situation will develop. But I will try my best.'