Chapter 755: The Evolution of World No. 1
World No. 1, Year X786, July 1st.
A whole year has passed since Nirvana reversed the good and evil in the world, turmoil broke out in Ishgar, Zeref and Acnorolia stepped in to save the world and restore order, and finally Lucy opened the Eclipse Gate and went to the past to find a way to reverse Nirvana.
During this period, the entire world continued to function relatively perfectly under the military rule of Acnorolia, Zeref and his Twelve Shields.
Even though good and evil have been reversed, people's lives continue, whether in Ishgar or Aragitacia, in the Kingdom of Fiore or the Empire of Albareth, or in Kiltina in the north.
On this day, Jellal held a routine meeting as usual.
Since the Twelve Shields conquered Kiltina half a year ago, the alliance between Zeref and Acnorolia has completely unified the four continents of east, west, south and north, truly unifying the world.
All the rebels and traitors, whether they were the remnants of the Golden Empire founded by Kira, the Magic Guild that originally supported the Kingdom of Fiore, or Kiltina's Magic Council MNP, have now been completely disintegrated, lurking under the surface, becoming rats crossing the street that dare not show their heads.
On this basis, this group of people who control the world decided to distribute military forces evenly to four continents, which are also four magic empires, with the Kingdom of Fiore as the center, in order to better maintain world peace.
In order to ensure that there were no mistakes in their rule, this group of people established a parliament and decided to hold a meeting at regular intervals, summoning all people stationed in the four continents to discuss current political, economic, cultural, and military issues of the four empires.
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The capital of flowers , Kurokas.
In the center of the city stands a magnificent palace, which is the Palace of Lanterns, Meru Klias.
This was the palace where the royal family of Fiore originally lived, but now it has become the palace of the ruler of the Magic Empire of the Southern Continent. The person who lives here is the world-famous black magician - Zeref.
Deep inside the palace, there is a spacious conference hall that can accommodate 200 people. In the hall is an extra-large circular table, similar in style to the table used in the World Conference in the neighboring "One Piece".
On the east wall hangs an extra-large world map and maps of the four continents of east, west, south, and north. The basic appearance of the four continents is drawn in detail at the same scale, including mountains, rivers, plains, deserts, forests, etc.
These maps were redrawn by specialized personnel in the past year. The biggest difference between them and previous maps is that there is only one empire on each continent!
At this time, a black-haired boy who looked like a pretty boy was sitting in the most honorable chair in the middle on the south side of the circular table, sorting out the paper documents on the table in front of him.
The man who looks like a pretty boy is none other than Zeref, who is now the ruler of Ishgar.
Beside Zeref, there are several other people, namely Auguste, Inbel, Timaria , Brandish, Serena and Bradman, who are half of the original Twelve Shields. They are the main people responsible for managing Ishgar.
Of course, among these six people, except for Inbel, all others are thought entities. Since they cannot leave the place they are guarding at will, they participate in every parliament in this form.
Soon, accompanied by a few rustling sounds, several more thought bodies appeared in the conference hall. They looked very familiar, including the remaining twelve shields.
"It's time to attend the meeting again... What a hassle!"
The one who complained was Ajir, one of the people currently in charge of the Western Continent, who was once one of the Twelve Shields. He put his hands in his trouser pockets, walked rudely to a chair on the west side and sat down.
"This is also for the stability and peace of the world. Please be patient for a while."
Neinhart combed his hair in a weird and flamboyant way, dressed himself like a unique artist, and slowly walked to the seat next to Agil and sat down.
"Tsk! I know!"
Obviously, whoever controls which continent sits on that side, and they are already familiar with this rule.
Not only that, under the influence of Nirvana, everyone's temper has been restrained a lot. Even a warlike and rebellious person like Ajir has become a good kid who can only complain.
Jellal looked up at the beautiful woman who was as elegant and noble as a peony in the crowd and asked, "How is the situation in the Albares Empire, Irene?"
"Everything is fine, Your Majesty, please rest assured!"
In today's world, each continent is managed by many people, but above these administrators, there is also a continental ruler, and Irene is the ruler of the Western Continent.
In other words, the queen of the Albares Empire.
In addition to the other five Twelve Shields under Irene, there is also Marin Holo who uses space magic and is considered a good fighting force.
Hearing Irene addressing him, Jellal smiled helplessly and reminded her, "Don't call me emperor anymore, Irene! That's a thing of the past. Now we are equal!"
After unifying the world, for the convenience of management, Jellal and others decided to gather all the organizations on each continent together, each establishing an empire and electing an emperor to rule, and abolishing the existence of magic guilds. The military force was mainly composed of ordinary soldiers, supplemented by magic soldiers. The former had more people and the latter were stronger.
Each emperor had the same status. Among them, Zeref chose Ishgar. Arakitasia was originally planned to be given to August, but he refused and said that he only wanted to stay with Zeref. So after discussion among everyone, the Western Continent was handed over to Irene for management.
The internal affairs of each continent are handled by the emperor of the empire, and people from other continents cannot interfere. However, if it is a major event involving the entire world, the "Four Emperors" need to discuss or vote together to decide.
Under the emperor are the officials. They can be ministers of their respective empires, powerful magicians in seclusion, or people with special skills in some area. These people also have the right to participate in parliament and can sit in on the meetings, but only the three most important ones have the right to vote on major issues.
These three people with voting rights are called the emperor's 'deputies', which means there can be up to twelve of them.
However, the appointment of a deputy requires the approval of at least three emperors and eight deputies, and is also elected and appointed in parliament. This is done to prevent the emperor from practicing dictatorship or tyranny within the empire.
Due to the special nature of this position, it is not always fully staffed.
Currently, Jellal has only two deputies, Auguste and Inbel. The former is chosen because of his profound wisdom and strength, and the latter is chosen because of his outstanding governing ability. Irene's current deputy is only Val, who can get this position mainly because of his powerful magic soldiers and magic weapons.
"In my heart, you are the only one who deserves to be the emperor!" Irene said with a faint smile, then walked to her seat and sat down.
It is true that as Jellal said, their status is equal now, but Irene is always grateful to Jellal for helping her transform from a dragon to a human. Moreover, ever since her personality was reversed by "Nirvana", the cold-blooded side of her heart that became due to her transformation into a dragon disappeared, and she has become much gentler.
After that, her first feeling was regret, regret that she should not have been so cruel as to abandon her daughter.
So in order to correct the mistake she made that year, Irene began her journey to find her daughter. Fortunately, things went smoothly. Not long after, she saw a wanted poster for [Erusa, the Red-haired Vile Lady] in Ishgar.
What happened next was just like in many novels or eight o'clock dramas, the two of them staged a drama of "abandoning the girl is fun for a while, chasing the girl is exciting", but in the end Irene still failed to catch her wayward daughter.
Now, Erza is the captain of the Heart Team of the dark guild Fairy Tail. Although she is young, her strength should not be underestimated. She cannot defeat most of the officers, and even several of her deputies have suffered at her hands.
Hearing Irene's answer, Jellal could only smile bitterly. He had corrected Irene's way of addressing him many times, but she never changed her words, and there was nothing he could do.
"I have news about Erza here, do you want to take a look?" Zeref pulled out a document that had been prepared long ago from his side, held it in the air and asked.
Hearing her daughter's name, Irene's expression unconsciously became serious, but also a little ugly, because she knew it was not good news.
This has happened many times. Every time she came to a meeting, Zeref would give Irene a recent file on Erza, which included, but was not limited to: wantonly destroying the terrain in the wild, planning and executing terrorist activities in towns, robbing the Chamber of Commerce, kidnapping the city lord, beating soldiers, disturbing the market...
In short, apart from killing innocent people indiscriminately, they did all kinds of lawless things.
"Hey~ What did she do again?" Irene sighed helplessly, rubbed her eyebrows and asked.
At the same time, she moved her mind and added magic to the space in front of herself and Jellal, transferring the document in his hand to her.
Jellal smiled and said, "It's not a bad thing this time! She punished the mayor of a town who was illegal and corrupt, and distributed the mayor's savings to the orphanage in the town..."
Has this girl finally learned it?
Irene's eyes lit up, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up, just like a mother who saw her daughter grow up and become sensible : "I... let me see..."
However, when her eyes fell on the document in her hand, the smile on her lips froze, then her eyebrows instantly frowned, and the light in her eyes disappeared.
“Erin…”
"No need to say more!"
Jeff wanted to say something else, but Irene interrupted him with her hand.
Irene, who has handled countless government affairs in the Albares Empire, saw the flaw in the document at a glance: "This girl is clearly planning to kidnap and blackmail the mayor, but the mayor just happened to be involved in corruption and bribery! The reason she distributed her savings to the orphanage is just because she thinks it's fun to throw money on the street!"
"The whole thing was a complete accident, can't you see that?!"
Since the matter involved her own daughter, Irene lost all the respect she had always maintained for Jellal. She became extremely angry and looked like a worried parent.
"If this document was written by someone under you, then I think you need to review it with your people!"
"To write a horrific incident like this, either the person is incompetent and cannot see the truth; or the person has a bad attitude and did not verify the facts; or the person has a bad mind and is full of flattery; or the person is sneaky and intends to use this to cover up his mistakes or guilt at work; or the person has evil intentions and is in collusion with the people of Fairy Tail!!"
Irene spoke louder and louder, and became angrier and angrier, her huge fruit heaving in a shocking way.
Agil, who was standing by, secretly complained to Neinhart, "This woman, once things involve her daughter, she seems to become a completely different person. Her attitude towards the emperor has also changed..."
Neinhart just lowered his head and said nothing. He did not respond to Agil. His attitude was very clear: You are asking for trouble, don't drag me down with you!
They all knew about Erza's affairs, after all, they had come into contact with her so many times!
Just when Ajir wanted to pull Neinhart aside to talk a few more words, he suddenly heard Irene's scolding voice in his ear: "What are you talking about, Ajir?!"
Agil was frightened and turned pale. He shrank back and leaned towards Neinhart: "Nothing...nothing...I didn't say anything!! Right, Neinhart?"
Neinhart remained indifferent. He didn't dare to lie in front of Irene, but as long as Irene didn't ask, he could still maintain his brotherhood.
Irene did not ask Neinhart anything, but just narrowed her eyes and looked at the two of them mercilessly and indifferently, as if to say: Keep quibbling, let me see if I believe you!
The icy chill fell on his body, and Ajir couldn't help shivering his hands and feet and sweating.
"Okay, Irene, let's stop here!" Just when Ajir was about to hide under the table because he could no longer bear Irene's murderous intention, Jellal spoke up, "Everyone will be here soon, so prepare for today's content first."
After being persuaded by her old boss, Jellal, Irene finally withdrew her gaze: "I understand, Emperor."
After suppressing her murderous intent, Irene waved her hand gently, and Jacob and Malin behind her immediately took the pile of documents in their hands and placed them respectfully on the table in front of Irene.
So skilled that it makes people feel distressed.
"Is my performance considered acceptable?" Malin was terrified and secretly complained.
Pa pa pa pa…
Time passed slowly amid the sound of flipping documents.
