Chapter 252: The Angel Clan's "Visit"
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A month ago, in the Western Continent.
The Aransas Empire also received good news.
A new Divine Remnant King Beast was born in the Eastern Continent, and it was of Emperor rank at birth!
Now, the Eastern Continent is destined to firmly hold the top spot in the beast world.
In the imperial court, discussions were rampant.
The relationship between the Eastern and Western Continents has never been good. For tens of thousands of years, local wars and frictions have often occurred at the border between the two realms. The two continents have not experienced large-scale wars, maintaining a balanced peace. But once the balance is broken, the Western Continent must prepare for a rainy day.
Some were optimistic, and some were pessimistic.
"Not necessarily. Our Western Continent doesn't lack Divine Remnant King Beast clans either."
"If a fight really breaks out, the outcome is uncertain."
"The newborn Divine Remnant King Beast of the Eastern Continent has not yet grown up, so there is no need to worry for now, but what about the future? What about thousands or tens of thousands of years from now?"
"Yes, it's really worrying. I don't know what kind of luck the Eastern Continent has. I heard that in just a few years, three Heavenly King Beasts with Divine Remnant bloodlines have been born one after another. On the contrary, the Angel Clan hasn't had any news of newborn bloodlines for thousands of years…"
"The Angel Clan gave birth to the only God Angel in the world thousands of years ago, who has already broken through to the Supreme Realm, so there is no need to worry," someone said with awe.
The Western Continent is constantly plagued by internal strife, vying for territory.
But they all have a single belief—
The Angel God Clan, who controls the Holy Temple.
On the surface, the beast kings of various factions rule city-states, but in reality, all the kings are under the jurisdiction of the Holy Temple.
The Holy Temple has the absolute power to appoint and remove the beast kings of the major empires. Only beast kings who faithfully believe in the Holy Temple and receive the blessing of the Holy Temple are qualified to become a beast king of one side.
Throughout the years, the beast kings of the major empires in the Western Continent have been nothing more than puppets appointed by the Holy Temple… It's just that in the past thousand years, the Holy Temple has long ceased to govern any affairs of the Western Continent, gradually disappearing from the public eye, allowing the heroes to compete and the various factions to secede.
I wonder if it's related to the Angel Clan's gradual decline.
"I heard that the Holy Son has no reproductive ability. Thousands of years without offspring is equivalent to being extinct…"
Someone said, and the ministers fell silent.
What's the use of being strong if a male can't give birth and can't continue the bloodline?
Doto, however, had no intention of listening to these words. He stared at the report presented in his hand, and remained silent for a long time.
He didn't care about the newborn Divine Remnant King Beast in the Eastern Continent, but instead paid attention to the mother of the beast, a female, who was only mentioned briefly in the report.
He traced half a line of writing with his finger, "…Who is this female? Is there any information about her?"
The ministers below heard the Beast King speak, but he was asking about such a thing.
Someone realized it.
"Yes, when did such a King Beast female appear, with such amazing fertility, unheard of?"
"I heard that she is not one of the native King Beast noble females of the Eastern Continent."
"She is the newly acquired partner of the Eastern Continent's Phoenix. Not long after giving birth to her offspring, she underwent a coronation ceremony and is well protected. There is almost no information about her revealed on other continents. The Eastern Continent must know more. This subordinate will send someone over to inquire."
"Yes."
The ministers all noticed that His Majesty seemed a little lost in thought.
Could it be… that he was thinking of the late Queen.
Speaking of that Queen, who wouldn't say it was a pity? She was also a very excellent King Beast noble female, who gave birth to a precious and excellent Little Highness for the royal family, but unfortunately, she had a short life and was framed by treacherous officials.
Doto dismissed all the ministers.
He stayed alone, looking at the message.
His emerald green eyes were as deep as ink, and his fingers tightened slightly.
In all these years, she was the only one he knew who could so easily conceive King Beast offspring.
Although he knew it wasn't the same person, he couldn't help but think of her.
He had always been very clear that she had never loved him, whether before or after knowing that secret.
Her wish to have children with him back then was only because she took a fancy to his talent and power… Heh, if she were still alive, she would definitely not let go of a Beast Emperor of a country.
Doto was lost in thought, and suddenly frowned. Not knowing what he had thought of, he picked up his coat and quickly got up to leave.
"Someone, go to the imperial mausoleum…"
"Your Majesty, it's not good! Little Highness is gone!"
Someone came to report in a hurry, interrupting his thoughts.
"Hefes is gone?" Doto's face suddenly turned cold, and his voice was low and fierce, "He was still here this morning. What are you doing? You can't even keep an eye on a child!"
"Little Highness said he wanted to practice flying after eating this morning, so a few of us accompanied him to play in the Flower Forest Sea. But when we turned our heads, Little Highness disappeared! We searched everywhere nearby, but we couldn't find Little Highness, so we had no choice but to come and inform Your Majesty."
"You should have told me about this sooner! If Hefes is gone, you few will have your heads chopped off!"
Doto hurriedly took people to the Flower Forest Sea.
In recent years, he had eliminated internal troubles and excluded external enemies. Although he had firmly secured the position of Beast King, he had made more enemies. Countless eyes were staring at the palace. If Hefes was targeted by those people and something went wrong… Doto simply didn't dare to think about it. He would go crazy!
They couldn't find his son in the palace.
Doto was so anxious that he directly mobilized the army and searched all possible places.
Fortunately, just before he collapsed, the little lion crawled out of the bushes, covered in dirt, and shouted, "Father!"
Doto seemed to come back to life. He hugged his son tightly. The joy of reunion and the lingering fear made his body tremble uncontrollably, "Where did you run off to again!"
Hefes heard his father's cold and sharp reprimand, and shrank his body in fear, realizing that he might have really caused trouble this time…
His father usually doted on him extremely, giving him whatever he wanted. No matter how much trouble he caused, his father had never been so angry as he was today.
Hefes looked up and saw that Doto's eyes were red, and he was startled. He almost thought his father was crying, and quickly said,
"I'm sorry, Father. I, I will definitely tell Father where I'm going in the future…"
"Yes, Father only has you. I don't want anything to happen to you," Doto took a deep breath, his low voice trembling uncontrollably.
"That's not it, Father. I didn't run around this time. I was playing in the garden when a few strange uncles suddenly appeared and said they wanted to take me away! I want to stay with Father, so I won't go with them! I was also afraid that they were bad people who wanted to kidnap me, so I secretly hid here to hide," Hefes said.
Doto frowned fiercely.
At this time, another servant came to report.
His voice was a little uneasy.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the people from the Holy Temple have arrived, saying they want to discuss state affairs with Your Majesty."
Doto was also stunned for a moment, and then his face became even colder, his sword-like eyebrows deeply furrowed into a frown, "The people from the Holy Temple want to interfere in the state affairs of Aransas? Haven't they stopped interfering in the affairs of the major empires all these years?"
The beastman lowered his head, hesitated again and again, and said in a low voice, "They seem to want to take Little Highness away this time."
"The people Little Highness encountered this morning were the attendants sent by the Holy Temple."
Doto, "…Where are they now?"
"The Holy Temple attendants are waiting in the council hall, just waiting for Your Majesty to go over."
Doto lowered his head and glanced at the little lion in his arms, a trace of obscurity flashed in the depths of his eyes. Knowing that he couldn't hide it, he hesitated again and again, and still took him to the council hall.
