Guild Wars

That’s right!

The Amaterasu lineage, despite taking heavy losses during World War 2, managed to largely recover by the era of the three prodigies’ birth. Subsequently, another fight came about that drained their power, and just two years later, World War 3 broke out.

Thankfully, the lineages had always maintained a strong control over the government of their territories, with the Amaterasu lineage having a firm grasp of Japan. Each generation of Shogun was one of theirs and subsequently, each Prime Minister had to pay his respects by kneeling in front of the clan head of the Amaterasu lineage.

Interestingly, one would think World War 3 erupting had something to do with the battles between the lineages during that era, which weakened them all, but it was actually just tangential. The real reason for World War 3’s breakout had always been the eruption of civil war within the former United States as their internal cultural conflict escalated to the limit after multiple provocations from the hidden powers by pretending to be one side or the other while pitting them against each other.

As the strongest cradle of the world at the time, all eyes had been on the civil war at the time, but it had been the biggest farce of the century. One side were crazed, testosterone-fueled gun-toting madmen, and the other side were softhearted, ’righteous,’ and anti-violence ’nice guys’ who sought their own idea of equality, so the outcome was set from the start.

It wasn’t even six months before everything crumbled on the other side, and it looked like America was about to be reorganized into a society resembling the 1950s when, all of a sudden, the losing party seemed to go crazy and invited the wolf into the house.

Citing various human rights violations and various international legal issues, they invited an external party to assist them in the battle, which turned a civil war into an open war. No matter how soft and pacifistic, with an external party backing them, these inclusive fellows became like tigers with wings, displaying viciousness unseen since the Second World War.

Naturally, if one party could do it, so could the other. To keep a long story short, each party called a new backer when they were about to lose until all the world’s major powers were on one side or the other, using the United States as a battleground without damaging their own interests or territories.

In the end, the nice guys won, because they actually hated the country from the beginning, so on the negotiation table, they promised away endless benefits for assistance. The crazed madmen were too nationalistic and were unwilling to compromise on territory accessions and various other disgraceful clauses that would ruin their country, so they had less support.

Post-victory, the country was divvied up by all powers, and the states changed names depending on who owned them. Apart from the Capital State, which was former Washington, and the Central State that Draco lived in, which was the former Texas, most other states kept their names but did not follow Federal Law.

And the country itself remained the Central Country, since it became the official hub of the world’s civilization, military, and economics, but was controlled by everyone to ensure fairness and prevent hegemony.

The obviously long useless United Nations was replaced by the newly formed World Council, which had relatively mild power initially but consolidated itself crazily until it became the current hegemony of the world today.

Of course, during World War 2, Japan had been called up to assist the nice guys and got a large share of the pie. This also qualified them to have a seat on the World Council, represented by the Nakamoto family, which was an offshoot of the royal family.

It was assumed that since the Nakamotos rapidly rose in power along with the World Council, they had conflict with the royal family and local Japan government, but clearly, this was not the case. Not only were the Nakamotos still firmly representing Japanese interests, but they were subservient to one of the lineages!

Looking at Yuuto, who was received by Draco and went to stand behind him, the faces of the remaining council members were truly colorful. If David’s betrayal was one thing, then Yuuto was a deep slap to their faces!

"Hey, hey, don’t think this is over. Are you really certain that this is all? Hehe, don’t get yourselves wrong, there is another person who should come and kneel before me." Draco said in a teasing tone, his eyes sweeping over the remaining councilors.

The faces of the seven changed greatly, while the two behind Draco were immediately interested, wondering who else had been planted along with them and hid it so well. The councilors glanced at each other uncertainly, wondering who the traitor was, when eventually, someone they never expected actually stood up.

A relatively middle-aged man with his hair tied in a long flourish with a jade hairpin stood up, being Li Jian, the Third Councilor!

He wore a casual smile and came to kneel before Draco.

"Xiao Jian greets the husband of the Immortal Empress!" He greeted loudly, his head bowed in a kowtow.

That’s right once more, Li Jian was a plant from the Pangu Lineage!

Well, it was kind of a given, right? The nationalistic, gun-toting madmen would never ally with two forces, Russia and China, believing them to be their mortal enemies, but the nice guys clearly had no such worries and happily brought the two over.

Unfortunately, Russia refused to partake in this and lost the chance to eat the global cake, leaving China to gain the huge portion of goods and eventually a strong position in the World Council. Since China was firmly and brutally controlled by the Pangu Lineage at all times, it was natural that the one sent here was one of theirs.

The clues had always been there. Li Jian was the supposed discoverer of Control, yet when the core members raided the Pangu Lineage back then, most of the Pangu warriors had also unlocked Control themselves. If the council members were feuding with their local governmental rulers, how could this be?

Li Jian had been in an awkward position during the period after the destruction of the Pangu Lineage and the rebirth into the Immortal lineage by Shuangtian, but he had personally come to China back then to kneel before her, just as Yuuto did to Eva in Japan. Stay tuned to empire

Hehe, when the core members raided Nathan’s estate back then and saw Li Jian, how come they never did anything to him? They had two whole councilors at their mercy and let both of them go, isn’t such behavior very unlike the core members of Umbra?

Now you have your answer.

Oh right, and on that topic…

Draco scratched his chin with amusement. "Will you believe me if I told you I wasn’t talking about this guy?"

FUCK!

The six remaining councilors felt blood rushing to their throats as they were about to lose their minds. First David Collins, now Yuuto Nakamoto, and then Li Jian, and you’re telling us there is ANOTHER traitor?! Ṝá₦ОᛒЁ𐌔

Who was it? The six councilors looked at each other with ugly and wary expressions, their trust in one another reaching the absolute bottom at this time. Eventually, Draco rolled his eyes and crooked a finger, causing the person he was talking about to gently float over to him.

"Why must you act so coy? Do you really want me to coax you out, Old Sir?" Draco spoke to Nathan in a reproachful manner.

Nathan Rothschild sighed and did his tie after landing in front of Draco, turning to smile at his colleagues. "I’m sorry dear friends, but my family decided to invest in Umbra as early as three years ago. Superhuman has already been dissolved and passed onto my nephew-in-law, Cyrus."

Draco tutted with amusement. Ghostprotokill was currently engaged with Amelia Rothschild, one of the world’s smartest and most beautiful women, and a legitimate heir to the Rothschild Empire after Nathan. Draco never enforced the secret keeping on his core members, so Ghostpro eventually brought Amelia into their world and showed her the truth of the world, which she eventually relayed to Nathan.

After being beaten up by Umbra at this estate, Nathan was all too happy to join in with the new force that would eventually rule the world. As for Maria, her life and death were not his problem but one for someone else to worry about.

Draco swept his eyes over the now five councilors, and he couldn’t help but chuckle at the situation, something which they noticed.

"But wait! There’s more!" Draco revealed dramatically, now causing even the minds of Nadia and her cameraman to buzz, while the audience around the world felt slightly numb.

Now, if you told them the World Council was a K-pop idol group this whole time, they would believe you!

"Tsk, tsk, Madonna, there is no need to hide your face. I’ve told you, you can redeem Maria as long as you pay the ransom that my cousin Connor Baines has set." Draco sneered as he turned to Rosa Astor, who was trying to maintain a low profile.

The pale green eyes of Rosa Astor flashed with concealed hatred and helplessness, having been forcefully outed by Draco at this time.

"Madonna? Huh, wait, The Cartel??" David Collins put two and two together and displayed an expression of shock, which was mimicked by all except Nathan, who was calm.

"That’s right, this is the current head of The Cartel, Madonna Rosa." Nathan affirmed calmly, making Rosa rise to her feet and silently walk over to stand behind Draco with her head lowered.

She understood that once Draco outed her like this, he was actually forcing her to make a choice whether to stick with this wretched World Council that was full of more holes than the condom a woman gives her rich boyfriend or come and stand behind him as a vassal under his new regime.

Many viewers were puzzled about this, especially those who lived clandestine lives in the light and had never even seen a crime in their lives, much less interact with the underworld. However, those who knew felt thunderous waves go through their hearts, for they just witnessed the hidden face ruling the world’s greatest underworld organization!

Even more so, that person who had only just been unveiled was forced to come and stand behind Draco like a bad girl caught by her father!

"And then, there were three." Draco announced with a sigh.

The atmosphere was quite weird overall, with many viewers wondering if the theatrics had come to an end. Even though they hadn’t paid anything to watch all this, the drama from this short broadcast and its impact was far greater than anything ever that came before.

"Huh? Three? But there are four fellows still there?"

Suddenly, Nadia’s resonant voice interrupted the thoughts of everyone, making them notice something they failed to observe. Looking at the four remaining faces, they did see that Nadia’s count was correct, but then did that mean Draco made a mistake?

However, looking at the playful smile on the fellow’s face, the hearts of everyone on all sides couldn’t help but skip a beat.

"Uh huh, that’s right, my dear fellows, for there is one more council member among the group here whose allegiance is not quite honest." Draco did not keep the suspense as he directly took over.

However, everyone was made to witness in horror as Draco released his dark aura to cover the entire council chamber, something he had not done before until now.

"And here’s something interesting for you all to chew on. This particular ’traitor’ did not just betray the political factions of the world, no, he betrayed our entire species!"

Draco turned his head towards the target in question, whose face became grim.

"Isn’t that right, Leero Onassis, or should I say, Son of Gaia?"

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