Overlord Empress - Chapter 108 RECRUITING OFFER

With Ichika revealing the identity of Emperor Manu, Gundahar and E’lara as the ancestors of her family, it immediately pushed the Uchiha as the number one family under creation surpassing the Farhelm and Virtris family. Even the Farhelm family’s prime ancestor Ajin Farhelm is only 3 chaos cycles old compared to Emperor Manu. But unless they get an accurate report from their subordinates, they are gonna call it as a bluff from Empress Ichika.

When Ichika finished her introductions of the Royal family, everyone felt she was finished. But instead she surprised most of them by still standing at the edge of the temporary platform, with her left hand held to her chin, like she is thinking about something serious. Seeing her serious expressions, everyone in the crowd calmed down as if to not disturb her thought process.

It took Ichika 10 minutes to come out of her trance, as she found it is the right time to lay foundations for her future plans.

“Is there anyone here wondering, why we Uchiha’s are still on this small world, while we can easily settle on a high tier world? why did the Uchiha’s, who were hidden from everyone for ages, suddenly made this world as their base?where was our headquarters before arriving here?”- Ichika

Only after Ichika asked these questions, did they start to think about the motive behind the Uchiha family. Even after going through various reasons, they failed to understand as to why the Uchiha’s are limiting to this small world. Given their military strength, they can easily build their base on any high tier planet or even occupy it completely.

Ichika took out a massive recording crystal and infused it with her thoughts, before showing images of a newly constructed cities and billions of monsters training hard like professional soldiers. If one observe closely, they could tell that the spiritual energy is much more thicker in these cities. Only Sovereign rulers and representatives could tell this is a sovereign state world, but they don’t know which world it is, as they had never seen such a powerful monster army before. These images are from Sovereign state world Atala, which Ichika occupied not too long ago,

“These are the images from Sovereign State world Atala, which is the third in size off all the 84 Sovereign State worlds. Compared to this world, the size and the density of spiritual energy on Sovereign state world is 1000 times better.

This is the world our family conquered recently and all these monsters who are currently training like soldiers, swore their loyalty to me and my family.

Our family has a long history and we always like to stay hidden from the eyes of others. We only show ourselves, when there is a serious threat to the existence of a number of civilizations from Evil cultivators or Evil Sovereigns. It is our duty to make sure there is balance between good and evil.

My first ancestor Emperor Manu completely erased all the evil cultivators and saved almost 800 paragon state worlds and 43 Sovereign state worlds.

My second ancestor Gundahar single handedly took down 23 evil sovereign rulers and killed everyone of their followers and soldiers.

My ancestor E’lara freed the elves from their suffering and killed all the slave traders on 3 sovereign state worlds. Now these 3 worlds are the home base of all the Elves.

Every time there was a major trouble, we will show ourselves, solve it and fade into existence. That is the reason why there are no major records of our family and no one knows a thing about our existence, unless we wanted to. But you can still find details about our ancestors exploits in ruins or some old texts.”- Ichika

Those who are still thinking Ichika was bluffing earlier, felt their brains short circuited at the moment. They are all clear regarding the ranking of all the sovereign state worlds, including the world’s occupied by the monsters. There were many foolish cultivators in the past, who tried to become rulers by occupying one of the world’s under monsters, but they only ended up as food for them. Even few of the sovereign rulers personally lead their troops to these monster occupied worlds, because of their greed to lay their hands on most of the untouched resources on these worlds. But they only ended up by barely escaping with their lives, while suffering serious casualties among their troops.

All these foolish Cultivators and greedy sovereign rulers tried to invade low ranking worlds only, as they are not brave enough to challenge highest ranking worlds. There is only one Sovereign Ruler to each Sovereign state world among the 12 human cultivators, but this is entirely different with monsters. The higher the rank of the world, the more number of Sovereign ruler level monsters present on them. So if you want a top tier world, you have to defeat all the sovereign ruler monsters present on it.

But the Uchiha’s occupied the ranked 3 Atala world, which clearly shows their family strength. As Ichiha said earlier, there are still records of Gundahar and E’lara, but both of them suddenly vanished after they finished off their enemies without leaving any trails behind. Now they have no way but to accept Uchiha as the prime family under existence. After this news is spread, it is gonna challenge the existing knowledge all the other cultivators.

“As said earlier we only make a move when there is a serious threat around, so we have to come out of hiding again. In the future, there will be an immediate threat to most of the civilizations.

We picked this world  because it is the only free world which is not occupied by an existing powers and we can silently expand our strength without drawing attention from others. We don’t want to create any troubles to the inhabitants of this world, that’s why we stayed low key till now. But as the time is short, there is no choice but to speed up the war process, as we need to prepare for the fights ahead.

But this time we can’t win these fights alone, we need an army of powerful soldiers. So we started by occupying Atala world and training the monsters as soldiers to prepare for the future. We will start occupying the other monster infested worlds as soon as the army is ready.

So to manage these worlds and maintain the army, we need large number of talented people. We especially need alchemists, formation masters, doctors and blacksmiths to work in our military division to help keep the soldiers armed and fit. This is the main reason behind holding auxiliary competitions this time.

My 3 dwarven masters who reached pinnacle level in forging and formations will also arrive here on this world in few weeks. Together with them, we will be running special workshop lessons for all the auxiliary cultivators before the event. Those who are interested can join these workshops to get free lessons from them for the next 300  years. If we find you acceptable and talented, we will offer you jobs in our military. You are free to join it or reject it.

The same can be said to other cultivators, we will start recruiting soldiers and officials in large numbers after the event. Those who are interested and chose to join our cause, we will provide you with all the resources and teachers to help with your training.

But one warning in advance, once you decide to join us, you can only leave with our permission. If you tried to escape or infiltrate to act as spies, you will be publicly executed. There were also overly smart people in the past, who pretended to join our military and become strong while exploiting our family resources. Let’s just say, their fate is still questionable even now, we don’t like any freeloaders. If you are truly committed and prove your worth, we will treat you well and reward sufficiently.”- Ichika

As soon as Ichika finished the whole crowd was involved in heated discussions. As for the ministers and officials of the Empire they decided to send as many members of their family as they can into the army. If one thing they are clear about Empress Ichika, she always treated her subordinates well and rewarded them according to their merits.

If she is really bad, then she can easily occupy this world and forcefully recruit all the available cultivators into her army. They can still see the long line of 8 million silver armored soldiers in the distance, who are heavily equipped and radiating powerful aura. It clearly demonstrates the influence and resources of the Uchiha family. Even with such military strength, she still gave the option to join the military or not.

If they let go of this chance, then they will be missing out a golden opportunity, the improvement of the Empire’s soldiers in the past 130 millions is the best proof.

Where as most of the auxiliary cultivators, Sovereign rulers and representatives were shocked after Ichika revealed her 3 dwarven masters are pinnacle level blacksmith and formation masters. Very few would dare to say they reached pinnacle level in their chosen art and you can barely count these masters on your fingers. After following all the events of the day, they have no choice but to believe Empress Ichika. Even the rulers will respect these masters as if they are their ancestors, to receive a favor from them.

Ichika also gave them a free trial period of 300 years, this time is enough to personally witness their actual abilities. This is also a lifetime opportunity to personally learn from such masters.

But they are interesting in another thing, the monster infested worlds. Ichila already proved her family strength by occupying Atala world, so there is no doubt she will occupy more worlds in the future. They are also happy that she is only focusing on the hard to occupy monster worlds, than the easy to occupy human worlds. The message is clear from Ichika, that she is not interested to fight the other ruler cultivators.

But these rulers will be clearly interested with Ichika’s military campaigns. Most of the sovereign worlds are already exploited of their valuable resources and with time they will be completely bankrupt. With Ichika occupying the monster lands, she will have access to large amount of resources. If they want these resources, they have to fight her which is currently impossible to them. Then the only option is to forge an alliance with the Uchiha family, in that way, they can also join these military campaigns and have their share of profits. It will also give them an opportunity to observe the Uchiha family closely and to find out their weakness.

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