Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy

The account books were done well.

As for the prices...

Have them all doubled.

The expenses at Novoland Inn are already the highest in Tian Qi City.

Since the customers are all here for their own purposes

and they don't care much for money

why would you worry for them?

Prince De, you're right.

You may go.

Yes.

Shouldn't Prince De bow to me?

Shouldn't Prince He Ge give it a bit more time?

When the day comes, I'll greet you in the highest respect.

You're smart.

Your Highness.

Your Highness will need goldlings to accomplish great things.

You can use this to retrieve money in any of my pawn shops.

It will just appear as my expenses.

No one would know that it's actually Your Highness.

What is it that you want?

I'm a merchant.

As a merchant... it's definitely the benefits that I am after.

Is it that simple?

As far as I know...

Wan Prefecture's Chamber of Commerce is much wealthier than the royal court.

Would anyone think that there are too many goldlings to make?

Prince He Ge, look at me.

I'm still very young.

If I began feeding off my forefather's savings

I'd find that quite inappropriate.

I will also have to plan for the long term.

Frankly speaking, it isn't as if I haven't done some research.

Among all of His Majesty's sons

you're the only one who knows best to seek assistance from all

for one man's task.

It won't cost me anything to help you.

You're so smart.

Don't you want to take that position for yourself?

I do.

Looking down at the world from the throne...

Producing clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another.

That's the sweet dream of every zealous man.

Moreover, His Majesty is in poor health

and the discipline of the royal court is failing.

Natural disasters are everywhere.

This is a great opportunity.

However, the difficulty lies in...

I'm a merchant.

I'm too fond of calculating costs.

I don't mind spending some goldlings.

As for gambling away my life...

I can't bear to do so.

With simply that alone, I'm no match for Your Highness.

It's been my habit to go all in against the odds.

That's why we make a good team.

Do you have the other item that I told you to prepare?

How would I dare to take Your Highness's order lightly?

It's just a drawing of it.

The Sovereign Seal has been lost since the founding of the Duan Empire.

No one knows what it really looks like.

Only when the former emperor passes on the throne to the next

will he have to describe the appearance of the seal.

The Wise will only be able to forge one exquisite in details

if they have a design.

This was drawn according to my assumption

after researching the former dynasty's confidential information.

Certainly, if you wish for no one to identify it as forged

you'll have to wait for Mister Mo to send some news back.

Mister Mo?

Mister Mo is also an old acquaintance of mine.

When will he return?

I don't know either.

Your Highness, do you know that Emperor Taizu had made an oath

when the Great Duan Empire was first founded?

Whoever in the Muru family finds the Sovereign Seal

can become the emperor of the Duan Empire.

That was hundreds of years ago.

Who would still acknowledge that oath?

As long as it's an ancestral code, it will be acknowledged.

I won't be able to wait.

Get the seal forged with this design.

Your Highness, aren't you worried that His Majesty might expose you?

His Majesty can no longer speak.

Even if he notices that it's forged, he can't tell anyone.

He really can't even utter a word?

He's been like that for some time.

The palace is keeping it a secret.

Annoyingly, that Muru Shuo has been acting as the regent.

Our actions are hence restricted.

Moreover, he adopts the ancestral code.

Once His Majesty passes away...

Muyun Han will become the emperor according to seniority.

Therefore, I have to act fast.

We'll do as Your Highness wishes.

How many of Long Yuan Chamber's collections can you remember?

Long Yuan Chamber has preserved all the knowledge and records

since Novoland was first created.

I might have once been the Coordinator of Long Yuan Chamber

transcribed the classics for 30 years

traveled throughout Novoland to collect various kinds of knowledge for 20 years

and imparted knowledge to the March Moon Sect, Sky Warriors

Tian Luo Assassins, the king of the Soarers

and the Wise for 30 years until I was imprisoned by you.

What I can remember is no more than one fraction of what I experienced.

If you'd have told us sooner where the real entrance to Long Yuan Chamber was

we wouldn't have made it so hard for you.

Long Yuan Chamber only existed so as to impart

true knowledge to the later generations and record the truth in history.

However the dynasties might change in Novoland.

The later generations can learn of what their predecessors went through

so that the lives we once had will not be in vain.

Our descendants can then inherit it and pass it on.

Therefore, no sects or organizations are allowed to make use of it.

If you're allowed to select whatever knowledge you want

and edit historical facts

what truth is left in this world then?

Can you recall the origin of the Charmer in that glass bead?

Where does she come from?

Why would she appear?

You've been pestering me for days.

Must you know the answers to these questions?

Why do you insist on not answering me?

It's because you're from the March Moon Sect!

Since Long Yuan Chamber manages only the records

you should stay out of other matters.

Novoland will soon be hurled into chaos.

March Moon Sect is only expediting it.

Do you think that you can stop the replacement of the emperor

just by keeping confidential information a secret?

How pedantic.

If only this were as simple as the alternating of emperors.

Mentor. Mister Mo.

Have some tea.

- Qi Hua. - Mentor.

Although our lives are precious

it's still nothing compared to the secret of that Charmer.

If the secret is leaked, hundreds of generations of efforts

that Long Yuan Chamber has put in shall go to waste

and everything about Novoland shall exist no more!

Mentor, I understand.

I shall obey you.

Mister Mo, have some tea as well.

Mentor!

What are you doing?

What are you trying to do?

You're old.

You'll need someone to transcribe everything that you know.

You wouldn't use anyone that we assigned you.

But you trusted only him.

The child who was captured along with you.

Don't hurt him!

Do you think that I can't make you talk if you're dead?

You might know how to conduct Soul Summoning

but it will hurl its power back at you!

So what if it does?

The power will be hurled back at me?

Hurled back at me?

It doesn't matter.

Hurled back at me?

Speak!

Speak now!

That Charmer...

She seals the God of Desolation's fury within her heart!

Once that is released...

Do you really wish to see me so badly?

Your Highness.

It's chilly out here.

Why don't you go inside?

You haven't eaten for days.

Have a bit to eat, at least.

Your Highness?

Have some.

Prince Sheng!

What are you so entranced by?

You have to treat yourself so poorly?

What is a bowl made of?

It's shaped from clay.

Then it's heated in a kiln.

What's in the clay?

What else is there?

Isn't it just dirt?

It all burns to ashes in the air.

That means that the visible bowl is actually made of invisible ashes.

Your Highness, you should go to bed now.

You're already making no sense.

I've got it.

I've figured it out.

Give it to me!

If you don't go to bed now, I'll never return this glass bead to you!

Serve another portion.