Chapter 422: Empire of the Rising Sun

Outside Green Forest City.

A large amount of soil and stone wriggled and parted as if they were living things...

Aaron's gaze flickered.

This was where his Lingmu once stood; coming to the Third History this time, he naturally came to dig up the grave first thing.

The result was...

"There is nothing, not even a trace that the Lingmu ever existed..."

Aaron's heart stirred. Even if the version of him in this world had awakened early and moved the grave, it shouldn't have left behind absolutely no traces!

"One year and three months; I left at the end of 328..."

"Perhaps..." Aaron didn't care about these things and continued reading the newspaper:

"Only the Invis people shall never be enslaved!" (Note 1)

As a native of South Innis, Sharuke was an absolute country bumpkin, whose knowledge might be even less than that of a country bumpkin from Invis, and he would be dumbfounded just going to a big city in the Main World.

Keni looked at the maid outfit she was wearing and curled her lip: "I'm going to change out of this later!"

"So... the 'Gods' do not possess 'Unique Existence'? Then what about the 'Fates'?"

Keni, dressed in a black and white maid outfit, glanced at Aaron, sat down as well, and then pointed at Sharuke.

"In this world, has 'I' already ceased to exist?"

"This damn outfit."

At this moment, his understanding of this layer of history was still too little.

"Bring me a cup of coffee, and for him... give him a cup of milk."

"But on Keni's side, she still remembers the prestige and history of the 'Green Forest Earl'..."

According to his knowledge of Occultism, he could only reach an ambiguous conclusion in the end: "The 'Spirit of Falsehood' has a very high status, it is 'Unique to All Histories' and possesses Unique Existence?! So... even if there was a projection of me in this world, once I arrived in this world, the world line of the projection was automatically replaced by me?"

Keni thought Aaron and Sharuke were two bumpkins who didn't understand anything, so she hurriedly explained to them.

"However... this world still possesses 'Gods', and the 'Gods' here are clearly not the same batch as those in the Main World, at least 'Dawn' is not!"

And in the big cities of this layer of history, it felt too 'fantasy'.

"This is a broadcast... a communication system built by the previous Emperor in all the major cities of the country, divided into wired and wireless types... His Majesty the Emperor sometimes delivers speeches via broadcast, which can be spread instantly throughout the entire Empire through loudspeakers and radios."

【A monk from the Sun Church Inquisition cracked a case of evil believers in Beruke yesterday!】

Aaron, however, was looking at the city's retrofitted trams and the ubiquitous electric lamps, lost in thought.

It seemed that after Invis ruled the vast majority of the land, its technological progress had reached a very high level.

Otherwise, whether the Invis Kingdom's Pounds would be accepted here would be another matter entirely.

Aaron picked up the newspaper and flipped through it casually, while Keni's voice reached his ears again: "Big oaf... you can't change it. In Invis proper, natives... I mean South Innisans can only have one status, and that is slave! If they encounter an escaped slave, any slave owner can abuse or kill them at will without bearing any legal responsibility... A native slave without a master has a miserable time here!"

He smiled, didn't pay much attention to these two bickering rivals, and looked at the date on the newspaper himself: "Solar Calendar 330, February 5th, Friday? Using a different calendar already? I wonder how it differs from the time flow of the Main World?"

Thin sunlight pierced through the clouds and mist, casting down onto the streets of the Green Forest City urban area.

Aaron stood up with some melancholy: "Let's go... let's go to the city center and take a look."

Rule, Invis Emperor!

Invis rules the earth, the sky, and the ocean!

Thou art sacred, prosperity is with thee, greatness and freedom walk with thee!

Alien races and heretics wail and weep under the iron hooves of Invis!

From one loudspeaker after another, a high-pitched symphony began to play:

"When Invis, upholding the Heavenly Mandate,

Was the first to rise from the dark continent,

Aaron frowned tightly and began to think hard.

【Our heroic Imperial Navy has conquered Sululu Island, crushing the South Innis Resistance Army Alliance pirates!】

Keni watched Aaron jump onto a tram with familiarity and suddenly felt speechless.

All sorts of questions surfaced, but Aaron did not know the answers.

"Good morning, sir, what would you like to order?"

Aaron looked at Keni and pointed to the date on the newspaper: "How long have you been over there?"

The waitress's expression was slightly surprised; she hugged her tray and trotted away, pointing at this side with several colleagues behind the counter.

The waitress in the cafe asked gently with a sweet smile.

Thou once possessed an agricultural civilization, and let the city bloom with the radiance of commerce; ten million heroic hearts defend Invis!

Rule, Invis Empire!

Wherever the sun shines is thy pasture, and all races are thy slaves!

This is the favor of the sun,

The care and exclusive love of the radiance.

Keni also noticed this point, and her expression became very complicated: "The time on both sides... is consistent?"

The guardian Angels sing in unison:

"O... okay."

Aaron sat on a rattan chair under a parasol and responded with a smile.

Who exactly was the native of this world? Why was the other party so proficient?

Haven't you seen Sharuke on the side, already completely dumbfounded?

"Has the Electric Revolution already reached this stage?"

"I want a cup of hot cocoa, a sandwich, and bring me a few copies of today's newspapers."

On the other side, the morning sun gradually rose, and Sharuke looked at the silhouette of Green Forest City not far away, blankly saying to Keni: "Is this... your hometown?"

"Green Forest City has also become quite modernized..."

After riding the public tram and touring around a little, Aaron calmly got off and took the two of them to find a cafe to sit and relax.

"Only in this way can we explain why there was a Green Forest Earl in history, but there isn't one at this time..."

Keni answered somewhat dejectedly.

As she spoke, she looked at Aaron, not knowing what this terrifying Extraordinary intended to do.

"It's dawn..."

【Three more mines discovered in South Innis; stimulated by this news, Nanyang Mining Development Company stocks continue to rise!】

"Suit yourself!"

As for money?

Naturally, it was obtained by using an Extraordinary Ability to have a certain well-dressed gentleman on the train at the time sponsor it.

"Let's go, let's find a place to settle down first, hmm, we can start with a morning tea!"

Seven o'clock in the morning.

If the "Dawn" of the Main World were as powerful as this layer of history, it would definitely not have been Backstabbed by the "Mother of Night".

As she spoke, she stared at Aaron.

"Our Martha Family has long since been destroyed; this is the Invis Empire, but it is not my home."

Note 1: The song is adapted from James Thomson's "Rule, Britannia!".

(End of this chapter)