Chapter 1024: 1024
Generally speaking, peace after every significant battle would last for a long time . They could even stretch for millennia if the balance of power among the forces didn't change .
Noah had lived through one hundred years of peace before leaving, and a hundred more had to pass before the first sign of conflict appeared on the surface .
It all began with a simple scuffle among human cultivators . Both the Hive and the Council were suppressing the Elbas family's forces on their respective borders, and casualties happened from time to time during those small battles .
The central powers didn't care about them . Human cultivators' death rarely bothered the experts in the heroic ranks, and the forces deployed there didn't hold much value in the political environment .
However, a young member of the Elbas family happened to be among a big battle once . The conflict saw some sects of the Council fighting peripheral forces of the Royals over a new habitable land that had appeared on the eastern side of Divine Market city .
Those kinds of territories had begun to appear before Noah left . The presence of so many cultivators on the piece of Immortal Lands inevitably affected the density of "Breath", causing the creation of areas where even human cultivators could live without any protection .
The higher-ups of each major force didn't care about those lands, but they were a big deal for human assets . That was their chance to colonize the new continent without the help of their superiors .
The battle that happened that day involved many small forces and gave birth to quite a big battlefield in terms of human assets . The young member of the Royals had joined it to gain some merits, but he ended up dying in the middle of the fights .
The matter would have normally ended there . The best the Elbas family could ask for a human asset's death was a few hundreds of thousands of credits . Yet, the father of the young Royal was a heroic cultivator, and he reacted by slaughtering the sects involved in the death of his son .
That started a long series of conflicts that slowly involved even more powerful existences . No one wanted to turn the matter into an official war, but they didn't seem able to stop the hostilities .
Those battles became a matter of face, and the Hive had to join them to support the alliance . The battlefield's width increased and involved more territories, forcing the three organizations to deploy more assets .
Even rank 5 cultivators had to fight to defend the honor of their force . Those experts' battles affected entire regions, and it became impossible to ignore the obvious at that point . Another war had started .
The first political act happened fifteen years after the beginning of the hostilities . The Hive and the Council had a sharp advantage over the Royals' forces, so they managed to kick them out of Divine Market city .
The alliance didn't waste that chance to cut the Elbas family off from one of the best training areas on the new continent . That city had even amassed some crucial resources through the years, so the Royals' losses weren't negligible .
However, they had even greater power over the forces of those Mortal Lands . After a few years of meetings and battles, the Dimensional Portal suddenly went silent and stopped absorbing "Breath" from the old continent .
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