Lord Shadow

It is not like some single player game where the other faction would just wait for you to settle internal problem. 

The moment Wei empire does that, they would be besieged by those warlords in the steppes, the Yue kingdom on the north, not to mention that the other world powers might also stretch their hands behind the scene to destabilize the Lotus Order rule in Asia

The great powers all have the possibility of being overthrown. It is unlike the Three Great Powers. 

The other four world powers were crowned by Pandemonium with the approval of the Republic and the World Government

And it is known that the legitimacy of their rule over their continent is a legitimacy that is given by Death Monarch and protected by the Article of World Distribution

That Article is carved on the Hall of Laws in the Quorum Council of the World Government and on the Senate Libraries of Laws.

That legitimacy ceases to exist if they were to lose control of the factions and forces under their dominion. 

And the whole world knows it. 

So, some ambitious people wanted to topple down these four great power and took their place. 

As long as they could prove to Pandemonium and two of the other great power that they could rule better than the previous regime, it is without doubt that the Three great powers would acknowledge the faction

It is the way how the three great powers maintain their superiority. 

Azief created this method to better govern the world and at the same time make it contained. 

In a way, his method worked. The forces that wanted to rise up restrain the four great powers from attacking Pandemonium, World Government and the Republic.

Even though they are allied with each other, sometimes their development would be held back by internal forces.

It is because of all of this factor, that the Lotus order had no choice but to only watch carefully what is happening in Southeast Asia without even having the power to mediate conflict there.

The South China sea is called the Nusantara sea by the United Malay Kingdom and the Philippines called West Philippine Sea and Indonesia calling it the North Natuna Sea as China had crumbled.

Wei empire desire to unify back China as the way it is before, is hard as most minority of former China did not want to be back under its thumb again. 

Most of the minority that suffer under the former China rule is also the population that grew the most powerful men and women

Hardship forge character. And in a world of individual power, one individual rise to the top could change the life of an entire tribe or a small kingdom. 

Quality before quantity. 

for the West Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula, the plan to cut the border between them and the Republic of Thailand is ongoing

Azief could not believe it at first when he heard what the United Malay Kingdom was planning

When the United Malayan Kingdom wanted to cut the border, it did not mean that in a figurative way.

They truly wanted to cut the border. They wanted to cut the land itself and brought up the entire United Malayan Kingdom to the air

They are in a way trying to imitate the island in the sky, the signature of the World Government which is the floating Island of Peace.

Azief laughed when he read the report

On the part of Malaysia Borneo, the interim government have no power as the warlords from Philippines, Indonesia contested the land for the rich resources of energy mines.

There are also pirates all over the area also vying for control. Of course, all of this happened before the expansion of the world

Right now, Malaysia and the Malaysia Borneo no longer look like a region of a small nation

The land mas itself has expanded hundreds of times. 

Most of the nation and kingdoms in the world right now could fit all of the humans in the world and still have so many space to fill

The expansion of a certain land and the expansion of their size and mass is related to the energy that already existed around them

It is magical and mystical. 

And since North Borneo possess a lot of energy mines, that is place where the land expanded the most which also affects the Philippines which also grew in size

As for the Singaporean land that could float into the air, even that small patch of land that they manage to brought up back from the seabed was also affected as it also had become large. 

The gravity chain between the two countries had been broken because of the sudden expansion

now there is no longer any large cities. 

Most of them were either destroyed during the expansion or changes its form when the land suddenly expanded and move

Chaos probably fills the heart of all the citizens of the kingdom. 

It is funny when Azief think of it. 

They were playing Kings and Generals and they have all of this plans. The fought for land and for kingdoms 

They were like ants that fought for their empire but in the end it is merely an empire built on top of sand pillars

One blow and it all fade away. 

This small brief event only strengthened Azief desire to grow stronger, to seek the peak of power in all of the Universe

Azief only find it a pity for the people that lives in that land. 

Regardless of the battle and conflict in Southeast Asia, at least most people there could still have some protection from the regime that hold the region.

But now, there is no one to protect them. 

It reminded him a lot of the first moment of the Fall. Still, he believes that humanity would quickly rebuild. 

After all, this is not the first time this happens. In the past, it only took a few weeks before a new world order had been established.,

With abilities to build cities in hours and settlement in a few minutes, this expansion of the world is but a minor bump in the road

Right now, in that land he used to call home, there is beast crawling, slithering and living. It is not that he misses his old country, but there was one particular area of the country that he is very sentimental about

Before the Fall, he did not go around much his own country. And after the Fall, the world changes

And then his journey brought him to other worlds and other dimension. And his horizon expanded.

But if there is one place that he truly felt sentimental about, it is his small town. 

Temerloh.

A small town in the middle of the state of Pahang. He likes it. He likes the small town feeling. Azief was never a fan of huge cities with tall skyscraper.

Kuantan however is an exception. But like Kuala Lumpur, he felt blocked and restricted. Azief had a theory that it is not good living in the capital city

Because if anything bad is going to happen to the country, usually it would be the capital city that would attacked first.

Azief was not a people person. But he was not always like this. He likes the villages and the villagers. There is still some value of kindness that is cultivated in small town that certain large cities had deemed unimportant.

He likes that things rarely changes in a small town. You would not go to a restaurant one month and the next month it changes to another restaurant

You know certain people and cultivate bonds. Azief like that about his small town and he would trade it for the life in the big city.

Because he had once live in the big city and it is just not his cup of tea. 

He looks at a place that used to be his parent house. Now that place is a tall hill with tall branching trees filled with large apes jumping around

And then…. then there is that place.

Azief eyes could see though certain things. 

His eyes could replay the changes of the earth. It is not that his eyes could reverse the changes on Earth but he could watch the changes like he is looking at a video

In simpler terms, he could rewind the changes of the area and identify which is which. 

For example, the hill that used to be the place where his house is located. If he only looks at it, all he could see is the hill

But if he uses his ability to see the past changes of the hill, he could see how the land rises up and energy gathers accumulating mass of soils and particles of magi to form the large hill

And so, he could see that it was originally the place where his house is located.

The reason is because he is connected with the Heavens 

And the Heavens sees everything and it sees the changes of the world

The reason Azief does that is because he wants to see where is that peach tree in the past.