My Soul card is a Reaper-Chapter 901: Seven and a Half Months Later
In the span of seven and a half months, the world, especially the one around Azzy, had changed beyond recognition.
The Death Clan had undergone its greatest internal transformation in history.
All the heir candidates to the throne were chosen from various clans of the village, marking the beginning of a new era. The Elder Council was reinstated in full authority, which will serve as advisors and also the policy makers in the usual case, and in case of Azzy’s absence, the council will act as the administrators instead of the heir.
But the greatest shift was not political—it was geographical.
The entire Death Clan, along with the Elves of Searvale and the Minamoto Clan warriors of the East, had been moved to the Shadow Moon of the Arcana world. It was Azzy’s doing—his power alone had transported every pocket dimension without causing any damage.
Once belonging to the god realm monster, the Moon now thrived with life.
Each clan received a vast share of territory as planned, apart from their own space, that was transported.
The Death Clan: ~634,000 square kilometers of ice caps, obsidian valleys, and glowing spirit lakes.
The Elven Kingdom: 634,000 square kilometers of forested mountains and crystalline rivers that mirrored their homeland’s beauty.
The Minamoto Clan: 634,000 square kilometers of emerald woodland that stretched under perpetual twilight.
For comparison, their former lands on Gaia had been mere specks — Death Clan’s 310 sq. km stronghold, Minamoto’s 114 sq. km mountain enclave, and the Elves’ 1,900 sq. km forest domain. Now, they possessed entire kingdom-sized territories, vast and untouched. So, one could guess how big their territory has expanded to.
As the three clans equally occupied the moon, in the middle of it all lay the central zone, a 324 square kilometers of shared ground, connected to all three states. It was a neutral hub of cooperation and defense, filled with Arcana academies, teleportation arrays, Auction Houses, Coliseum, Union headquarters, and the headquarters of the Shadow Guards.
They named this neutral region Ground Zero, meaning no clan has the right over this land and neither will they in the future.
As for the tri-state country, the three clan lords collectively made the decision to name it after the mythical kingdom of Celestials that used to rule the Red planet millions of years before it turned into the Arcana world: Aquiloria.
And to maintain peace and fairness, Azzy proposed a law:
The next decade following the country’s establishment, each clan would govern its lands independently, as it had before. And during that time, a Joint Constitutional Committee—formed by scholars, elders, and envoys from all three states—would draft the first Constitution of Aquiloria, a document that would bring all of them under one system while preserving each clan’s sovereignty.
Meanwhile, far away on Gaia, history took a different turn.
In the north, Freyles and Camelot had signed a merger as Azzy planned, and the Death Clan was running behind the scenes, exerting their influence in the real-world politics. Freyles’ parliament passed a historic act—to dissolve itself and merge entirely into Camelot.
Had it been a simple republic, the situation would have been a lot more complicated. However, Freyles was still running on a hybrid constitutional monarchy system, meaning the Parliament rules the country, but the King, the head of the state, has the power to overrule any decision made by the parliament. Other than unilaterally just making a policy he wanted or having his own military, the King basically retains all the powers of an Absolute Monarch. He can even dissolve the Parliament at any time he wants, as long as the ruling party doesn’t hold more than 66% of the seats.
And the royal family of Garcia is basically a confidant of the Death Clan. The will of the Death Clan Lord will be followed by them. Well, it is not that they were servants or something. It is just that the King lost its heir years ago, the one who could elevate their status. In the meantime, Azzy had already entered the demigod realm and was actively involved in human affairs, yet was not being expelled by Mother Goddess Gaia as his presence wasn’t diminishing the natural energy on the planet.
As a result, the King just blindly followed Azzy’s orders. And the Garcia royal family, once rulers of Freyles, publicly resigned their royal rights, transferring all authority to the Pendragon royal family. Of course, the new Camelot, which is now called Camelot Federation, was also no longer an absolute monarchy—it became a hybrid constitutional monarchy like once Freyles was.
At the same time, as envisioned by Azzy, in the heart of the new Camelot, a city built by the collective efforts of the hidden clans.
They called it Genesis.
It wasn’t vast — only about sixteen hundred square kilometers, more a sprawling fortress-city than a true nation — but funded jointly by the hidden clans, Genesis was designed to be a neutral ground: a base for their officers, their barracks, their stores, and their public institutions. Basically, this will be where the hidden clans will operate as they control the chaos on Gaia.
But to give each one a space of their own, Genesis was divided into ten sectors.
Sector 1 to 8 belonged to the hidden clans, each holding its administrative offices and training centers.
Sector 0 became the central administrative region, where laws were coordinated and inter-clan communication handled.
And Sector 10, at the very heart, was marked as the Common Zone — a sanctuary for all. There, spanning more than five thousand acres, construction was underway on Genesis University — a monumental academy that would serve as a crossroads for scholars, arcanists, warriors, and envoys from every clan.
Beside the university, a grand Temple of Gaia was raised — a marble structure dedicated to the Mother Goddess herself. It wasn’t just the temple for Gaia, but it also holds the World Gate, which will lead to the Shadow Moon. Basically, the gate is the only direct pathway from Aquiloria to Gaia.
The gate was Azzy’s design, created not just for Minamoto clans and the Elves, but also for the other clans in case they have to visit Aquiloria for Hidden Clan meets or direct visitations.
Even then, when one entered the gate, they didn’t get to the tri-states. Instead, they end up in Ground Zero, the neutral zone of Aquiloria. From there, after going through formal checks about their purpose of visits, they will have three more portals to await — each leading directly to one of the capital cities: the Death Clan Dominion, the Elven capital, and the Minamoto stronghold.
Coming to Azzy’s own personal life, it went through just as rocky as the changes in the world, too.
Not long after Genesis was founded, news spread across hidden clans and ancient families and forces like wildfire — news that shattered a hundred thousand years of belief.
The world’s undisputed strongest man, Azrael Garcia, the Death Clan’s ruler and a male demigod, had sired a child.
The revelation struck the hidden clans harder than any war. For eons, it was accepted as divine law that male demigods could not bear descendants. Yet now, proof lived — growing in Leiza’s womb.
Rumors swirled.
Among the commoners of the hidden clans, whispers took darker tones — that perhaps Leiza had been unfaithful, that no demigod could defy the gods’ curse.
But the upper circles, the elites and the elders of the clans, dismissed such talk.
They suspected that Azzy had discovered a method to bypass the world law itself. And some claimed it was connected to the Jewel of Life, the artifact that Azzy had fully bonded with years ago — an artifact so ancient that not even gods fully understood its limits. However, Azzy wouldn’t give any clarifications to even his closest allies; they could only assume that it was a secret.
And just as Claire warned him, the Garcia family, once again, saw the marriage proposals from other hidden clans. The Minamoto Clan Lord, Shuichi Fujiwara, once again put forth the marriage alliance between Azzy and the Minamoto Clan. This time, he didn’t even name the bride. He was so insistent that Azzy was given the free pass to pick up any eligible girl of his clan for marriage.
The Elven Clan Leader, with his high pride, didn’t offer his sister again for marriage. Elowen’s marriage was fixed with another Elven Elite of his race. However, the Kuru Clan, the Sun Clan, the Dragon Clan, the Moon Clan, and even the Asgard... all send their marriage proposals. Blood Clan didn’t send one to Azzy, not just because of the obvious feud with him, but they don’t marry outside the clan in order to maintain their bloodline purity.
Even within the Death Clan, the subordinate clans, using their representatives in the Elder Council, expressed their wishes on how it benefits the clan if Azzy takes in more wives and sires more children, not just from other hidden clans but also from the subordinate clans too. They say it is not for politics, but in the end, everyone just wants power.
