Tree of Aeons 3: An Isekai LitRPG Adventure by Spaizzzer

Author:Spaizzzer [Spaizzzer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2023-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

Multiple kingdoms submitted their bids, despite the protests from the temples and so on. Some did so secretly. They didn’t want to publicly declare to the temples that they were looking for alternatives.

The offers were interesting. Our invitation to ‘bid’ went out quite generally, that I was looking to create a transcontinental path across the Rottedlands.

Some kingdoms offered their princesses for marriage. Some offered a cut in taxes. Some outright offered control of their entire army.

The representatives sat down and evaluated the offers.

“What’s the point of this?” one rather cynical representative asked. “In the end, Aeon’s the one that decides, right?”

Kavio nodded. “Aeon had agreed to three potential alliances, and he had said he would decide on two of them. The last one will be for us to decide.”

The reason I did this was simple. Jasmine, from her observation of the people, and Patreeck’s mental ‘reading’ had indicated that the council was growing weary. They had great authority over the lesser matters, but I had sensed that they were feeling ‘left out’ of the greater direction of the Freshlands. Letting them have a say in the big things would help, I guessed?

I watched their thought bubbles. They were all thinking whether I was serious or whether this was a test.

“Kavio, had you ever thought of marrying?” I telepathically spoke to the representatives present.

Kavio’s face paled instantly. “Aeon, you don’t mean…”

“Some of the kingdoms offered marriages. Certainly…our representatives should be more than worthy and deserving of the station.”

Their minds spun, and I detected some horniness among the representatives present. Some of them were nobles, being the delegates of their parents who ruled their cities or domains. Some were elected representatives from their home state. There was some variation in how this station was perceived by the local rulers; some viewed this as a key training ground before they returned home to take over from their families; some houses sent their lesser children here, while their first sons were back home, actively training.

I considered that this would make these representatives not-so-loyal, since now they would have the input and influence of these faraway kingdoms. Their wives, or husbands as it may, would use them as their door to communicate with me.

A reality of geopolitics. The Freshlands wasn’t just the valley of Freeka anymore.

I must have wisdom and accept that it was possible to manage competing priorities and influences. Just like how there were trees in the lush tropics to the cold, snowy areas of the high mountains to the dry, vast steppes. The world was not just one type of environment. Trees adapted and evolved, too, even if it seemed ever so slowly.

People, too, were different. The Freshlands was a growing, vast space. The ways and means of a city-state and that of an empire should be different.

The representatives had days of serious debate. There were about seventy-two representatives now, as the inner Freshlands had grown to over twenty segments. There were also delegates from the Six Ports, and then the representatives of the surrendered or allied kingdoms.

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