Chapter 1350 - 637: Hidden: Life-and-Death Duel at the Three-Phase Point! (Part 2)

Although indeed much stronger than the Kingly Title, it is far from being able to suppress a Divine Incarnation to such an extent.

At most, it is comparable to those saints of the Church who wield the Power Ring, capable of summoning Heroic Spirits from the Empire’s history through the ’Earth’s Power’ just like them.

Byron is too young; he has never seen the current Emperor of The Holy Silver Empire, Frederick III, nor witnessed the might when the Emperor acts personally.

Upon hearing his father-in-law’s evaluation and combining it with the information he just read from the Crown, he felt that the gap between them was naturally to be expected.

"Ha, although both the highest rulers of The Holy Silver Empire and the North Sea Empire are called Emperor.

However, the gap between empire and empire, emperor and emperor, might be larger than that between humans and monkeys!"

What is an Empire?

Vast territory? Large population? Developed economy? Strong military?... These are only aspects of it.

In fact, historical political scholars have defined.

In a larger geographic area, encompassing a large population, establishing a nation with distinct political, economic, social, military systems, and human values, forming a specific international political system and promoting and maintaining this system within a certain range, can be called an Empire.

It can either be a traditional feudal empire widely adopting feudalism or a colonial empire with vast overseas territories governed by appointed governors.

These empires usually have vast territories and possess their own subordinate countries, occupying a dominant position within a cultural region.

If The Sacred Golden Empire and the North Sea Empire hadn’t risen dramatically, taking over the Kingdom of Castilia from the two large Native Empires on Yucatan Island, it should have been the first colonial empire.

Possibly even the first Empire Where the Sun Never Sets in the world.

But in the past, on the only continent covered by the Power of Law, the Silver Continent, only one civilization area dominated by the Church existed, so there was only one dominant empire with the Crown—the Holy Silver Empire.

More accurately, its predecessor, the Ancient Silver Empire before being broken by the Barbarians.

The current Holy Silver Empire has only the name of the empire, but in essence, it is nothing more than a loosely assembled city-state union neither sacred nor silver nor an empire.

The empire has long been in a fragmented state, with local autonomous power of various federated states extremely strong and centralized power extraordinarily weak.

And in Byron’s ideology, only those like Eastern unified dynasties with absolute centralization deserve the title of empire and emperor.

He thinks this way and acts this way.

Whether it’s the North Sea Empire or the Sacred Golden Empire, after solving the remaining city-states and Land Nobles, they set up province (county), city, and town as a third-level administrative division, with the Emperor directly ruling the smallest administrative unit.

Maximizing the centralization of power, manpower, and material resources so that whenever needed, everyone can be clenched into a fist and struck out fiercely.

Naturally, the richer the empire, the more centralized the power, the stronger the Crown’s might becomes.

Deeply believing in the mortal world’s profound truth: "The greater the responsibility, the greater the ability!"

In contrast, the Holy Silver Empire is essentially a city-state union, with no centralized power to speak of. The Habsburg family, ruling through dynastic succession even with the Crown, can’t gather much strength.

"Of course, this is exactly what the Church hopes to see.

They weaken the upper limit of Royal Iron, then let the kings fight for a neutered Crown, ensuring maximum and perpetual control by the ecclesiastical power.

In other words, the Crown in my hand is the present’s only true and legitimate emperor dignity!

The commotion caused by the collective subconscious cannot be concealed; when I return to the Silver Continent, the Pope and the saints of the Council of the Divine Presence might no longer continue to tolerate my further growth.

There will inevitably be another fierce battle."

Byron temporarily put aside these matters yet to occur in the future and stepped towards the mistletoe.

Without resorting to his own legendary and pseudo-god powers, he simply took a step forward, and an invisible staircase naturally formed in the air, allowing him to tread upon it.

It’s well known that among the threefold power of law: Human Rights belong to the kings; Earth’s Power belongs to the Church; Heaven’s Power belongs to the creator.

Papal Tiara = Human Rights + Earth’s Power + Heaven’s Power; Emperor Crown = Human Rights + Earth’s Power; Kingly Title = Human Rights;

Byron holds the Crown, now able to freely command all domains involved with Human Rights and Earth’s Power.

The newly added "Earth’s Power" means it could manage the dead, undead, nature spirits, totem gods, and all non-divine entities.

The Silver Law rejects all forbidden powers, The Holy Silver Empire has neither nature spirits nor totem gods, and Frederick III at most can communicate with the dead to summon heroic spirits.

But Byron, holding numerous divine positions, can do far more.

Without needing to use his own power, merely by mobilizing the Silver Law of the Crown, he easily intervenes in reality and commands the omnipresent Wind Element Elves.

Ta-ta-ta...

The battlefield above was silent, only Byron’s footsteps resonated like a heavy hammer, striking the Harvest Goddess’s heart.

As he approaches step by step, the Harvest Goddess only felt the pressure increasing, instinctively abandoning the leaves frozen in The Domain of Royal Power, cautiously retracting the endless leaves to defend herself.