Empress Milea Genys

**Milea Genys** is the current Magic Empress of the Gorgon Empire. She is an extremely powerful young Awakened mage, and became so after meeting and gaining knowledge from Guardian Leegaain. She convinced Leegaain to return to the empire after he had abandoned it, enacting any laws or regulations he wants over time in exchange for knowledge, though he remains there only for her and would leave if anything happened to her.

## Appearance

When Milea first met Leegaain she was a scrawny 16 years old girl with frizzy, unruly hair. After she left Leegain's lair 2 years later, she became a beauty with long wavy honey-hued hair.

She wore the dress of Leegaain's priestesses - a white silk roman toga with a deep neckline and side slits that leave most of her legs exposed. Later, she wears an ample deep blue mage robe of a healer from the Empire.

## Personality

She is extremely distrustful of humans, even more so after Leegaain explains to her the history of the Empire and all their follies. Due to being the only true Awakened in the Empire, she suffers from loneliness as Emperor Beasts refuse to get involved in the Empire and the Council views her as nothing more than an appendix of Leegaain's.

## Abilities

The Magic Empress has a physical prowess on par with a Hydra and has a monstrous mana flow. She is able to create a Warp Gate on her own without external help.

## Background

Milea Genys was a second-rate magician of humble origins, who believed strongly in the potential of magic. She graduated from the minor academy Red Basilisk, before following the rumors and legends to seek the path to greatness that past Magi of the Empire took. Her journey brought her to a cursed mountain (which happened to be Leegaain's lair), where she impressed him with her thirst for knowledge and asked him to teach her to become a Magus. There, Leegaain taught her the secret to Awakening, and bestowed upon her knowledge of magic, the different races, Abominations, and more.

After leaving Leegaain's lair after 2 years, she joined the Gorgon Empire's Magic Council at 23 years old, before becoming Magic Empress at age 27. She is the only Awakened one in the Empire to her knowledge, and doesn't trust anyone enough to share her secrets.

When spies reveal the situation of the plague of Kandria, Milea decides to hold off on invading the Griffon Kingdom, withdrawing the armies at the border and alerting the best physicians, healers, and alchemists to stand by. Meanwhile, Coirn Hatorne is captured and brought before her, and attempts to sell her twisted talents but fails. She attempts to kill Milea with poisonous needles, but Milea uses Spirit Magic to turn them against Hatorne and kill her, before destroying the body and belongings.

Leegaain tells her about and shows her Lith's first world tribulation, discussing the significance of world tribulations and Lith's strange existence. He brings her again to witness Nalear's insurrection, drawing parallels to the Gorgon Empire's run in with slave collars and counseling Milea to prevent such a thing happening again during her rule.

Later, Milea begins a research project into establishing the Empire's first magic academy after realizing the significance of a power core. Leegaain receives a call from Fenagar, one of the three Guardians from the Jiera Continent, who informs him of the inbound remnants of the Torin Kingdom after the human race was wiped out from their own doing. After Milea expresses her intent to destroy the plague, Leegaain agrees to help wipe the Torin Kingdom out.

### Undead War

Years later, when the undead from the Jiera Continent make their way to the Garlen Continent, Milea warns the other Countries of the threat, stalling their intent to colonize Jiera. Leegaain had promised to help her with creating a cure for the plague on the condition that she shares it. Meanwhile, Veeza the Lich exploits the influx of undead to form an army and assault the Empire.

Milea visits the healers in Laruel. Kalla reveals the source of the plague as a disease and Milea helps conceal her fellow Awakened's abilities (though it was actually Solus' mana sense that diagnosed it). She extends an invitation to Kalla as well as Phloria to join the Empire, and attempts to entice Lith with Runesmithing secrets knowing he had failed to get them from Orion, though they all decline.

Milea's war against Veeza reaches a stalemate, though it enables the army and Magic Council to purge their ranks of incompetent people as well as close the gap that had been widening between mages and commonfolk. She berates Leegaain for not helping her but he explains why Guardians do not intervene. He advises her to win quickly to invalidate Veeza's motivation for the war and offers his strategies.

The Empire's army attacks Dograth's twin fortresses. With Leegaain's tactics, Milea manages to outmaneuver the Lich, decimating her army by constructing a Jumpscape massive Warp Gate that transports the undead army into a killbox. Milea uses Silverwing's Hexagram mixed with Spirit Magic to kill Veeza's vessel and uses a vial of Leegaain's white Origin Flames to trace the Lich's mind back to her phylactery. The Lich had made her phylactery out of a white mana crystal and disguised it as a pebble among hundreds of similar stones. Milea shatters the phylactery with her sword.

Because Leegaain's daughter Xenagrosh considers Milea like a sister, the Master's Organization wages war against the Undead Courts in the Empire. Milea, in turn, turns a blind eye to the Organization's business as long as they don't deal in the slave trade and Forbidden Arts. Though they are still considered criminals, the human members of the Organization keep the underworld at peace and allow Milea to focus on the undead.

Milea, Salaark, and Leegaain view the test run of Lith's DoLorean through Tyris' eyes. Salaark and Milea consider the benefits such a device would bring their people. When the car passes through and stops at the border between the Kingdom and Empire, Milea greets them with a disguised Leegaain. Queen Sylpha classifies it as Tier 1 Forbidden Magic, prohibiting its production, but Milea argues against it and tells Lith he will always have a place in the Empire before ordering the Royals to leave.

## Quotes

* *"No matter how long, a leash is always a leash."* (Chapter 97)
* *"Really? And what did you give to the world? A huge scaly a\*s?"* (Milea to Leegaain, Chapter 160)
* *"Power without control is the greatest madness."* (Milea to Hatorne, Chapter 161)
* *"Okay, oh great one. Enlighten me."* (Milea to Leegaain, Chapter 847)
* *"Let this be a lesson to those who conspire against the Empire. No matter how old you are or how strong you think yourselves to be. Struggle as much as you want, only death awaits you."* (Milea in address to the Empire, Chapter 851)
* *"If you really can't keep it in your pants, couldn't you at least keep your offspring within the Empire? Why did you make gifts for our enemies?"* (Milea to Leegaain after witnessing the DoLorean, Chapter 1327)

## References

1. ↑ Legion on Discord
2. ↑ Legion on Discord
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Chapter 161
4. ↑ Chapter 166
5. ↑ Chapter 160
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Chapter 805
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 806
8. ↑ Chapter 159
9. ↑ Chapter 161
10. ↑ Chapter 311
11. ↑ Chapter 346
12. ↑ Chapter 795
13. ↑ Chapter 847
14. ↑ Chapter 851
15. ↑ Chapter 1301
16. ↑ Chapter 1329