Emperor Philip

## Philip

* Current
* Younger
* Sovereign

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**Bloodthirsty Philip** was the most powerful emperor of the Sacred Alliance Empire since Charles the Great, the founder of the empire. Despite his great power, he is not interested in governing his empire. He dies after a great battle in the Land of Dusk.

He helped a young Richard and guided him along the way by providing a steady financial partnership. It was also because of him that he was able to come out alive after fighting the elites of Klandor and Uriel.

## Description

### **Size**

The physically strongest human powerhouse to date, Emperor Philip, resembled a small hill. Although most human legends focused on the power of laws, that could still be overcome with enough brute force. However, he decided on focusing on the true greatness of the ancient titans; the difference in size. Through that, he was able to defeat multiple legends single-handedly and heavilly injure two epic beings from Daxdian.

## Plot

Emperor Philip had always placed importance on one’s appetite and eating speed when determining someone’s worth, and it seemed like Neil had inherited that philosophy as well.

The point system was originally intended to allow the princes with the right of inheritance to learn from their experiences and grow. Through weighing the pros and cons of their choices, through trying to optimise their point growth, we should eventually approach the right direction.

Two of the categories in the test for the successor are individual prowess and a battle with equivalent forces. He will only be able to rely on himself during these tests. We will be sent to a foreign plane with our equivalent forces and given a year to develop it. The one who proceeds the furthest receives the highest marks. This is meant to eliminate those flowers who grew up in the greenhouse.

### **Volume 5**

Killed Maranos the Brain Eater, reclaimed Fort of Dawn in Land of Dusk.

This obese person only had on a pair of leather pants, his greasy belly flopping around as he walked. His footsteps were firm and strong, but also completely silent for someone of his size. He didn’t possess any legendary armour either; the only special thing on his person was the three-metre-long and one-metre-wide rusted chopped he carried on his shoulder. There were even two nicks on the blade that were each the size of a fist, but this mountain-like man still possessed an air of looking down upon the world.

He did not need any grandeur; his presence alone was enough.

The right hand holding onto that extraordinarily large, worn-out cleaver, the man held three heads in his left. They all belonged to different races, but their hair, beards, and meaty tentacles were randomly knotted around each other.

When the Daxdians had retreated, this man had pursued alone and was now returning with these three heads. However, anyone familiar with him would know that this wasn’t the extent of damage he had caused; these three heads were just the only ones he deemed worthy of bringing back. The only people that caught his eye were well-known legends.

he was the one who had cleansed the Sacred Alliance of decades of humiliation, forcing his way into the Fort of Dawn single-handedly and killing the infamous Brain Eater. He had also resisted the crazed counterattacks of the Daxdians for many days. Although his rusty blade looked like a kitchen knife, the hundreds of Daxdus powerhouses that had died at his hands hadn’t even managed to scrape some rust off it.

True experts would grow fearful the moment they set eyes on this funnily-shaped cleaver. This weapon had its own legend, and anyone who dared to underestimate its power would vanish under its blade. Of all the weapons in Norland said to be able to kill dragons, the Dragon Butcher was one of the few that had showcased this prowess. It was this blade that the founding emperor of the Sacred Alliance had used to cleave off the head of the abyssal dragon Daramore. The holes in the blade were damage from the dragon’s tough bones, the rust a mark of corrosion from its magical blood.

And yet, perhaps this cleaver was more suited to the hands of the fatty walking into the Fort of Dawn right now. This man was the current emperor of the Sacred Alliance, Bloodthirsty Philip. 5;40

### **Crescendo**

This victory wasn’t purely due to our effort. His Majesty ended up sustaining heavy wounds to drive off two of the epic-level Daxdians, while the Millennial Empire and Klandor took out the other two. The enemy retreated because they would have been caught between our two empires if they didn’t.

“Right, people are saying that the barbarian that came through the portal of the Snowstorm Fortress enraged the Millennial Empress, and she’s sent multiple envoys to the Sacred Alliance criticising us for it.” 5;104

### **Warning**

“I heard that Richard has come to Klandor. The kid is very important to the Sacred Alliance, so keep that in mind. I hope you will entertain him this time, but I cannot control just how. I only have two requirements; he needs to come back alive, and his abilities with magic and runecrafting cannot be damaged.

“If that happens, then I will owe you a favour. If that does not… Don’t blame me for what happens next. I’ve never really cared about the big picture, only that the kid is worth multiple fortresses to me.”

The letter had been sent by Emperor Philip. Most of the words had been scribbled, but each stroke was ripe with the power of laws. As a legendary being himself, the elder could quickly surmise that Philip was almost completely healed. 6;54

## Family

Philip was an eccentric Emperor. Many years ago, he had suddenly introduced an extremely complicated point system to evaluate the performances of his children. Every royal child was given a yearly budget that depended on their performance in previous years, but they would be given nothing more.

Anything could earn points, from growing more powerful individually to obtaining more support for the family to performance in planar wars. The higher the points one accumulated, the higher their budget. And a higher budget was also an easier way to accumulate points. Thus, it was quite easy to fall into a spiral that went either up or down; every royal was racking their brains to maximise their advantages.

And this hitherto unknown system came exactly from the Deepblue. The core of it all came from Her Excellency Sharon.

* Princess Apeiron (Sister)
* unknown eldest prince (son)
* Second Price Neil (son)
* Third Price (son)
* Fourth Prince Nyris (son)
* Ryan (youngest prince)
* Princess Reyna (daughter)

## Plot

He killed two of his sons for slighting him. Bloodthirsty Philip was not easy to anger, but once his temper flared blood was bound to be spilt.

* makes Richard a royal runemaster
* threatens the barbarians for Richards life
* takes the fort of dawn the Daxdus in the Land of Dusk

## Equipment

* Dragon Butcher

in that moment, she suddenly wondered: just how would things have been if Philip had taken leading seriously? The man was definitely smart and far-sighted; if he had tried, the Sacred Alliance would be as dazzling as during Emperor Charles’s reign.

However, he had just eaten and whiled life away until he seemed to sense something, prompting him to leave the palace and head to the Land of Dusk. He had shocked Norland with his achievements in that battle, but she knew that it was no big deal in his eyes.

She suddenly felt a wave of uneasiness, a fire in her heart that refused to fade.

## Trivia

* The physically strongest human powerhouse to date.
* Dukes were especially powerful in the Sacred Alliance, acting as a check and balance for the royal family. If they united, they could even force the Emperor off his seat. However, that was impossible. Emperor Philip was currently riding a wave of glory that would last decades if not longer; there was no way for anyone else in the Alliance to replace his position.
* Hasting and Rundstet were the main culprits behind Emperor Philip’s death. If not for their dastardly plan to cause death among the saints of both Norlanders and Daxdians, Emperor Philipp would have gotten support from the mainland to repel the two epic beings that mortally wounded him. Eventually succumbing to a slow death. This was in order to gather as many souls for the drones of a dead matriarch; evolved version of a broodmother. All of which would be under Hasting's full control.

## References

1. ↑ 7;25
2. ↑ Book 6, Chapter 52
3. ↑ Book 9 Chapter 50
4. ↑ Book 7 Chapter 189
5. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 51
6. ↑ Book 6, Chapter 147