Manu Enclave!
It was the first Enclave of Sumatra, and also its biggest, having been growing at a slow, but steady pace for millions of years. More than a hundred Free Human Kingdoms existed in this place, constantly at war with each other, having a history of enmity spanning tens of thousands of years.
Resources were plenty at the place, especially minerals to build Human Avatars. There even existed Gold Grade minerals, which were the cause of the wars.
Manu Enclave was a region with more than a thousand active volcanoes, with each eruption spewing out large volumes of rare, Silver Grade minerals and sometimes even Gold Grade minerals. Every time an eruption spewed out a Gold Grade mineral, all neighbouring Kingdoms declared war on the Kingdom occupying the region.
Another reason for wars to erupt was the lakes present in Manu Enclave. These lakes were filled with an abundance of Iron Grade Pranic Beasts that had medicinal properties. Some of them even had Primary Natures capable of healing others.
And that wasn't all. There were a rare few Pranic Beasts similar to the Yoked Wyrms of the Varahan Enclave. But these Pranic Beasts refined and stored Elixirs in their organs, making them extremely valuable.
Every lake in Manu Enclave had these Pranic Beasts, so ownership of them meant an ever-growing force for the respective Free Human Kingdom.
The third cause of war was the islands present in the countless tributaries and rivers running across the Manu Enclave. The majority of these islands spanned less than a square kilometre in area. However, they resulted in the most brutal aquatic wars of them all.
These islands were Parute Tree Farms. For some reason, Parute Trees only appeared on these islands in the Manu Enclave, which kept them safe, as even the slightest damage caused a Parute Tree to wither and die.
But this also meant that every single Free Human Kingdom in the vicinity would try to exert claim on these islands.
Due to these three reasons, Manu Enclave was in a perpetual state of war, which also caused the Free Humans to become innovative in the art of murder. But similar to the Brimgan Empire, the Free Humans had a collective sense of pride, ensuring Manu Enclave was always in the control of the Free Humans.
The narrow path connecting the Manu Enclave to the Sumatra Continent was only ten kilometres wide and also the most fortified region on the continent.
Irrespective of whether they were at war or not, all Free Humans dispatched a tenth of their soldiers to the fort built right beyond the path, leading into the Sumatra Continent.
And the battles here were bloodier than the wars happening frequently in the Manu Enclave. After all, no matter how gruesome a war became, the number of deaths among the Gold Grade cultivators was minimal.
However, at the mouth of the Manu Enclave, even Gold Grade cultivators died in large numbers. It was because the region of Sumatra Continent in contact with the Manu Enclave was extremely rich in resources.
It was a blessed land similar to the Brimgan Empire and one under the control of Pranic Beasts. There were more than forty Gold Grade Pranic Beast races, with close to a dozen having a Mutated Gold Grade Pranic Beast.
It was also the region with the highest concentration of Advance Gold Grade Pranic Beasts, making them an extremely treacherous force to contend against. The Free Humans of the Manu Enclave faced the onslaught from such existences, having been protecting their home for millions of years.
The Free Human Kingdoms of the Manu Enclave managed to survive no matter how dangerous things got for them because of the Transcendents helping them. Many Iron and Silver Grade Transcendents had originated from the Manu Enclave, keeping watch over the region from the Transcendent Worlds.
Currently, the very same Transcendents screamed nonstop.
[Once! Just once! Sumatra!]
[Give way once! We're only taking measures against external interference!]
Voices from the Transcendents had been constantly bombarding the barrier erected by Sumatra Continent, pleading nonstop for months now. Eventually, thanks to their sincerity and a lack of schemes, the barrier covering Sumatra Continent let up for an instant, allowing only one Transcendent to communicate with the Manu Enclave.
"Your Majesty!" A 10-Life Stage Free Human with Silver Grade strength burst into the throne room of a Kingdom and shouted, "I received a distress command from our Transcendent!"
"Is that true?" The King got up with a start, his expression solemn as he accessed an Information Slip given by the 10-Life Stage Free Human. He didn't spend more than a breath's time before announcing his command, "Hear me, everyone!"
"Order a mass evacuation of the citizens! Pack everything of value and gather outside the Kingdom. We have two days to vacate from this place!"
"Yes, Your Highness!" None of the ministers argued against the order, having enough confidence in their King to know that such a decision wouldn't be taken unless their Kingdom's fate itself was at stake.
"Hear me!" The King snapped his finger and threw an Information Slip each to four messengers, "Send it to the neighbouring Kingdoms immediately."
A moment later, he added, "Stake your life on it. Run with all your might to deliver the message!"
"Yes, Your Highness!" The messengers nodded and burst with Prana, activating their Human Avatar to travel in a hurry. Their Spirit Weapons transformed into a sprint and coiled around their legs, forming a shape similar to a snake tail.
It coiled and elongated, generating enough force to carry them forward for more than two hundred metres. Using the force of their descent, they coiled the spring and jumped forth to cover another equally long distance.
Their figures disappeared in a matter of minutes. As they had Silver Grade strength, they were pretty fast, spreading out in the direction of the respective Kingdom.
"Now, let's leave!" The King ordered everyone as he entered the Royal Treasury and coated it with the mineral forming his Human Avatar, turning it into a Spirit Weapon. The Royal Treasury was a massive nest, containing a group of Pranic Beasts whose bodies had been fused with Minor Treasures.
These Pranic Beasts were kept in a drugged state, living like a vegetable. That was how every Free Human Kingdom stored their Minor Treasures. There were plenty of other treasures in the Treasury other than the Minor Treasure-bearing Pranic Beasts.
Carrying everything of absolute value, the King was the first to vacant the Kingdom, gathering at the entrance as he observed the rest of the citizens file out soon after. "A Disaster is approaching us. Until it passes away, we'll flee to a safer region."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Even though the citizens were confused, unable to understand what exactly was happening, they all trusted their King. After all, if a King wasn't respected in the Manu Enclave, the people would defect to another Kingdom.
Kingdoms were constantly destroyed and rebuilt. An average Silver Grade cultivator lived as a citizen in at least three Kingdoms during his lifetime. Therefore, if the conditions in a Kingdom weren't favourable, the people would flee to a neighbouring Kingdom, which would only serve to strengthen the latter.
Therefore, the Kings of each Kingdom were no different from heroes, garnering the utmost respect. This was the reason his orders were followed with such minimal resistance.
Similarly, the Information Slips he had sent out through the messengers were locked with a Skill. And the key to unlocking this was information exclusive only to the Kings. Every King of the Manu Enclave had combined their power to create the means and constantly kept renewing it to ensure information about it wouldn't leak, and even if it did, it wouldn't matter, since they had changed the encryption method.
They had to create this to guard against the infiltration tactics of the Gold Grade Pranic Beast races that tried everything in their power to enter the Manu Enclave and gain possession of it.
Every King, when they had to convey something of absolute value, would use such an Information Slip. As a result, the four Kingdoms in the region that received the Information Slip began to vacate in a matter of hours.
Two days later, all the five Kingdoms were en route to a safer region, setting up camp on a battlefield that wasn't being used for a war now. They had travelled at their utmost mobility, covering more than a thousand kilometres in such a short duration, which was only possible because a majority of the Free Humans in the Manu Enclave had Human Avatars that were agility-based.
Upon setting up camp, the five Kings huddled in a tent, their discussions hushed.
[Did the Transcendents finally contact us?]
[Did you ask their reason for remaining silent until now?]
[What exactly is this disaster that you had to use the Royal Channel?]
[Every other Kingdom has also been alarmed by our mass migration.]
Hearing the questions from the four Kings, the King contacted by a Transcendent took in a deep breath before nodded, conveying a shocking statement.
[The strongest Mystic Grade Pranic Beast will be waging a war against the Mammoth Clan. Our home region will become their battlefield. So, I was commanded to bring everyone as far away as possible. I've never heard our Transcendent sound so…desperate.]
"It's just…" The King muttered after a while of silence, "This existence seemed like it struck fear in the minds of even the Transcendents."
Around the same time, at the border of the Manu Enclave, a massive ship sauntered in from the Sandy-Grey Void, anchoring itself on the edge, beaten, and battered.
"Urgh!" An exhausted Maroppa jumped out of the ship and rolled on the ground, "Finally, some sweet land!"