As the inhabitants of Aries go stronger in the ascension system, they go from the first step all the way to the fourth step. The fourth step is equal to the C grade, and only the Sovereign of the world can possess such a power.
The Sovereign of Aries can reach the power of 99C or 1B. A little more power will bring the power of the Sovereign to 100C, which is 100%B or simply 1 B.
With this kind of power, the Sovereign of the world should be unmatched in the whole world. After all, not only is the Sovereign the only one at the fourth step, but she is also reaching the limit of the fourth step.
So, usually, Sovereigns die of old age. But the previous Sovereign, Taka's mother, was killed.
There shouldn't have been anyone who could threaten Taka's mother. But a traitor of the Vulcan race helped invaders enter the world. In return for gaining entry into Aries, they ganged up on Taka's mother and killed her.
The invaders then offered the core of the previous Sovereign to the traitor. The traitor absorbed the core and became the new Sovereign.
The nobles of the tundra race didn't like this. Not only did they hate that their mother had been killed, but they also felt cheated of their power. After all, they should have remained in power for 200 more years.
Besides, even if the traitor were to die and the position of Sovereign returned to the tundra race, if the Vulcan can betray the world and kill the previous tundra Sovereign, they can kill the new tundra Sovereign.
So power will perpetually remain with the Vulcan race. The tundra people didn't want this to happen. Since the nobles were aware of a powerful world that they could call for help, they decided to do the same thing that the traitor did. They decided to play dirty, too.
After getting the information that he needed, Sword Flash ordered the army to begin to set up for the campaign. But he made sure to send the avatar of Lady Evergreen to scout the world so that they would be sure of what they are up to.
While Lady Evergreen went out to acquire information, the Blood Skull army began the long process of conquering the Aries world. Their goal is to repel the enemy, but the best way to do that is to subdue Aries. After all, their main enemy is the Sovereign of the world.
Right now, in the eyes of the world spirit, the Sovereign is a wayward child that is letting outsiders steal the resources of the world, while the Blood Skull army is a complete and total enemy of the whole world.
The will of the world is the will of the world spirit, and the will of the world spirit is heavily influenced by the Sovereign of the world. If the Sovereign hates them, then the world spirit will hate them too. So even though they've come to save this world, they will be viewed as the enemy of the world.
This situation makes the leadership assessment more difficult because not only do they have to repel the invaders, but they also have to defeat the Sovereign and subdue the world spirit.
In order to achieve this, they must conquer the world. And in order to conquer the world, they must plant a mana Seed, help it grow, and protect the mana seed as it grows.
The leadership will be deemed successful as long as the mana seed grows and subdues the world spirit of Aries. This will be very difficult to achieve because the world will resist them, not just the first invaders.
This difficulty was why Sword Flash groaned when he received the details of the leadership assessment. But he didn't complain then, and he surely can't complain now.
The only good news is that there are few enemies near the 99 C power limit of the world that can threaten them. This means that they still have a chance of passing the leadership assessment even if all three potential threats gang up on the avatars of the three patriarchs.
After reviewing the situation, Sword Flash gave the order for a rank 5 mana seed to be planted in the north pole. Once the mana seed was activated, mana began to gush out of it, and the will of the Ethera tree descended.
The will of the Ethera tree was as powerful as ever before. It pressed down on everything and froze everything, including the wind and birds in the sky. Then pressure eased off, but it didn't disappear.
Because the will of the Ethera tree was still present, the golden ball remained a golden eye in the sky. The pressure coming from the golden eye eased off enough for the world to begin moving again, but this only meant that the war to subdue Aries had already begun.
Sword Flash knew that the will of the Ethera was clashing with the will of the world spirit of Aries. This was confirmed when the world roared as a colossal storm began rampaging towards the North Pole.
The world spirit of Aries didn't like them before because of how they barged into this world without its permission and because the Sovereign didn't like them. But they hadn't offended the world spirit enough for it to be proactive in trying to repel them.
The world spirit was mostly curious about them. After all, they were new things that it had never seen before. It wanted to know more about them.
So, at best, the world spirit would have only helped the Sovereign when he came to attack them. It wouldn't have taken the initiative to attack them.
But now that the influence and power of another world spirit had appeared in Aries, the world spirit had come to hate them down to its core. Clearly, the situation has reached the point of do or die.