It wasn’t like the world had been waiting for the great golden change. Half the people didn’t know what was going on and those who did know weren’t sure if this sudden occurrence was something good or bad. Change wasn’t something humans were particurly good at…

  The fact that the bridge was so obvious, because it was directly linked to the golden shield, the people that lived at golden haven were cheering in the distance, but it was somewhat quiet close by the emperors.

  “I don’t agree to this!” Nate spat out.

  “It just so happens that only emperors of haven’s are needed to agree to this boy!” The blue haven emperor stated.

  “Stop calling me a boy!” Nate continued his angry ranting.

  “Then stop acting like one!” The Blue Haven Emperor said back!

  Matilda quickly got in front of the blue haven emperor, before Nate was going to get physical, and said, “It is done, Nate, but you are still in the race! While Matthew and I get this haven going, you still need to prove yourself to the rest of the emperors!”

  “I was doing that! This…This is ridiculous!” He once again spat out!

  Matilda put her hands up, to show her concern to his outrage, and said, “Do you think the way you’re acting right now will help you or not!?”

  Matthew got in front of Matilda but then others got in front of Matthew, who wanted to protect the new golden emperor. “The next golden emperor will be one of the names that was voted on, you have my word!” Matthew started but was interrupted.

  “Your word!? What is that worth!?” Nate angrily asked.

  Matthew continued, probably interrupting Nate, “I will happily state this in an official decree, if you just give me some time! Now please, stop showing this side of yourself…You are just making it harder to be the next golden emperor…”

  Nate no longer talked but gred at Matthew. His anger was clearly still there in his eyes and in his fists that were tightly clenched.

  After he finally calmed down, even having shocked himself to how angry he got, Nate finally said, without the angry outburst, “I will not leave until I see you write this decree.”

  Matthew nodded in respect, “You are indeed welcome to stay.”

  Then, for the first time, Matthew took a step out of that, to be on his own and in front of everyone…It was his first greeting!

  “I acknowledge that I am only temporary. As soon as I have the tools to write this decree…”

  In that moment, Matilda passed him some pretty parchment, then Katherine came with some ink set. Matilda sort of wished she could do it in pretty golden writing but…Matthew had to do this himself…Hell perhaps he…

  Matthew was quicker than her and had already started putting his own blood in a bowl.

  Frowning slightly to how quick he was, almost like he was a natural at it, Matilda found that his inner thoughts were still quite upset. He was already ready to give this seat up to the next and hoped this ‘temporary position’ wouldn’t take too long!

  Writing the decree took a while. The first thing to state though…Was the fact that a new ‘way’ has started, meaning the times of the pnet had to change. No longer will it be known as N:35, it was now N:36! It was a fresh new start!

  The waiting wasn’t really fun for anyone though, but it had to be done, and they all knew it! This decree was under the conditions of a few things, one being that golden haven had to be rebuilt again. Not only was that pretty much a Matilda job, but another Matilda job was teaching a few people the bending space meditation, so that the golden emperor had his own cultivators to help him look after the rest of the havens. They all wanted to pick out their own people for that, even the blue haven emperor…But Matilda had a few ideas on who she could teach already! So, those two jobs could really take a long time, but Matthew stated that progress will be made nearly every day and letters will be sent back to the other emperors on what has been done on a ten-day rotation.

  All the jobs that are needed for an emperor to take residence in golden haven needed to be done too, like that of people to help with undry and having eunuchs sent over. Secretly, Matilda wished that golden haven might even start the trend that no balls get cut off anymore…Surely, they could at least attempt to change a few things…Right?

  It was just another thing to bring up with Matthew, it needs to be talked about, especially in the regard of what could happen if something like that was suddenly changed and for the first time.

  All these different types of jobs needed to be filled, and the appliances need to be made as well…Like a kitchen or even a whole library! Hell, a pce where the emperors could talk needed to be made!

  After realizing this, most of the golden heirs really did stop pouting and accepted Matthew stepping in for now…It was simply because the golden heirs would have to put up being such a ‘low graded’ emperor who didn’t even have someone to make them food!

  They had forgotten that an emperor needed all these things in his own pace, yet golden haven as the haven itself hardly had them!

  Once again, Matilda was probably going to do a lot of that, whether it was to make the objects from nothing, with her spiritual essence, or to get them from elsewhere…That was something that needed to be looked into!

  Golden Haven also needed something to trade! They could easily become rich, through Matilda making something out of nothing, but what else could they offer? This was also written down, as ‘finding a unique trade’ for golden haven seemed like something anyone would want, as an emperor…How would they continue to afford it when Matilda leaves? Not only that but at the moment Blue Haven had more hype for tourists, and Purple Haven was probably next in line! Golden Haven was supposed to be the haven of havens! Perhaps it needs all of those little extra’s!

  Sighing to her job list getting bigger and bigger, Matilda mentally wrote down to add in ‘take away stores’ and a ‘recreational pool’ in golden haven in the future.

  Matilda wanted to look into the histories of the haven, to see how they used to trade back then. How had they stayed afloat? How had they always been the golden haven that was in charge of the other havens? It can’t be only because the golden emperor was more powerful…Can it?

  Matilda was pretty damned sure that there was something about golden haven that made it awesomer. Nonetheless, another matter that was written down was that the golden heirs will continue to gain all the emperors’ favor and once the emperors have finally all accepted one of them, then the next emperor may take the seat.

  There was a time limit but at the same time there wasn’t. If the ‘chores’ were all done but no one would be picked, then Matthew wanted to abdicate the throne but that didn’t go down very well…

  A whole lot of talk happened at this stage of the document…People were shaking their heads and pointing, and some were even angry.

  The problem was, if they all hadn’t agreed upon another heir to take the throne, was Matthew stuck forever as the golden emperor?

  It simply had to be stated! Matthew was not going to put down nothing, he was determined and actually was getting a little annoying to others with his, ‘I will not stay here beyond these written duties!’.

  Matilda wanted to smack him over the head, because well, he could think those words, but he didn’t have to state them out loud like this! Honestly though, it wasn’t like he could help it, it seemed like a time for the ‘kids’ to come out and py as they were all acting the same way!

  “Oi! Shut it! That’s enough squabbling!” Matilda yelled out, knowing it was really quite rude to have this type of attitude to emperors but…Wasn’t she an empress now!?

  She got some looks and before they could state more, she continued, “We are just a band aid…No, wait…That’s not what I meant…”

  They don’t have band aids here!

  Matthew sighed and continued, “As we arranged earlier, upon deciding on my becoming the golden emperor…I am temporary. You all see that we have guidelines here, so that you all know that I can’t take advantage of this pce but…You must understand that I am pcing my own term here too, so that my temporary term is going to stay temporary!”

  “It doesn’t mean we should put his son up as next in line!” An emperor stated, again…

  They were talking about Kin. They were used to the monarchy type of government and well, that’s what they did wasn’t it?

  Matilda could understand where Matthew was coming from but at the same time change isn’t something that happens overnight. Was there something they could do to make Matthew and the other emperors happy at the same time?

  Stepping forward, to be more in the circle, Matilda put her hands up and a few already stopped talking, just because it was obvious that she had something to say. “…We are not children, we need to talk calmly about this so perhaps we could…Come up with ideas to make both sides happy…Mmm?”

  Being called a child wouldn’t make any adult feel good and most of them narrowed their eyes at her but it did shut them all up this time.

  Putting her hands down and stepping back to sit down not far away, she looked at them and waited.

  Most of them understood and sighed, as they also sat too, around the already sitting Matthew, who still needed to finish the decree…

  “We’ve had a big day already, we may have decided something on a whim, but we need to accept basic fact right now. Those facts are, all emperors agreed for Matthew to become the golden emperor and that it is temporary. Let us…Debate upon that word and see if we can come up with something to make everyone happy…Yes?”

  It wasn’t the easiest lot of words to understand but it did calm them down a bit. Some went into thought, while others thought they were wasting their time.

  It really wasn’t long that they were thinking about matters in a better light when the ex-green haven emperor came out and looked like he was trying to run to get to them but obviously he just couldn’t run. It was pretty obvious that when he had spiritual essence, he had used a lot of it to take away some of the kinks in his body…Now that his dantian was blocked, he was slower and looking frailer.

  What happened to you, old man? Why did you change so much?

  Matilda had not heard his thoughts but saw him out of the corner of her eyes and turned to wait for him to obviously angrily fast walk towards the rest of them.

  “What is the meaning of this! This King waits for you to come to me, to get this King’s approval because that is why this king is here, but you didn’t obtain it, and the golden shield is up! What is the meaning of this!?”

  Did he feel like repeating himself would get us on our knees for him?

  Matilda was still thinking about the man he used to be, to the one he was now. How was it that he changed so much? Did he obtain so much that he became greedy and that went over his own personal line?

  Matthew had told her of the old him, how proud of him he was and…He was almost like an entirely different person…

  “What is he doing here!?” A pointed finger from an old man was directed at Felix.

  “This boy was sworn in to become the green haven emperor not long ago, it is ‘His Majesty’ to you!” The blue haven emperor stated openly.

  Nearly gaping at the blue haven emperor, Matilda sighed and wondered if ‘adult time’ was gone now, and we were back to being ‘kids’ again!

  Felix went to bow but stopped himself and looked at his father, not saying a word. Standing up and walking to be in front of his father, Felix said, “It is said that you wanted people to buy your approval and so I had gained approval from all other emperors to become the next green haven emperor. If you do not accept this truth, you will not be able to return back to green haven to live out the remainder of your years.”

  The blue haven emperor nodded, then looked at the angry old man, “It would help the boy for you to write a decree in your own blood that you abdicated the throne, but considering that he has us behind him, he doesn’t need it!”

  The ex-green haven emperor, now known as…What…Stammered. He said a few single words but did not make a whole sentence.

  The old man just lost it and fell down, looking only weak and frail now…No one had helped him when he was falling and even after he fell it took a moment…There was a complete ck of concern for this once great man and that hit a nerve with Matilda.

  …Could she have been the one that helped make him become like this?