Max was making his way over to the capital of the level one Ruth empire called Ruthilia. It was called on the name of the founder of this empire that was a strong women mage called Ruthilia. The strange thing was that the ruler of the empire right now was a women as well. It was very unusual for this day and age to have a women as a leader because the society was with the mindset of the middle ages. The ruler of the empire was called Margaret and she was also a strong mage. She had double element affinity with lightning and the fire elements. It was a very rare case. She was a first level mage and her real power level was higher because of the deadly combined attacks she could launch at her enemies. It was impressive for the locals but was nothing much to Max. She could not really harm him now. He had very strong magic defense. The only thing he lacked was the physical strength. He knew about her because Graham, the mage commander of the Ruth empire made Max lose his mind during the two years he was tried to get to the high mage level. Graham came over because of different things and asked to buy more and more potions. While Max was selling the potions Graham was very happy, but when Max started to say that it is problematic to make different kinds of potions that were asked by Graham the different forces from the higher level countries came over to cause trouble. When Graham got the point that those stuff don't work the empress herself contacted Max and they decided on the amount of trade until the meeting of all countries.
Even after the agreement different forces continued to come and cause trouble over to Max's territory. Max wanted to talk about it when the meeting of the country rulers would happen. He was now sure that he could protect his country. He wanted to come back to his country after the meeting, master the supernova skill and then declare independence. He was not sure what will happen after but he was very optimistic about his chances fend off all forces that will come at him after the declaration of independence.
He wanted to get over with all this shit and just live a calm and happy life. Max wanted to chill and enjoy life. Now he knew what would come. A lot of retarted nobles from different countries that will try to show off their small pipi's to others and see who's shlong is bigger. Max already saw so much of this at Alexandria's country that he was not sure he could keep his cool. He got a lot more complex as a person. To live more than 700 years in seclusion was not something trivial.
A lot of countries that Max passed raised an alarm because different locations were destroyed. When the representatives of the different countries came to the places where Max battled his different "enemies" that cause his crash during his flight they did not understand what was going on. Each location looked like a war zone. Flattened mountains, burning forests, destroyed hills. The worst one was the river that went toward the direction of the capital of a level three country named Alaska. It was a total disaster. The country needed to use all of its mages to normalize the situation after around a week. The capital was devastated. It was worse that a war fought against this country. The water did not spare a friend or enemy. People died like bugs. The causalities were in the tens of thousands. It was insane. Also this river got dry at the other countries that lived from it and people just died from thirst. A few more tens of thousands died because of that. It did not affect Max's country at all. Max did not know that it had happened. That he indirectly killed tens of thousands of people in a few countries. Max continued his path. He did not progress much at learning the spell of flight. He crashed time and time again and made a battlefield every few tens of miles. At night Max just lay on the ground on a bed he made by earth and fire magic that was soft and warm. He liked to just look at the stars. He wanted to calm down and just be one with the universe. To look at stars falling. He even made a wish a couple of times until he got tired of it. He knew that making a wish was good, but he needed to make the wish come to life with his own actions.
That way Max flew a few days that way. He knew where to go with the talisman received from Graham. It showed him the way to the main talisman of the empire. He did not know about the mechanics of this talisman, but when there were serious conversations between him and his subordinates Max always kept this talisman away to not get spied on.
Max knew he needed to learn talisman creation and formation creation from the system. He already knew that the system can open those topics for teaching and Max knew it was a must to know how it worked at least in general. After he would decide how important it is actually and how much time he and his subordinates will have to work on the studies of each subject.
After a couple more days of traveling the empire Max finally saw the gates of Ruthilia. Max was pretty impressed by the sight. They were huge. The city looked absolutely massive from the distance. It was like Alexandria, but like times ten in terms of area and population. Max got down to the ground away from the gates, where no one could see him. He did not want people to know of his strength. After that he just continued walking the road towards the big city walls to see what waited ahead for him. Max could not say he was excited in any way. He knew he was going to take a lot of shit in the next few days for sure. He would be happy when he gets his independence and freedom.