The weight of history hung heavy in the air.
Anastasia stood above them all, the dazzling crown of her empire resting atop her golden hair.
She had been declared the Queen.
But now, the world itself had to prove its loyalty.
This was more than a formality.
The greatest powers on Earth would kneel before her in offering.
These were not ordinary gifts.
They were tributes.
Each gift represented a pledge of loyalty, a declaration that these rulers and their bloodlines recognized Anastasia Raventhorn Vasiliev as a force above them all.
And in doing so, they would lay before her the most priceless, forbidden, and unimaginable treasures in existence.