64. The Fallen Imperial Household (2)

The awakening of all people had an extremely highly effective influence on the state of issues.  Folks with all types of strengths started converging within the empire. 

However the individuals who had been most disconcerted had been the folks within the southern and western areas. As a way to survive, they’d positioned their belief within the historical gods and the exterior gods. 

However now they had been excluded from the profit given to everybody, limiting their potential. 

As an alternative, individuals who had stayed to combat with their very own energy when the tip approached had been now having fun with the candy fruits of their labor. 

But when it had been solely this, people would by no means have been in a position to stand up to the apocalypse. 

“Your Majesty…”

The chamberlain appeared on the emperor’s corpse, his expression full of sorrow. Not lengthy after all of the dragonfolk had been killed, the pillar of sunshine started thinning, and the emperor’s physique was slowly lowered to the bottom. It was as if the emperor’s shining physique, feeling that the people’ awakening was completed and his activity was executed, had turned again into an odd human physique. 

“Lay down His Majesty.”

As Leopold commanded, the royal guards rigorously positioned the emperor’s physique in a coffin, whereas everybody else appeared on with a somber expression. 

The emperor who had protected the God’s Orb until the tip. Due to this, all of the disdain he had acquired prior to now was was respect for the hope he had given to people. 

“Everybody pay your respects. He’s the empire’s hero.”

All of the commissioned officers, together with the southern commander, concurrently saluted the emperor, at Leopold’s order. On the similar time, the central officers bowed in silence, whereas all the opposite people round paid their respects. Till the coffin containing the emperor’s physique reached the central sq., nobody raised their head. 

It was the very best respect that may very well be paid to those that had died in an effort to defend the empire. 

Though he had been endlessly disappointing when he was a crown prince, as an emperor, the bravery he had proven to guard the empire’s honor and the hope he had given to the folks was no totally different from that of a hero. That was why all of the folks remaining within the capital moved as one to the sq. to pay tribute to the noble sacrifice he had made. 

Seeing this, the nobles too couldn’t keep away from paying their respects as effectively. 

“Cough!”

“Ahem hmm…”

After all, there would at all times be one or two individuals who couldn’t learn the room. However due to the pointed glares that got here at them from all instructions, they lowered their heads and paid respect. 

Even those that had opposed the emperor whereas he was alive, or had discovered him unsatisfactory,  weren’t exempted from paying tribute. Prior to now, they’d had no respect for the emperor, however proper now, they needed to act as in the event that they did. 

As they had been mourning the passing of the emperor, the variety of monsters who had closed in on them, in a number of waves of assaults, started dwindling. When information of the apocalypse had first come, these monsters had virtually fully pushed again the human armies. However with the sudden awakening of the people, their energy was restricted and the tables turned on them. 

Their powers being restricted was the identical as them changing into weakened: in such a state of affairs, in fact the people grew to become stronger and those who had the higher hand within the warfare grew to become the people as effectively.

“His Majesty handed away identical to that?”

Whereas listening to his subordinate’s report, Crimson held a bitter expression. He needed to concede that the as soon as incompetent crown prince not solely didn’t plunge the empire into destruction, however had even change into a hero who exerted all his effort to hold out his accountability. 

Due to his sacrifice, all of the wrongs he had executed as a crown prince had not been overwritten, and he would ceaselessly be judged as somebody who had protected the continent.

That was how massive the emperor’s sacrifice was. 

‘He’s given hope to all of humankind.’

There would undoubtedly be students who would make this judgment of the emperor. 

When he had seen the frost giants return to the area past the mountain ranges, the northeast commander had discovered it odd. However then, by way of the system’s announcement, he got here to know what had occurred within the capital and realized that people had been in a position to escape the disaster they had been in due to the emperor’s demise. 

Due to that, instantly the combat ended, each the northeast and northern armies raised a black flag and saluted within the route of the capital till midday, in an effort to pay respect to the emperor. 

If even they, who had no love misplaced with the Heart and the Imperial Household, did this, then there was no want to talk of the opposite areas. All areas of the empire had been mourning the emperor’s demise. 

“Let’s go. Ought to we go see His Majesty for the final time?”

“Sure, we should always.”

Listening to Crimson, Jayden Wicks nodded his head closely. 

As the 2 commanders headed to the warp gate to go to the capital, the western commander was additionally strolling in the direction of the warp gate. 

Due to the emperor’s sacrifice, all areas of the empire, together with the west, had been revitalized. In a state of affairs the place they couldn’t even see the best way ahead, they had been instantly in a position to win.

The awakening of all people had been nice, however the troopers with the ability to change into stronger by killing the birdmen was an added bonus. 

Initially, when one woke up there could be an preliminary weak section. With this, they’d have been worn out by the birdmen. However due to the emperor’s sacrifice, it was declared that the facility of exterior gods was weakened, which dragged out the battle. This gave people time to get accustomed to their woke up powers. 

“I’m heading to the capital now. Ship me a report instantly if one thing comes up.”

“Sure, sir!”

Whereas the western commander received on the warp gate to move to the capital, the capital was already swarming with folks. All of the those that had been evacuated to the central command on the emperor’s orders, the nobles and retailers who had run away, and the help troops who had arrived too late had been gathered on the capital. 

“You’re right here?”

Crimson greeted the western commander when he arrived. 

“Did you simply arrive, Commander?”

“…Sure. The battle simply ended, so……”

As Crimson spoke, the western commander nodded his head barely as if he meant to say the identical.

Your entire empire had been entangled in warfare. As if it had been predesigned, all of the commanders had been pressured to depart the capital in 4 instructions. Though Crimson was not near being a grandmaster just like the heads of the Lion Sword or Godly Sword households, he had expertise that he had gathered over the lengthy years he had lived, and will inform that the battle had gotten out of hand, and had been past their capability. However ultimately, the emperor’s demise had propelled them to victory, as if fated. 

The emperor’s demise too was not one thing they may have managed. 

“Hoo… Let’s head there first.”

Upon listening to Crimson’s phrases, the northern and western commanders nodded and commenced strolling in the direction of the palace with heavy hearts. 

The emperor’s coffin had been moved once more to the palace after the physique had been embalmed with preservation magic. The identical place the place he had fought until his final breath. 

It had been agreed that his funeral could be held there, which was why the three commanders had been heading there. 

“It hasn’t even been that lengthy because it was renovated…. Tsk.”

Crimson appeared on the destroyed palace and clicked his tongue. The bloodstains that had been splashed all around the palace due to the dragon had nonetheless not been erased. The three commanders might inform simply how intense the combat had been from all of the bloodstains and particles. 

“They actually did combat until their demise.”

The our bodies of the guards and knights who had fought the dragon had been nonetheless in entrance of the palace the place the God’s Orb had been. 

“……it appears so.”

Jayden Wicks replied in a small voice to Crimson’s remark. 

They paid a silent tribute to the guards that had fought to guard the God’s Orb earlier than coming into the place the emperor’s physique was positioned. 

The palace, with one aspect collapsed, was the place the God’s Orb had been, and now the emperor’s physique was laid in state. Round his coffin stood all of the empire’s ministers and the commanders. 

“You’ve come?”

The central commander, Leopold, greeted the three commanders who had simply entered, with Crimson on the entrance. 

After Crimson mentioned a brief phrase of greeting to the ministers, he moved in the direction of the emperor’s coffin. The coffin was opened midway, and he might see the emperor mendacity with a serene expression inside. Crimson sighed deeply as he appeared on the emperor. 

He had seen the emperor proper earlier than he was topped; he’d lower a very good trying determine. Crimson had discovered his sudden change unusual, however he had solely thought that the emperor had change into extra mature. 

‘However that change was as a result of he knew his demise was already set in stone…’

The emperor was the right instance of the saying that when folks modified, they had been about to die. 

Because the commanders stood trying on the emperor’s coffin in silence, they felt the stream of a  acquainted mana, and turned their heads unconsciously. 

“Oh, you’ve come?”

“Very long time no see, Commanders.”

The jap commander’s face held a bitter smile as he greeted them. Instantly after, he walked to the coffin to pay his respects. 

“……I used to be too late.”

“He knew that you just had no different alternative. We additionally couldn’t come……”

Crimson comforted the jap commander, stopping him from reproaching himself. However the faces of the southern and central commanders additionally grew to become darker. 

If solely they’d arrived a bit sooner, the emperor might not have needed to die. 

“Hoo…… We must always start now.”

One of many ministers spoke to the minister of inside affairs, who then turned to the chamberlain earlier than shaking his head. 

“There’s one one who hasn’t arrived but.”

As soon as the inner affairs minister spoke, everybody else appeared in the direction of the chamberlain. Simply because the chamberlain started talking, a voice interrupted. 

“Hmm? You……”

Crimson stared at the one that had simply entered the room, a glance of shock on his face. 

“It’s been some time, Commander.”

“Huh…… you, are you okay now?”

Crimson replied to the person’s greeting, his face full of fear. 

With the arrival of Iron who had been severely injured whereas preventing within the southeast, everybody’s eyes widened. 

“Not but… I haven’t recovered fully but.”

Iron replied, then turned to greet the opposite commanders earlier than strolling as much as the coffin. 

Trying on the tranquil-looking emperor inside, Iron sighed. Regardless of foreseeing his personal demise, he had not thought to flee. Pondering of this made Iron really feel sophisticated. The one that had triggered him no small struggling in his previous life had now given people an enormous profit, earlier than upping and leaving. Iron was having a tough time wrapping his head round it totally. 

“Now that everybody is right here, I’ll start.”

The inner affairs minister introduced everybody’s consideration again. They had been now going to learn the final will and testomony that the emperor had left earlier than he died. 

Often, this was one thing that was learn to the deceased’s members of the family. However this case was totally different. 

Had the emperor identified that each one the imperial members of the family would hightail it away from the capital? Proper earlier than the dragonfolk military arrived, the emperor had requested the chamberlain to verify his household was excluded when his will was learn. To verify of it, he had even left a video as proof. 

Pondering of this meticulous means of doing issues that he didn’t have when he was a crown prince, everybody within the room was impressed, however they remained calm as they appeared on the inside affairs minister. The minister rigorously eliminated the paper the desire was written on from its case. 

“Uhm……”

Listening to the minister’s muttering, the remaining tilted their heads in confusion. The emperor had no kids but, so there was a really excessive risk that he gave the throne to certainly one of his royal brothers. Additionally they knew that the inner affairs minister didn’t belong to any of the factions in courtroom, so he wouldn’t react irrespective of who the successor was. 

That was why they had been puzzled at his pause. 

“What… what’s written in it so that you can be like this?”

One of many different ministers queried the inner affairs minister, who then opened his mouth to proceed. 

“……I’ll now recite His Majesty’s final will and testomony.”

He cleared his throat once more and commenced studying. 

“I had the flexibility of foresight.”

The need began with disclosure of the emperor’s energy, and continued with issues that Iron already knew: the day of destruction and the empire’s fall that he had seen in his dream, in addition to issues in regards to the disaster people had been dealing with. 

“What I noticed change into of people in that imaginative and prescient was ghastly. To forestall that, I had to choose. Certainly one of which was my very own demise…… One other was the heavy accountability that the Lord God had given the Imperial Household ending with me.”

Everybody fell into deep silence because the minister of inside affairs learn on. It was as a result of they understood what the emperor’s final phrases meant. 

“Inform the folks of the empire that I’ve completed that activity. This time of destruction should not result in a return to the norms of the previous, however should change into the beginning of a brand new world. You could set hearth to the injustices of the previous now that the duty of the Imperial household has been accomplished, and begin a brand new period.”

The chamberlain, already conscious of what the emperor’s final command was, didn’t utter a single phrase. The inner affairs minister, alternatively, appeared on the ministers and commanders as if saying that his enterprise was completed. 

However none of them spoke. 

‘The top of the empire.’

They had been all disconcerted at the truth that the emperor’s final phrases had introduced into being one thing they may have by no means imagined.