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"Emperor Shi Chong, your actions are unforgivable. When you were Crown Prince, you abducted my wife, Queen Li, and not only dishonored me but also your own ancestors by lusting over your own vassal lord’s wife. Though the Late Emperor returned her, the wound never healed. Now, as Emperor, you shall pay for your betrayal.

Surrender your throne and offer your head, or I will raze your city and wipe your dynasty’s name from history. This is your only chance to spar your people and your dynasty. Choose wisely, for my legions stand ready to bring you to ruin.

King Qi, Genesis Federation."

After reading out the letter loud and clear, Alina handed it to an official standing nearby to hand it over to Shi Chong, indicating that she didn’t misread the contents of the letter.

As the scroll was taken to Shi Chong, he crushed it without even reading it, clenching his teeth and fists in anger and frustration, feeling humiliated in front of everyone. Stay updated with NovelBin.Côm

However, before anyone responded to the letter, Alina spoke, "Now, this is a message from the Chancellor of Genesis Federation. Do note that these are the exact words of Chancellor Lu Zhen."

The guests exchanging their glances earlier now returned their attention back to Alina as she spoke, "Shi Chong, you challenged King Qi for a fair battle, and yet, not only did you send an imposter in your place but also sent Xu Sect to ambush my subordinate with such cheap tricks. Adding on top of that, you have forced the neutral guilds and foreign forces, such as the Dragon Empire, to be involved. Hence, now, this is no longer between the Golden Eagle kingdom and the Leon Empire. This is now between Genesis Federation and Leon Empire. You have a final opportunity to amend your mistakes.

Come to Huangying City and fight King Qi in a one-on-one battle. For fairness, none of you would have access to your ether energy. No weapons, no armor, no artifacts. It would be nothing more than a pure brawl between two men.

You win, your life will be spared, and neither Genesis Federation nor Golden Eagle Kingdom will advance further to the north. We would forget the matter. But if you lose, you will attend our public trial, where your punishment will be decided. Meanwhile, we will continue our conquest, leaving the Leon Empire no choice but to either surrender and annex or get destroyed and annexed.

Reject this message of mine, and I wouldn’t hesitate to raze down everything that my 15 robots see. In case you manage to survive, I will make a personal visit to see this to an end. The lives of your people lie in your decision."

Alina then shifted his gaze to Yuan De and continued, "Dragon Empire representatives, I believe I have already given you a warning not to poke your nose in this matter. Since you have dared to cross the line, be prepared for the consequences. You and your soldiers might have arrived at Leon Empire at your behest, but you won’t be able to leave without my will. I give you 60 minutes to escape. After that, you and your troops would be at our mercy."

Alina wasn’t done yet. Her attention fell to the right, where the guild leaders were sitting, "Leaders of Swordsman, Archery, and Mage guilds, you were supposed to be neutral and should never be involved in political affairs. Yet, your greed couldn’t stop you from doing that. Many of your guild personnel tried attacking our forces, and I see 81422 adventurers were gathered in this city, waiting to fight us. However, everyone deserves a second chance.

From the moment my messenger completes her duty, you are also left with 60 minutes. After 60 minutes, if any adventurer belonging to your guilds but doesn’t belong to Leon Empire’s imperial city stays in the city premises, or if any of you still stay there, I would treat it as that you have drawn the clear line of enmity against Genesis Federation and you would be dealt as such. I would make sure that your guilds won’t be able to find any single town or city anywhere in the world as your home. If you think I’m bluffing, you are free to take my words lightly. But, once the time is up, there would be no going back, and neither should you expect any kind of change of heart in me. Whatever choice you make is up to you."

Mark didn’t have any special message for the sects because they are sects either way. They might fight a war on the grounds of righteousness but they still don’t belong to the secular world. Once the war is over and peace is established, they would go back to their mountains.

Alina, who was done delivering all the messages, once again looked back at Shi Chong, "Now, if you excuse me, I will return."

"Wai…"

Shi Chong was about to speak but Alina turned into specks of light, disappearing from their sight.

Demigod Long Jin commented, "She left my domain. I can’t defeat her."

"Even you can’t defeat her?" Shi Chong’s eyes widened to the point that his eyeballs appeared to have come out.

The Blood Moon Sect’s grand elder’s comment even stunned his own successor. "How powerful is she?" He couldn’t help but ask.

With everyone’s eyes on him, he answered with a grim expression, "The moment she entered the domain I cast over the city, I realized that she didn’t have any soul. Once she entered the hall, it became obvious that she was a high-class puppet."

"A puppet?" Shi Chong and others looked surprised.

These bunch of Supreme realm experts have the power to realize that she is not a human, but Alina’s words were so powerful that they didn’t pay attention to such detail.

Long Jin continued, "Earlier, she was able to enter my domain because she lacked soul. However, when I realized her identity, I secretly changed the laws of my domain, restricting puppets, too. And when she teleported and was blocked by my domain’s barrier, she made a hole out of it in a fraction of a second and left. Her strength is atleast equal to mine, and because she is not a human, her attacks won’t have any hesitation for her surroundings or have any distraction, which would favor her. Most importantly, a battle puppet’s physique is always higher than a Spirit warrior’s unless one was cultivating a superior physique."

And when realization dawned upon them, it appeared even more frightening, cuz who could create such a puppet…

Suddenly, they don’t feel like offending Mark anymore.

After intense arguments during the next 30 minutes, Guild Leaders of Archery and Mage walked out, passing the orders to their guilds to leave the city in another 30 minutes.

A significant portion stayed behind but the majority followed the order and left the city through the west or north, which were far away from King Qi’s army or those giant robots. This resulted in the reduction of nearly forty thousand from the city, increasing the tension among the citizens and soldiers.

The Swordsman guild stuck to their decision. Three of the five Sect Leaders also stayed behind, but they secretly passed their orders to their disciples to go and hide for now. They were asked not to be involved in the war. As there were only dozens in number and thousands of adventurers were out there, no one saw much difference. Only Blood Moon Sect and Scarlet Lotus Sect, the two most powerful sects currently in the imperial city, had their elites and elders deployed for the upcoming battle.

As for Shi Chong, he had yet to make the decision as he could only see death in either situation. His confidence plummeted by the demigod’s comment and the departure of two powerful guilds.

Roughly 12 minutes left till the 60-minute time limit is about to be completed.

At the camp, King Qi was all ready to launch an attack. His ten thousand troops finished their break and went into their formations.

King Qi started giving his final speech to them in order to motivate them.

As one of the robots, Ark Omega put down its hand, let King Qi stand on its palm, and slowly raised him so that he would be able to see everyone from higher ground, King Qi raised the sword and pointed at the sky, "Today, we gathered here to finish what we started a year ago. Sure, many of our comrades fell, and many troops were left behind as I naively thought that I could end this war without further bloodshed, but we are here, just one step away from returning home. As I mentioned a year ago, we aren’t fighting this war to gain more lands or something. We are fighting against oppression. We are fighting against evil.

I’m ashamed to say this through my own mouth, but I was the Lord of the second biggest vassal state of the Leon Empire; my ancestors shed blood for this empire, and my very own queen isn’t safe under the rule of the Shi Dynasty. It’s because I’m King Qi, they eventually returned my wife, but what about a commoner? Would he be able to fight against the system?

We are fighting for millions of commoners. Think about your own family, your wives, sisters, and daughters. Do you want to let that arrogant son of a b*tch touch our ladies and think we will let it slide?"

"No…" Everyone shouted in unison; rage built up in their bodies by King Qi’s words, and they wanted to go out there and massacre their enemies.

"Do you want to let the imperial family trample on our pride?

"No…"

"Today, I’m going to destroy the Shi Dynasty from its roots. Who is with me?"

"Me…"

"All Hail Chancellor Lu."

Soldiers: "All Hail Chancellor Lu."

"Oraaa…"

Letting out a battle roar, King Qi jumped onto a Fire drake, his contracted pet, as he flew past the robot’s hand. The fire drake flew toward the city, and the soldiers started running.

Alina, who was standing on top of Ark Beta and had her eyes shut, opened her eyes to look at the city and mumbled, "Time is up."

"Ark Beta, Ark Lamba, activate Spatial Prison."

Two of the fifteen colossal robots raised their hands toward the city, unleashing a joint spell together.

Meanwhile, in the palace, Long Jin, the demigod who was standing on the balcony alongside the Emperor, let out a gasp, "It’s the Spatial imprisonment."

"What did you say, Saint Long?"

Long Jin looked at Shi Chong and answered, "The entire Leon City has been cut off from the rest of the world."

At the same time, an enormous black dome was seen from the outside that covered the city. Nothing could be seen from the outside.