Early in the morning around 4, Leon Empie’s imperial palace;

Emperor Shi was peacefully sleeping after a long time, knowing powerful allies were residing in the palace to protect him. For the first time in four months, he didn’t have any worries about assassination or something.

He isn’t even worried about the temporary alliance’s plan to assassinate King Qi, and neither does he have his guard up in front of his own soldiers, who plan to guard him all over the night as usual. He just wanted to have a night of quality sleep. That is indeed more precious for any Emperor than anything when their Empire is not stable.

However, his peaceful sleep was disturbed by the sudden bang of the door, which burst open and alerted the soldiers guarding by, pointing their weapons at the intruder. It turned out to be Shi En, yet, loyal as they are, they haven’t put down their weapons in wariness.

“Uncle…” “Uncle..”

Shi En had to shout as he was blocked when he tried to approach Shi Chong. Shi En didn’t attack them as he is now the Supreme Pontiff of the Church of Nuwa, which prohibits him from causing any unnecessary harm to the weaker individuals unless they are harming the believers or mocking the church. Hence, he had to use his voice to wake his uncle.

Shi Chong got up from his sleep, and saw his nephew, his most trusted person on the planet looking all worried and panicking, “What happened?”

Shi En replied, “Our entire troops sent with the imposter were massacred.” “What?” Emperor Shi Chong’s drowsiness disappeared in an instant. Shi En continued, “There is something else I need to show you. Come to the Throne Hall, right now. I told the guards to bring others as well.”

After a while, some with drowsiness and some looking active, all those important guests that participated in the meeting three days ago and were currently still staying at the palace as royal guests gathered at the throne hall, wondering what else to know apart from their failure. Only the Assasin Guild Leader isn’t present as he opted out of this alliance, two days ago.

Amidst their gazes, Shi En then went on unleashing some kind of spell and created a projection, a large energy sphere floating in mid-air, displaying a video of some sort.

They saw giant robots in the village. They weren’t aware of how big they were, but the houses could only reach their ankles and each step forward from them crushed the houses to dust. Shi En broke their curiosity and silent gazes filled with many questions by controlling his technique, shifting the scene to Alina and King Qi standing side by side on the top of one of these giant robots.

He pointed at the woman and said, “I believe you recognize her, Uncle.”

Shi Chong’s hand shook as he pointed his finger at her, “She’s that messenger. Lu Zhen’s messenger.”

“How many of them?” Asked the Lt. Supreme General of the Tang Dynasty.

“Not sure, but atleast more than ten,” replied Shi En with a grim face. He further added, “The point is not just the fact that she had such puppets, which she would use against us very soon. The point is about how she summoned them out of nowhere. Such giant puppets couldn’t be brought along all the way from Genesis Federation without any notice. What if those things were unleashed into the city?”

“Don’t worry, we won’t let them come to these borders at all.”

“Yeah, they might look all imposing but the big creatures have the disadvantage of speed and are vulnerable to attacks.”

“But, the problem isn’t them. It’s their summoner. We have to ensure that she won’t survive. As long as she is dead, they can be taken care of.”

“However, we have to confirm that she is the puppet master for that. What if she isn’t?”

“If only Assassin Guild stood with us, we could have launched a preemptive strike. We could have assassinated King Qi and this woman in the night.

As various opinions flew out, Shi En shook his head, “No, I have been tracking them ever since they approached the borders. She is the only one who joined them much later on. In fact, I didn’t even sense her presence until I saw it with my Sage eye. For a fact, I also knew that she was a master assassin but didn’t know that she could evade my senses too. Unless master assassins come up, it would be difficult to take her out. We had several backup plans, but I think we have to reinforce our defenses.”

The atmosphere turned tense.

Roughly two hours later, Shi Chong received the reports from the scouts that King Qi’s army of ten thousand troops had started moving toward the imperial City, accompanied by 15 humongous black puppets (robots). No villages or towns were touched on the way, but whoever tried resisting was crushed to death. The troops stationed on the borders were massacred without any chance of escape. Hundreds of soldiers left their posts and escaped for their lives. The adventurers of the five guilds who take up the missions to resist the incoming force either end up dead or hide in the towns and cities. The powerful mages and archers who tried to attack the army from far away were dead before they could even launch their skills. They were taken care of by a warrior dressed in black armor and carrying twin swords but reeks of death.

These robots were not only big, but each of them had special abilities. Some control gravity, some have spatial abilities, some can burn, some can freeze, and some can bring lightning strikes… They were so overpowering that even supreme realm cultivators who tried challenging them were destroyed. Three dead so far, forcing two formidable sects that weren’t called to the meeting, but due to the recklessness of their Patriarchs, they ended up closing up their mountains.

Without facing battles on the way, King Qi’s troops were all energetic and didn’t have to rest much, except when it was night. In two days, his entire army reached the outskirts of the imperial city while Leon Empire forces were all forced to back off to the city.

Yuan De, with the help of his Lt. Supreme General, summoned 6500 troops of the Dragon Empire’s Silver Legion, the third strongest legion in their Empire, through a teleportation formation. Each of them might not be strong, and the strongest could only be at 7-circle, but they were known to have a formidable formation to summon a dragon spirit for the attack and a shield for the defense.

More than eighty thousand adventurers from all over Kun, Leon, and Qilin Empire also gathered in the city on the urgent call of their guild leaders. Out of nearly a million citizens of the imperial city still living there, roughly hundred and fifty thousand of them came out of their homes to defend their city and fight for their survival as five-hundred-foot giant robots formed an eclipse over their hearts.

Not just those five powerful sects, various small and medium-sized sects from the Leon Empire also sent their elites to join them, all to fight one common enemy. The former patriarch and currently a grand elder of the Blood Moon sect, a demigod arrived there in time to launch a domain over the entire city.

The fifteen giant robots didn’t enter the city or tried destroying the barrier yet. They were merely on standby even though it was broad daylight. King Qi sets up a camp on the outskirts of the city, and Alina alone enters the city, easily bypassing a demigod’s domain like a ghost.

She walked in the streets amid hundreds of thousands of gazes upon her and was escorted by thousands of soldiers to the imperial palace. As a messenger, she had diplomatic immunity and wasn’t attacked on the way.

She confidently walked into the palace with a scroll in her hands; the Throne hall, where all those powerful Supreme Beings including a demigod gathered in the audience of Shi Chong.

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The throne hall was absolutely silent, and yet, each step of hers didn’t even make the slightest of noise. Shi Chong was nervous, and Shi En was even more nervous about her unknown abilities. After all, he knew her from that sorcerer and planned his clone’s death for the sake of freedom, but back then, she didn’t have the power to summon those giant puppets, either. However, he was aware that she had the powers of some corrupted energy that could kill even a Supreme Being if they were struck lethally.

Stopping in the center of the hall, Alina looked at the Emperor and let out a smile, “Greetings, Emperor Shi. Today, I have come here as the messenger of Genesis Federation as well as King Qi. Let me first pass the message from King Qi.”

“Ple… Please proceed…” Shi Chong stuttered a little bit.

Alina opened the scroll and read out loud, “Emperor Shi Chong…”

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