Chapter 352 Pay-Back Day

Five months later -- the capital of the Flame Empire -- inside the imperial palace

*boom boom boom*

*BOOOOOOOOOM*

"No No NOO!!! The Western Gate's defenses are falling apart, it is only a matter of time before the enemies storm the capital from the gap there!!"

*BOOOOOOOOOOM boom boom*

"Then what to do?! We can't send them reinforcements, we don't have any reservists! Most of our saints and Sages are all guarding the sky of the capital against the aerial attacks of Demons and the Burton family's forces, if we pull some of them out to help at the western gate, the result will be the same and we will have another gap at the sky!"

"Damn, how is it possible that all the enemy troops can fly? They came with more than a hundred thousand soldiers and not a single one of them is in the Knighthood realm?!"

["We urge the innocent citizens of the Flame Empire to take refuge inside your homes or any other building you can reach, we are here with the intention of taking revenge on the heads of the imperial family for their repeated crimes against the Ancestral Continent, we came demanding justice, we are not here for the purpose of starting a massacre, all the cities that fell under our control were not destroyed and their people are living their lives freely, choose the right choice and Protect your family inside your houses, whoever goes out will be considered an enemy soldier and get himself killed."]

"F*CK, it's those calls again! For some reason the citizens are listening to them and hiding in their homes dreaming of salvation, because of this we failed to move the whole capital, we failed to rally the nearby cities and we failed to gather any suicide operation forces as everyone waiting till the battle is over maybe he can survive!! Do they really think those Red Devils will have mercy on them?"

"DAMMIT!! What did we do to get involved in all of this? what the hell are those creatures and why are they attacking us?!"

*Step... Step... Step...*

*Long inhale*

Ignoring the hundred troubled elders, a middle-aged man stepped onto the balcony of the Crown Hall, took a long inhale as he watched the sky of his city burning, then spoke, "Who would have thought that attacking a few peasants in the ancestral land… would bring us a day like this."

"NO SHIT!! From day one I told you to wait, I told you to respect the person who created the talismans, I told you to try to make a deal with him, and what did you do? you went on and massacred his family!! and you didn't even try to make it up for him after that and express your good well, I told you not to provoke him further by contracting the ambush in the prisoner exchange, but you did anyway! we lost a third of troops in the central continent with that arrogant move of yours, troops we now desperately need!!

If you listened to me at every step you took nothing of this would have happened, If you listened to me we might have had good relations with Robin Burton and the one who's supporting him from the shadows! But what did we have? A WAR against an unknown race that looks like it only exists to devour every and each one of us!" An old man shouted from behind the Emperor, then looked beside him at an old woman and pointed at her, "Instead of listening to me, you chose to listen to this snake because her words satisfy your arrogance, your Majesty, and THIS BITCH are the cause of all we are in!"

"YOU..!!" The old woman looked beside her and almost cried out in anger, but she couldn't find anything to say, so she closed her mouth again and closed her trembling hands, and looked at the ground

"Old man Gu, I recommend you to choose your words carefully, this is not the time for internal conflict." the Emperor was the one who replied in a harsh voice

"No, let's do it now! What might an internal conflict would to us that is worse than this? hasten our death and end our misery a few minutes earlier? GOOD!" Old man Gu shouted, he couldn't control his emotions

What was happening now had exceeded all expectations and surpassed any bad scenario she could possibly think of, not even the old man thought it would get such a length!

Those damn three kings who came demanding help in decoding the fire explosion talisman said clearly that the owners are some average noble family that they themselves can destroy if they got enough of the fire explosion talismans...

If these three random *kings* can do it, then how can they fail?

And even leaving that aside, what is the worst that can happen if there is some force supporting the one who created the talismans? They would kill their men who were sent to the Ancestral Continent.

That's it!

But for the situation to bring them to a direct threat to the annihilation of their empire, which has been steadfast for tens of thousands of years?

No, not just a threat anymore, they are already half a step away from annihilation.

At the beginning of the invasion, about five and a half months ago, the emperor and his entourage received shocking news, that there is a hostile army on his lands, something that has not happened since the establishment of the empire!!

Knowing their attributes and that they are the demons that the elder from the Central Continent talked about, they immediately knew that the troops they send there were annihilated...

Even before the real war began they received this backbone-breaking news...

But by following their path and taking advantage of their hasty moves, the emperor and his assistants were able to implement a number of plans that severely harmed the Demon army, the hopes of expelling the attackers rose and they began to invent new plans to disable the Demon army, but in the end, this is what is expected in their eyes...

It is the empire The one that has held out and fortified for many many years, how will it fall now from the first test?

During the last five months, the hostile forces took a strange turn...

They began to move slowly and prudently. They began to slowly take over all the cities and villages on the continent and put adequate protection in each one.

Whenever an army comes out to invade a new city, it will have one or two squads behind it to provide support in case an ambush occurs, especially the legions of winged beasts that are called Dracos, whose numbers are estimated to be in the thousands!

These winged beasts are patrolling the continent day and night, destroying and dispersing any crowds that MIGHT look dangerous!!

All the empire's plans were thrown into disrepute, they became as useless as a spear thrown against a castle wall. They had no choice but to gather huge armies of citizens and confront the enemy face-to-face under the pretext of defending their lands from the demons that came to devour them... But the officers of the Wind Legion forbade them with their voices that were entering like arrows in the hearts of all the citizens of the empire and pushing them to return to their homes.

In the end, Only the Empire's top experts remained against the Demons and the Burton family's special forces, and in terms of individual strength, numbers, or weapon quality, the Empire's experts were crushed in direct confrontations.

"I didn't think that the Empire would be subjected to such a circumstance during my rule, but that is fate.. what happened has happened, but now we have to make a proper reaction, one that will be written with golden letters in history!" The emperor spoke softly as he looked from the balcony

The Emperor did not wait for a response from anyone after those words, his tyrannical aura suddenly sent the words back to the throat of all the elders who were about to stop him from doing anything extreme, and a strange phenomenon began to occur...

A very faint image of a pale yellow phoenix began to incarnate behind him, but it was visible enough to strike fear into everyone's hearts, even Sakar, Billy and other leaders in Robin's army stopped what they were doing and turned their eyes to where the Emperor stood.