Chapter 2331: Forgotten Consequences

Chapter 2331: Forgotten Consequences

Prime Minister Edward heaved a deep breath as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.

He hadn't been doing well the past few months.

He couldn't sleep, his appetite was poor, and he had begun developing a series of health problems inexplicably.

Not even the doctors could find out what was wrong with him despite the developed medicine sector of the Britannian Empire. Nobody could even identify what ailed him.

The worst of it all was that he couldn't help but feel something was immensely wrong. Not physically, no.

But mentally.

"...I feel like someone carved away a piece of my brain."

It was difficult to describe what that felt like and what that even meant.

He had never had a piece of his brain carved away. How would he know what it felt like?

Yet, he was certain of what he experienced.

It felt like he had been lobotomized so much that he couldn't even remember being lobotomized.

He felt like a chunk of his mind was missing.

A chunk of his memories.

It drove him insane.

He had begun developing signs of rapid onset mental disorders like ADHD and others of its ilk spontaneously due to what felt like a missing piece of his memories and experience.

"Is it Rael?" he asked himself, narrowing his eyes. "But why wouldn't he just kill me if he could do something like this?"

He didn't know.

He didn't understand, and certainly nobody around him could either.

He didn't know what had happened, but he knew that something extreme had been done to him.

Something that shouldn't have happened.

"So, we have deployed our forces with the intention of attacking their allies and taking them down," she bristled. "And you mean to tell me that not a single one of these operations has even partially succeeded?"

"...I'm afraid that's so, Your Sagehood."

His words only made her more furious.

"Our alliance has more Sages, does it not?" She growled.

"Yes, Knight Vermillion."

"Our alliance also has more Masters, does it not?"

"Most certainly, Your Sagehood."

"Then why are we not able to destroy their allies?" Her expression was distorted with anger.

Prime Minister Edward heaved a sigh. "They have an absolute strategic advantage over us when it comes to intelligence, Your Sagehood."

Her mouth curled with displeasure. "We have our very own Britannian Intelligence Service, as well as the Gorteau Bureau of Intelligence and the Nindo Clan of the Sekigahara Confederate."

Her eyes sharpened to slits.

"Pray tell, how does the Kandrian Empire have an advantage in this regard?"

Prime Minister Edward heaved a sigh. "It's because of the Silas Clan, Your Sagehood. Thanks to them, we are unable to dominate despite our numerical superiority. They are able to foresee the future. Not perfectly or completely, of course, but they are able to do it well enough to know what forces we will send where, and then they send Martial Artists that have the best compatibility against ours."

Her demeanor only grew icier at his words.

"They're adaptively evolving to us on a tactical level," he continued. "By knowing exactly what forces we will send, they can send the perfect set of Martial Artists that can stop our forces due to a massive compatibility advantage. If we deploy a poison-oriented Martial Artist, they send Martial Artists who are extremely immune to poison. If we send long-range Martial Artists, they send even longer ranged Martial Artists. So on and so forth. This is the reason that we have been unable to take down even one of their allies, even after three months of trying."

He could almost feel the displeasure radiating from them prickle on his skin.

Of course, he understood how they felt.

It was deeply frustrating to see the Kandrian Empire possess such overpowered treasures that could allow them to conjure such miracles.

But it was also precisely why they needed to succeed in destroying the Kandrian Empire.

It wouldn't be possible to do so in the future.

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