Chapter 498 - 499 – Bad news.
[Current location: Erun office.]
"…"
"The Garog kingdom had took the margrave Ash…" – said the knight.
"…"
"Shit." – said Kamil Korok as he worked on the documents in the emperor Erun stated.
"…"
"What about…. What about Malizia?" – asked Kamil.
"…Presumably dead." – replied the knight.
"…."
"God…..FUCK!" – shouted Kamil.
"…. Leave…. Out… OUT!" – shouted Kamil, straight up kicking the knight.
"…."
"DAMMIT!" – shouted Kamil as he smashed his fist against the table.
(This is the worst possible outcome!)
(But would they….. No. They would believe it. There is an high chance that they would believe it considering the current circumstances.)
(This is the worst possible situation for real…. We have "that" but it won't do much good.)
(ClownFrog…. He doesn't need an army… If that guy were to just attack some settlement where people are…. He would just genocide the whole thing and turn all the people there, creating an army.)
"Damn it…."
"!" – while Kamil was being consumed with rage and fear, somebody suddenly entered the office.
"Hey! I said nobody enters- "
"Why is that? It's my office." – said emperor Erun.
"?!"
"E-Erun?! What are you doing here?! You are supposed to be focusing on your recovery!" – said the Kamil as he got up.
"How can I upon finding out what had happened?" – said angry emperor.
"Fuck…. Did we managed to mobilize at least some troops?"
"…."
"Yes…. But nowhere near enough to stop the demon lord ClownFrog alone." – said Kamil with worried expression.
"…."
"What about other nations?" – asked emperor while walking towards his desk.
"…. Still no response." – replied the knight.
"If we were to reveal our status to them, they may had instead attacked us like hyenas."
"…"
"Well…. Damn." – said emperor as he sat down in his chair.
"…"
"Do…. What are your orders?! What kind of different plans you have in store!? You must have something!" – said the knight.
"…"
"I won't be lying…. I'm out of plans…. I think it's just over." – replied emperor calmly as he spined around in his chair.
"?!"
"W-what do you mean it's over?!" – said shocked Kamil.
"Well, that it. I'm out of ideas and plans." – said emperor.
"?!"
"B-but you are Erun! Erun Oin! Manipulator and scammer that is four steps ahead of everybody! Stop bullshiting me! You are an bastard that came come up with genius plans on the spot!" – said angry Kamil.
"TELL ME!"
"…"
"Kamil. I'm genius, that is true." – said emperor.
"But its calculation, theorize, predictions and foresight. Those are the things that made me into the genius and allowed me to survive many different attempts at my life and even made sure that I would have "power"."
"You could say I'm seeing an "future", that is how much I developed my abilities."
"And let me tell you something. I just don't see the future of the Oin empire."
"But all we have to do is to slow them down, right?! We can just- "
"I know what you mean Kamil, but it won't work anymore." – said emperor, cutting off the Kamil mid speech.
"You are thinking about the golem, demons and gathering of the forces we are doing, but with the current circumstances it will be impossible."
"WE WERE ABLE to do that only because the Garog kingdom wasn't taking any actions, but the moment they attack, we won't be able to do any of these things."
"And we cannot even use allies to buy ourselves time, since we don't have any in the first place."
"So yea, like that it's over. We just lost."
"…."
"What are you talking about?" – said Kamil with his eyes wide open.
"OIN EMPIRE WILL NEVER DIE!"
"The made prince is dead!"
"The greedy prince is dead!"
"The traitorous princess had abandoned her country!"
"ONLY YOU! THE "TRUE" EMPEROR OF THE OIN EMPIRE DESERVED IS LEFT!"
"You are the only one that can make the Oin empire the most powerful! Most peaceful! Most beautiful empire in the entire world!"
"But now you are just giving up?!"
"Well, it's not like I'm really giving up." – said emperor calmly.
"I tried everything I had. Every plan, every scheme, every theory, even stuff I had hidden from my allies. It's all used up."
"So it's not like I'm giving up, it's just that I was just defeated and fighting anymore won't do anything…. We lost any hope we had left as soon as that informations reached Garog kingdom and now the best course of actions is to surrender and make sure as many people survive- "
"BUT WHAT ABOUT THE EMPIRE?! WHAT ABOUT YOU?!" – shouted furies Kamil.
"THEY WILL FUKING DESTRO OIN EMPIRE! THEY WILL KILL YOU!"
"The fucking reason why I've worked with you this entire time was so that the Oin empire would survive! That was also your own goal!"
"But now you are abandoning it?! You are throwing away your own life like that?!"
"YES I'M, YOU BLOODY IDIOT!" – shouted emperor, finally snapping.
"The Oin empire is finished, if not by the Garog kingdom, then by these hyenas."
"So instead of fighting to the last like fuking idiots, I will make sure that the people will survive!"
"The Oin empire will die, but the people are not dead yet!"
"So I will do whatever in my power to at least save as many people as possible."
"…."
"Then… Why don't you just use them?" – asked Kamil.
"?"
"Use them…. Nah. Using them as soldiers is no good. I mean, you know what we are dealing with. Civilians without any proper training would only give the enemy- "
"Kill them and use their lives to summon the demons that would obey you." – said Kamil, cutting off the emperor who then stared at his friend.
"You still have that ancient demon arm, right?! We also have those fake black grails, RIGHT?!"
"We can summon demons! Control them! Use them as an weapons and form an army that would destroy Garog kingdom."
"Enough." – said emperor.
"We can just sacrifice useless masses! We can use them to create an new army! No! We can summon an new hell lord! Stronger one at that!" – Kamil continues talking, ignoring emperor command.
"ENOUGH!" – shouted emperor, snapping at the Kamil.
"What you are saying is no better than just committing mass genocide and for what?! To destroy empire with our own hands?!"
"The "PEOPLE" are the empire!"
"So far I only murdered unredeemable criminals, such as the people of the church of the angel dragon god. These bastards were unredeemable and were far worse corrupted than you could imagine."
"I'm FINE with sacrificing lives of an pure evil people, but committing an genocide on completely INNOCENT PEOPLE ALL IN ORDER TO GAIN THE POWER?!"
"Nah! This is where I drove a line and you are aware of it!"
"I don't mind killing some innocent people in order to save an empire, but committing an mass genocide!? On civils at that!?"
"Do you think I'm Apollo or Simon?! My greedy and over prideful brothers?!"
"If either of those bastards would gotten the throne, the Oin empire would had been long gone and not because of the Garog kingdom, but because of their incompetence and greed!"
"If I were to start going around, killing OUR people, then I would straight up destroy an Oin empire."
"What good there is for?!"
"Garog kingdom isn't weak and they would destroy us with our current strength and we don't have time to summon necessary amount of demons even with sacrifices!"
"This would only destroy Oin empire before Garog kingdom would and it would also just kill innocent people for no reason."
"This discussion is over you idiot!"
"…"
"I'm going to declare the surrender." – said the emperor as he stood up and began walking towards door.
"I'm going to announce that the Oin empire is surrendering. That is final."
"…."
"No." – said Kamil before then grabbing his sword.
"?!" – emperor sensed danger, but before he could do anything, his demonic arm was cut clean by the Kamil sword before then emperor was grabbed by his neck and lifted in the air.
"W-what are you- "
Before the emperor could even ask anything, the knight Kamil swinged his sword, cutting off the emperor head clean off.
"…."
(Oh god…. What have I done?) – though Kamil as he stared down at the emperor corpse.
(I…. NO! HE BETRAYED US! HE BETRAYED THE OIN EMPIRE!)
(I WAS WRONG! HE WAS NOT THE "TRUE" EMPEROR! HE WASN'T AN "GOD" WE NEEDED!)
(I'M NOT WRONG! I DID IT TO PROTECT THE OIN EMPIRE!)
(YES! YES! THAT IS THE TRUTH!)
(I BELIVED IN THE WRONG PERSON THIS ENTIRE TIME!)
(IT WASN'T OIN ERUN! HE WAS AN FALSE PROPHERT!)
"…"
The knight wiped the blood off his sword before then leaving the door.
"…?"
"General Kamil?" – asked the knight passing by.
"Is something wrong?" – asked the knight upon seeing the grim expression on the Kamil face.
"…"
"The emperor was just assassinated by the Garog kingdom." – said Kamil.
"?!"
"W-what?!" – said the scared and confused knight.
"You heard me. The emperor was killed by the Garog kingdom! They assassinated him! They feared him!" – said Kamil.
"Not only that, but the Garog kingdom is one the move again and its just matter of the time before the proper attack occurs!"
"Call the high executives! We need to hold an emergency meeting, now!"
