Book 3.5: Chapter 10
“Alice!”
“Your majesty!”
Alice stared at the empress who rode her horse right into the palace with astonishment. The empress then dismounted and walked into the conference chamber with big strides. Leaves and tree branches were still stuck to her. Her beautiful shiny long black hair was messy while her clothes were muddy and had grass stuck on them. Her steed drop to its knees and vomited not foam, but blood.
The empress placed her hand firmly on her sword handle. Her intense murderous and majestic aura made everybody back away from her. She swept her ice-cold gaze across the retainers in the room. Everybody knelt down and trembled to welcome the empress as she walked to her throne.
*BANG!!*
The empress snapped the table made of jade at the centre with a single kick, creating a loud and heavy cracking sound as it smashed into the ground. After the dust settled, the empress pulled the map hanging on the wall down and tossed it to her left side. She slammed her hand down on the table and shouted: “Form an army within two weeks. I want twelve platoons. Prepare more firepower! We will invade the elven imperial capital within two months! Do not spare any elves you encounter in the villages on the way there! Kill the male elves, and you can do as you please with the female elves! Decapitate all the children and toss their heads into the city when you attack the imperial capital. Whenever you take control of an area, burn the forest down, understood?!”
The fury of the empress made it feel like the entire chamber was going to collapse. Everybody was trembling before her domineering aura; some even let out muffled sobs. The empress’s roar made Alice lower her head. Alice saw her shaky hands when she lowered her head. She had always been with the empress so she had seen the empress angry before, but this time, her fury was like it was going to set everything ablaze. That was the fury of a sovereign. Blood was going to spill and run for thousands of miles, with hundreds of thousands of corpses. Previous battles were conquests, this time, it was destruction.
She wanted to annihilate the entire elven race.
The empress took out her dagger on her waist, aimed at the map and threw her dagger at it. The dagger pierced the elven imperial capital on the map. The general officer trembled as he looked at the shaking dagger before him. He raised his head and quivered as he stuttered: “Y-Your majesty… umm… forming an army in two weeks… that is……”