The Martial Unity

The Throne Hall grew chilly as Prince Rajak blatantly attacked Emperor Rael with condemnation much more directly than Prince Raijun did.

"Condemn you for a power struggle…?" The Emperor's tone hid a smile. "No. I condemned you for a civil war. Those are close but not quite the same."

Prince Rajak's face contorted with cold rage. "As I said, your cheap word word games do not impress anybody."

"Those are neither mere words nor games, my hateful child of the Underworld," The Emperor smiled. "You and I, indeed, have partaken in our respective power struggles for the throne. Yet, do you know what the difference between the two of us is?"

Prince Rajak stared at him coldly.

He didn't utter so much as a word.

"The difference between us is that I won."

His aura rapidly shifted from serene to overbearing dominance.

"I won the war before it even began."

The Emperor's domineering words sent a wave of surprise washing through everybody in the throne room.

"I won before anyone got hurt."

An abundance of confidence echoed the deep masculine melody of his voice. The dominance of his words came from the fact that they were rooted in history. He ascended the throne at the young age of thirty-one after the previous Emperor passed away mysteriously, crushing the allied resistance of his brothers and sisters, initiating the crowning ceremony, and becoming Emperor.

Prince Rajak gritted his teeth as his expression grew ugly.

"That is the difference between us. The 'struggle' in 'power struggle' came from those who struggled against me in vain," The Emperor's words were unshakable. "I prepared to ascend the throne my entire life…"

A grin lit up on the Emperor's face.

"…and when it was time, I killed my power-hungry fool of a father."

"!!!"

in the

They shook.

Physically.

Mentally.

Emotionally.

How could they not?

of Harmony had just confessed to assassinating the

confessed to the highest

the most hardened

rank, or field, every single member of

They were shocked.

their

treason, and it was a crime with no statute of limitations that not

he abdicate the throne, he would instantly

his expression

holes into a frozen Rajak, stunned and speechless by the Emperor's confession to

"I killed Emperor Ra."

reverberated throughout the

before he tore Kandria apart with an apocalyptic

and the

three centuries of

itself bore down

prevent a war is to win it before it even begins. You, my hateful son, are unable to win at

at him, gritting his

the other

of the throne that bore him, he immediately became a domineering conqueror who brilliantly seized power over Kandria moments before the catastrophic war broke out and went on to raise the nation to high heavens for three centuries after successfully

was even more saintly and dovish

very next, he displayed a domineering hawkish dominance that exceeded that of

didn't contradict each

No.