Chapter 729 Brotherly chat
The afflicted city of Jura--
Besides the Imperial Capital, which is located on the Central Continent, this place is undoubtedly the most guarded. Hundreds, if not thousands, of visitors come every day from three different planets, but only a few manage to enter it.
After the cleansing operation led by Billy, the city is no longer as chaotic as before. It is still chilling to enter, yes, but at least it is more organized.
Currently, every few steps you find a shrine with no name... Any random shrine among them may contain an entire corpse, perhaps a few body parts, or maybe just a toy covered in blood.
Currently, there are only two individuals inside the city, one of them is sitting in front of two ordinary looking shrines with no expression on his face, and the other is standing behind him with his hands behind his back. They were Richard and Caesar.
Richard finally broke the deafening silence, "My father's relationship with the women of the family is ridiculous, don't you think?"
"How is that?" Caesar smiled, this was the first time he heard his voice in a few hours
"It's simple if you think about it. Look here.." Richard pointed toward the oldest-looking shrine, "I heard that my grandmother died alone and in complete silence. Until her death, they blamed her for her son running away." Then he pointed towards his mother's grave, "And of course, I don't need to talk about what happened to my mother, who ended up having a few of her clothes and accessories buried because she didn't leave behind a single drop of blood."
After a few seconds, Richard snapped his two fingers, "Come to think of it, my father has a blood sister, right? I have an aunt and I have never seen her in my life, even though she has never done anything wrong! I heard when I was young that she got married to a random guy and completely disappeared after her brother John was executed on charges of conspiring with the Kingdom of Dolivar to kill you... How sad is this? while her brother is the Emperor of several planets, her life or death is unknown."
"Your father didn't--"
"I know, I know~" Richard interrupted his brother before he continued, "He didn't decide the fates of the three women, but if you notice the fate of each one of them is closely linked to him, I find it ironic that's all..."
Caesar raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking about it. Even the girl Rita, who his adoptive father spent most of his time with, was then killed by a careless customer... Is that person cursed with women or something?
Richard sighed one last time, then stood up and smiled at Caesar, "You took me to almost every spot on the Ancestral Continent over the past few days before you brought me here. I think that's enough... Take me to that imperial capital, maybe I'll find faces I know there."
Caesar stepped forward and wrapped her hand around Caesar's neck, "Haha, you've already followed? Where's the youth's enthusiasm? First, I'll show you the continents of the four elements, then we'll go to Planet Greenland, and then--" But he stopped talking suddenly, his eyebrows furrowing slightly.
Richard waited a few seconds until Caesar's features calmed down a little, then asked, "What, did you get an important message?"
Caesar removed his hand from Richard and rubbed his chin, "Yes, there is a report that the five fleets are preparing to attack the southern region today. That is roughly 450 Martial Emperors and about 600 thousand law-user soldiers, not counting the power of the ships themselves of course... It will be a great battle."
"Why are you still here then? Aren't you the Supreme General? Go and help your father." Richard pushed his brother a few times
"Ugh, you little smug, do you want to get rid of me that fast?!" Caesar didn't stop there and grabbed Richard's head and started rubbing it, "I'm still not wanted there, the headquarters are just letting me know what's going on, the Empire's True army won't interfere yet."
"Huh? But why? Wasn't the plan to wait for the invasion army and surround them in the middle, then attack them from all sides? Everything was going according to plan, why haven't you attacked them yet?" Richard asked quickly, then he was surprised himself... Why was he interested in the first place?
"Your question is the hottest topic of discussion in the high command currently, Just a few days ago, Alexander and Theo argued with your father about this. Half of the generals prefer to attack and get rid of them now, but your father still prefers to halt the plan and wait some more." Caesar waved with both hands annoyingly, It was clear that he was among the people who supported launching the attack now, "And all this hesitation is related to one piece of information that we extracted from the prisoners, which is that the Great Serpent Empire has 30 fleets."
"30 fleets?! If each one of them carries 100 Martial Emperors, then..." Richard's eyes widened.
Caesar snapped his finger and pointed at Richard, "This means that we are facing at least three thousand Martial Emperors, right? This is exactly why we are trying to urge your father to attack now and eliminate the five fleets in order to reduce the number of potential enemies. See, for example, what the Demons did to that half of the fleet that landed there, they swallowed up those bastards in minutes to the point that they did not have time to scream! Because of this, after we were facing 510 Martial Emperors, now we are now facing only 460 of them. Why don't we just do the same and reduce the number of our enemies by taking down the five fleets?"
Richard looked at the ground and began to mutter, "...But eliminating this huge army will drain us of a lot of resources and lives as well, and this action will alert the Great Serpent Empire of the real danger in Nahari and create a hidden hatred between us and them by destroying all those ships and soldiers, and next time they may send twenty fleets at once or more. As far as I know, we do not have enough strength to deal with an army of this magnitude, especially after we exhaust ourselves fighting the five fleets..."
Then he continued without stopping, "This is the same mistake that I made when I increased the kidnappings in the Azil tribe, which made the rest of the tribes move against me. Had my father not intervened and made the settlements come out and force the rest of the giant tribes to retreat, I would have been besieged and dead by now. The difference is that I was able to act rashly because I knew I had a strong support behind me, but in a situation like this we have to think more logically before acting and---What?!" Richard stopped after noticing Caesar's look at him, raising his eyebrows, opening his mouth, and tilting his head back slightly
Caesar shook his head, "...That's what your father said, word-for-word."