If you haven't read the previous chapter, go read it. It has been corrected, as always.
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Emperor Horace's face twisted even further at what he had just heard. He could hardly believe his ears. Even the Imperial Knights could hardly believe it.
While he might have killed his child and wife to gain his title as Emperor, it didn't change the fact that he wanted to rule the Velkarin Empire through sheer love and protection.
The man had wiped out over a billion people within the span of seconds, and he was asking him why? If this wasn't madness, then what else was it?
Still, Emperor Horace explained himself, after all, the man standing before him was no small-time foreigner.
"What do you mean by that? You've broken the Rules of War that protect ordinary people. The same rules that have kept the people of your Zarethorne Empire alive without having to witness the true scars of war. The same rules that prevent everything from descending into utter madness."
