The Empire Stabbed in the Back by Gadra; Velgrend's Fury

But now, he no longer had that feeling of being watched, which meant the Emperor had sent out all his intelligence agents.

This was... a gift from heaven!

While the people of the Empire were diligently preparing and training for war, Gadra was persuading his old friends to defect and betray their country.

While the people of the Empire were working hard to gather intelligence, Gadra was still persuading his old friends to defect and betray their country.

While the people of the Empire were rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the coming war, Gadra was still persuading his old friends to defect and betray their country.

According to Gadra's estimate, the war between the Empire and the Demon Country would begin in about a month.

In less than a month, he had to bring every talent he could recruit into the Demon Country Federation, then leave himself enough time to retreat.

With that in mind, Gadra once again headed toward the Empire's weapons research department.

If he was going to recruit people, he had to recruit the Empire's finest talents!

Time passed in the blink of an eye.

A month quickly went by.

Over that month, Gadra successfully recruited nearly thirty percent of the Empire's research talent, dealing a devastating blow to its development department. Many divisions were even completely paralyzed.

By the time the Imperial Intelligence Bureau discovered this, Gadra had already returned to the Demon Country Federation through Rimuru's spatial transport.

This fact immediately enraged the Empire's upper ranks.

They truly had not expected Gadra, the Great Magician who stood among the Empire's absolute elite and had personally driven its technological advancement, to ruthlessly stab the Empire's younger generation in the back on the eve of war with another nation!

And it had been an especially