Everyone held their breath and listened intently to the Emperor's account of the true events of the War of the Four Emperors in the Fourth Epoch.
Before this, they had all believed that battle had been a contest of military strength and national power between four empires.
A series of epic battles that had ultimately formed a stirring chapter of history.
Now, everyone realized that the War of the Four Emperors had actually been a Beyonder battle of an exceptionally high level. This battle, which most people knew nothing about, had determined the course of Fourth Epoch history.
"The exact circumstances of the Blood Emperor's fall have already been buried deep in history," Hobart said. "However, I have a few conjectures about it.
"It should have been the Night Emperor and the Nether Emperor joining forces to bring about the Blood Emperor's fall. They might have reached some sort of agreement, or perhaps the two Emperors tacitly eliminated the most unpredictable one among the Four Emperors.
"The indirect evidence that they joined forces is that the Nether Emperor obtained the uniqueness of the Red Priest pathway, while Trensoost obtained at least one Sequence 1 Extraordinary Characteristic.
"That Sequence 1 was given to the Einhorn Family among the imperial nobility, which is now the royal family of the Fosac Empire.
"I don't know about the Sauron Family, the former royal family of Intis, but the Fosac Empire's royal family must have a Sequence 1. Otherwise, they couldn't have fought the Loen Kingdom for so many years without showing any obvious signs of decline.
"If the Sauron Family, the former royal family of Intis, also had—or once had—a Sequence 1, then the Night Emperor must have received two Sequence 1s of the Red Priest pathway in that battle."
The other members slowly