The news that the Empress had gone missing was covered up by the Army Minister and the Peng Joe People.
If they announced now that Your Majesty the Empress had disappeared, presumably taken by the Federation, Gefra Main Island would face enormous trouble.
And that trouble would come from the armed opposition! The reason they had only launched military operations in remote areas of Gefra Main Island so far was that they feared a rash attack on an important city might harm the Empress.
The Gefrans had a... very foolish persistence! Their loyalty to the Imperial Family was always astonishing and inexplicable!
Sometimes, they privately criticized the private lives of Imperial Family Members, denounced the Imperial Family Members as the bloodsuckers of the Gefra Empire, and even condemned Your Majesty the Emperor for making yet another foolish decision.
Yet at this moment, these people were willing to slow the pace of the fighting to ensure that Your Majesty the Empress, the last bloodline of the Imperial Family, remained unharmed.
The facts proved that Gefra was not lacking in powerful warriors. They were not particularly inferior when facing Peng Joe soldiers, either.
What Gefra lacked was the soil in which to discover these powerful warriors, and the environment needed to turn them into great warriors.
Gefra's navy was too powerful, suppressing the Army's development all this time. In a way, the fact that Gefra had fallen into this state today was also related to the Gefra Navy! If news of Your Majesty the Empress's departure leaked out now, the entire Main Island's situation would undergo a tremendous change!
The Army Minister had originally been unwilling to meet with the Commander-in-Chief. The Commander-in-Chief practically had the words Where the hell did you hide it? written all over his face.
So if he