Her Highness had truly grown in such a delightful way lately! She could even crack jokes straight from hell now. That meant her sadistic streak was gradually flourishing. A true monarch needed to be kind and magnanimous, of course, but a ruthless, decisive streak of sadism was just as important.
Put simply, throughout history, every wise ruler had to be both an M and an S!
Of course, that sort of thing wasn't enough to make anyone inhumane.
Ostana Bahl watched her rapidly maturing liege with a look of heartfelt satisfaction. As thoughts of such unspeakable treason turned in her mind, she began explaining the full story of the recently concluded Battle of the Blood Gate.
A few minutes later, Brunhild snorted again. "Setting aside the pursuit afterward, the battle lasted less than twenty hours. In twenty hours, more than a thousand warships and three million people were all wiped out? Yu Lian couldn't even catch four million pigs in twenty hours, could he?"
"Well, one antimatter bomb would turn even forty billion pigs to ash," the chief of staff replied.
"Thank you, Ostana. Thank you for the reminder." Brunhild glanced at her, her expression unreadable.
The chief of staff continued her report. "Also, it can't really be called a total annihilation. We can only confirm that all the capital ships were sunk, but more than a hundred warships should have escaped."
"What wonderful news!" Brunhild laughed instead of getting angry. "What about the Empire's inspectors and the fleet stationed there?"
"Of the twelve arsenal ships, nine were sunk and three captured. Of the eighteen guard ships, ten were sunk and eight captured. There should be around six thousand Imperial personnel among the prisoners."
...All right. Arsenal ships and guard ships weren't capital ships, but second-rate specialist vessels. In the