After learning from Dmitry that Emperor Ignatz was the leader of the First Agreement, and that Emperor Odoayak of the Rebirth Empire had completely thrown in with Ignatz, Bai Fu made two plans at once.
The first plan was naturally to set a trap and use the opportunity to deal the First Agreement a heavy blow on Zu Yuan Star.
The second was to quickly and secretly tell the people she was close to to evacuate.
People like Lord of Oaths and Andras of the Origin Consortium.
She was on extremely close terms with them, and the factions they belonged to were also deeply tied to the Silent Court through business.
If she went to war with the First Agreement on all fronts and the Rebirth Empire openly switched sides, they would very likely become the Rebirth Empire's next targets if they didn't get out.
These two plans together nearly drove Ignatz over the edge.
How could he not lose it?
He'd gone to hunt Bai Fu full of confidence, never taking her seriously along the way and mocking her as a candle flickering in the wind.
But he failed to kill her, and she turned his carefully laid plans against him, making them a blade that killed a great many of his own elite fighters.
That alone had been infuriating enough.
After it happened, he'd immediately thought of revenge and even resorted to shameless, underhanded tactics. But his opponent had seen it coming, and his side had come up empty.
Ha! The real clown was me!
Ignatz's composure shattered.
In over ten thousand years, he'd never felt this awful—not even when he'd just become emperor and the Senate had kept him under its thumb, or when the Ability Garden had forced him back to the Empire's homeworld.
A surge