With the invasion of foreign races, the Caesar Empire, renowned across the Western Continent as a nation founded on military might, naturally carried out a general mobilization just like the Gallic Empire. The imperial forces now gathered around the Caesar Imperial Capital included, aside from the Royal Guard Legion responsible for the capital's daily defense, ten fully organized legions made up of veterans recalled from the major provinces surrounding the capital.
Though they were called fully organized legions, these soldiers were in fact hardened veterans who had once served in the Caesar Empire's elite legions. Although they had been out of the army for some time, they still retained their full combat strength. So long as they donned armor, picked up weapons, and underwent a little coordinated training, they would become a formidable elite force.
And the commander-in-chief of these ten elite legions was naturally Octavian, the Minister of War most trusted by Caesar Emperor Ulysses III, his childhood friend, known as the Blood Guillotine.
Early in the morning, the Royal Guard Legion defending the imperial capital was stationed in several camps spread across the four directions of the city. The night sentries had just handed over their posts to the incoming watch, while a streak of red light in the east had only just dyed the broad morning clouds crimson. The air was fresh, and the morning quiet and peaceful. Even the Royal Guard Legion, one of the Caesar Empire's foremost elite forces, could not help but relax somewhat.
And the consequence of that slackness was that the thousands of sentries changing shifts in the various camps were almost simultaneously approached from behind by black-clad assassins, who slit their throats with daggers. The assassins cleanly severed their targets' necks, seized highly absorbent cotton cloths and pressed them tightly over