The Truth Revealed

Reilo looked solemnly at King Chen, who wore a serious expression.

"May I ask, Your Majesty, exactly how much Radiant Jinghua have we stockpiled?"

The room fell silent.

King Chen gazed at Reilo for a moment, then suddenly let a hint of pride show.

"Though it has cost us dearly—including my having indefinitely postponed the promise I once made to you—I can tell you plainly that the Grand Duchy has now stockpiled twenty completed fission weapons. That is enough to wipe out every major settlement in the Xilan Duchy!"

The figure startled Reilo.

In other words, the duchy had accumulated at least twenty kilograms of Radiant Jinghua!

And it had taken only a few years.

Just how many Radiant Jinghua processing plants had the duchy built?

If the Grand Duchy used its fission weapons to wage a war abroad, then a weak early-stage Level 2 civilization like the Rotting Sand Tower United Kingdom could be reduced to a primitive civilization with just ten fission-type Radiation Weapons, if the goal was simply to destroy it!

Of course, that assumed they had no need to plunder the enemy's resources.

King Chen went on, "Moreover, over the next three years, the ministers of finance and economy plan to double the duchy's Radiant Jinghua production. We must do everything in our power to protect ourselves!"

The hall fell silent for a while.

Reilo spoke slowly. "Your Majesty, if you had asked me this a few years ago, my answer would certainly have been yes. We should strike first, before the other side gained the power to destroy us completely! But now..."

Reilo's words were entirely true.

This was not only a preemptive strike in the duchy's interests; it was also a preemptive strike for the evolution of his own Sun Law.

A single fission-type