The great avalanche in Golden Cosmos Yu Continent came to an abrupt halt outside Square-Circle City.
Fu Huan, he who had declared, "From this day on, there shall be no more love in this world," gazed deeply at the king leaning on his sword atop that steel city tower...
Judging by personal martial strength alone, this was not an especially dazzling emperor. Even with Grand City under his command, Fu Huan was confident he could breach the city and take his head within an hour.
But did Li State truly have another hour left?
This cruel Era of Great Contention had not given Yong Kingdom much time. The window left for Li State... was even briefer!
If only news of the Qin army's crushing defeat had arrived a little later, if Han Xu had come one step later and allowed him to force Xi Xiangyi into surrender, things would have been different. At that time, Li State would at least have had one more choice. Even if they shut their doors, they would still have had the confidence to walk alongside time.
"You're very good at persuading people," he said at last.
Then he turned away, taking the Li State army flooding across the mountains and plains with him as it receded.
What remained was a field of shattered apparatuses, Mechanist components, and flesh and blood mixed among the parts... like grit and flowers scattered across an iron plain.
The Qin people withdrew even earlier than the Li State army.
While Fu Huan was still sizing up Han Xu, Gan Bubishi and Gan Chang'an had already broken free from the battle and departed.
Qin had lost its mighty army on Yong soil—Earl Merit dead, Marquis Jun crippled, the Crown Prince wounded! Such a disastrous defeat, unseen in a century, had