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"How... how dare he!!!" Catherine trembled with rage.
She had declared him a rebel, yet he had directly declared that she was a Pseudo-King, a replacement installed by the Undead Witch.
How could she possibly be a fake? Yet the problem was that more people believed Lu Xingshi's declaration than hers.
The main reason was her own doing. First, her disguise had made her personality inconsistent, and then she had demanded corpse bones.
Either one alone would not have given Lu Xingshi's declaration such great influence, but together, they were practically the same as confirming it outright.
Catherine immediately tried to clarify matters, but it was useless.
Because half of Lu Xingshi's declaration was true: she really was the Undead Witch.
From then on, both public opinion and the overall situation were immensely unfavorable to her.
"Your Majesty, please calm down." A Royal Advisor offered a word of counsel. "What we need to face right now is not Lu, but the Aolei Empire."
"The latest news has arrived. The Aolei Empire has already occupied the LuoLi Kingdom. Their next target is our Worth Kingdom."
"Lu is merely a rebel. Once you repel the Aolei Empire's army, dealing with him will not be a problem."
Yet Catherine merely cast the Royal Advisor an icy glance.
She acknowledged the issue he had raised, but he had merely pointed out a problem without offering any solution.
Whether it was repelling the invaders or quelling the rebellion, neither was something Catherine could resolve.
The Aolei Empire's Steam Soldiers were extremely powerful, superbly equipped, and rigorously trained. They were simply not something Worth Kingdom could resist.
One had to know that the Aolei Empire had gone through generations of kings striving with all their might to rule the entire world, only then attaining its