At that moment, Tang Guo felt as though she had been struck by lightning, her pale lips bitten until blood seeped from them.
Her frail body swayed precariously. If not for the shackles supporting her, she would have already collapsed.
"Sister, confess your crimes." A familiar voice sounded beside Tang Guo's ear.
Tang Guo stiffly turned her head and saw her sister's familiar yet unfamiliar face, along with... an immaculate white general's uniform.
"Sister, do you understand now? The justice you clung to was all wrong. Look at what you've done all these years?
The people you helped hate you, the people you saved despise you. Did even one of your friends come to save you?
News of your trial has been spread for three days. Ashen Dawn has done nothing, and the Queen's Society you founded—those people who kept calling you boss—has even one of them appeared?
You... have been completely abandoned."
Bzzzz—!
The piercing ringing completely filled Tang Guo's hearing. It was as if she had been covered by a shell, everything outside growing blurred and distant.
At that moment, she... had been abandoned by the entire world.
"I... confess."
Black Queen, one of the Five Sovereigns, finally lowered her head.
Power and strength could not make her bow, but betrayal and abandonment could.
The moment Tang Guo confessed, Du Jingzhe and the Prophet atop the platform abruptly grew excited.
In their eyes, a phantom of a golden eye was slowly emerging. The phantom trembled, seemingly about to separate from Tang Guo's body.
Du Jingzhe could no longer suppress his excitement. "Execute her!!"
The next second, a low mechanical whir suddenly sounded from above the dome.
Everyone looked up to see a narrow crack slowly splitting open across the heavy alloy dome. A silver-black artillery Spear covered in