"We can call it Arcane Body," Claude said with a smile. Everyone knows that the emperor likes to add the word [Arcane] to everything, so it has become a joke among people to add the name [Arcane] to as many inventions as possible. Because of this, there are even laws giving artificial intelligence the power to refuse such naming if it is inappropriate.
"Okay, let's end this war as soon as possible," Claude announced. He was already prepared for a protracted war, but after discovering such a major weakness of this race, this conquest became extremely easy.
Three major Imperial Council:
There are many people sitting in this spacious room, with three seats at the front. Most of the people present appear in the form of holographic projections, and the three main seats are designed to be very large, and even the images of the people sitting on them are enlarged, making them look like Giant.
Everyone was silent, watching the scene of Lieutenant General Glandax fighting the invaders. One second everything was normal, but the next second, the invaders began to use extremely powerful spells to destroy their legion.
"Who can tell me what just happened?" asked the ruler of the Saxix Empire, Emperor Karak. He was nearly 3 meters tall and extremely muscular, but his strength and physique gave him a natural majesty.
"We lost, and lost miserably," replied a beautiful woman with black hair and blue skin, wearing a black magic robe. She is the Queen of Selasi, the ruler of the Vanisha Empire or Mage Empire.
"What he means is, how did we lose?" President Verek of the Korak Empire said. This Empire is different from other Empires because it is an electoral monarchy. He dresses like a noble, and his movements also reveal the aura of nobility.
"I don't need you to explain it to me," Emperor Karak snapped back, and President Verek just shrugged. The world is ruled by three Empire kingdoms - although there are a few other kingdoms.
Unfortunately, other Empires have Imperial Family families that have ruled for thousands of years, but his Empire has to elect a new ruler every 200 years, which means that their strength is the weakest.
"Magic should be your specialty," Karak continued. "So, explain why their spells suddenly became so powerful?"
"The spells they use seem to use runes instead of the previous spells," Queen Selasi said thoughtfully. "As long as there are suitable runes, they can perfectly combine the resonance of their magic powers to cast spells that are much more powerful than a single person."
"I thought the runes were only for making Divine Artifact," Emperor Karak asked. His Empire favored warriors over mages, so this was beyond his area of expertise.
"Low-level runes can be used by powerful mages to cast spells," Selasi explained. "However, high-level runes require the power of the soul, which is why we cannot use them."
"Are you saying these invaders have powerful souls?"
"Or the runes they used didn't have the same effect on the soul," Selasi replied. The queen was unwilling to admit that these invaders were much stronger than them in that realm.
"Who are these invaders?" asked Luck. "World Will just sent word that invaders from the stars have appeared and asked us to repel them. However, it does not provide much information."
"I may have someone who can answer our questions," Verek said suddenly. All eyes were focused on him, and he calmly waved his hand, activating a holographic projection in the center of the room.
An old Stirexians wearing ordinary clothes, with white beard and hair, appeared in the room. His eyes were a little cloudy, but they still couldn't hide the wisdom and maybe madness hidden in them.
"It's you-'Mad Scholar', Kroll," Karak said unceremoniously.
"Crazy? I've never been crazy - you're just a bunch of fools," Kroll retorted.
"Watch your words," Karak snapped. However, the scholar just laughed sarcastically.
"Hundreds of years - I have spent hundreds of years trying to convince you to stop fighting for the pitiful resources of this world and explore the world beyond the stars. But you all say that I am crazy and that my theory is nonsense. But now? Alien civilization has invaded, which proves how narrow-minded you people who think highly of themselves are."
"Now is not the time for you to show off your superiority," Queen Selasi said.
"If you don't say it now, then when?" Kroll said sternly. Among all the rulers, he was most disappointed with Selasi. She was known as the reincarnation of Goddess of Magic, and he thought that such a wise and powerful mage would approve of his theory. As a result, she was just like everyone else - short-sighted and only concerned about her path to world domination.
"Kroll," Verek warned. Kroll took a deep breath to calm down. When everyone else treated him like a dog, only Verek and Korak Empire were willing to give him shelter. So, he decided to show some respect to the latter.
"You once asked me, what should we do in this situation?" Kroll looked at Verek and said. "My suggestion is to accept his proposal and surrender."
"So, you are openly betraying our world now," Karak said in a cold tone. However, Kroll ignored him and continued to speak to Verek.
"We are doomed," Kroll said. "This is an irrefutable fact."
"You are exaggerating," Verek said, trying to stop these people from using his words as an excuse to persecute Kroll.
"Any civilization capable of interstellar travel has developed to an incredible level," Kroll continued. "The invader said he was a member named 'Arcane Empire', and we can infer that this is a Empire that spans countless worlds and stars. His appearance means that the coordinates of our world have been exposed, so it is no longer important whether we can defeat him - there will be others coming. By then, what they send will not just be a tall tower like that."
The room suddenly became quiet, and then a representative of a medium-sized kingdom suddenly shouted, "Maybe he is lying. He may have been a gangster or a pirate at the beginning, and just accidentally discovered a spaceship of an ancient civilization."
"Yeah, he's probably trying to intimidate us," echoed another. Soon, more and more people were coming up with excuses to refute Kroll's remarks. However, he remained calm and said:
"According to my experiments, World Will will severely restrict any foreign matter entering our world, and this restriction is much more severe for any living thing. However, that Arcanist not only came in, but also sent an army of warriors and mages to fight us, no, defeated us, and did not suffer any backlash. Do you understand what this means?"
"Everyone was silent again.
"Their civilization has developed technology that can interfere with World Will," Kroll finished. Empress Selasi groaned while rubbing her temples. "We will consider your words."
"You can do whatever you like - it has nothing to do with me," Kroll replied. He then prepared to turn off his holographic projection.
"Wait a minute," Verek said, looking directly at him. "Kroll, where are you now?"
Kroll paused. "I think there is no need to wait until later. I am on my way to surrender."
"What!" The room was in chaos until Selasi and Karak used their power to temporarily silence everyone.
"What do you mean?"
"I want to do one last thing for this world," Kroll explained calmly. "I left a life card in my laboratory. If it goes out, then you will know that Arcanist did not keep his promise and had no intention of accepting surrender."
"You!" Verek said.
"As a condition of my surrender, I will ask that I not be used as a propaganda tool to influence our world to surrender," Kroll continued. "If you see me doing this, then know that my mind and soul have been controlled by him and do not believe me under any circumstances.
"May Goddess of Magic Vivik bless you all."