"Our side was screwed over too, and somehow it was our fault?"
Emperor Goethe felt the anguish of "had I known how this would end, why did I ever do it?" Was this the price of being a fence-sitter?!
He regretted his indecision when Xiao Ying had persuaded him, and regretted his outward obedience and secret defiance after receiving Xiao Ying's orders.
As the ruler of the Radiant Divine Kingdom, Emperor Goethe was naturally no fool when it came to intelligence and cunning. Yet he suffered from the failing of "great intelligence breeding suspicion and indecision." Selfish and afraid of death, he planned every move believing he could "advance or retreat at will and draw favor from both sides." In the end, he had instead lost his footing in both advance and retreat, pleasing neither side!
Still, with his intelligence, Emperor Goethe naturally understood that the Hero Coalition's cause was lost, and the Great Huan Faction had set its sights on him. Thus, however uncertain the consequences, he could only follow Xiao Ying's wishes-and do an even better job, to redeem his crimes through meritorious service!
The charge of the Great Huan cavalry, coupled with the internal strife among the Radiant Divine Kingdom and the Otherworlders, heaped snow upon the Hero Coalition's frost. Its once meticulous, solid formation collapsed, its defeated troops falling like a landslide. The Hero Coalition, vast as an ocean, began a full withdrawal-or rather, a rout.
Within the area covered by Heaven's Veil, even the Dragon Clan, acknowledged as the strongest in the Hero Civilization-including red dragons, green dragons, black dragons, bone dragons, and others-could not fly without fleshy wings. Like enormous crawling reptiles, they could only endure the Great Huan cavalry's ravages on the ground and stubbornly resist!
Under these circumstances, the four great