"Heavens!"
"This..."
"This..."
The sight before them was staggering.
Thousands of rebels were frozen where they stood, and everything around them seemed to have become a world of ice.
Every building was coated in solid ice, and a bitter chill hung in the air.
In the blink of an eye, the kingdom's rebellion had been put down.
The warships had not even reached shore.
Off the kingdom's coast, Esdeath stood on the ice, then leaped back aboard the Kronos Kingdom Navy Warship.
She looked toward the three Marine Admirals and the many Navy Officers aboard the other warships.
As part of the United Government's plan, these Navy Officers had secretly come to the North Blue.
Next, they would travel through Reverse Mountain and disperse across the Four Seas. More Navy Warships were already on their way.
They had watched Esdeath kill every one of those revolutionaries with her power.
By freezing them.
Some looked approving; others could not hide their discomfort.
Their reactions plainly reflected the different temperaments of the Navy Officers.
But Esdeath had been the one to act, and she had shown no mercy.
To her, anyone who incited rebellion deserved to die, civilian or not.
They were not subjects of the Kronos Kingdom anyway. It did not matter how many she killed, so long as she achieved her goal.
Besides, it was the most efficient way.
She had no patience to sort the civilians from the actual revolutionaries.
"My father said you may deal with the ordinary revolutionary soldiers and rebellious civilians as you see fit."
"But the Revolutionary Army's principal and core members must be captured alive or killed. Not one is to escape."
"You are all carefully selected Navy Officers. If any of you are found to have deliberately let a Revolutionary Army Cadre go,