Inside the auditorium, the people of Heaven Dou had fallen utterly silent after watching the smoothly flowing spectacle of destruction through the perspective of the Warp Prism in the sky, which carried a camera Soul Tool for the live broadcast.
The two great sects had undergone almost exactly the same process of destruction, but the Flame Demon Sect had also provided them with precious footage of a fire-type Titled Douluo struggling in the flames until his death.
"Ahem."
Once everything was over, Leng Xiyue said with a smile, "That concludes our punitive operation. However, as a responsible empire, we will not inflict any damage that diminishes the value of a friendly nation's terrain. The final layer of ice will thaw after some time."
"In the end, these two mountains will become two high-quality quarries. The extreme changes in temperature and the destruction of the treasures at the sect compounds may even produce some decent minerals. This should presumably help promote the development of the building materials and furniture markets."
Broadcasting the destruction live had already been inhuman enough, but those final remarks sounded even less like something a human would say.
Fucking quarries? After wiping them out, instead of issuing harsh threats to intimidate the people of Heaven Dou, or making declarations about the Jiuzhou Empire's might and capitalizing on their shock for some relatively normal intimidation, the first thing she mentioned was these two quarries that held little value on an imperial scale?
Had she actually said those things, they might have felt a little better.
Yes, in truth, it was precisely this dismissiveness and banter that conveyed an even greater terror. If two of the Lower Three Sects could become high-quality quarries today, then who knew whether the Upper Three Sects might become some high-quality iron mines, or