Crash—!
As a cup shattered, Xu Tianran roared furiously,
"What did you say? The Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Corps was wiped out?! Not a single person survived—not even Wang Yiheng and Xia Xuanchen—?!"
"Y-Yes... This humble official would never dare deceive Your Majesty!"
An official knelt before Xu Tianran, trembling all over, his face and voice filled with terror.
"..." Xu Tianran's eyes were bloodshot. He panted heavily and clenched his fists before finally letting out another roar. "Get out! Don't let me see you again!"
"Y-Yes! Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty!"
The minister gratefully kowtowed twice, then scrambled and crawled out of Xu Tianran's room.
Ju Zi came to Xu Tianran's side and gently placed her hand over his. She said nothing, using only her actions to soothe the frenzy in his heart.
Xu Tianran remained silent for a long while before finally speaking with difficulty.
"Ju Zi, do you think this is real?"
Ju Zi replied softly,
"Your Majesty, you are confused. At a time like this, you should not be asking me whether it is real. You should be asking what we should do next. That is more like Your Majesty's usual style."
"...That's true."
Xu Tianran could not help but smile bitterly.
The loss of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Corps being completely wiped out was simply too painful for him.
The Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineers were not particularly strong as a whole. Its current national strength had been accumulated over hundreds and thousands of years. Thus, every Soul Engineer Corps lost was a tremendous blow, not to mention that the one annihilated was the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Corps, one of the Five Great Hands of the Nation's Protection.
The destruction of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Corps meant that the