The news that an emperor had been slaughtered in the marketplace like a stray dog had sent the Capital City into an uproar.
But here, in the Imperial Palace, the very center of power in Great Zhao, almost no one cared.
Due to the Emperor of Zhao's long-standing neglect of his duties, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister Liu had long ago seized control of the Imperial Palace's entire Forbidden Army.
Now, under the banner of "eradicating the demon plaguing the nation," the Crown Prince and the Prime Minister were leading thirty thousand soldiers of the Forbidden Army toward the Gilded Dragon Hall!
WHOOSH—
Blinding flames erupted from the once majestic and resplendent Gilded Dragon Hall. As the great vermilion pillars shrieked and splintered in the inferno, the entire structure lost its last supports and collapsed into rubble with a thunderous crash.
A wave of heat blasted them, flushing the faces of the nearby soldiers red.
