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The time of reckoning has come.

Chapter 15 Great Purge

Chapter 15

Gao Wen's timing was certainly good.

When he came to Ars yesterday, he already knew that there would be a morning meeting of the highest level today, and the discussion would naturally be about things related to him.

But isn't this better?

It would be more convenient to discuss if he came in person.

Perhaps the movement just now was still somewhat obvious. Some nobles had already fled from the Silver Palace in a frenzy. Gawain made a simple identification and found that the red scarf he had requested last night was not tied around his arm.

Then die.

With a casual wave of his hand, the bronze knight statues on both sides of the road fell down one after another. Spears and swords cut all the cowardly fugitives into pieces, and the blood and internal organs stained the entire royal path.

Gawain still remembered that he had once passed by it in a carriage.

Pinky promise.

The knight statues changed direction in unison, and the bronze spears and swords fell from their hands, floating obediently around Gawain who had fallen to the ground.

Teams of silver-armored knights ran out of the palace. The moment they saw Gawain, they immediately fell into panic. Some of them quickly made way and knelt down to surrender at the command of their leader. Others followed suit after seeing their teammates surrender. Only a very few tried to talk to Gawain about the rules after seeing the tragic scene not far away.

Then, their helmets wrapped around their heads and turned in a circle, and their swords flew out and floated to Gawain's side.

Walking on the red velvet carpet, Gawain hummed a tune as he entered the familiar audience room. The rulers of Asra immediately fell silent because of his appearance.

All the nobles and ministers retreated in panic, leaving a large open space for him. Gawain stood comfortably and casually in the center of the entire audience room, with one hand in his pocket and the other hand he took out a small notebook and flipped through a few pages.

"Gentlemen, from now on, you may address me as the [God of War]."

Dozens of spears hovering behind Gawain stabbed down, pinning dozens of nobles to the spot amidst the crowd's desperate cries. A drop of blood drifted over and smeared across a line in the small notebook in Gawain's hand:

"Forget about [Demon God], it doesn't sound very nice."

Next, hundreds of long swords fell.

Another line is also erased:

"Let's just write off your previous plot against me."

The decorative swords, axes, spears and knives that had been hanging everywhere in the audience room for hundreds of years also flew up and rained down, turning the entire audience room into a sea of ​​blood and massacre. The white-haired old man on the throne was holding his chest with his hands, his face turning blue with fear. The white-haired old lady holding the golden sword seemed to have her eyes lowered, with no intention of making a move at all.

The third line is thus eliminated:

"Let's forget about the non-cooperation."

The fourth line:

"Well... there's also the matter of embezzling aid funds."

By the time Gawain finished writing a page, the only people still alive in the entire audience were the royal family members, guards, and a small number of people with red ribbons tied around their arms.

Gao Wen looked around in confusion:

"Why are they all dead?"

He walked through the pool of blood and sighed as he came before King Asura. He gently stroked the old man's white hair, which was much thinner than in the past few months, and advised:

"King, your subordinates are nothing but insects."

King Asra trembled:

"The operation of the country...must involve the participation of the nobility..."

Gawain shook his head:

"No, that's not necessary. I've studied the Asura Kingdom's system. It's maintained entirely by the administrative officer class and the non-hereditary lower-level honorary nobles. It has nothing to do with the great nobles present."

Gawain smashed King Asra aside.

After slowly rotating the golden throne, which weighed over ten tons, he sat upright on it, crossed his legs, and asked the three heirs who had collapsed on the ground:

"Who among you will become the next King Asura?"

The second prince, who had been nailed to the wall by Gawain before, suppressed his instinctive fear and knelt on one knee, saying flatteringly:

"Of course it's you! Your Majesty, the great God of War!"

Gawain tilted his head and sighed:

"You don't understand the question, right?"

He drew out the golden sword of the water god, who had turned at the same time as him and was standing beside him, and cut the second prince in half. Then he returned the sword to the water god and asked her to wipe it clean.

The eldest prince, kneeling in the middle, glanced at his brother's death and almost vomited, not to mention the corpse of his father, whose eyes seemed to be still looking at him, not far in front of him. However, his desire for power and the desire to survive still drove him:

"Your Majesty, the God of War, please hand this corrupt country over to me. I will make it what you desire and serve you forever."

Gao Wen applauded:

"That is nice."

The eldest prince, with all his cunning, forcibly suppressed his ecstasy. He subconsciously glanced at his foolish sister, who was still curled up in a ball and trembling. What good was a more perfect bloodline? Wouldn't he still be the winner? No laughing! No laughing! At least until...

"puff--"

The eldest prince vomited blood and collapsed to the ground powerlessly.

Gawain put away his sword again. He had good intentions and just wanted to cut in half the eldest prince who was the most troublesome and the one he hated the most.

The eldest prince was in disbelief and asked with difficulty:

"Why... why..."

Gawain took out a silver flute and answered casually:

"I was just asking for fun, don't take it too seriously! It was decided from the beginning that Ariel would be the next king, and I've always intended to kill you."

Hearing this, Ariel, who had no idea of ​​the current situation, raised her pretty face with tears streaming down her face, looked blankly at Gawain, and then at her brother who could not help but shed tears of blood.

Ariel is in disbelief:

"Why...me?"

Gawain answered every question only after he played his flute:

"The Dragon God chose it. If you want to thank someone, thank that guy."

The next moment, the glorious Almanfi appeared on one knee beside Gawain, as if he didn't mind the fresh bloodstains winding on the marble floor at all, and didn't notice the pile of noble corpses on the side of him.

"Your Majesty, the God of War, please give your orders."

"Send Pergius over with the Aerial Fortress to take charge. That woman will be the next King of Asura. For the time being, assist her in controlling the situation in the Asura Kingdom and await my further instructions."

"As ordered."

The man in the fox mask disappeared immediately after receiving the order.

Gawain stood up, patted his clean new clothes, and reached out to Ariel, who was lying limp on the ground.

Ariel extended her hand with an expression that Gawain could not understand, and was helped by him to stand up, then slumped down on Asra's throne. The eldest prince, who was not yet dead, seemed unable to accept his fate, but before Gawain could make a move, the water god sighed and sent out a fighting spirit to end his life.

With a simple tacit understanding, the water god has surrendered.

Gawain casually pushed the throne back to its original position, and the surviving nobles and ministers gathered together, suppressing their fear.

In the audience filled with corpses and blood.

Gawain announced with a smile:

"I will crown you."

At this moment, a huge stone-white fortress broke through the space and moved to the sky above the royal capital of Ars. It spread its blue wings, cast a large shadow, and overlooked the thousand-year-old city.

Chapter 16 World, Surrender

Chapter 16 World, Surrender

Soon, the Armored Dragon King Pergius, surrounded by his twelve familiars, stepped into the blood-stained audience room.

The next King of Asura, Ariel Anemoi Asura, wanted to stand up to greet him, but his legs were too weak to stand, so he could only bow and apologize from a distance.

Gawain leaned against the back of the throne bored, until the Ankylosaur King suddenly took the lead and knelt on one knee in front of him. Gawain raised his eyes, somewhat confused about the other party's actions.

Pergius also seemed to be completely oblivious to the bloody scene around him, and only greeted respectfully:

"Your Majesty, the venerable God of War, your servant, Pergius Dora, has been summoned to an audience."

Gawain waved his hand, signaling him to stand up.

Only then did Gawain realize that Pergius seemed to have misunderstood his previous invitation to an alliance as a recruitment, and the so-called "the full power of the aerial fortress at his disposal" meant surrender.

But let it be, Gao Wen was too lazy to explain.

He ordered:

"Pergius, Asura will be handed over to your aerial fortress for the time being."

Gawain then looked at the very understanding and taciturn water goddess Leta and asked inquiringly:

"Leda, you Water Gods will assist Pergius and Ariel, right?"

The water goddess Leta took off the golden sword given to King Asura from her waist, knelt on one knee, and raised her hands above her head:

"I and the Water God Flu ask Your Majesty, the Martial God, to forgive me."

Gawain grabbed the golden sword he had used several times, strengthened it, added an enchantment to it, and threw it back into the hands of the water god:

"Then you will listen to Pergius for now."

Gawain casually conjured a jet-black crown from thin air, gently placed it on Ariel's head, and whispered congratulations in her ear:

"Good luck, last king of Asura."

He didn't care about Ariel's reaction, but stood up again and led the thunderous applause. The surviving nobles and ministers immediately lined up on both sides of the aerial fortress and knelt, happily celebrating the new king's coronation.

Everyone laughed and applauded.

Gao Wen then nodded in satisfaction.

After the simple coronation celebration ended, Gawain withdrew his gaze from the hall smeared with the blood, flesh and organs of the powerful and noble, and calmly announced:

"Start your work. I'll come back for inspection later."

Then, he disappeared into the Silver Palace.

Next.

Gawain first went to the Labyrinth of Hell to retrieve the Battle God Armor. He then extracted a vein of metal from the Earth's mantle and sealed the Battle God Armor's crude physical properties within a 100 million ton mass of mixed metal. He then placed it underground near the core of Academy City, setting up dual surveillance, both magical and scientific.

I had a brief conversation with Orsted about the schedule for the second half.

The great conquest began.

In three hours, Gawain killed more than three hundred noble families and eleven royal families in fourteen countries of the Central Continent, and easily established fourteen puppet kings with unbreakable positions. The bodies of nobles and royal families were hung everywhere by him.

At the last stop of the Central Continent, Gawain came to the Kingdom of King Dragon, which he had a good impression of, and visited and greeted King Stelbio again.

Gao Wen is straightforward:

"Is the Wanglong Kingdom willing to submit? Thanks to my favorable impression of you, I can tell you frankly that according to my plan, the entire human world will be unified, and kings and nobles will no longer exist. In other words, your submission will cost you everything except your life and the opportunity to succeed."

He floated in the air, his arms open wide.

"Therefore, I allow you to rebel, and I promise you that your rebellion against me here and now will not incur any consequences."

The nobles and ministers were filled with grief and indignation, but not even one of them dared to look up at the sun-like being. The Wanglong Kingdom and the Wanglong Mountains were looming, and precisely because of this, they were more aware of the horror that the kingdom's narrow northern border had now turned into a plain.

King Stelbio slowly spoke:

"Your Majesty, the venerable God of War, are you willing to condescend to challenge the kingdom's strongest warrior?"

Gao Wen recalled:

"I think I fought him."

The golden-armored knight serving behind King Stelbio knelt on one knee in shame and bowed his head deeply to show respect. It was obvious that the overestimation of his own abilities at that time was not even a battle for the God of War.

King Stelbio shook his head.