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Chapter 9: Why risk your life with just a few gold coins a month?
"Yes..." was the only way the prince could reply.

The empire only has this little wealth left...

The prince began to give orders to the Royal Knights. These were the empire's last elite troops, thousands of them, each of them an elite-level knight or above, including dozens of heroic-level cavalry captains.

When did the empire become impoverished and weak?
It seems that it was about twenty years ago that the empire began to become what it is today after the power struggle against General Barak.

He would not regret taking action against General Barak. After all, he was one of the masterminds of that plan. If General Barak had not died, countless nobles in the entire empire would have supported General Barak to become the new king.

Even the Holy See would support Barak as the new king.

They had to do this for the sake of Leoric's royal throne and for the prince to become the new emperor in the future.

If it is not an empire of the royal family of Leoric, it is better to just destroy it.

The Royal Knights were ready, and this group of the empire's last fighting force began to march, their target being their former comrades, the Knights Templar of the Holy See.

Looking at the knights going away, the prince could only pray that this time the event would be completed smoothly just like twenty years ago.

After all, we still need to deal with the oncoming army of the undead tomorrow.

……

The morale of the departing Royal Knights had already reached its lowest point.

"Are we really going to fight the Knights Templar?" a young knight whispered.

"Shh! Keep your voice down." The other knights nearby immediately reminded.

The young knight immediately covered his mouth.

"We're just going to do it for show. When the time comes, we can just take the heads of some untouchables and pretend to be the Paladins."

"Also, don't rush too far forward. You don't want to become a sinner who will be remembered in history, do you?" The old knight reminded the young knight.

Their conversations were similar throughout the Royal Knights and even throughout the Imperial Army.

After all, twenty years ago, General Barak, who charged into the front area to attack the Lich King, became a heinous sinner, while General Julia, who led the escape, became a great general after returning to the empire.

The soldiers didn't say it, but they knew it in their hearts.

Just a few gold coins a month, what's the point of risking your life?
If a fight really breaks out, everyone will run faster than the other. After all, if you run slowly, you will also become a sinner.

Just when the Royal Knights were less than ten miles away from the palace, they encountered the Holy Knights who were searching for Xue Falun's whereabouts.

Both sides were stunned for a moment, and then the Paladins immediately began to prepare for battle. They replaced their war hammers with their swords, picked up their several-meter-long knight lances, and began to prepare for the charge.

The Royal Knights were not badly organized, after all, they were the most elite legion in the empire, but they did not immediately think of confronting the Paladins.

After all, even if we talk about the types of troops, each of the Paladins is a super heavy cavalryman carrying hundreds of kilograms, while their Royal Knights are only light cavalryman carrying dozens of kilograms, and they will only end up being crushed in a confrontation.

"Go around and meet in the slums!" The commander of the Royal Knights also gave the order immediately.

The light cavalry immediately turned around the dock and began to disperse and move around.

The two groups started chasing and fighting on the streets of the imperial capital. The entire imperial capital seemed to be in an earthquake, and the sound of horses' hooves on the ground resounded like bursts of loud bells and thunder.

……

Another secret letter was handed to the current Imperial General Julia. Looking at this letter, which promised to lead the last of the Empire's militia to defend the Imperial Capital, General Julia burst into tears.

Even though he has been defeated time and again and has reached this point, does the emperor still trust him?
Ever since he led his soldiers on a "transfer" to become the new Grand General in order to prevent the Imperial Army from being annihilated twenty years ago when they were fighting against the Lich King together with General Barak, they have not won a single victory.

To be honest, he regretted not resisting the undead army and choosing the decision of "transferring".

Back then, General Barak killed the Lich King once. If the remaining troops could join General Barak in attacking the undead army, they might have really sealed the Lich King.

In that case, there would not be the current undead plague, and dozens of cities in the empire would not have been lost, and tens of millions of people would not have become part of the undead army.

The greatest impact on the empire is glory and morale.

No one fights bravely anymore, and in every battle there will be countless soldiers who flee, and then these fleeing soldiers will form a torrent that will cause the entire military discipline to collapse.

What about the supervisory team?

Sorry, the supervision team ran away first.

Even after countless rectifications of military discipline, morale did not improve effectively. If they won a battle, it would be fine, but as long as there was any stalemate, the war situation would deteriorate rapidly.

Perhaps, as long as this deserter general is still alive, the morale of the imperial army will never be boosted.

Looking at the direction of the undead army in the distance, General Julia seemed to have made the final decision in his life.

……

The rotten situation and war situation in the entire imperial capital can leave anyone confused.

But for Xue Falu at this moment, it was like a fish in water.

After assassinating a royal knight who was stranded alone in the slums, Xue Falu successfully changed into his clothes and swaggered towards the palace.

At this time, the guards in the palace were extremely lax. Even if they were stopped, they would be let go when they saw Xue Lufa's emblem of the Royal Knights.

Everything went so smoothly that Xue Lufen felt that this difficulty level was countless times easier than the lowest difficulty level when he played Assassin's Creed.

Did I overestimate this empire from another world?
However, when he successfully arrived at the emperor's bedroom, Xue Lufen saw countless maids walking around, and then the sound of conversation in the imperial language.

"Your Majesty is incontinent again. Clean it up quickly and put on a new loincloth..."

"It's leaking, the drain is leaking, catch it quickly..."

"Oh no! His Majesty hasn't cleaned up yet and he's starting to move around again. Quickly hold him down..."

The maids were in a panic. Even Xue Lufa, the gentleman on the wall, could smell the stench and the unique smell of an old man rotting.

Xue Fazhen basically couldn't understand the Imperial language, and his knowledge of the Imperial language was limited to the chanting of a few divine spells.

But the old undead could understand. Through Xue Law's vision, Old Barak saw the enemy he had been thinking about and wanting revenge on for twenty years, the emperor of the empire...

At this moment, he was like a dead man. The maids accidentally covered his mouth with their hands that had touched his loincloth, leaving yellow stuff on his face, and he didn't even know it.

So old that he can be manipulated by others.

Especially the maids' muttering and complaints made the old undead who was originally seeking revenge speechless for a long time.

(End of this chapter)