The fall of Cairo was like an apocalypse that had descended out of nowhere on the Ottoman Empire, an apocalypse that directly reduced the empire, once one of the overlords of Europe, from being the second-largest on the continent after Russia to a country about the same size as the Holy Roman Empire.
"Crack!"
Mehmed IV couldn't have experienced a bigger humiliation. From being the strongest and most powerful ruler in Europe to becoming the weakest and standing on the edge of elimination, the fall shook him to his core. His emotions were chaotic, swirling like a storm inside him, filled with unbridled rage, great desperation, and even a creeping fear that he dared not admit to himself.
