The white barrier protecting the Little Emperor and Ernest trembled.
This was the repulsive field generated by the Supreme Imperial Arms, 'God-Protecting Machine', stored in the warehouse beneath the main hall.
As long as the Emperor sat on the throne, the God-Protecting Machine would automatically protect him.
"You, you're crazy! Esdeath! How dare you—how dare you lay a hand on His Majesty the Emperor! And, and you killed so many ministers!" Ernest pointed at Esdeath in terror.
Oh no, oh no, has Esdeath gone mad from killing too many barbarians in the north?
If he had encountered any other Teigu User, he wouldn't have panicked at all.
He possessed one of the most unique of the 48 Imperial Arms, 'Gemstone Headpiece: Ireldton'.
Although this Imperial Arms had no offensive power, it could destroy Imperial Arms, but only two Imperial Arms were indestructible.
One was the Supreme Imperial Arms: God-Protecting Machine, and the second Imperial Arms was the blood-type Imperial Arms, Demon's Extract: Demon God Manifestation. The former was a symbol of the Emperor, and the latter was originally the blood of a Super Danger Class.
"Explanation? I don't need to explain to you. You just need to bow down and be trampled, hehehehe." Esdeath said with a smile, her voice filled with the thrill of killing.
"Speaking of which, this is my first time killing someone from the Empire."
In her eyes, the Empire's noble officials were no different from ordinary people in the Empire; they were all just weaklings who could be killed with a wave of her hand.
Power? Money? These were meaningless in the face of absolute martial might.
"What?" The Little Emperor's face darkened, and he roared, "General Esdeath, am I to assume you have betrayed the Empire!"
He couldn't accept that the General of the Empire, who had just been distributing his rewards to the soldiers, would turn her blade against the Empire the next moment.
Esdeath said calmly, "Betrayal? I have never been loyal to the Empire. I became a General of the Empire merely to satisfy my desire for battle."
"Unforgivable, unforgivable! I absolutely cannot forgive you!" The Little Emperor's body trembled with rage.
Boom!
Blue lightning flashed within the glacier that had frozen the ministers.
"Oh~" Esdeath glanced over.
"Rebel and traitor!"
A rough roar sounded, and streams of blue lightning, thick as arms, shot up into the sky, shattering the glacier within the main hall.
The ministers who had been frozen inside were all turned into ice shards.
A muscular figure, with lightning coursing over his body, walked out from the ice shards.
General Bude's eyes were bloodshot at this moment. He had been frozen due to a momentary lapse and had spent a lot of effort to get out of the ice.
Not to mention that if he had come out any later, he would have frozen to death himself, but during that time, the safety of His Majesty the Emperor would have been in question, which would have been his dereliction of duty.
"Esdeath! You rebel and traitor! Who do you serve? The Revolutionary Army or the Religious State?"
General Bude questioned, seething with rage.
"General Bude, capture Esdeath alive! I must give an explanation to the ministers she killed!"
The Little Emperor shouted.
"I understand, Your Majesty. Please wait a moment."
General Bude's eyes were sharp. His Imperial Arms on his hands clashed, and blue lightning instantly surged, two lightning orbs half a meter in diameter shot towards Esdeath.
"Rebel and traitor, surrender!"
Boom!
The lightning filled the air with a scorching smell.
But Esdeath's eyes were full of disdain. She could defeat General Bude within twenty moves even before she became a 'Candidate God'.
And now, she could utterly defeat him in one move.
"Hehehe, weak, too weak, so weak that it's impossible for me to even look at you properly."
Esdeath grinned. Her physical capabilities increased several times at this moment, and even her terrifying power and mass were continuously surging.
This was the effect of the skill she had just acquired.
As long as she considered the opponent weak, then the opponent was weak, and if they were weak, they deserved to be mercilessly crushed by her.
"Hehehe! Trample you!" Esdeath instantly conjured a long sword made of ice in her hand.
This long sword was not ice-blue, but deep blue, far exceeding ice-blue in temperature and hardness, even harder than steel.
She had imbued the sword with divinity; the ice attached with divinity was no longer something of the mortal realm.
The two half-meter lightning orbs were instantly cut in half, and before General Bude could react, she was in front of him.
"Hehe!" Esdeath did not end General Bude's life with one strike. Instead, she kicked him in the face, spitting out a mouthful of teeth. General Bude turned into a cannonball and smashed into a pillar of the palace.
After continuously breaking three pillars with loud crashes, he stopped.
"Ah! Pfft!" General Bude screamed, spitting out large mouthfuls of blood, which instantly turned into red ice shards on the ground.
"How is this possible! How can you, this rebel and traitor, be so strong!"
He didn't even have time to react! He was called the strongest person twenty years before Esdeath!
"Old man, show me all your skills. Killing you like this would be too boring." Esdeath said wantonly, "Only by shattering such delusions when the enemy believes they have a chance is it called trampling!"
"General Bude!" The Little Emperor shouted.
General Bude, like Ernest, was a minister entrusted by his deceased father to look after him,
To him, he was like a family member.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, this old minister was just careless for a moment." General Bude spat out the remaining teeth from his mouth, his eyes bloodshot.
"Rebel and traitor, then let me show you the ultimate skill of my Imperial Arms, Thunder God's Wrath: Adramelech!"
General Bude raised his hands high, his armguard Imperial Arms clashing together,
"Tsk~" Esdeath was full of contempt, just standing there blankly, completely courting death.
"Lightning Condensation Shot—" General Bude roared, all the lightning on his body condensed together and shot towards the sky above his head.
Boom boom boom! The dome of the main hall was instantly shattered by the lightning, shooting straight into the sky.
General Bude also floated into mid-air, pulled by the lightning, and his whole body turned into a being of lightning.
Boom boom boom! The clear sky instantly darkened, and a patch of black thunderclouds gathered over the palace, with streaks of lightning connecting to General Bude's hands.
"As expected of General Bude! Hahahaha, even Esdeath will—uh—"
Honest hadn't even had time to laugh before his voice abruptly stopped.
He only saw General Bude, who had clearly unleashed his divine power, fall headfirst straight to the ground.
A deep blue ice sword pierced through his chest.
"Aaaaaah—.." General Bude screamed as he crashed to the ground, the ice sword in his chest was very sharp, directly pinning him to the ground.
"General Bude!" The Little Emperor was furious: "Esdeath!"
"Too slow—·I couldn't even wait, hehehe—." Esdeath giggled, pressing her palm to the ground, and an ice pillar burst forth, instantly sending her high into the palace's sky.
"I've changed my mind, Little Emperor, you should disappear with the Empire."
"Hehehe."
The ice-blue freezing air rapidly spread, and a massive ice meteor, a hundred meters in diameter, appeared, falling straight towards the Imperial Palace.