Chapter 320

No matter who this talking piece of torn cloth inside the sphere is, being bound in the core by the Earth Resentment Demon, a completely chaotic evil being, clearly relates to that war back then, and there's even an 80% chance it's a high-ranking combatant of the Dark Flame Empire.

Although I have no ties to either side of the war, Silvia and Grayson are both commanders of the Light Alliance, so as their leader I ought to consider their positions and feelings.

So Ji Ming didn't keep giving the rag a pleasant face; instead, with a slap he slammed the hundred‑jin Earth Resentment Ball onto the table forged from fine steel.

"Listen up, you survivor from ten thousand years ago, no matter who you once were, you are now nothing more than my spoils and a prisoner; tell me everything you know, and perhaps I can spare your life!"

Light Alliance

Having been suppressed for countless years, the red rag that originally had a lot to say trembled at the words, but could only suppress its fear.

"Okay, okay… I… my main component right now should be the Third Prince of the Dark Flame Empire… right?"

Second Princess

What do you mean by this? Together with a vessel owl doctor climbing and staggering, this component is still quite complex?

Ji Ming was left unable to respond to that remark, so he lowered his voice and asked accordingly.

Qin Er Shi

Tang Taizong

Six-ring Magic

Blue Dragon

Dark Flame Imperial Family

Lao Shisan

Lao Shiliu

National Teacher

Three-ring Magic

Salvation Plan

Machine Month

"Sorry, this is the main perspective of the Crown Prince's secret meeting held behind closed doors! Goodness… it turns out my other siblings are all like this……"

Possibly some hellish jokes, upon hearing this Ji Ming actually let out a long sigh of relief, because as a transmigrator who has already seen much in another world, he had prepared himself for the Crown Prince to become a monster, ready to ruin all his brothers and sisters.

After all, nobles who have long enjoyed luxury tend to seek out novel pastimes; flipping through history books, almost all the evil deeds of modern people can be found there, and they often become even more extreme—who would have thought it was merely the slaughter of other royal family members, which truly isn't outrageous.

Yang Month People

Founding Emperor of Dark Flame

Dark Flame Royal Clan

Wallfacing Plan

The Crown Prince's reason for acting against his siblings is also understandable, given how fiercely the Dark Flame Empire competes in magic; consequently, the royal family naturally becomes even more frenzied and twisted.

His own magical talent isn't particularly strong; he can only be a formal mage of around level twenty-plus, having merely learned in advance the six‑ring magic that only job‑changers can wield, compared to his six younger sister who innately possesses a magical fairy spirit and his four younger brother who could tame a blue dragon at age eight, he really is rather lame.

Helpless, in order to secure his position as heir and avoid the eventual sacrifice, he could only seek support everywhere while continually eliminating rivals who threatened him.

Bright Empire

Today he killed Old Thirteen, who had been taken as a disciple by eight Holy Magi; tomorrow another pops up, Old Sixteen, who can out‑debate the State Preceptor; the day after tomorrow, perhaps one of the Father Emperor's concubines will, with a clang, give birth to a child whose whole body is covered in white holy sigils, and in the womb the child was already a magically chosen infant.

Holy Maiden

33? Actually we have Holy Maiden already.

So the Crown Prince's gaze toward these surviving siblings softened; this bunch of kids who can only learn three‑ring magic at fourteen are truly adorable—if only my own brothers and sisters could be that cute.

So he would occasionally give them expensive gifts, and on top of that he constantly held extravagant invitation banquets; while he was killing those genius siblings to death, he was practically spoiling the mediocre ones to death.

As a result, nobody believed that the constantly falling royal geniuses were actually being done in by the loyal and mild‑mannered Crown Prince; instead, they thought the royal bloodline was too strong, and the world's will couldn't stand it and intervened.

"Is there anything you want to say?"

【The world law also acted】

"Fine."

Of course intervention was needed; at that time the Dark Flame Empire had been waging war year after year, almost setting the whole world ablaze, countless small countries were forcibly annexed, and all men and women with strong magical talent were sent into the palace to further strengthen the bloodline.

If that were all, for the world will that merely maintains civilization's existence and is actually quite ruthless at its core, it would naturally be nothing; after all, if they could truly cultivate an all‑star lineup……

Even if the sacrifice were great, facing the impending Machine Month would give them a bit more confidence; all of this is part of the salvation plan, a necessary sacrifice.

But the problem is, this sacrifice is just too damn big!

The Dark Flame Empire certainly has many mages, yet not a single one is willing to use that ability for the people; indeed, those high‑and‑mighty ones don't even regard the people as human, and in war they are accustomed to taking pleasure in slaughtering enemy nations.

Thus, while Yang Month was busy scouting other worlds for a new savior, a glance back showed that in less than five years the number of sentient beings on the planet had plummeted by at least thirty percent, with many small countries outright wiped out and turned into undead ghost states.

Moreover, the reliable combat power lost in the war far exceeded the Dark Flame Empire's new gains; at the very least, the sixty‑seventh savior, who had been doing a decent job, ended up collapsing under the Dark Flame Empire's army's indiscriminate bombardment while trying to save the people of his territory.

Now Yang Month slowly realized something was wrong; if the Dark Flame Empire kept steamrolling like this, when the Machine Month arrived, wouldn't they just be able to swoop in and take the fruit?

So it hurriedly used every means to investigate the various royal secrets behind the Dark Flame Empire, sparing no effort, and finally learned the truth behind their utter obsession.

——Although the Machine Month withdrew all its mechanical beasts after its previous defeat, it secretly left behind a storage disk readable by the people of Yang Month!

Inside, besides the various magical secrets they had collected, there were also blatant and covert ideas akin to brainwashing survival of the fittest; after obtaining it, the founding emperor of the Dark Flame Empire, who gradually came to fervently believe in this doctrine, concealed the existence of such a treasure and has preserved it as a shadowy inheritance to this day.

Furthermore, over successive generations of emperors studying and interpreting it, they gradually sanctified this treasure, regarding the welcoming of the Machine Month's arrival as the mission of the entire Dark Flame royal family.

In short, it's just—the Wallfacer Project, but set by the Trisolarans.

【Who would have thought? The savior heavenly troupe I had high hopes for was actually, from the very start, a dog of the Machine Month, and still would secretly worship the moon and offer sacrifices, rushing into the livestream every night at the first moment to greet the host—a brain‑dead solo fan!】

The situation is urgent; there's no time left to look for another savior, so Yang Month can only hurriedly contact the still‑online Heaven's Chosen One, namely the Holy Maiden of the Sunflame Church of the Bright Empire, to see if she has any ideas.

As everyone knows, Yang Month is a world where everywhere is a harsh, O. Henry‑like grind, so this Holy Maiden is not a welfare role constantly fighting over a two‑foot cloth with various factions, but a genuinely capable individual.

As a favored child of the world's law, having received the world's will's revelation, the first thing she did was storm the Bright Empress's harem and drag that old waste who likes little boys out of bed.

"I'm about to go out on a military patrol now—if you dare to stop me, I'll chop you up right now!"

She, having forcibly obtained the imperial order, nonstop led the empire's finest hundred‑person squad on a world tour, riding heavenly horses as swift as a Mercedes‑Benz lightning, visiting every country in the world, aiming to raise a coalition strong enough to oppose the Dark Flame Empire.

And as a mature high‑ranking figure over forty, she also clearly perceived the essence of the game, so throughout she employed the most concise and clear, also most useful, negotiation tactics.

In short, it's just putting a knife to the throat of a foreign ruler, asking if he's willing to join me in this grand undertaking, exerting all his effort to survive from the Dark Flame's hands; or else, since he'll die sooner or later, I might as well give him a quick death now!

It can only be said that people are base; clearly treated so roughly, yet all the monarchs gladly agreed to join the allied army, and moreover, regardless of gender, they even gave birth to several ardent fans who openly declared they would pursue Her Holiness the Saintess.

Good heavens, you are simply a servant!

What the hero said is absolutely right; the Young King is willing to join the alliance!

Why are you just standing there? Hurry up and bring the aunt a cup of cappuccino; this king will personally pay respects to the elders!

Moreover, the Iron-fisted Saintess, while swiftly integrating all forces, has not forgotten this enemy, the Dark Flame; she is betting, betting that the internal affairs of this traitor nation are not a monolith!

The facts prove that Heaven's Mandate truly stands with her, for the first person she contacted was the Eldest Prince.

That was a negotiation that, to outsiders, seemed utterly meaningless; no one cared about the outcome, for even if successful, it would be at most a short-lived truce.

But after probing from the sides, the Saintess, feeling the time had come, acted decisively, privately inviting the Eldest Prince out and laying bare the truth behind the Dark Flame imperial family.

"So……this is the fundamental reason why we must fight each other to the death?"

Perhaps he really is the few "good ones" in this mad family, or perhaps it's because his father king's insect-like breeding capacity makes him unable to bring himself to kill him; in any case, the Eldest Prince chose a path he had never imagined.

——Wall-facing person of Dark Flame, I am your wall-breaker!

With such a great ally, the Light Allied Army formally declared war on the Dark Flame Empire; the Iron-fisted Saintess united all unitable forces, whether living beings or strange entities, countless heroes participated, and finally in the Eagle Eye Royal Capital battle shattered the myth of the Dark Flame's invincibility.

However, the Dark Flame people, possessing extraterrestrial technology, are truly terrifying; they directly obtained equipment and supplies from the Machine Moon, magic and technology stacked to produce terrible effects, and even though the allied army expended vast manpower and material to build the sky fortress "Great Holy Seat", they still struggled to resist.

Having come to this point, gaining an advantage on the front battlefield is no longer possible; the Saintess therefore chose to take a risk, leading elite troops to directly attack the core of the Dark Flame Empire, conducting a decapitation strike in this underground fortress, annihilating the Dark Flame imperial family that had gathered here under the pretense of a banquet by the Eldest Prince.

This is a battle that almost burns through the sky; to completely cut off the Dark Flame Empire's foundation, the allied army even spared no expense letting the Holy Seat launch a death‑charge, smashing the underground fortress's formation core, and only then barely exchanged a near‑mutual‑destruction outcome.

The Dark Flame emperor thus died, several relatively powerful imperial clan members also perished in the melee, success also came from social Darwinism, failure also from social Darwinism, losing the leader and all heirs, the senior commanders who were originally at odds let the Dark Flame empire instantly crumble into scattered sand.

……

"So this underground city once witnessed such a glorious and splendid heroic epic?"

Ji Ming sighed, then looked toward the tattered cloth floating in the sphere.

"So what are you doing in this story? I don't seem to have heard anything about you."

Third Prince: Thanks for reminding me I'm too trash to make it into history.

"I……we have been kept in the dark by our elder brother; after our father emperor was wounded by the Sun Flame Saintess and realized his betrayal, he flew into a rage wanting to kill us all. We are truly too weak; even the aftermath of battle could kill us on the spot, so our elder brother first protected us with his magical cloak, and after that I don't know what happened; in any case, whenever I see others now, I just feel respect……"

"I don't believe it."

Hearing the Third Prince's increasingly despondent words, Ji Ming bluntly denied his claim.

"You like to play the white lotus, huh? If you were really sealed away, how could the earth‑resentment demon, seething with grudges, possibly take a tattered cloak as its core?"

The worn‑out cloak that had been chattering earlier trembled for a moment, then fell silent.

"I don't want to say……"

Unfortunately, Ji Ming wouldn't give it that courtesy; instead he dragged a chair over and sat opposite the earth‑resentment orb.

"Then I'll wait for you to speak!"

The cloak trembled even more violently.

"Please, you don't want to know, and I don't want to remember…… we've been sealed in here for far too long, we're starving……"

"You know, this is normal; we can't help it…… we, we…… we ate each other!"