"My Emperor, the Praetorian Fleet has been destroyed, and they cannot attack......"

Hearing the "general's" cautious answer, the emperor laughed instead of anger, as if he had heard something interesting.

"Aiqing is really good at laughing, my Praetorian Fleet is difficult to find opponents in the entire galaxy, don't you see that even the famous 'guardian' needs to avoid it?"

"......" His Majesty the Emperor's sworn rhetoric made everyone else present look at each other, and they didn't know how to answer for a while.

Their perception of His Majesty the Emperor is a perfect person who is wise, omniscient, strategic, and decisive for thousands of miles, how can he not even know that the Praetorian Fleet has been destroyed?

"Where did you learn to tell jokes, so you showed them to me? If that's the case, then you're qualified, and I can give you the honorary title of 'Master of Performance'......"

The emperor was still talking, and even the court positions that would be given to them in the future had already been thought of.

Such a confident performance made the "generals" who reported on the work wonder if their memory was wrong.

Could it be that the Praetorian Fleet really did not fall, and that the news and images circulating in society now are in fact fake, and are created for some public opinion purpose?

Or did their great Emperor Majesty actually have a hidden Praetorian Fleet, and those who were eliminated by the "Guardians" were really just the tip of the iceberg?

And no matter what kind of speculation it is, it will only make these "generals" more fanatical.

They were all "inferior people" who had been pulled up from the lower echelons for some purpose, and they were "molded fanatics" compared to the real aristocrats with their own hearts.

Even if the upper clique led by the emperor squeezed 99% of their blood and sweat, these "inferior people" who had been nurtured since birth, and who had undergone genetic modification and mental castration were the most loyal admirers of the emperor himself.

This is a more thorough brainwashing than the "mind control" achieved by psionic energy, after all, their perception has been completely distorted.

Even if some instigator wants to try to provoke an "inferior uprising", I believe that there is no need to wait until then, and the instigator will be directly killed by the fanatical "inferior".

This is the bottom of the "Conqueror's Empire", a group of real "lovers" of the Empire, even if it is a distorted love, it does maintain the Empire at least on the surface.

However, as the ruling class of the empire, the nobles, they did not have so many emotions.

It was a group of intricate interests that formed enough ties with the emperor when the "conqueror's empire" was still an indigenous civilization and had not yet established itself in space.

They followed the empire in the sea of stars, and with the ups and downs of the empire, it can be said that their family history is the history of civilization of the empire.

They are the true mainstay of the Empire, developing technology, expanding territory, exploring aliens, and controlling production.

They are also the moths of the empire, and they are also the ones who brainwash the bottom, oppress vassals, conquer wantonly, and indulge in pleasures.

In the past, there were many majestic emperors in the empire who set out to remove this "carrion", but they were like tumors symbiotic with the empire, deeply attached to the bone marrow.

The empire can continue without surgery, but once the operation is performed, the empire will only become a benevolent if it is unsuccessful, and even if it succeeds, it will be greatly damaged, and there will be no glory in the past.

Either option would have been an unacceptable consequence for the empire that had many enemies at the time.

In the end, starting with the emperor and then to the bottom of the nobility, everyone tacitly ignored this matter.

Just as there are people among the indigenous people who are dismissive of protecting the planet's ecology, because the disaster caused by the destruction of the environment will not fall on their generation, they will use it with peace of mind for the sake of the current development.

The same is true of these ruling classes of the "Conqueror's Empire", and the destruction of the Empire will not happen for at least three or even ten generations, so even if they know that it is impossible to continue, they are completely indifferent.

So before time has passed enough, this civilization has fallen into "degeneration".

The conquest by force brought them enough squandering wealth, and the abundance of tributary and vassal civilizations provided them with seemingly inexhaustible resources like bank interest.

At this time, the "Conqueror Empire" was still young, and technology was far from coming to an end.

The emperor, who should be the "forward", and the top magnates, are the first to fall, leading to the degradation of the entire civilization, and the prevailing entertainment atmosphere and the unappreciated cultural inheritance also make the sense of belonging weaker and weaker.

For those nobles, it didn't matter if they were part of the empire or not, as long as they could satisfy their pleasure desires, wherever they were.

What still drives them to "allegiance" to the empire is the abundance of wealth.

This kind of civilization without cohesion will not go far at all, and destruction is only a lack of an opportunity.

The destruction of civilization should be a long process, but the "Conqueror Empire" was actually dead the moment it failed to remove the tumor, and now what seems to be the scenery is only an empty shell of civilization, which will collapse at the slightest poke.

And the arrival of the "guardian" became the opportunity to puncture the empty shell.

The magnates are keenly aware of the end and are fully prepared that they will be the best people in another place.

The stupid emperor himself fell victim to a lie, and became the last stop in the history books of civilization under the mocking gaze of the nobles.

At this moment, the emperor, who didn't know all this and still dreamed of being the "ruler of the universe", was talking and laughing with the "generals" around him.

"In recent years, the financial situation has improved again~"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Have you seen the comedian's "Yes, Your Majesty"? It really makes me laugh out loud......"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"It is said that I am only one step away from being crowned the 'Emperor of the Star Sea Empire'?"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The content of the chat does not have any nutrition, and these so-called "generals" who were driven by the powerful to put ducks on the shelves do not have much literacy, and they can't shoot half of the sycophants except for nodding yes, which also makes the emperor a little bored.

Just as he pondered why the minister, who had always been his favorite, had not returned, he suddenly noticed that the clear sky had suddenly distorted a little.

As if the signal had been interfered with, the entire "image" of the sky became blurred, flickering and flickering, as if it was about to dissipate immediately.

The bad premonition reached its peak in the emperor's heart in an instant.

Before he had time to think about it, the giant projection equipment that had wove the last wonderful dream for the emperor had completely stopped working, allowing the emperor to see the cruel reality.

- The sky is cloudy, and the ships of countless "guardians" are speeding by, as if scanning everything on the planet.

Through the gaps in the clouds, you can see an even larger ship slowly sailing, carrying only a giant cannon port, but you can feel the power of destroying the planet.

The Emperor recognized that this was the "Colossus", a warship specially equipped with the weapon of the Star Destroyer.

There have been empires in the past, but during the birthday ceremony of an emperor in history, the colossus of the empire was sold to other civilizations to finance the celebrations.

The goal of this "Colossus" was not this planet, it was just passing through here, but how could such a battleship come to his "courtyard" without his complete knowledge?

So the emperor was stunned directly, and he finally understood that he had been deceived by everyone around him.

(End of chapter)