
23 October 2321, 20:09 WIB/1914 Luan Empire, at night.
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The square of the Imperial capital nearly sustained moderate damage. The stage to be used as a show was already fixed quickly by the artisans.
The noble women who also wanted to watch the show, some of them were seen still crying after the earthquake had stopped. Some of the knights of the Rose Line fell unconscious, it made Sheyn think that the mentality of the knights was poorly trained.
Some soldiers of the Empire and Kingdom of Hrabro are seen still prostrating on the ground, praying to the gods to save them from the earthquake.
Upon seeing this miserable sight, Sheyn ordered her bodyguards to gather the nobles of the peace faction, due to their very existence for the peace treaty that was soon to materialize.
“The quality of the troops has decreased,” The commander of the Imperial army sighed when he saw the soldiers frozen almost in the entire corner of the square. It signified that he could not just start the battle when his troops were not in top condition.
The Imperial Commander called for the generals to regroup the army. Most of the soldiers who followed the battle were new recruits, so their mentality had yet to be trained. He was still disappointed how troublesome it was to arrange these amateur soldiers.
Although the troops sent were amateurs, their superiority lay in numbers. Only about 200 soldiers were brought by the representatives, while the troops spread in the capital area were around 62,000, including the Hrabro Kingdom troops sent.
Nio and the officers were devouring dinner cooked by the Imperial palace chefs. There is nothing interesting about this food, they judge prefer to eat pecel than this very hard meat. I don't know what meat the palace cooks cooked, because it looks almost 50-year-old Sucipto is unable to chew it.
“Maybe we better bring rice ration rendang.”
Nio only smiled wryly in response to Sucipto's words, while he only drank the wine without alcohol provided while waiting for the show to begin.
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While the circumstances in the Imperial palace, the atmosphere here was almost the same as the state of the demon king's palace. The guard soldiers were seen crying to the point of trembling in the corner of this building room.
Bogat and Lukav, who were planning to make plans for the war, were seen sweating coldly. The meeting room that was only inhabited by the two of them looked very messy, ranging from maps, ceramics and other decorative beavers that were destroyed on the floor. Although they were somewhat disappointed that the plan that went wrong was drawn up, now they will do the show.
The two of them then walked out of the palace to meet the representatives. Of course to give the show they promised, “Hopefully this show entertains them.”
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When the knights of the Rose Line heard Sheyn's order to guard the palace, they headed to the place in an orderly manner. As they stung Sheyn's voice, the servants Sheyn brought remembered their duty.
In the end, Sheyn who arranged this was all almost alone. The generals did not help much and it is unknown whereabouts.
Sheyn held her breath as she saw the gloomy atmosphere of the plaza, the stage and the messy audience seating began to be rearranged.
On this occasion, keeping the representatives safe was the knight's self-esteem, and it was Sheyn's and the knight's duty of her choice. People started to calm down as hundreds of Sheyn knights guarded the square, it made the Imperial commander worried. The quality of the main army with the Rose Line could not be compared, one girl in the Rose Line had the equivalent strength of 3 regular soldiers in the main force.
The commander and his subordinates could only grumble at the sight of Sheyn and her knights. Instead, the representatives looked very calm as there were hundreds of female knights around them.
Previously, these female knights underestimated the strength of the male soldiers of the green troops, but they have now tried to honor them on Sheyn's advice.
Bogat and Lukav wiped off the sweat on their foreheads as they had to walk to reach the capital square, due to the horse-drawn carriage that served as the Empire's ruined inventory. Currently, the representatives did not know about the figure of the Emperor, and for the first time the Emperor of the Luan Empire appeared together with the king of the Kingdom of his ally, King Lukav of Hrabro.
Sheyn and some of her knights turn to controlling father and Lukav.
“Sheyn, looks like our guests are waiting. Can you introduce their leader to me?”
Sheyn nodded, and then slightly lowered her voice. Then he introduced the representative leader of the green troops.
“Allow me to introduce the army general from the land of Indonesia, Mr. Nio.”
“Eh?”
Sucipto and the officers were seen holding back laughter until their faces turned red, until they could not help but laugh and laugh loudly. These officers laughed loudly like they did not notice if their subordinates were watching.
While on Sheyn's side, this girl seemed to act like she had done nothing wrong. No one knows whether this was a deliberate mistake or not. Because since the arrival of TNI representatives in the capital, the person who is always near Sheyn is Nio, and Nio according to Sheyn is like the general of the army itself.
The corner of Nio's eyes twitched as several male officers laughed loudly while saying, “Hopefully tomorrow you will be the general, Nio..”.
As if his patience had been at the end of the crown, Nio pointed his index finger towards Sucipto who was also incorporated into the officers who laughed at him.
“Include, he is the general of our army, Mr Sucipto!”
No response was given from the party that wanted to be introduced to the representative. Sheyn only smiled wryly as Nio let out a cold aura as she made a mistake.
Sucipto stopped laughing, then took a step towards the Emperor with his chest held high, then carried out a resolute gesture of respect. Behind him, Nio and the officers saluted them as Sucipto did. The way they greet each other is very different from the usual polite etiquette.
“Land Indonesia yes, so that's the name of the world country behind Gate.”
“I'm sorry, dad. But I heard if they knew about this shaking ground, and they said there would be another shaking. Therefore, I ask them to sit here while waiting for the show to start.”
Those words made Bogat pale. People like them know about this earth shaking? that's what Bogat and Lukav thought.
However, they did not reply to the greetings from the representatives of these green troops and only put on a haughty face, as if their positions were much higher than these green warriors.
“Thank you for introducing ourselves to the Emperor, Your Majesty Sheyn.”
The entire Empire in the capital felt astonished and scared towards the green troops who looked excited and calm after the previous calamity.
“Hopefully we get time to discuss the future of our nation.”
Sucipto took a few steps back after Bogat refused to shake hands with him. He has said what he wants to say.
Right a moment after that, someone climbed onto the stage while carrying a chain in his hand.
The commander and his henchmen did not hide a panicked face. That's obvious, because doing a show this fast isn't in the plans, or out of order.
Some slave women were dragged up the stage by the commander and some of his soldiers. The female slaves were partly from the Demihuman race and the rest were ordinary humans. There were girls with black, red and silvery hair, and their bodies were filled with blisters and bluish bruises.
When Nio and the officers saw the slaves, they were shocked wordlessly. Sucipto the general remained calm, but Nio felt that he was surprised as well.
“Commander, why did you bring those slaves here?”
It was clear from the tone and mimic of his face if Bogat was acting.
“Emperor Bogat and His Holiness Lukav, I brought a slave who knew about this earth shaking. Dewi has already said there may be vibrations two or three more times!”
Sheyn thinks that she should calm the commander down no matter what. So he began to think of a topic that might catch his attention. Then Sheyn spoke to him again in a tone to appease the commander.
“I don't know if you know about the earth shaking. Even I just learned from the representatives of this green troops.”
“I told you, didn't I? If the Goddess says so.”
“But, who is this Goddess?”
When Sheyn asked that, the commander and his minions pulled the chains attached to the necks of the slaves.
The female slaves shouted as the chains on their necks were pulled firmly. Some of them could only moan while trying to stay firm.
“This, these black-haired slaves, we caught him from a place behind the Gate.”
Before the commander pulled his chain once more, a lightning-fast punch struck his chin. Some teeth were thrown into the air after that.
“Stat! I'll kill you!”
Nio unleashed a lightning-fast punch on the commander's face, until several teeth were released again. The commander's minions drew their swords, some of them ran to call the other troops.
While Bogat, he just turned his face so as not to see this incident, aka seeing his plan almost failed.
The commander fell to the floor of the stage, and the tall man fell face down while holding his face full of bruises. The military nobles were unable to see this, and chose to leave the square, but the officers tried to prevent them.
The faces of the people who saw Nio beating the Imperial Commander immediately turned pale.
“Backed! How dare you hit me, the commander of the Luan Empire!” he was puffing while looking at Nio.
While Nio, he only pointed his middle finger at the commander even though dozens of soldiers surrounded him with drawn swords.
“Peltu Nio, don't let you get hurt huh?”
While Sucipto and the other officers prepared bullets in their pistols, and communicated with the entire Commander of the Cruiser Squad scattered throughout the capital to head for the capital square.
“Ready! Understood!”
Nio took off his PDU suit and folded it, then rolled up the sleeves of the white shirt to the elbows, then mounted the horses. I don't know what the reason for Nio to not bring his gun, even just an electric gun.
Normally, just walking while carrying a weapon in front of the Emperor was a crime. While the Barisan Roses knights only moved if they got orders from Sheyn, this girl was only silently pecking with a pale face when she saw Nio suddenly drifting on stage.
A squad of explorers had arrived at the square and were instantly confronted with the 1,300 soldiers of the Empire and the Kingdom of Hrabro. All the gun operators set up their own machine guns, and the soldiers activated the assault rifles into full automatic mode.
“To-please us.”
Nio was further shocked when some of the female slaves spoke native Indonesian. This young man put on a sliced face towards these female slaves.
"Segodnya vecherom budet farsh!"
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Note: the last dialogue Nio said was Russian, which means "There will be minced meat tonight!"