Chapter 18

On the northern side, a big man could be seen drinking barely among barrels of wine and beer before an intense glow on his arm began to appear before the man was heavily drunk without and couldn't see straight but the second that he noticed the glow he activated his immune system because someone who was stage 7 couldn't get drunk without an extraordinary wine so the way they get around that is that they turn off their immune system to the alcohol, he then got up and charged out of the room, this woke up the entire fortress so understandably the guards rushed into the room the fat man turned around after getting in his armor.

"send messages to each of the northern borders fortress cities tell them to lock down the border, anyone who comes in or out is to be heavily screened, and I don't care if they are a noble from the interior or not"

after the fat man said that the guards rushed out of the room to deliver the orders to the messenger stations.

The fat man however just jumped through a wall and began to run very fast for someone as fat as he was running through trees and boulders straight to the capital. This is a similar occurrence on the east, south, and west borders as well.

After only 3 hours the fat man, a Girl on a wolf, a man who looked sickly pale and thin, and an elderly man who looked so old and decrepit that the wind alone would be able to kill him was seen entering the imperial palace.

Bang.

When the sound of the double doors at the front of the Court hall could be heard all the ministers, commanders, administrative officers, and eunuchs looked back with surprise wondering who would dare interrupt an emergency court meeting.

But when they saw that they were the 4 imperial protectorates, they became even more shocked as they were never in the same place since the emperor was crowned.

All 4 of the imperial protectorates walked to the front of the hall and simultaneously said "What are your orders, Your Majesty".

This shocked everyone even more because they all thought that they were simply here because of the emergency court meeting not because they were specifically ordered here, as the main reason the heavenly dragon empire's borders were so peaceful was because of these 4 so any extended absence from the borders could embolden their enemies.

"There is a potential rebellion in the south of the state of fire, however, this isn't a simple rebellion as it could be backed by the golem makers in the draconian republic" as the imperial protectorates just got there the emperor filled them in as he had done when at the beginning of the court hearing.

"Therefore, you four will make sure that the borders are secure and make sure none of the surrounding empires dare do anything while the Zheng Men the commander of the interior puts down this rebellion, additionally once Zheng ends this rebellion he will take a 1 million strong army along with the 2,3,5,9, and 13th corps to the draconian, to take both the sister republics in the Cao mountains" The emperor decided to declare war which didn't really surprise anyone because the draconian republic was getting weaker and weaker while the empire was getting stronger so they only needed a reason to declare war and take their land.

"Your majesty what will be done with the newly acquired land," another man asked the question that everyone wanted to ask.

"The land will be incorporated into the Lin Sha Provence, speaking of, Prime minister Zhao hu begin the process of fully annexing the state of fire and the state of -".

Bang.

The doors at the front of the hall once again opened "Your majesty, Your majesty" a Black-armored imperial guard rushed into the room in a very panicked manner so once again everyone was surprised as now one of the most elite soldiers in all the empire is acting.

"Speak" The emperor was kind of angry that he was interrupted in such a rude way but was also curious at what made an imperial guard like this.

"Your majesty both Fuying city and Wen Hua have fallen to an army of 600 thousand golems of a high rank".

When everybody heard this they were so shocked they didn't even make a sound it was only when the prime minister told the guards to imprison the man for lying to the emperor and for being so disrespectful that the silence was broken.

"Wait, I have 2 scrolls from the 2 cities with the city lord's seal" The guard panickly took out 2 scrolls given to him by the messengers from the city only for them to be taken from him by a red armored guard the appeared instantly and then disappeared as quickly.

"Yuan Zian, He Ya, Qi Huizhong, and Qian Yongzhen go back to the border immediately, I don't nobody gets out or in, I don't care if they are merchants or nobility, Zheng Men have every Able soldier in the interior gather and go to the state of fire, also Tang has the 1,2,4,5,6,9 corps of the imperial guard prepared to also march to the state of fire" after reading the 2 scrolls he threw them and began to yell orders before disappearing.

By the hour tens of thousands of imperial guards marched out of the capital, which gave the citizens in the capital multiple emotions some felt fear as the capital is the safest place in the empire because of the imperial guards, now that they are leaving they thought about who would protect them, others felt proud because they knew another nation will fall, all of them became shocked when the red imperial guard marched out of the capital because that means the emperor is going to battle as well which had not happened since the last emperor.