A few minutes earlier--
"Now or never!"
"We are with you to the end!!"
"Hyeaaaaa!!!"
After the emperor's enthusiastic speech, he rose from the ground, extending his arms to his right and to his left, and then bounced towards Sakar at full speed without looking behind him in a majestic and bone-chilling scene, then about thirty sages, including his old woman advisor, set off behind him.
But... most of the elders and generals didn't move a single inch from their places.
"...."
" Damn, does he not see the number of the sages among our enemies? they are in thousands! thousands!! how many we will kill before we get surrounded and get ourselves killed? Now or never, he says, the answer of course is NEVER!!"