He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 240

Became the Crazy Emperor – Episode 240

Became the Crazy Emperor 240

“Advance! Don’t fall back! We must close the gate before the enemy fleet arrives!”

“For the Empire! For His Majesty the Emperor!”

The battle between the armies had begun, and it was fiercer than ever.

Rat-tat-tat! Crackle!

Imperial bullets flew, and in response, the Celestial beings hurled bolts of electricity.

Not to mention the artillery fire raining down from above, there was another element that made the battlefield even more intense.

“Receive my blade!”

“Aaaaaagh!”

The Imperial Army didn’t just favor ranged attacks.

While they didn’t force bayonet charges against the Celestial beings, who were inherently superior in combat, there was a separate force capable of engaging in close combat.

These were the knights and Legions, superhumans who surpassed ordinary people.

They charged through the Celestial beings’ barrage of deadly electricity and engaged them in melee combat.

Of course, the Celestial beings also preferred close combat to some extent, but their skills couldn’t match the knights and Legions.

This was because the Celestial beings were only specialized in close combat that involved diving from the sky to stab or abduct their opponents, not in general melee combat.

Normally, they would have simply flown into the sky, but they couldn’t do that now.

“We’ve secured the stronghold!”

“It’s the power storage! Destroy it! Engineers!”

They were on the defensive, protecting their base.

If they were to fly around in the sky, the storage units powering the gate in their base would be destroyed.

They had to stay on the ground, whether they liked it or not. While they could perform some low-altitude flight, they couldn’t completely evade attacks and fly away.

Moreover, even flying wasn’t safe.

“Did you think you’d be safe in the sky?”

“G-Griffon…!”

Those who felt disadvantaged in the battle and reluctantly took to the skies were pecked by the beaks of griffons.

The Celestial beings, who hadn’t properly assessed the Imperial Army’s strength, didn’t know they had aerial forces other than airships.

As a result, those who attempted to fly in small numbers were quickly skewered by the griffon riders who swooped in.

“Gate number 3 is closed. We’re advancing to gate number 4 immediately.”

“Time is running out. At this rate, some of their fleet will arrive.”

“But this is the maximum speed. We can’t go any faster….”

The Imperial Army was projecting all its forces except me to break through.

But that alone wasn’t enough. The Celestial beings were also struggling to the utmost.

“The consumption of Imperial Soul is already considerable….”

I have no choice but to sortie again. I had already consumed a significant amount of power in the previous fleet battle, but there was no other way.

“Switch to Sylvathein.”

[Command received. Switching to Sylvathein.]

[Warning. Not much Imperial Soul is currently available. Rest or replenishment of external energy is required.]

Originally, I would have replenished it from the Abyss Heart, but those had also been used considerably in the fleet battle.

So, it was on cooldown, meaning the transformation limit would be about 10 minutes.

“Still, 10 minutes is better than nothing. Let’s go!”

I sortie again with the determination to destroy everything in 10 minutes.

Spreading my wings of light, I flew at maximum speed towards the gate generator.

“Huh? Get that guy over there!”

“Impossible! The Imperial Army is right in front of us!”

Normally, anti-air fire would have been dangerous, but now, the pressure from the Imperial Army in front of them made it impossible for them to pay attention to me.

Thanks to that, I was able to reach one of the gate generators almost unhindered.

Kwajik!

I destroyed it with Silver Rose in one fell swoop. Destroying it itself wasn’t that difficult.

Soon, one of the gates floating in the sky fluctuated as if energy was flowing backward, and it closed.

After confirming that, I was about to leave when….

Chijijik, jik-

“Hmm? What’s wrong with this?”

[Residual energy detected. Energy intended to be supplied to the gate remains.]

“This… can I use it?”

[If you can withstand the backlash of energy, it can be used as makeshift energy.]

“Then try it!”

[Roger.]

As soon as Kessell received the order, Sylvathein immediately began absorbing the energy.

[Warning, Sylvathein’s stability is rapidly decreasing.]

[Discontinue the use of makeshift energy, considering the risk.]

“I can’t do that.”

Perhaps because it was makeshift energy, Sylvathein’s stability felt unstable.

But the operating time definitely felt longer.

Then that’s all that matters.

Kwaaang!

I destroyed another generator. There were some defending forces, but they were meaningless.

Chijijijik, jik.

This generator, too, left behind residual energy.

“Absorb this energy too.”

[Sylvathein’s stability will drop sharply. Are you sure you want to proceed?]

“I’m fine. Do the same at the next generator!”

Of course, I was already feeling the side effects. I felt pain every time I moved, but I gritted my teeth and endured it.

Bang! Kwakwang!

After destroying the next generator as well, I absorbed the energy and flew again. I repeated the same thing.

“Huk, huk….”

[All gates are closed.]

[Sylvathein’s stability is currently critically low. Refrain from further excessive operation.]

“I understand. I should rest for a while.”

In the end, I was able to close all the gates. Victory cries were heard everywhere.

I was able to reduce the overload a little by moving in line with the Imperial Army’s advance along the way.

“Your Majesty! Are you alright?”

“Ugh, I’m fine. More importantly, it’s time to take over the Celestial Realm.”

The queen’s last resort, the return of the enemy fleet, had been thwarted.

Now, all that’s left is to accept the queen’s surrender.

“It feels too easy, which makes me uneasy.”

But I felt a bit uneasy. Even though we had gained the upper hand through a surprise attack, was this all the queen had up her sleeve?

It might be an excessive thought, but it felt too easy.

“Well, even if there’s something else, now is the time to push forward. Everyone, advance! Seize the Celestial Palace in one fell swoop!”

Even though all the gates were closed, the enemy hadn’t stopped resisting.

The Imperial Army, along with the Akerus Resistance, continued to push forward, and before long, they reached the very top of the Celestial Realm.

And there, they learned a surprising fact.

“What? Queen Minerva is gone?”

“Yes, Your Majesty. Not only the queen but also the guards and the queen’s retainers are all gone. It seems they’ve been gone for a while.”

“Did they know we were coming?”

“As a result of interrogating those who remained, it seems they secretly fled when the floating island was captured. The speed of their escape was quite remarkable….”

“That means they were prepared for this.”

-That’s right, Emperor. Too bad you missed me.

As soon as they learned that the queen was gone, a hologram of the queen appeared.

“You dare to show your face when you’ve turned tail and run. Are you proud of abandoning your people?”

-You can say whatever you want. We were already prepared for all your moves.”

“Prepared?”

-Yes, if you were to attack the floating island, and if we were to fail to defend it, we were already prepared for all those situations.

Only then did I understand what had happened.

These guys were reading our moves to some extent.

They were helpless against our surprise attack, but they had thought about how to respond.

“But it’s strange. It was really easy to break through, considering. Well, you don’t seem that capable anyway.”

-Hmph, you’re becoming too arrogant with your current victory. Well, fine. Enjoy today’s victory. You’ll regret it soon enough.

With those words, Minerva disappeared.

“She’s gone. So, she must have taken refuge somewhere before we arrived, but where could she have gone….”

“There are relatively obvious places to go. We’re in the middle of the Gods’ Game, aren’t we? She must have gone to their allies.”

“Ah….”

The demons, the minions of the Creator God. Like the elves, they retreated to them.

“Maybe… both the elves and the Celestial beings, it feels like we’re concentrating their forces on them every time we defeat an enemy.”

“But we still won, didn’t we? We liberated the Celestial beings today.”

“That’s right, Chief of the Guard. The problem is that we failed to exclude them from the game since we missed the queen.”

“Ah….”

The enemy fleets that couldn’t come because the gates were closed will join the queen as they are.

“That means we have to station a significant number of our fleets here.”

“Because we don’t know when their fleet will come.”

“That’s right. Well… it can’t be helped.”

It was something we had to be prepared for when we decided not to abandon the alliance.

It would have been different if we had caught the queen and ended it, or if we had accepted the conditional surrender she proposed, but at least the latter was an option we could never choose.

“We need to restore this place as much as possible. We need to fortify it so that it can defend itself even if their fleet comes.”

It was originally the brilliant capital of the Celestial Realm, but now it was just a place ruined by battle.

“Your Majesty, it’s not necessarily so.”

“Hmm? Caliel, what do you mean?”

“The queen left something behind. No… the queen didn’t even know what it was.”

“What is it?”

“It’s the royal family’s legacy that remains in the Celestial Realm.”

Caliel brought the Hol of Yustia, which I don’t know when he brought. I thought it was in the core of Akerus.

“Finally, the Hol is finding its place.”

“Hmm, so what does that mean? What is that royal family’s legacy?”

“It’s a treasure trove that the queen could never find.”

He placed the Hol in the place where the throne of the Celestial Palace was located.

Then, a hologram appeared from the throne.

-User identification confirmed. Direct lineage of the Celestial royal family confirmed.

-Opening the Celestial Archive.

“No…!”

Then, the audience chamber itself was transformed, and all sorts of knowledge archives began to appear.

“Good heavens, this is a blueprint for a new large-scale dimension jump device. This is not common even in the Human Federation. If we install this here, we can strike fleets anywhere. Besides that, all sorts of forgotten Celestial technologies….”

Ambassador James coveted those technologies, expressing his desire to have them.

“There are many things that can’t be used right away because of the rules applied to the Gods’ Game… but they will greatly help in winning this game.”

“I see. Are you giving this to me… to the Empire?”

“Please accept it, Your Majesty. The only one who should sit on the Celestial Throne is Your Majesty, the proxy of Queen Yustia.”

“Hmm….”

So, it’s going to be like this… I was going to indirectly govern the Celestial Realm appropriately, but….

“…Alright. I promise you. I will treat you Celestial beings as the same Imperial citizens.”

“It’s an honor, Your Majesty.”

“Long live His Majesty the Emperor!”

“Long live the Empire!”

It was the moment when the Empire’s territory expanded once again.