The office was dead silent.
After learning the ins and outs of the whole matter, the hearts of all the scholars sank to the bottom.
They not only had to face the powerful weapons they had created, which would slaughter countless lives in a vicious situation, but now they also had to continue doing this morally contradictory and meaningless thing, knowing full well that they had no chance of winning.
If they were not completely desperate, it could only be because —
"I'm sorry."
The young Hydral, who had just arrived at the office door after the Elder Princess had left, spoke apologetically, "I didn't expect the empress to change my original proposal of a death-row gladiatorial contest into a large-scale war between two territories. Nor did I expect the emperor to take the Elder Princess so... seriously."
