#3
[I guess it was too difficult. I understand. You will be confused and it will be difficult to think clearly. I was inconsiderate. Hmm, but since everyone seems to know the answer, I’ll just add a brief explanation.]
The man raised his monocle once more. The monocle flashed in the light, giving off an ominous feeling. But no one could take her eyes off her man. Probably, everyone was looking at the man floating within their field of vision, regardless of the concept of distance. With a constant voice ringing in her head.
[The Elix on the official server will give you eternal rest if you die here. At the same time, we inform you that we will ‘take back’ your empire. This means the fall of the empire, so please do your best to survive. Now, I want you all to look at the portal created in front of you.]
Eyes filled with a mixture of anger, sadness, fear, and despair began to turn towards the portal one by one. Among them, there were people who quickly grasped the current situation and tried to live their lives with cool-headed reasoning.
[These are your great creations. If you are a player with your own empire, you will be able to recognize the portal location at a glance. Saddam, but the people of the empire are still anxiously awaiting the king’s return in many ways. However, please do not assume that this is a favor. Also, crossing the portal is your freedom.]
The man narrowed his eyes and gave a strange warning. She looked very cunning.
Now Billwill was looking for an example. It was something he could infer just by looking at those treacherous eyes moving from place to place. And the first to fall into that trap was a middle-aged man who was sitting among the crowd and looking at the portal with a spying gaze.
When the corners of Billwill’s treacherous eyes folded and opened like strings, the middle-aged man led his heavy body, pushed past the people, and walked toward the portal from which a mysterious light flowed.
“Heng! favor? Are you doing whatever favors you want to the king?! How did I raise those guys? Even if you can’t meet some rude people and meet them, why don’t you have a friendly dinner with them? “Just the time I put in and devoted to it is more than enough to make gold bars!”
[When crossing over to your own empire, please awaken first.]
Billwill said with a polite smile and a grin. At those words, the middle-aged man with a stomach as big as Namsan snorted and touched the empty space absent-mindedly.
As soon as the finger that was touching the air fell, wild flames began to swirl from the man’s toes. The flames slowly engulfed her man’s body, leaving behind ashes. And when the blazing flames went out, the middle-aged man whose stomach was as big as Namsan Mountain had turned into a monster with bloodshot eyes and lava-infested skin.
The middle-aged man glanced at the crowd as if laughing at the trembling crowd, and then advanced to the portal with the appearance of an arrogant king.
The moment the portal, which was emitting five-colored light, swallowed the middle-aged man who had become king, a clicking sound echoed in the air again.
[Please look here.]
Billwill spoke without any hesitation, just as he was snapping his fingers. Behind the expressionless Bill Will, there was a mirror so large that it swallowed everyone. When a distorted afterimage appeared on the surface of a mirror where nothing was reflected.
Everyone in the subspace expressed astonishment.
“ah… iced coffee… .”
“That… What is that… !”
“Wow… !”
As the mirror became clearer, my moans of despair grew louder. In the mirror was a middle-aged person who had just recently awakened and had gone through the portal. With skin as red as lava and bewildered eyes.
However, the man who was full of arrogance was now crying ugly in fear. As she struggled to survive, her fingertips scratched the floor, leaving traces of blood.
Screams and nausea erupted everywhere. There were also people who cried with their mouths closed and their eyes wide open. Sehyun’s eyes closed bitterly.
The middle-aged man cried out for help, but his cries did not reach anywhere. As if they had been waiting for this day, the knights and soldiers of the empire pierced the middle-aged man’s body with spears and began to drag him like cattle up the castle wall.
Amid the horror of blood splattering and chunks of flesh being torn off, the middle-aged man writhed and struggled to survive. But when he was hoisted to the top of the castle wall, his body was pierced by dozens of spears, leaving him to die alive.
It was a meaningless death.
It was his vassals who harbored hatred and resentment who cut off the king’s throat, spitting out blood foam. The king’s head was beheaded along with a spear on the castle wall.
When people who could not bear to see the horror looked away, an earthquake occurred with a loud noise that felt like the world was collapsing. It was news of the fall of the empire in the mirror.
The vassals accepted the end with determination in an empire that was beginning to sink. It was the end of the vassals who killed the king and chose the path of ruin.
The earthquake continued until the empire collapsed into dust. And when the impregnable castle disappeared without a trace, the brightly lit portal turned gray. As if dead.
[Dictatorship, tyranny, hedonism, corruption, neglect, neglect, sloth, oppression, reign of terror.]
Words like a monologue flowed over the heads of the frozen people. The eyes behind the monocle slowly closed and opened.
[It is a corrupt politics that all players have made mistakes at least once. There are many kings who realized their mistakes and corrected their policies, but there are also many who did not. No one knows the outcome. Don’t think they’re just waiting out of kindness. They are not NPCs programmed with 0 and 1.]
“You mean, they are living people?”
[This may require a little explanation. The inhabitants of the empire you founded, or vassals, are all higher creatures than you. When combining the planets from Sector 1 to 500, there are no creatures lower than those living on planet Earth. Additionally, each player and empire has different races and characteristics. This is because the empires distributed to players are races from different planets.]
Different races for each empire. The characters provided to players after completing an aptitude test each had a different race and appearance. Among the players, not a single player had an overlapping race, nor did they have the same anti-air as another player.
This is why everyone was so excited about Elix. Each user and each empire had different colors, capabilities, cultures, and political methods. A kind of scarcity.
As the empire grew, the loyalty and trustworthiness of the vassals granted varied greatly depending on the welfare policy, and since the settings were all different, the macro-like strategy guides uploaded by players were reduced to mere game introduction information.
Your own empire. People rushed to find that scarcity. He always thought hard about his strategic upbringing and worked hard to build an empire for survival and revival.
[In other words, the inhabitants of the empire you founded are creatures from another planet. Those are quite advanced creatures. They have been waiting for the day when the king will come, and they know that today is that fateful day.]
“You’re telling us all to die! If you’re going to do this in the first place, why… !”
[You don’t have to worry about that part. As you have seen, when a king dies, the empire disappears without a trace. This means the fall of the empire. It won’t be easy for the people of the empire to be so determined and kill the king. A king is the life or death of an empire. If you die, the empire will inevitably fall. On the other hand, if you hate the king enough to abandon the empire… Hmm, maybe that wasn’t the king’s material.]
These are the words of a king who oppressed the empire through a reign of terror. That’s what Billwill was saying. Sweet and dangerous words were enough to sway everyone.
[This is the Elix planet in the Sector 450 system, which has an area about 400 times that of Earth. It boasts the largest area among the planets in the sector. They wish more than anyone else to take root here and see the empire grow. Also, he is still anxiously waiting for a king who will revive his empire.]
“if… . Well, if there is no empire… What should I do with those who can go even if they can? .”
Someone asked in a trembling voice. At those words, some people who were sitting in a state of shock raised their heads and looked at Billwill.
[You don’t have to go. A king has the power to found an empire. This means that you can soon found a new empire. If you don’t have an empire, just build it, and if you can’t go there, don’t go. However, a king who already has an empire cannot establish a new empire. In that case, the people of the empire may seek out the king who does not come and exact terrible revenge. Of course, that’s just an example.]
“Bo, revenge… .”
“then… “Then, is there any way to give up the empire?”
