66: The two empires joined forces

And so, Xia Feng led his troops in an orderly fashion, clearing out one noble mansion after another in the Imperial Capital.

Along the way, they also encountered nobles who chose to surrender directly and pleaded for their lives.

However, these nobles were essentially potential uncontrollable factors, highly likely to cause trouble in the future.

Therefore, Xia Feng did not accept the surrender or pleas of these nobles, executing them all without the slightest mercy or hesitation.

Within a mere half-day, all the noble mansions in the entire Chaos Empire's Imperial Capital were thoroughly and completely cleared out.

The cruelty of his methods was chilling, not even sparing innocent people like the elderly, children, and women; as long as you were in the mansion, you couldn't escape.

"As expected of the Blue Star Troops, such methods are truly ruthless..."

After learning that the Blue Star Troops had finished clearing all the noble mansions, Gaul's expression suddenly changed, his body trembling slightly as he spoke with a shaky voice.

If he hadn't surrendered, his fate would probably have been the same as those nobles... After the Blue Star Troops successfully cleared out these resistance forces, Gaul also did not dare to delay, quickly spreading the news of the Chaos Empire's formal surrender.

As soon as this news spread, it instantly shocked and surprised the entire continent.

One must know that the Chaos Empire possessed a massive army of over a million, yet merely a battle failure involving a mere hundred thousand troops could make the Chaos Empire choose to surrender directly, which was truly inconceivable.

In fact, Gaul himself was very clear that he indeed still commanded over a million Soldiers.

However, there was a huge disparity in strength between the two sides; no matter how many Soldiers there were, if they were far behind in terms of equipment, tactics, and strategy, it would only be in vain.

Resisting to the death would inevitably lead to failure in the end; choosing to surrender now would also be a failure. Since the outcome was failure either way, why not choose to surrender directly to minimize the Empire's losses and casualties, as well as his own interests?

Of course, others did not know Gaul's true thoughts and could only judge based on their subjective conjectures.

Some said that King Gaul chose to surrender because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, others said that the Blue Star Troops and the Chaos Empire had secretly reached some unspeakable agreement, and some even speculated that the Chaos Empire was only feigning surrender, secretly harboring a conspiracy.

However, no matter how people discussed and speculated, for now, the news of the Chaos Empire's surrender was undoubtedly true... Along a winding path, a convoy of several hundred people was slowly moving, and sitting inside one of the carriages was none other than the esteemed Queen of the Forest of the Forest Empire.

"Your Majesty, news just came from the Chaos Empire; they actually surrendered directly to the Blue Star Troops!"

A retinue rushed to report.

"Surrendered? Is this news true?"

The Queen of the Forest looked surprised and incredulous, her beautiful eyes wide open, after all, the Chaos Empire's strength had always been greater than her Forest Empire's, and they had actually surrendered to the Blue Star Troops just like that.

"Absolutely true, Your Majesty. This is news personally spread by King Gaul of the Chaos Empire, and it is said that the Blue Star Troops have already begun to take over various affairs of the Chaos Empire."

The retinue answered with certainty.

After repeatedly confirming the accuracy of this news, the Queen of the Forest paused slightly, her expression somewhat complex, then she sighed softly.

"Alright then, since the Blue Star Troops are willing to accept the Chaos Empire's surrender, then they surely won't refuse ours either. Let's go... continue forward."

The Queen of the Forest said helplessly.

As she spoke, the convoy continued to advance towards the location of the Blue Star Troops... "What? The Chaos Empire surrendered?"

In the Imperial Capital of the Magical Beast Empire, the King of the Beast Horde widened his eyes, his face filled with incredulous surprise, then immediately switched to an angry expression.

"That damned Gaul, to be so greedy for life and afraid of death, to be so scared by a mere siege battle! Isn't it just a loss of a hundred thousand Soldiers? If they're gone, they're gone! To actually choose to surrender? What a coward!"

The King of the Beast Horde was furious, clenching his fists and slamming them hard on the table, the immense force instantly shattering the table.

Although he said so, the King of the Beast Horde knew very well in his heart that if the Chaos Empire surrendered, he would undoubtedly lose his most powerful helper.

After all, the territories of their two Empires were closely adjacent, literally rising and falling together. Now that the Chaos Empire had surrendered, who knew if they would unite with the Blue Star Troops to attack him?

If the Chaos Empire truly launched an attack against him, then he would be caught in a pincer movement.

"The best solution now is to win over the Beast King Empire. Someone..."

Thinking of this, the King of the Beast Horde no longer hesitated; he acted immediately. He quickly wrote a sincerely worded letter, listing many resources he was willing to provide, then handed it to a Messenger, instructing him to deliver it urgently to the King of the Beast King Empire... In the Beast King Empire, the Beast King was currently full of indecision. He had already received the letter from the Magical Beast Empire, and he had also heard the news of the Chaos Empire's surrender.

Now, he faced only three difficult choices.

One was to fully assist the Magical Beast Empire and jointly resist the Blue Star Troops; the second was to cease all aid to the Magical Beast Empire and stand by; and the third... naturally, was to emulate the Chaos Empire and choose to surrender to the Blue Star Troops.

This truly made the Beast King difficult to decide, after all, in the letter, the King of the Beast Horde had confidently stated his willingness to hand over a large portion of valuable resources, plus the two Empires essentially had intricate connections, basically from the same root, with their nations primarily composed of beastmen.

He had considered the option of surrender, but the terms of that surrender were simply too harsh for him.

One must know that after the Chaos Empire surrendered, it accepted a full seven treaties from the Blue Star Troops, each one stringent. If he truly signed them, his power and interests would suffer heavy losses.

After a long time, the Beast King, after much deliberation, still decided to choose to help the Magical Beast Empire, as the loss of power and interests from surrendering was simply too much for him to bear.

Since he had made the decision to help the Magical Beast Empire, the Beast King naturally would not appear stingy or petty. He decisively dispatched over two million troops to prepare for battle, leaving only a few hundred thousand troops within the Empire's borders for defense.

"Hmph, I refuse to believe it. With the entire army deployed, how can a suddenly appearing Blue Star Troops resist!"

The Beast King snorted coldly, full of confidence.

After all, in previous battles between various Empires and the Blue Star Troops, the maximum number of participants was only a little over 100,000, never reaching a million-scale.

Now, he was dispatching over two million Soldiers, plus the Magical Beast Empire's own troops, which would easily add up to four or five million Soldiers.

He refused to believe that the Blue Star Troops could still handle it, after all, even if you were killing chickens, killing four or five million would tire a person to death... The astonishing news of the Beast King Empire supporting the Magical Beast Empire with over two million Soldiers spread rapidly across the entire world like a whirlwind, and everyone became aware of this major event.

"Over two million? Is the Beast King Empire emptying out its entire family fortune?"

Someone couldn't help but exclaim.

"Who's to say it isn't? One can only say that these two Empires are indeed connected by the same spirit, from the same root; to help, they even dared to unhesitatingly bring out their entire family fortune."

Others echoed, and naturally, there was much discussion and various theories about this news, with all sorts of opinions.