TitoVillar
patreon
OPI Chapter 239: The Saint Emperor’s Legacy
🕑 Added 2024-09-29 22:18:03 +0000 UTC"With one ballistic missile along with twenty-one conventional missiles... this time we should be able to seriously injure or even kill that giant monster."
In White Horse City, Sabatini held his Teigu in front of his right eye, nervously watching the missiles descend from the sky.
In Sabatini's vision, the twenty-two fireballs were getting closer and closer to the Snowy Valley, but the more he looked, the stranger the situation felt.
"Why doesn't that monster transform back into the Snow Mountain Giant? There's still time, right?"
"And who is that man in red who just appeared?"
At that moment, Sabatini and the officers observing the holographic images, projected by Sabatini's Teigu, noticed something strange.
First, a true giant, clad in golden armor adorned with red lines, emerged from the side of the valley, shooting up into the skies. The surprising thing was its way of flying: it rose by stepping on waves of white air.
Immediately afterward, the golden giant stretched out his hands.
A green crack suddenly appeared above the Snow Valley Base, and it was growing longer, wider, and larger at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In the next instant, the twenty-two missiles entered that green crack one by one and disappeared without a trace.
When the crack disappeared, everyone fell silent.
"That... must be a space-related ability..." A female officer said, letting out a sigh as she shook her head in resignation. "In this way, our missiles can't blow up the Base, and we can't stop their follow-up troops from pouring in."
"Report immediately. We cannot do more. The rest will be handled by His Majesty and the Council of Ministers."
Sabatini could only order this, because he really didn't know what to say.
Meanwhile, on the side of the Dimensional Gate base, both officers and soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
They would no longer have to worry about the base’s air defense. No matter what flew towards them, the Giant God Warrior would use the power of the Door-Door Fruit to send everything into another space.
"The Door-Door Fruit's power in defense is impressive, although it can only cover a small portion of the sky due to him being just one..." Bullet mused, watching the Giant God Warrior return to his residence using Geppo, showing no interest in interacting with the rest.
At this point, Bullet had almost completely given up on the idea of challenging Imu. After all, he still couldn't defeat an old man like Garp, let alone Whitebeard, who seemed to be even stronger.
So he had focused all his enthusiasm on the war against other worlds, which also explained his desire to quickly rise to general.
Of course, he also wants to be promoted to general before that stupid Crocodile and then ridicule him.
"Well, I will stay here next, you can go to the front line to command." Sakazuki turned to look at Bullet. "Continue with the original plan. Let's secure this northern region first."
“No problem~”
Bullet became excited. He actually wanted to go out and do something big a long time ago, but this Dimensional Gate Base cannot be left unguarded.
Bullet's character has always been vigorous and resolute.
In less than an hour, he was leading his division and an army of twenty thousand auxiliary troops westward, heading for Seika Fortress. According to information obtained by the Umi shinobi and Cipher Pol, that was the capital of this snowy northern region.
Meanwhile, Onigumo's combat division was also heading towards Seika Fortress.
At the same time, Charlotte Oven's combat division was handling Imperial ground forces in the south, while two other divisions handled forces in the west and east of the Empire.
Suddenly, a black tide of heavy combat vehicles emerged from the snowy mountains, led by a column of ten thousand armored motorcycles, followed by tanks, armored personnel carriers and tactical trucks loaded with heavy guns.
...
White Horse Mountain.
At one point, this place had become the epicenter of attention for agents and intelligence personnel.
So, as the World Government captured more and more prisoners, the Other Worlds Strategic Committee had discovered that the small town of White Horse was a forward base of the Imperial Secret Service.
The leader of this operation was Sabatini, one of the four main captains of the department, as well as being a Teigu user.
The crucial thing was that his Teigu granted him telescopic and X-ray vision of up to a thousand kilometers, allowing him to observe all movements at the base of the Dimensional Gate in the Snowy Valley.
Thus, the Other Worlds Strategic Committee immediately ordered the Umi shinobi and Cipher Pol members near White Horse to head there, with the mission of capturing Sabatini alive and retrieving his Teigu.
...
On the other hand, Imu had already noticed that the Teigu World before him differed in many ways from the Akame ga Kill World he knew.
Fortunately, Imu had shared with the Five Elders only information about the Teigu, the Dangerous Beasts, and a few key figures, thus avoiding another 'prophetic' mistake.
This made Imu curious about this world. What was it that had caused such great differences? Also, if there had been so many changes, why were the characters from Akame ga Kill still appearing?
Soon, as more information was extracted from the prisoners—whether from their mouths, minds, or even their memories—almost all clues pointed to one figure.
The Saint Emperor from six hundred years ago!
This emperor had not only made gathering the Teigu one of the missions for the empire; but he created the Shingu in advance, in addition to creating many of them and giving them to the main leaders of the empire.
During his reign, he reformed the political and military system and strengthened centralization.
He established the hospital system, the school system, the scientific forces, the police forces, the air force, the Imperial Secret Service and the Oarburgh assassination forces, and completely conquered the ethnic groups in the south of the empire.
He also improved farming techniques, invented various farming tools, and even selected some low-level dangerous species with gentle personalities that could be trained to help people reduce their labor burden.
This series of measures has led to bumper harvests in various parts of the empire year after year. Even if it is not a bumper harvest, it can guarantee basic production, and truly fulfill the promise of allowing most citizens to have bread to eat and milk to drink.
Therefore, in the past six hundred years, the empire has always called him the Saint Emperor!
After learning all that, Imu's mood became complicated at that moment, because this so-called Saint Emperor should be someone like him, perhaps even coming from his same world.
This also made him distrust the Teigu World, as who knows if this Saint Emperor had left any cards up his sleeve for the Empire.
So Imu decided not to take any risks and avoid any hasty action until he had discovered all the enemy's cards.
Therefore, obtaining intelligence is a top priority for the current world government.
Also something that Imu noticed is that with 600 years of butterfly effects, many things should have changed with respect to the memories that Imu had of the Akame ga Kill series, however, as if it were a correction of destiny, many of the characters and stories tried to get back on track with the plot of Akame ga Kill. From this Imu realized that destiny exists, however it is not an immutable force.
Imu even has a theory that the various fictions of his previous world could be projections of the fate of different worlds that are interpreted by humans through manga, anime, movies, etc.
...
On the Empire's side, Najenda, after sacrificing hundreds of her subordinates to gather a lot of information, keenly noticed that the people of the World Government were gathering in the direction of White Horse Mountain.
She immediately passed this information on to Gozuki, who had recently been promoted to leader of the Oarburgh assassin unit.
Gozuki did not hesitate. He sent out most of his assassins, ordering them to stop the enemy shinobi and agents by any means necessary.
He even had his Teigu, Murasame, given to Akame.
...
At the same time, a massive fleet of over 100 warships is docked at the Imperial Navy Headquarters port.
The Imperial naval base was located in the southeast of the Empire, on an island of more than thirty thousand square kilometers, barely a hundred kilometers from the mainland coast.
Just below this large island, there was a smaller island, less than ten thousand square kilometers, covered in a thick layer of snow.
Inside the small island, there was an imposing white castle.
Merraid, now standing in the main hall of the castle, clenching her fists, ignoring the cold temperature, still wearing the purple dress with a large area of bare chest.
But her eyes were glaring at the blue-haired woman who was sitting on a stone chair with her legs crossed. She was extremely beautiful, but also extremely arrogant.
Merraid seemed to be very angry with her, but she was still trying her best to persuade her.
"Don't be willful, leave here with me immediately, and then find a place to hide!"
"Empire... No, the power of our world can never be the opponent of that world government. I beg you, okay?"
"Come with me!"
