Everyone seated at the table stood up in fear and shock.
"Emperor…"
The emperor was standing behind the king with a bloody sword. He wore a red royal suit with white buttons and white lines on the side of the suit; his hair was silver-colored. His face was buried in shadow—only his silver hair caught the light.
The king stands from the throne and steps backward from the emperor with a trembling face.
"Why...why are you here, and what is the meaning of the blood?" - He speaks with a low and trembling voice.
The emperor raised his head, tightened his grip, and launched a sudden strike towards the king.
Rim burst forward and stepped between them, then blocked the emperor's sword with his sword.
The room went silent, and Rim pushed back the emperor's sword with a thrusting sound, and the guards in the room surrounded the emperor and made their spears and swords in front of his face.
King and Rim moved backward from the place.
The emperor sees the side of the king, then he swings his sword in the air; the blood splattered from the emperor's sword and became clean, and he keeps the sword in his waist belt.
Rim requested the king while seeing the emperor.
"Like I thought they didn't leave this kingdom; I didn't think it would go worse like this. The emperor himself came here and made an attack, and also he swung his sword to kill you."
Rim sees the king; he was in still stock while Rim was speaking to him.
King still is in shock while Rim is speaking to him.
"You idiot, look at me."
Now the king sees rim.
"You need to get away from here."
King turns his head to the side of the door; he sees the body of the guard with blood floating on the floor.
Kings' fears change to anger.
"Did you think I would go away from this? Did you see his sword? He killed our guard, our people; he betrayed us by giving freedom and attacking on the day he gave that."
"Now you…"
They feel some pressure in that room and see the emperor.
The emperor suddenly gets a new suit that covers his whole body, starting from his ear. The suit is red in color and looks like nerves covering his body, and the armor has two horns on both sides of the shoulders; the gaps in the suit glow with red glowing mana.
Also, he gets a new sword in his hand; some red shockwave surrounds the blade of the sword.
Rim again requested the king.
"I understand you, but here things are getting worse; your life is a high priority here, so go away from here."
King shouted at him.
"You idiot, how many times could I say I will never move from here?"
Now Rim shouted at him.
"You bastard… Don't make me repeat again; just do as I say. now go and find that bastard gin and inform him the situation…"
The room went silent for seconds.
Rim takes a heavy breath and cools down.
"Enri, please understand the situation; please get away from here. I will try my best to push him back. You know where to go, right? You go in front; I will follow you."
King never replied to him.
Rim calls the guards.
"Guards…"
Three guards backward from the emperor and go near the rim.
"Protect the king with your life, and find General Gin and inform him of the situation."
"Now... go."
The king and guard move from the dining hall. While moving, the king sees the full transformation of the emperor; he is fully covered with the red suit, and the emperor sees that king moving from the hall.
The door closes; now the emperor sees him and ignores him and slowly turns his head to the side of the other feared royal members, and he turns his body towards them.
On the outside of the hall, the king sees the fallen guards with blood; after that, he tightens his hand and hardens his teeth in anger.
And he turns to walk away from the hall.
He calls one guard from theirs.
"Go and find General Gin and report the situation to him, and tell him to meet at the chamber."
That guard nodded his head and turned his right and to his left side, and he left from the place.
The tension fills the room. The emperor begins to move to the royals, but guards surround him with their weapons.
The emperor stops there for a second, then he vanishes from the surroundings. The guards flinched as he vanished, then they saw their weapons were sliced; without realization, all the guards surrounding the emperor were sliced by the emperor in the millisecond.
Then every guard fell on the floor; the royal in front of the emperor was speechless and trembled before him.
Now the people who are remaining in the room are the emperor, General Rim, royals, and then the musicians.
Suddenly Rim shouted there.
"Everyone… bend."
"Fiiire… strike."
Rim releases some fire with his hand; it goes near the emperor, but it doesn't attack the emperor, but it makes huge flames in front of the emperor, then it crosses the emperor, and the royal then breaks the window glass.
"Everyone, just jump and escape from here; I will handle him."
Everyone freezes in the place and looks at him.
"What you are all looking at here just jump…"
The emperor just moved one step forward; the royals pushed one another after another to the side of the window.
But the glass of the window was spread on the ground; everyone saw each other's face, who was going to jump first, but no one stepped forward to jump first.
Some young man with straight red hair got on the window, and he was ready to jump, and he jumped. The glasses tore his skin; some pieces stuck on his body.
"Ahhh… shit, shit, shit…"—he He was screaming in the pain.
He cleans and puts aside the broken glasses, and he made that place safe so that every other person could jump.
Then the royals were jumping one by one, pushing each other; after they jumped, they ran again inside the palace.
"Move fast; we need to find the escape path."
They left the man, who jumped first; now he struggles to walk. The glasses are also stuck in his knee. Everyone leaves him behind and runs away from there, but he is taking heavy breaths and struggling to get up from that place.
Now only Rim, the emperor, and feared musicians are in the room; the musicians are shaking in the fear.
And Rim sees them.
"Ohh… you guys are still here; don't worry, you guys are not targets for him. You guys just stand in the corner and save your life."
And he keeps his sword on his waistbelt.
"Now… Now, I got a one in hundred chance to fight with the emperor." Rim speaks with a slow and deep voice.