"What!" Anthony Matthewson exclaimed in shock as he got up, his face full of disbelief, his mouth wide open, spittle flying everywhere.
His friends, who had come to the event with him, were equally stunned. Their eyes widened as if they had seen a ghost. "Does that mean the Emperor of the Bharatiya Empire has not betrayed these commanders and ministers by forcing them to resign, but is actually promoting them to a higher rank, granting them their own territories?"
This thought threw them into complete panic. Even when half of Europe had joined hands, they had failed to do anything against the Bharatiya Empire in a proxy war fought right on their own doorstep. Could they really hope to achieve anything, even if the whole of Europe unified and fought on the Bharatiya Empire's borders? It seemed extremely doubtful.
