23rd June 1698.
Mumbai, Akhand Bharatiya Empire.
Vijay had just received the latest intelligence on the developments in Europe. Ganesh stood opposite him, as he had done countless times before while delivering reports to the emperor, yet this time he could not stop himself from trembling. It was not because his majesty was angry, but because he was calm, unnervingly calm.
You have to know, the kind of information he was relaying was nothing less than a major threat to the Bharatiya Empire, which had not been relayed ever since the Mughal Empire, which was at its peak declared war on the Vijayanagara Empire. Honestly, Ganesh felt like he could breathe easier if his majesty simply got angry and lost control, but the calmness he was seeing in his majesty's eyes was like a serene lake without a ripple, and this made him extremely tense.
