"Damn, brother, are you kidding? You're from Lokeshi! The first human empire, Lokeshi! And you're telling me you can only hold out for a few days? Are you a bunch of cowards?"

Louis was furious.

What's going on, man? What are you doing?

Are you really throwing the fate of your empire on me?

If I don't come to the rescue, are you planning to collapse silently like the big brother?

Louis's brow twitched, but he was held in place.

A terrifying thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

"You guys... you haven't split into two factions internally, have you?"

Lowering his voice, Louis said, "Comrade Bart, your actions have been strange since before, and now it's to the point of division. Are things okay internally?"

Bart Jean looked deeply at Louis and said lightly:

"How could we have a problem? It's just that the space portal has been consuming too much of our energy lately, leaving us unable to focus on external wars."

Louis just wanted to spit.

Indeed, the space portal is very important, but if you can't allocate any troops for external battles, that's impossible.

If things get really bad, just disregard public opinion, forcibly relocate the population from one area to another, then redeploy the stationed troops to join the battlefield.

As long as it's not one of the most dangerous portals, you can create buffer zones to temporarily free up your combat forces.

But Bart Jean implied they could only hold for a few days.

This situation completely mismatches the actual level of the Lokeshi Empire.

Lokeshi Empire has high-end combat capabilities, a strong army, and ample population and strategic depth, far beyond the now-declining Secluded Forest Sea, which only has a few relic elders left.

If even they can only hold out for such a short time, other countries would have even less chance.

Honestly, given their landmass comparable to the entire Eurasia, being overrun in such a short period is really unreasonable.

Heard of blitzkriegs, haven't heard of blitz continents.

Even in a supernatural world with countless powerful figures, if the Demon King Army pierces through in an instant, what does it indicate?

It means wherever they go, the local defending corps shatter like porcelain at a touch, utterly incapable of organizing any decent resistance.

This description could not possibly be representative of the Lokeshi Empire's strength.

Even a leaky boat has three pounds of nails!

The biggest possibility is that there's a huge internal split within the Lokeshi Empire, and it's not from the lower echelons but a tear between the top tiers.

On crucial issues determining the empire's fate, two or even more factions have emerged with completely opposing stances.

This led to the strength of factions committed to "resisting the Demon King Army" being insufficient.

Amidst division, they have completely lost the possibility of resisting the Demon King Army.

Thinking of this, Louis grew anxious.

He really wished he could be in Lokeshi right now, next to Bart Jean, using his succubus's innate abilities to carefully observe Bart Jean's innermost thoughts.

The internal attitude of the Lokeshi Empire largely determines how he should plan next.

If it's really all up to the Ense Empire to warmly offer protection, Louis certainly wouldn't be willing.

On the contrary, he would have to keep some vital forces in the country to protect the Ense Territory from being destabilized.

Because there's a very real problem here.

If the resistance faction within the Lokeshi Empire is a minority, it means the vast majority have placed their hopes on whether the Demon King Army will have mercy on them.

But to be realistic, it's not possible.

The majority of the Demon King Army are madmen, and reasoning with madmen is futile.

What awaits the Lokeshi Empire would just be slaughter.

The Lokeshi Empire internally couldn't possibly truly decide like this, and thus, their choices wouldn't be many.

The most likely situation is... a significant portion of the high ranks in the Lokeshi Empire believes the Demon King Army is unstoppable, and once fallen, even the space portals cannot be defended, so they don't plan to stay on their original land for a last stand.

If the assumption is true, that would be a terrifying scenario.

The Lokeshi Empire not fighting on their native soil, allowing their vast territories to become the battlefield against the Demon King Army.

Then the question arises, where would all these people run to?

A chilling word surfaced in Louis's mind, [strategic relocation].

With the strength of the Lokeshi Empire, a strategic relocation could easily cripple any country below T0.

And more frighteningly, given the current population of the Lokeshi Empire, there aren't many countries that can sustain their strategic relocation.

The most likely of which... is the Monet Kingdom, closest to the Lokeshi Empire.

An East Monet Kingdom alone surely isn't enough.

But adding the West Monet Kingdom, it would about suffice.

Although the Monet Kingdom still presents a unified voice externally, the reality is they have already lost the chance to enter the top tier nations.

Even if they merge again, they'd only barely reach T1.

If viewed separately, considering the two kingdoms haven't unified, their individual strength is only that of an ordinary T2 power.

But as everyone knows, the difference in one tier is substantial.

If attacked one by one, the Monet Kingdom would be in danger.

With this in mind, he communicated with Patriarch Bart on how to implement the rescue plan and stabilized the situation.

After ending the call, he immediately called the East and West Monet Kingdoms.