Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 867: The Empire’s Bad News

King Roosevelt's plan was extremely ruthless.

Even throughout the entirety of human history, few emperors have plotted such a vast and long-term plan.

Given the sixty-year lifespan of a Fate Weaver, he was almost using his entire life to span this war, aiming to complete it in the final year of his life.

The King looked at Storm Duke, the ruler of the kingdom, who was rarely showing signs of fatigue. He sighed and said, “This is an opportunity given to us by fate. If it weren’t for someone deliberately framing you, I might not have lived to see this day.

In the original plan, Storm Duke was supposed to act for a while, naturally allowing people to discover evidence of his treason, then the King would slowly escalate the conflict, ultimately forcing Storm Duke to rebel.

This would make it more realistic, and the Giants would believe him.

But the King’s time was running out. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

He almost thought he wouldn’t live to see the plan implemented.

Now, the friend from the Giant’s prophecy directly framed him, and Storm Duke naturally took advantage of the situation, advancing everything.

That’s why everything seems so rushed.

The King was happy.

He used the lives of 110,000 slave soldiers, plus two decommissioned Air Fortresses as the price, enduring nearly forty years, only to completely rule the Forbidden Forest in his generation and achieve humanity’s evolution.

It seemed that from the moment he violated that female Giant, he had already planned everything, and this war had only two purposes:

First, to end the threat of the Giant Dynasty.

Second, to capture the female Giant in the Forbidden Forest, forcefully prolonging the Roosevelt family’s lifespan and ushering in a new era for humanity.

Once they succeed in breeding offspring from the female Giant, it would mean that even if the whole world becomes the Forbidden Forest, the Roosevelt family can still continue to exist.

At that time, King Roosevelt would surely be immortalized, just like the first King Roosevelt; he would be the one who revived the dynasty.

In the Royal Capital palace, King Roosevelt looked at the soldiers before him and calmly said, “In this war, you are all heroes. The kingdom will not forget you.”

The soldiers following Storm Duke’s eyes were full of excitement. After speaking, the King sat at his desk and began signing documents.

The first was to acknowledge Storm Duke’s legitimate royal status.

The second was to reward the soldiers who followed Storm Duke.

He didn’t reward Storm Duke because Storm Duke’s future no longer needed anyone’s reward.

The King wanted to give this courageous and wise son a chair.

And the person sitting in this chair only needed to reward others, and no longer needed to be rewarded by others.

The only pity is that Storm Duke is not a Fate Weaver; he had previously cultivated the Arbiters’ black magic.

The King looked at Storm Duke, “From today onwards, cultivate Fate Weaver.”

Storm Duke showed a slight smile; he had finally obtained everything he wanted, “Thank you, Father.”

However, during this moment of family happiness, a military officer suddenly rushed in, shouting, “We just slowed down the satellite surveillance footage frame by frame and found that before the Eternal Spear fell, all the Giants disappeared.” The smile on King Roosevelt’s face slowly faded. “Say it again.”

The smile on Storm Duke’s face also slowly disappeared.

The officer repeated, “The Giants didn’t die.”

He quickly opened the video. Everyone clearly saw that when the Eternal Spear was about to fall, the Giants had indeed disappeared from sight.

The satellite surveillance was high-definition; this couldn’t be faked.

Everyone was stunned.

Someone exclaimed, “What happened?”

Kg and Storm Duke were the first to react, “Key Gate!”

“It’s Key Gate!”

As the saying goes, success and failure are both due to the Key Gate.

They used Key Gate to escape the battlefield, and the other side used the exact same method!

Kg said, “Joker.”

You must know that Kg learned this trick from Qing Chen. If it weren’t for Qing Chen’s extremely disgusting operations in the northern Shendai territory, he wouldn’t have learned this trick!

Playing Key Gate in front of Qing Chen was a bit of showing off one’s skills before an expert.

The last time he learned to use Key Gate from Joker, Joker used mercury bombs to teach him a lesson, Nikita was severely burned, and the Shendai family head fell from the deck of the Air Fortress.

This time, he learned to use Key Gate from Joker again, and was taught a lesson by Joker again!

The King used a lifetime, two Air Fortresses, and hundreds of Airships, just to exchange for a doorway from Joker!

The cost was too great!

Storm Duke’s face was gloomy; he had just received his reward, but now he learned of the failure of the plan.

This missile killed countless Forbidden Forest beasts.

But what use is that? The Forbidden Forest occupies most of the land in the West Continent; the beasts they saw were only a small fraction.

The reason why the Giants only brought these beasts was because they had a small population and could only control so many beasts.

Now, if the Giant race really produces a few Demi-Gods, and they all have beast-controlling talents, then the Roosevelt Kingdom doesn’t need to play anymore; just the rats in the Forbidden Forest are enough to destroy a kingdom.

Therefore, the damage they inflicted on the Giant race is equivalent to no damage at all! The greatest damage might be making the Giants choke on their laughter.

Storm Duke couldn’t bear such a failure.

They both used Key Gate, but the Giant Dynasty suffered no losses, while his side was the King’s lifelong plan that came to nothing.

The King lived in vain!

At this moment, someone suddenly exclaimed, “Your Majesty!”

Storm Duke turned to look and saw his own father’s figure swaying. This blow was too great; even a Fate Weaver Demi-God couldn’t withstand such a setback for a while.

He spent nearly forty years planning all of this, and now it was all destroyed.

Fortunately, the King was ultimately a Demi-God and had experienced many storms; he slowly regained his footing.

The King looked at Storm Duke, “You…”

Storm Duke knelt on one knee, “I am incompetent.”

The King shook his head, “You and I are both strong-hearted people; we don’t need to blame others. This is not our fault. A war planned for a lifetime was cleverly avoided; you can’t think of it, and neither can I.”

The King had calmed down at this moment, showing his strong determination. Since it has already happened, there is no point in dwelling on it.

Do they have to find someone to take the blame? No need.

What they need now is to unite all forces to solve this matter.

The King softly said, “That Joker must die. Try every means to kill him. I have seen the future, but this future is not unchangeable; just kill him, and everything will be over.”

Joker.

This is a name that the Roosevelt Kingdom cannot avoid.

Storm Duke remembered the prophecy spoken by the first Prophet and suddenly felt a chill from the bottom of his heart.

Is this fate?

No, the kingdom still has unimaginable strength; this is not something the Giant Dynasty or the East Continent can match.

Storm Duke felt that this prophecy could be changed, just like the prophecies changed by powerful Fate Weavers throughout history.

The King convened a meeting; he was going to change his strategy. If the Giants of the West Continent cannot be dealt with, then they will leave the West Continent and shift the disaster to the East Continent.

The Empire is going to launch a new expedition.

Unlike the solemn atmosphere in Roosevelt Palace, the Forbidden Forest was filled with a joyous and harmonious atmosphere.

At first, when everyone was teleported back by Key Gate, they didn’t see the explosion and didn’t understand.

Everyone felt that the fun hadn’t ended yet.

But when they saw everything through the Prophet’s words, and learned what kind of disaster they had escaped, the Giants were immediately filled with reverence for the friend mentioned in the great prophecy!

This was no longer just a friend; Qing Chen was now the hero who saved the entire Giant Dynasty!

The Giants let out one “wow” after another, making Qing Ji’s head ache.

Zard looked at the Giants, “Wow!”

Dayu, expressionless, looked at him, “Please don’t teach these Giants to say ‘wow’ and ‘bullshit,’ thank you.”

Zard: “How do you know what I want to teach? Are you the worm in my stomach?”

Dayu:

The Giant Prophet looked at Qing Ji with confusion, “I really want to know how that great friend guessed all of this. Does he also have the ability to predict the future?”

This kind of Prophet’s foresight is like a god.

At one moment, the Giant Prophet even felt that Qing Chen also had the racial talent to foresee the future, and had already entered the third realm of destiny.

However, that great friend clearly did not have this ability.

Previously, the Giants called Qing Chen “the friend in the great prophecy,” but now the title has become “the great friend,” and their attitude has fundamentally changed.

Dayu said beside him, “Who will explain to the Giants?”

Zard: “Me…”

Before he could finish, Zard was choked by Dayu.

At this time, Li Tong stood up and said, “Let me do a review. Brother Qing Chen is also willing to let you understand what happened. In fact, there is one very crucial piece of information and one very crucial person in this matter: Black Widow. She helped Brother Qing Chen see through the truth of this matter.”

Black Widow naturally also joined the Giants in the battle, but although she is A-Class, following the Giants’ savage charge, her presence wasn’t very high, so much so that everyone almost forgot about her.

When they fell out of Key Gate, luckily she was at the top; otherwise, she might have been the first Arbiter to be crushed to death by a Giant.

When Li Tong mentioned that she was a key figure, a Giant helped translate, and then the Giants turned to look at her at the same time: “Wow!”

Black Widow felt that this exclamation was extremely magical in the Forbidden Forest.

She was a little uncomfortable being looked at and pointed at herself somewhat uncertainly, “Me? Me? I helped Joker?”

Li Tong nodded, “You shared very useful information: Storm Duke has been hiding Kg, this key figure. Kg’s strength is indeed good; A-Class, wizard inheritance, and even has the ambition to become the fifth Duke. To be fair, he himself has the inheritance to become a Demi-God, and he is capable. If Storm Duke becomes King, then he will naturally be the next person who can become a Duke. Kg’s choice itself has no problem.

Li Tong continued, “But based on his own strength and wisdom alone, Storm Duke wouldn’t hide him as an assassin. So, what ability does he have that would be helpful to Storm Duke, a Demi-God? There is only one: Key Gate!”

“The ability of Key Gate is very magical; it can take you to the place you most want to go in your heart. But its most important function now is to help everyone evacuate in an instant.”

“When we assume—remember, this is an assumption—that Storm Duke wants to use Key Gate to evacuate, we can continue to guess: Storm Duke is on the impregnable Storm Air Fortress; he is a Demi-God himself and is in no danger. Moreover, it was clearly his confident rebellion, so why would he leave a perfect means of evacuation in advance without letting anyone know? No matter what he wants to do, the situation will definitely be unfavorable to the Giants.”

“At this time, Brother Qing Chen doesn’t need to know what methods Storm Duke is going to use to deal with the Giants; he only wants to leave the Giants the same escape route. So he asked Uncle Qing Ji to rush over at full speed and leave you on the way. Uncle Qing Ji opened the Shadow Gate, took out the Key Gate we had prepared, let you crawl one by one, and directly teleported you to the Forbidden Forest outside the No. 5 outpost. With Key Gate as insurance, no matter what danger you encounter in the future, this is at least a retreat.”

“Brother Qing Chen didn’t expect the other party to drop a nuclear bomb; he didn’t even know what the other party wanted to do. He only felt that the other party should have prepared a disaster for the Giants, and this disaster would come quickly, so Storm Duke needed an instant evacuation method.”

Could Qing Chen really predict everything? He definitely couldn’t.

So, in his speculation, it could be a nuclear bomb dropped, it could be Giants being lured into an ambush, or it could be Giants being hunted.

He could only guess the outcome through Storm Duke’s intentions, but not the process.

So, since the Giants were going to charge, it wouldn’t be wrong for him to give them an extra layer of insurance. All along, he was the one who wanted to prepare everything to the extreme, and he never changed.

Like the first time a countdown appeared on his arm, he even prayed to the Bodhisattva in order to prepare.

Of course, he could also make himself look like he had predicted everything afterward, letting the Giants worship him and mythologize him.

The thing he did was indeed enough for the Giants to place him on a pedestal.

But Qing Chen felt it wasn’t necessary; he really didn’t have the ability to predict everything; he just did more preparation.

The Giant Prophet listened to Li Tong’s review and softly sighed, “Although that great friend doesn’t have the ability to foresee the future, he still created miracles that we couldn’t create, and frankly admitted that he didn’t guess everything. Perhaps this is his charm.”

Black Widow listened to Li Tong’s review quietly. This was also the first time she personally experienced the magical aspects of Qing Chen.

Now, she provided very crucial information; the Giants shouldn’t kill her anymore, right? She’s a hero!

Black Widow thought: Should I follow the Giants or Qing Chen from now on?

It seems pretty good.

The Giants looked at the Giant King, waiting for him to make a decision on what they should do next.

Li Tong said, “Brother Qing Chen said that if this is really a conspiracy, the Giants should remain still, because the Roosevelt Kingdom has not suffered any major damage; their strength is still very strong.”

The Prophet smiled, “Why don’t you all come with us to visit the Giant Kingdom? There are many fruits there that you’ve never seen before.”

Li Tong nodded, “It’s just right; the war academy on Whale Island needs to replenish new species!”

“No. 11” Airship was located 290 kilometers away from the center of the nuclear explosion. The pulse and radiation here were relatively weaker and could not shake the EMP-proof coating of an Airship.

When the Eternal Spear was about to fall, Old Eleven closed the Airship’s windows and hovered in mid-air.

Then, he turned on the holographic projection and played the satellite footage in real time.

Old Eleven called everyone over, “Come, come, a once-in-a-lifetime scene! One less look, one less look.”

10 seconds later, the Eternal Spear quickly landed on the surface.

Boom.

A huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky, magnificent and beautiful.

Old Eleven put his arms around a female soldier, “Do you know that humans almost destroyed themselves because of this thing? In that battle, the West Continent and the East Continent fought fiercely, shocking the world, and the entire Earth fell into a long nuclear winter. Smoke and dust filled the atmosphere; sunlight couldn’t penetrate. In some places, it could reach minus 150 degrees at night, and 6.8 billion people froze to death in three days; the rest could only barely survive.”

The female soldier burrowed into his arms, “Ah, so scary.”

Qing Chen raised his eyebrows. This was really a willing buyer and a willing seller.

Just hearing this description, what’s so scary? What’s really scary is the hunger and cold after the nuclear winter, the helplessness and despair of everyone having to hide underground for warmth. Qing Chen knew that there was an organization in the East Continent called “The Rebels” earlier, dedicated to destroying nuclear weapons worldwide to prevent humanity from falling into the same crisis again.

Unfortunately, the Rebel organization had long since disappeared.

At this time, the female soldier looked up at Old Eleven, “Then will the nuclear bomb explosion cause another nuclear winter?”

“No.”

“Why?”

Old Eleven thought carefully before answering, “Just like when you’re having sex, you can’t only do it once a minute. Dropping a nuclear bomb once a year won’t cause a nuclear winter.”

Qing Chen:

He Jinqiu:

Bo’ton: “Vulgar, greasy.”

Qing Chen looked at the holographic projection and only then understood what Storm Duke was trying to do.

Such a vicious mind!

Fortunately, he left a way out for the Giant race; otherwise, the Roosevelt Kingdom would have no more forces to restrain them in the West Continent.

But the question is, how did the Black Knights know about the nuclear bomb’s fall in advance, and why were they parked at just the right distance?

These Black Knights of Silver City are not as simple as imagined; they are not just there to eat, drink, and play.