“Sea-Sealing County.”4

King Heaventide put down the jade slip, closed his eyes, and started mentally calculating the probability of succeeding at what he was now planning. Sometime later, he opened his eyes, and they shone with cold light as he looked in the direction of Sea-Sealing County.4

He needed a justification. Something to sweep his own failures under the rug. A way to explain things to the emperor. The justification didn’t need to be perfect. After all, the emperor was the type of person who would be able to poke holes even into a perfect explanation. That wasn’t important. As one of the heavenly kings, much of his explanation would come in the form of his attitude. He needed to do something that made his attitude toward the emperor very clear.1

Furthermore, what the emperor cared most about was winning the war. If he could recover from his losses and quell the chaos, then his ‘problem’ wouldn’t be a problem anymore. Most importantly...0

Sea-Sealing County has Dawning Suns! They’re not quite as impressive as the real Dawning Suns, although that’s only what we know on the surface. They could have more assets that we don’t know about.0

King Heaventide looked down at the jade slip, and his eyes grew colder.1

Sea-Sealing County was lax in sending reinforcements, which is one of the main...19