A Time of Tigers - From Peasant to Emperor

Chapter 1759: Clashing Storms – Part 1

“Hirosh has lifted itself,” Queen Asabel said. “Those with doubts, I advise you to visit. Our comrades there have found purpose. They see as we do, the future that is presented. They see the necessity of the path we have taken. I declare to you that this was unavoidable. We could not ignore it any longer. The greatest hero in all our history, Arthur, was stolen from us – and how could we turn any more of a blind eye than we already have? Indeed, you have rage, citizens, and I can tell you why. That is the rage of decades of injustice. That is the rage that we feel when stolen from us was the greatest Hero that the Stormfront has ever seen.”

“Lift your hands not for me,” Queen Asabel said. “For this is not my cause. This was begun a good time ago, by better men. We simply walk the road that they bid us to tread. Lift your hands, for the memory of he that we all so loved. Who willingly gave himself unto death, for the sake of an impossible task, done merely to be rid of him? Lift your hands for he that died so that we might live in peace for a while longer. So that we might gather our strength, and prepare ourselves for this day that has come. The Stormfront cries out. The earth itself cries out. The Pandora Goblin, the High King said, sits in the desert. Nay, I declare! It sits the throne, right in our own Capital! An impossible task, truly! But we will see it done. Unified, citizens of the Pendragon lands, and I declare there is no mightier creature in all the world than we.”

It was an explosion.