Genshin Impact: I, Heavenly Principle, Will Make Teyvat Supreme

Esdeath was once her friend and colleague, and together they had marched to the southwestern border to suppress the minority ethnic groups when she was still a general in the empire.

She had personally witnessed Esdeath single-handedly bury the cities of those minorities, crushing tens of thousands of civilians along with their cities, with even helpless women and children being no exception.

Furthermore, Esdeath turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by her subordinates, the Three Beast Warriors.

She had watched as Nyau peeled the skin off an innocent girl, packing it into boxes, and as Daidara used a knife to slowly chop off the heads of innocent children, stringing them together and dragging them along.

It was from that moment that she realized she could never change the empire from within. That was when she chose to join the revolutionary army, even though she was hunted by two Teigu users from the empire along the way.

Najenda clenched her fists, gritting her teeth as she said, "Esdeath... why... are you here? What is going on?"

Esdeath looked over with some surprise before quickly understanding. "Ah, it's you. My former friend. It's not surprising for you to be here."

Najenda stared at her intensely. "Why are you here?"

Esdeath, not at all bothered by her former friend's hostility, replied, "For now, we're in the same camp. I have been conquered by a god, and now I am... his follower."

Najenda was stunned. What god? But the meaning was clear.

Esdeath had been conquered by some god and had now become an ally.

Esdeath had once been her friend, and Najenda understood her will well. She believed that the strong should conquer the weak, that the weak were mere property of the strong, to be controlled and killed at will.

Now, she herself had been conquered by something even stronger.

Furina snapped out of her daze. So that's how it was.

At first, she thought it was the Lord Heavenly Principle who had arrived, but after feeling this overwhelming divine power and the rule of ice, she had thought it was the Cryo Archon.

Seeing Esdeath's appearance and hearing her words, Furina finally understood—it was the Lord Heavenly Principle who had taken her and made her an ally.

Esdeath looked at Furina. She was weaker than herself, and even weaker than the pre-divine Esdeath. Was this the God of Water?

Though weak, she was now a colleague. Esdeath thought she should protect her a little in the future.

While she was brutal to her enemies, she was quite lenient with her friends and subordinates.

"Furina, right? The master sent me to cooperate with you on the plan."

Furina snapped out of her thoughts. "Oh, you're here to cooperate with me on the plan. So, how will you cooperate?"

Esdeath continued, "I will return and continue leading the empire's army. I'll start by attacking the city-states from the northern borders. You just need to send someone over to take control."

Furina nodded. "Understood. When do we start?"

Her heart couldn't help but start beating faster.

Although she had lived for five hundred years, she had never seen a million-strong army besieging cities and conquering lands.

And now, she was going to be part of it.

The newly established Marechaussee Phantom, consisting of the former Night Raid team, collectively sucked in a cold breath.

Especially Najenda, who knew that a large portion of the empire's army was under Esdeath's command as the great general.

And the soldiers' loyalty to Esdeath far exceeded their loyalty to the emperor.

The soldiers had long regarded Esdeath as a goddess, worshiping her overwhelming strength.

If it weren't for Esdeath's sheer strength and the fact that she was not a strategist and had no desire for power, only wanting to trample her enemies, the empire would not have entrusted her with a million-strong army.

Najenda was filled with excitement. "The empire... will probably be completely destroyed within ten days."

With Furina's current power, she could already send both the empire and the revolutionary army to their graves.

Now, with the addition of the strongest person in the empire, Esdeath, and her million-strong army, it was as if the coffin lid had been nailed shut.

Esdeath said, "Alright, I've informed you. From here on out, whether you can catch up is up to you."

With that, she turned and stepped back through the World Gate.

The World Gate would send Esdeath to the front of the million-strong army.

After Esdeath left, Furina hurriedly went to find Naivilette.

Naivilette recalled Krolynd, who was leading the siege of nearby cities in Kyoroch, along with half of the Maison Gardiennage and the Special Security and Surveillance Patrol's elite. After giving them some instructions, she entered the World Gate to head toward the northern border.

...

Northern Border of the Empire.

Esdeath had been taken away by Asmoday, and less than a day had passed. The empire's army hadn't yet fully left the northern border.

However, because their great general, the one they revered as a goddess, Esdeath, had been killed by a god, the soldiers seemed to have lost their souls, marching with no spirit.

Under the divine influence of Asmoday, even the horses had died, one-third of them already fallen.

The state of the army was not that of victorious conquerors but rather a group of defeated, broken soldiers.

From time to time, the soldiers could be heard murmuring in low voices.

Esdeath, the general, was dead.

Killed by a god.

Our general is gone.

What do we do now that the general is gone?

The great general is dead.

Just then, an ice wall suddenly rose in front of the million-strong army.

Crack, crack—

The horses neighed, and the soldiers in the front screamed.

"What's happening! Why did an ice wall suddenly appear!"

This scene felt all too familiar, as if it were Esdeath's ability.

Some sharp-eyed soldiers noticed something and shouted, pointing at the figure on the ice wall. "Look, on the ice wall!"

"That's!"

"That's General Esdeath!"

"How is this possible! That's General Esdeath!"

"Wasn't the general killed by a god? Is that really her?"

"Idiot, who else but the general has such power!"

"I'm not mistaken, it really is General Esdeath."

"What in the world is going on?"

Esdeath gazed down at the million-strong army she led.

"Hey! Listen to my orders! All units halt the march, all commanders come to me!"

Although they were still confused as to why the general, who had been killed by a god, was standing here alive, the commanders tentatively approached Esdeath.

When they saw that it was truly their General Esdeath from their memories, they began to cry in relief.

Esdeath briefly explained the confusion they had been experiencing.

After all the doubts were cleared, Esdeath's ice-blue eyes looked at them.

"I respect your choices, but once you make a choice, you will no longer be my subordinates and soldiers, you will be my enemies."

Gulp—

As soon as Esdeath spoke, the commanders were terrified as they looked at the general releasing a cold, chilling aura toward them.

As commanders who had followed General Esdeath to suppress the empire's frontier minority tribes, they knew that General Esdeath never joked.

General Esdeath had been conquered by a god.

The power of the gods was something they had all witnessed, and even General Esdeath was no match for them in a single clash.

Anyone who could become a commander was no fool; they understood that facing such a powerful god meant that the empire had only one path left—death.

Without any hesitation.

"We will follow General Esdeath forever."

They were not joking—who would choose to die with the empire?

And if they did not make a decision now, General Esdeath would resolve the matter for them.

They knew very well how ruthless General Esdeath was toward her enemies.

Esdeath smiled, a smile full of the cruelty of trampling everything. "Good. Now follow me as we start trampling the empire's nobles from the northern border!"

The commanders conveyed Esdeath's will to the soldiers, and without exception, no soldier chose to remain here, buried under the cold ice.

The morale was incredibly high, as the imperial nobles who once had the power to command them now became the targets of their impending rampage.

This rebellious emotion ignited a fire in the eyes of every soldier.

The Three Beast Warriors quickly stepped forward.

Nyau pretended to cry with a pitiful expression. "General, it's so great, you're not dead!"

The next moment—crack!

He was instantly encased in ice, his facial expression frozen, like a piece of art in an ice sculpture.

Liva, one of the Three Beast Warriors, snapped back to reality, stunned and unable to believe what had just happened. "General Esdeath, what is this?"

He knew that General Esdeath was exceptionally lenient with her subordinates. While she would scold foolish subordinates, she would never harbor any killing intent toward them.

Now, when General Esdeath looked at the three of them, a terrifying killing intent flashed across her body.

This killing intent made his body freeze completely, unable to control himself with his will.

Esdeath kicked Nyau's ice sculpture in front of the million-strong army, and it shattered into pieces instantly.

"My master despises those who do evil without restraint. As my subordinate, rather than being executed publicly in front of the people, I will send you off with dignity now."

Having already become Noah's follower, Esdeath understood his will very well.

Daidara lost consciousness before he could even say "General" as Esdeath coldly looked at him.

Liva gulped nervously. Was he next?

It was clear now—General Esdeath was following the will of the god. To the god, Nyau and Daidara were people with unspeakable evil deeds.

"Alright, Liva, notify the entire army. Begin the assault on the city. Kill any resisting soldiers. Do not disturb the ordinary civilians."

Snapping back to reality, Liva looked at Esdeath's back, drenched in sweat.

The general didn't kill him? He instantly understood why.

He had once been one of the empire's generals, but due to his refusal to bribe his superiors, he was imprisoned.

Fortunately, he had met General Esdeath, who had helped him escape from prison, and he was not executed.

...

Two days later.

The Imperial Capital

The Imperial Palace

"Not good, Minister Honest! Most of the cities in the Southern Province have already been fully occupied by the forces of the Path of Peace and the God of Justice."

"Wherever they go, all the nobles of the Empire are killed, and the soldiers guarding the cities are either killed or defected!"

"Wherever they go, all the people respond to their banners! Our people cannot enter the cities under their control, and even if they do, they will quickly be exposed by the people's reports!"

"It won't take three days, and the entire Southern Province will be fully occupied!"

"Not good, Minister Honest!"

"Reports from the Northern Province's intelligence agents! General Esdeath, leading a million-strong army, has begun attacking the cities of the Empire!"

"Currently, one-third of the cities in the Northern Province have already been captured!"

"Not only that, but the forces of the God of Justice are closely following, taking over the cities and killing the Empire's nobles!"

"General Esdeath has already betrayed the Empire!"

"Not good, Minister Honest!"

"The nobles of the Southern Province are fleeing toward the Imperial Capital!"

"Not good, Minister Honest!"

"The nobles of the Northern Province are also fleeing toward the Imperial Capital!"

Honest listened to the reports coming in one after another over the past few days, his face pale as sweat soaked his clothes.

This kind of news was something he couldn't hide from the young emperor. Other ministers who opposed him had already bypassed him and sent the information directly to the young emperor.

Fortunately, he had convinced the young emperor that the Empire was experiencing its most prosperous time in a thousand years, so the young emperor hadn't completely believed the news.

How could the most prosperous Empire in a thousand years be facing such an imminent collapse?

It was just an overreaction from those ministers.

The young emperor still trusted him the most.

But now, the most important thing was that the gods were indeed overthrowing the Empire.

And looking at the situation, Esdeath had already been bribed, and she was now leading a million-strong army.

The gods, Esdeath—wherever they went, all the nobles would be sentenced to death...

"The Empire is finished! Even with the Ultimate Teigu… facing a god's world-shattering power, it's useless!"

Honest paced back and forth, drenched in sweat, his face contorting as a thought struck him.

"Ah, that's right, since I can't stop it, I'll use the remaining power of the Empire to slow down the Empire's demise and quickly plunder its wealth."

"When the Empire falls, I'll escape to the Western Kingdom. By then, I'll still be a wealthy and noble aristocrat."

"At least when the capital is destroyed, the young emperor will still be there. When the Ultimate Teigu destroys the Imperial Capital, no one will know where I went."

With this thought, Honest quickly made his way to the noisy Imperial Court, a sinister grin spreading across his face.

Young emperor, everyone will become the firewood for the last twilight of this Empire. Hehehe…

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