I'm a villain, not a devil

Layas led his men and drove those aircraft directly overseas.

Sean stood on the rocks by the coastline, squinting his eyes and looking at the other person's receding back.

Wu Xiao is indeed a talented general. He made a judgment almost immediately after learning about the battle situation - if the tree people were allowed to attack, the empire would not be able to withstand it.

The original front-line commander Shi Hai did not make any mistakes, but the imperial army was still in a state of defeat, so Wu Xiao immediately saw the crux of the problem.

This is the purest form of numerical crushing - a good general can defeat a larger force with a smaller one, but every general prefers to defeat a smaller force with a larger one.

There are simply too many tree people, so many that even strategies, high-end weapons, and top combat power cannot reverse the disadvantage.

Therefore, Wu Xiao had only one goal, which was to get to the other side of the coast which continuously provided new blood to the army of tree people. There, countless tree people had turned into driftwood after undergoing unknown rituals and then drifted to the other side of the sea.

No one can lead the army across the raging sea. Even the tree people can only use drifting wood to drift, so Wu Xiao made this plan.

Keep forcing the Imperial Army to retreat, and let the large army of the Tree People keep advancing, to a position where they can't quickly return to defend - then, find a way to tear open a gap and let the elite troops cut off the Tree People's troop replenishment line.

Tree people can take root in the ground to absorb nutrients, so they have no concept of logistics lines. It is indeed not easy for Wu Xiao to see through the key nodes at a glance and make corresponding plans immediately.

The appearance of Sean makes it possible for Wu Xiao's plan to be implemented with a higher probability.

The elite troops led by Rayas were targeting the sea fifty kilometers outside the coastline - crossing the raging sea was difficult enough, and what Rayas and his men were going to do left them with no chance of turning back.

They took almost all the explosives in the Imperial Armory, and what they had to do was dive deep into the sea with the explosives and detonate them!

The team was almost invisible, but Sean still squinted and watched for a while.

Then, a look of boredom appeared on his face and he shook his head casually.

No matter where it is, with soldiers like Layas, marshals like Wu Xiao, and national strength like the empire, it is hard to imagine that such a country will completely sink.

The Empire had too many opportunities to solve this disaster. Could they have built a defense line on the coastline early? Or could they have expanded their exploration efforts within the borders to cover the far reaches? Even when the Treeman army just landed, they could have invested a large number of troops and destroyed the enemy's living force in one fell swoop.

However, the disaster was originally caused by within the empire. After the disaster, the person who held the highest power in the country did nothing.

The world is hopeless like this.

Sean had expected this, but he was still a little dissatisfied when he saw that group of royal people had made the situation so terrible.

What a waste... We have resources far beyond others, but we are only doing these things.

Sean could more or less guess what the emperor's goal was. It was nothing more than eternal life, becoming a god, or moving towards a higher realm.

The other party's method is obviously more... crude.

In Sean's opinion, as the emperor of the empire, he has too many resources to mobilize. Even if he wants to carry out some cult rituals, there are more efficient methods than now.

He lit a cigar and light blue smoke rose up.

"They lack imagination, their resource utilization is too inefficient, and they even want to maintain superficial rules even after doing bad things..." Sean exhaled a puff of smoke in the direction where Rayas's team left, with a disdainful smile on his face.

"If I had been on the throne for decades, the world would have been destroyed long ago..."

"Huh... Regardless of whether you still have some of the emperor's consciousness left in your body, or whether you have completely become a skinning messenger - I hope that the plan you have been planning for so long will not disappoint me too much... Your Majesty."

Sean casually tossed the still-lit cigar into the sea, the sound of the waves drowning out the hiss of the firework going out.

Then, a louder voice was heard.

On the distant sea level, a dazzling light suddenly streaked across the sky, as if the sun had risen earlier than usual, but it was even more dazzling and blazing than the sun. This light had a strong radiation that could not be looked at directly, shrouding everything around in a pale glow.

Then, a huge fireball rose into the sky, breaking through the deep blue sea. Accompanied by a deafening explosion, the sound seemed to come from the roar of hell, shaking everything around. The fireball rolled and expanded in the air, releasing immeasurable energy, instantly igniting the surrounding air. The violent sea finally became as violent as its name, and the entire ocean turned into a sea of ​​fire.

As the fireball rose, a powerful shock wave spread in all directions at an astonishing speed, causing layers of air fluctuations like huge waves, as if the entire space was trembling and shaking.

Huge waves were foaming with scorching white foam, then surged to a height of dozens of meters, and a terrible tsunami was rushing in from afar.

First came the shock wave, followed by a terrifying heat wave and fire storm, then large patches of hot water droplets washed the surroundings, and finally, a tsunami rushed to the coastline.

Sean just watched it all calmly. He stepped on the waves and slowly walked to the top of the tsunami.

From a distance, one could see that the explosion of the high-yield explosives had directly dispersed countless seawater, exposing the barren seabed. The seabed strata were suddenly broken by the explosion, revealing a deep black trench.

The light was fading and the water began to rush back frantically.

When the waves on both sides merged, there was a violent collision sound, and an even more terrifying tsunami hit the shore again.

However, the tsunami was just the aftermath, and it was not everything Wu Xiao and the Empire wanted.

Sean stood in mid-air, slowly flying towards the direction of the explosion, his fingers gently hooked.

Sure enough, the power of death was slowly gathered in the palm of his hand.

However, Sean laughed and shook his head: "There is only death, but no despair... Tsk, the taste of this power is not pure enough."

He did not purify the absorbed power and then use it on himself, but instead gently gathered it together.

Rayas and the troops he led had completely turned into nothingness. In order to ensure that the explosives were detonated in the correct location and in time, they had only one choice.

"Tsk, Wu Xiao...you are really capable..."

After waiting for a while, Sean saw what Wu Xiao wanted, and even he couldn't help but show an expression of appreciation.

In the center of the ocean, a huge whirlpool formed.