The massacre lasted for several hours, and the entire venue of the Noble Council was almost a river of blood. By the time Perfikot walked out, her shoes were soaked in blood, leaving a crimson footprint with each step.

However, she did not think of changing her shoes or avoiding it at the time. Instead, she quietly let the blood cover her feet and soak through her shoes.

Perfikot had no peculiar obsession; it was merely a way to remind herself that she had killed so many people today.

Although the deaths of these nobles were merely a result of her anger, and they indeed had their reasons that led to death, every life should be respected, even if they were just a bunch of pigs.

Having killed them, she needed to remember them, for each of their deaths was caused by her.

If Perfikot forgot or ignored the responsibility of taking a life, it would mean she lost the reverence for life that comes with being human.

The consequences of such a development would be extremely severe. After all, Perfikot was the Lord of the North and the Empire's strongest Alchemist. If she wanted, she could easily massacre countless lives.

If things reached that level, this world might be destroyed by her before an apocalypse even struck.

Therefore, to prevent this from happening, Perfikot had to force herself to remember how many people she killed today, who they were, and why they died.

According to post-event statistics, Perfikot massacred a total of ninety-two nobles: seven Counts, twelve Viscounts, twenty-six Barons, and forty-seven other noble ranks like Knights and Baronets.

Aside from one old noble who committed suicide, ninety-one of them were ordered by her to be killed by her knights.

They were massacred for obstructing Perfikot's mission to save the world; each of them was culpable for their demise.

And Perfikot personally watched each one of them being killed in front of her, paying the price for their mistakes with their lives.

The matter would end here. The Empire would not reveal the real cause of their deaths, and their families would not be implicated.

Through this massacre, Perfikot officially established her influence and deterrence in the Empire, and adequately absorbed the social network and political assets left to her by the old prince.

As a joke, even the old prince himself could not have massacred the Noble Council unscathed.

Under such circumstances, all of Langton, as well as the Empire, understood the kind of status Perfikot held in the Empire and the privileges she enjoyed.

Again, even the Northern Territory's Lord could not massacre the Noble Council without paying any price.

This also led everyone to speculate on what kind of uniqueness this Northern Countess had, allowing her to massacre the Noble Council without facing any post-responsibility.

These were nearly a hundred noble councilors, occupying almost two-thirds of the Noble Council's seats, wiped out like this, which had a significant impact on the Noble Council itself.

At the very least, Duke Gloucester had to find suitable nobles to fill the vacancies so that the number of councilors could be restored to more than half of its original count.

After all, according to imperial law, the Noble Council must maintain this number of councilors, or else he, the Speaker, would have to dissolve the council and elect a new Speaker to reorganize it.

Of course, those truly influential councilors did not participate in the impeachment against Perfikot.

After all, they each had their channels; even if they didn't know about the apocalypse crisis, they could somewhat understand Perfikot's pivotal role for the entire Empire, and she held immense power herself. No influential noble councilor was willing to offend this imperial power for some trifling rumors.

Indeed, Perfikot was now an undisputed authority of the Empire. Otherwise, how could one explain her actions of massacring the Noble Council?

On the streets of Langton, Perfikot's actions were interpreted as eliminating dissidents.

She had no opinion on this and didn't mind others saying so because the massacre could indeed be interpreted from another angle as her eliminating dissidents.

However, unlike most people thought, her elimination of dissidents was not to seize power at the Imperial Center, but merely to save the country.

In fact, if Perfikot really wanted power, both Duke Gloucester and Eldest Princess Annie would spare no effort to support her since she truly could save the Empire.

If there had been any doubt about this before, a year or two ago, Duke Gloucester and Eldest Princess Annie would never have granted Perfikot such power. But with the apocalypse looming, Perfikot had proven her correctness and her extraordinary ability.

Under such circumstances, Eldest Princess Annie would rather have someone else take over the reins of power and concentrate all of the Empire's efforts on confronting the apocalypse.

She was genuinely exhausted, mentally and physically, by endless socializing and meetings. If not for the constraints and limitations of her identity, she might have also taken a cue from Perfikot and drawn her sword against the Noble Council.

As the now-governing Eldest Princess, Annie had fully witnessed how incompetent these councilors of the Noble Council were, and how deserving of death they were.

Even though Duke Gloucester had immediately picked a batch of loyal and diligent imperial nobles to fill the vacant council seats, these newly added councilors still nitpicked over any proposals put forward by Eldest Princess Annie.

Even if Eldest Princess Annie could understand that this was their duty, that they needed to exercise their power through such conduct, it did not stop her from feeling genuinely unpleasant.

In this situation, Duke Gloucester could only pray that there were no fools or lunatics among these noble councilors.

Otherwise, offending Eldest Princess Annie would be one thing, but if they provoked Perfikot, he would have no mood to let her massacre the Noble Council one more time.

If such a thing happened, then the Noble Council wouldn't need any dignity in the future, as they had essentially become a punch bag for people's venting.

Duke Gloucester did not want things to develop to this point, even though, from the current perspective, even if Perfikot did not massacre the Noble Council again, how much longer Eldest Princess Annie could tolerate the Noble Council was no longer a question up for discussion.

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