'Queen? What a bluff.'
Ruvina, trailing behind the four individuals—Kyle Arcutus and the other three—couldn't help but narrow her eyes, her mind brimming with amusement.
She recalled how this was the same man who, just moments ago, had declared that he would make Aleriana the queen of this kingdom.
Naturally, she understood that, perhaps due to subduing Prince Orion, he had come to believe it would be that simple.
But what he clearly failed to grasp was that this kingdom housed over a hundred million people.
Among them, a million were cultivators above the fifth layer, affiliated with sects, organizations, groups, and noble houses.
Each of these factions held warriors strong enough to flood an entire battlefield by sheer numbers alone.
And even if one ignored their collective strength, their overwhelming numbers could easily crush a seventh-layer cultivator at their peak.
No one—not even a powerhouse who achieved an early breakthrough—could subdue all of them alone.
