(MC POV)
Elaria was looking at the holographic map displayed on the table with a critical eye while surrounded by her generals and admirals.
In case you were wondering, the Inktyr Republic fell really quickly and their entire sector was filled with nothing but the rubble of cracked planets. Their entire civilization had literally been wiped out from existence in a matter of hours after Elaria gave the order to speed things up just so that we could concentrate on the new enemy.
But because Elaria was the one who declared war on the United Toal Federation, she's regarded as the aggressor which led to quite a number of other galactic empires declaring war on us all in the name of 'subduing an unreasonable aggressor'.
No doubt they were thinking they could take this chance to claim some of Elaria's resources and territory for themselves without repercussions from their own people or other civilizations.
On the map, Elaria's empire was located in the centre of it and all around us was a sea of red, a colour we were using to indicate the enemies who have declared war on us.
If this was any other empire, this would pretty much be a disaster. In fact, if this was this World's Elaria, she would also regard this situation as a major crisis for us.
But right now, Elaria was simply looking at each of the enemy factions like she was trying to decide which one she wanted to deal with first.
Her commanders were all looking at her nervously since they also knew that even though we were strong, there was no way we would be able to fight against so many opponents all at once. The only reason we managed to steamroll through the Inktyr Republic was because they not only had vastly weaker military power, their technology was also less advanced than ours.
To these veteran commanders who have been around since the start of Elaria's empire, they were unable to understand why Elaria would choose to be so aggressive right now.
Even if she wanted to expand the empire, she should have done so slowly and taken on each of these faction members one by one instead of all at once. I already knew that some of them suspected I had somehow done something to her.
Elaria might have given the order and created that position for me to prevent the others from threatening me, but they were still used to seeing me being mistreated so the sight of Elaria treating me so well was something entirely alien to them.
At least they had no intention of assassinating me… Yet.
Not like they could anyway.
"Shogun, If… If I may be so bold to suggest… It might be a good idea to make peace with some of them first. Perhaps the larger Federations like the Ziol and the Yiet could be appeased by ceding a few territories to them while we deal with the others…" One of the admirals suggested.
Elaria looked at him with a frown, "What are you talking about? Why do we even need to care about them?"
"This is quite a disaster isn't it, Shogun? We could take on the United Toal Federation head on without any issues but not with so many other factions going against us at the same time… We don't have the military power to combat all of them at once."
"Huh? We don't? Oh yeah, I suppose you're right. There's no need to worry, I'll be able to handle this by myself."
"Wha… What? By… By yourself? I… I'm not sure I understand, Shogun?"
"Hmm? What's there not to understand? It's pretty simple, we're going to fight this defensively so just station the minimum amount of forces needed along the borders to hold each of them back. All of them declared their wars independently of each other which means they're not only disorganised but they're also unofficially fighting against each other to take our territories for themselves. Because of that, they won't be fighting us as a united front which means we don't need to expect some kind of grand offensive from them."
"Bu… But even so… It will just be a matter of time before they decide to team up, Shogun. And we don't have enough forces to effectively defend against all of them across all fronts…"
Elaria waved her hand dismissively, "I'll be heading out to destroy them one by one so there wouldn't be any need to send forces to defend against the faction I'm dealing with. And if any of them do team up, I'll go ahead and start destroying them first."
There was silence for a moment before the room erupted into an array of protests from the commanders.
"Shogun! You're planning to take the front lines again?!"
"That's too dangerous! The Inktyr Republic was one thing, but the others are on par with us in strength!"
"Even with your Royal Guards, You can't take on an entire Empire on your own!"
Elaria scoffed, "There's no need to bring my Royal Guards, they will just be in the way. Put them in the defensive force, I will head out and crush each of these empires with Onii-sama alone."
Instead of assuring them, her words only drove them further into a frenzy as it would be impossible for the two of us to take on an empire by ourselves, if we were still normal that is.
There weren't Practitioners in this particular universe after all, so the idea of just having two people fight an empire by themselves was absurd.
Well… Elaria is a goddess now, so if she wanted to, this entire war could end in an instant with our victory if she were to just simply will it to happen anyway…
She slammed the table with a fist, causing the hologram to short out for a moment before reappearing again.
"Silence! Do you all take me for a fool who does not know what I am doing? I will have you know that I have been creating a superweapon all this time that can take on empires by itself! The only requirement was to have Onii-sama regain his memories so that we can use it! Now that he has returned to his true self, we are no longer beatable!!"
Err… I don't think there's such a weapon around though… At least I… Ah… She's going to make it later, isn't she?
She waved her hand over the hologram and it changed into what looked like a giant robotic version of me.
Ah… It's the mecha suit that she used during the battle royale isn't it? Except this one obviously looked like it went through several upgrades since then.
My little sister gestured to the hologram proudly, "Behold! My Oniisamanator nine thousand!! It's the most powerful weapon in this entire Universe!!! With this, we will conquer everything!!!"
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No, don't look at me you guys, I wasn't the one who made it… And no, I did not give her the idea or brainwashed her into doing it either…
The stares from the admirals felt really painful… Let's just go and eradicate some galactic civilizations already…
