Chapter 944: A Wrong Turn

At dawn the next day, dark shapes streaked across skies all over the world. They were Shadows. Over the Japanese imperial palace, twenty Shadows hovered. The previous emperor had been cut down by Ferrid Chu. The new one had been chosen by the nation's head of state from among the late emperor's many descendants. The new emperor and the head of state led Japan's upper echelons to kneel before the Shadows. The head of state spoke first. "We, the people of Japan, pledge ourselves to the Holy...