{Romaritime Palace}

  {Weird whistling noises}

  "Uh? Is that Maidas?" The Romaritime king Adriale quickly turns their head and body in the direction of the sound coming from within a rift in space and time created by the Emperor himself. A tremendous Aura then descends from the skies, crashing into the King's beloved flower garden with violent shards of power.

  "You couldn't just use the door? Now my roses are damaged." Adriale casually says as the red crystal corrosion didn't even get close to him, cutting abruptly around twenty feet from him. "A god-like oneself must always have a flashy entrance, wouldn't you say so?" Maidas responds to the King while the guards stupidly surround the Emperor.

  "Stand down! I assume you come to negotiate the return of your war criminals?" Adriale nonchalantly cuts to the chase as he had taken custody of a small elite group of soldiers hailing from the Empire that were apparently chasing a "Deadly criminal."

  "You've guessed right, let's resolve this issue like civilized men before resorting to bloodshed! I bet that's also what you want." Maidas seems to be a little too confident that Adriale will not respond with war, but the reality couldn't have been further away.

  "I still haven't received any evidence that what your men say is an elaborate lie or the truth. What I do know is that around two hundred Romaritime civilians have perished at the hands of your elites." Adriale quickly and effectively starts overtaking Maidas with a powerful aura of his own, rapidly destroying the red crystals of the Emperor.

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  "The criminal we are after is real; their name is Annabel, and she is a royalty murderer who threatens the security of the Empire." Maidas, now a little more alert, stands down from his highly aggressive persona to a more persuasive one once he feels the intensity of Adriale.

  In the records of previous wars, Adriale had already beaten Maidas' grandfather, his father, and if he was stupid enough, maybe even him. "Annabel? That's a girl's name. Am I to believe a female is enough to threaten an entire Empire? A girl!?" Adriale doesn't seem to believe it for a second until the Emperor bows down to him, getting down to one knee right before everyone.

  "Yes, I know; how could a girl threaten the security of my domain, you ask? Well, that would be easy. The data we've collected on her tells us that she could bring down every royal family in the world if we let her. The abilities of this demon surge beyond imagination. I've seen it myself, in fact! Watch this!"

  Maidas quickly brings out a crystal white ball, which fires a large display of images and videos of Annabel ignoring magical attacks and other powerful spells like it's nothing. "A vampire girl immune to light? NONSENSE! There is no such thing!" Adriale tries his best to deny his own eyes until he keeps watching the images and videos of imperial soldiers clearly shooting her with light magic at point-blank range, and it does nothing.

  "This criminal is a dangerous one! This is why I was forced to send an elite troop to try and detain her, but I did not permit them to cross into your territory! Still, as their commander, I will take full responsibility!" Adriale seems hesitant to believe the Emperor's word at face value, but he does come to terms with the weird Annabel story.

  "If what you say is true, then I have no choice but to release your men under the condition that you do not enter our testimony like this again, or it will be considered a direct act of war. As for your criminal, rest assured I will catch them!"