Chapter 399 The Price of Defiance

• The atrocities committed by Japellone's invaders were beyond imagination. Over 300,000 soldiers and civilians were massacred, with acts so cruel such as beheadings, skinning, disembowelment, incineration of corpses, and mass graves that defied all sense of humanity.
• What enraged the people even more was the invaders' shameless attempts to erase history. They tried every means to glorify their actions, hoping the world, especially the people of Crownland, would forget that chapter of humiliation and tragedy.
• Yet, to the solace of the ancestors, the hatred harbored by the majority of people of Crownland had not waned over time. If anything, it had grown stronger. Every person with a conscience knew that forgetting such history was tantamount to betrayal.