The Emperor's Hegemony

The Emperor&#39;s Hegemony is a weapon in SINoALICE.

Weapon Story
Long ago, there was an emperor who unified the human world by force. It was said that this ruler was able to glimpse the throne of the gods, and in his jealousy attempted to wage war with the heavens. After many bloody battles, the gods came to him with a peace treaty. The gods officially recognized the emperor and each of his ancestors as the sovereign of all he saw. They bestowed upon him an axe as the symbol of his hegemony.

The current emperor was a small man whose hobby was building vaults. Though an adequate ruler, the man had an inferiority complex owing to the long line of great emperors that preceded him. One day, he noticed that the axe symbolizing his hegemony had disappeared from the court. The emperor was furious. His men looked everywhere for the axe but could not find it. Each new messenger who returned with another unfavorable report was slain on the spot.

The search for the axe was fruitless, each failed attempt another mockery of the frantic emperor. It wasn't long before the messengers no longer reported to him, so afraid were they for their lives. The emperor then turned his ire to the searchers themselves, beheading them to the man. "Only someone close to me could have accomplished such a heist..." His suspicions continued to grow, spurring him to oust one chief vassal after the next.

Then, it dawned upon him—The night he'd drank himself into a stupor, taken the axe from the wall, and...placed it in one of his vaults. Fearing the pandemonium that would occur should this truth come to light, the emperor elected to keep quiet. But he betrayed himself a second time, letting word of his blunder slip to a favored concubine. Word spread like a raging fire, and it wasn't long before his vassals joined together to slay him in a fit of righteous anger.