Stuart gazed upon his kingdom.
His eyes swept across the streets, where he saw a child joyfully running home with a schoolbag on his back. His gaze then passed over the towers, where a mage was carefully mixing various extraordinary substances, only for a violent explosion to erupt...
The blue halo in his eyes subsided. Stuart rose to his feet and walked to the window.
A mage tower not far from the imperial city was engulfed in roaring Blaze, belching black smoke. People had already begun hurriedly summoning water elementals to put out the fire.
Stuart smiled.
Over the course of his long life, this was one of his few pleasures.
"Our Emperor seems very happy."
A pleasant female voice sounded, yet its owner could not be seen.
Specks of light gathered, forming the slightly illusory figure of a woman. She wore a magnificent, intricate aristocratic gown, her silver hair cascading loose around her, her bare feet hovering in midair. Her face was breathtakingly beautiful.
"Don't you think it's interesting?"
Stuart did not turn around as he asked with a smile.
"Well, it is rather interesting. But after seeing it often enough, it's really nothing much."
The woman drifted over and sat on the windowsill. Turning back, she looked at the city's tangled architecture, where overlapping and interwoven spaces formed a magnificent sight beyond ordinary reason.
"How is it going?" Stuart suddenly asked.
"The same as always." The woman waved a hand rather casually. "Relax, relax. If anything goes wrong with the data, I'll definitely tell you at once."
Before her words had faded, her expression changed slightly.
"What is it?" Stuart looked at her.
"A fluctuation in the expected values." The woman returned to her previous calm demeanor. "It seems Commander Ausia has completed the mission. Monitoring devices placed