Return Journey

"Whew."

"Hey, we found His Imperial Majesty! We found His Imperial Majesty!"

A bare-chested old man waved the clothes in his hand toward the city walls and shouted.

"Easy there, sir. She Li, go help him up and give him some water."

Chen Cheng called out from behind, waving his hand.

While Chen Cheng and the other had been gone, many things had happened within the city as well.

After Chen Cheng left, Doyle immediately gathered all the remaining people in the city and told them Chen Cheng's identity, as well as what had happened in the outside world.

At first, no one believed Doyle's words, not even those who had once been super-criminals.

Though they hated the Empire, they likewise could not believe that it had simply been destroyed.

In their minds, that was something that could never possibly happen.

The Empire was so powerful. It possessed more than half the Demigod Level experts on the continent and the five strongest legions in the world. Whether elves or dragons, all lay prostrate beneath the Empire's feet. Countless people worshipped and loved the Empire. How could the Empire simply be gone?

It could be said that after Doyle spoke those words, the remaining old soldiers were mostly filled with longing for their former homeland, while the criminals who had completed their sentences could not accept it at all and nearly came to blows with Doyle and the others.

In their hearts, once they had served their sentences and left this place, they would become upright Imperial citizens again. To wash away their crimes and become Imperial citizens, they had stayed here day and night for over a hundred years.

They had gone from dashing young men to toothless, bald old men.

And now they were being told that the Empire