A Completely Straight-Faced Load of Nonsense...

"I guessed right?" Henry was startled. "There really was a rebellion in the Steel Empire?"

Li Gou Dan was startled. She really wanted to say, You guessed correctly that I, Gou Dan, am a noble of distinguished status... But even she could not bring herself to say it so directly, so she could only go along with him. "Yes, that's right. Exactly."

"Why did the rebellion happen? What's the situation now? Is the former imperial family still around? Why did they seize our ship?"

As soon as Gou Dan finished speaking, Henry's questions came pouring out like cannon fire. Wang Ye and the others frowned. They did not know much about the situation in the Steel Empire. They only knew that some sort of biological mutation seemed to have occurred there, but they had no idea about the specifics. Thus, they all looked toward Gou Dan as well.

Seeing everyone looking at her, Li Gou Dan replied with a completely serious expression, "The rebellion naturally happened because of oppression. Your, uh... Western scholars analyzed it quite accurately. The conflict was indeed caused by long-standing tensions between the mages and the local warrior nobles, along with unfair resource distribution. In the end, it erupted into a rebellion."

"As for the situation, it was extremely tense at first. The fighting was utterly fierce, and members of the imperial family were assassinated. By now, not a single one of them remains. This caused the nobles to split apart. In the end, a female hero appeared in the empire and turned the tide. Only then did the situation slowly begin to come under control!"

"A female hero?" Henry was taken aback, then hurriedly asked, "Is it Lady Isabelle?"

Those words nearly made Li Jia Yi, who had originally wanted to say it was Lady