The Northern Army Entered the City

The Imperial Capital became a city that never slept tonight. Although the number of patrols had not decreased, Reiner lifted the curfew, allowing the citizens to play in the streets and elsewhere until ten at night.

The residents were instantly overjoyed. Before this, they had still worried that Reiner might be defeated, but after the victorious Northern Army returned to the Imperial Capital, all the malicious rumors were utterly crushed.

The rats hiding in the darkness, who had luckily survived Reiner's previous purge, had also exposed themselves completely in this latest upheaval.

Reiner was not worried about bloodshed. On the contrary, bloodshed was inevitable.

He had never feared those who lurked in the shadows, or the so-called great powers of the underworld. Reiner commanded countless troops. The Holy War Coalition formed by the western nations might give him pause, but those rats surviving in the darkness underground were not qualified to concern him.

This time, they had exposed themselves. Through the intelligence network Logan had established for him in the Imperial Capital, Reiner immediately learned who these survivors were, where they were, and whom they served.

"Do you need us to go and bring them in, Your Majesty?" Dylan stood quietly behind Reiner and spoke to him in a dim corridor, like a venomous snake concealed in the shadows.

Reiner pondered for a moment, then narrowed his eyes slightly. "Not for now. You are my eyes and ears in the Imperial Capital. I don't want you exposed. I still need you to monitor this city from the shadows!"

As the former Young Emperor's court minister in public, Dylan had not suffered Reiner's "purge." Nor had he stepped forward to reveal his identity. Instead, he had secretly told Reiner everything he knew.

It could be said that he had been responsible