Lu Xingshi and Bula found a village and reported the matter. This time, the response came quickly, and the cleanup began at once.
Unfortunately, they were still a step too late. The Void Demons had already vanished without a trace, and they had wrecked the entire town. Even if someone took over the town, restoring it would not be easy.
As for Lu Xingshi, he was assigned locally.
But the matter was far from over. When the Empire discovered that one of its towns had been hollowed out by Void Demons and turned into a hotbed for their growth, it flew into a rage.
It began conducting inspections throughout every region of the Empire.
The operation was anything but small-scale. It was even larger than the response to the Machina Assault.
The Machina Assault had been an overt act, while the Void Demons had truly been moving bit by bit in the shadows.
Lu Xingshi guessed that the Empire must have known about this before. It was simply inconvenient to press forward due to tangled interests. This time, with an excuse in hand, they could finally act.
After that, the matter had little to do with Lu Xingshi. Yet less than three days after his local assignment, a new transfer order arrived.
"Send me to take up a post in the Imperial Capital? Wait, are they serious?" Lu Xingshi looked at the Official Letter in his hand.
For a moment, he could not understand why. At his current rank, he had basically reached the ceiling.
He investigated and discovered something interesting. He was not the only one being transferred; quite a few people had been assigned to this newly established department as well.
More importantly, like Lu Xingshi, they possessed basic Magic Tools distributed by the major Mega-Corporations back then,