The Imperial Court was the heart of the entire Antares Continent.
When the Second Antares Empire fell, the Imperial Court suffered damage, but over all the years since, it had long since regained its vitality.
In fact, it was precisely because the Imperial Court's location and significance were so important that it had ultimately become a neutral territory under shared administration.
Any kingdom that truly gained possession of the Imperial Court would have almost all the legitimacy and confidence it needed to push on toward unification.
For that very reason, the people who lived in the Imperial Court had a pride of their own.
With the headquarters of continent-wide organizations such as the Adventurers' Guild based here, news had always traveled fast.
It could be said that word of all the continent's major events reached this place quickly.
That included the destruction of the Thirteen Great Thieves, the dwarven Insect Plague, the Duke Fisher incident, and so on.
If news failed to reach here, it could only mean it was not important enough...
The accounts of the Alchemy Guild's atrocities that Lin Hao had recently arranged to spread had also reached the Imperial Court.
But to the Imperial Court's citizens, who consumed gossip from across the continent every day, that was a minor matter.
It was like how no one cared what policy a third-rate country had introduced.
The news had only reached them thanks to the destruction of the Thirteen Great Thieves and the recent establishment of the Dwarf Kingdom's foreign trade gateway in the Plas City-State.
Yet when Lin Hao exposed their secrets at the meeting and directly issued a formal declaration of war,
the incident truly did set off several waves of uproar.
"Seriously? The Plas City-State declared war on the entire Alchemy Guild?"
"Has he gone