Due to the clash between Shien and Mara, the Imperial Capital suffered a massive impact and was half-destroyed, with only a few buildings protected by barriers remaining intact, including the Bigusler residence.
The citizens didn’t suffer heavy casualties, seemingly thanks to the Adventurer’s Guild protecting them.
The Imperial Palace, however, was almost completely destroyed, the epicenter of the impact. Even its highest-level barrier couldn’t protect it, and it was reduced to ruins.
Then, Rockto and Tilly led a rescue team, saving Diere, Capeline, Harvis, the Broken Blade knights, and the survivors in the palace.
Saliro and Geno, however, along with the nobles who conspired with them, fled the Imperial Capital with their families.
Clearly, Mara’s death and Shien’s appearance made them feel that their struggle for power was hopeless.
Therefore, they fled, not daring to stay in the Imperial Capital.
“Now, Commander Rockto has regained control of the Imperial Knight Order and is leading them in handling the aftermath in the Imperial Capital,” Lasha said, “Those eleven monsters summoned by Imperial Consort Mara haven’t been dealt with yet, and their whereabouts are unknown. Many are worried that they’re hiding underground, causing a lot of anxiety.”
Lasha was referring to the eleven Demon Lord Larvae. They were all Legendary-level and possessed the ability to shift between reality and illusion. Unless it was a weapon specifically designed to counter them, like the Holy Sword, it was difficult to defeat them.
Naturally, they survived.
However, with Mara’s death, their whereabouts were unknown.
“Lady Yulin seems to be searching for them, wanting to finish them off. She’s been flying around in the sky. Princess Capeline also dispatched the Broken Blade Knight Order and the Royal Knights, cooperating with the Imperial Knight Order, to search for them. But Princess Capeline is also injured, and Prince Harvis’s condition isn’t very good. The situation in the Imperial Capital hasn’t improved much.”
As Lasha reported, she lowered her eyes.
“What’s wrong?” Shien asked, seeing Lasha like this, while adjusting his sleeves.
“…I must apologize to you, Master Shien,” Lasha said after a moment of silence, “Miss Leni is gone.”
Shien froze.
“Gone?” He frowned, “What happened?”
“I don’t know,” Lasha shook her head calmly, “That day, milady and I went out to protect the Bigusler residence from the shockwave. When we returned, Miss Leni was gone.”
Hearing this, Shien also fell silent.
But after a moment, he relaxed his brow.
“Forget it, don’t worry about her,” Shien said, “Although her secrets are still unknown, now isn’t the time to be concerned about her.”
Yes. Now wasn’t the time to worry about other things.
Shien was more concerned about something else.
“My identity has been exposed, right?”
Shien voiced his guess.
“Yes,” Lasha looked up at Shien, “The fact that Master Shien is the Hero is now public knowledge.”
Shien smiled wryly.
As expected, it had been exposed.
This was going to be a big problem.
“The Human Realm seems to be quite restless recently,” Lasha said to Shien, “Master Shien can experience it yourself if you go outside.”
“Alright,” Shien sighed.
He knew that from today onwards, he would never have peace again.
Perhaps he might even become a sinner of this world.
But he didn’t regret his impulsive actions.
Rather, Shien wished he could go back to the moment he confronted Mara.
“I should have gone all out from the beginning and eliminated her.”
Unfortunately, even if he had, Mara would have still activated her trump card and achieved her goal, right?
Anyway, the current situation was likely to become very troublesome.
How should he face it?
What a headache…