"In a panic, he fled the scene and wandered around several countries for years. Finally, with his excellent talent as a Wanderer, he joined the Lokeshi Empire assassination squad."

"What the hell?" Louis was taken aback.

In times of peace, it was generally uncommon for countries to directly label their forces with the "assassination" prefix.

Under existing order, such behavior is tantamount to provocation.

It could very easily push the situation towards a scenario where each side assassinates the other's high-ranking officials and geniuses.

It's not like the eye legend of the Five Villages' armed conflicts.

Openly putting assassination out in the open is the most brainless behavior.

—At least give it a cover!

He checked Chloe's information.

The information indicates that after joining the assassination unit, Chloe settled directly in the Lokeshi Empire.

Most of the time, he hadn't returned to the Ense Empire.

Only last year, he specifically took a leave from the assassination unit to visit Ense and check on his hometown's situation.

But the area of his hometown had long since become a dead land.

After staying there for a short while and paying respects to his family, he returned to the Lokeshi Empire.

Louis gently tapped his fingers on the table.

The arrogant Emperor.

The wrathful Master of Giant Demons.

The lazy Black Swan.

The greedy Prince of the Empire.

The gluttonous Pope of Glory.

Now, the entire Star Continent just lacks Envy and Lust among the major sins.

If that person named Chloe, the "fellow native" is truly one of the Abyssal Church's major sins, then that is interesting.

"Was he one of the first to enter the Shadow Temple as an investigator? A coincidence? Or..."

Louis didn't finish his sentence.

The Black Swan said:

"The Adventurer Union's preliminaries are just related to rescuing these people, so please pay attention to this person when the time comes."

"If he is a major sin, then we'll need to establish contact with the Lokeshi Empire next."

Louis glanced at her: "Can't you handle this yourself? You're a legend, much more convenient than me, right?"

However, the Black Swan shook her head.

"I can't go, the Shadow Temple affects me."

"Care to explain?"

"It's related to my curse, the curse I bore back then had to do with the Goddess Shire, going there would be walking into a trap."

"Alright, I'll keep an eye on it for you."

...

Louis snapped back to reality.

Looking at the little swan pinching his pants with her toes, he said with disdain:

"Let go, I just cleaned these pants."

"Hm, my feet are clean."

"Who knows? You might have foot odor and wouldn't admit it!"

The little swan glared at him, seemingly ready to bite him for the slightest disagreement.

"Alright, alright, I know you don't."

The little swan put her hands on her hips and said:

"If you dare say I do, I'll stomp my sweaty post-exercise foot right on your face!"

Louis imagined that scene and shivered instinctively.

He certainly doesn't have a foot fetish.

Although if it's the little swan using her foot to stomp people, some might even see it as a treat.

People are just unable to understand each other.

...

The next day.

Louis looked at the beast pouch and money bag sent by the city official, his face brightened with joy.

It's a shame his smile was hidden in his armor, so nobody could see it.

Louis said, "I'll take these things with me, thank you for bothering."

The city official chuckled:

"No trouble at all, it's us who troubled you to help clean the city."

Louis added,

"Princess Beatrice requested me to pass on a message, hoping that with the new technology, Laine City won't experience such large-scale environmental pollution in the future."

The city official nodded: "We'll push this matter to the fullest extent."

Louis didn't say much else.

Words mean nothing.

Let time prove everything.

...

[Location: Lokeshi Empire Border]

Accompanied by a flash of light, a large number of people appeared in a square.

Louis got off the carriage and looked around.

Goodness.

Truly lives up to the distinctive charm of the Star Continent.

Tunisia's transnational teleportation matrix is built in the Steel City, surrounded by hundred-meter tall city walls and heavily guarded soldiers.

Ense's transnational teleportation matrix is built in the Underground City, ascending to the surface feels like climbing Heaven Gate Mountain.

Lokeshi Empire... directly built their teleportation matrix at the lake bottom.

A barrier surrounds the area to prevent lake water from entering.

It's evident that if anyone tried to force their way in here, the Lokeshi side would, depending on the severity of the situation, directly remove the barrier.

When that happens, the hundreds of meters deep lake water would rush in, drowning most people alive.

Once the enemy's main force is wiped out, even if the remaining individual strong ones are powerful, they have corresponding means to deal with them.

Louis was certainly enlightened.

This time, a large number of people were teleported here.

Perhaps to avoid prolonged approval processes, the Lokeshi Empire generally gathers a group of people over two days for teleportation.

Louis and the others just caught the last day of statistics, joining a large crowd for teleportation.

He glanced at the surrounding crowd.

This batch of people transferred over this time had many obvious adventurer traits.

Evidently, this is mostly a group here to participate in the preliminaries.

Just the adventurers teleporting with Louis might number between a hundred and a hundred twenty.

He was surprised to feel there were so many mid-level adventurers in the Ense Empire.

So many in just 2 days.

Can't imagine how many people would show up with several countries united.

Might be over a thousand?

This combat power could compare to a hundred-member regiment of the Royal Guard!

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