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Anna and Louis had ventured to a place beyond reach.
The fall of the Gradias Empire had severed their remaining connections. While the deposed emperor, Vertus, was a fugitive, Anna and Louis were not, and all the information about those linked to the Immortals project had been buried deep. Louis and Anna had not been pursued, yet they too had vanished from the world.
The only promise between Anna and Vertus had been to kill Cristina. They hadn’t discussed anything beyond that.
And Vertus had longed for death, but had been kept alive.
After their disappearance, Anna and Louis had traversed space and time to find Vertus and Tana, who had hidden themselves in the wilderness. But neither of them could rejoice at the reunion. Just as time had changed Vertus and Tana, they did not know how it had transformed Anna and Louis.
It was also a mystery how they had managed to find their way to such a remote place.
Tana and Vertus kept their distance, tense and cautious. Anna and Louis, sensing their wariness, refrained from approaching them too quickly.
Anna’s expression remained calm. There was no trace of anger, hatred, or sadness. Her intentions were completely unreadable.
“I won’t speak at length,” she said, getting straight to the point. “I’ve been gathering the scattered fragments of Shanapell and the Gradias Imperial Mage Corps.”
Shanapell and the Imperial Mage Corps… The emperor had ordered their disbanding just before the Empire vanished. After the final battle at Diane, their fate had been left in their own hands.
None of them joined the New Empire under the Demon King, and they couldn’t have joined even if they wanted to. They were part of the imperial family, and there was no way the Demon King could accept them. The greatest force of the Gradias Imperial Family had to be completely purged along with the old Empire.
Therefore, elements of Shanapell and the Imperial Mage Corps scattered after the battle at Diane. Some might have found their own paths, living in secrecy and hiding their past, just like Vertus and Tana. Some of them, after much time had passed, eventually trusted the New Empire and joined them. And some had placed their trust in the anti-Demon King forces within the Human Autonomous Territory.
The remnants of the past had the freedom to choose their own paths. Yet it seemed...
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