Three months later...
In the capital of the Western Empire...
Right now, one of the mercenaries who had recently been in the Black Plain Empire was now going through the imperial palace's security protocols.
After months since that group's departure from Dry City, they had already reached their homeland and returned to their routine activities there.
Some of them had taken time out for themselves since they had earned enough in that period to go months or even years without working. So even those less interested in resting had taken time for themselves, like the man who had taken Grant's message.
But after a few days of relaxing, this fellow had decided to fulfill old Grant's mission and was at this very moment in one of the wings of the imperial palace responsible for low-level affairs.
