Looking at Dark Crow's sorry state, Lu Ran knew it must have caused some trouble.
"But speak freely, I absolve you of any crime," Lu Ran said with a casual wave of his hand. Inside the Imperial Palace, he was dressed very casually, having just finished a bath and wearing a bathrobe—he could be dubbed the Bathrobe Emperor.
"It really wasn't my fault," Dark Crow said with tears in its eyes. "I just went to the edge of the Star Domain to scout as you requested, boss. My other selves had already investigated and found some results, and the black fog on the other side was relatively stable... But not long after I arrived, the spread of the black fog sped up. Boss, what should we do? Boo-hoo-hoo, I didn't mean to leave you without an heir."
Lu Ran: "..."
