Chapter 299: The Hero's Return

The silence that descended upon the underground vault was heavier than the tons of rock and steel above. It was a silence filled with the ghosts of ambition and the ashes of a fallen empire. Ruan Jiaxiong and Clarence Lyson, two men who had conspired to hold the world in their grasp, were now nothing more than defeated prisoners, their faces masks of disbelief and utter ruin. The elite soldiers of the Dragon Legion moved with cold efficiency, securing the conspirators and their remaining loyalists,...