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    Ruan Yang’s actions, compared to attacking the defense towers, seemed more like catching up with old friends. The reason was simple: the Central Army guarding those towers were all old subordinates of Ruan Yang’s mentor, Karand, and old friends of Marshal Xue Xin. They had practically watched Ruan Yang grow up.

    After the Emperor’s sudden death and Mrs. Judith’s account automatically revealing her identity and the truth behind the Xue family’s wrongful case, they saw Ruan Yang leading the White Tiger Legion to attack the southern defense towers.

    Several old marshals directly contacted Ruan Yang’s personal communication, bluntly asking, “Ruan Yang, make this clear. The deaths of your mentor and old Xue… were they really a lie you and Duke Auston fabricated to rebel? Is Mrs. Judith really old Xue’s fiancée back then, and is the little Omega beside you really…?”

    They had had vague suspicions about the events of that year, but lacked concrete evidence. Moreover, without a clear leader, they didn’t want to plunge the empire’s people into misery, so they had endured it.

    Now that things had reached this point, they just wanted a clear truth.

    “It’s true… both my mentor and Marshal Xue were wrongly killed. The Emperor sent people to do it. The Emperor’s younger brother, Prince Andrew, is a witness to everything back then, and he was the one who saved Ryan,” Ruan Yang said to the several elders with both respect and gravity.

    However, the momentum of his orders to his subordinates to attack the southern defense towers never ceased.

    The old generals exchanged glances and immediately decisively pressed the control hub to disarm all the weapons on the southern defense towers: “Open the space gate, and immediately let Lieutenant General Ruan Yang and the White Tiger Legion in!”

    Their sudden move startled all the surrounding soldiers: “Generals!”

    “Father!” Even the son of one of the old generals didn’t expect him to do this.

    “The royal family is so disloyal and unrighteous, harming loyal and good people. What need do we have to die for them? Besides, the overall situation is set now. Even if we risk our lives, what can we change? It’s just dying in vain,” the old general said in a grave tone. “We guard the space gate for the people of the Imperial Star. I believe that Lieutenant General Ruan Yang and the Lucifer army will not harm a single person. It’s better to live shabbily than to die well.”

    As an old general who had fought for many years, he didn’t want to see his son and the soldiers under his command die not on the battlefield or at the hands of the Zerg, but at the hands of Ruan Yang.

    And for the marshal’s most proud student to bear the burden of their blood debt.

    The marshal’s grievance had always weighed on their hearts like a straw. If they had known the truth back then, they might have rebelled when they were young and impetuous. But they were constrained by the lack of evidence and the countless innocent people of the empire. As generals all their lives, they couldn’t bring themselves to become rebels, point their cannons at them, and affect them.

    In fact, there had been omens before the marshal’s incident. The marshal himself must have sensed it, otherwise he wouldn’t have suddenly made a will and distanced himself from them.

    It was just that no one had dared to break through that layer of window paper.

    Now, Ruan Yang, as the marshal’s student, and Auston had taken the lead, rebelling against the empire and besieging the city to this point, and even bringing with them the marshal’s last trace of blood.

    What reason did they have to block their path and hinder them?

    The southern gate defense tower of the Imperial Star was extinguished, and the southern space gate opened wide.

    “Ruan Yang thanks you, uncles and elders,” Ruan Yang said to the generals on the other end of the communication.

    He was about to leave the command room to personally meet the elders on the deck of the warship.

    The adjutant immediately looked at him worriedly: “…Legion Commander, be careful it’s a trick. You can’t leave the command room, and we can’t disarm either.”

    Ryan also grabbed Ruan Yang in fear, looking at him anxiously. He didn’t speak, but his clear black and white eyes conveyed the message that he shouldn’t go.

    His adoptive parents, Prince Andrew and his wife, had been betrayed by their most trusted person at the space gate. He had a shadow in this place and didn’t want to see Ruan Yang repeat the same mistake.

    “Don’t worry, don’t be afraid. I trust the character of the generals. They are also old friends of your biological father,” Ruan Yang said, holding his hand and comforting him softly. He then said to the adjutant, “Follow me off the warship to meet the old generals.”

    When Ruan Yang led Ryan off the warship, the old generals were already standing at the space gate in full military uniform to welcome them. The two sides faced each other, a silence, and no one spoke first.

    Ruan Yang took the lead, giving them a standard military salute, and then a student salute: “Long time no see, generals.”

    “Ruan Yang, we are willing to let you enter the Imperial Star,” the old generals said with tears in their eyes. “But don’t forget what you promised us. You can kill your way into the palace, but you must not harm a single citizen of the Imperial Star or a soldier who gives up resistance. Osfia shouldn’t shed blood for this.”

    Ruan Yang immediately said, word by word, “Generals, rest assured. Ruan Yang guarantees with his life that my army and Auston’s army will not harm a single innocent person. We only want to enter the palace.”

    The generals were willing to open the space gate because they trusted Ruan Yang’s character. Seeing him make a solemn promise after entering the city, they breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Ryan: “…Is this the son of our marshal and Miss Xue? He doesn’t look like our marshal at all.”

    “He looks a little like him, especially the mouth. But most of him looks like Miss Xue…”

    “That’s great. I didn’t expect that our marshal would still have a trace of blood in the world. The Xue family and the Karand family aren’t completely destroyed…”

    They commented on the boy who was said to be the marshal’s orphan, wishing they could grab Ryan on the spot, take a clear look, and then pinch and hug him.

    Ryan had rarely seen people who were so enthusiastic towards him. His guard didn’t diminish, and he just fearfully held Ruan Yang’s hand, shrinking behind him, not wanting to face these people anymore.

    The southern space gate was breached with almost no bloodshed. Ruan Yang used very few bullets.

    It can be said that it was effortless.

    Soon after, the sounds of the western and northern space gates being breached also came…

    The people of the Imperial Star had already been evacuated to the underground city for refuge. The entire Imperial Star was like an empty city. Auston and Ruan Yang successfully joined forces.

    As Osfia’s leading star, the Imperial Star had many defenses. The closer they got to the palace, the more heavily guarded it was.

    After passing the checkpoint of the army stationed at the space gate, the royal guards surged towards them…

    General Mikir, the leader of the royal guards, hesitated to look at them, and was about to order an attack on them.

    “Mikir, surrender. Judging by the number of people, you won’t be our match. Don’t make any more futile struggles and shed blood,” Auston directly got off the warship, holding the national seal that Empress Catherine had given to Prince Andrew, and then Prince Andrew had given to him. He shouted at Mikir from afar.

    The royal guards were an army absolutely loyal to the royal family of the empire, and would fight for the Osfia royal family until the last drop of blood was shed. It was a loyal army.

    Auston didn’t really want to move them, but previously there had been no other way to avoid fighting them.

    But with the national seal, it was different. The Osfia royal family had a bad reputation, and other legions might not recognize this seal, but the royal guards definitely did.

    Sure enough, Auston took out the seal.

    The royal guards, who had already set up their light cannons and aimed them at Auston and Ruan Yang’s army, intending to fight to the death and not surrender, were all stunned and looked at their commander Mikir in confusion: “General, this…”

    “Let them pass! Let His Highness in!” As soon as Mikir saw the seal, he decisively ordered the guards to make way for Auston to go to the palace.

    Their royal guards were only loyal to the Osfia royal family. The Emperor had been assassinated a few hours ago, and now the one in overall control of the Imperial Star was Iso, the long-time secretary from the orphanage.

    Compared to Iso, Auston, the former Crown Prince and eldest son, held the national seal in his hand, which was obviously much more orthodox.

    If they could choose, they didn’t want to throw stones at eggs and resist with their lives…

    After all, who wouldn’t want to live… Now that Auston had the seal, they recognized the seal, and no one could say they were wrong.

    With the royal guards giving way, Auston’s road to the palace was unimpeded.

    When Auston’s army attacked the Imperial Star, Ruan Tang couldn’t resist his sleepiness and fell asleep in the co-pilot seat of Auston’s vehicle, dozing off and having a dream.

    In the dream, Ruan Tang dreamed that he was originally the protagonist of the world, with a fixed and complete plot line and a lover who should have cherished each other, but because the author couldn’t bear the readers’ scolding, the story was abandoned halfway, causing him and his lover to not have time to fall in love and understand each other before all the stories came to an abrupt end.

    At that time, Ruan Xi didn’t exist in that world.

    After the story came to an end, he saw something called a system come to his world, which was actually a world fortune stealer. Then his world was reset and restarted, and Ruan Xi appeared, targeting him everywhere and trying to steal his fortune and halo, but in reality, he was being used by the system…

    Because of the arrival of this outsider, his life became extremely miserable, and everything that should have belonged to him in the first world was stolen by Ruan Xi.

    Everyone loved Ruan Xi, liked Ruan Xi, and he became a notorious rat that everyone wanted to beat…

    But because of his firm mind, even after experiencing such changes, he never had a trace of abandonment or despair wanting to die in his heart. The world line suddenly changed, and the things that Ruan Xi had snatched from him gradually failed to work out of control… And after suffering hardships and the fall of the Imperial Star–

    It was also because Lord Lucifer’s mental power disorder was incurable that, as the Omega with the highest information matching degree who was caught, he met his destined lover.

    They met, got to know each other, deepened their understanding of each other, and couldn’t help but develop a vague liking… Next, there would be a beautiful and dreamy ending.

    But the system was still not dead, never giving up on stealing fortune from this world–

    So, when Ruan Tang’s life was just getting a little better and all the good things were about to begin, everything came to an abrupt end again.

    The world restarted, and only then did the current story come about.

    And the power of the fortune stealer had become very weak due to the continuous failures and tossing of the previous life and this life. At this moment, it was his last counterattack…

    But as the protagonist, he had already regained his memories.

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