"Your Majesty?"
Seeing their father—the City Lord—react this way, both the young man and the Shopkeeper stood frozen on the spot, completely dumbfounded.
'This person before my eyes, the one I just questioned and mocked, is actually His Majesty the Emperor of the Divine Wind Empire?'
'Isn't the Emperor of the Empire supposed to be a middle-aged man? How could he be this young?'
"You insolent whelp! Get on your knees and apologize to His Majesty Nie Yun this instant!" Yimo, the Tianxin City Lord, roared when he saw his son just standing there in a daze.
Others might not have known that the Divine Wind Empire had a new ruler, but as a City Lord, he had been informed long ago. The Empire had changed hands in a single day. 'If a subordinate can't even recognize his own leader, he might as well be dead!'
Since he knew about the new Emperor, he was also well aware of how utterly ruthless this amiable-looking young man could be when he decided to act.
