The ride from the wall home brought with it a mixed bag if emotions.
They had only been away from everything for just over a month, and even extended their vacation by a few days to go out of their way and explore the Great Wall standing vigil over their northern border.
And yet as he rode alongside Serena back to the Eternal City, Julius couldnt help but feel a pang of regret.
He wasnt born to be an emperor.
He was just a regular guy, one who used to work a standard 9-5 with ample overtime dreaming of the weekends when he could just sleep all day and do nothing at all.
And now after a month on vacation he both wanted to go back to resume his position as the emperor, and commander in chief of one of the continents strongest nations thus far, and at the same time did not want to as it would mean a return to mountains of paperwork, endless meetings and discussions about the empire, its people, and future conflicts and expansion plans.
