In the dead of night, a Flying Airship, temporarily requisitioned, hovered over the slums with a gigantic cargo suspended beneath it.
Beneath the Flying Airship was the location of the largest corpse-recovery guild in the slums, a building that superficially served as a Church Sanctuary but in reality was a base for the Death Sect.
In truth, for the Empire, even though Langton was now in a depleted and desolate state, this didn't mean the Empire had lost control over Langton.
This was because the key military forces and Knight Orders had not been massively withdrawn from the homeland, the military power originally stationed in the homeland hadn't moved to the Northern Territory despite the Imperial Center's relocation and Langton's core population being drained.
The reason was simple: the Northern Territory belonged to the Lord of the North, who had his own stationed troops, neither needing nor allowing the Imperial Center's armed forces to enter.
