343 Empire's Shortcomings

A few months later, Lux explored and investigated the empire, looking for various shortcomings.

What Lux found was worse than he had anticipated.

Opening the empire now was akin to suicide.

With hurried steps, Lux went to his father's laboratory.

Inside, was like a whole other world, filled with exquisite experimental apparatus, some of which he didn't even recognize.

Lux even forgot why he was there and unconsciously looked around.

"Lux?"

"Why are you here?" Maximus quickly noticed Lux and stopped what he was doing.

"Father, I'm here to return to the abyss and to warn you about the various shortcomings I found in the empire."

"Oh? Shortcomings? Care to tell me?"

Although Maximus knew his empire inside and out, he was still curious about what problems his genius son saw.

"First and foremost are the vulnerabilities in the moonlight token system."