Chương 65: Yang Cheng: I'm actually a descendant of nobility?

Empire, capital, Slam.

A brown-haired boy from the countryside stepped into the imperial capital for the first time. Looking at the bustling streets and the many magnificent buildings around him, he couldn't help but marvel at the prosperity of the capital.

However, he was unaware that the seemingly prosperous capital city concealed extreme darkness and ugliness.

His current appearance as a country bumpkin entering a big city has unknowingly attracted the attention of many people.

After all, to many of the rats in the empire's sewers, this country boy's face was practically screaming "sucker."

On the roof of a building, Leone, a hot but bold blonde mature woman, stretched and showed off her impressive curves before turning to look at another figure in the alley and saying, "Yang Cheng, I saw a rather cute boy."

"Those clear yet foolish eyes—I bet he's only been in the capital for a short time."

In the dimly lit alley, Yang Cheng, having wiped the blood off his knife, looked at the lifeless target on the ground and let out a deep sigh from behind his mask.

"So you're planning to use your filthy body to freeload again? If Najendan finds out, you're sure to get a scolding from her again, aren't you?"

A year has passed, and Yang Cheng, who originally only planned to live a peaceful life on the northern border, eventually boarded Najendan's pirate ship and joined the assassination organization "Night Raid" which is now active in the capital.

Yang Cheng joined "Night Raid" for two main reasons.

One reason is the threat from Esdeath. After finishing dealing with the death of the old emperor, Esdeath never forgot about Yang Cheng.

About six months ago, Esdeath went to the northern border and found Yangcheng again in the former territory of the Baltus clan, and the two fought again.

Knowing Yang Cheng's strength, Esdeath didn't hold back much in that battle.

Therefore, the intensity of that battle far exceeded that of the previous one in the alien royal palace.

Esdeath was even more serious that time, and she planned to take Yang Cheng back and properly discipline him even if she broke all his arms and legs.

However, because Yang Cheng also obtained the Imperial Arms "Abyss Possession: Undead Knight", he did not fall into a significant disadvantage in that battle.

After a day and a night of fierce fighting, Yang Cheng finally took advantage of the darkness and once again used the power of Devimon to merge into the darkness and escape Esdeath's pursuit.

Having been outmaneuvered by Yang Cheng twice not only infuriated Esdeath but also fueled her desire to conquer him.

With the ministers' assistance, Yang Cheng's wanted posters have now been plastered all over the streets and alleys of the entire empire, and the reward amount is astonishingly high.

Of course, if that were all, Yang Cheng could have gone to a more distant border, or even left the empire altogether, to live in some rural village.

However, one day, Najenda, who had joined the Revolutionary Army and become one of its cadres, in charge of the Empire's assassination organization "Night Raid," suddenly found him and said that she had found his relative.

Yang Cheng and Esdeath both came from the Baltes tribe, which was wiped out by the northern alien race. Theoretically, he should have no relatives or friends left.

However, Najenda's question at that time completely stunned Yang Cheng.

"Your mother isn't from the Balutus tribe, is she?"

That's right. Although he was born into the Balutes tribe, Yang Cheng only has half Balutes blood.

Because her mother was taken from somewhere by her adoptive father.

During his years growing up in the Balutes tribe, Yang Cheng never experienced what was called fatherly love, because his adoptive father, like most Balutes, only had fighting and hunting in his eyes.

Furthermore, because Yang Cheng only has half Baltus blood and his strength is not particularly great, he is not popular within the clan.

Similarly, Yang Cheng's mother, who was captured and taken prisoner, had an even lower status in the clan.

If it weren't for giving birth to Yang Cheng, she probably would have been killed by other members of her clan long ago.

Despite the hardships of life, his mother loved and cared for him dearly from a young age, and even when the tribe was attacked by northern tribes, she gave him the only chance to survive.

Compared to his father, who merely gave him his genes and then abandoned him, Yang Cheng always regarded his mother as the most important person in the world.

Unfortunately, the cheat came too late, and he was too young at the time, so he had no power to protect the people he cherished.

This is why he was so determined to seek revenge against the northern tribes, and eventually returned to live in his tribal lands.

Yang Cheng's mother often told him that his mother had an older brother who doted on him.

Moreover, based on his mother's temperament and her understanding of the capital, Yang Cheng suspected that his mother might not be an ordinary border commoner.

When Najendan found Yang Cheng and told him that his uncle, as the empire's treasurer, had been massacred because he refused to collude with the ministers, leaving only his eldest daughter to live in the slums, Yang Cheng eventually followed Najendan to the capital.

At first, I was skeptical of what Najenda said.

But when he saw the down-on-her-luck Lacia in the slums of the capital, he was momentarily convinced of what Najenda had said.

Lacia, Yang Cheng's nominal cousin, was dressed in tattered clothes and looked disheveled, but in terms of both temperament and appearance, she resembled his former mother by at least seven or eight points.

Yang Cheng felt that he could never repay his mother's kindness in raising and saving his life.

Now that he has met his mother's family, whom she had always longed for, here, shouldn't he do something about it?

His mother's most beloved older brother had passed away, so he had to take good care of his only remaining cousin.

And those who wiped out my mother's family, can such grudges be simply forgotten?

The culprit who destroyed my mother's family was the minister, so even if it's just to repay my mother's past kindness, that minister Ernest must die!

Because they shared the same goal, Yang Cheng ultimately chose to cooperate with Najendan and joined "Night Raid".

Of course, his identity was limited to a member of "Night Raid," not to the Revolutionary Army.

Yang Cheng's mother's original family was also an imperial noble family, and they had a family crest called "Red Sun", which is said to symbolize "the sincere sun".

It was for this reason that when Yang Cheng recognized Lacia, she immediately understood why her aunt had given him that name.

The sincere sun, isn't that Yang Cheng?