A day later, Marshal Maurice, dressed in a dark green military uniform, stood in front of the only mirror in his office, while his mature secretary pinned various badges on his chest.
After placing the last six-pointed star badge in his hand on Marshal Maurice's collar, the secretary said softly:
"Marshal Maurice, all the medals have been pinned on you."
Marshal Maurice, who was looking at himself in the mirror, nodded slightly after hearing his secretary's words, and then waved his hand.
"I'll hand over today's documents to you. You'll have a day off tomorrow."
After saying this, Marshal Maurice ignored his secretary, who looked helpless, pushed open the white office door, and walked out without looking back.
Walking through the corridor within the Imperial Mysterious Research Institute, which was bathed in a soft, pure white light, Marshal Maurice rubbed a black and gold ring between the index fingers of his left hand with his right hand.
This ring contains almost 90% of the strange artifacts within the entire empire, and for these artifacts, not only have his strange squads suffered heavy losses, but local armies have also been reduced to less than one-tenth of their strength.
Despite this, there is a small number of powerful monsters that they cannot contain.
If it weren't for the ring Gu Changqing gave him, the empire's existing storage of strange objects would probably be far from sufficient to store all these strange objects, some as large as skyscrapers and others as small as ants.
The thought of meeting the Emperor and Gu Changqing soon filled Marshal Maurice with a strange unease.
Will the empire return to glory or be destroyed after this ring is given to that person?
When the thought first appeared in Marshal Maurice's mind, he quickly shook his head, trying to shake it off. But for some reason, once the thought appeared, no matter how hard he tried not to think about it, he just couldn't forget it.
His frequent head-shaking also drew the attention of the patrolling guards nearby.
Just then, a patrol captain also saw Marshal Maurice shaking his head repeatedly.
What's wrong with Marshal Maurice today?
The patrol captain thought to himself as he looked at Marshal Maurice.
However, due to the vast difference in their status, he did not dare to go up and ask questions rashly. Instead, as usual, he led his teammates to pay the imperial salute to Marshal Morris and then continued to patrol the passage.
As for those researchers, they certainly have the right to ask, but they simply don't have the inclination, or rather, the time, to care about things outside of their research.
For them, aside from their research projects, eating and sleeping are insignificant matters. If there were a drug that could keep them in a state of constant energy, they would probably give up sleep altogether.
Marshal Maurice did not see the appearance of the people in the passage, but even if he had, he wouldn't have cared.
Now, he imagines a future empire driving away all the monsters and unifying the continent of Solo, but suddenly dilapidated imperial ruins appear, with both the capital and the palace reduced to lifeless wastelands.
These two scenarios kept appearing in his mind, and he seemed to be immersed in these two future scenarios.
He even ignored the people around him who bowed to him. In the past, no matter how lowly someone's status was, he would always smile and nod gently in response if they bowed to him.
But now, lost in his fantasy, his eyes were somewhat vacant, and he walked through the vast passage like a puppet.
He unconsciously rubbed the black and gold ring on the index finger of his left hand.
Whether the future holds glory or destruction seems to lie within this small ring.
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