Book II: The Pragmatic Wisdom of the Great Sage

Our story begins in Yuelan.

The Guang Hu Hien, Otylia and Darius had joined forces with the Magistrate Julia and the Great Sage Melissa. They planned to take revenge for Quynh's death at the hands of Magistrate Antipheros, and Governor Lung's charge of treason.

The first step was to get into the Lung Palace, where the Historical Library was stored. After a confrontation with the guards, Darius was allowed in. There was a brief dialogue with Governor Lung, while the Dragon Minister Hong Chi watched on. The Governor scorned him and his niece, and throw him out along with a bag of money in an insulting condolence for Quynh's death.

The party ironically entered the Dragon Phoenix Restaurant to begin planning their downfall for Governor Lung. Armed with incriminating papers of stolen military supplies and war without the Emperor's approval, Otylia enacted a plan to get the papers to the Dragon Minister and set the fall for Lung.

She sent Julia in the hope that the Magister's status would get her into the palace unharmed.

Julia left for the palace, and was confronted by the gate guard. She was denied entry because she was associated with the Governor's niece. Then she tried to pull an elaborate hoax that indeed, she was a spy working for Governor Lung.

The guard, rather disbelieving, led Julia on that indeed, the Governor was expecting her. He trapped her in the "Null Suite", an antimagic room designed to accomadate 'guests' of her kind.

She was brutally tortured.

The Governor now alerted to the plan, sent Minister Hong Chi off for the capital, and sent his assassins after his niece and her companions.

The Dragon Phoenix Restaurant, was of course, a base for the Lung Feng Wong. Ironic, because Lung Feng does mean Dragon Phoenix. A battle ensued with rockets and explosions, and the assassins fled after being harried with magic and fire.
The party made it's way quickly through the city on high alert. After dealing with the gate guards, they scaled the wall of the palace into the Null Suite.
They dealt with a flood of guards, who were recalled back to the throne room after some embarrasing defeats. The party planned on holing up in the Null Suite, when Governor Lung delivered a message.

He had Julia captive. If they wanted her alive, they would come to him.

Hien was no fool, but she walked into the trap anyway. Darius and Otylia followed after some hesitation.

They confronted Lung in his massive throne room. They were surrounded by forty men with muskets and pistols. The Governor also had a massive Draconian body guard, and a terra cotta lion guarding him personally.

While Hien and he traded some nasty words, Otylia spotted a strange thing- something was moving under his hat! With a deft and critical toss of her dagger, she knocked the boxy headgear off the Governor's head, revealing a tiny Neogi hiding underneath, clutched to his skull.

Chaos ensued. The guards were motionless, confused about who to shoot. The Draconian bodyguard was crippled as the Neogi frantically tried to control his mind and render assistance. Darius, acting swiftly fired a blast of arcane energy that disrupted the creature's concentration, allowing Hien to deliver a swift blow that neatly seperated the creature's legs from the rest of it's body.

The Neogi died a squishy death under the boot of an Imperial Guard.

The aftermath was bittersweet and cold, the taste of revenge. Governor Lung was devastated, the memory of the heinious crimes he committed flooding back to him. It was revealed that he indeed was responsible for the assassination of Hien and Quynh's father, Hien's discharge from the army, and most recently, allowing Antipheros to enlist the Lung Feng Wong to find and kill Quynh.
He had mobilized the Lung family and all it's assets into revolution against the Emperor, and would have been at the head of his downfall. A central figure head in a massive Neogi infiltration network designed to sever the nation from within.
And there was still Magistrate Antipheros, and how he was connected with all of this.

One question remained.
Could it be stopped?