It's not discussed, but the Imperial Capital has a lot of invisible defenses. The walls have wards to detect unlawful entry and exit, to say nothing of all the sentries and soldiers.How would he not be able to just sneak out? Can't he just jump the wall? He should also have covered his face.
Forced to act stupid for the sake of a dramatic reunion 😩
Wait what? That can't be it.
I thought in the empire arc,they break in find out the empire was colluding with the dragon kings, and he ends up fighting three mutant humans designed just to beat him. In the WN this arc didn't end for a while, and by the time he got back it goes to that weird "future" arc. So is this just a break in the empire arc or a complete re-write.