They must clear their names!
This was a consensus among everyone.
No one was naive and arrogant enough to think that they could fight against the Empire.
In their group, the strongest was only at the peak of silver, whereas the Empire, not to mention the high and mighty deities and legends, had hundreds in the Holy Domain, not to speak of the Golden Level Transcendents.
Holy Temple Knights, Blood Light Sanction Court, various sects, Magic Academies, and guilds... These were all forces that the Empire could mobilize.
If the truth of Mysterious Monster Island were to be discovered in the future, they could only hope that the Empire would not pursue them. It was like ants walking at the feet of an adult, the adult disdaining to step on them.
But this possibility was very low.