House Laifirut's former residence.
Before long, the place was surrounded by layer upon layer of people.
The heavily armored knights of the Empire Knights had all arrived, completely sealing off the area.
The knights searched inside, intending to find out what had caused this place to become like this.
The unrelated civilians were stopped outside and forbidden from entering, yet people continued to arrive in an endless stream. Looking at the House Laifirut estate that had been razed to the ground, they exchanged glances and shuddered in lingering fear as all sorts of whispers began to spread.
No one knew what had happened here.
Nor did anyone know who had caused it all.
People could only come to one conclusion.
"Laifirut is finished."
That was all there was to it.
This once-arrogant family of assassins had vanished into smoke today.
The Empire Knights found many incomplete corpses amid the flattened ruins of House Laifirut. They also dug up numerous people who had been buried alive underground. After verification, they were confirmed to be members of House Laifirut.
Among them, several charred corpses whose original forms could no longer be identified were confirmed through magical examination to be elder members of House Laifirut.
Yet Diregiss, the head of the house, was nowhere to be found.
Some believed he had died without leaving a corpse behind.
Others believed he had narrowly escaped with his life.
But no matter what, Laifirut had disappeared from the Imperial Capital. That was an indisputable fact.
Perhaps there were still some escaped members of House Laifirut out there.
After all, not everyone from House Laifirut had happened to be home tonight.
But now that Laifirut had been wiped out, those remaining stragglers likely could not stir up much trouble, could they?
Therefore, Laifirut was finished. That was