"Ah, you two really were lucky. You could count yourselves as having dodged disaster."
After landing, Lan Qingyou could not help joking when she saw the two of them.
Horn and Hake only smiled bitterly and did not answer.
Speaking of which, it was strange.
For major summons like this, the leaders of their knight orders would usually be required to attend as well.
But this time, the Old Emperor had not done that.
Instead, he had ordered them to gather their respective knight orders and stand guard outside the imperial palace.
Though none of them knew what exactly they were supposed to be guarding.
Even so, the several knight order leaders had accepted the order and carried it out.
Who could have known that not long after the meeting began, the entire stone imperial palace would suddenly turn soft and mushy?
In the end, it had even become a Palace made of flesh and blood.
And it kept spreading outward.
Though they did not know what had happened inside, the knight order leaders, aware of how serious the situation was, had still wanted to try saving people.
So they each organized their knight orders and attempted to break into the imperial palace to rescue the Old Emperor and the nobles and ministers inside.
The result was that, after a burst of effort, many were killed and wounded.
Even the knight order leaders themselves had died until only Horn and Hake were left.
And so, seeing that the matter could not be salvaged, the two immediately organized the remaining members of the knight orders and began evacuating the civilians of the Imperial Capital.
One organized the evacuation, while the other went to rescue supplies.
In the end, both converged at this camp.
After all, the Imperial Capital had a population