Solam left, furious. To say he did not care about the lives of two hundred thousand people would have been a lie. He was indeed selfish, and he truly did not care about people he did not care about.
But that was two hundred thousand people! Two hundred thousand living, breathing human beings!
Solam felt that no matter how cold-blooded and selfish he was, he could not simply stand by and watch. That was why he made that suggestion, asking Yetana to hand over Xianna. On one hand, he still wanted to save Digla; on the other, was he not also trying to save those two hundred thousand people?
But now, faced with Yetana's stubborn attachment to family and the Radiance Church's inexplicable insistence, Solam was practically going mad. So he decisively told them that the Cloud Giants would begin withdrawing from Toussaint before the three-day deadline arrived.
Since humanity itself did not take this matter seriously, Solam was even less willing to let the Cloud Giants suffer losses over it.
After Solam stormed out of the royal palace, Saint Peter III did not hesitate in the slightest. He immediately issued orders to the College of Cardinals, telling them to begin using the divine teleportation devices in the major churches and temples to send reinforcements to Beauclair.
At the same time, he requested aid from the Church of Suffering and the Church of Justice, calling for more forces to gather in Beauclair as quickly as possible.
Meanwhile, Beauclair's entire military mobilized. They began knocking on doors from house to house through the night, waking Beauclair's residents from their sleep and telling them to evacuate the city.
To that end, every church organization in Beauclair sprang into action, persuading and helping the city's residents evacuate.
By the time Solam returned