The shockwave and thunderous crash came quickly and vanished just as quickly. Their echoes lingered through the hall, but everyone attending the banquet was stunned—because in the blink of an eye, Zhang Tie and Occam had disappeared, as if neither of them had ever been there...
Hardly anyone in the entire hall truly understood what had just happened.
Where had they gone? How had both of them suddenly vanished? Had they been dreaming just now?
Everyone looked at one another.
With a rumbling boom, the two ornate wooden doors where Occam had been standing at the entrance suddenly turned to powder and fell to the ground. The entire gateway structure at the hall entrance, along with twenty meters of the structure extending into the hall, collapsed at once. Dust billowed up and blocked the main entrance. Fortunately, there had been no one within a hundred meters of the area, so no one was hurt. Aurora and the others beside Zhang Tie had been the farthest from the main entrance. Besides the outer layer of guards holding heavy tower shields, tower shields and experts also stood in front of them and the princes. None of them suffered even the slightest injury...
The only people injured just now were the palace guards holding tower shields at the very front. When the first shockwave hit, its force was so immense that several of their wrists were dislocated at once.
All the fluorite crystal lamps within fifty meters of the entrance shattered at that moment, leaving the hall somewhat dim.
The collapse at the entrance had been tremendous, and with dust filling the air, most people could not clearly see what was happening there. For a moment, the hall descended into chaos...
"Where is His Majesty? Where is His Majesty..." someone shouted.
"Thor's Hammer,