"From the start?"
The Great Elder emerged from the shadows.
He did not care about the other elders' deaths.
Even when someone fled to his feet in terror, he merely kicked them away.
"As expected, Train Conductors like you possess many things this world cannot imagine."
"Oh, so you know who I am."
The Astral Sacred Crest unfolded.
It slapped several Assassins who tried to ambush him against the wall, crushing them into pulp.
The Demon Raven stood atop the wall, glanced disdainfully at the mass of flesh, cawed twice, and flew a short distance away.
"You suddenly appeared riding a Warhorse-no, in your words, a mount that should be called a Train-and claimed to come from the Otherworld. Heh, this world has long since had no world beyond this land."
"Oh? Why?"
Ye Qiyan twirled [Bewitchment].
"I'm curious, so tell me everything you know."
"Why should I..."
"Because then I might let you go."
"You..."
"All right, hurry up. I'm short on time."
Whispers echoed.
The Great Elder did not realize anything was wrong at all. He frowned.
Amid the rivers of blood, he spoke at length.
"You probably only just arrived in this world, so you likely don't know that everything in this world outside the land beneath your feet has already become scorched earth.
That foolish King of Chalk wanted to achieve Ascension with its people and its Knights, then leave this world.
It built the City of Eternity.
It raised the sun and dispersed the dark clouds.
But that city was built atop the ruins of the Royal Court of our People of Night. That place belongs to us.
And the furnace core of that City of Eternity...
Is the remains of our king."
"So?"
"So, outsider, you may kill these incompetents to vent your anger