It wasn't easy for Zhao Li Xin and the others to make their way downward. Surveillance cameras watched every angle, and soldiers patrolled with disciplined precision. More troubling still, they spotted several paladins embedded among the Luxemborough troops.
The paladins didn't wear their usual pristine white uniform but instead a plain black uniform, almost identical to the soldiers around them, but they didn't carry guns; instead, they carried swords attached to their hips, completely giving away their identity right away, especially to anyone who had fought against a Paladin face-to-face.
Eventually, Jay and Zhao Li Xin split from Clift and Samuel, their objectives branching in different directions deep within the facility.
Jay and Zhao Li Xin couldn't risk the elevators since they had surveillance cameras.
Therefore, they tracked down an emergency staircase, or something serving that purpose. However, reaching it was a problem entirely different.
