The Throne room was now thoroughly covered in dust, blood, and the corpses of two fallen Knights, alongside the scattered rubble of the destroyed wall and shattered door, and through the thick, swirling dust that lingered heavily in the air, Malrik stepped in with calm, unhurried ease as though he had not just forcefully intruded into the Emperor's palace.
But the very moment he stepped in, the presences of two Crownstar Life Rankers erupted outward violently and collapsed upon the Throne room with maddening force, the entire atmosphere within the Throne room turning deathly cold as suffocating killing intent saturated every inch of the air.
In the next instant, the presences of numerous Imperial Knights exploded outward in response, all of them at the Soulstar Life Rank, all of them reacting instinctively to the destruction that had just occurred within the Throne room itself.
