Chapter 960: The Truth is Meant to be Buried

"My, you two sure are lucky, you managed to escape a disaster."

Lan Qingyou, after landing, couldn't help but make a joke upon seeing the two.

Holger and Huck, however, smiled bitterly and didn't reply.

It was strange to say.

In such a large-scale summons, the Commanders of their Knight Orders would usually be required to participate together.

But this time, the old Emperor didn't do so.

Instead, he ordered them to assemble their respective Knight Orders to guard outside the Imperial Palace.

Although they didn't know what they were supposed to guard against.

The several Knight Order Commanders still took the order and acted accordingly.

In the end, it even turned into a palace composed of flesh and blood.

And continuously spread outwards.

Although they didn't know what happened inside.

The Knight Order Commanders, knowing the severity of the matter, still wanted to try and save them.

So they respectively organized their Knight Orders, wanting to attack the Imperial Palace and rescue the old Emperor, princes, and ministers inside.

The result was that after a burst of effort, there were many casualties.

Even the Knight Order Commanders died, leaving only Holger and Huck.

Therefore.

Seeing that nothing could be done, the two immediately organized the remaining Knight Order members to start evacuating the commoners of the Imperial Capital.

One organized the evacuation work, and the other went to salvage supplies.

Eventually, they both converged at this camp.

After all, the Imperial Capital had over a million people.

Although there were many casualties due to the sudden mutation of the Imperial Palace.

The number of survivors was still very large.

If there were no supplies from the Imperial Capital, especially food, then these hundreds of thousands of people would have to starve.

The two could imagine what would happen then.

Fortunately, the two weren't pedantic people, and also due to the emergency of the situation.

So the two directly used their authority to forcefully conscript many civilian laborers on the spot to transport supplies.

Otherwise, the two wouldn't have merged so quickly.

To put it bluntly, it was a general mobilization of all the people.

Of course.

This was only moving out two small granaries inside the Imperial Capital.

As for the large granaries outside the city, they didn't go to transport them.

It wasn't that they didn't want to.

But there were simply too many people who needed to be evacuated and resettled.

So they could only first ensure that the food inside the city was transported out, lest it be affected and become completely unusable.

"Mentor Mera, what exactly happened inside the Imperial Palace?"

Holger stepped forward to support the slightly staggering Mera.

Right now, more than anything else, he wanted to know the situation inside the Imperial Palace.

The old Emperor's figure wasn't among the few people, which made him feel a bit uneasy.

However, Albert beside them reached out and patted his shoulder.

Then, silently shaking his head, he supported the desolate Mera and walked towards the nearest Tent.

"This..."

Holger was a bit dumbfounded.

He really didn't know what had happened.

And Nicolas followed behind and walked over.

"Commander Holger, Commander Huck. Who is the person in charge here right now?"

"Right now, only the two of us can be considered the people in charge."

Holger looked at Huck beside him.

After all, the incident occurred suddenly.

Moreover, the old Emperor had summoned all the high-level officials in the Imperial Capital, except the Knight Order Commanders.

So now only the two of them were left to take charge of the overall situation.

"I see... then let's go inside to talk."

Nicolas nodded.

Then he looked around and beckoned the two to enter the Tent that Mera and the others had just entered.

Holger and Huck exchanged a glance and knew it was something that couldn't be said outside.

So they also followed inside.

"What exactly is going on?"

Huck hastily asked upon entering.

After all, he was a member of the imperial family, and now such a big incident had occurred in the Imperial Capital.

And inside the Imperial Palace, no less.

The most anxious one was naturally him.

"Sigh..."

Nicolas first sighed, and after looking at Mentor Mera resting on a camp stool, he explained the situation inside to Huck and Holger.

"This..."

The two, who completely hadn't expected this kind of situation, fell silent after hearing it.

Originally, they thought the Imperial Palace had been attacked to turn into this appearance.

But now it seemed it was a completely different matter from what they and others had imagined.

But the most important thing was that the mastermind behind this was actually the old Emperor himself.

This made it a bit hard for the two Knight Order Commanders to accept.

After all, this was the person they had pledged their loyalty to.

Yet now he had become the target they had to subjugate.

How could they not feel terrible?

Especially Huck, who was a member of the imperial family.

The entire Sima Empire was ruled by the old Emperor's word.

Now that the old Emperor had done such a thing, the status of the imperial family would definitely be affected too.

Especially those heads of various families who died inside the Imperial Palace.

Although for a period of time afterwards, they would definitely fall into internal strife over title inheritance,

But undoubtedly, the Sima Family would become the target of their collective denunciation.

Especially since the old Emperor had conveniently taken so many princes and princesses away together with him.

"This matter wasn't done by Howard..."

Just when the few people didn't know what to do next, Mentor Mera, who had suffered a major blow, opened her mouth.

She raised her head, her sharp eyes scanning everyone.

Although Mentor Mera's hair was slightly messy now, her spirit seemed to have recovered as before.

No...

She seemed even more spirited than before.

"This matter wasn't done by Howard."

After scanning everyone, Mera repeated this sentence once more.

"Mentor, this matter..."

Albert, thinking his mentor had some mental problem, said somewhat worriedly.

However, before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Mera raising her hand.

"I'll repeat it again, this matter wasn't done by Howard."

"I see."

When everyone else was puzzled, Lan Qingyou nodded, indicating she understood the other party's meaning.

"Then, Mentor Mera, who did it, that's the key point."

"The Barbarian Tribes from the north despicably used evil magic when Howard gathered everyone to discuss important matters, leading to the deaths of Howard and all the high-level officials, and the Imperial Capital fell as a result."

Mera cast an approving glance at Lan Qingyou.

And then stated her meaning.

That's right.

Anyone could have done this matter, except the old Emperor.

Otherwise, the entire Sima Empire would disintegrate on the spot.

So in order to ensure the safety of the Empire's territory outside the Imperial Capital.

Then it could only have been done by someone else.

Therefore.

The Barbarian Tribes from the north, this natural enemy, naturally became the existence to take the blame in Mentor Mera's mouth.

Anyway, they were enemies, so taking the blame was also very normal.

And after Mera said this.

The people who didn't quite understand originally also instantly understood her meaning.

External enemies are good.

External enemies can divert a lot of internal contradictions.

Anyway, all the parties involved in this matter are inside this Tent.

You don't say, I don't say.

Then no one will know the truth of this matter.

When those noble families come demanding an explanation later, how it's spun is completely up to them.

The truth, you see.

Is originally meant to be buried.