Before the battle had erupted in the eastern part of the city, the palace servants still had sufficient discipline to remain at their posts. However, as soon as the battle broke out, they knew that the soldiers of Burmen had managed to infiltrate the city, and their first reaction was to grab everything they could from the royal palace before running for their lives.

However, they were already quite late to make their escape. Onean's brothers and sisters had already left the royal palace for sanctuary as soon as her royal decree was released on the city's bulletin boards.

Even as the massive airship landed on the spacious lawn in front of the main palace, no one approached it to investigate. However, its arrival did scare away a couple of palace servants, who were fighting over several silver wine flagons.

Erwin disembarked from the airship before picking up the silver wine flagons that were scattered on the ground, then cast his gaze toward the pair of fleeing palace servants with a cold smile. After that, he turned around to look behind him, upon which he discovered that many of the side palaces had already fallen completely dark, and many of the Nightglow Stones on either side of the palatial paths had already been taken.

"Is this the royal palace of the...