"Explanation?" Lia replied with a cold expression. "What do I have to explain? Did Mr. Erwin not just explain the situation to you? I heard him loud and clear just now."

Onen's eyes widened with shock upon hearing this, and he was completely taken aback by Lia's attitude.

Even Erwin hadn't anticipated there to be such a cold and forbidding side to Lia.

"Do you think we're here to play around?" Lia asked as he swept a cold glance over Onen and the other nobles, then turned to Erwin before instructing, "Kill them all."

Complete silence immediately descended upon the entire scene.

Everyone had fallen silent, so much so that the sound of the wind blowing over the Canston Plain could be clearly heard.

Aside from Erwin, everyone had turned to Lia with incredulous looks on their faces.

Even the likes of Shiba, who had lived in Zans for many years, couldn't help but be bewildered by this turn of events. In their hearts, this was not the person that Elder Lia was.

As for Onen, his surprise was also intermingled with fear and alarm. Never did he think that Lia would issue an order to have them killed, and he certainly wasn't expecting Lia to be so decisive. He felt like Lia didn't care at all that he and his group were all nobles.

This was completely different...