755 Bureau 3 (1/2)

Chapter 755: Bureau 3

Raffaele walked forward and checked if there were any switches around the ring carefully. When she had determined that she was correct, she prepared herself to extend her finger and grip the ring.

Woo…! Woo…!

Suddenly, the sound of an alarm could be heard clearly throughout the entire Holy Fist Palace. In only a few seconds, all of the training scholars, disciples, external trainers, and Middle and Upper-level members were all rushing towards the biggest training hall in the center of the palace.

While the sound of close footsteps echoed, groups of internal palace members in black and white uniforms passed by the hidden room frantically.

The main door of the hidden room had been resealed long ago but Raffaele had exited the hidden room without anyone noticing. She currently stood in the doorway, looking as if she had just happened to be passing by.

”What happened?” Raffaele pulled over an internal palace member disciple whom she had met earlier.

”It's definitely a serious problem. Otherwise, Holy Fist Master would not have sounded the emergency assembly command!” the person answered frantically with a solemn look on their face. ”Come with us to the training hall in the center if you want to know more.”

”Serious problem?” Raffaele's heart stirred. She glanced at the corners and surroundings of the palace where white monitors and surveillance cameras had extended out suddenly and were beeping there. These surveillance cameras were almost the same color as the walls, making it extremely difficult to distinguish them. It was obvious that they had all of the security systems were activated immediately because of the critical state.

She congratulated herself unconsciously. If she had hesitated earlier and left slightly later, she would definitely have been detected by the monitors. At that time, it would have been impossible for her to escape as she was a member of the enemy camp.

Without much time to think, she merely nodded.

”Show me the way, we'll go together!”

The other person nodded and pulled Raffaele along before rejoining his team in front. The footsteps of groups of people who were running echoed throughout the corridor behind him.

****************

Inside the white round arch-type stone hall

White cylindrical stone pillars stood upright throughout the area while steel chains hung from the center. Dark green chains that were thick but nimble matched the simple style of the large stone brick floors. They gave off an unsophisticated but rough look that felt barbaric yet divine.

Each of the stone bricks on the ground was actually a large brick that was more than three meters wide. Perhaps it was unfitting to call them bricks anymore, as they were more like a typical large rock.

Groups of scholars and internal palace members flowed through the area in one direction like streams that met at a lake. They gathered inside the hall here from entrances of different sizes before quickly forming three square formations with different uniform colors of white, black, and red.

Bright light cascaded inside from all four stone walls, shrinking everyone's shadows to a position that was below their feet and shining so that there were no blind spots.

Soon, almost all of the members were present.

Garen sat on the highest seat in the stone hall. There were two empty black high-back chairs below right below the level of his arms. Below that were the seats of the Four Major Generals while rows of seats were specially set up on the right. The ones who sat there were the other high-level important diplomats who were temporarily stationed here. Besides that, there were a few other generals and high-level leaders of organizations. Rod and his older brother were currently chatting in low voices with another director and leader of an organization, who seemed as if he had just gotten into his seat.

The Four Major Generals sat down quickly while the crowd of Middle and Upper-level internal palace members and the other external members below them took their seats in the lower rows according to the ranks of their posts.

Meanwhile, a few of the higher level members of the Lightless Alliance who were constantly stationed here entered the room as well. They were arranged to be seated in the VIP seats on the right side of the hall at the same level as the Four Major Generals.

As the number of people increased, the stadium-sized hall finally quietened down gradually, displaying the members' exceptional discipline. When most of the people there became silent, the VIPs who were whispering to each other quietened gradually as well before their gazes were focused on Garen who was seated in the highest position.

Garen was fully dressed in black clothes while his long golden hair cascaded down his shoulders. His body sat upright on the seat like a large mountain, giving off a terrifying imposing feeling. His expression was cold as if he was thinking of something troublesome.

The atmosphere was somewhat heavy for a while.

When the final member entered, the whistling alarm noises finally stopped.

The entire hall finally fell into a state of complete silence.

There was a moment of silence while Garen waited for everyone's concentration to be focused on him before he began to open his mouth slowly.

”I am about to issue some unfortunate news here today.”

The initially heavy atmosphere suddenly became even more tense when that sentence was spoken. Everyone focused their attention on Garen unconsciously. Even the VIPs who were being absent-minded earlier had now sat up slightly straighter with stern looks on their faces.

Raffaele had also been seated in the VIP section. She glanced at Garen who was seated at a high position quietly while an abnormally powerful force spiraled around that man's entire body. The air around his seat seemed as if it was sticky together densely. Although he was seated there alone, his force field was apparently suppressing the momentum of everyone in the hall!

It was worth mentioning that there were almost a thousand people here!

While fearful feelings were trembling in her heart, she heard Garen continuing to speak.

”One of the two great Marshalls, the Bloody Marshall Dahm was unfortunately killed in battle outside.”

At first, the entire hall fell silent at once. It was a deathly type of silence as everyone was convinced that they had misheard or that Garen was merely joking.

Moments later, the attention of the crowd of a thousand people had fully focused on Garen again.