Both Raine and Gregory, along with others, immediately realized their positions had changed.
They bizarrely found themselves in the central garden area of the block-shaped administrative hall, directly beneath where Raine and Henry had previously landed with the Griffins.
Baron Olsen, Colonel Tessa, and others who should have been in the side wings were also now beside him.
Raine even noticed Henry, who should have been riding on the Griffin's back, now appeared nearby.
At the same time,
a captain from the Black Fist Army, wearing a blood-red cape and clad in dark heavy armor, had them entirely surrounded.
However,
even though there were over a hundred elite Black Fist soldiers encircling them, Raine and his companions couldn't afford to look closely.
Following Raine's line of sight,
directly ahead stood a figure, hidden in a black hood and with hands folded in the sleeves of a black robe, accompanied by a beautiful woman in a red mage robe, standing quietly.
