Helion and Zephros felt their blood running cold.
To call the man that Grey had just taken down a juggernaut wannabe wasn't too far from the truth, but only in the first part, not the second.
The powers in the city were divided into the church, the palace, and the noble families.
The palace was, of course, the imperial family—the Paladins and the most powerful Holy Knights of the empire.
The noble families were shored up by the Valdi and the Enphro families, the two Dukedoms and the most powerful families beneath the imperial family themselves.
And then there was the church. They were the overseers of the lesser branches. They had their own collection of Paladins, but they were not called Paladins.
