Time appeared to stand still as Emery waited for the person who would pass on judgment to arrive. He silently looked at the door as it revealed a figure who soon approached the corpse-filled arena, but it was not the grand magus he was expecting to see.
Instead, the approaching figure was one of the palace magus aides. Emery complied without a word when the man briefly invited Emery to follow him, and none of them said any unnecessary words while they walked through the magnificent halls of the palace.
After a short while, they finally arrived at a certain room. There, Emery was instructed to wash himself and don new, more proper attire to replace his torn-apart bloodied clothes. Emery was then sent to return to the lobby where the old grand magus was already waiting for him.
The moment he stepped into the lobby, the grand magus's eyes immediately scanned his entire figure.
