While Michael was engrossed in sketching his Dark Lord armor, Elara Valren, the leader of the Guardian Guild, called for a meeting of all the guild members. They were summoned to the grand hall of their headquarters. Elara instructed the guardians who hadn't resigned after Azazel's ultimatum to evacuate their current headquarters in the Awor continent. Instead, she urged them to regroup at their headquarters in the Ozer continent. Ideally, Elara would have preferred to confront the Dark Lord from their Awor continent stronghold, as it provided better defensive advantages. However, the empress of Awor had issued a mandate for them to vacate the continent entirely. The empress was concerned about Awor becoming a target for the Dark Lord's forces.