As the dust settled down, everyone slowly began gathering themselves from the scare of the explosion. The fancy and extravagant courtroom no longer existed. Just a few vials were enough to tarnish its beauty.
As for the guards standing around them while the explosion took place... only their bones were left behind... the rest had been turned into ashes. Out of the dozen people who were there excluding those conundrum bastards, only three survived.
Ashton, Mera and Jonathan, had been the furthest away from the explosion, thus got off scot-free, with minor injuries. 3 royal guards and 6 palace security personnel lost their lives in the blink of an eye. Had the courtroom been full... who knows how many more would have died.
