Everyone was back inside the city but only a handful of people were there with Ashton and by a handful, there were only four of them in a room. Jonathan, Ashton, Verina and Irina along with a bunch of royal knights standing behind Ashton who had been handcuffed.
It was a precautionary measure so that Ashton did not attack them. The cuffs, however, were made of a special material. The same one that didn't allow the one wearing it to use any mana.
Virgil, Sheera and the rest of them were sent away as the information Jonathan wanted Ashton to disclose could potentially break the balance of power in the world if leaked. If that happened... then god knows what the greedy bastards hiding in various empires would do to get the power Ashton had.
Why Verina and Irina were allowed to attend the meeting? Well, it was because of two reasons. Firstly, since they were vampires they could help Jonathan to understand more about the vampiric genes within Ashton's body.
