Chapter 220: The Tin Knight and The Singing Bones (8)
Around the time the Tin Knight’s party was meeting with the head of the Tower of Protection.
“They escaped? They didn’t just sneak across like stowaways, they openly crossed the coastline and you let them escape!? Are you all idiots!!”
“Skoll! Hati! You stupid bastards!”
“We must strongly protest to the Tower of Protection! Not only did they fail to arrest the royal killers with us, but they even provided escorts to guide them to the tower!?”
“They’re claiming it’s not an escort but a transport, but…”
“If it’s a transport, they should return them to us, not take them to their side!”
“What is the diplomat doing!? How did you handle things to end up like this!?”
Pandemonium.
There was no more appropriate word to describe the Tower of Control.
Despite mobilizing all their forces from the tower to catch the culprits, they slipped through all their hands and escaped beyond their reach.
The elite pursuit team that departed from the tower didn’t even touch the enemies’ shadows, and Skoll and Hati’s unit, which should have bought time until the elite team arrived, not only failed to stop the enemies but even lost their commanders in pairs.
The surviving on-site personnel made excuses like, “The enemies appeared so suddenly and focused on avoiding engagement and fleeing, so there was nothing we could do,” or ‘There were almost no casualties on our side,’ but to those higher up, this sounded like utter nonsense.