Chapter 17

• The morning had just started and a lot was already going on in the imperial palace. Following the chaotic events of last night, Batang V, the Emperor, summoned the twenty honorable wise men of the empire to attend an extraordinary congress by sunrise. Their chariots raced as fast as they could toward the main entrance of the castle. Before the first gloom of the day, they were all seated around His Majesty.
• They manifested to him their regrets as Edimo, the god of ruin, did not spare the imperial family. The back fence of the supreme residence was destroyed. The statue of the Emperor's late father, The Great Batang IV in the center of Ekule did not escape from the wreckage either. It was dismembered.
• The meeting's purpose was to adopt a set of measures to prevent the land from any further misfortune.