"Cough, cough, cough... What a joke... This is treason! Damn you, Yila!"
Caligula coughed violently, his face pale from Mana's exhaustion. The colleagues and soldiers around him, also fleeing along with him, were in even worse condition.
Some weaker nobles had already collapsed to the ground, their faces deathly pale. It was partly from the days and nights of fleeing, and partly from the drain of Mana, and also from their wounds.
Most of the people in this group were seriously injured.
Caligula was the only one still relatively clean. Given how long he had been active in the empire, it was clear that he was one of the top professionals of the empire.
If ranked in a card game, Caligula would be one of the rare SSR cards in the empire.
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Since Ulrichla's strategy began, the nobles, including Caligula, had been branded as rebels. A team of governors and mages was chasing them, aiming to annihilate them.