Awakening The Only SSS-Rank Class! Now Even Dragons Obey Me Chapter 729: They Are Here!

Daniel and Varnos turned their gaze toward Lana. She made no effort to conceal her feelings, her fury plainly etched across her features.

Her rage was unmistakable, and the cause behind it was equally apparent.

"You didn’t need to go that far if you didn’t want me coming along. You could’ve just told me outright," Lana stated coldly. She realized her father had acted with her best interests at heart.

Yet it remained a grave error. A foolish blunder that simply stoked her anger further.

"The Goblin Guild posed a grave threat. I couldn’t let you join us, and I knew you’d never take no for an answer."

"Then why bring Daniel? Isn’t it risky for him too? Even so, I wanted to stand by your side! We’d confront any danger together!"

"Daniel possesses the strength to protect himself, unlike you. It’s fortunate I left you behind, or I might’ve come back without you," Varnos replied steadily, brushing off his daughter’s outburst.

Lana lacked the power to safeguard herself in the Goblin Guild. Had she attended that ritual today, death or severe wounds would surely have claimed her.

He’d already suffered the loss of his beloved. Losing his daughter too was unthinkable; another such heartbreak would shatter him.

"What are you saying? What occurred? Why declare an emergency in the first place?" Lana questioned, her voice laced with concern and bewilderment.

Varnos and Daniel shared a look. The former stayed silent, while the latter recounted the key events from the ceremony.

As she absorbed the tale, Lana’s shock and fury mounted. She sank into a chair, speechless, and a heavy silence enveloped the room for what felt like ages.

"So you slew the Goblin Guild’s heir right at his own rite, and now they could strike us anytime?"

"I never intended to kill him, but that cursed array clouded my thoughts. Perhaps it was all a scheme to provoke the Goblin Guild into war with us," Daniel explained.

"Would they squander their prized asset just for a pretext to fight? Unlikely. I researched that youth—he’s a true prodigy. They wouldn’t throw him away like that," Varnos dismissed the notion.

"Then why did the array scramble my mind exactly then, forcing me to unleash excess power by accident? Maybe a mishap, or...?"

A sudden realization struck him, and he went quiet.

Could this be the machinations of that demi-god pulling strings from the shadows?

If true, then even the Goblin Guild served as unwitting pawns and tools in a larger game?

"Does it change anything? He’s dead by your hand! Crowds saw it happen. Those scum could assault us any second now," Lana said, clutching her head.

Her ire wasn’t aimed at Daniel or her father. Clearly, this reeked of the Goblin Guild’s scheme, so how could she fault them?

Nevertheless, she burned with outrage that those wretched goblins had plotted such treachery against their family.

"What’s happened can’t be undone. Conflict with them was inevitable sooner or later. They’ve long sought our downfall via public smears, and today exposed their true intent," Varnos declared.

"Now entangled, retreat is impossible," he continued, rising to his feet.

"The moment has come. We must inform the whole guild of the crisis."

Ignoring their reactions, he strode from the room toward the elevator.

Daniel and Lana shared a glance before quietly trailing after him.

The vast hall could hold thousands standing, devoid of chairs.

A majestic stage dominated the front, before which a massive throng assembled—from the guild’s freshest, feeblest Awakened recruits to its mightiest elites and top officers of the Everlight Moon Guild, all present.

Normally, witnessing such a concentration of elite Awakened was rare, yet today they united as one.

For a single purpose: the emergency decree.

A alert issued solely in dire guild peril.

"What crisis prompted the leader’s emergency call?"

"No idea. It’s been ages since the last one."

"I can’t recall any such alert ever. This must be grave."

"Something catastrophic? Like a dimensional rupture from a deadly dungeon?"

"Possibly, but only if it rivals the Apocalypse Rider dungeon."

Murmurs faded as Varnos emerged with the pair in tow. He ascended the platform, surveying the assembled masses.

He held off speaking, allowing every eye to fix upon him.

Daniel and Lana positioned themselves in the front ranks.

"You’re all curious why we’ve convened today!"

"The answer is straightforward—war!"

The audience’s eyes bulged in disbelief. None had foreseen this.

War? Against who?

"Today, the Goblin Guild employed dirty tactics to poison me and tried to assassinate me. Their scheme backfired, costing their successor his life amid the chaos."

"But this won’t conclude quietly. They won’t yield, nor shall we. Backing off signals weakness, inviting their full onslaught to annihilate us."

"This ambition has simmered in them for years, and now their fangs are bared. We strike back without mercy!"

Varnos’s resonant voice rang out, summarizing the Goblin Guild succession rite’s events.

From the poisoning to the assault by those despicable foes.

Naturally, he tweaked the account somewhat.

Especially regarding James’s demise. Subtle shifts sufficed—no gross distortions needed. Fault lay squarely with the Goblin Guild from the start.

His account sparked fury among the members. Hearing their leader’s version set their blood aflame.

How dared those villains hatch such a plot against them?

War wasn’t their desire, but they feared it not, poised to defend their guild fiercely.

Mid-speech, he detected wave after wave of potent auras encroaching on their domain.

An army.

A formidable force of Awakened bore down on the Everlight Moon Guild, sensed via his divine awareness.

Abruptly, a guild sentinel burst in, halting his words. Saluting sharply amid ragged breaths, he blurted dire tidings:

"A massive army! They’ve encircled the entire guild!"

They had come at last.