For days on end, Haxel had been on the run.
He called it traveling, but that's only an attempt to appease the knot in his chest.
Betraying Morgana meant becoming a fugitive, and he wasted no time unning as far as possible.
If someone asked him the reason he was running, he would say because he was now a fugitive, but the truth was another thing entirely. He was running from Rex. The threat Rex spouted seeped into his bones, and his entire being told him to run.
And he did when Princess Davina came to try and rescue Rex snapped him from his stupor.
He immediately ran after she came.
A mile away, he looked back one last time when he heard a painful scream.
Rex is dead.
Princess Davina's scream must mean the Immortal Slugs managed to drag him to Hell.
All he needed to do was avoid the authorities, and he would be fine.
Only royal knights scare him, and there are only a few of them.
Leaving the empire shouldn't be a problem.
