They smiled because they had seen this series of events happen in the future.
In that future, mutants appeared everywhere, beast tides attacked frequently, diseases and plagues spread, killing millions, and earthquakes and calamities wiped out entire cities.
There was so much chaos and death that the people became miserable. The lamp bearers also became miserable because they were always at the front line helping the people.
The lamp bearers were ground down little by little through the calamities. They became broken and unable to put up much of a fight when the Emperor, who had become a god through the pathway of disorder, began to fight back.
That was supposed to happen in the future. And while things hadn't become as bad as they were in the future, he could already guess that the nobles had become fed up already with the lamp bearers and were beginning to make their move.
