No Need

While everyone else was panicking, the movement of Sylas seemed quite conspicuous. He had the calmest gait, and he was the only existence walking toward the danger instead of rushing away from it. Well, other than the scholars and guards trying to play hero. 

Alex and the others lagged behind Sylas a bit. Until now, they hadn't made their presences known, so their connection to Sylas wasn't nearly so obvious. 

Sylas wasn't sure exactly what his own plan was just yet, so he preferred to give himself some flexibility, and this was the best way to do that. 

With a step, Sylas began to walk up the wide steps that led to the entrance of the glass pyramid. Signs of the Basilisk King's rampage filled the region, many stones scattering across the now misshapen path. 

When Sylas got to the top of the stairs, he found the corpses of the two scholars who had blocked them when they first arrived strewn across the ground.