473, Return from a Bloodbath, Regroup and Rally

Fourteen people emerged from beneath the World Tree.

Each of them wore a heavy expression, their shoulders slumped, their steps laborious as if walking through a quagmire.

The Phoenix Tail Flower team was somewhat better off, but looking at Abner, his complexion was ashen, his eyes shut with self-reproach. Gale and Jite whispered quietly, seemingly offering comfort.

The square fell into a strange silence.

What happened?

How could the Phoenix Tail Flower lose?

Weren't they supposed to keep winning?

The crowd found it incomprehensible.

A single defeat of the Phoenix Tail Flower would directly impact the outside world's judgment of the future of White Dove City. Today's prosperity might soon become a bubble.

"Damn it, who allowed you to lose, my house, you owe me my house!"

A plump merchant clad in luxurious attire leaped out, his chubby hands covered in jeweled rings, pointing at the Phoenix Tail Flower and White Dove party as he cursed out loud: