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: