Chapter 152: The Final Alliance

The news of Adjudicator Elliot’s defeat and subsequent, humiliating retreat struck the Midlands like a cataclysmic earthquake. It wasn't a rumor whispered in shadowed alleys; it was a thunderous proclamation that shattered the very foundation of the Holy Lands' authority. When Elliot, his arm gruesomely severed, his aura diminished, and his spirit broken, stumbled back into the hallowed halls of the Human Race Sword Palace, a wave of stunned silence swept through the ancient institution. An...