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If anyone from the Baruba Empire had arrived at the scene, they would have been utterly shocked by the sight before them.
Those figures who, in ordinary times, possessed better status, talent, strength, standing, and backgrounds than anyone else—figures who could practically cover the sky with one hand in the Baruba Empire—were now sprawled all over the ground like terminally ill patients, dizzy and disoriented, with blood covering the ground before them.
Meanwhile, the emperor and prince of the Baruba Empire, along with the hidden Rank Nine powerhouses of the empire's three great families, had all risen to their feet. More or less anger showed on their faces as they glared ahead with united hatred.
Yet the targets receiving such furious and grave treatment from the Baruba Empire's exceedingly rare Rank Nine powerhouses were six girls who might not even have reached adulthood.
How could such a scene not be shocking?...
What was even more shocking was that, although the two sides seemed utterly incomparable, the air was filled with an equally matched, sword-drawn tension that left people completely baffled.
Of course, only those who had not been present just now would be baffled. Anyone who had witnessed the Baruba Empire's upper echelons vomiting blood and collapsing would understand.
The reason was simply that those seemingly young girls were all hidden powerhouses!
Rank Nine powerhouses!
And every single one of them!
At that thought, Goda, Kolon, Will, and Ge Bi stared gravely at Kotori, Kurumi, Tohka, Miku, Origami, Yoshino, and the other girls. Their eyes flickered uncertainly.
No matter how unwilling these four most exalted figures in the