Maple Sugar!
Yu Xunge immediately recognized who had arrived from her voice.
She knew that voice all too well. She had heard it for ten years in the High Tower, then for several more in Astralana... from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood... she knew every stage of that voice.
But unlike Fu Qingfengji, who relaxed upon seeing Maple Sugar, Yu Xunge felt her heart sink to rock bottom.
She could not see Maple Sugar's expression behind her, but she knew it probably wasn't good.
After learning that Zelan Kufu had pieced together a World Skill, Yu Xunge had been keeping a constant eye on the battlefield chat channel. From that day onward, Maple Sugar had stopped joking or speaking as frequently as she usually did.
The few times she had spoken were after the "Quiet Mountains" game began, when she shared intelligence in exchange for contribution points.
This had never happened before.
Even when she had utterly destroyed Feng Ran's light wings in the "Card Swap" game, even when she had taken Zai Jiu away in the "My World" game... Maple Sugar had never been like this.
She could roughly guess some of the reasons.
Neither of those things could shatter Maple Sugar's hopes and ideals.
The former needed no explanation. One Rose Token could only resurrect one daughter. Even if Maple Sugar really did reclaim Feng Ran's Flowing Fire Light Wings, she would not dare return them to Feng Ran, while the latter did not represent the end of the story.
She understood Maple Sugar. They were the same kind of person. As long as hope remained, as long as the game had not reached its final second, a temporary setback could never crush them.
So even though they were arch-nemeses, even though Maple Sugar had tried to