For a moment, the audience chamber fell into dead silence.
"You can't really be this stupid, can you?!"
At this point, White Night Yaksha looked at Mandora with disbelief in her eyes. She had vaguely guessed part of it, but she had never expected the truth to be this.
"..."
Faced with White Night Yaksha's question, Mandora clenched his fists, his body trembling. He glared furiously at Fang Zheng through gritted teeth, while the latter merely narrowed his eyes and looked at him disdainfully.
"What? Not convinced? Want to kill us to silence us? Go ahead and try. Let's see who'll be dead on the ground next."
"Brother!"
Just then, Sandora rushed in front of Mandora and glared at him.
"What Mr. Fang Zheng said is true? You really lured the Demon Lord here!?"
"..."
Faced with Sandora's accusation, Mandora opened his mouth, but in the end, he lowered his head and said nothing.
"Why? Why would you do something like this?!"
"It's simple. Just like everyone else, they didn't believe in you."
Fang Zheng shrugged.
"A little girl inherited the leadership without ever proving herself. Under those circumstances, it would be easy for Salamandra to fall into trouble, so they decided to put on a little show and demonstrate the new leader's strength to deter potential threats. I can understand that way of thinking, but all of you kept Sandora herself in the dark... Heh. So who exactly is the leader here?"
"Shut up! What do you know?!"
Hearing this, Mandora clenched his fists and roared at Fang Zheng.
"How could someone from outside Box Garden understand... the meaning of protecting a community's flag, name, and honor?! Betrayed by a powerful successor, with the leader bedridden by illness! To support a community on the verge of decline, we had