The teacher and student walked along the streets,
Although Chamberson's level was only Open Source Tier Three, he was still William's teacher by status, and William maintained the attentive listening posture expected of a student throughout.
After quickly circling around Flumouth, Chamberson gave William a clear overview of the organization's current situation, its combined combat strength, and the distribution of forces within the city.
Zede had been sealed away,
Spacy had died in battle,
The First Gentleman and Sleeper Galon were missing,
Prophet Yuri had lost an arm,
Of the three founders who had remained with the organization since its establishment, Archbishop Yalleris Heaton—the old man who often received William at the Hall of Glory—had chosen to stay behind during the Zion Incident, transforming himself into a holy-light barrier to protect the Holy Body Chamber.
The First Knight—York de Morati—had died in battle.
Only the First Doctor—Gregory Alaus—had survived, creating a Tree Realm passage that allowed a large number of doctors to escape safely.
William also noticed another problem. "Teacher, there seem to be very few gentlemen who haven't reached Open Source... Did they fail to escape, or were they evacuated to other areas in advance and excluded from this Reclaim Plan?"
"Because Flumouth, as a temporary or even long-term refuge, requires a great deal of manpower. All the gentlemen have gathered here.
"The reason there are so few low-level gentlemen is that they were neither evacuated to other areas nor killed. They defected.
"Before the Zion Incident, Bloodstained Skin had already been circulating on the market for some time, and quite a few low-level gentlemen had come into contact with it to some extent.
"When the incident occurred and the pulse radiation spread across the entire city, causing the skins on our bodies to be stripped away, those low-level