"I'm truly sorry..."
In the main hall of the imperial palace, Sylvanas sat calmly in the seat of honor reserved for distinguished guests. Holding Gou Dan, who had been forcibly put into a deep sleep, Your Highness gently treated the burns and wounds on his body and said without looking up, "I forgot to tell you that this little fellow is somewhat unstable. Regarding what happened to the noble princes, I'm deeply sorry... If there are any difficulties with treating their injuries, we have the finest physicians here..."
Her words were gentle and sincere, but the Bronze Race men sitting opposite her found them extremely grating!
Grating as they were, however, they couldn't vent their anger on the spot. Leaving aside her identity and strength, they had no moral high ground to stand on either...
After all... Kudlan had provoked her first. That alone would have been fine, but the key point was that he had lost. And even that would have been fine, except he had lost four against one...
"You're too kind, my lord..." Bronze Emperor Mani forced a faint smile onto his face. Even though he was the most mild-tempered of all the Bronze Emperors throughout history, he was clearly beginning to lose his temper.
But he could only endure it...
In the end, when juniors brawled among themselves, as long as no one's life was in danger, respectable elders wouldn't normally force their way in to stand up for them—especially not after such an ugly defeat.
"Your Excellency..." Mani looked at the sleeping Gou Dan with an extremely complicated expression. In the end, he couldn't help asking, "Could you tell us this child's origins?"
As soon as he said that, the many high-ranking members of the Bronze Race in the hall all looked over. Clearly, they