How could this be?
The undead all wore expressions of disbelief on their originally rigid faces. Viego looked at his teammates' expressions and sighed inwardly. To be honest, when he first received the news, he had found it hard to believe as well.
Before they came, the Great Lord had warned him not to underestimate the Living World. He had always kept those words in mind, but he never would have imagined things would reach this point!
Everyone knew that none of the participants in this Iron Fir Forest trial organized by several major academies was a member of the imperial family!
For them, this mission was not only about collecting Divine Fire Shards, but also testing the strength of the descendants of the Ten Kings. To be honest, he had not looked down on the prodigies from these academies. However, whether in bloodline or experience, they were on an entirely different level from the elites born through the brutal trials of the Dead World.
He had never thought anything would go wrong with this mission.
Nor had he ever imagined that someone at the captain level would fall here.
"Captain."
The entire basement remained silent for a long while before the bald undead cautiously asked, "Was he ambushed?"
Everyone immediately looked over.
If he had been ambushed, although that was still unlikely, they could at least barely believe it if he had been set up by a group of people.
Viego slowly shook his head. The Pale Woman beside him continued, "According to the intelligence, he fell in a one-on-one battle. The one who defeated Captain Nikola was a Wind Walker."
"This..."
For a moment, none of the undead knew what to say.
He had lost in a one-on-one battle? And to someone from the Wind Walker Academy, which