"Your Highness, there's nothing you can do either?"
"No, but who exactly is backing Chen Changan?"
"Didn't that kid only pass the selection two hundred years ago? How does he already have someone backing him?"
"Could it be that the people backing him share the same background as Chen Changan?"
"Are they looking out for a junior?"
Things like this had happened before, but most people didn't make it too obvious. They always kept their favors within reasonable bounds.
But this time was different. The gap was simply too great.
Even someone like Prince Xiao couldn't change anything. Surely the person behind this wasn't a prince?
If that was the case, then Prince Xiao really had no way to interfere.
"Ah, it seems this mission was never meant for us."
"I told you long ago not to set your sights on this mission. Besides, even if it did fall to you, it might not be a good thing."
"By the way, why are only the four of you here? Where's General Wu?"
At that, the other four shook their heads. They had assumed General Wu would arrive first, but it seemed he hadn't shown up at all.
"Old Wu has a hot temper. He wouldn't..."
A soldier's arrival cut him off.
"Greetings, Generals. Greetings, Your Highness."
"Chen Changan, deputy commander of Heaven Dragon City, has arrived."
He's here?
"Pretty quick."
"About a month sooner than I expected."
"Go bring him in."
Chen Changan had taken only a little over two months to travel from Heaven Dragon City to Heaven Lin City. Prince Xiao hadn't expected him to arrive so quickly.
"Ha, I didn't expect the kid to get here so fast. I'd like to see what kind of person this Chen Changan really is."
"Your Highness, is the rumor true—that