The Wizard's face twisted into an exceptionally ugly expression.
The sea of flames engulfing the area couldn't hurt him in the slightest. But the corpses on the ground were undoubtedly a massive blow to him—not a physical one, but a profound psychological shock and humiliation.
The other party had attacked Xiao Wu's group without a doubt to provoke him, slap him in the face, and challenge him as the so-called First Proxy.
What's more, they'd done it right under his nose, carrying out the slaughter within the reach of his Absolute Life Domain and Heavenly Vision Domain.
Perhaps the time difference hadn't even been half a minute. Yet in that brief span, the other party had not only killed Xiao Wu and the others, but had also fled in a flash, once again escaping the range of his domains.
The Wizard's chest heaved with extreme fury.
It wasn't that he felt sorry for Xiao Wu and the others. He could support one proxy like them, so he could support ten or a hundred.
The problem was that he'd only just raised Xiao Wu's group up. He'd spent money and effort on them, investing in them to set an example for others—and they'd been killed right afterward.
This was certainly a blow to his personal authority, but it was an even greater threat to the situation in the core area.
Was the core area really safe now?
The absurdity of it left the Wizard almost speechless. Was this happening on his own turf? How had the other party managed it?
Besides, he wasn't sure whether the other party really was, as he'd deduced, a proxy bearing a mark who was secretly working for the Human Faction.
If the other party had both Little Tree Ancestor's mark and the backing of the