A Shocking Discovery
In a protracted war, it was perfectly normal for some factions to be so drained that they couldn't hold out any longer and wanted to back out.
This was bound to be happening not only among the factions allied with Titan Academy. Surely the factions on Taiyi Academy's side were facing the same situation.
They couldn't be allowed to withdraw. It wasn't that they were determined to make things difficult for those factions, nor that Titan Academy couldn't continue fighting without them.
The most important thing was that they couldn't set this precedent. Once they did, countless factions would follow suit one after another, using the same excuse.
If everyone demanded to withdraw, how could the war go on? They had come this far—how could they quit now? Both sides were practically forcing themselves to endure, locked in a daily battle of attrition.
Whichever side let up first was sure to lose.
And the loser would lose its standing, its assets, even the clothes on its back—and perhaps even its most basic right to survive.
So, in response to these tearful, desperate pleas, the academy neither harshly rebuked or threatened them, nor gave in out of sympathy.
Although this matter gave Titan Academy a headache, it wasn't what worried the academy most right now.
What had them even more overwhelmed was something else.
This matter had drawn the utmost attention from Titan Academy's leadership and had even sparked a measure of panic.
At that moment, fourteen Grand Scholars wearing purple-gold and gold ribbons from Titan Academy had gathered together.
Among them was Peng Li, a Gold Ribbon Grand Scholar and former deputy to Grand Scholar Shenji. After Shenji's death, Peng Li and another Gold Ribbon Grand Scholar had taken charge of the laboratory's related work.
Grand Scholar