High above the stillness, more than a dozen figures sat in the night sky. They were the False God Apex experts of Jade Capital Academy and the other factions.
They hovered over Emperor Taihuang City, looking down on everything below. During the melee that day, they had also fought their own battles, but clashes at the False God Apex took place in a higher-dimensional space, almost imperceptible to those on the ground.
Even now, that contest between False Gods had produced no clear victor.
But everyone knew the outcome had long since been decided on the ground.
The heads of several Jade Capital Academy faculties, all at the False God Apex, smiled at the experts opposite them. One spoke.
"Everyone, is there any need to keep going?"
His tone was unhurried, almost casual.
Yet everyone present heard the confidence beneath that casualness.
Ganges Academy had withdrawn. The Black Gang had been wiped out. The Zero-Dollar Shopping and Racial Discrimination rituals had collapsed one after the other.
The allied camp's two most important pillars had snapped on the same day. The Hebrew Family and Eden Garden Academy still possessed considerable strength, but not enough to preserve their earlier advantage.
The other factions were naturally unwilling to concede. After a moment's silence, a False God Apex expert from the Hebrew Family said grimly,
"We've only lost a few pieces of trash used to counterbalance the rules of Grand Sovereign Yellow-Tseng Heaven.
"Even without Ganges Academy and the Black Gang, our factions' core fighting strength is only slightly below yours. You may not be able to take us down."
But as he spoke, his brow tightened slightly. The bravado he struggled to maintain sounded thin in the night wind.
The dean of the Four Seas Faculty heard him and shook his head with