"Her Majesty the Queen believes this is most likely a trap targeting our Great Xia Empire—or to be more precise, a trap targeting you.
It seems the Lighthouse Empire doesn't want to give us the option to refuse, so they issued a public invitation.
It's not just us. The Great Jing Empire, the White-Red Empire, and many of their allied empires have already confirmed they will attend.
The Lighthouse Empire is also fanning the flames of public opinion behind the scenes, all to force our hand and make sure we have to participate."
Liu Yuzhu summarized the situation concisely.
"Has a location been chosen for the Martial Arts Academy Ranking Tournament?"
Chu He asked.
The Lighthouse Empire had already dropped some hints about this before, but he hadn't expected them to fast-track it onto the agenda so soon.
