Chapter 229: The Masters
The Meditatory Chambers echoed with the sound of quiet footsteps.
Ten Level 100 combatants stood in the center of the underground arena. Three veterans waited for them on the polished stone floor.
Seraphina Vance wore a fitted combat tunic. Lord Tokks stood with his hands clasped behind his back. Lady Elara Logcheville wore a pristine dueling jacket.
A blue holographic projection hummed near the weapon racks. Lord Commander Gunther Stillbane watched them through the Astral Server uplink. The ruler of Bastion Six could not abandon his own recovering city.
Lord Commander Helion Goldmane was absent.
Nobody spoke about his missing presence. The silence in the room felt worse than an admission.
Seraphina stepped forward. The top-tier Healer did not soften her words. She addressed the ceiling none of them could break.
She named the Level 200 threshold. The Valor.
