After noticing that something was wrong, Elder Maurice pulled the four of them aside to an empty space. He was not in the mood to be drinking tea with Master Forrest. His emotions were all over the place at that moment.
"We have to think of a counterplan!" Elder Maurice said indignantly.
Mr. Zayne's lips twitched in mild exasperation as he carefully said, "Things have already advanced to this point, what kind of counterplan could we have? We can't possibly have a change of contestants at this point.
"Actually, I was very curious about this. If this tournament is so important, why didn't we send alchemists from the inner valley?" Mr. Zayne's words caused Elder Maurice to feel even more helpless.
When Fane heard that, he perked up his ears as he looked toward Claude and Benedict. Turns out the two of them did not come from the inner valley.
That was actually incredibly strange to Fane. The two of them had acted so arrogantly that Fane had thought that they were from the inner valley. After all, the inner valley was the core of Phoenix Valley.
Only the best of Phoenix Valley gathered there, but after Mr. Zayne's words, Fane finally realized that he
was completely wrong. The two of them were not from the inner valley but were alchemists from the outer valley.
However, Fane had never met the two of them before! Elder Maurice shook his head helplessly and replied," This is something out of my control. With how complicated the current situation is, we can't use the power of the inner valley. We can't have them reveal themselves, they have to be our last line of defense!"
Mr. Zayne obviously could not tell the meaning behind that explanation was, and only saw that Elder Maurice was filled with a sense of helplessness. After Fane heard those words, he frowned as well.
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