The fact that about a dozen disciples from the Unbreaking Pavilion were in the city terrified the wandering warriors. After all, they only managed to kill the five outside because they had outnumbered them. With double the numbers inside, they might not be able to succeed.
Furthermore, everyone could tell that the disciples in the city would be the stronger ones. Their strength could not be measured, and perhaps even all of them might be as skilled as Philip!
There might be a lot of wandering warriors, but they were not strong enough to fight all of the Unbreaking Pavilion's disciples. Only Fane, in fact, was truly powerful. The moment they thought of how strong the people in the city could be, the warriors backed away.
No one wanted to be the scouts that would be dispatched into Black Sun City.
Feeling helpless, Fane's lips twitched at the warriors. He never planned on asking them to infiltrate the city, anyway. After all, they were no idiots. Everyone knew that the first to go in would be cannon fodder.
While Fane could keep his calm, Rudy, who stood next to him, could not. Many of the warriors would have been tricked by the Unbreaking Pavilion had it not been for Fane. Who knew what would befall them then?
All that, yet the wandering warriors dared to retreat at such an important time!
Enraged, Rudy turned around, his eyes wide open as he snapped at the warriors, practically shouting, "Do you know what would've happened to you had Fane not intervened? Don't you think retreating now is a little shameless?"
The warriors fell silent at this, not daring to say anything. After all, their lives were on the line.
After a while, one of the warriors finally spoke, "There are about ten of them inside, and they'll know something happened if they see all of us enter. They'd attack us on sight.
"Whoever is the first to go in will die, and to add into the mix, we're not that strong. Them attacking us will spell the end of us all. Is it wrong that we don't want to die?"
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