"This is very bad!" Zhong Ben realized the gravity of the situation, jumped up from his chair, and rushed out of the room. The elders behind him were a bit late to react, but they also rushed after him.
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In the guest hall of the Zhong Family, Noah, dressed in the same outfit and mask he used during the competition, sat calmly on the luxurious sofa, sipping the calming tea served to him by the servants. The room was neither too big nor too small. It was made more luxurious than most of the rooms in the estate, representing the grandeur of the Zhong Family.
If he had to compare, it was naturally more luxurious than the room he had seen in the city lord's mansion of Golden Edge City—the city under Ma Li's father's jurisdiction.
Even the simple table before him was made from thousand-year-old mahogany wood, which alone was equivalent to a rank 4 beast. Just as Noah admired the coiled bone inlay furniture, crafted from the remains of a rank 5 beast, someone entered the room.
