Icy Stare didn't commit a mistake. She didn't underestimate Noah, and she had even predicted that he would block her superior's attack.
Her problem was that Elder Julia had returned on the scene too soon, even after she had endured the shockwaves generated by the arrows. She didn't try to sneak up on the solid stage cultivator of the Empire either before rejoining the battlefield.
Icy Stare could only guess that Noah was so important to the Hive that even its higher-ups would ignore the possibility of taking a powerful opponent by surprise to help him.
The cultivators of the Empire didn't have that mentality. That organization had never been short on assets, and its members rarely valued themselves as more important than their mission.
They had learnt to sacrifice everything for the greater good of their god. The only real recognition they could get would arrive once they reached the sixth rank and became a powerhouse.
