Savage King Kingdom Royal City, atop the Barbarian King Tower.
Cao Yichen stood with his hands clasped behind him at the summit of the tower, motionlessly watching the clouds swept by the winds constantly changing shape in the sky.
After an unknowable amount of time, a silhouette descended from the sky and landed beside him. After a moment, he spoke:
"How did the contact go?"
Li Ran shook his head and said:
"They didn't agree, and they even said....."
"Said what?"
After a long pause with no response, Cao Yichen turned his head to look intently at his teammate. With no words spoken, his gaze made his teammate somewhat uneasy. He said:
"They said you're too weak, so weak that you can't even handle a first-year student and yet have the audacity to ask for help, they can't afford to lose that much face."
"Bang!"
A stone pillar at the edge of the tower topped with the head of an exotic beast was smashed to pieces by a palm strike, scattering debris over a hundred meters away.
