'I'm proud of you...my only student,' Chao suddenly said, and those words put an end to everything. Chao was afraid not because he could not defeat the monster or person he would face; yes, he might be defeated, but that did not mean that he would definitely be defeated.
The reason for the fear on the Holy Gryphon's face was that the possibility of losing his only pupil was now in the air.
Nevertheless, James had chosen to send members of his army to the imperial capital just in case, which was a good thing. There weren't many climbers in the area, after all.
This was due to the enormous amount of poison emanating from Bai Fang's body.
The only reason Ariel was able to stand, like both Chao and James, was because she had trained herself to be immune to certain types of poison.