Chapter 436: Our Leader Is Not Strong Enough

Chapter 436: Our Leader Is Not Strong Enough

Phaedra and Elowen complained to each other about Elyndra's environment for a while.

Elowen glanced at the inn nearby and asked Phaedra, "Are you planning to stay at this place?"

"Yeah, I heard it's the nicest inn around here."

"Really? Then I'll go check it out too."

Elowen linked arms with Phaedra as they walked into the inn together.

As soon as they entered, they saw Gwyneth, Rocco, and Robbie chatting.

Phaedra lifted her chin with interest, "Didn't expect the Powell family people to all be here too. I'm curious to see who the Powell family sent to compete this time."

Elowen also looked around and murmured, "Walter must be on the Powell family's team this time."

Everyone knew Walter was the strongest among the Powell family's younger generation.

"Phaedra, you'd better be careful if you face Walter."

Phaedra's eyes flickered, "Where's Walter?"

But after looking around, Phaedra didn't see Walter anywhere. Instead, she saw several young faces that were relatively unfamiliar to her.

Phaedra walked over and looked at the Powell family competitors, "Is Walter your team leader? Where is he? Where did he go?"

Just as Phaedra finished speaking, a cool female voice interrupted her.

"The team leader isn't Walter, it's me."

Phaedra turned her head and saw Isabella walking toward her.

Elowen tugged at Phaedra's hand and whispered in her ear, "Isn't that the Powell family's daughter? What's going on? Why isn't Walter the team leader, but her instead?"

Phaedra's gaze fell on Isabella. She first greeted her, "Ms. Isabella Powell, hello."

"Hello."

Phaedra looked Isabella over a few times, raised her eyebrows with interest, "Ms. Isabella Powell is the team leader?"

Isabella nodded, "That's right."

Phaedra thought about it. Isabella was the Powell family's daughter, so it made sense for the Powell family to make her the team leader.

Then Walter...

"Is Walter the main force of your Powell family team?"

"Seems like you're very interested in Walter?" Isabella smiled slyly, then said, "Too bad Walter isn't competing this time. He did come to Elyndra, but as a spectator."

Hearing this, a flash of disbelief crossed Phaedra's eyes.

"What did you say?"

"Walter isn't competing?"

The other Fife family competitors nearby heard this and all showed surprised expressions.

You have to understand, their two months of training had been targeted training with Walter as their main opponent.

But they never expected Walter wouldn't be competing!

This was completely different from what they had guessed.

How could Walter, as the Powell family's most capable and talented member, not be arranged to compete in this ancient martial arts tournament?

Rocco, who was talking with Gwyneth, also heard Isabella's words. His eyes narrowed slightly, wondering what the Powell family was up to and why they weren't letting Walter compete.

Just then, Isabella's next words explained the reason.

"Walter's hand was accidentally injured before the competition, so he couldn't compete."

Hearing this, everyone understood.

The Fife family competitors were even more delighted.

Such good luck?

Since Walter's hand was injured and he couldn't compete, didn't that mean they were sure to win?

"Looks like heaven is helping the Fife family win the championship." Since the Powell family's team leader was just Isabella, Phaedra felt no pressure at all.

She looked at Isabella with disdain, "The Powell family's strongest person can't compete, you're going to lose badly!"

Isabella sneered and swept Phaedra with an equally contemptuous look, "The competition hasn't even started yet, and you're already getting cocky?"

Hearing this, Phaedra's expression became somewhat stern. She looked at Isabella, a flash of displeasure in her eyes, "Whether I'm being cocky or not, once we're on the field, we'll see."

Phaedra arrogantly scanned the other Powell family team members present and sneered, "Once we're on the field, when the Fife family faces the Powell family, we won't hold back. Then you'll know what being truly first means!"

Phaedra said this very loudly, the implication clear.

The Fife family not only wanted to win first place in this competition, but also to become the top-ranked family among the seven great families!

Phaedra no longer took the Powell family's team seriously. After arrogantly saying this, she led the Fife family competitors away.

Phaedra's arrogance was so excessive that it made the Powell family team members grit their teeth.

After the Fife family left, the Powell family team members started discussing among themselves.

"That was so humiliating just now, even the Fife family doesn't take us seriously!"

"It's all because our team leader isn't strong enough."

"If our team leader were Walter, let's see if Phaedra would still dare to be so arrogant!"

"If Walter were here, he would definitely use his strength to shut Phaedra up!"

"This is so unlucky. Why can't we compete with Walter? It's all Isabella's fault. If she hadn't driven Walter away, we wouldn't be so lacking in confidence."

And during these two months, Isabella only assigned them training tasks but never trained with them. She was always gone all day, who knows where she was slacking off.

With Isabella being so lazy about training, how could she possibly lead them to win the championship?

They still had no idea about Isabella's actual strength and had long since given up any hope in her.

Over the next few days, all the competing teams gradually arrived in Elyndra, some from noble families, others from self-formed alliance organizations.

And the core attraction of this ancient martial arts tournament was naturally the seven most powerful families.

The focus of the competition was to determine who would be first, so which faction could win first place was what everyone was paying attention to.

On the day of the competition.

All competing factions arrived at the venue.

Among them were not only people from Elyndra, but many who came from other cities specifically to watch this competition.

At the same time, the competition would be livestreamed on media platforms.

Therefore, the seven families' performance would directly affect the public's evaluation of them.

The venue was bustling with excitement.

From a drone's perspective, looking down, the huge venue was divided into eight arenas, somewhat similar to a colosseum. Without guessing, you could tell the competition rules should be to win by knocking opponents off the arena.

However, this competition was a team event, not individual one-on-one combat, so the arenas were much larger than regular ones, able to accommodate more than ten people fighting on them at once.

Each team had its own uniform.

The Powell family's uniform was mainly white, with the Powell family's phoenix pattern embroidered on the back. The team leader's uniform had an additional color on the collar and cuffs to distinguish them from regular members. Isabella's outfit had a touch of red added to the collar and cuffs. The other families' uniforms were similar, just with some differences in details.