Chapter 968 Bludgeoned Senseless

• "Mr. Lamorde! Hold on—please, hold on!" The cultivators of the Heaven-Earth Alliance shouted until their voices cracked, each plea laced with the terror of watching their chosen leader bleed out before their eyes.
• Many of them had once scoffed at the young upstart who dared call himself their commander. But the footage of the dead soldiers' massacre had rewritten every doubt. Reverence replaced skepticism, and the name Finneas became the banner they trusted with their lives.
• Now, seeing him besieged by two legendary powerhouses—his figure drenched and dripping—they felt a collective stab of guilt. They loathed their own weakness, cursed the distance that kept them from leaping in beside him.