The eighteen top winners, the crème de la crème of the Righteous Faction's younger generation were swiftly assembled on the central stage, their faces a mixture of strained anticipation and desperate hope.
Floating directly above them, the Six Saintesses: Aria, Flama Evelina, Celestine, Valeria, and Seraphina, regarded the disciples below with cool, scrutinizing, and judgmental gazes.
Among the anxious eighteen were the four winners representing the White Lotus Sanctuary: Liam, Vahn (Damien Infernos), Holy Son Veerion, and Holy Daughter Lumina. They naturally expected their own Saintess, Seraphina, to choose them first, but the rules were clear: the Saintesses could choose whomever they liked, irrespective of sect.
Valeria, Flama, Evelina, Celestine, and Aria all wore deeply thoughtful expressions, meticulously calculating the optimal choice to strengthen their respective delegations for the Secret Realm.
