Chapter 1245
Camera flashes erupted in a blinding, frenzied storm.
The accompanying media from Elyndor were practically in tears from the sheer excitement, desperate to shove their camera lenses right into Serena’s face.
“Keep shooting! Keep shooting p>
“Get the whole thing! We need this entire segment recorded without a single cut p>
“Incredible, absolutely incredible p>
“She just won so much glory for Elyndor p>
No one had anticipated that the Elyndor delegation’s entrance would explode into such a magnificent spectacle.
Standing a short distance away, the excited smile on Phelps Prescott’s face froze once again, looking as if he had been struck by lightning.
His expression twisted into something laughable, his eyes bulging with disbelief.
How… how the hell did she pull that off p>
How did she manage to spin that situation around p>
The trap he had so meticulously laid out not only failed to send the Elyndor flag crashing to the dirt, but Serena had forcefully flipped it into the most explosive, viral highlight of the entire event.
A suffocating wave of fury washed over Phelps, making his vision swim as if he might pass out from the sheer rage.
Meanwhile, after a brief moment of stunned silence, the suppressed emotions within the Elyndor team finally erupted.
Lydia Brooks clamped a hand over her mouth, her eyes shining brilliantly as she let out a piercing scream. “Oh my god! Captain, you are so badass p>
Caleb Sommers swallowed hard, profound shock visible in his gaze.
The rest of the Elyndor competitors straightened their backs, a fiery pride burning fiercely in their chests.
They were all well aware of Severia’s underhanded tactics, terrified that the host country would try to sabotage them in the shadows.
Yet, no one expected that the very knife thrust at them would be snatched up by their captain and spun into a legendary, god-tier moment for Elyndor.
The entrance ceremony concluded.
Serena led the Elyndor team to their designated area.
She still held the broken upper half of The Sabotaged Flagpole in her hand.
As she walked past the staff member who had initially handed her the rigged flag, her footsteps suddenly faltered.
The staff member’s heart skipped a beat, and he instinctively looked up.
She casually tossed it.
Swish!
The broken half of the flagpole plummeted down and speared directly into the ground… mere inches from his boots!
The metal shaft scraped against the floor with an ear-piercing shriek, and the vibrant, billowing flag whipped through the air, slapping the staff member squarely across the face.
It felt like a vicious, stinging slap.
The staff member shuddered violently in terror, his legs turning to jelly as he nearly collapsed in a heap.
Serena stared down at him, her gaze
predatory and entirely devoid of warmth Go back and tell the Prescotts that they need to stop embarrassing themselves with these pathetic, underhanded tricks p>
She leaned in slightly, a bone-chilling hostility swimming in her eyes.
“Did you really think wrapping your dirty work in the guise of an ‘accident’ would cover up the stench p>
She paused, a deeply mocking smirk
curving her lips. “If this gutter-level Severia has left to
scheming is all evenime offer, then you can’t blame the rest
of the world for looking down on you p>
“Let it happen again p>
“And next time, it won’t just be a flagpole that snaps p>
The staff member trembled violently under her intense stare, cold sweat soaking his shirt until he couldn’t even formulate a coherent sentence.
Serena didn’t spare him another glance.
She led her team straight toward their designated competitor zone.
Watching this unfold from afar, Phelps’s expression darkened until it was practically stormy.
After the entrance ceremony concluded, the competitors from every nation were fully assembled.
A representative from the Severian organizing committee stepped up to the high podium and began delivering a load of high-sounding, hypocritical opening remarks in the common language.
At first, it all sounded relatively normal.
It was nothing more than the
standard platitudes-welcoming the
brilliant prodigies from various
nations to Severia for this sacred,
academic competition, and wishing
the event a complete success.
But as the speech went on.
The Elyndor competitors started to realize that something was terribly off p>
— [Author’s Note: Catching a train today, might be out all day and unable to write. Taking a day off p>