Rebirth of the Deadly Beauty novel Chapter 678

"The Shaws are all rats! Despicable, filthy, and up to no good!" Brigham, who was next to Nigel, retorted.

However, Renee was unfazed by Knox's insults.

"It's not like we're holding Eternal Clan members back from participating in the duel. It's all Eternal Clan's fault for being stupid, causing the martial arts association to ban them from participation. What's that got to do with us?"

"You dare say that you didn't have anything to do with it?" Brigham glared at Renee as he questioned her.

"Sorry, I know nothing about this." Renee opened her hands in feigned innocence and added, "Stop yapping. Send the rest of your contestants out.

"I don't have time to waste on lame competitions like these. The outcome is clearly one-sided. I'm so disgusted by clowns like you!

"I advise you, don't even think about playing tricks by sneaking Eternal Clan members to represent you in this duel. Higher-ups from the martial arts association are here supervising the duel.

"If you dare break these rules, you'll be declaring war with the martial arts association!"

After Renee was done, the people around her erupted in fits of laughter, causing Knox and the rest to boil with anger, but they couldn't retort. They could only yell back uselessly.

"Smug pricks!"

"That's enough, Mr. Knox." Zach barked coldly.

"We haven't lost yet. We don't have to do this with them."

"You're just clearly stubborn!" Renee jeered coldly at Zach. "Mr. Wright, you're at wit's end now.

"No matter how tough you act, you can't possibly turn this around."

"Mr. Wright, Mr. Hansen Senior!" Suddenly, a young man came running out from the side of the stage.

When he came to Zach, Nigel, and the rest, he lowered his voice and said, "The rest of the martial artists refused to compete after witnessing Zeke's defeat to Windchaser. What do we do?"

He was the Hansen family's Shadow Knight.

"No…"

At the beginning of the New Era, the Havarian government had set a rule stating that other than the three biggest families in Creybia, no other families were allowed to have Shadow Knights anymore.

Even the most ancient of families had to disband their Shadow Knights.

Other families might have pretended to heed the government's rules in the open, but in secret, they still wouldn't disband their Shadow Knights.

However, since these Shadow Knights now had an illegal identity, if their existence were to be known to others, the families they were associated with would suffer from oppression from both the government and the three biggest families in Creybia.

"It's too much sacrifice to get the Hansen Shadow Knights to participate in this, Mr. Hansen Senior!"