Upon hearing Elijah's words, Atticus and Ignatius were visibly taken aback, finding it difficult to accept.

"Impossible!" Ignatius immediately rejected the idea. "Our well-trained and well-equipped army of 100 thousand, surrendering? No way!"

"You're absolutely right!" Atticus scoffed.

He added, "Even if the Southern Four Sovereigns combined their forces, there's no conceivable way they could defeat our hundred thousand troops overnight. You're just trying to make us panic!"

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