A TRAITOR?

The Phoenix fortress.

Curtis and his siblings gathered in a conference room after going through the general information that everyone in the competition got about the 11 cities.

After losing 2 members of the Silver Flames Cavalry, they have to avoid doing anything foolish that would make their superiors at home angry. They had received the order from the Emperor, their father, to obtain the rewards of the competition or kill whoever acquires it. They couldn't mess around much with such an order over their heads.

They decided to put the vitriolic rivalry away and work together to increase their chances of succeeding. While choosing and delegating people into separate groups, they all received another notification from the general chat forum. This new information posted on the general chat forum shook Curtis and he began trembling in anger, biting his lower lip until blood began seeping down his mouth.

The information went as so;