Perhaps because the banquet hosted at the estate was exclusively for female guests, the Third Prince deemed it a negligible threat and left only a small garrison—fewer than a hundred men—surrounding the outer perimeter of the floral hall.
Inside, he had stationed merely a few dozen competent martial artists who stood about with ferocious expressions, glaring menacingly at the captives.
Consequently, when the Second Prince and his forces charged in, aside from an elderly noble matriarch who fainted from shock upon seeing blood, the rest of the company remained virtually unscathed.
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