C136 The Lesson of Growth

"Bring up another one!"

With a wave of his hand, Xia Chong signaled, and a Phoenix Warrior behind him pushed forward another from the dwindling group of twenty-odd people.

A boy, no more than fifteen or sixteen, in the prime of his youth, now stood before them, his body a tapestry of wounds from the torture he endured, too weak to even stand, collapsing to his knees at Xia Chong's feet