Elder Veylan Lie waited for the crowd's noise to settle. It took considerably longer than the previous three announcements had required. When it had returned to a level that permitted his voice to carry without effort, he looked at the document's final line.
Osborn Clan — Robert Osborn, Spirit Root Realm Level 6 Mid-Stage. Sai Osborn, Spirit Root Realm Level 6 Midstage.
The crowd's reaction was not what Robert had expected it to be. It was genuine confusion first—the particular sound of several hundred people hearing numbers that did not match what they had been expecting after the Walker Clan's announcement.
It was not the same kind of shock that Harvey Walker's Level 7 Mid-Stage had caused. This was something quieter, more uncertain. The people in the platforms buzzed with a low, uneven murmur—people were whispering to one another, heads turning as they tried to find a reference point for what they had just heard, but they could not quite pin it down.
