The fourth stepped up: "Miss Lancaster, thank you for preserving the lives of our three national treasure-level professors."
"Our country is willing to unconditionally open five top-tier scientific cooperation clearances to the Lancaster family's laboratories."
The fifth.
The sixth.
One after another.
Envoys from various countries took turns stepping forward.
They spoke in different languages, but they all expressed the exact same sentiment—
Thank you, Serena Lancaster.
Congratulations on your return home, Serena Lancaster.
The Lancaster Pearl deserved the highest honors.
Those gifts, dropped one by one.
It was enough to leave even this crowd of elites stunned into silence.
The guests went from being shocked to completely numb.
Just moments ago, they thought Serena publicly humiliating the Montgomery family, the Harrison family, and Alaric Sinclair was explosive enough.
Only now did they realize.
What was that in comparison?
These gifts from the level of heads of state were the true spectacle that could shake all of Vaelion City to its core!
They were truly numb now.
So numb that they felt if Serena suddenly flew up into the sky the next second, standing on thin air, and told them she had a secret identity as a cultivator, they would probably just nod calmly and accept it.
Oh, it's Miss Lancaster. That's perfectly normal.
She really was just that incredible.
...
Meanwhile.
Not far outside the estate.
Sebastian Montgomery and Dominic Montgomery, who had just left in disgrace, were sitting in their car with ashen faces.
They originally wanted to sneak away quietly from this place that had utterly stripped them of their dignity.
Who knew that before the car could drive very far, it would be forced to stop by the shockwave of private jets and helicopters circling above.
Dominic Montgomery pushed the car door open, looking up at the banners in the night sky congratulating Serena Lancaster on her return home, his face turning pale bit by bit.
The name "Serena Lancaster" spread across the sky felt like a hard slap across his face.
Sebastian Montgomery also stood frozen, his expression twisted with humiliation.
Those national insignias.
Those envoy motorcades capable of shaking Vaelion City.
Those massive fleets of drones forming rivers of stars.
It was blinding to the extreme.
Serena's face was still as radiant and dazzling as ever.
So dazzling that Clarissa felt inadequate just looking up at it.
She had once tried to use the Harrison family's century-old medical reputation to suppress Serena.
She had talked about reluctantly offering guidance to Serena.
She had claimed Serena needed the Harrison family to help solidify her reputation.
But according to these envoys, the people Serena had saved were all the absolute top experts and professors from various countries.
The heritage the Harrison family took such pride in suddenly seemed entirely laughable in front of Serena.
What was the Harrison family?
They were nothing!
Arthur swallowed hard, and it took him a long time to force out a sentence: "We... we were so completely wrong."
Clarissa didn't speak.
She just looked at the dazzlingly bright lights in the direction of the Lancaster estate, her vision slowly blurring with tears.
Before, she had been watching Serena as a joke.
Now, they were the joke.
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