88 The End of the Betrayer (2/2)

”This should be the last one,” sounded a cold voice. ”Ilia asked us to leave as soon as possible after cleaning up.”

”I don’t see Janson…” the other young but hoarse voice answered.

”We’re not gonna wait for the savage. We can’t,” urged the cold voice.

”All right… We leave now,” agreed the second person.

Then Lucien heard their steps leaving the cave.

Taking a deep breath, Lucien made his body partially translucent into the moonlight and rushed to the exit. Under the cover of the silver moon, he successfully jumped into a bush.

Breathing the air mixed with the smell of dirt, Lucien released a long sigh of relief.

It was very quiet around him. For a moment, he felt that what happened in the underground palace was almost like a dream. However, the many scattered dead bodies of the heretics around the bush were reminding him how cruel the night was.

Looking up at the moon and the few stars in the sky, Lucien roughly figured out his current location and started to run toward Massol River, to get back to Family Hayne’s manor.

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The heavy flail was quite cumbersome, but luckily the silver moon was out tonight, and Lucien’s speed and strength were both improved in the moonlight.

Several minutes later, he approached the wood cabin with great caution. Almost everything was destroyed in this area from the many powerful divine and fiend spells.

Dead bodies were everywhere, and many of them were burned beyond recognition.

Among the bodies, Lucien saw one wearing a sorcerer robe, which draw his attention the most.

So Lucien flipped the body over, and he saw the young man’s face. The great fear the man experienced before he died was still there.

”Fire Wolf…” Lucien murmured the name.

An idea came to Lucien’s mind.

Using Mage Hand, Lucien left a line of words on Fire Wolf’s body with his half-clotted blood.

”THE END OF THE BETRAYER. PROFESSOR.”