Chapter 580 (1/2)

Chapter 580

Two days had passed after the battle with Mordret’s previous vessel and the army of corpse puppets he had created with its help Those of the wounded who had received light injuries were already back on their feet, but three of the sentinels were still in bad shape

Their co in their power to treat their wounds, but with every healer in the Citadel already dead, there was little that could be done to hasten the recovery One of the corners of the hall was converted into an infirmary, where the three heavily injured sentinels rested and received care

…In thescream suddenly echoed between the black stone walls Those ere sleeping ju the weapons that they had kept summoned to be ready for an attack Those who re toward the source of the scream — the makeshi+ft infirmary

Sunny simply sat up on his mattress, a tense expression on his face

There were three cots for the wounded, standing in a row along the wall It was the Lost who occupied the , his face contorted by an expression of sheer terror

The other tere dead

Their throats were sliced open, blood strea to the floor Both were killed in their sleep, without alerting anyone around… as far away froht in the middle of the sentinels’ camp

The third one clearly could have been murdered as well, and had been left alive on purpose, as if tothem that no one was safe, and that he was perfectly capable of taking each of them whenever he pleased

“W—what?!”

“How did he get inside?!”

“He e of panicking, but in the end, their training and skill prevailed Instead of descending into chaos, the situation inside the hall immediately turned into a coordinated action Even before Peirce and Welthe arrived, the sentinels were alreadyto stand in a defensive formation, weapons drawn and ready for battle

The two Masters appeared mere seconds after the scream They quickly assessed the situation and joined their soldiers, half of the Echoesthe doors

For a few hold of the Valor forces The surviving sentinels waited tensely by the infirmary, while five empty-eyed Echoes blocked the exit

There was no one else in the hall… except for Sunny and Cassie, who had not moved from the start of it all

Slowly, all of the Lost focused on the two of theer

Sunny’s face twitched

‘crap…’

Was Mordret aware of how these actions would affect the two of the to force the it impossible to stay with the sentinels?

What was his da to deal with Saint Cormac in a few days, and what role was everyone else supposed to play before that?

He opened histo defuse the situation, but one of the Lost was faster:

“It’s them! It must be one of them!”

As soon as this first accusation was ates were open A moment later, Sunny and Cassie were assaulted by a litany of cries, all bla them for the deaths of the tounded sentinels

Sunny stared at the crowd of Lost, feeling his heart grow cold A single person could be reasoned with… but what he saw right noas not a group of people, but amouths, and many eyes that burned with fury, fear… and dark, htened crowd did not know reason, it only knew fear, and the desire to either escape or destroy its source

…Ironically, there were very few thingsthan a senseless crowd

The Lost were much more resilient and prepared than most people, but even battle-hardened warriors like thehtered, and brutalized by the elusive and terrifying fiend, they seemed to have finally reached it

Of course, there was no logic behind the accusations Neither Sunny nor Cassie possessed the means to commit the murder unnoticed — simply for the fact that they had been watched this entire tiin with