493 Jins Decisive Actions (1/2)

As Halmut was about to dispute over the terms with Moranti and Sterfen, Jin refused to be useless.

Six illusory arms appeared out of Jin's back, each taking a katana in hand. All six katanas were then driven into Halmut, but not without stabbing themselves clean through Jin's body first. The beaten samurai showed a joyful smile as he coughed blood all over Halmut's chest. A seventh illusory arm was used to toss Jin's storage ring toward his companions, after instantly storing the six katanas.

”Now, it's a fair trade…” Jin chuckled with his dying breaths. ”A corpse for a corpse… And no EXP for you, Halmut…”

Halmut didn't roar. His anger was far too much for a simple roar to suffice.

With the deal at a standstill, Halmut already knew that getting the enchantment key wasn't going to happen in that exchange. The Sun Dragon thought he was thinking a few steps ahead and imagined slaying Jin to make the trade simple, also letting Halmut steal the items and weapons off of Jin's corpse beforehand along with gaining some good EXP. But his own decisiveness failed to outshine Jin's.

Sterfen sighed and shook his head. ”Well… Given the change of circumstances, I think we've got a fair trade. One's deities corpse for the other. Take it or leave it.”

”... Hand over the sword as well…” Halmut grumbled, no longer in the mood. He just wanted the scenario to end as quickly as possible.

”Fine…” Moranti groaned.

Holy aura washed over Halmut and healed his wounds. At the same time, he walked forward toward his fellow negotiators. Moranti and Sterfen did the same. The three men walked within arms reach. Sterfen shook Halmut's hand, feeling the dragon's anger through his tense grip. Then, the exchange was made.

Both parties backed away with a new corpse in hand, along with a heated sword in Halmut's case.

”It was a pleasure…” Sterfen added just before Moranti teleported them both out of Olympic Chateau.

”NAPARN!!!”

Halmut's roared echoed across all of Olympic Chateau. Such fury and anger were rare coming from the eldest dragon, but he couldn't contain himself and sought to find the person with the most blame. And with Naparn being in charge of the Maldor-Aazoon battle that meant Naparn was responsible not only for the loss of the sword but also for the death of Sybin.

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Moranti and Sterfen reappeared in front of Lunara and Dragas, only gone for a few minutes.

Neither Dragas nor Lunara asked about what happened. They both noticed Jin's corpse, as well as the six stab wounds littering his body. With their knowledge of Jin, they figured something like that might have happened.

”He really did such a thing?” Dragas chuckled and shook her head.