92 Severing (1/2)

Given a couple of minutes, a group of people in tight black clothing soon gathered around Dean in a circle.

Their bodies looked quite nimble and weren't full of muscles making Dean assume they were most likely assassins or scouts.

He had only buried the bodies of Ellis and Alexander while the Wandering Demonic Poison King's body was currently decaying on the land.

Chopping the head of the Wandering Demonic Poison King, Dean threw it over to the black figures

”I'm guessing your boss hired you to watch over him. You can tell him he's dead.”

Given the missing villagers in this area, Dean wouldn't be surprised by how dedicated this man was to the craft of poison.

Once his actions had gone to a certain point, there'll definitely a large amount of people that would wish to kill him.

The people in front of him lacked any features that made it seem they were there to battle except some small gimmicks hidden in pockets.

They were first surprised at the sudden gift but their eyes gleamed with suspicion.

”What's the deal?”

He found it hard to suddenly accept something for free and followed the rule, 'There's no free lunch'

Dean wondered about what would be good enough of a trade and thought of something

”Send a message to Redwood Academy that student Dean will dropout while teachers Ellis and Alexander died.”

The man in black was confused that a simple request was all that would be traded for this head that was equivalent to a ton of gold.

Nodding to his subordinate, she immediately understood the message and ran off into a different direction from where they originated from.

”Is that all?”

”Yes.”

Dean left and broke out of the encirclement as they made way for him.

There was no point in staying anymore and it was best to just move on and cultivate in peace before doing anything else.

The man in black didn't attempt to know where he was going or trying to stop him to show some polite courtesy but instead write a message to their boss.

They would probably get paid a large amount since this dangerous mission caused him to hesitate and make sure his team would be alright risking their life on this.

It all paid off in the end and they actually got the head of who they were spying on.

This matter was too important to allow a normal subordinate to write the report meaning he would formally write it himself.

One point he made sure to stress on was that this murder was presumably done by a person called Dean as he left his name in a trade.

Along with that point was that he was most likely young since he gained the title 'student Dean'.

The reason the man in black didn't attempt to take the glory of killing the Wandering Demonic Poison King is that such reputation could easily be proven fake.

All a person would have to do is hire them for an extremely dangerous mission where they would all die without a chance of survival and know the truth.

Glory in exchange of danger was not worth the trade.

...

”Should we send people to trace Dean?”

The principal was currently sipping some tea but did recall being told a letter where two of the hired subordinates had recently died along with a student leaving.