Some mercenaries lowered their heads and left in silence. Soon, the other mercenaries followed them.
After a while, only a few people were left in the tavern.
God-slaying was blasphemy in this world. Although Hawk did not name any specific god or goddess, everybody was still quite disturbed.
Besides, the horror of Hawk and Link occurred to the mercenaries again.
Hawk described it quite simply, like biting his tongue and dying of exhaustion were normal, but what happened at that time was a ghastly scene for everybody.
They did not die after biting their tongues, and blood sprang from their mouth. Then, the two of them struggled like stranded fish though they were tied up.
They couldn't talk after they bit their tongues off, so they creaked and writhed hard. The tensile ropes sank into their flesh, but they couldn't care less and keep shaking the tree until the whole tree was trembling.
