"Ku-ku-ku…"
With eyes widened in shock, the people in the castle looked at Layland. His heavy and sinister laughter echoed throughout the room, astounding them just as much as it chilled their spine.
'What just happened?' everyone thought.
It was very close for Layland; had the miracle happened just a few milliseconds late, he would have been reduced to ashes. Still, calling it a miracle would be unfair since he seemed to have known in advance that something like that would happen.
Thud!
Too focused on Layland, they were flustered by the sound they heard. They immediately turned their head towards the direction where the sound came, and found the shredded bodies of the Guardians who had been trying to kill him.
Instantly, those who knew what Layland was capable of figuring out what had happened. The reason why the defence mechanism was deactivated at the last moment was that those who powered it had died.
