'What the hell happened?!' The whale's message echoed in Ruri's mind through the array.
'Master... one of them attacked me, and I beat him down. But then another, and another came... on the first day, I took down half a dozen of them,' Ruri replied quickly. 'But I didn't kill them, and at some point, they started coming in groups. And now... something happened, and everyone seems to want to defeat me at all costs.'
Alm and Bruno were stunned. It wasn't an isolated event; it was exactly all the recruits in the Shadow God sect's branch. They were acting in sync as if something extremely important had happened.
'That necromancer... we acted to capture him after feeling something was wrong with him. It was impossible for him to know we were watching him. We shouldn't have killed him so quickly,' Alm said dryly.
