Alystren was frozen in the moment, his mind trying to comprehend what he had just witnessed.
He was so focused on Shin that he didn't even register Northern's movement. He never saw Northern moving, and until Northern spoke, he didn't even realize Northern was not there.
And the ice spears? The boy would have gotten bombarded by them without even realizing they were coming!
And yet this boy that stood amidst them was one of the most fearful and prodigious masters in the Southern part of the Central Plains.
A master capable of cutting with just bloodlust. The boy kneeling right there was so known to be a weapon of death that the weapon, Dead Reaper, began to follow him before the government even put a bounty of three hundred million Orens on him.
Of course, how he is now serving the governor of Arcadia like a loyal dog is another story.
