Chapter 96
─ The people of the Shadow Court will protect the Guild Master.
With those words, Dale vanished.
Left alone, the Guild Master of Kalimala trembled before the impending bloodshed.
Guild City. The golden empire composed of the Seven Great Guilds and the Shadow Court.
And the struggle among the powerful over the ledgers of the City Master, the very heart of Guild City.
Faced with their overwhelming power, the guild master of Kalimala realized for the first time the fleeting nature of gold.
At that moment, Dale was at the Shadow Court’s hideout.
The Shadow High Court. In that place reminiscent of an underground chapel, facing the continent’s foremost assassin.
“Kuh, Shippul. This beer tastes killer.”
Salgeom, Master Baro, was gulping down beer. He cared not a whit for the Shadow Court’s formalities or etiquette, his legs sprawled across the table.
“…From the looks of it, your faith in the Shadow Church doesn’t seem particularly deep.”
Dale, too, lowered his voice without bothering with formalities.
“Heh heh, you call that faith?”
Master Baro chuckled and nodded.
“There aren’t many places that’d take a bastard like me who stabbed his lord in the back and ran off.”
“Why did you stab him in the back?”
Betraying one’s lord is the ultimate taboo, unforgivable for a knight.
“Well, I guess my head just went blank.”
Master Baro answered as if it were someone else’s business.
“My lord was raving mad, claiming a demon possessed his young daughter.”
