The Lone Wolf
He met the first half-blood near the west watchtower and cleaved it cleanly through the chest, silver blade hissing as it cut through cursed flesh.
More poured in, but he noticed something. Their movements were coordinated and tactical. They weren’t just slaughtering, they were hunting.
With narrowed eyes, he leapt from the blood-slicked courtyard into the north wing, intercepting a unit making their way past two injured guards who turned to face him, snarling.
One lunged for his throat. He sidestepped, drove a dagger into its eyes, and slashed down another with a spin, but they kept on coming. And their target, he realized, wasn’t the armory or the inner halls. It was ‘him’.
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