Victor froze while processing the words.
"Everyone was..." the soldier coughed violently, more blood coming up. "Captured or eliminated. I only escaped because everyone else covered me so I could reach the tunnel..."
He didn't finish the sentence. Collapsed against Victor with a final effort, exhausted.
For a moment, Victor simply processed the information with a calculating mind.
Then fury hit him.
His mana exploded without conscious control. The Qilin manifested in his body through a transformation that made the atmosphere itself tremble with the power being released.
Gold 3 rank officially...
But now, after several years of intensive cultivation, with power that rivaled Platinum rank thanks to the Thousand Day Method completed... The absurdly expensive additional cultivation that only the enormous treasury discovered by Ren's mushroom had allowed him to afford without bankrupting the kingdom.
