I leaned my spear on my shoulder and walked closer, boots crunching softly through the mess like I was strolling through fallen leaves instead of corpses.
Every time my foot came down on a skull, I pressed harder than necessary, just to hear the crack—the ugly little reminder of how stupid they had to be to get on my bad side.
Yeah, it was petty.
I didn't care.
If they were dumb enough to push me this far, they could at least give me the courtesy of breaking properly.
The guy scrambled backward until his spine hit broken stone. His eyes flicked from body to body, then back to me, finally understanding what kind of person he was dealing with.
"I'm not with them! I swear!"
"Oh?" I gave him a friendly smile. "Then who are you with?"
He swallowed. Hard. "I—I'm from the Phoenix Guild. I just… I just happened to join their party because of the tower echo. That's all. Temporary. I swear."
Phoenix.
"Ah. The number one guild in the city, huh."
