Chapter 358 - Business at the door
“The one who wiped out the whole Shadow’s Nest in one go was this Felic…” Loke’s face paled as he recalled what happened, including that hellish sight by the Black River. It was a nightmare to him, and even though it had already been a couple of months since that incident, the nightmarish scene continued to haunt him, replaying in his mind every time he closed his eyes.
The frozen Black River, the snowstorm that covered the place, as well as the familiar faces frozen in ice…
Shadow’s Nest was the strongest force in Jarrosus City then, and with Patriarch Merlin’s help, they had been able to take over the Demon Fall Valley, attack the Emerald Tower, and heavily injure the Archmage Gerian. The 10 greatest families as well as the six greatest underground forces quivered before the blade of Shadow’s Nest. Loke had even thought back then that barging into the Castellan Mansion and replacing the castellan Isaac would not have been a difficult feat!
Then, the nightmare began…
And this was all because of the young mage named Felic. The first night he’d returned to Jarrosus, he had managed to rein in the 16 ambitious forces, and the next day, he brought a group of people to attack the Demon Fall Valley. He had carried out a great massacre on the banks of the Black River, and wiped out the hundreds of members of the Shadow’s Nest, leaving only a few who managed to escape the tragedy.
Loke was one of the lucky few as he had been heavily injured at the start of the battle. He’d thought he was going to die, but after the Shadow’s Nest had fallen, nobody took notice of him, and thus he lay in a bush as he witnessed the chilling massacre. The mage in the black cloak was like the legendary Grim Reaper, wielding both ice and fire as he brought deathly fear to the masses…
“Loke, are you f*cking kidding me…?!” Vanskore stood up suddenly. Under the yellowish light, the scar on his face made him seem all the more ferocious. “I think you must be scared silly if you can’t think properly, that’s why you’re spouting nonsense. Wiping out the whole Shadow’s Nest alone? Is he a Sword Sage or a Legendary-mage? Shadow’s Nest might’ve been a small bandit group, but surely you had at least a few hundred people; even if all of you just stood there, he would have to spend the whole day killing all of you one by one…”