Dead silence. No one spoke a word.
The First’s head tilted slightly. Just slightly. But that tiny movement made the Third’s bladder twitch in betrayal.
"...He died?" the First repeated, the look in his eyes enough to kill many.
The Second’s fan lowered a fraction. Her gaze sharpened. "He died just like that inside your own domain? From just your torture?"
The Sixth cackled. "Damn, Third! I knew you were incompetent, but killing the target by accident? That’s next level!"
The Third forced out an unhinged laugh. "Ha ha ha! Yeah well... you know me... overachiever..."
Twenty daggers immediately pointed at his throat. He froze again. The First took a single step forward. "If he died, then where are his things? We need that item from the Fairy King’s tomb."
The Third felt like a bucket of cold water had been dumped on his head. Why did this bastard have to be so ridiculously overpowered? Couldn’t he have left that fairy king shit for someone else? I mean, what the fuck do you need that for? Aren’t you already fucking ridiculously strong?
"Aha ha ha. Aha ha ha. What do you mean? Didn’t that princess get it? I think she got it. We need to storm that castle now and show the Emperor who is the real boss here! Yup. Actually, that sounds like a really good idea. Why don’t we do that? I mean, it has to be done at some point. Why not today? I feel good about today. How about you? What do you think? Hmmm?"
The First stared at him with an expression so flat it looped back into terrifying. Before he could say anything, another assassin took action.
A man with bloodshot eyes and infinite hatred burning in his aura appeared in front of the Third as shadows bound him from all sides at the same time.
"The Firth... Nara... what the fuck?" The Third started panicking.
Nara seethed in anger as he spat out venomously. "You are lying. He is not someone whom you can kill in your fucking toy box."
"Hey! Hey! Why should I lie? Aha ha ha. You must have hit your head hard in your last job." The Third tried to laugh it off, but Nara’s face was inches from his own, eyes burning like a starving specter dragged out of hell.
"No. You are lying. I know it because you are not the only one who has faced him." Nara no longer bothered talking to the Third. He turned to the First and pointed to the small shard that was floating in front of their deity, a nameless mess of shadows.
"Look at that shard, First. Something is clearly wrong with it. Its size has drastically reduced. This cannot be normal. Something must have happened. You yourself said so. Third is lying. In fact, everything he said was a lie. Something is going on here. Don’t trust him."
The First remained indifferent, but the look in his eyes spoke volumes.
Gulp. Third knew that his time was up. Without wasting another second, he crushed the vial behind him. A black ripple pulsed out from the shattered vial like a shockwave of silent death.

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