Chapter 81) Deadly Reunion.

When Paladin arrived at the gates of Fountain castle, the guards in red remained stoic on either side, unmoving and expressionless.

Paladin smiled anyway. The guards were called the Crimson Hood for a reason.

Ten years ago, Kim Tan had personally picked out twenty teenage boys, and sequested them to a Celestial region for their training and cultivation. The boys returned as men who'd walked through fire, swarm through beds of thorns and flown through hail storms.

They were highly skilled with swords, arrows and knives. They said nothing, did nothing apart from the task they'd been given by Kim Tan. Powerful men both in spirit and in physic, deadly men that could kill with a well placed poke of a finger. The Crimson Hood.

There was a splitting screech and fluttering of wings as Watt, the giant eagle, landed on a nearby statue.

"Don't you know who this is?" Watt shrieked. "Can't you smell the golden blood flowing through his veins?"