The Wrong Kids to Mess With

Two blurs cleaved through plains and forests, each determined step bringing them closer to Baldur's last crime scene.

Before the sun burned in the middle of the sky, they halted, their eyes narrowing on a fuming town.

The thick scent of dust permeated the air, its dense particles drifting by the dilapidated houses. Gravels littered the ground, hiding crushed bodies under its merciless weight. A group of cultivators wearing their sect robes unburied the dead, revealing their dry skin and withered muscles.

Misha's pupils constricted as she observed them throw the brittle corpses into a giant brazier of roaring flames to send them off with a sliver of dignity.

"No doubt. Baldur killed and absorbed their life forces. What a bastard." She clenched her trembling fists and tugged at Adam's sleeve urgently. "Where did he go?"

Adam's sky-blue eyes glowed as he scanned the surrounding mana.