Chapter 47: Grimgut, Ironbelly

Chapter 47: Grimgut, Ironbelly

Lei Feng sat quietly atop a small boulder, Stormpiercer resting across his lap like a sleeping beast. His gaze was calm—eerily so—mirroring not the carnage around him, but something deeper, something colder.

All around, the forest floor was littered with goblin corpses—scouts, archers, warriors, and shamans. The pungent stench of iron and rot clung thick to the air. Limbs lay scattered. Cracked skulls leaked grey matter into muddied earth. Arrows jutted from torsos at awkward angles, their fletching soaked red. It was a grotesque painting of victory, yet Lei Feng sat amidst it all like a meditating monk untouched by the storm.

> "If it was me before now," he muttered, brows furrowing, "I would've vomited from the sight alone... The stench, the blood, the hollow eyes. I would've felt fear. Disgust."

His voice trailed into the wind, eyes narrowing.

> "But now... I feel nothing. Just cold indifference."