"What… what did you just say?" The king's voice rumbled, low and dangerous.
The servant before him trembled so violently he could barely keep his knees from buckling.
His words spilled out in broken fragments, every syllable quaking.
"Y-Your Majesty… the Crown Prince… h-he marched an army to Coldwind City… and— a-and it was annihilated!"
The hall fell into suffocating silence.
The king's expression twisted, his fury barely contained, each breath seething like a storm about to break.
The Fang clan. Again.
Again and again, they had dared to defy his authority, as though the throne itself meant nothing. And yet, he could not make a move recklessly.
The Fang clan was no ordinary family.
Their clan head was like a shadow, an enigma even to his spies.
And worse… reports from the Shadow Squad included that the infamous Four Saberfangs now served under their banner.
