Robert looked at Zilton Walker for a long moment, then turned his attention toward him. Jack, he said quietly, "kill them. All of them. No one leaves the Osborn compound tonight."
Jack did not respond with words. The presence behind Robert simply shifted, and the shift alone was enough to make the six Level 4 cultivators understand that whatever instructions they had been given before entering this clan no longer mattered.
They attacked anyway, because retreat was no longer an option that their training had prepared them for. The nearest cultivator activated his Iron Veil Technique, throwing up a defensive barrier at full outcome as though it might buy him even a single second.
Jack moved through it without effort, and the barrier dissolved the way mist dissolves against a blade. The cultivator dropped before he had time to register that his defense had failed.
