The patriarch, they are probably heading to the dwarves' territory, the patriarch already expected this ".
Just as the man behind took out a communication talisman, he suddenly let out a shriek, as his arm holding it had been cut clean off, "I can't have you doing that, it'll make things harder for me". A figure wrapped in a black gauze, his height average, uttered, wielding a silver sword that now had blood stains. They did not understand how this figure had snuck up on them as they were all stellar swordsmen of the Hale Sword Manor, but now wasn't a time for inquiries.
Four figures rushed him, wielding both physical swords and ethereal sword intents, but the figure only swung his sword, letting out invisible slashes that instantly killed two men who were charging recklessly. The leader, seeing this, sprang away, letting the armless man and the last swordsman buy him some time, "The patriarch has to be informed; someone from the other families has uncovered our plot". Austin didn't stop him but let him go, as he pretended to fight the two remaining ones, and after the man was several kilometres away, he released his sword intent, severing the heads off the two swordsmen.
As the team leader of the Hale sword manor reconnaissance unit fled, he spread his soul sense several hundred metres behind, relieved that the assailant had lost him. Little did he know that someone had marked him and was following him leisurely with a small, ecstatic bird perched on his shoulders. Two days later, he arrived at the sword manor and entered the compound, and did not notice that deep in the forest, a figure with flowing silky hair and brown eyes was looking cautiously at the manor.
"You were ambushed, and all men die,d but by a stroke of fate, you only survived and made it back to the manor alone? ", Alaric Hale asked, seated on a throne, overlooking the kneeling man. He was greedy but also a smart, cautious individua,l and he could smell a conspiracy brewing as an enemy, especially a sword cultivator, would cut down enemies as if cutting weeds and would only spare them if it served him, so he knew that his plot to use his brother's family, who