"I think I see him!" one of the archers who was squinting and trying to locate Kael said once Kael was in the open.
"Shit, he's translucent again."
The archers' voices carried panic now, because panic always arrived when prey refused to behave.
Kael's stealth wasn't perfect invisibility. It was enough to confuse aim, enough to make distance hard to judge, and that was all he needed.
"Arrow him down!" Petrov said.
"It will nerf us!" one of the members said.
Petrov smiled, "His name wasn't in the contract!"
The sentence was pure poison.
Kael felt it land like a knife, because it meant Petrov had already prepared the loophole. Kael wasn't protected by the contract's ally list. The Snakes could shoot him, and the Tower would not punish them with nerfs.
Petrov wanted him trapped in legality while dying.
Iori, who was next to Petrov and retreating, took a glance at him, then at Kael.
But instead of coming to Kael's help, he simply snorted and led his team up the slope.
