Chapter 338 Outsmarted

Chapter 338 Outsmarted

Northern slowly approached the trio, with a whitish orb in his hands. His face was stained with blood and emotionless.

He stopped in front of Raven, who cast an indifferent gaze on him, stared at the core in his hand, then materialized her sword.

With a quick movement of her hand, Raven's sword flashed and returned to where it was.

The small girl standing behind her slowly crumbled to her knees, a thin line appearing on her neck. As she fell, her head completely rolled away from her neck.

Northern's face paled as he watched Raven decapitate a young girl without even a slight show of emotion.

Just how much of a cold-blooded killer was she?

But he said nothing and just ground his teeth behind pursed lips.

Raven bent down, plunged her hands into the girl's chest, and pulled out another whitish orb, her hand covered in blood.

Northern then turned to Sura. He wouldn't lie; in this moment, he felt a lot of mixed emotions.

And carefully tried to navigate peace through all of them. One single thing kept him in anticipation.

'If Sura should betray them, if Sura ended up lying after all...'

The thought was like a pest that incessantly ate at Northern's mind.

He was patiently awaiting for just that to happen. Because he never trusted Sura from the onset.

All he did was just a gamble.

Even if they were puppets as Sura called them, it still didn't feel human to gamble with the life of the boy king.

Someone he had closely tutored, someone that looked up to him for salvation.

It tore Northern's heart to shreds even in this moment, which was why Northern knew he wouldn't hesitate to turn Sura to shreds should he try nonsense.

"What next? I don't see the rift core revealing itself..."

His voice sounded with a strong and threatening tone.

Anyone would shiver with how intimidating and cold he sounded.

But Sura maintained 100% composure. He smiled delightfully as usual and looked at the cores in their hands.

"It's right there, my friend. In your hand."

Northern raised a brow and looked at him.

Immediately, Sura extended both hands.

"You look so confused. It's quite a sight; I wish I could capture it forever..."

Sura's frown intensified.

"What did you do?"

"Well... I will tell you," Northern breathed. "It's simple, I just couldn't bring myself to trust you no matter what, so I decided to clone the orb I gave you. I also cloned the one Raven extended to me and collected it from her hand, leaving the original to her. Before getting here, I'd given my clone the one with me to hold. And thus here we are..."

That was the plan he had told Raven before walking away from her.

Northern's smile was drenched in satisfaction.

"Turns out I was right not to trust you. I couldn't be happier."

"So you are the guardian of this rift after all."

Sura sighed and face-palmed himself.

"Of course, I'm not. Do you think I'll be able to do what I did with those cores if I was?"

Northern's face immediately became grim the moment a realization struck him. His mind went to the one person that was alive right now.

"Fano?"

Sura smiled sweetly.

"I altered his memories and bloodline with mine after defeating him. I gave him a family, I gave him a reason. So, he is very convinced that I am his brother and we live to protect the kingdom of fire and ice together."

Northern shook his head in disgust, then closed his eyes for a moment.

A second later, the entire rift shook.

And the orbs began to float on their own, glowing with white light as they came closer to each other.

Sura, seeing what was happening, was immediately terrified; all the composure he had before now started to fall apart.

"What? What? What did you do?"

Northern cocked his head.

"What else? I killed the guardian of the rift. I figured I probably wouldn't be able to force reveal the true form of the rift's core like you tried to, but since I knew the guardian, I could just kill him. So, I ordered my subordinates to do it."

Of course, he didn't forget that Pangu (Koll) had been with Fano all along.

Sura shuddered and crumbled to his knees as the cores merged and finally revealed a slightly larger core.

He stared at Northern with trembling eyes.

"What have you done?" Horrified, his voice shook.Visitt novelbin(.)co/m for the latest updates