"Has he just been sitting here?"
"Guild master!"
In one of the many abandoned buildings of the ruined city, a group of people were currently hiding in the shadows. They were previously just staring outside the window, seemingly strictly watching someone and only now turned around once when their guild master arrived.
The guild master of the Cerberus guild, Edward; even him, however, quickly looked outside the window.
"What's the Lowborn even been doing there?" Edward let out a small groan as he squinted his eyes.
"He... has just been sitting there," the scout meekly said as he also glanced back at the person they had actually been tailing from the start, "After killing a minitaur, he's just been sitting on top of that car without even moving a single inch."
"What's... he doing?" Edward whispered.
"Tell him what we saw."
"What? You tell him."
"Can the two of you just fucking tell me what's going on!?" Edward could not help but raise his voice as his men suddenly started nudging and elbowing each other, "You're supposed to be scouts, it's your role to report me everything!"
"Rhys..." The two scouts once again stared out the window, "...He bit his hand before just sitting on top of the car. Also, there are dead people in the car."
"...Did he kill them? Crazy son of a bitch," Edward could not help but breathe out as he shook his head, "These Lowborns are really the lowest of the lowest scum. Biting his hand is probably some sort of ritual."
"...No, the minitaur killed them."
"No—" Edward smiled, "Rhys killed them..."
Edward then raised his hand, and as soon as he did so, several more people entered the dark room... more than a dozen of them.
"...And we tried to stop it."
***
Rhys has been sitting on top of the car for almost an hour now, waiting for the monsters to come.
It was weird; based on Maria's report, the monsters in the Underworld beneath Mankappan had not really stopped being in a frenzy ever since the incident in the mall — and he was sure he was the reason for that...
...and yet even after an hour of dropping a drip of his blood on the ground, there hasn't even been a single sign of any monsters. He even made sure to hang the minitaur on the only street lamp still left standing on the street.
Was their theory... wrong? Does Rhys actually not attract monsters at all? No — there have already been enough instances to prove their theory correct.
"Awoo! Awoo!"
"What the..." Rhys could not help but almost take a step back as the people who were with Edward started barking and howling like dogs.
"And today is the day you die, Rhys," a wide smirk crawled on Edward's face, "And we will make sure everyone knows that you are the villain of this story."
"You're... really persistent," Rhys could really only let out a sigh as he scanned Edward's men, "You're the one who provoked me first by sending those assassins back in the Explorer test."
"...What are you even talking about!?" Edward raised his voice, causing all the dust around him to be blown away in a ripple, "You started it by slandering my guild's name!"
"...Right," Rhys only breathed out as he was done scanning all of Edward's men. He was trying to find out whether or not Adam was one of them, but since nobody's hair was giving even a slight glow, it was safe to assume that he was not.
He had actually reviewed each of the members of the Cerberus guild specifically for this kind of scenario. And aside from Edward and Sylas, the only one that could truly prove to be a threat to him was Adam — the guild's only other Noble.
"Well, you should have planned this more," Rhys stared Edward in the eyes, "I—"
"Oh, I did," Edward scoffed before snapping his fingers. And as soon as he did so, several more people started appearing everywhere — some even on top of the building.
Rhys started scanning for Adam again, but he was still nowhere to be found.
"I brought half the guild here," Edward smirked as he pointed at Rhys, "You're done, boy."
"Hm," Rhys remained completely calm as he just let out a breath upon seeing their numbers. Although he could probably still win, the best thing to do here was to just escape — and he would easily just be able to do that with his shadow traversal.
"Men! Make sure our Lowborn friend here doesn't leave—"
"You've become very cheeky the time we have been separated, my lovely husband. It's almost a shame that I have to eat you."
"!!!"
And before Edward could finish his words, everyone watched as something large just suddenly fell from above, one of her legs, completely piercing through the top of his head straight down his crotch.
"Oh, disgusting...
...Did I just step on something?"
"It's...
...It's Arachnea!"
And just like that, the guild master of the Cerberus guild was dead.