After the gunshot, Swordfish heard the sound of February Siege's phone falling to the ground.
He felt as though time had frozen at that moment.
Once they learned that players' identities might be exposed, Guanghu's management had already considered the threats guild members might face—especially the more famous players among the upper ranks. And among them, February Siege's safety was naturally the top priority.
In fact, they had already contacted three Seven Warlords and an Emperor-rank expert to protect February Siege and his family. Combined with February Siege himself being a King-rank expert, it was almost impossible that any hunter would dare bite off such a tough bone.
But Swordfish had not expected the accident to come even faster than he imagined. Only half an hour had passed since that mysterious website appeared, and Tenma's post had been up for less than three minutes, yet someone had already made a move against Guanghu's guild leader!
That was February Siege, after all—the leader of one of The Three Great Guilds! The third-ranked expert on the first Proxy War player rankings!
Although plenty of people had mocked February Siege for being overtaken by β and Simon in succession at the final moment, most were merely mouthing off out of sour grapes. After all, beneath β and Simon was a whole group of Guanghu experts led by February Siege. The strength of February Siege and Guanghu was obvious for all to see.
So even if chaos truly arrived, February Siege and his Guanghu should not have been among the first to suffer. On the contrary, they had a strong chance of being the last ones standing.
But all of that depended on February Siege not dying right from the start, and on Guanghu, with its formidable ability to execute, not having its leader