Hey, Didn't See That Coming, You Mangy Murphy! Your Dark Lord Gets Revenge Before the Day Is Out!

Chapter 897. Hey, Didn't See That Coming, You Mangy Murphy! Your Dark Lord Gets Revenge Before the Day Is Out!

(An extra chapter for our brother "Whales and Azure Skies," 5/5)

Hugheson finally agreed to receive the ratmen who had come from afar.

It wasn't just because they were "reinforcements" brought to him by his scheming collaborator, Helson. Having experienced the entire Battle of Blackflame Pass, Hugheson was also curious about how the ratmen had become entangled with the Lord of Darkness.

The two factions had absolutely nothing to do with each other!

He knew the ratmen were biological weapons created by the Twilight faction and should be classified as part of the "world-ending faction."

He also knew that the mysterious Lord of Darkness, a figure almost no one had heard of, had been sealed inside Hesther Hoffman, the Second Lord of the Bloodbound Knights. The Lord was a supernatural power that had only been unsealed during the final stage of the Battle of Blackflame Pass.

But before that poor bastard had even managed to escape his "mortal prison," Murphy had banished him, body and soul, into the Astral turbulence with a single Astral Rift.

Though Hugheson had learned from the Bloodscar Clan that the Twilight faction had lost control of the ratmen entirely after an unknown force sabotaged them during the fall of the Brass Fortress, he still hadn't expected those two things to "join forces" in such a short time.

It was like following bees to find honey and flies to find a latrine. Birds of a feather, brother!

Hugheson's unusually cordial reception of the ratmen, who claimed to have submitted to the Lord of Darkness, was largely driven by curiosity.

He really wanted to know what had happened.

The meeting did not disappoint. The three ratmen standing