Total Annihilation

When Stone Man thought of this, he felt utterly hopeless.

The anger and resentment in his eyes slowly faded.

They'd had such a huge advantage and still lost. It could only mean they weren't strong enough to beat their opponent.

Still, one question continued to nag at Stone Man.

He'd always been told that Lord Binghai had a Shadow Guardian by his side. But during that crucial battle, when the enemy had repeatedly stabbed Lord Binghai in the back, where had the Shadow Guardian been?

Wasn't the Shadow Guardian's whole purpose to guard against surprise attacks and be ready to take a fatal blow for his master?

Why hadn't the Shadow Guardian lifted a finger while Lord Binghai was stabbed in the back again and again?

Could the Shadow Guardian have been nothing but a smokescreen put out by Lord Binghai, with no such person existing at all?

Of course, none of that mattered anymore.

With Lord Binghai's head on the ground and his body engulfed in flames, whether or not the Shadow Guardian existed no longer mattered.

With Lord Binghai dead, the entire power structure that had supported them collapsed in an instant.

And Stone Man had become a prisoner.

The poisonous insects had fled in fear of the fight. Night Hawk and Silver Ape's situation was unclear, but they were probably in deep trouble too.

Everything had fallen apart. Utterly.

Stone Man weakly closed his eyes. "Just get it over with!"

"I'm really curious. How did your Lord Binghai manage it?"

"You're both his guardians, yet one of you is a coward who fears death, while the other doesn't fear it at all. Does your Lord Binghai have such poor judgment?"

Jiang Yue had thought Stone Man was the only halfway decent person among Lord Binghai's subordinates, someone