"..."
The third brother didn't even have time to scream.
The lecherous grin on his face froze in place as the blade light neatly split it—and the expression beneath it—in two.
His hand remained rigid in midair, still poised to open the door, but his body had already been cut into two halves, slowly collapsing to either side.
Inside the room, the expressions on the eldest and second brothers' faces abruptly froze.
Fast!
Far too fast!
The sudden turn of events left them both momentarily unable to react.
Only when—
Thud...
The two halves of the corpse hit the ground one after the other. Blood gushed out like floodwaters from a breached dam, instantly staining the threshold red and splattering across the doorframe.
The two men finally came to their senses.
Someone had killed their third brother with a single slash?!
"Third brother!!!"
Two furious roars rang out at once! The eldest and second brothers glared with bloodshot eyes, their rage surging as they charged toward the doorway together.
But the doorway was empty.
It was as if the one who had just killed their third brother with a single slash were a ghost.
"Where is he?!"
"Who was it?! Get out here, you bastard!!!"
The two men stared at the empty doorway, then exchanged a glance.
Along with their overwhelming fury, a bone-deep chill crept across their faces.
Their third brother had been a late-stage Transformation Strength expert. Even caught off guard, he shouldn't have been so easily cut down with a single slash.
Could it be... a Core Formation Realm expert?!
As their minds reeled and their thoughts descended into chaos—
A blade light suddenly flared from the blind spot at the lower right of their vision.
What a blade light it was!
As alluring as a blood