"Ha... ha... ha..."
The head Corvus was manipulating to speak for him let out a dry, weathered, utterly emotionless, chilling laugh.
That was the sound of a corpse speaking, heavy with death.
"Ha... ha..."
"Interesting."
The head's opening and closing mouth continued to make sounds.
Qin Mo glanced to the side, then turned back to Corvus. He felt Corvus did not need to flatter him so awkwardly.
He truly could not help mocking Corvus's feathers; he had not made a humorous remark just to lighten the mood.
What Qin Mo did not know was that Corvus genuinely found his remark amusing.
For the true master of the Raven Guard had not interacted with a normal human for a very, very long time. Of course, he himself was no longer normal either. Many of the habits and feelings he had possessed when he was still Corvus were gone. He had accepted his Warp nature and become a true Warp creature.
"You reminded me... of Roboute."
Qin Mo did not know whether Corvus was simply bad at controlling a head to speak for him, or whether Corvus no longer possessed human thought and no longer communicated through human patterns of language, making him unfamiliar with it... In any case, Corvus spoke in fits and starts, sometimes smoothly and sometimes haltingly.
"Roboute was a humorous person."
"But only somewhat."
"If he were here..."
Corvus controlled the head to look around, making the sight seem particularly strange.
"He would not be able to show off his little sense of humor amid so many corpses that died so horribly."
Qin Mo nodded at that.
Corvus continued speaking, describing the methods he had used to turn the people lying on the ground into corpses.
He mentioned that he had failed to catch up to Taifon.
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