Taking Responsibility

So-called Demon Snake Island might not have been the strongest force in the entire Ewindara Archipelago, but it was absolutely the most notorious organization. On ships, they were pirates; off ships, they were bandits. So long as the price was right, they often moonlighted as an assassin organization. As for jobs where thieves robbed thieves, they were even more at home with them.

An organization like that, in places such as the Jin-Yun Kingdom or the Norman Empire, would never have lasted a single day before experts sent by other forces and organizations wiped it out. But in Ewindara, it had been living quite comfortably.

Before encountering these people from Demon Snake Island, Zhang Tie had never imagined that an assassin-and-pirate organization could be this brazen. They had killed one of their own men, then openly delivered his head here.

Without being arrogant and mad to a certain extreme, without disregarding Sea Blue Castle to a certain extreme, they could never have done something like this.

Among the people of Sea Blue Castle, everyone felt the urge to make a move at that moment, but the first to act was Adilina.

With only a flash of red, Adilina charged forward, the short spears in her hands whipping up a shrieking storm of spear shadows.

This was Zhang Tie's first time seeing the barbarian women warriors in the castle fight. The instant she moved, he judged that Adilina, like Kita, was around level eight.

The barbarians' combat skills were fierce, direct, and swift, with little ornamentation. Adilina was also highly skilled with her short spears, and their power could not be underestimated. Once she began fighting, her swiftly darting figure filled a five-meter radius around her.

The man who had delivered the head was no weakling either. Calm and unhurried, he