"How could that be? It had to be because of Phainon!"
Yan Huan, dressed in camouflage, raised his submachine gun and called to Mydei:
"Move, move! If more of these animals show up later, it'll be trouble!"
Not far ahead, Okhema soldiers were fighting Xuan Feng warriors.
"Barbarian, tell me your name, so your pathetic fate can serve as a topic of conversation at my banquet!"
Facing the Okhema soldier's provocation, the Xuan Feng man remained expressionless. "My name is Padikas... I have come to avenge my people."
"Gahahahaha! Padikas? Even the wails of livestock awaiting slaughter sound better than that name!"
"Say whatever you like, lowly Okhma people..." Padikas revealed a look of hatred. "Better to die fighting than return in disgrace—the spirit of Xuan Feng will forever defend me!"
"Heh." The Okhema soldier sneered disdainfully.
"Foolish barbarian, since you're so eager to die, I'll grant your wish!"
"Die, pig!"
Yan Huan and Mydei stood in the distance, watching helplessly as the Xuan Feng man named Padikas was stabbed through the kidney.
Even before dying, he was still wailing.
"Mydeimos... my king..."
"Why did you... abandon us beneath the butcher's blades of a foreign land?"
"..."
Hearing that, Yan Huan silently looked at Mydei.
"If I'm remembering the setting right, this is Okhema, isn't it?"
"Why do you think these two groups are fighting?"
"..." Mydei said nothing.
At the same time, the Okhema soldier slowly turned around and looked at them.
"Well, if it isn't the leader of the wild dogs? You actually delivered yourself right to me!"
"Since the Xuan Feng people are so eager to die, I'll give you a quick death!"
"Cowardly dog king... die!"
The Okhema soldier charged at Mydei with a dagger, his face twisted viciously.
'Rat-a-tat-tat-tat—'
After a burst of bullets, the