Chapter 607: First Crow
The eerie atmosphere was soon shattered when one side made a move.
It was neither the pursuers with their strength in numbers nor the swordsman who looked formidable.
It was Selty!
Whoosh!
A burst of flame slammed toward the swordsman, and Selty gritted his teeth and charged right behind it.
If he had a choice, Selty would never have acted so recklessly.
But now, he had no choice at all.
If he dragged this out until the poison spread completely, he would truly die without even a grave.
Rather than sit and wait for death, he might as well fight for his life.
What if he succeeded?
He had chosen the swordsman as his target to improve the odds of that slim possibility.
Selty knew the pursuers behind him very well. Before he had been poisoned and injured, they would not have amounted to much, but now they were more than enough to kill him.
Compared with those pursuers, the swordsman was only one man, however strong he might be!
Numbers were often a measure of strength.
Facing one formidable opponent was better than facing a group of average fighters who worked together flawlessly.
That was Selty's thinking.
But the next instant, Selty froze mid-charge.
The swordsman, who should have been engulfed in flames, twisted and slipped away with an uncanny movement. Not only did he evade the blaze, he appeared before Selty in a flash, his longsword hissing as it thrust toward Selty's throat.
The Snake School!
Selty was horrified.
He had never imagined he would encounter someone from the Snake School here.
Much less that that person had ties to the Snake School.
No, that's not right!
That person couldn't possibly have contacted the Snake School. Could it be...
A coincidence?
The almost laughably