Underhanded Attack

Remnant Wolf seemed to remember something and suddenly cried out, "Oh, we've been running so long that I'm starving. Come on, little brother. Meeting like this must be fate, so let's eat together. Come on, let's show our little brother what we can do," he said loudly.

A team had more supplies than anyone traveling alone. Before long, they brought out all kinds of meat.

Remnant Wolf gave a hearty laugh. "Hahaha! Wait here, little brother. You'll get to taste our cooking in a bit." He left Huo Hai where he was and walked off to the side. Several of them exchanged glances, then moved farther away.

As they pretended to prepare the meat, a tall, thin young man in the group asked quietly, "Boss, what do you think? Who's that kid, and what should we do?" The kindness in Remnant Wolf's eyes had vanished without a trace, replaced by naked savagery. He glanced back at Huo Hai without betraying anything, greed filling his gaze.

"I've got it figured out. The kid's from the Southern Cloud Kingdom, probably sent by the Imperial City Academy. What do you think?"

The tall, thin man frowned. "We should be able to do it. When people come from the Imperial City Academy, there's usually one from the Academy itself and one from each of the Southern Cloud Kingdom's Four Great Families. This kid doesn't look like the Academy's representative."

If he wasn't from the Academy, no wonder he was so inexperienced. He had to belong to one of the Four Great Families. And the more naive he seemed, the greater his talent and standing were likely to be—and the more likely he was to have something valuable on him.

Remnant Wolf and his companions had never been decent people. They had entered this place