Encountering a freak like this really left them speechless.
Kesailin could only reassure everyone. "Don't take it to heart. He's just talking casually. I promise that if we find the traitor later, we'll deal only with the traitor. We absolutely won't lay hands on anyone else without good reason."
The two played off each other, arranging everything neatly.
Everyone meekly murmured their agreement. Who dared speak up?
Kesailin paid them no mind. She pointed in the direction where the Insect God had disappeared.
"Bring the Insect God back. If he's hurt, not one of you will get off lightly."
Everyone immediately rushed like mad to support the Insect God.
The Celestial Person was not someone to cross.
But Kesailin was even less so. She held grudges fiercely.
Besides, just as she had said, if anything happened to the Insect God, none of them would get off lightly.
And what was the Insect God doing at that moment? He was cautiously watching his surroundings.
He was searching for a Number One.
When he had first arrived here...
Someone had suddenly appeared behind him, thrusting a blade straight through his lower body.
Fortunately, the Insect God had no solid body at all. He was essentially made up of insects.
As such, he had not been injured at all.
Yet he was still furious. Although he had not been hurt, he now felt he was being toyed with.
That fellow would sneak up and attack him every so often.
The trouble was that the damage was minor, but the attacks never stopped.
There was a power within that fellow that was assimilating his insects one by one.
Once assimilated, those insects even turned against him.
That was what made the Insect God nervous.
Had he known this would happen, he would not have