Somewhere in the Nine Provinces.
Advancing Eagle sighed helplessly.
"As expected, those useless fools I gathered on short notice were no match for Shouldering a Saber, Leading an Ox."
"But luckily, I still had a trick up my sleeve.
"I already spread word about Shouldering a Saber, Leading an Ox beforehand. Hopefully someone took the Great Dao Rune Fragment he had, rather than leaving it somewhere. Otherwise, this really will be like fishing a needle out of the ocean."
"What a headache. I've searched for so many years.
"After finally finding the whereabouts of Shouldering a Saber, Leading an Ox, this was how it ended instead."
Advancing Eagle rubbed his forehead.
Happy Big Boy, Little Sweetheart, Soaring Fish.
Which of those three had taken Shouldering a Saber, Leading an Ox's fragment?
Damn it! If only I weren't tied down!
Advancing Eagle considered for a moment, then decided to send out a message to test the waters first.
[Advancing Eagle: Shouldering a Saber, Leading an Ox is dead. Who did it? I haven't paid the reward yet.]
Li Ping'an sneered inwardly. A reward?
This fellow really has a way with words.
What comes then probably won't be a reward, but a blade.
You can pretend, and so can I.
[Little Sweetheart: Dead? How did he die? Who did it?]
Three questions in a row.
[Happy Big Boy: Shouldering a Saber, Leading an Ox had been gone for ages. I still owed him a favor. What a pity.]
[Little Sweetheart: Sigh~]
At that moment, Soaring Fish, who had not spoken in a long time, appeared.
[Soaring Fish: In other words, someone among us now has two Rune Fragments.]
Straight to the heart of it.
[Advancing Eagle: Exactly!] ```
The group fell