Every bone in the Lich's body rattled as he nodded vigorously. Holding the cup of tea in both hands, he shook like a leaf as he drank it, only for it to leak out through the gaps between his ribs.
After all, given the choice between tea that had gone cold and tea that would leave him cold, he knew which to pick.
"Th-thank you for sparing my life..."
He gulped.
The flames in Salgon's eye sockets flickered, and his admiration for his master rose another notch.
As expected of my master! He got his hands on all their assets so easily. I really was too shallow, only ever thinking about killing. How could I ever achieve anything great that way?
With his eyes closed, Lin En looked nothing like the terrifying figure he had been earlier. He spread his hands and said:
"We're all friends here, friends. All you did was kidnap my wife. I'm not an unreasonable man! But no matter how you look at it, a wife who's shared your hardships is still your wife. There are some feelings there, at least. Look... I was in such a rush to find her that I didn't even have time to get dressed."
Lin En sighed and drew a deep lungful of bone-eroding poison mist.
"Alas, I don't even have clothes, let alone equipment or items... To tell you the truth, I've had a hard life too!"
A brief silence followed.
The Evil Spirit Wizard and the Lich gulped hard.
"Uh..."
Two jets of flame instantly whooshed out of Salgon's nostrils. His eye sockets went pitch-black, and his grip tightened around his scythe with a crack.
[Ding! The Evil Spirit Wizard's fear of you +30!] [Ding! The Lich's fear of you +40!]
At once, the two began