Ice Prefecture.
An unknown inn.
The seven remaining young students from Kou Island huddled inside a room.
Every face was bloodless.
They were like birds startled by a bowstring.
Any footsteps downstairs made them brace for a formidable enemy.
Only now did these students realize what sort of people they had provoked.
More than a dozen groups had already come to the inn deep inside this dark, narrow, rarely traveled alley.
Had they not bribed the innkeeper, they would probably have been hacked to death by now.
"Kojima, can we still make it home alive? I miss my mom."
The youngest, a freshman whose face still held traces of childishness, asked in a trembling voice.
"Shut up. Weren't you having a great time just now?"
Kojima glared at him irritably. "You do nothing right and ruin everything."
"All of Ice Prefecture is on the move. They'll find us sooner or later."
The student curled up on the bed, his white shirt covered in blood-all of it Lian Jing's.
"Have you noticed? Those Dragon Kingdom people were shouting about hacking the foreigners to death earlier. Now they're shouting about avenging their compatriot."
Another student asked quietly.
A difference of a single word proved one thing.
The warehouse had been discovered.
At those words, the freshman was so frightened that sweat dripped from him uncontrollably.
He had been the most crazed of them all while torturing Lian Jing.
"Scared now? You were the one who twisted both of Lian Jing's arms until they broke. Heh." Kojima sneered and scoffed, "With that little courage, you think you deserve to be warriors of the empire?"
The other students lowered their heads in shame.
Only when these deranged students encountered Lei Zi, who was even more vicious than they were, did they learn what fear