Chapter 201: The Battle in Room 3 × Hinrigh's Arrangements
The newcomers' target was clearly Gohndobba, which set the Third Prince's mind racing.
They're my people!
If that judgment was correct, then Onior's aggression had to mean that something had changed on the First Tier without his knowledge.
Then what should he do now?
If Onior dared to send people here, he had to be fully prepared. Perhaps doing nothing was the best way to handle this.
The assault team operated in groups of three.
The first man to appear was the one assigned to kill Gohndobba on contact.
With his ability, The Blood Taster, as long as his dagger cut his opponent's skin and picked up their blood, retrieving and tasting that blood would instantly give him the ability to control all the blood in their body.
It followed the principle that whoever struck first with Manipulation won, making it a pure killing ability.
Of course, activating the ability required its restrictions to be met.
Most importantly, he had to personally cut his opponent's body with this dagger, which carried vows and limitations, and then consume their blood to complete his control over the target.
This control was not an ability that directly killed the target. Like Shalnark's ability, it allowed precise control of the target once its conditions were fulfilled.
Killing Gohndobba would be tantamount to openly declaring war on the First Prince, and it also risked exposing them, so when Hinrigh drew up the plan, his objective was to bring Gohndobba under their control.
That way, they could obtain intelligence on the First Prince through Gohndobba without exposing themselves.
It could be called the perfect solution.
But just as Killua had once said, the more critical the moment in a mission, the more likely something unexpected was