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There were five people before me. This one was a Hunter, and these four were Hunters too.
-Amon: Revisiting old haunts
The four Hunters holding horse stances off to the side were all covered in dust and grime, their hair curled and irregular burns marking their clothes and skin. The one who appeared the most badly injured also had a split corner of his mouth, stained with blood.
Each carried at least twenty sandbags. Amon noticed that the Aurora Order's Mystical Item, the Lock of Prohibition, had imposed the decree "mysticism weakened, reality strengthened" on this clearing. With both sides agreeing not to resist, it had suppressed all five Hunters equally to around Sequence 6, giving them ample freedom to beat each other up.
Even those who were High Sequence had now lost their High-Sequence powers, leaving only their enhanced bodies.
Medici sat with his legs crossed. Seeing Amon, he raised an eyebrow and whistled in greeting.
Amon approached for a closer look and immediately spotted the differences among the four Hunters from the Iron and Blood Cross Order: the most severely injured Hunter, who had a high nose bridge and blue eyes, had sweat on his face, but not much. His expression was restrained and furious, yet carrying the sandbags took him little effort. He was probably this team's leader, a demigod-level powerhouse.
The Red Angel had escaped, but even saying "his strength was only around angel level" was a tremendous embellishment. Medici's actual combat strength should have been above Sequence 3 but below Sequence 2, and that was under the best circumstances, with both Sauron and Einhorn willing to cooperate.
The Iron and Blood Cross Order also worshipped the True Creator, so they should have had specific inside information-for instance, that the Red Angel's current full combat