"Where is he now?"
Yas's icy voice was like a judgment from the deepest depths of hell, hammering against Du Feld's soul as it teetered on the verge of collapse.
Granted a moment to catch his breath, Du Feld lay sprawled on the ground like a drowning man dragged out of the water, gulping down air and wheezing violently like a worn-out bellows.
He did not even dare wipe away the filth of cold sweat, snot, and tears mingling on his face. He merely gazed up at the white figure with utter terror, as though looking upon a god.
"I... I'll talk... I'll tell you everything!"
Faced with the threat of death, the dignity of an "emperor of the Underworld" was utterly worthless.
Du Feld held nothing back, spilling everything he knew like beans pouring from a bamboo tube.
As it turned out, the grand "Hunt of the Gods" had been a complete and utter fraud from the very beginning!
The true mastermind was none other than the "Treasure Captain," John, who had vanished without a trace decades ago!
Through some unknown channel, Captain John had found these emperors of the Underworld and offered them a deal they could not refuse.
Using his legendary treasure, a fortune vast enough to drive the entire world mad, as bait, he had incited them to join forces and assassinate "Azure Thunder" Yas, whose fame was now at its peak and who was hailed as "the Marines' strongest."
As for the S-Class Bounty of "one Divine Position" published by "Big News" Morgans, it was merely a ruse Captain John had thrown out to draw all the world's assassins and ambitious schemers into the affair.
How could an elusive divine position compare to mountains of gold and jewels?
Faced with the immense wealth Captain John