The remaining three team members had completely broken down.
The one whose shoulder had been pierced by the Holy Light Crossbow clutched his wound and turned to flee, but before he had taken more than a few steps, a Black Rod pierced the back of his head.
The impact sent him staggering forward two steps before he fell stiffly into the snow.
The other two did not even have the courage to run. They sat slumped on the ice, bracing their hands behind them as they desperately shuffled backward, their lips trembling so violently that they could not even beg for mercy.
Lin Jin walked up to them and stopped, looking down at the two faces twisted with terror.
He said nothing more. Black Rods extended from his palms again, one on each side, piercing both their hearts at the same time.
The two bodies collapsed limply onto the ice. Blood gushed from the holes in their chests and joined the pool beneath their captain, staining the entire stretch of ice scarlet.
Lin Jin withdrew the Black Rods without sparing the bodies on the ground another glance. He activated his right eye's Dōjutsu, and a Kamui Vortex opened before him as he vanished from the spot.
The blizzard swept over the ice field once more, burying the five bodies and the remains of the bone dragon beneath the swirling ice and snow.
The blizzard in the Alps did not stop until a day later.
The bodies of the five Church team members were not discovered in a glacial crevasse by another search team until three days later. They had already frozen into ice sculptures, the holes through their chests congealed into dark red ice crystals in the freezing temperatures.
The search team's captain crouched beside one of the bodies and