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The sword that pierced through Rukan’s back came out through his chest. It was a strike that pierced his heart. He should have died instantly, but he was completely fine. He did not even make a pained expression. Instead, he looked bewildered.
“Veiga. You dare strike me?”
The one who had ambushed him from behind was Veiga of the Mejai family.
With a horrified look on his face, Veiga muttered, “Damn it. You know my name? I thought you wouldn’t!”
Seeing that Rukan was unharmed, Veiga even let go of his sword and retreated. Rukan did not attack him. There was a more important question.
How did that bastard fool my senses?
This was not terrain with many hiding places. It was a crater created by his own earlier attack. Even if there were many uneven surfaces, anyone coming here would have had to descend from above. And no matter how focused he had been on fighting Keter, there was no way he would have failed to notice something like that.
Could it be that he had been waiting here from before?
It was an absurd assumption. Keter had no chance during their battle to speak with or give orders to anyone on the ground.
And it makes no sense to call this a prearranged plan.
There was no way Keter could have known he would come and prepared a scheme like this in advance. There was something else strange too.
Why did that bastard stop running?
Veiga had only pretended to flee, then stopped midway....
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