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Yun Xiao didn't mind more guards. But if he was going to have more people sticking to him all day, he'd rather they not be musky old men. Or else he might just go crazy.
"Uh..." the Sword Warden said, scratching his head in embarrassment, "To become an Overseer, one can't be a spring chicken. Dalong is already the youngest of the lot."
"Forget it then," Yun Xiao shrugged.
The Sword Warden, recalling Yun Xiao's saying how he couldn't be killed, felt a bit more at ease.
"But what did he mean by demon spawn?" Yun Xiao asked, his eyes narrowing slightly.
"Well..." the Sword Warden mumbled, head bowed, "I was just about to discuss this with you, but I didn't know how to broach the topic. I'm afraid you might be disappointed with my Sword Ruins."
"Spit it out," Yun Xiao said.
So the Sword Warden spilled the beans about the recent demon spawn rumors swirling around the Sword Ruins.
Yun Xiao, after hearing this, was more speechless than if he'd swallowed a fly.
"People have actually died from being silenced for discussing this?" Yun Xiao asked.
"Apparently so, but it wasn't my doing," the Sword Warden said earnestly.
"Amusing, really! Smearing my name with one hand, and killing people to frame me with the other. Playing both ends against the middle, they've really dragged my name through the mud." Yun Xiao usually kept his cool, but today, he felt downright nauseated.
Clearly, someone had taken advantage of Zhang Yang's naivety. He was played like a fiddle and led here like a lamb to the slaughter.
"Forget it. With brains like that, even if you'd somehow survived this, you wouldn't have...
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