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In the middle of the silence, only Luin's voice echoed in the air.
"Ayere, what the hell are you doing?! Kill that bastard, now!"
However, the water droplets didn’t move. Instead, they slowly gathered into a single spot, merging into the shape of a coiled snake. The next moment, the blue snake fixed its gaze on Luin, unblinking.
"What… What's going on? Why are you doing this?" Luin stammered, his voice laced with fear.
Luin had never received such a cold, piercing stare from a spirit his entire life. Then, slowly, Ayere's form began to dissolve.
"No… No! Aaaah!" Luin screamed in agony as his chest burned with pain.
The power of Ayere, which had been residing within him, drained away. He could feel every second of it.
“This can’t be happening! How is this possible? How?!”
Luin gasped for breath, his body convulsing. Then, with a sudden thud, Naiyel struck him in the chest. Luin had a seizure and collapsed, unconscious.
“You’re quite the considerate captain,” Kim Do-Joon remarked in a calm voice, a stark contrast to Luin’s earlier hysteria.
“What did you do to my subordinate?” Naiyel asked, her eyes filled with a quiet intensity.
Anyone could see that Luin’s condition was far from normal. As an elf who had formed a contract with the Spirit King, she could immediately tell what had happened to Luin. The contract had been broken, one-sidedly.
"You think I'm just going to tell you?" Kim Do-Joon replied, a hint of amusement in his voice.
"You're no ordinary human, are you?" Naiyel's eyes narrowed as she stared at him.
She still couldn’t figure out how this could’ve happened. If it chose to, a spirit could indeed break a contract easily, but it had never occurred before. After all,...
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