The Skeleton Soldier Failed to Defend the Dungeon - Chapter 102: The Tomb of Insects (1)

Starlight… Blue Fox? Initiation activity?

A memory flashed through my mind. It didn't take long to recall where I had heard it before.

Gith-Za-Rai.

The words that the half-human and half-skeletal necromancer had said resurfaced in my mind. When she worried that the Free Confederation Council might not pay the price for assassinating the emperor, she told me that Red Flake, an assassination group, had overseen the emperor's murder. If so, then the intruder was a member.

However, Gith-Za-Rai was already dead.

It isn't over?

The one who accepted and carried out the assassination—the one who was supposed to receive the reward—was gone.

So why did they appear now? For what purpose?

I couldn't come up with any answers.

Clatter! Clatter!

My vision jolted violently.

The fox-masked intruder sprinted through the forest with a bag in one hand and me in the other.

Thump! Thump!

Dirt exploded underfoot as they ran, spraying soil everywhere. Despite carrying such a load, they ran astonishingly...