Chapter 157 - "The Ones in Black"
"..."
Lynx silently examined Zeron.
Cuts and burn marks marred his body.
The most serious was the wound across his chest—
The cheap green shirt he'd worn was soaked and dried in blood, now a stiff, dark brown.
As someone who had seen all kinds of injuries throughout his mercenary years,
Lynx recognized it immediately.
A piercing wound. Straight through the body.
"What happened?"
"Kuhhk… Mage… They came looking for me… those bastards who were after you…"
"They went all the way to your village, Zeron?"
Lynx's brow furrowed.
Even if his village wasn't far from the capital,
it was still just a nameless rural hamlet.
If someone went that far—
it meant they weren't just wandering around randomly.
And how did they even know Zeron had been with him?
From everything he could see, Zeron wasn't lying.
The wounds were real. The blood was real.
More than that—
"I trust Zeron."
