Bab 93: Chapter 93

Omar dropped the jars, drew his sword, and met the two soldiers head on, knocking one easily out of the way before gutting the second one. Then he turned back to deal with the first one.

Once they were dead, he got back to work. When he'd circled back around to his rope, he struck a match and threw it, then swiftly climbed back to the roof. He unhooked the rope and let it fall, then took off at a run and leapt across to the neighboring warehouse.

Dropping down into it with a second rope, he started to repeat his process from the first warehouse—only this time it wasn't two guards that came out, but eight, from three directions.

He lobbed smokebombs at each group, drew his sword, and attacked.

But when the smoke cleared, there were only seven bodies.