บท 70: The Quest To Save Lily [12]

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Amon kept panting, deeply and fastly. His eyes widened so much that they looked like they would fall out of their sockets any second.

'I shouldn't look back. I shouldn't look back.' He kept repeating himself.

But he knew that he had to. This wasn't the first life that he would take in this world.

This was just the reality. He couldn't ignore it.

And so if he needed to progress and take more lives, he had to first eradicate his fear of looking back at his actions.

The consequences of what he had done.

So, he turned back.

And right there, in front of him were two headless bodies slumped to the ground, a large pool of blood forming around them.

And right behind the bodies, were the heads of the two guards.

Their expressions were distorted, almost at the edge of confusion and surprise.

They had been taken by surprise, completely unaware of what hit them.