Chapter 182.1
Selection Ceremony 7: After the Battle of Elgrim
Elgrim unleashed his full strength [Fireball], which engulfed the dying and laughing Carla, and the raging flames engulfed and swallowed the fallen warriors of the Magic Clan as well.
“Those who are alive, get back!!!!”
Elgrim shouted in this situation, and the half of the warriors who were able to avoid the flames just in time to be hit by Carla’s [Phantom Pain] were bewildered.
“But, Lord! How could that thing be alive in this situation?”
“There may be warriors still alive in the flames, Elgrim-sama, please allow us to rescue them!”
The four survivors looked at Elgrim with pleading eyes.
Elgrim understood their feelings. They have been under Elgrim’s command for more than a hundred years. They, too, had risked their lives as assassins of the Magic Clan in this selection ceremony, and they were ready to lay down their lives for the clan and to abandon their friends.
However, the warriors who disappeared in the flames were young men, not yet over 50 years old, and they were the younger apprentices of the surviving warriors, like younger brothers or sons who were far apart in age.
Even if they were not, there was a strong bond between them as members of the same clan. And for those who had known those people since they were infants, it was only natural that they would want to help them if they could.