Chapter 180: Let's See You Dodge This
Sympathy was one thing. Resonance was another. Right now, they were enemies.
Enemies demanded everything you had.
Especially the Abyssal Whispers. Every member was elite.
Their people could sever their own shoulder the instant the Decomposition Curse grazed them. They could condense a magical barrier in the split second a stone spike flew at the back of their skull. They could watch a comrade die and still retreat with icy composure.
Every single one deserved to be taken seriously.
The masked figure had said he'd be waiting on the island. But that was their ground.
The island wasn't large. From the outside it looked like a heap of black rock, barren, lifeless. Not a blade of grass. Only the cluster of low buildings at its center, grey and weathered, nearly indistinguishable from the stone beneath them.
Nothing remarkable to the eye.
But a wizard's territory that looked unremarkable was rarely what it seemed.