Chapter 115: Life Force
Fena stumbled back, her eyes wide with shock. Her connection to the forest, to the Great Root, was severed.
"What is this? What did you do?"
"Mana-dampening grenade. A little toy from my boss." He tossed the crushed, now useless orb aside. "Lasts for about a minute."
"Now, will you listen?" He asked, dusting off his hands like this was all just a minor inconvenience. "Or do we need to have another time-out?"
’I will kill him,’ she thought, the rage in her chest so hot it felt like it was going to burn her from the inside out. ’I will find his family, I will find his home, and I will burn it all to ash.’
She didn’t say any of that. Her body was trembling, but she forced it still, her eyes locked on his. "You will die for this."
"Yeah, yeah, everyone dies," he said, waving a hand dismissively. He started pacing around the small room, his massive frame making the place feel tiny. "Look, let’s just use our words. The kid, Nox, and the princess, Serian. They were here. I know they were here. The trail was messy but it ended in this village. So where did they go?"
She just glared, her silence a wall of pure hate.
Kenchi sighed, running a hand through his messy hair. "Okay, let’s try this another way. My boss, Gorok, he’s a reasonable guy." That was a lie. Gorok wasn’t reasonable at all. "But he gets really, really pissy when his contracts aren’t fulfilled. And when he gets pissy, he sends people like me to... clean things up."