Chapter 68: Missing Limb
Within the Wargrave estate, in a particular hall, chairs stretched out as every member of the family gathered to watch the Tenth Sun’s True Awakening.
The True Awakening was a ceremony where the Wargraves revealed the true nature of the world to their descendants just six months after their initial awakening. They were thrown into a battlefield at an unknown time and told to survive while the rest of the family watched from afar.
During the True Awakening, many Wargraves had died. The Wargraves watched them perish without moving a finger to save anyone due to family tradition and law.
And it was the same here. If Asher Wargrave was about to fall, ’no one’ would make a move to save him from not overcoming his reality.
Within the hall, not a single aura dared to flare or fold the air in the presence of the Primarch. On a table in front of everyone, a blue orb could be seen resting as it shone brightly. Various heads-up displays popped up in front of everyone gathered.
They all watched Asher instantly jump to his feet and retrieve the parchment from his pocket just a second after waking up. They saw him scale a tree immediately after that and hide, and then they saw him tank an explosion from an arrow.
They had expected him to make a run for it the moment he jumped down from the tree, after all, the parchment said ’survive.’ But no, he had taken a different route by attacking instead. This singular decision earned a lot of approval from all the Wargraves.
This was their way of combat, they never ran or hid. Although in this moment, one could hide, set up ambushes, and lay traps due to the situation, they still loved how the Tenth Sun handled things.
Although they were Wargraves, it didn’t mean they were all muscles and no brains all the time. They were all muscles and no brains only when the situation required it, and this situation required some brains.
They watched him cleave an owl into perfect, symmetrical halves with just a swing of his rapier.
They watched as Virelass moved without her master, instantly decapitating the first dagger assassin, then wiping out various snake monsters, deflecting throwing needles coated in poison, single-handedly holding her own against some assassins while also healing her master.