Chapter 156: Absorption (4)
The moment I realized what Lee Tae meant, I scowled. The river bandits, who had been on edge since I appeared, now looked even more terrified.
The dead man had been walking around just fine yesterday, yet now he had been found as a dried-up corpse.
It clearly wasn’t a normal death.
The sheer unnaturalness of it made my creatures the prime suspects in their eyes.
A person’s body shriveling up like that wasn’t something that happened under normal circumstances. It was the kind of thing supernatural beings might be responsible for, so it was only natural that their fear turned to my creatures.
And since I was the one commanding those creatures, they were obviously afraid of me as well.
To them, I probably looked like a demon summoner commanding actual demons.
‘This is annoying... but it’s way too coincidental. I’ll have to clear up the misunderstanding.’
I had been deliberately spreading the idea that my creatures ate people to keep the river bandits in line.
But of all times, something like this just had to happen now.
And with the situation regarding the shipwright still unresolved, this misunderstanding was a serious problem.
Just as I was about to speak and clear things up, the tension among the bandits escalated into sheer terror at the sound of a voice behind me.