Chapter 368: Alone
Rounds of the tournament wore on. Arwin watched them with an odd mixture of interest and apathy. There wasn’t anything wrong with the adventurers on the field. At this point, every single person that still remained was an incredibly talented individual in their own rights.
Many of them put on incredible fights. If they’d been for any sort of purpose, Arwin would have been impressed.
But to him… this just felt like theatre. Arwin knew the need to understand the abilities of those under one’s command. The Secret Eye had their purpose in the kingdom, even if parts of their organization were rotted to the core.
It just wasn’t a purpose he cared for. Arwin didn’t draw any joy from watching people pretend to try and kill each other. He was, however, relieved to see that nobody else had gotten killed so far.
Just because he didn’t care that the assassins had died didn’t mean he wanted to watch as people slaughtered each other for the sake of entertainment.
But for the most part, the teams seemed to be playing aboveground. That, and the healers were definitely far more attentive after the incident in the first round of the tournament. It seemed they didn’t have any plans of losing more people, which was probably wise.
The Secret Eye wouldn’t get a very good reputation if they killed half the people that showed up to their tournaments.
“Whoa,” Reya said from beside Arwin, leaning so far over the railing that Arwin was tempted to pull her back so she wouldn’t fall. She’d returned about an hour after setting out to meet Olive. “Did you see that? That was awesome!”
“What?” Arwin blinked and glanced back to the arena. A fight had just ended and he’d completely missed it. “No, sorry. I was distracted. What did I miss?”