Chapter 176 - Thirty-Eight Seconds
Hearing Verdia's voice, none of the combatants questioned why. There was no time for doubts. Just fight. Just survive.
Survive for 38 seconds.
The words echoed like a spell. Lerov grit his teeth.
The battlefield was a hell of steel and blood, and each beat of his heart helped him count the seconds—every two beats, one second.
Lerov had been the leader of the Jinkan tribe for a hundred years before relinquishing his position.
He was a warrior of countless battles; he had faced monsters, survived wars between tribes, and had withstood all those fights intact and thriving.
In the Jinkan tribe, repaying debts was something sacred. In fact, for a good part of the demonic races it was the same.
And he had a debt to Taes Dedoldia.
He did not care much for the young leader of the Iron Legion, Rygar Adoldia.
He knew the boy was powerful, the most promising in generations. But that was all; he did not know him, so his loyalty was to Taes.
Actually, that was true for a large part of the new members of the Iron Legion.