The guard stood completely still, not daring to move a muscle, while Maxin roared with rage around him. Something whizzed past his head, only missing him by a few inches and shattered as it crashed into the wall behind him. The guard didn’t flinch. By this point all of the guards and staff were used to Maxin’s temper, and knew how to handle it.
“I don’t understand how everyone can be so useless!” Maxin roared, “It was a simple task. Get the damn girl and kill her protector. How did they fail so completely?”
The guard knew it was a rhetorical question, so he didn’t speak. He would never dare say it allowed, but the guard knew why the plan failed. It was too complicated. With the Immortals rendered unconscious, James and Kirshinov could have killed them all within minutes and then Ma
