The captured fighter's camp erupted into chaos an hour later, three of his own former faction members breaking from the treeline to silence him before he could say anything further.
"Protect him," Wei Liang shouted, already moving, Void root flaring as he intercepted the lead attacker's blade meant for the young prisoner's throat.
Garrow met the second attacker head-on, blade crashing against blade with practiced efficiency. "They're willing to kill their own to keep this vault secret."
"Meaning it's real," Liu Che said, disabling the third attacker before he could reach the wounded fighters gathered nearby. "Whatever he almost told us, someone considers it worth murder to protect."
The brief skirmish ended fast, all three would-be assassins subdued rather than killed, though the messa
