Surprise

NO. 2 turned his face toward NO. 1, who was lying beside him, equally heavily injured. He then looked at the forty masked men and said in a tone filled with disbelief before turning back to NO. 1,

"You lost? How?"

NO. 1 simply looked at NO. 2 and replied,"Because they were stronger. What else?"

Then he looked at the black fog on Asher's vessel's mana blade and continued in a grave tone,"And because of that black fog."

While NO. 1 and NO. 2 were having this conversation, all of Asher's vessels gathered around them. One of the vessels then walked toward the corpse of the vessel who had struck the last blow on NO. 1 but had been cut in half and died due to heavy blood loss and not having enough mana to regenerate himself.

The vessel healed the corpse, restoring it to its perfect state.