Hughway’s True Sword Art

The air in the burning central area of the ironwood grove grew heavily silent as Ser Damian turned and leaped into the treelines, making his swift return toward Heaven's Net Castle.

Left alone amidst the glowing embers and melting stone, Ser Hughway slowly turned his gaze back to the solitary Sword Sage assassin.

His Lord Viscount had given the absolute order to execute the intruder.

Under normal military circumstances, capturing an elite Ranker alive for interrogation in the Viscounty dungeons would have been the preferred course of action.

Yet, Ser Hughway understood his master's decision with absolute clarity.

When the other four ghost-masked operatives fell, a common mercenary would have attempted to slip into the shadows or flee the moment a 4th-Tier Dragon descended from the sky.

But this assassin had remained standing, unmoving even in the terrifying presence of Dark Sister.