"…All I need from you… is to help me kill Alustus."
Adam's voice was steady, cold and unshaken when he said this.
He was dead serious on these orders.
"Lure him in. Lead him on while you pretend to heal him. And when the moment's right… drive this blade into his back, directly into his heart."
"Hehehe, even better I think I finally figured out how his damn internal barrier works."
Adam muttered, eyes narrowing behind his bone mask.
"It is like he is redirecting the vectors of my attacks, then splitting the force, scattering it so it never hits evenly."
He clicked his tongue, his vision sharpening, as the memory of his previous fight flash in his mind.
The words hit like a thunderclap.
"Man... at first, when my eyes saw through him, I didn't know what the hell I was looking at."
Adam muttered to himself, voice low but audible.
"It looked wrong. I mean, on the outside? Yeah, sure, he looks normal. Muscles, bones, skin. But inside...
