However, he had never been a particularly expressive person, so he resisted his surprise. The people behind him obviously did not have Graham's level of control.
The moment they saw Fane, they all widened their eyes. Their faces were full of questions. Graham first nodded slightly at Hayden before he walked forward to them, saluting Fane.
"Fane, I can't believe I'm meeting you here. I'd have thought that you'd already have been at least twice as far inside, killing countless fiends."
The words sounded respectful, but Fane paid no mind to it at all. He felt amused that Graham was definitely not as upright and straight as he wanted to seem. It would seem like Graham was a schemer as well, and he would need to be careful interacting with Graham.
Fane merely nodded slightly, shooting Hayden a look. Hayden immediately understood what Fane wanted, and did not hesitate to reveal everything they had discovered.
Graham had a dark look on his face. Once Hayden finished, Graham said seriously, "Actually, I noticed a few corpses on the way here as well. All of those corpses belonged to the northern clans. I had wondered if it had been the work of fiends or maybe fighting over the treasure.
"Now, it doesn't seem to be the case. It looks like someone has already decided that all of us need to die here."
The last words had been practically forced out of Graham's mouth through clenched teeth. Benjamin did not look to be in a good state as well.
He stepped forward and said, "What should we do?! I never expected that the Corpse Pavilion would be so ruthless to want to kill us all off! None of us expected something like this from the start, and we gave them a chance to seize the initiative. Who knows how many have died."
Benjamin was right. Even though they've only noticed a dozen or so corpses thus far, no one could guarantee that was the extent of it. It was possible that, with the masked man at the helm, the Corpse Pavilion had already started slaughtering all of the northern clan disciples.
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