They would always choose to gather where warriors from third-grade worlds were not present. To prevent any trouble, Fane put on a disguise as he and Rudy sat at a corner of the inn, and the two drank tea as they listened to the discussions.
A man wearing black robes loudly ranted, "This is too much! What more do they want?! They're showing their hands now. Do they think we'll still fall for it? I can't believe they can be so cruel!
"Killing is killing. None of us have clean hands anyway. However, they don't care what they do for the sake of their goals. They tortured so many third-grade world warriors to death for the sake of their Heartblood!
"To stop the information from getting out, they even tried to kill all third-grade world warriors in that slaughter game! Their methods are cruel, and their hearts are despicable! I hate that I'm too weak to kill them all myself!"
A bearded man next to him sighed and said, "Those guys act so fearlessly probably because they feel that we won't dare to fight back. They don't even think we're people at all. They look at us like livestock that they can kill at any time!
"As long as it benefits them, they'd probably be willing to even eat us alive! This has nothing to do with cruelty. In their eyes, cruelty doesn't exist. They just think this is all natural!"
These third-grade-world warriors were furious as they lamented and ranted. All of them gritted their teeth as they spoke, wanting nothing more than to find a warrior from a second-grade world to fight them to the death. Even Rudy's face was turning red in anger. His eyes looked like they were going to pop out of their sockets.
He gritted his teeth and said, "I say we exact vengeance on those men given the chance. What do you say, Fane? These warriors from second-grade worlds have gone too far!"
Fane pursed his lips helplessly. "I don't know how many times I've heard you say they've crossed the line within a day. Can't you say anything else? Don't think about it anymore. In the eyes of second-grade-world warriors, it's not crossing the line at all. It's just that it makes us angry hearing about that. There's no need to try looking for revenge; we should just do what we need to."
Rudy nodded seriously.
The others grew rowdier. The purple-robed man said angrily, "They won't stop here. They'll try everything they can to collect even more Heartblood! Who knows how many will die because of them!"
The others nodded at that person's words. A lot of them started to lament the fact that they could not control their own fates.
The bearded man said, "Thankfully, Fane managed to safeguard them. If he wasn't there, those people wouldn't have walked out alive. If they all died, we wouldn't know what happened to them even if we noticed. Then, we'd have nothing to say!"
The moment that was said, everyone's expressions darkened.
The purple-robed man sighed before he said, "What do we do now? Are we just supposed to wait and pray that they don't continue targeting us? Are we not going to fight back?"
Someone else replied, "Of course we want to fight back! Everyone here does! Yet, the truth is right in front of us, and there are always some problems we have to consider. The warriors from second-grade worlds are just stronger than us as a whole. We'll have to pay a huge price to fight back.
"The only thing we can do is to avoid any of the plots and stop ourselves from becoming their prey. We should always be on the alert and watch out for each other. They wouldn't be able to kill us if they tried."
"So we're just supposed to bear with it? My senior was tortured to death by them! Can't I take revenge?"
"None said that you can't, but the price of revenge is steep. We need to act when the time is right, and not fight every battle we see. We have to think about things clearly! We also need a leader that can face them!"
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