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Chapter 84 - Hunt Begins [3]

Everyone was captured by Bjorn and his minions.

He didn't kill anyone. Obviously, there were critical injuries—like Rusk and Fen—but they weren't dead.

Halven, the mercenary group leader, was still unconscious.

The Lotus House merchant leader, Lila, offered Bjorn money in exchange for their lives… but Bjorn simply laughed in her face.

"Do you think I care about your gold, merchant?" he sneered, his voice like gravel grinding against stone. "I've already taken everything I want."

Lila stood firm despite the tremble in her knees, her richly embroidered cloak stained with dirt and torn at the hem.

Her hands were clenched at her sides, and she looked from Rusk—barely conscious and coughing up blood—to Fen, whose arm was twisted unnaturally, eyes shut tight in pain.

"I'm not offering you a bribe," she said through gritted teeth. "I'm offering you a deal. Let us go, and I'll give you triple the amount you could ever earn from ransoming us—or selling us to slavers."

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