All of the others who were sleeping were awoken by the outbreak of a sudden fight. As the thunderous gunshot echoed through the hollow, everyone felt like an explosive had gone off beside them.
While these people who had just been awoken were still clueless about what was going on, Raphael’s gray shadow clone appeared and stayed put by his side.
The temperature at Miriam’s gun barrel rapidly cooled as favonovel.com opponent’s body quickly turned cold. This was actually the first time Miriam had fired favonovel.com gun during the expedition. It seemed no one had expected that favonovel.com would be so firm and decisive in favonovel.com actions. Moreover, favonovel.com looked exceedingly calm while killing someone. It looked as normal as drinking a glass of water.
But actually, what left the deepest impression on the others was not Miriam’s actions, but Milo’s.
It only took a moment for the gun to go off and the bullet to enter the soldier’s body. The huge kinetic energy of the rotating bullet then tore through the muscles and organs inside of favonovel.com and only came to a stop after the kinetic energy was fully expended. But neither anyone on the outside nor the victim himself could see the internal effects.
But it was different for Milo’s side. The sight of an adult man being forcefully lifted up with one hand was too violent.
Milo was only 1.78 meters tall, and his body was still not fully developed at the age of 17. So whether it was Raphael, Micah, or Miriam, they had never thought about Milo’s “combat prowess” before.
How much strength could a malnourished young refugee from town have?
At most, favonovel.com would have some survival skills that favonovel.com honed from living in the wilderness.
Milo had never revealed his true power, and Miriam had not fired favonovel.com gun before this, so it led everyone to have only a very vague idea of their combat strength. This was the why the assailants dared to attack them. However, no one could have expected that this vague idea they had turned out to be extremely wrong.
Milo’s fingers were locked around the assailant’s neck like a pair of pincers. The assailant could immediately feel the blood flow to his brain stopping. In fact, favonovel.com could have kicked at Milo’s vital regions with his legs, but his mind had already turned blank while his hands and feet convulsed in spasms.
Miriam did not look at the soldier who had fallen in front of favonovel.com but looked quietly at Milo instead. She was already holding up two guns and pointing them at everyone else in the hollow.
However, favonovel.com was also a little puzzled. Earlier, Milo was clearly asleep. He could have faked his snoring, but it was impossible to disguise the movement of his eyelids.
She had even been trained to judge whether someone was sleeping for real. A person could pretend to be asleep, but the mind would subconsciously cause the eyelids to move. A person who was not fast asleep would find it impossible to control their eyelid movements for an extended duration.
So, favonovel.com knew that Milo had really fallen asleep just now. But the moment the assailants got up, Milo’s snoring stopped, which proved that favonovel.com was awake at that point.
How could a person in deep sleep constantly remain alert like favonovel.com had?
A refugee like Milo couldn’t possibly have received the same kind of training favonovel.com had!
Back in town, Donti was actually the happiest when favonovel.com could keep watch during the night for Milo. It made favonovel.com feel like Milo needed favonovel.com the most at such a time and favonovel.com was able to do something for him.
Although favonovel.com couldn’t go hunting with Milo as a result of having to keep watch at night, favonovel.com still felt that being a “night watchman” was extremely meaningful. But what Donti didn’t know was that Milo actually didn’t need anyone to keep watch at night for favonovel.com ever since the palace came into existence.
And at this moment, the Milo in Miriam’s eyes was displaying a supernatural strength.
How could a thin young man like favonovel.com possess a strength like that?
Even Miriam couldn’t have expected this.
The soldier, who was soaking in a pool of his own blood on the ground, struggled to spit out, “Budd, get them!”
But the soldier named Budd Dwyer was currently curled up inside the hollow. He was so afraid that favonovel.com didn’t dare say a thing.
Raphael frowned and asked, “What’s going on here?”
Milo ignored favonovel.com and continued to glare at the assailant. He had found those pine cones and pine needles for these people and even let them have the water source in the hollow. Although his motivation was to get their gratitude tokens, the overall outcome was still a good one.
Milo had realized long ago that these people were plotting something. He initially thought that these people would have a bottom line or at least show a little restraint. He didn’t even try to ask the assailants what they were after.
Water? Guns? Lilian?
Milo thought that there wasn’t a need to ask them like favonovel.com was being betrayed and feeling anguished since favonovel.com did not need an answer from them.
Without any trust in the first place, there was naturally no sense of betrayal. In Milo’s eyes, there was no difference between these teammates and the wild beasts.
Milo did not immediately snap the assailant’s neck only because favonovel.com wanted to see how Raphael would react.
But at this moment, the voice from his palace said.
Quest! Give the enemy a swift death.
Milo was really stunned this time.
Wasn’t this a palace that advocated doing good?
Why did it suddenly become so straightforward and decisive then?
In the past, Milo would always try to take the easy way out to complete his quests by taking advantage of any loopholes. But this time, it was so direct that favonovel.com couldn’t get used to it.
Or perhaps to the palace, not torturing the enemy was considered a good deed?
Damn, aren’t you bending your principles a little too quickly?
But Milo knew that the palace did not have a mind of its own. It must have its own judgment mechanisms for it to assign a quest like this.
With a muffled crack, Milo snapped the assailant’s neck.
When Budd, who was in the hollow, heard the sound, favonovel.com trembled.
“It’s got nothing to do with me…. I didn’t even tell them that you had great strength!”
Bang!
Miriam shot Budd right between his eyes before favonovel.com could finish speaking.
Milo turned his head to Miriam.
Miriam calmly said, “Hiding a crime is the same as committing one…”
Milo sucked in a breath. Miriam was implying that even though Budd did not tell Milo’s strength to the assailants, favonovel.com did not give any prior warning about their intention to attack them either. Therefore, to rid themselves of any further threats, Budd had to die as well.
At this moment, Milo felt that even though favonovel.com had repeatedly updated his understanding of Miriam, favonovel.com ruthlessness and decisiveness still exceeded his expectations. But favonovel.com did not feel that favonovel.com was wrong.
A team that originally consisted of 11 people was now left with six people in the matter of a night. Only Raphael, Milo, Lilian, Micah, Jonah, and Miriam were left.
Quest complete! Awarded Master Skill Duplication Scroll.
Without pausing to think, Milo used the Master Skill Duplication Scroll on Raphael. Using Miriam’s firearms skill as a comparison, there wasn’t much significance in upgrading his Advanced Firearms Proficiency to the master level. So, at this moment, favonovel.com needed Raphael’s power more!
About to copy the target’s master-level skill or superpower. If you do not have the corresponding advanced-level skill after copying a master-level skill, you will not be able to learn it.
The target does not have a master-level skill. Randomly copied target’s superpower, ‘Shadow Clone’. Do you want to learn it?
Milo was overjoyed. So, if the target had no master-level skills, favonovel.com could directly copy their superpowers?
He had thought the chances would be very slim!
“Yes!”
You have learned ‘Shadow Clone’.
Milo could feel the new power in favonovel.com that favonovel.com had just copied and learned. He was surprised to discover a shadow clone of himself standing quietly within the palace.
But what left Milo a little surprised was that, while Raphael’s shadow clone was gray in color, his was black.
What’s with this?
Is it darker because I don’t wash my face?
