"Those traitors! We''re going to make them pay for what they did to us!"


    "Silence!" Arthur roared, and the cultivators fell quiet. "This is a matter of great importance, and I only have one wish. Remember this: Within the next three days, I want to see the skull of General Buker of Ede!"


    Cultivators had the power to control the world of regr mortals. Buker, as the General of Ede, naturally had the nation wrapped around his finger. It did not take a genius to figure out that attacking Skermann had been his idea.


    Thus, killing Buker would cause a big enough wave to stir among the soldiers of Ede. They would surely lose their bravado and cease further attacks on Skermann.


    The truth was that Arthur had weighed out the possibility of being attacked by a neighboring country in the past two years, and even drafted ns to deal with the situation. Now that it had happened, Arthur was going with his best n first.


    The thirty cultivators went on their way under General Arthur''s orders, heading toward Ede. Even if they were not very fast flyers, both Skermann and Ede were small enough for the journey from Beven to the border of Ede to only take an hour.


    Arthur''s mission was to have Buker''s head in three days, and most of the


    cultivators were eager to get it done in two. The quicker they got it done, the bigger of an impact it would make. However, within the first hour of their arrival at the borders, they received shocking news.


    Just half an hour ago, a cultivator from Skermann had already taken General Buker down.


    "What..."


    "How could this be?"


    The crowd looked at each other in shock. They knew that no one in the Cultivator Guild would have been able to kill Buker in just half an hour, not even General Arthur.


    "When did such a powerful elite show up in Skermann?"


    "Is it possible that an internal conflict broke out among the cultivators in Ede, and they killed their own General? Are they shifting the me on one of our cultivators to avoid getting the me?"


    "Oh, that''s quite likely."


    "Well, what do we do now?"


    "We go back to Beven at once and inform the General."


    Ede was bound to resent the cultivators of Skermann even more now that something like this had happened. With Buker already dead, the cultivators did not feel the need to risk heading into Ede as well. Thus, everyone retreated back to Beven.


    "What? Someone killed Buker an hour ago?"


    "Yes, it''s the absolute truth."


    "Do you know who did it?" Arthur asked.