Prelude to Despair (2)

The hall stirred.

More precisely, it was a murmur steeped in contempt.

How dare the fledgling on the platform utter the words “summary execution” before these hardened warriors.

Moreover, no one had ever imagined that the Scarecrow expedition leader would be granted the authority to carry out a summary execution, let alone that he would dare exercise it.

Not even Kael himself, the expedition leader, had imagined it.

Amid the derision, the boy gripping the holy sword spoke.

“What do you think is the reason the Demon King's Tower remained a deathtrap that no one could enter for 400 years, yet the Council continued sending scouts into it!”

The boy shouted with his eyes opened wide.

“The reason the Supreme Council of the Continent has remained intact even amid this chaotic world situation is that we share a common enemy: the demonkin! Therefore, this expedition is founded on the great cause of subjugating the Demon King! Get a grip!”

The boy's cry rang through the military tent...