After being beaten by Lyric and forced to crawl back to their Lord in failure, the men who had once been so confident in their mission now found themselves trapped in a far worse situation.
They had been ordered to eliminate Soren and they had assumed it would be an easy job.
They told themselves that he's just a healer and a weak commoner yet they came back wounded, humiliated and empty-handed, with their Lord offering no forgiveness.
Not only did they fail to receive the salary that had been promised to them, they were dragged out by the Lord's knights and beaten so brutally that their screams echoed through the courtyard.
One of them had his leg shattered beneath the crushing weight of a knight's boot.
Another lost his left eye when the hilt of a sword struck his face while the rest were left with fractured ribs and battered bodies making each breath painful and shallow, as though every inhale carried shards of glass into their lungs.
