Poor odds simplified things in many ways. The shortage of options removed useless thoughts, limiting any reasoning to what was possible.
The encounter was unavoidable, only creating three possibilities. Grace could pay the assassins, she could die, or Liam could simply kill everyone.
As for how, even that was quite simple in Liam's perspective. A careful hunt was out of the question, so the priority was to remove the numerical disadvantage, starting from the weakest link.
The rooting expert behind the encirclement was more than hidden. He was fully invisible, his cloaking technique almost removing every trace of his existence.
The cloaking technique had also extended to the arrow. It was why it had taken Grace by surprise, but not Master William, which was quite shocking, only for that feeling to intensify after what followed.
