Chapter 597: What He Chose to Reveal
Leon met the four Archons at the mouth of the ice corridor.
He did not try to make the fight impressive. One robber died on an ice spear driven through his chest. Leon drove lightning into another man's legs, dropped him, and finished him before he could recover.
The third launched a compressed lance of qi past Leon's shoulder toward the prisoners. Leon shifted into its path. The attack opened his forearm, but the ice wall behind him remained unmarked. He killed the man before a second lance could form.
The last robber made it forty paces before ice closed around his ankles and locked him to the road.
Behind Leon, nobody screamed. The wounded young woman's voice carried through the enclosure, low and steady, telling everyone to stay down and hold the injured still.
Then the pressure changed.
