"Lord of Emerald Castle, I really owe you one for this!"
Just then, The Tidebreaker, Paxton, walked over with a relaxed smile, speaking to Ethan in a low, friendly tone.
Sure, Ethan had walked away with most of the spoils from killing the Infernal Lord—but Paxton wasn't exactly coming out empty-handed either.
Truth was, chasing down Infernal Lord Malphas hadn't been some spur-of-the-moment decision on Paxton's part. It was actually a mission handed down by the Greenwave Empire—the power behind Paxton's own Gemspire Kingdom—to the Five Sea Kingdoms.
With the Inferno and Dungeon factions growing more aggressive and their intentions clearer by the day, war had already begun to spread across the main world like wildfire. Especially in the territories of the top-tier overlords—those places had become the frontlines of this massive faction war.
So, taking out a major enemy hero like Malphas? That meant rewards from the Greenwave Empire, maybe even from the faction itself.
