A heavy, suffocating silence settled over the ruined warehouse, broken only by the faint sizzle of blood droplets hitting the dust.
Right in front of Raiden's face, a thin, translucent shield of crimson blood that Rose had thrown up a microsecond before the explosions slowly dissolved back into mist, having kept a single drop of the four assassins' dirty blood from touching Raiden's skin.
Raiden remained crouched over the four headless corpses for a long moment.
Slowly, he straightened up, looking down at the lifeless bodies of Bai Zheng, Lola, Trevor, and the burly man.
All four of them were dead.
Not a single soul fragment or trace of consciousness remained inside their shattered skulls. Whatever power had just detonated inside their brains had erased their minds so thoroughly that not even a necromancer or a mind-reader could pull a single memory out of their corpses.
"A Linked Mythical Soul-Seal..."
