“Hah, I thought you’d be making a wide detour around the battlefield, but using them for defense? Bold move.”

Considering their specialty was assassination and stealth, it was reasonable to assume they wouldn’t show themselves on the battlefield. Yet the decision to place the entire Black Gentleman Corps in the rear guard for defense was unexpected.

Sixteen to one.

Black Dragon loosened his shoulders casually and rose from his seat.

“The so-called greatest assassins from the Gentleman’s Union? What a joke.”

A creak echoed.

The grotesquely twisted neck of one of the Black Gentlemen tilted further downward, as if to …