Chapter 719

On each boat stood a dozen armored soldiers, gripping crossbows in their hands. The overwhelming aura of impending violence spread in all directions, filling the air with a suffocating tension. Sebastian's face darkened. He was well aware of the lethality of these crossbows. Those weapons were very expensive to make, but they had incredible speed and terrifying penetrating power. They were capable of piercing through armor from a distance of 547 yards. A few scattered bolts wouldn't pose much of a threat to a divine grandmaster. What about hundreds of bolts fired at once? No one could withstand that. As Sebastian reeled from shock, Caspian was equally taken aback. He had expected Sebastian's escape but hadn't expected it to happen so quickly, as though Sebastian had somehow known the way out beforehand. This baffled him. After all, he was the only one who knew the secret mechanism to open the hidden chamber, not even Louis was aware of it. As for the craftsmen and engineers w