The sight triggered something primal in Satou. Memories of his own people being slaughtered, of finding goblin children dead in their caves, of the helplessness he'd felt before gaining the power to protect those who couldn't protect themselves.
His aura flared involuntarily, dark energy crackling around him like black lightning.
Then he heard it—a female voice screaming in terror and pain, coming from deeper in the killing field.
Satou didn't hesitate. [Shadow Step] activated instantly, reality blurring as he moved faster than the eye could track. One moment he was standing among the corpses, the next he materialized in a clearing thirty meters away.
