SSS Awakening: Rebirth of the Strongest Vampire God novel Chapter 194

Chapter 194: Some things never should be spoken out loud

Sylvara didn’t respond right away. She simply looked at Robert, whose face was flushed with fury, his hands clenched into white-knuckled fists. The other clan members shifted uncomfortably, some glancing away, while others seemingly agreed with him.

Robert sneered. "Heh. Why are you even standing here still? He didn’t take you with him? You should have maybe opened your legs wider for him! If you had done that, he wouldn’t have left you here. Or who knows, ploughing into you was probably like ploughing into a corpse, and he threw you away in disgust."

Robert’s voice rang through the field, raw with rage and humiliation. His pride had been shattered, his body restrained by someone who should have been on his side as his woman, and now even Sylvara’s soft-spoken apology grated against his wounded ego.

"That’s enough! Shut the hell up! Just shut up! How dare you speak about her like that when she was the one who helped you even get your damn A rank class?" Nevin could not remain silent any longer. Robert was running his mouth as he pleased, and no one else was doing anything to stop him.

"Nevin..." Sylvara sighed, brushing her hair behind her ear as if this were just another passing storm. She didn’t look angry. Just exhausted.

"You don’t know anything, Sylvara. These people did not come here to help you. Everyone here accused you of hoarding something for yourself and not sharing with the rest of the guild. Not one of them was grateful for all of your sleepless efforts and the amount of time you have spent on them. They all only care about the hidden dungeon they came here to run. News flash! There is no fucking dungeon!" Nevin shouted, completely losing it.

Sylvara closed her eyes for a moment, letting the cold wind wash over her face. She would be lying if she said that this did not hurt, but then again, she had always been an outsider from the beginning. She let out a sigh and then opened her eyes again, only clarity remaining in them.

"You’re right, Nevin," she said, voice quiet but cutting. "And maybe I was a fool for thinking that loyalty could be earned by sacrifice. That if I just worked harder, if I just gave more... someday, you’d all understand."

Her gaze swept across the group, lingering on the faces of people she’d fought beside, bled for, and believed in. And yet now... none of them would meet her eyes.

"You didn’t come here for me. You came for yourselves. For the hope of hidden treasure, or a shortcut to power." Sylvara stopped and smiled. A very lonely and sad smile.

"But you all came here together, and that’s all that matters. In the end, our guild is still united and still stronger. However, I know my limits. After things have come this far, I will not continue like this anymore. I don’t want to hold our guild back. From now on, I will effectively step down as the guild leader." She then touched her wrist, vanishing from the sight of everyone, returning to the real world.

"Sylvara!" Nevin called out, but she was already gone. "You people don’t deserve her!" Spitting out venomously, Nevin also pressed his tattoo and got out of the game world.

For a few moments, no one moved. The snow continued to fall, wild and unruly.

Mendoza shifted uncomfortably. A few others exchanged awkward glances, their bravado from moments ago suddenly brittle. The guild that had once stood proudly behind Sylvara now looked like little more than a scattered collection of selfish, embarrassed strangers.

"...What the hell just happened?" someone muttered.

"She really left?"

"No... no way she actually stepped down..."

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