[Okay, so this conversation is now about wizard assassinations which is totally his jam, this has literally never happened to him before. He's starting to seem kind of excited and sort of chuckling to himself.]

Ahaha. Ahahaha.

Practitioners of such base forms of sorcery are all the same. Their jealousy does not become them. Perhaps this effort is the combined work of your mortal foes and mine together! How sweet victory will taste, thwarting such a brazen attack.