He sat in silence for a mont before a servant entered his room. Before the servant could speak, Baron Sky spoke.
"Go bring Skynder."
The servant nodded and turned around. Skynder was sitting in his room, reading a book, when the servant knocked on his door.
"Lord Skynder, Baron Sky has requested your presence in his office."
Skynder stood up and left the room, nodding to the servant as he did so. It seed as though Baron Sky had put so things together, though he naturally wouldn't be certain at all.
Skynder arrived at the office door and stepped inside. Baron Sky sat with a serious face.
He looked at Skynder's hand. "Could you take off your glove?"
Skynder pulled it off. Baron Sky nearly recoiled. Hearing it described was one thing, but seeing it himself was another.
He felt as if the far fetched suspicions he held had beco a percentage more possible.
He did not hide anything, coming out with his suspicions.
"Are you the Skygod?"
"Who?" Skynder asked.
Baron Sky simply looked at him.
"Nevermind. Sorry for bothering you."
Skynder left. It was impossible for there to be any sort of reasonable suspicion that he was the Skygod, no matter what his personality was like.
There was no more bringing up any idea that he could be Skygod, and Skynder continued his activities in Sky city. Now, however, he had a very good custor.
The police would request an assassination at least once every week, and often more.
Skynder took these requests himself, not because the Chief of Police had requested so, but because there was a chance that each mission was a trap. After all, no matter what was said, he was a killer.
During the next period of ti, an assassination request was failed. Western Guardian, while attacking soone, slipped up and alerted so nearby people. He only managed to escape with his life due to a mist poison he had saved just in case.
He had actually ended up killing both his target and so other nearby people, but it was considered a failure.
One of the things they were taught by Skynder was to avoid killing anyone not a target, for they could beco targets later on, giving even more money.
Nothing actually happened to him besides the fact that he had nearly died, but it served as a lesson.
Skynder considered training them, but after thinking, felt that it was better for them to do it on their own. Any interaction with them increased the chances of bad things happening.
With the city growing, and more and more requests coming in, Skynder began to look for more assassins.
It was hard to find any like Third Moon and Western Guardian, but not impossible. He just had to look for a while. He did things as usual, while also searching for potential assassins. Like this, the sumr eventually ca to an end. He had found a few potential recruits, but wasn't 100% sure what he was going to do just yet.
More ti passed, and after consideration, he decided to recruit another individual. Unlike the previous two, who were simply the best available at the ti, this person seed like a worthy recruit.
In fact, this person had killed before. Skynder knew this because he had been paying attention to her.
She used the tactic of seduction to lure in her target and kill him. Naturally, this ant that she was quite a beautiful woman.
She had killed this man because he had run over her younger sister in a carriage without remorse, and got off without even a word from the police. This was unusual. Only a noble would get such treatnt, but sohow, a simple commoner had avoided all punishnt.
Skynder knew that the police were not as righteous as they seed on the surface, but this was surprising. This was not under the new Baron Sky's reign, but the old one's. Whether or not his father knew of this or not was unknown.
Regardless, Skynder was focused on recruiting this woman.
She was currently in hiding. Both the police and the people of the man she had killed were currently hunting her down. She felt it was unjust, but could only live with it.
A few days passed, and she was moving through an alley with a hood covering her head, when soone stopped her.
"It's you! Get her!" He yelled.
A few more n entered the alley from both sides and ran towards her. She pulled out a dagger, but they did not slow down. Suddenly, soone appeared beside her. He grabbed her and jumped up, landing on a nearby rooftop. This was an inhuman movent. Although the roof was low, and only an athlete would be able to jump on it, Skynder had done so while grabbing a woman.
This was an effect of the Imperial Scholar's chest design.
The woman looked at Skynder in confusion, but did not swing her dagger. He had not shown any intention to harm her, and she did not need another enemy at this mont. Skynder did not look at her, first throwing a vial of the mist poison down.
As soon as they saw the mist appear, all of the n ran, though so were too slow.
Over ti, sightings of the mist had occurred when people were assassinated. It represented assassins, and possibly even the Skygod himself.
The woman had also heard of the legendary mist.
She looked at Skynder differently, not daring to show a hint of ill will.
Skynder finally turned to her.
"My na is Skygod, and I am inviting you to beco an assassin." He kept it simple.
Her answer would decide everything.
She only hesitated for a mont before nodding. "I am willing."
Skynder spoke again. "Then follow . If you can't keep up, I don't need you."
Skynder stepped backwards, falling off the roof and shooting off into the distance. The woman ran after him.
Skynder was agile and fast, turning sharp corners with ease. The woman struggled to keep up, but did her best.
She was not soone physically fit. She had been completely normal prior to her sister's death.
Eventually, she stopped. Skynder stood ahead, soone resisting under his feet.
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