In the end, Zaos couldn't help but feel a headache. According to the rchant which he sold the magic weapons of the bandits to, the current head of the lvins family didn't show any signs until now that he was soone greedy. However, so people noticed weird movents in his mansion in the last few months.
His na was riton, and for the last thirty years, he had been studying the use of herbs on the creation of fragrances and sold them all over the kingdom along with his nurous rchants who comrcialized only that. As far the rumors go, his father died ten years ago, and he assud the family business at the age of twenty-five… nothing else there was to be known about him.
"Am I missing sothing here?" Zaos frowned.
Although Zaos continued with his original plan of listening to the city's people slowly to gain so intelligence about the target, he didn't get anything. Just like the rchant said, he had a perfect record. The only weird thing about him was the fact that no one had seen him in almost a year.
"Is he dead, and soone else is doing this?" Zaos rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "What do you think, Aleni?"
"Will that change anything?" Aleni asked.
"It might change our target, of course," Zaos replied. "We can't kill the wrong person and hope that we won't be bothered again. We have to make sure that this whole ss will be solved once and for all, and nothing will co to bite us in the back."
"… I agree with you," Aleni said after thinking for a second. "The soldiers you ntioned are stationed inside the mansion… while I can't sense their presence from so far away, I can tell that there is sothing odd about them."
As if that weren't enough, only one of them would have the chance to enter the mansion and finish the job. Zaos didn't like this whole situation, and he was confident that he could endure whatever the enemies threw at him, so he was planning to leave Aleni behind. Lately, Milliendra barely wakes up at night and cries, after all. It should be fine. In any case, Zaos had one week to convince Aleni to stay behind while he did that job… in the end, Zaos didn't notice that Aleni noticed what he was thinking.
After working together for so many months, Aleni finally noticed when Zaos was sleeping deeply or not. Usually, even the smallest movents inside the room would wake him up. Still, Aleni found a thod to counter his Mana Tracking. At least, she confird that it worked while he was sleeping… She practiced that for the whole week since she knew that he would force her to stay behind.
"I may not have my vengeance against those who took my freedom from , but I will at least get rid of all others who think that they can take things from others…" Aleni thought.
After that, Aleni left the inn in the middle of the night and headed toward the mansion. She moved around the mansion a single ti to confirm the number of guards outside, there were only eight walking around the place, and as usual, they were walking as if they weren't expecting an attack. She also could feel the presence of the other eight moving around the garden. So, she could make any noise.
Since the guards were also walking in groups of two, Aleni will have to knock them down at the sa ti, and in less than a minute because half of them were moving clockwise and the other was moving toward the opposite direction and thanks to that, every group was supposed to et the next one every minute. Still, that wouldn't be by far the hardest of her jobs until now.
When the first group appeared in the southeastern corner of the wall, Aleni dashed toward them from behind, and while making even less noise than the wind, she hit their napes, making the enemies fall. She couldn't kill them yet since the sll of blood would spread around quickly, so she slowly fell before moving toward the west.
As soon as they arrived there, the next group appeared, but they didn't find her since Aleni jumped and then landed above the wall and then jumped again to land behind them. The very mont the two soldiers noticed their fallen comrades on the other side, it was the mont they felt an intense pain on their backs.
Aleni repeated that two more tis and defeated the eight soldiers. For a second, she hesitated since it has been a long while since she killed soone in cold blood, but in her eyes, those who work for scum are scum as well. So, she pierced their hearts with her knife before throwing them in a dark alley fifty ters away from the mansion. Although she was slim, Aleni was surprisingly strong… since she was able to carry adult n while they were wearing armor without making any noise.
Regardless, before the guards inside the mansion could notice anything, Aleni jumped over the wall and mixed within the darkness. There were plenty of places for her to hide, so she would have even an easier ti. When the enemies approached the darkness, she pulled them in and then sliced their throats, and then moved toward the next spot. The enemies inside wouldn't feel the sll of blood for a while, so it was fine. Not to ntion, she didn't have ti to carry them outside.
After dealing with the enemies outside, Aleni approached the mansion, and even though she couldn't sense enemies that easily while there were walls between them, she could sense sothing else… the tension in the air. Since so many lackeys had been inside the mansion waiting for an attack, there was a crazy level of tension inside it. Aleni moved around the building to find a spot where she couldn't sense that tension in the air and found so rooms on the third floor. That was probably where the target and his family were sleeping, and soone so rich wouldn't allow soldiers to stay that close because of their pride.. Aleni climbed the wall and then unlocked the window with an uncanny master. However, when she landed in the room, sothing paralyzed her…
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