(Title at the end of the chapter.)
Ken was about to clash with the new bunch of elves.
But just then, he felt a presence behind him. It was the sa frail presence that was trying to seek shelter in his shadows a mont before.
Because of the unusual situation the Fist Saint was in, the frail-looking girl managed to sneak behind him. And before Ken could understand the Whats and Whys of it, he felt his heart getting pierced by the girl's dagger from behind.
"Aaaaaaaargh!"
Ken cried in pain when the girl's dagger ca out of the other side of his chest. One had to say that the timing at which the frail-looking girl had chosen to attack Ken was just perfect. His back was the most defenseless at that ti and the girl struck him where it hurt the most– where it dealt the most damage.
Swoosh!
Ken turned around and swung his fists. However, the girl was nowhere to be found. She just upped and disappeared without a trace after attacking Ken. As far as she was concerned, her job in the confrontation was done. It was now the rankers who were following her who attacked Ken in her place.
Swoosh!
Swoosh!
Swoosh!
A bunch of multi-elent spells was executed to attack Ken at the sa ti. The Fist Saint tried to defend himself using the defensive spells he had in his arsenal. However, he was already at his limit at this point.
"Aaaaaaaaargh! Cowards! I'll kill you."
Ken understood what had happened to him when he saw esha approaching him from a distance with a smile on her face. It seed that she had anticipated his escape from her ambush and arranged this trap for him beforehand.
Ken's Sansara tattoo started shining when it was confird that he had suffered a mortal injury. However, he was attacked with many spells and weapons at once before the defense chanism could kick in. One of the attacks even managed to cut the hand the tattoo was on, interfering with the defense chanism further.
Ken's body crashed to the ground when eshah ca within striking distance of him. As a result of his defense chanism's partial activation, his body was shining. However, it couldn't send him to the safe area anymore.
The infiltrators had introduced a delay in the defense chanism to ramp up the killings inside Sansara World. However, it worked both ways and the infiltrators were also subjected to the sa delay. That's how Ken was able to kill two rankers from eshah's team after all.
Ken's heartbeat started dimming. Darkness started surrounding his vision.
'Emotional fools suffer more than rational dickheads.
Hehe. He was right. He was always right. About everything.
But brother… I tried.
And for that, I have no regrets.'
Ken had a fleeting thought as he closed his eyes.
Even after facing a stab in the back, he managed to put a smile on his face with his dying breaths. It seed that he had done everything he could to live life his way. And he attempted to change as well.
Ken couldn't get far with his heart on his sleeves. The sa heart was pierced by the cruelty of the world he lived in.
However, he tried his darnedest to grow and survive while trying his best to stay true to his convictions.
Nobody could stop the Fist Saint from taking pleasure in the number of efforts he had put in to better himself. Even eshah stopped herself from taking pleasure in his misery when she saw that smile on his face.
Swoosh. Zoom. Chop.
eshah chopped Ken's head clean off just to be sure. He had already given them quite a scare with his ferocious avatar earlier. She was sure that even after combining the two teams from the beginning, she would have suffered more overall casualties if it wasn't for her strategy.
"Hehehehe! How did I do, Her Highness eshah?"
The frail-looking girl appeared beside eshah and asked. Her looks were complented by two elf ears, which she had hidden earlier before approaching Ken.
Unlike eshah, she took joy in looking at her target's headless body. It was as if she was looking at a piece of art she had created herself.
eshah took a long breath before replying.
"You did good, Maylin. Your assassination skills are really sothing. This mammoth would have given us a lot more trouble if it wasn't for you."
eshah smiled lightly as she looked at Maylin. She was relieved that she had managed to hunt and kill soone like Ken in just three days.
eshah wasn't sure how the other royal elves were doing. But she could bet anything that nobody from her royal family could have finished Ken off this cleanly. The two rankers her group had lost were totally worth it.
eshah was about to say sothing when the ranger from before reported another finding.
"Captain, there's another target not too far away from us. He is heading southwest, away from us. What should we do?"
eshah looked at Ken's body and took it into her storage space. It could serve as proof of her accomplishnts after all. She then clapped her hands and stood up straight before asking the ranger.
"What is it this ti? I'd like to target the Duke's son Jason next if we can intercept him."
It seed that all of eshah's kills were politically motivated. She had targeted Ken not because she had so unfinished business with him from their ti on the two opposing sides of the border. She had targeted him because he was from an Earl's House. Killing him would have a broader impact on Edinburgh's masses.
"Yeah… negative. It's not Jason. It's that White Raven guy. What's his na again?"
The ranger blankly stared in one direction with his completely white eyes as he tried to rember the target's na. The royal scions from the kingdom of Layos who had infiltrated the Sansara World were given a hit list by their higher-ups. Ken wasn't their only target. There were a lot of other influential rankers within this generation that needed to be dealt with swiftly. Doing that would an eliminating future trouble as well as spreading deeper negative emotions in the hearts of Edinburgh's citizens.
"White Raven? Hm? Oh yes!
Eren Elijah Idril.
Captain… let's target him next using the sa ga plan. Hehe."
As an assassin, Mayli rembered everyone on the target list well. She could also recall their backgrounds, their strengths and weaknesses, and known records of their past fights.
Of course, she was excited to take down soone like Eren Idril who had an entire city to his na. Killing him was like conquering his entire city in her head.
eshah pondered for a bit before agreeing with Mayli's plans.
And everything started heading downhill for eshah and her lot after that.
===
Chapter 1035 Title: A Hero's Death
Reviews
All reviews (0)