A couple of hundred meters away from the campfire, a hooded man was resting his head against the tree. Due to the darkness in the surroundings, no one knows whether he was sleeping or continuing to guard.
Just a few meters behind him, two assassins landed on the ground without making any noise and slowly walked towards him while taking out their daggers.
It didn't take them long to reach the hooded man who seemed like he doesn't notice their presence.
Just when they were only three feet away from him, one of the assassins patted his partner's shoulder.
Suddenly, both of them lunged towards the hooded man and slashed at his legs. They intend to cut down his legs to decrease his mobility.
To their surprise, as soon as their daggers successfully managed to inflict enough damage on the legs, all of a sudden, the hooded man disappeared into a cloud of smoke.
"What!" Both of them were taken aback to see their target turned out to be a clone. They realized it is a trap. However, it was too late.
Before they move away from there, a glowing double-edged blade with its handle attached to a long chain cleanly sliced both of their necks in one move. Their heads rolled on the floor.
*Tap* Tap* Tap*
A hooded figure reached the dead bodies and glanced at them, "dead in one strike. Who are these weaklings that are spying on me from a while ago?"
He searched their bodies and take out their storage rings. He found gold coins, ether crystals, and a few other things but he doesn't seem to be satisfied.
Keeping their storage rings in his pocket, he mumbled, "I wonder who sent them."
*Bang*
Right then, a loud sound was heard from his 6 o'clock.
He was surprised and immediately turned around. "It's where young miss is sleeping and this sound is oddly familiar. Isn't it the same sound of that weird-looking weapon of Lady Song?
Pushing his leg against the ground, he immediately dashed towards the camp.
As he reached there, the hooded figure saw Captain Gao was in a battle against a short middle man who looked like a monk. The enemy seemed to have an upper hand.
Meanwhile, a young adult just around twenty years old is attacking a knight and his young miss, Lin Xue.
The third prince had a fireball in his hand but was hesitating to throw it at the enemy because of Lin Xue. He doesn't want to accidentally injure her. Song Yue was the same as the third prince, although for different reasons.
While she aimed her pistol at the enemy, she was hesitating to shoot because of low ammunition. She only had eight to spend now. So, she doesn't want to waste empty shots.
As for Zhang Kong, he was just standing nearby his fiancée to protect her.
The hooded figure swiftly moved towards the young adult.
"Little Feng, get away from there." Suddenly the young assassin heard the warning from his leader. In the next second, Gu Feng sensed the presence of an incoming enemy. He glanced to the right.
From the corner of his eyes, he saw a blurry figure that almost reached him.
His heart skipped for a moment and quickly used the short teleportation technique to disappear from there and reappear more than 50 meters away.
Meanwhile, the former monk turned assassin kicked Captain Gao and then, unleashed his skill. "Dragon's Rage."
His Bo-staff that was glowing red due to the ether particles through them now had flames dancing all over it.
He swirls the staff and thrusts it into the empty air.
Flames gathered around the edge of the staff and transformed into a dragon before it flew towards his target.
Even though he had an opportunity to kill or inflict heavy injury on Gao who was in mid-air, he attacked the third prince who was like 15 meters away from him.
The dragon-shaped flame targeted the third prince.
However, the hooded figure who reached Lin Xue didn't make a move. Standing before her, he glanced at it in silence while the knight screamed and rushed towards him. "Your highness, careful"
Meanwhile, Zhang Kong grabbed Song Yue, moving away from the spot quickly.
Looking at it, the third prince smirked, "what a desperate foolish fellow." As the dragon almost reached him, Wei easily sidestepped and dodge the attack.
Just when he thought he escaped the attack with ease, the dragon gets collided with the tree, causing a heavy explosion, and blasted away the nearby prince along with the knight who was about to rescue him.
Zhang Kong and Song Yue managed to get out of the explosion radius while the hooded figure covered Lin Xue. Little bruises appeared on his skin here and there.
"Your Highness!"
Not caring about his injuries, Captain Gao who crashed onto the ground quickly stood up and rushed towards the prince.
"Are you alright?" Captain Gao slowly helped the third prince.
*Cough* Cough*
The third prince slowly stood up on his feet, coughing out a mouthful of blood with his heavily injured back. "I'm alright. I underestimated the attack. "
He glanced at the fallen knight who was nearby him and asked the Captain to check his status.
While Captain Gao left him and walked towards the knight, the third prince looked at others. He sighed in relief after watching Lin Xue is fine. Then, his eyes wandered elsewhere.
His facial expression changed all of a sudden, "where are those fu***ng bas***ds?"
Meanwhile, at Sector-6, Bloodhill forest;
*Woof*
Leading a pack of black wolves, a large gray wolf is chasing after a buffed male who had gold-graded equipment from top to bottom and was covered in ether energy. It was none other than 5-circle realm Adventurer Mo Jiang whose luck was stolen by Mark.
He was running for his life. With the Gray wolf being the realm of 6-circle, there's only one thing in his mind. That is to get out of the sector and go into outer sectors where a barrier is placed at the border between Sector-6 and Sector-7, separating higher realm beasts from lower realm ones.
Mo Jiang doesn't care about the direction he was running towards. He was just heading south to look for a barrier.
