Magic

“How is this possible!”

Assassin didn’t believe the other party could find him, but for safety’s sake, he quietly moved one meter to the right.

Everyone’s energy is limited.

As an assassin, Assassin was top-notch, and his concealment magic was also high-level, but his close combat ability was only slightly better than an average knight, of course, that was for sneak attacks, not head-on combat.

He had also encountered targets with good senses who could feel a trace of murderous intent, but these people could only sense it once, never a second time.

If the guard stayed where he was, he would immediately attack from the guard’s blind spot on the left side where they had no weapon, striving to pierce the opponent’s throat with one blow.

But the guard stopped one meter away and turned his head again to look at where Assassin was now.

Once might be a coincidence, but twice… Assassin wasn’t stupid enough to sit still and wait for death.

Seeing the guard’s face still hesitant, Assassin immediately judged that the other party hadn’t found him with their own ability.

He immediately made obvious footsteps to attract the other party’s attention, then jumped to the other party’s side and raised his right hand, sending it towards the throat.

“What?”

The guard only had time to react to the first sound.

But Assassin didn’t succeed.

First, he felt a strange stagnation, as if he was being pulled back by something, so that his swift attack, which was enough to pierce light armor, was slowed down by half a beat.

Then, a stronger horizontal force pulled his arm to the left, completely deviating from the direction of attack.

“Don’t think you can make me submit like this!”

Assassin just followed this force, quickly turned around, jumped up, and spun rapidly in mid-air, adjusting his posture to attack the guard’s neck.

Swish!

But the guard suddenly took half a step back, easily dodging this attack…

Even though his face was full of horror.

There really is someone!

Assassin quickly distanced himself, dropped a smoke bomb, and fled.

He had already discovered that the cause of this strange situation was not someone else, but the magician who was nowhere to be seen.

No, it should be said that it was the existence suspected to be a Great Magician mentioned in the intelligence.

Because he had seen through the other party’s method at the last moment—it was unadorned use of magic power to directly interfere with objects.

Moreover, it was using magic power threads as thin as silk, treating him and the guard as puppets.

This technique was very subtle… If Assassin hadn’t put a lot of effort into exploring magic, he really wouldn’t have discovered it.

At the same time, he didn’t think that anyone would do such a thankless thing.

After all, magic power is like unprocessed iron ore, with many impurities and low hardness.

No normal person would directly fight with iron ore.

Magic, on the other hand, is a finished weapon after smelting and processing iron, which can be as sharp as a knife or sword, or as sharp as a bullet…

And it is more solid and refined.

Therefore, an ordinary magician couldn’t possibly have so much magic power to waste…

But Assassin wasn’t afraid of this. He had already killed six Great Magicians who were caught off guard by his sneak attacks!

The next one would be the seventh!

Because these magic power threads were not only clumsy, but also exposed the caster’s location.

So Assassin immediately decided to deal with this Great Magician first.

As long as he solved the other party, the remaining guys would not be a concern!

As for whether the rest of the people were protecting the Great Magician, he didn’t need to worry.

Once he confirmed the other party’s existence, the magic-breaking arrow, which he kept as a trump card, could be used!

In the empty mansion, Assassin moved swiftly, constantly twisting his body to maintain a soft posture, trying to hide behind various obstacles as much as possible, so as not to be hit by an incoming fireball.

The other party seemed to have noticed Assassin’s plan, and actually deliberately left a magic power thread, guiding him forward.

Is it an arrogant challenge? Or a trap?

Assassin continued to move forward cautiously, and soon arrived at the corner near the hall.

In the middle of the hall, a beautiful blonde maid stood quietly, with a straight posture and a calm expression.

Not far away in the corridor and on the walls, two foolish subordinates fell to the ground, with scorched holes pierced through their chests.

So that’s how it is, no wonder she’s so confident.

As outsiders, they didn’t know magic, but they had extremely strong physical abilities.

In an open area, even an ordinary magician’s fireball spell was not a problem.

But if the other party was a Great Magician with excellent magic speed, it wouldn’t be very effective if they were only good at one thing.

However, Assassin was good at two things.

In the eyes of the world, his physical ability was comparable to a magic knight.

After casting agility magic and high-speed movement magic on himself, Assassin rushed out quickly.

But what arrived faster were twelve flying knives.

As before, the blonde maid tried to use magic power threads to stop these flying knives…

After all, the small flying knives were more suitable for magic power threads to control than something as heavy as a human body.

But this was a trap that Assassin had specially prepared for the blonde maid.

The purpose was to lure her to control the flying knives, but in fact… these were all enchanted items he had prepared in advance!

Explode!

As Assassin used his mental power to activate the enchantment effect on the flying knives, three flying knives that had just been entangled by the magic power threads immediately exploded, and the poison needles carried in the flying knives shot out quickly.

At the same time, the other three flying knives suddenly accelerated.

One emitted a dazzling bright light, one suddenly made a deafening noise, and one simply sprayed out poison mist.

The last three flying knives, one spewed out rockets, one shot out ice thorns, and one suddenly split into mist, flying out a long steel nail.

Assassins don’t fight unprepared.

To surpass his own magic knight-level combat power, Assassin was also an enchanting expert, a mechanical expert, and a weapon forger.

Assassin was a genius among assassins!

Not to mention a Great Magician comparable to a magic knight, he had even killed a stronger Great Magician Awakener!

How could the dog emperor’s son’s subordinates compare to him, a great traitor with an ancient heritage!

The blonde maid was obviously frightened by the flying knife formation.

She didn’t have time to dodge, so she closed her eyes and let the poison needles, high-speed flying knives, rockets, ice thorns, etc. attack her—

“What?”

Just as he was about to reach within three meters of the blonde maid, Assassin realized something and quickly jumped back.

The next moment, densely woven magic power threads suddenly appeared.

His six invisible flying knives and the long steel nail were easily caught by this fishing net-like magic power thread, and stopped weakly in mid-air.

As for the rockets, ice thorns, and poison gas… they were soon covered by the magic power net, as if they had never appeared.

Even the large number of poison needles that were shot in indiscriminately at the beginning were like small insects stuck on a spider web, entangled by the silk threads and unable to get close to the blonde maid.

At this moment, Assassin understood.

This was not someone grabbing “iron ore” to fight, but someone who had refined magic power to the level of “steel needles”!