nagpurpolice Chapter 122 Assassination Operation
Chapter 122 Assassination Operation
Chapter 121 Assassination Operation
Inside the lord's hall, the fire crackled and popped.
Lorraine sat at the large oak table, her fingers lightly tracing lines in the air, summoning the [Lord Enhancement] skill from the Witch's Codex.
panel.
His gaze swept over the dense list of material requirements, and his eyebrows rose slightly.
"To forcibly elevate the body of an ordinary person with no foundation to the strength of a fourth-tier knight is truly an extraordinary feat."
Lorraine muttered to herself.
Even for Earl Frostwolf, who was now incredibly wealthy, the list on the panel made him feel a pang of heartache.
One bottle of the heart essence of the fourth-tier monster Haji, three pure ice cores of the third-tier monster Frost Wolf Leader, and five gallbladders of the Arctic Ice Bear —
In addition, there are a full 30,000 standard magic crystals!
All of these things are the wealth accumulated by Babel as it journeyed through the countless corpses of monsters.
A rough calculation shows that, taking into account the consumption of materials and magic crystals, this enhancement plan will almost drain half of the current fiscal reserves in Frostwolf City's treasury!
"Half of my fortune, in exchange for a life, it's worth it."
Without any hesitation, Lorraine immediately issued the extraction order.
Resources can be earned again, but life is only given to you.
Prince Thursmir's fourth-tier Shadow Assassin is arriving tomorrow, and he cannot entrust his life entirely to someone else's protection.
In less than half an hour, Olivia brought several engineering puppets and carried all the materials Lorraine needed into the Lord's Hall.
The center of the hall had been cleared out, and Lorraine used specially made mithril powder to carve a complex magic circle with a diameter of five meters on the stone floor.
Thirty thousand magic crystals were piled up like small mountains on the eight nodes of the magic circle.
Rare materials such as Haji's blood essence were precisely placed in the inner circle of the magic circle.
"Sir, do you really want to personally experience this violent infusion of magic?"
Anna stood at the edge of the magic circle, her eyes filled with worry. "The power of these demonic materials is too violent. Ordinary people's magic circuits simply cannot withstand it."
"Don't worry, this time I'm carrying out a lord promotion, not a regular knight advancement."
Lorraine took off her heavy coat, leaving only a thin shirt, and walked barefoot into the center of the magic circle.
He sat down cross-legged and took a deep breath.
"start up."
With Lorraine's command, the Witch's Codex erupted with a blinding red light in the void.
The magic circle on the ground was activated instantly!
Thirty thousand magic crystals exploded at the same time, turning into a dense, almost liquefied magical mist that enveloped Lorraine.
Immediately afterwards, Haji's essence and blood boiled, turning into a dark red blood line that frantically drilled into Lorraine's body through his pores.
The Frostwolf leader's ice core shattered, and the extreme cold power of frost followed closely behind, colliding violently with the violent blood essence power in Lorraine's meridians!
"Well--!"
Lorraine clenched his teeth, and veins bulged on his forehead.
pain!
Excruciating pain that penetrates to the bone!
His muscle fibers were torn apart inch by inch by the violent magic, and then quickly regenerated with the healing provided by Olivia.
The bones emitted a teeth-grinding cracking sound as the originally fragile mortal bones were being forcibly tempered and reshaped by the essence of high-level demons.
Countless forces surged through his internal organs.
Lorraine gritted her teeth and didn't let out a single scream.
He knew that this was the price that mortals had to pay to transcend the social hierarchy.
Even with so many witches and knights, and having reached such a high limit, the pain required to strengthen the body will not be reduced in the slightest.
Time passed by, second by second.
The light from the magic circle gradually dimmed.
As the last trace of magic was absorbed into her body, Lorraine slowly opened her eyes.
A captivating glint flashed in his eyes.
Lorraine stood up and casually clenched her fist.
A loud, crackling sound, like a sonic boom, suddenly filled the air.
He looked down at his hands, feeling the power within him like a surging river.
At this point, his muscle density, bone hardness, and nerve reaction speed have all undergone tremendous changes.
The level of a fourth-tier knight!
Although he lacks the fighting spirit of a fourth-tier knight, his physical strength is enough to rival that of a fourth-tier knight.
"Hoo—" Lorraine exhaled a breath of stale air and sneered, "The preparations are complete. Now, we just wait for the guest to arrive."
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One day later.
late at night.
In a secluded snow forest ten miles outside Frostwolf City, the air suddenly began to distort without warning.
A deep purple spatial rift suddenly tore open.
A shadowy assassin, shrouded in a black cloak, silently stepped out from the crack.
As soon as he landed, the spatial rift behind him quickly closed, as if it had never existed.
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The assassin raised his head, his eerie green vertical pupils locking onto the distant Frostwolf City through the swirling snow.
"Is this the territory of Earl Frostwolf?"
The assassin took out the black gem given to him by Loken from his pocket.
As a wisp of magic was injected, dark purple veins began to flow across the surface of the black gemstone. An invisible wave instantly spread out, perfectly shielding the assassin's aura, body temperature, magical fluctuations, and even his heartbeat.
With this wondrous item, even a fifth-tier perception-type witch wouldn't be able to detect his presence in a short time.
The assassin's figure blurred, as if melting into the snowstorm, becoming an afterimage invisible to the naked eye, heading straight for Frostwolf City.
With the terrifying physical abilities of a fourth-tier monster and the cover provided by the artifact, the assassin easily bypassed the outer defenses.
He stood beneath the towering inner city wall, glanced up at the densely packed Witch Towers atop it, and let out a disdainful sneer from beneath his hood.
"The fortifications are quite impressive."
"Unfortunately, even the strongest fortress cannot withstand an assassination attempt from within. Wasting all resources on these inanimate objects, this Earl Lorraine is utterly pathetic."
The assassin used both hands and feet to climb the smooth city wall quickly, like a gecko, without making a sound.
He easily scaled the city wall, evaded a patrol of security soldiers, and stealthily made his way towards Frostwolf Fortress.
Everything went incredibly smoothly.
The assassin even felt that Lord Loken was wasting his talents by sending him, a fourth-tier assassin, on this mission.
Thanks to the Shadow Gem, no one discovered his whereabouts.
Soon, the assassin reached the door of the lord's hall.
It was quiet all around, and there wasn't even a guard on night watch.
"Their defenses have been so lax?" The assassin thought with growing contempt.
He walked up to the two heavy oak doors, peered through the cracks, and looked inside.
The hall was dimly lit by only a few candles.
Through the crack in the door, the assassin could clearly see that at the end of the long table, the black-haired youth described in the intelligence report—Lorraine—was lying face down on the table.
Breathing steadily, remaining completely still.
She actually fell asleep!
"What a stupid piece of trash."
The assassin sneered inwardly.
Even as death loomed, the young lord was still fast asleep.
Do you really think that with the Witch's Tower and the city walls protecting it, Frostwolf City is an absolutely safe greenhouse?
The assassin did not choose to enter through the main entrance.
The door hinges are too heavy, and it inevitably makes a sound when pushed open.
He silently circled around to the side of the hall and came to a half-open stained glass window.
The window was left with a crack, not big enough for a normal person to enter, but for a professional assassin, the art of bone shrinking was just a basic skill.
The assassin took a deep breath, his muscles tensing, and gripped a black dagger coated with deadly poison in his right hand.
He was certain that the assassination would go very smoothly.
Once you jump in and slit that scumbag's throat, the mission is over.
The assassin lightly touched the windowsill with his toes, and like a night owl pouncing on its prey, he nimbly and deadly slipped through the window crack and rushed straight into the hall!
The assassin's body traced a perfect arc in mid-air, so light that it didn't even make a sound.
He had already mentally planned out his next move:
He landed, sprinted, swung his dagger, severed Lorraine's carotid artery, watched the blood gushing out, and then turned and walked away gracefully.
However, just as his feet were about to touch the stone floor of the hall...
A sudden change has occurred!
The four corners of the once silent lord's hall suddenly seemed to awaken like a dormant volcano.
Four terrifying pressures suddenly rose from the ground without warning, pressing down on the assassin like four mountains!
"What?!"
The assassin looked around in surprise.
The camp relocation order in Lorraine's hand shone brightly, and four tiny wooden houses tore through space and landed directly in the four corners of the hall.
Inside the cabin, three fourth-tier witches and one fourth-tier knight, who had been prepared beforehand, stepped out instantly!
In the blink of an eye, they surrounded the assassins.
"The master said that a little mouse would try to assassinate him today. It seems you are that little mouse?"
A cold female voice came from the small wooden house on the left.
Anna, dressed in a black and white maid outfit, walked out.
A pale, grayish-white flame danced at her fingertips, exuding the terrifying aura of a fourth-order entropy-deficient witch, causing the surrounding air to decay and distort at an accelerated pace.
"Hmph, little mouse, big brother spotted you the moment you entered the castle!"
On the right, Ohm's lively voice rang out.
The fourth-tier Myriad Machines Witch hovered in mid-air, the space behind her cracking open to reveal a magical cannon radiating an aura of destruction, which locked onto the assassin's head.
"How dare someone like this attempt to assassinate the lord?"
From the back of the hall, Catherine let out a cold cry.
This fourth-tier Storm Witch didn't even take off her gloves, yet a dense swirling of lightning suddenly appeared around her, purple arcs of electricity exploding in the air, emitting a chilling hissing sound.
Directly in front of the assassin was the only path leading to the Long Table of Lorraine.
The fourth-tier Grand Knight Victor stood like an iron tower.
He held the broad, molten longsword with both hands, its blade radiating intense heat like magma. His tiger-like eyes were fixed on the assassin, filled with chilling killing intent.
Three fourth-order witches!
A fourth-tier Grand Knight!
Four fourth-tier combatants completely sealed off the four directions of the hall, creating a dead end from which there was no escape!
The assassin stood rooted to the spot, his back instantly soaked with cold sweat.
His hand holding the dagger trembled uncontrollably, and his eerie green vertical pupils were filled with utter horror.
How is that possible?!
The information provided by Lord Luo Xia clearly stated that Lorraine only had fourth-order humans under her command, and their numbers were definitely not large.
But what is this in front of me?
Three fourth-tier witches! Not only do their magical abilities seem to be higher than even the fourth-tier monster I'm dealing with.
Among them are even top-tier witches who control rare rules like time and machinery!
Even his own movements were easily detected, and an ambush was prepared in advance!
"The scandalous reports—they're all fake—"
The assassin's psychological defenses collapsed at that moment.
His proud fourth-tier demon strength was utterly meaningless in front of these four humans of the same tier, whose auras were even more solid and terrifying than his!
escape!
We must escape!
The assassin suddenly turned around, intending to escape through the window he had just entered through.
"boom!"
A thick bolt of purple lightning struck down instantly, blasting the Asian-style glass window and the surrounding walls into a charred ruin.
At the same time, a dense network of electric fences blocked off all the windows of the lord's hall.
Catherine lowered her hand, looking at him as if he were dead.
There is no escape.
The assassin realized with despair that he had been completely cornered.
Since we can't escape, let's just go to the ends of the earth together!
The assassin abruptly turned his head and stared intently at Lorraine, who had just raised her head behind the long table and seemed to have "woke up."
That ugly report portrays a weak and powerless ordinary lord!
"Kill him! Once he's killed, the mission is complete!"
The assassin let out a beast-like roar, completely losing control of his madness.
He no longer held back any power and directly unleashed the most vicious secret technique within his body.
"Shadow Sacrifice!"
The assassin's body withered away at a visible speed. In that instant, he ignited and sacrificed all his life force, magic power, and even his soul, in exchange for a terrifying burst of power that surpassed the fourth-tier limit!
His speed broke the sound barrier!
A white mist even burst open inside the hall!
Anna, Ohm, Catherine, and Victor were all taken aback by the assassin's decisive choice to burn his life force.
By the time they reacted and tried to intercept him, the assassin had already become a blur, tearing through the air and heading straight for Lorraine's face!
"Die!!!"
The assassin's face was ferocious, and the black dagger in his hand was aimed straight at Lorraine's throat.
This strike, imbued with all his life force, was something that even a human knight of the same rank, Yu, would absolutely not be able to dodge!
He wanted to watch this fragile lord die at his own hands!
however.
Sitting upright in his chair, Lorraine showed no sign of panic in the face of this deadly attack.
He didn't even blink twice.
Suddenly, the dagger was less than half a second away from Lorraine's arm.
Lorraine's body moved.
His muscles erupted with terrifying power in an instant, and with an agility that defied common sense, he calmly and unhurriedly turned half a body length to the left.
"Whoosh!"
The poisoned dagger grazed Lorraine's neck before plunging deep into the back of the chair behind her, failing to even sever a single hair from her head.
The assassin's movements froze in mid-air.
His eyes were wide open, almost bulging out of their sockets, and Shi Du's astonishment twisted his expression to the extreme.
"How...how is this possible?!"
The assassin screamed in shock, his voice becoming shrill and distorted from the shock of Shi Du.
The depth of that dodge, the speed of that neural reaction, the explosive power of that muscle—
This is not something an ordinary person could do!
This is clearly the physical strength of a fourth-tier knight!
The scandalous report says—you're just an ordinary person—
The assassin's lips trembled as he stared intently at Lorraine, his eyes filled with incomprehensible despair and collapse. "Why—"
"He'll have fourth-tier strength?!"
Lorraine stood up and looked down at the assassin who was rapidly fading away due to burning his life force.
He patted off non-existent dust from his clothes, his tone chillingly calm.
"It's time to update your master's scandalous record."
The moment the words fell.
A streak of intense red light swept past the assassin from behind.
Victor strode forward, his molten longsword radiating intense heat, giving the assassin no chance to speak further.
"Pfft!"
The sound of a sharp blade slicing through bone and flesh rang out clearly in the hall.
Victor severed his head, which remained open in death, with a single stroke of his sword.
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