The poisoning incident was a warning. Marco Lin didn't think that it would only happen once.
As for the reason, it was probably due to the disappearance of a few nimble Assassins when they were fighting for the Magic Stone Mine. Maybe it was their friends who came to take revenge. It was also possible that the organization behind them had accepted a deal, and the goal was to take their lives. But why? Thinking of this, a certain someone was stuck again.
However, he still had to live. He didn't believe that the enemy hiding in the dark would only come once. Although it was very uncomfortable to be in a situation where the enemy was in the dark and he was in the light. But he didn't seem to be able to do anything now that he was at a loss. Therefore, a certain someone could only instruct the two apprentices to pay more attention to the unusual things around them.
Being outside was different from being at home. Whether it was the Tower of the Great Sage or the house in Wulian City, they had set up perfect protective measures. Even if they couldn't deal with the enemy, they could at least buy some time so that they wouldn't die without knowing why.
In the outfield camp, the two girls didn't dare to let down their guard because of the danger from nature. After all, the hungry beasts in the night couldn't tell if the person in front of them was an easy target to eat.
However, they shouldn't think that they were safe in a human gathering place. It was easy to detect the evil intentions of beasts. If someone was drooling at them, they would know which beast wanted to pounce on them and feast on them. However, it wasn't easy to detect the evil intentions of other people. Human's disguise and duplicity made humans more threatening than beasts.
"So, you must be 120% alert and carefully watch out for everything," Lin said to the two girls. She even added that it was still a period of weakness for their elder sister. These words made the two girls take this matter seriously. It could even be said that they were a little hysterical. A certain Lich, who was being protected, sometimes didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Most of the time, Fen looked at a certain someone with a resentful gaze. What Lin didn't tell the two girls was that among the four of them, he was the most likely to be the target of the assassination. Therefore, for the others, there was no immediate danger.
This was something that the former Demon King, who had experienced a lot of scheming, could understand after some thought. But the two girls didn't know. When their teacher called out to them, they believed it.
However, Fen didn't point it out because she knew that most people who would do such things wouldn't care about hurting the innocent. If he thought that he could stay out of the matter and be too careless, it would create an opportunity for those assassins to take advantage of, which would be even more troublesome. Therefore, he could only let Hallumi and Kaya do whatever they wanted.
Under the gaze of the owner of the inn, that is, the cook, who was deeply grateful – he had no choice but to be grateful, as he was almost beaten up by the Lich – the group entered their rooms and prepared to spend the night in this small town. During this period of time, he had been sleeping outside. It was rare for him to find a place with a roof to sleep, so he shouldn't torture himself too much and insist on sleeping in the wilderness.
The two girls, under the pretext of protecting their elder sister, crowded into the same room with Fern. Their teacher was pushed aside and could only stay in a room … well, there didn't seem to be anything wrong with this. At least, someone couldn't find a reason to sleep in the same room as either of them.
The night of early spring carried a bit of coldness left over from winter. Lin took a good bath in the hot water prepared by the two girls, sorted out some of the thoughts that he had been thinking and writing on the road, and then lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
The night in the small town was quite quiet. Except for the sound of wolves howling at the moon from time to time in the forest not far away, no one would be active at night.
But that was the usual situation. This night, the small town wasn't peaceful.
Several groups of people had their own groups, but they had only one goal. Therefore, they could only decide who would go which group before taking action. There was no such thing as a joint operation. And there was no doubt that in their eyes, the later the group, the less chance they had. Assassinating a Wizard who didn't live in a Magic Tower was a very simple matter.
A lucky person, under the watchful eyes of others, quietly crept up to the second floor of the inn. Although everyone agreed that the bounty would be distributed, the one who would take the most would definitely be the one who did it. Otherwise, who would be willing to work hard?
Under the temptation of benefits, this lucky assassin entered stealth mode. Walking in the rather old wooden passageway, he didn't make the slightest sound.
They had already found the room where the target was and confirmed that there was only one person in it. This was a good thing, at least they didn't have to face the existence that was suspected to be the Demon King from a thousand years ago.
The door lock of this kind of rural inn was no different from not having any for these thieves. Inserting the dagger into the gap of the door, he lifted it up and easily lifted the door latch.
At this time, if it was a young thief who had been in the room for a while, and after lifting the door latch and putting away the dagger, the wooden latch inside the door would definitely fall to the ground, causing a sound and attracting the attention of the people in the room. Only a real veteran could keep the wooden latch from falling to the ground while pushing the door open.
When the gap of the door was wide enough for a person to pass through, the assassin immediately flashed into the room and gently lowered the wooden latch behind the door. The moonlight spilled in from the window, making the room not completely dark and allowing the assassin to see that the man on the bed was sleeping soundly.
He quietly hid in the shadows, carefully listening to the sounds around him. After making sure that everything was normal and that he didn't attract any attention, he walked out of the shadows.
The target, the Wizard, was snoring softly, completely unaware of the arrival of a jinx. The assassin was very satisfied with all this. As an assassin, being able to successfully assassinate a Wizard was definitely a great achievement. [After this incident, my status should increase by two folds. I should get more respect from those wretched old men.]
He pulled out a second dagger from his boot, the edge of the dagger flashing with a demonic purple light under the moonlight. This was a poisoned anti-magic dagger, the best weapon against a Wizard. Like a cat, the Hitman slowly moved to the side of the bed and looked at the man who was sleeping soundly.
Raising the weapon in an exaggerated manner and stabbing at the man on the bed, once was not enough, then twice, thrice. This was definitely a novice's way of doing things. The correct way was to aim for the softest part of the human body, and to ensure the death of the target, he really relied on the poison on the dagger. And for a sleeping person, the most suitable place to attack was the neck. He only needed to make a light cut and he could easily leave.
The assassin's state of mind was not unstable from the beginning to the end, and he maintained sufficient calmness. But the moment before the dagger was in his hand, he couldn't hide his excitement and stuck out his tongue to lick his lips. The poisoned anti-magic dagger in his right hand smoothly slashed forward …
The next moment! The furnishings of the inn's room remained the same, but the moonlight disappeared. In its place, other than darkness, there were specks of light, like the background of a starry sky. The spot where the assassin had been standing in front of the bed was now empty. The illusory starry sky blinked as if there were many eyes watching everything.
After a while, the inn's room returned to normal. The maze world still maintained its tranquility, and Lin was still completely unaware and deeply asleep.
This was the result of someone's latest defense system. Why did someone attack him while he was sleeping, and why did he have to be woken up so pathetically? In a state of delirium, he had to fight with the other party who had just woken up and didn't understand the situation.
The concerns of not being able to get the spoils of war and not knowing the other party's destination were all thrown out of the window. It was very reasonable for the guy who disturbed his sleep to die without a burial place.
As long as he approached with abnormal speed, or held a sharp metal weapon, or there was abnormal energy condensation, air flow, or even recorded abnormal substances, which were the toxins that Lin had seen and recorded before, he would directly use the Dimensional Banishment Spell without holding back.
The initial target of such a trap design was actually the trouble that one would encounter when camping outside — mosquitoes. Of course, this included all kinds of other insects that liked to buzz in people's ears.
However, considering the two girls who might come to wake him up, and the Lich who would do whatever she wanted without caring if others were asleep, Lin's solution was very simple. He set up a white list. In other words, except for the three girls, if anyone else wanted to get close to the sleeping Mage, there was a high chance that they would be banished to an unknown dimension.
Well, did he have to consider hurting the innocent? There were no innocent people who disturbed others' sleep. Therefore, Marco Lin did the relevant design without any psychological burden.
As a result, the assassins on the rooftops in the distance witnessed everything that happened. The first person to make a move had all kinds of actions that could be said to be standard. It could be said that he had performed the assassination to the extreme. And the target and the people around him didn't notice. However, he had disappeared without a trace under the unknown means of the magician.
Obviously, this was definitely not done by the same person who was the vanguard. Because the target hadn't been successfully assassinated, he ran away first. What was he doing? If it was the Mage who did it, how did he do it? Did it have anything to do with the specks of light that suddenly appeared in the room? And most importantly, there was also a doubt that existed when the same thing happened last time. Where did the person go?
The assassins hiding everywhere couldn't help but cast their gazes at each other. In this situation where the enemy's situation was unknown, could the operation still continue?
The assassin hiding on the roof opposite Lin's room suddenly got up. He raised the crossbow in his hand and fired a magic arrow. A swift stream of light dragged out a line of fire. This was the famous weapon of a certain assassin — the Flame Snake Explosive Arrow. Automatic tracking, great power. Many Mages and aristocrats who were protected by layers of protection had died under this crossbow.
But this arrow only smashed the door panel of the window. The curtain of darkness in the room was released and retracted again. Things were as before. All the assassins were silent and ran away as fast as they could because they saw the light in the next room turn on. The Lich woke up.
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