My name is Poison Sickle.
This is my code name, as well as my name.
I am a follower of the God of Deceit, Gibbon Kenseth. Shadow is my partner, and light is my enemy.
My hands are filthy and stained with blood. My body stinks unbearably, and is unbearably ugly.
Even the kindest and purest Saintess, Eluri Camilla, would not be able to forgive me for the things I have done. Dying in some stinking ditch would be my final destination.
However, I have no regrets, because I have no other choice.
This is the only way for me to survive.
Now, I am loyal to the Kadir Family, because the price they pay is high enough to buy many people's lives. Of course, it is not my life.
I train the family's men of sacrifice, and train them in the art of assassination. I know that this will cause more people to lose their lives, but when a person can only protect himself, what is the value of other people's lives?
They are just things that I exchange for the value of my survival.
Half a month ago, the Acting Patriarch, Young Master Charles, gave me a mission to assassinate a guy named Tang En.
He is a Lord.
He comes from a place called Ellington. What kind of place is Ellington? I have never heard of it.
But that is not important. What is important is that as long as I kill him, this Excellent-grade dagger worth 100,000 gold coins, the Curse of the Night, will belong to me!
Although I am only a Silver-ranked Rank 9 Assassin, with this Excellent-grade dagger enchanted with anti-magic effects, I am confident that I can kill even a Rank 1 Grandmaster Magician!
After all, even a Rank 1 Grandmaster Magician has just awakened his domain. With my superb stealth skills, and the help of the Divine Spell bestowed by the God of Deceit, Shadow Step, I can completely bypass the warning spell, and kill the Magician before he can activate his domain. Everyone knows that Magicians are the sons of the Gods, but an Assassin who can use Shadow Step is the father of a Magician!
However, when I brought my teammate's head to 77 Queen Street, I regretfully found that Tang En wasn't there. What a pity, a head was wasted.
Soon after, I received information that Tang En had left Alinx ahead of time and returned to Ellington. Unfortunately, in order to complete the quest, I had to bring a group of burdens to Ellington. I mean, bring a group of teammates.
The reason why I said 'teammates' instead of 'heads' was to make them feel at ease. I had already noticed that their fingers were trembling slightly, and they were looking at me with unfriendly eyes. This wasn't a good sign. I would only have this kind of impulse when I wanted to kill someone. God of Trickery bless me, I hope that they weren't trying to kill me.
In order to make them relax, I moved my hand away from the dagger. Hey, look, it's just a small movement, and they relaxed. I'm really a considerate leader. I swear in the name of the gods, I really didn't want to kill them and use their heads to get close to Tang En!
I definitely didn't mean that!
Look, I've already let go of my weapon, haven't I? Of course, I'm not the kind of person who would do anything.
Assassination is an art. The same method can only be used once on the same target. Although I didn't succeed the last time, I don't want to use the same method again. I believe that as an assassin, you can understand this art, right?
The atmosphere in the carriage returned to normal.
Everyone was very restrained. This was good. We were all assassins loyal to the Cadier family, so there was no need for us to kill each other.
Oh, of course, I wasn't afraid of them. They were trained by me, so I knew what they were good at. Of course, I wasn't afraid of them ganging up on me.
I think my meaning was clear enough. Don't misunderstand, I'm not targeting anyone. I'm saying that everyone here is trash.
Of course, I'm an exception.
In order to increase the authenticity of our disguise, we sneaked into a carriage headed to Ellington. There were more than a dozen people in the large carriage. Other than us, there were two poor couples with children. They heard that as long as they were willing to work in Ellington, they would be able to eat their fill and even get a house. So, they sold their family property and decided to try their luck there.
This damned world, it's forcing people to a dead end!
Other than the two couples and their children, there were also a few refugees. They seemed to have begged for enough money to pay for the carriage and wanted to try their luck in Ellington. There were many other carriages along the way, and most of the people in them had the same goal.
Heh, what a joke. As long as you're willing to work, you'll be able to eat your fill and have a house?
How could there be such a place in this world?
A scam. That Lord Tang En must be planning some kind of scam. Perhaps it's an evil ritual that requires many people's lives to be sacrificed?
Of course, the coachman driving the carriage was also one of our men. His disguise was quite good. He had a big red nose, a face full of spots, a dirty beard, and a hunched back. He must have put a lot of effort into his disguise lessons. I should give him full marks, especially when he was drunk. He really looked like he usually did in the tavern. Even I was fooled by him — Wait a minute! Drinking?
Damn it! I clearly said that drinking is prohibited during missions. I must teach him a lesson and let him understand — Oh my God! Damn it! This coachman isn't one of my people!? He's actually a coachman!?
Where are our people!? Where's the guy who was supposed to be the coachman!? Did he get drunk again before we set off and missed the opportunity to set off!?
To be honest, I'm very angry right now!
When I'm angry, my "teammates" — See, I'm talking about teammates, not heads or anything weird like that — They're very nervous. It seems that I really gave them a lot of pressure. Relax, I have to relax.
Heh, thinking about it carefully, the guy who was supposed to be the coachman didn't have any mission to begin with, right? He only prepared a carriage outside the town to meet us after we succeeded. We could still complete the mission without him.
Thinking like this, I relaxed a lot.
"I see Ellington!"
At this time, I heard the coachman's drunken shout. The trembling carriage suddenly became very stable. I almost thought that the carriage had stopped, but when I looked behind, I realized that it wasn't the carriage that stopped, but the road became flat.
The carriage was still moving forward, and it was even faster, but the flat road didn't cause the carriage to shake at all.
Not far away, I could see a lot of people surrounding a few huge mechanical constructs and shouting something. As the mechanical constructs moved forward, the rugged road became very flat. The second mechanical construct followed behind and spat out a lot of black things. The third mechanical construct flattened the black things on the road … What are they doing? Paving the road?
I couldn't understand.
As the carriage moved forward, more and more scenes came into view. A lively and bustling town entered my sight. There weren't many idle people on the streets. Almost everyone was in a hurry, if they weren't moving goods, then they were holding some strange things and measuring something.
Strange, this place is really strange.
Ellington … A place that I've never heard of, it should be a very barren and desolate place, but why is it so lively?
Construction was everywhere here, and the busy people were glowing. They didn't have the sallow and emaciated appearance of the people in the Alinx slums. They seemed to be living a very happy and fulfilling life.
"Dear! It seems that we didn't come to the wrong place! "
"Ellington should be able to take us in, and our children won't starve to death this winter!"
The couple by the side was so excited that they cried tears of joy. It turned out that they came here because they were worried that Guo Dong wouldn't be able to get enough food and their children would starve to death. How pitiful!
A glimmer of hope appeared in the eyes of the few refugees who were struggling to survive in the carriage. Would it be interesting to destroy their rationality at this moment?
Ah, crap, my right hand is so hot. It must be my killing instinct acting up again. I don't know how many people are going to die this time!
"We've arrived. Get off the carriage!"
The coachman stopped the carriage and yelled for the passengers to get off. In order to keep it a secret, I … well, it's' we ', followed the refugees and got off the carriage. Then, I saw a table by the side, with a few people sitting there drinking tea and chatting.
Oh! Oh my god! I saw dwarves and pygmies!
They were sitting together with humans, drinking tea and chatting!
Who would believe that?
"Another group of people came?"
"There are more and more outsiders coming in recently."
"It means that the Lord's policy is correct. Our Ellington is becoming more and more famous."
"Come here and register! Register your name, age, gender, education level, and what you're good at. Then, go get your subsistence allowance. Eat your fill, wash up, and go sleep in the dormitory. We'll arrange your work tomorrow! "
In order not to attract attention, I gave them a secret signal and decided to follow the refugees into the dormitory first.
Soon, I arrived in front of the dwarf.
"What's your name?"
"Du —"
I had an idea, "— Du Langdon!"
"Du Langdon!?"
The dwarf opened his eyes wide.
He must think that this name is awesome!
"This name is awesome! Young man, you're so obedient! "
See, he really thought so!
"Hearing this name is like seeing my son obediently telling me the numbers in front of me. Hahahaha —"
What's wrong with this dwarf?
Why do I feel like something is wrong?
In the end, I managed to sneak into Ellington's dormitory.
When they all went to eat, I quietly left the dormitory. Being able to move stealthily was just that casual.
As an Assassin, after arriving at a destination, of course, I have to first gather information and familiarize myself with the terrain. Otherwise, how can I carry out the mission?
But how did I enter the forest without even taking two steps in Ellington's lousy place?
"So annoying … Why hasn't Big Brother come to play with me recently?"
Hey!
See who I found?
A lone loli!
She's the secondary target in the information!
The little girl beside Tang En, Elijah!
I can try to capture her!
But killing her will also give me a big reward!
This is a good opportunity! No one will know what happened!
I decided to sneak up on her!
I'll directly use the Curse of the Night to cut off her head!
"If Big Brother doesn't come, I feel like it's boring …"
Big Brother? Tang En?
"Although Big Brother told me not to practice casually, there's no one here. It's okay to practice a little magic, right? Hm? You think so too? "
Who is she talking to?
What did I hear?
Practice magic?
"A new spell? What's that? … Okay, okay, let me try. Oh, this direction right — — Arcane Torrent ~ Biubiubiu ~ "
"Boom boom boom boom boom — —!"
Poison Sickle, dead.
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