As the last member of the team passed in front of him, Raven adjusted his body to its best state.
"Is someone coming after us?"
"Not for now."
Silently waiting for the last dark cultist to finish speaking, Ravens toes lightly touched the soft mud on the ground, and he appeared like a ghost behind the cultists left side. His left hand pressed down fiercely on the cultists mouth, while his right hands black obsidian dagger flashed with lightning speed through the defenseless cultists robes and into his left lower back.
The sharp blade deftly avoided the scapula, piercing the back muscles like a paper cut, traversing half of his left lung, and entering his heart. Fresh blood seemed to be fleeing in the darkness. In an instant, surging blood flooded his lungs, and due to the intense pain, he struggled violently. In less than five seconds, his body went limp from loss of life, his expression forever frozen in that moment of mixed pain, confusion, and astonishment.
"Backstab successful! Damage ×2"
"Hit a vital spot! Backstab attack turns into a fatal blow! Additional 20 points of damage."
"Target defeated! Obtained 100 points of slaughter experience!"
"Obsidian Thorn [Forbidden Speech] Special Effect Trigger: Creates a 5-second silence effect within a 1-meter radius centered on the pierced location."
Leiwen didnt even look at the fleeting battle records, the moment the blade entered his body, the former top-notch assassin knew by experience that this guy was dead for sure. With the inverted silence effect of the Black Onyx Stinger, the cultist died without a sound. Including dragging the corpse to the side, it took less than ten seconds in total.
An assassin kills fastest by slitting the throat, then discarding the corpse, whether its handled or buried is none of their concern.
If all the enemies added up to just five or six people, it would be a refreshing thing to do.
If you want to continuously assassinate a team of over 10 people with overall strength above your own, starting with the throat is called death. This is a semi-enclosed long corridor type enclosed space, the amount of bleeding caused by the throat cut, not killing a few people, as long as the nose can still breathe, everyone can smell the bloody smell.
Although its against the rules of heaven, what can be forbidden is only sound, but smell is a different story.
Relying on consecutive backstabs and 【Silence】, Raven quietly took down the last three people. From here, Raven no longer dragged away corpses but instead put them down on the spot.
As long as there is one person who turns back, so many people missing cannot be explained.
Action changed from stealth to efficiency.
Another hand covered the mouth, and the black onyx dagger in his right hand accurately pierced the temple, the sharp blade stirring the soft brain into a pulp, instantly killing the fourth one.
Drop the corpse and continue to pounce on the fifth one. This one, because he was running with his head down, Ravens left hand movement remained unchanged, while the dagger in his right hand directly pierced the chin, entering the brain at an oblique angle along the right side of the neck vertebrae.
Gently put down his previous pounce posture and accelerate towards the sixth one.
The sixth one was nearly two heads shorter than Raven, and his peculiar gait when running made his head bob up and down nonstop. That round little head gave people a feeling that it would bounce back if stabbed. For the sixth person, whether it was a backstab or a stab to the brain, neither seemed quite right.
With such a slender body, its likely that his endurance and immunity are also low. Raven chose not to use the dagger, instead covering his mouth with his left hand and using his right hand to pinch his opponents throat.
It was a gamble, but Raven bet right. Whoever the big shots son or whatever was, he failed his toughness check and then Ravens fingertips transmitted the sensation of having his throat crushed.
The seventh person may be in charge of taking care of this little guy, hearing a somewhat unscrupulous sound, he stopped his footsteps and made a gesture as if preparing to look back from the right side.
Raijins Thunderclap!
Due to the relationship between body shape and angle, Raven chose to stretch out his left hand and violently push up the opponents chin. At the same time, he quickly pulled out a dagger and stabbed it through the throat, piercing the lower jaw and reaching the brain.
After getting a good grip, when putting down the body, let his lower jaw press tightly against the nape of the neck to minimize blood spillage.
Unfortunately, something went wrong at this time.
Perhaps it was the sudden absence of hurried footsteps, or perhaps it was pure fear, but whatever the reason, just as Raven finished off the seventh one, the eighth guy suddenly turned around.
In the dim light, he saw his fellow believer with a hand clamped tightly over her mouth, bulging eyes revealing that she was enduring extreme agony.
The eighth guy immediately opened his mouth and shouted: "There are enemies..."
He shouted in a half voice and stopped abruptly, only to see Lei Wens ghostly figure flashing quickly, with a black dagger carrying an air wave, stabbing him in the face.
Lewin swiftly stabbed a dagger into that guys throat with a swift motion, unfortunately, the whole troop was alerted.
There are six more enemies! The strongest six!
The only way out for Raven is... death!
The black iron warrior and fallen paladin Rudy were the first to react.
When Ludi turned around with a long sword in his hand and saw Ravens movement over the three people, his face instantly lost its blood color.
Because Ravens fist hit a seam that didnt seem to be there, only Rudi knew what Raven was trying to do - Raven wanted to trigger the landslide trap in the tunnel, originally set by Rudi to block pursuers, but why did it work here?
The crack in the fissure snaked to the fragile ceiling in less than a tenth of a second, and the sky collapsed. The boulder fell as expected, with Ludi as the center, and nearly 30 meters of the ceiling collapsed forward and backward.
Before he could even cry out, let alone protect the ritualistic Fakalin, Rudi had already fallen to the ground in the corner of the tunnel.
In the face of a massive boulder falling from above in tons, any attempt to stop it is futile. The only glimmer of hope lies in shrinking into a corner and praying that the boulder doesnt land on your head.
A burst of flying sand and gravel, the choking dust made it difficult for the survivors who narrowly escaped the first wave of falling rocks to breathe. They coughed loudly while welcoming Ravens follow-up attack again.
Levins work was easier than whack-a-mole. With the help of dark vision, he harvested lives like a grim reaper.
As he heard the screams beside his ears, Rudy struggled to crawl out of the rubble, but failed. A boulder weighing over a ton pinned half of his body down. Kaelin Darkshadow was killed instantly by a falling rock, with his brains splattered everywhere.
Rudi didnt fail to hear the miserable cry from behind him, but he really couldnt come out, let alone his proud long sword which was buried in a pile of broken stones.
He had barely crawled out of his left shoulder when he sensed that damned assassin pouncing over.
"Flame Hand!"
Without looking, Rudis left hand suddenly emitted a scorching glow, and the arcane energy quickly formed a burning palm. Following his instincts, Rudi shot this one-ring spell in the direction of the approaching enemy.
The raging flames shot out in a conical shape, sweeping away everything they came into contact with. Everything in front of it was instantly emptied.
Did I hit it?
In the flames, I saw people rushing over, but they didnt even have time to let out a miserable cry before their bodies were engulfed in fire and flew backward.
He was rejoicing when a severe pain suddenly came from his left hand, he knew that his tendon had been severed.
Glancing at the corpse that Raven had thrown over earlier, which was now just a roasted pig, he lightly placed the dagger against Rudis nape and slowly opened his mouth: "Sorry to disappoint you. A mature assassin would never rashly charge towards an Ofar Knight."
Those annoying guys have finally been wiped out!
Leiwen panted heavily, his left hand wiping away his own sweat, while his right hand holding the Black Onyx Stinger could barely be lifted.
Just right, leaving only one most likely breakthrough character who didnt die.
Leiwen didnt expect to get any information out of the cultists mouth, those who can be cultists are definitely die-hard brain-dead fans, even if they were executed, nothing could be asked. This Rudy is just right, I also heard earlier that he is actually a mercenary.
A dagger was pressed against Rudis throat, and Raven, hiding behind him, deliberately raised his voice: "Dear Guardian Knight, if you dont want to end up like him, please answer me one thing."
Lei Wen said as he turned the head of the sacrifice, letting Rudi take a good look at his former masters remains, which only had half a brain left.
As she admired him, Ravens fingernails lightly slid over Rudis still-handsome face, his ears, his throat...
Before his eyes were the only remaining chin, the twisted limbs and the whole body covered in blood, as well as the fingers that kept slipping over the knife that was about to harm him. These things constantly reminded Ludi that the person behind him, who had a dagger pressed against his back, was the devil who had slaughtered all of his acquaintances!
Rudy, who was already a fallen holy warrior with an unfirm will and had not received any anti-interrogation training, let alone being a die-hard member of the Black Sun Cult, collapsed easily.
"Im telling you! Im telling you! Ill definitely tell you what I know."
Levin took out the portrait from Pongs body and handed it to Fagulin, while lighting a torch at the same time.
By the light of the torches, Rudy shuddered as soon as he saw the portrait.
"Do you know who posted this?"
"...is the main sacrificial law of Kalin."
Levin could feel Rudys body trembling: "Tell me, whats going on?"
Fakarin hesitated. Corvins dagger flashed in an instant. The stinging pain on his neck made Fakarin scream: "I said! I said! This is a task directly decreed by the Dragon God through divine revelation. We are to kill three people unexpectedly in the Golden City, and this is one of them."
"Three? Which three?"
"The list is in Fakhruls pocket!"
Raven pulled out a folded confidential document from Fakarins side, and indeed there were three names on it. In addition to Leilin, the other two were Frank Aristo and Libell Madis. Raven searched his deepest memory and found that he had never heard of these two names even in his previous life in the game.
"Who are they?" The dagger in his hand moved forward a little bit again.
Rudi gritted his teeth, his voice trembling with tears: "I really dont know why the Dragon God would let us kill these three inexplicable guys. One is a common civilian kid who can be seen everywhere, one is a third-rate blacksmith, and the other is an apprentice pharmacist. Anyway, it didnt take much effort to get them all killed."
"Do you really not know what kind of people they are? Or what commonalities they have?"
"I really dont know! The only thing I know is that they were all found using prophecy magic."
Three people in a row were found using prophecy? This is a big move!
Repeatedly asked, but couldnt get anything out of Ludis mouth.
Seeing Raven had a mind to kill him and keep his mouth shut, Rudy panicked: "Dont kill me, I still have another treasure that can be exchanged for my life."
Rudi said so, but Raven saw the guilt in his flickering eyes. It made sense, after all - a fallen Holy Warrior facing pursuit by the Holy Warriors Guild wouldnt have had the luxury of hiding goods elsewhere.
"No! Ive already told you everything I know! You cant kill me! Killing me will only dirty your hands... I have a daughter..." Rudy begged non-stop.