Chapter 27 - A Surprise Attack

More than 25 people stood on the place where the two guys were killed by the team. One of them was analysing the corpses and the others were searching for clues near him.

"...Those must be the #1 and #2 from Class A." The person who was analysing said.

"Go find them, they must be here somewhere." He ordered them.

"Yes sir!" They all scattered in different directions.

"So the Lord was correct." The person smiled viciously, stood up and moved as well.

...

The three just traveled quietly when luan noticed something.

"...I think we will have to fight." He said looking behind them.

There were 3 people covering their face by a half mask. From their nose to below. They were wearing tight pure black clothes that would merge in the darkness.

"Those are the targets." One of the assassin said. They didn't wait for a single second and two of them charged forward.

Angela and Warola noticed them as well. Angela quickly took out her sword and got into fighting stance.

"You can take out that third guy." He said to her. He as well, took out his scythe.

She used the body enhancing technique and he did the same.

The of person who was behind took out a small glowing ball and crushed it with one hand.

Swoosh

The two people at the front came straight at the team and Angela went past them while dodging their attacks. The two people ignored her and decided to focus on the strongest of the two.

Slash!

One of the person swang a dragger at him. The other guy threw a knife and charged with his sword.

Luan avoided the two attacks that were coming and used his scythe to destroy the sword of the second guy who was charging at him in mid way.

"What?!"

Luan's scyth was stuck to the ground at that attack and the first guy was already too close to him. He decided to let his scythe be for the moment and used his elbow to hit the person on the jaw.

"Arkh!" But that attack did equal damage to him as well as the person. The guy was sent flying for 10 meters but luan's elbow was injured as well. His body couldn't handle the power of that attack too well.

The second guy recovered from the previous attack and took out a few knives from his clothes.

He went behind luan's back at almost vanishing speed and threw his knives at him.

Swoosh, Slash! Slash! Slash!

To his surprise, all of the knives were destroyed in almost an instant, he could barely see what caused this.

He looked at the location the scythe was in but there was nothing.

'When did he...?!'

"Where are you looking?" Luan swang his weapon horizontally in the attempt to destroy his skull.

"If it hits me I'll...!"

Thud!

Many knives striked the scythe at the same time.

"Shit...!" It was enough to send luan off balance completely.

There emerged many people from the shadows, and roofs of the houses.

'Why the hell are they attacking us?' Luan thought while most of the people came to attack him and some went towards Angela.

All of them were in sync with each other. When someone threw knife, the other went on to attack at close range. Despite the many things flying around them, not once did the knives hit anyone. As if they were sure where it would land.

At this time, luan was having a hard time keeping every knife in check. There were alot to avoid. There were also those who faught in close combat and had to dodge their attack and counter it as well. But when it looked like one would hit him, he would avoid it at the last second and cut the person open. His scythe got stronger with every attack.

...

50 meters away from this fight, there was also Angela who was fighting with many people at once.

Some guy threw spear at her and another axe. She avoided the axe and cut the spear in mid air. Her sword was on the blink of breaking as it was a normal weapon and couldn't handle this much tension.

A guy noticed this and quickly moved towards her but not as much to seem different.

But to his luck, she saw him getting closer. Her big eyes kept track of everyone else's attack while focusing on the guy's movement.

Crack!

Her sword finally broke on the next attack. And she was stunned for a second.

'There!' He saw an opportunity to strike his sword on her and charged at incredible speed. He aimed at her arm horizontally to cut her in two pieces.

Slash!

His attack managed to hit her. The attack was from someone stronger than her.

But nobody would have guessed what they would see. The previous attack was enough to kill her without any dought, but she was completely fine. Only a small scratch appeared on her arm. And now it was the time for the man to be stunned.

"W-What...?!"

...

Huff, Huff

After a few minutes of power struggle between the two sides, Angela finally managed to come out victorious. The pile of bodies are lying on the ground where she is standing.

Clap, Clap, Clap

They heard someone clapping their hands from the corner.

"I never would have thought, someone could do something like this." He got closer to them.

"Do you realize? They were all experts of Qi Gathering 3 to 4."

"Who the hell are you?" Luan said.

"Who am I doesn't matter because you're gonna die in a few minutes."

Luan narrowed his eyes, "Don't you think you are a bit arrogant?"

"Haha, you should know that the difference between a Qi gathering 4 and 5 is that of heavens and earth. Do you really stand a chance against me? You are just in Qi 3"

He vanished from the place he was standing and luan felt immense pressure behind him.

He looked back and saw a saber coming at him. He could barely react to the attack and it almost pierced through his skin. But he moved back at the decisive time.

'That was dangerous! I could have died.' He thought, "No, no stay calm, this fight isn't in my favor but I can win this.'

"Oh? You managed to avoid my weakest attack? Good." That person stepped forward again with even more speed and powerful attack.

Angela took the small bits of steel of her broken sword from the ground and threw it at the person. He stopped his attack midway and looked at her.

"Ha? Annoying fool, do you want to die so early? Just shut up in the corner." He said in a chill tone.

He continued his attack on luan, and he was almost close to him again in a split second, but then...

"What?" There was a huge yellow coloured shield in front of him and luan. But his strike was already too close to stop so it collapsed with the shield and a huge bang came from the collision.

Bang!

As the shield was made from Qi, its energy shattered into a million direction but that just stunned the person even more.

"M-Meridian opening...? I...Can't beat someone like that." He said.

When luan was sure the guy lost all faith in himself, he used his other elbow and used up every bit of his remaining Qi to deal a huge blow to the person's chest.

"AGGH!" That attack stopped the person's heart for a second and he fainted.

HUFF! HUFF! PANT!

Both of luan's elbows were completely damaged now. They were dislocated from their position. He could barely more his hands and it hurted alot.

"Are you ok?!" Angela asked.

"Yeah, it's nothing. More importantly..." He said, "Your sword is broken, we need a new one."

She knew he wasn't right but she didn't ask anything forward.

'That was pure fluke. If that person hadn't been ignorant and stunned in the last second, I would be dead several times over now.' He sighed, 'On the bright side, I now know the strength of the shield.'

...

"Mndh." The person woke up from his sleep after an hour.

"Tell me who sent you here." Luan asked him while pointing his scythe around his neck.

'I can't feel my lumbs?' He looked down and saw all of his limbs gone.

'N-No no.'

"Answer fast." Luan interrupted his thoughts.

'Calm down me. Calm down. This guy isn't from meridian opening for sure. That shield was not nearly as strong as the weakest of them. But I can't get away anymore...' The person tried staying calm.

"Do you really think I would tell you about that? Why didn't you just kill me?" He asked.

'I wanted to, but the system told me to get information from you and then kill you. But I can't tell him that. I guess he's not gonna say anything.' Luan sighed.

"That doesn't matter anymore."

"I won't tell you anything, but just know that he's the worst enemy you can make." Before luan could ask anything from him, he bit his tongue and swallowed it. Dying in the process.

"... He actually did suicide."

...

They didn't wait at there for too long as there was no reason to ans started moving to the center of the town with Warola.

"You two looked too cool there!" She said and they smiled.

"Really?" Angela asked.

"Yeah! Defeating them like this like that!" She mimicked their actions with her hands.

"Oh well, we are already here." Luan said. There was a glowing white line on the ground. They passed it and suddenly, the everlasting night of the town was gone. The day had came.

There were people standing in this a hundred meter location waiting for someone.

[A guide will take them out of here] was written on the paper.

"Warola!" A person called for her.

"Papa!" She ran and they hugged each other.

"I was so scared you know?!" He almost cried after saying those words and continued hugging his daughter.

"Sorry papa, these people helped me get back!" She said and pointed toward the two. Her father quickly composed himself and bowed to them.

"I can't repay you for what you did. I sincerely thank you for everything you've done!"

"Ah no problem. We did what we did what we wanted." Luan said, a little uncomfortable from the attention.

"THERE! Sir I found you!" they heard a voice of someone. A 16 year old guy.

"Now. If you give me permission." He bowed down and the father daughter went their way.

That guy came running towards them half breath.

"HUFF...I...PANT.....I finally found you." He said.

"And who are you?" Luan asked getting his guard up.

"I...I am one of my Lord Alden's companion. There is something I must tell you." He continued in between breaths, "You're about to get attacked by the Second Prince's forces! Also the city outside is in chaos!"

"... What happened?"

"There are meridian opening declaring to fight against each other and the state lord will also be present!"