CHAPTER 27

The night was very good to assault the king, like assassination isn't assassination if it isn't in the night. Arata and Rachel went into the castle, fast enough, and clean enough to be not seen by anyone. Went to the first floor, and assassinated everyone on there. But they soon thought about something. They didn't prepare.

The Ministers were easy, most of them didn't even close their doors yet, it was easy to assassinate them in their sleep. The guards were also useless. They couldn't detect Arata and Rachel. Arata and Rachel had been completely suppressing their presence. It was a skill obtained by enlightenment of the scroll.

As enhancer's bodies are enhanced now, they could jump from the first floor and land with ease. But, then they would not be able to climb to the second floor of the tower. So instead, they decided to use a rope found in a bedroom and threw up the rope to the second floor. They did not need to tie it. Although it could be dangerous, they would only grab onto the rope for a second and jump up.

So they threw the rope, jumped and held it for a fraction of a second and jumped again and reached the second floor. As the speeds were enhanced, the rope didn't fall. For Rachel, Arata held the rope until she reached the second floor. Coincidently, they had fallen into an empty room, which was the best thing they hoped for.

"Most likely we will be met by guards outside, and it's not going to be as easy as the downstairs floor. There the density was less, and nothing was locked.", Rachel said.

"Well, we just have to go through the windows from outside I guess, quickly", Arata replied.

"Hmmm… yes !" , Rachel said excitedly.

The tower was high, but they weren't scared of heights. They walked along the narrow tower line like they were on a cliff. Next they reached the window where the queen laid. Arata and Rachel were already very familiar with the faces of everyone, after all the portraits of the targets had been purchased by them from Kell and Bell.

Silently, open and silently kill, without leaving any traces behind. The most common way of killing while sleeping is to puncture the medulla Oblongata. So, that's what they did. They successfully killed all the people in the rooms and escaped.

The assassination was uneventful here, they thought. But that's what the point of assassination. One shot, and silent.

They didn't need 3 nights in the inn. When the first cart started rolling, they boarded which went towards the Kingdom Brittania. They still had about 1060 Gold coins. They paid the driver to keep them safe. It had been two days since they left the Alvarez Empire, they wondered how their friends and unit mates were doing.

They left the carriage in the Southern Border town of Brittania Kingdom. The Ministry of Agriculture was present here, as most of the crops were grown here. This was the Rice Bowl of Brittania.

But there are traps in the buildings, which they heard from Bell and Kell. There are alarms and boogie traps here and there on the yard in front of them. Which is mostly considered as the most effective way against assassination attempts.

So, Arata and Rachel were up for a task. They could not walk in the yard and climb up and just assassinate the Minister. They had to go some other way.

How to skip through walking into the yard and get straight into the house ? Their obvious answer was to go underground and get up from inside. So this had to be done in stealth mode. But it will take a lot of time. So they took an inn and decided to talk to some locals. And obviously, they needed some information on the underground channels.

Fortunately, they found a map and there were drains in the town, but it wouldn't be possible for Arata and Rachel to follow through them, as they were carrying drain water, and were too narrow. Digging up would take too much time. Therefore, they decided to gather more information before deciding to do anything. They again went to the sewer rats for rats, but they did not have this information. They knew the types of traps, but not the location, which apparently changed every day.

Yup, let's dig, they thought. But they would dig and go through at the same time. Not build a tunnel and travel.