Devious
Mark could not believe their luck, the situation had turned out the best it could for them. They could easily take all of the money from the puny-looking boy, and kill the two of them if they try and resist.
The group walked inside the alleyway, towards the very end of the alley , " This spots fine." Mark spoke and casually walked past Kylian, blocking his way from behind, while the remaining group along with Benn were on the other side.
"Hahaha...." Mark laughed "You so naive boy" he then raised his knife, its edge just a hand away from Kylian "Now boy, give up all of the money."
Kylian looked around inspecting his surrounding, "Yeah this spot seems perfect." he spoke nonchalantly, the earlier nervous-looking kid was gone by now.
All group of five was a bit shocked at the changed attitude of the boy.
"Hahhahaahah" the dark alleyway echoed with a laugh. "This will be the worst of your mistakes, you fools" Benn shouted hysterically.
"What are you talking," Mark shouted, he was a bit shocked, "Fast, Give all your money." Mark raised the knife pointing towards Kylian.
"Give me your soul energy." Kylian outstretched both his hands in opposite directions, one aiming at Mark while the other towards the group.
"What are you doing, are you mad ?" Mark shouted, "Let me take it myse-."
He hadn't even finished speaking when an icicle pierced through his head and jutted out from the back of his head. Blood trickled down through the smooth icicle and fell to the ground drop by drop.
On the other end of the alley, the same scene had transpired. The man who was holding Benn was already on the ground dead.
[2 soul energy recieved]
[1 soul energy recieved]
Two messages flashed at the top right corner of his retina. Kylian looked at the two message puzzled.
Soon screams echoed the alleyway and the remaining group of three fell into chaos.
Taking advantage of the chaos Benn quickly slipped away and ran towards Kylian.
Kylian then formed two more ice shards and impaled the other two.
[1 soul energy received]
[1 soul energy received]
He ignored the messages for the time being, and walked towards the last remaining man, who by now was already up against the wall at the end of the alley.
"HELPPPPPPP.....HELPPPPP" the man shouted his lungs out. Ironically Mark had chosen a good spot.
Kylian, pointed an ice shard at the man's neck "Why is the city in such a dissary ?" Kylian asked, even though his main reason was to test the system, but gaining some extra information seemed a good idea to him.
The man quickly spoke "...The..nobles...a few days back..there was a guest he was attacked outside city, the same man who attacked the guild. So rich circle thinks the outer circle is trying to save the man. So they have held back food, then there was a riot."
Kylian nodded, and the next minute the man was lying dead.
[1 soul energy receieved]
"Kylian you got me worried there for a second." Benn walked towards him, carefully walking through the dead bodies so as not to get blood over him. He was too used to dead bodies by now and not to mention the potion.
"Yes, I agree." Chepi spoke too, as she flew nearby "I thought you are chickening out. But that was devious, especially the acting part. Where did learn to act so well ?" she asked with a giggle.
"I was trained to be this way." Kylian spoke answering both. Being an elite assassin he was trained to hide in broad day and to be anyone and no one at the same time.
Previously Kylian hadn't used much of those skills as he had been in denial of himself and his 'evil' side. As for now, he had happily accepted himself, especially the killing part.
"Benn you stand out with 'Hodor, I have to check something." Kylian spoke, as he again inspected the souls received.
CURRENT LEVEL-1
6/20 souls [14 SOULS REQUIRED TO LEVEL UP]
Benn simply nodded and left.
As Benn left Kylian immediately asked
"Chepi, why have I received different amounts of soul energy, from different kills ?"
"Ohhh... And I have been wondering why do you look so spaced out this whole time," She spoke "You see different souls have different energy. Even though these all looked similarly weak to you, their souls had a different energy, because their cultivation level is different." Chepi replied, she pointed towards the dead body of Mark "You see him there, he had a level of human-2, while all the rest of them had human-1."
'So the stronger they are, the more souls I receive.' Kylian nodded.
"And by the way Kylian, you can talk to me through your thoughts, I can read you mind." Chepi spoke.
Kylian paused in his course "WHAT" he almost shouted, distressed.
" Ohhh Kylian, I did not think of you to be a pervert." she giggled and continued "Yes I can read your mind, but you have to allow me to do so. I can even transmit my thoughts to you." she added further.
Kylian sighed in relief, the very thought of someone reading his mind had creeped him out.
Kylian then checked the dead bodies for money and found twenty bronze shrillings in total. Even though Kylian had a silver but some extra shrillings were always welcome.
The three of them then walked to the middle circle, even though the situation here was much better but a bit of turmoil was clear on the faces of the residents.
Kylian followed by the two then made his way to the part of the middle circle which had inns. These inns were not good as compared to the ones in the inner circle, they were basically opened by the locals and their main customers were the merchants. The whole place was empty of guests because of the small riot and the attack on guests which the thief had mentioned earlier.
Kylian dropped off the two there at one of the inns.
Kylian then gave two bronze shillings and inquired about the situation of the city from the keeper. The keeper was more than happy, and spurted out eveything he knew or had heard. After getting the information from the innkeeper, Kylian walked off to the inner circle of the city, to execute his further plans.