Dogfight

Morgan didn't know much either. After he finished speaking, Luo Lun kept her promise and let him go without any hesitation.

The moment the dagger at his neck vanished, Morgan breathed a sigh of relief. Then, his legs gave way, and a wave of exhaustion swept over his entire body, causing him to collapse onto the ground in a rather miserable state.

He had truly thought he was going to die here.

"Um..."

Morgan spoke dryly, his voice hoarse. He tried to say something, but only caught the empty night breeze behind him.

To be able to escape with his life from that assassin's hands... he was already lucky enough.

Morgan gritted his back teeth and forced himself to stand on his weak knees. Still reeling from the shock, he looked around. There was no one in sight, only the flickering shadows of the trees, twisting and swaying, looking like the outstretched claws of demons.

His heart skipped another beat. Not daring to stay a second longer, he stumbled and practically crawled as he quickened his pace to escape.

The night completely swallowed the earth.

Luo Lun's figure, however, perfectly blended into this boundless darkness as she slipped away toward the manor.

Relying on the magical invisibility of her cloak, ordinary guards couldn't detect her at all.

But according to Morgan, the Norman family had hired a mysterious helper.

It was entirely thanks to that person's help that this time's target, the leader of the Norman family, the Crimson Rose, Elesha, had been able to dodge assassination attempts time and time again, and swiftly suppress the other families.

To possess such strength, Luo Lun figured that the opponent might not be weaker than herself.

Luo Lun's slender thighs tensed slightly. She crouched a bit, then leaped lightly, like a ghost in the night, silently vaulting over the towering wall.

Upon landing, she precisely controlled every muscle in her body, dissipating the impact into nothingness. She didn't even disturb a single dead leaf, avoiding anyone's attention.

The garden inside the manor looked somewhat abandoned, but it seemed there were still gardeners tending to it.

Perhaps due to a shortage of hands, the branches and leaves of the shrubs were not trimmed very carefully. All the bushes were hastily cut into rigid rectangular shapes, resembling silent tombstones.

Whoosh—

The evening wind carrying fallen leaves blew quietly, completely silent.

Suddenly, those few fallen leaves in the wind snapped into two halves without warning, as if sliced by an invisible blade.

Luo Lun's pupils shrank sharply. Her thighs tensed, and her whole body, like a spring compressed to the extreme, abruptly launched diagonally upward.

The moment her figure rose, several sharp gusts of wind, invisible to the naked eye, silently swept past where she had just been standing, leaving a few eye-catching slash marks on the rectangular shrub nearby.

She had been discovered!

Luo Lun forcibly twisted her waist in mid-air and landed steadily on all fours like a feline, before immediately dodging again.

A wind blade from an unknown direction left a deep fissure in her previous spot, as if the earth were a block of solid butter that had been viciously scooped out by an invisible butter knife.

"Another assassin? Pretty fast reflexes."

A cold, clear voice drifted from the wind.

Luo Lun didn't dare to stop. She instantly burst into high speed, leaving a solid footprint on the ground with every step she took.

However, the deadly wind blades clung to her like maggots on a corpse, relentlessly pursuing her. Behind and beside her, they continuously tore through the air, leaving trails of destruction.

Suddenly, Luo Lun slammed on the brakes. Right in front of her, a massive tornado pillar rose out of thin air.

Inside the pillar of wind, the air was frantically torn and compressed by the high-speed rotational force, emitting a teeth-grating screech of friction.

If she had rushed into it unprepared, the consequences would have been no less than falling into a meat grinder; she would have already been chopped into mincemeat by now.

"What terrifying combat intuition... It seems you are no ordinary person. A tough character has arrived." The ethereal voice floated over with the wind, its gender indistinguishable.

"Who are you?" Luo Lun shouted sternly, her eyes scanning the dark courtyard like a falcon, trying to pinpoint the source of the voice.

"You are the intruder here, Miss Assassin." The other party clearly didn't intend to waste words with Luo Lun. The response she got was an even sharper, more solid wind blade!

The power of this wind blade was clearly incomparable to the previous attacks. Its speed as it broke through the air was far superior, slashing right in front of Luo Lun in an instant, leaving no room to evade.

But such tremendous power obviously came with a price. The trajectory of this wind blade was crystal clear in Luo Lun's eyes, and the noise of it tearing through the air made its presence incredibly strong.

"Hah!"

Surging magic instantly poured into her right leg, and her slender calf seemingly transformed into a war hammer forged of pure steel! Luo Lun raised her leg and delivered a vertical axe kick, forcibly smashing the wind blade in half. The chaotic airflow scattered in all directions, blowing Luo Lun's robes until they rustled loudly.

"What?"

The unseen enemy paused for a moment, clearly not expecting an assassin like Luo Lun to possess such terrifying close-combat explosive power.

Taking advantage of the opponent's momentary daze, Luo Lun didn't hesitate at all. She instantly dashed toward the house, crashing straight through the nearest window.

The opponent's wind magic control was exquisite and covered a wide range. If she tangled with them in an open area, she would only fall into endless passivity, becoming a living target for those invisible wind blades.

Obviously, if she wanted to win, she had to find the opponent's true body first.

Although it was very faint, Luo Lun had already sensed the opponent's presence.

Moreover, in the narrow indoors, the opponent's wind attribute magic would be hard to cast. If attacks only came from the front and back, it would be much easier for her to deal with them.

"Who are you!"

"Halt!"

The noise of shattering the window just now had finally attracted the attention of the patrolling guards. Luo Lun couldn't be bothered to tangle with them; moving like the wind, she instantly left the guards behind.

Luo Lun sensed that the opponent had started moving... upstairs!

"Hmph, trying to escape?"

Magic enveloped Luo Lun's entire body. Then, she slowly crouched down and launched herself straight at the ceiling like a cannonball.

Boom—

Boom—

Boom—

The floors were directly and brutally smashed through by Luo Lun. She didn't have the free time to slowly look for the stairs.

The guards who rushed over upon hearing the sound stared dumbfounded at the large hole smashed into the ceiling above their heads.

The guards upstairs and the guards downstairs looked at each other in dismay through the hole.

Is she even human? How are they supposed to stop this?

"Got you."

Luo Lun kicked the door open and barged into a room.

The room was lit and bright. It was quite an exquisite bedroom, fully equipped with all kinds of furniture.

On the desk by the bed lay an open grimoire. A figure wearing a greyish-yellow robe was gently turning the pages, seemingly completely unaware of Luo Lun who had suddenly barged in.

"You are..." Luo Lun looked cautiously at the figure in front of her.

The person slowly turned her head, revealing a rather young face. Luo Lun immediately recognized her; it was her target for this mission, Elesha.

But she wasn't the wind-attribute mage she had just been fighting!

A withered, bony hand rested on her shoulder.

"I'm the one who got you," a somewhat hoarse voice sounded from behind Luo Lun.