Chapter 413: Legendary Assassin

After hanging up the communication, Li Yu pondered slightly. Immediately after, he gathered his Little Brothers and used his Ability to Glimpse the Future to see the situation in the near future.

After peeping into the futures of a few people, his expression appeared slightly solemn. Once he had checked everyone's, Li Yu massaged his brow.

In the futures of most of his Little Brothers, combat scenes could basically be seen. This meant that unless Li Yu made every step correctly, battle was inevitable.

...

In the Starry Sky, a sharp black brilliance struck, plunging straight into the planet below.

Following a black cross mark visible only to specific people, it pierced through the strata and drilled out from the other side of the planet, directly leaving a gaping hole right through it.

The massive amount of Destructive Energy left along the way produced an irreversible Chain Reaction with the planet's Interior. Magma surged upwards, and fiery-red lava fissures split open on the Surface.

In the next moment, piercing white light suddenly flared. The entire planet expanded from the Interior, instantly blowing apart into pieces.

The explosive Shockwave rumbled and spread outward. A black robe fluttered as a rising Protective Shield completely isolated the Impact.

The massive black brilliance reversed and returned. As it approached him, it rapidly shrank, ultimately turning into a Mechanical Dagger covered in black patterns.

"Mission accomplished..."

The Assassin's voice was hoarse, sounding like a dilapidated bellows. With a flick of his wrist, he backhandedly sheathed it in the scabbard at his waist.

Then he tapped his Smart Terminal, brought up his contacts, and sent a message to a number noted as "Boss".

"Target eliminated."

However, just as he was preparing to leave, the Smart Terminal popped up another message.

It was a new mission: a special Glove emanating magnificent colors.

...

Although Vimala wanted him to head to No Man's Land as soon as possible, Li Yu also needed the Death Star to finish digesting so much alloy. He would have to wait at least around a month.

He absolutely wasn't at ease leaving the Death Star's architectural blueprint here.

And having the Stuart Civilization transport the alloy to the battlefield was even more unrealistic, so he could only wait here.

However, to enhance his own safety, he moved the location for receiving the alloy near the Central Star System of the Stuart Civilization.

This aroused intense dissatisfaction from Hannibal. Anyone could tell that Li Yu's surroundings were absolutely fraught with danger right now.

And Li Yu deliberately stuck close to him, clearly intending to make him share the danger. This person was simply too wicked.

"Duke Li Yu, if you're really worried about your safety, you can return to the Central Star System. We will absolutely not break our promise regarding your alloy," Hannibal's face was as black as an iron pot.

"You'd certainly like to break your promise..." Li Yu muttered. The Elemental Spirit was still in his hands; before handing over the alloy, it was impossible for Li Yu to give it to them.

Although the defense level near Stuart's Central Star System was far inferior to Return Star's, it was still the Core Region of a large civilization and could not be underestimated.

Even though Hannibal was extremely unhappy, Li Yu had made up his mind to loiter here and not go anywhere.

This forced Hannibal to increase the defense level to avoid dangers that could appear at any time.

And Li Yu's only worry was that some faction would directly dispatch top-tier combat power, such as a Fourth-Level Evolutionist, using limit-breaking combat strength to make him unable to resist.

Therefore, every once in a while, he would peep into his Little Brothers' futures. If a situation arose where most of them died, he would not hesitate to leave here.

Without relying on Stargate Jumps, the distances between stars were still quite far, even if many factions were itching to make a move against Li Yu.

However, in this period right after the battle ended, it was unusually calm because they were all still on the way...

In the blink of an eye, another ten days passed. The construction progress of the Death Star had already reached around 65%, consuming nearly 400 billion tons of Military-Grade Alloy. The progress was gratifying.

The first attack didn't come; instead, an A-Tier Lifeform defecting to him arrived.

An A-Tier Lifeform defecting to him—this was the first time, and the feeling was quite novel.

Ferr was not an outlaw; rather, he was once a Noble of Satan with an illustrious Family Clan.

However, because of a certain framed incident, he was indiscriminately wiped out by Lawrence, the Civilization Leader. His once glorious family perished, and he harbored unforgettable hatred toward Lawrence.

Thus, he chose to become an avenger, establishing a Black Market, choosing to Lie Dormant like a Poisonous Viper, seeking an opportunity to deal with Satan.

Now that Lawrence was dead, to express his gratitude to Li Yu, he came specifically to defect.

Ferr received Li Yu's personal reception. As long as an A-Tier Lifeform didn't have personality defects making them uncontrollable, they would receive a solemn reception no matter which faction they went to.

Not to mention, this guy supposedly even brought a gift to defect; he was a sensible person.

However, looking at the Micro Hard Drive placed before him, Li Yu's expression was somewhat stiff.

Ferr was still introducing it on his own: "This is something the Satan Civilization paid quite a price to obtain. It's said the contents inside are extraordinarily valuable."

Without a word, Li Yu took out two identical Hard Drives.

When Ferr saw those two almost identical Hard Drives, his eyeballs nearly popped out.

F*... can you do magic?

Where did these two Hard Drives come from?

Ferr was slightly stunned, but then he reacted. The intelligence he considered exceptionally precious, Li Yu had probably obtained long ago.

This made him feel somewhat bashful and awkward, squirming in his seat.

"Ha, let me see what information is inside this one," Li Yu pondered, picking up the Hard Drive Ferr brought and having Claptrap crack it.

This Hard Drive had already been decoded by the Satan Civilization, and the information inside was also a set of coordinates.

However, these coordinates were completely different from the ones Li Yu had obtained previously.

They were coordinates to another location, but also near No Man's Land.

This result somewhat surprised Li Yu, making him frown deeply.

He originally thought the factions behind the Hard Drives were all spreading the same coordinate location.

Yet the Hard Drive Ferr delivered shattered his guess. This matter was becoming increasingly confusing and complicated.

Regarding this matter, he had already sent Anthony to investigate, but having just arrived at the Tambur Hub, he didn't have any clues yet.

As for the suspected targets, The Reformers, he had sent Cree back, but there was temporarily no news either.

Looking at the squirming Ferr, an idea gradually formed in Li Yu's mind.

"Ferr, I'm going to give you a mission," Li Yu's words snapped Ferr back to reality, leaving him somewhat amazed.

He had just arrived, and Li Yu was already giving him a mission. This was placing too much trust in him.

"I have two coordinates here. Take some people to investigate, but don't act rashly." Li Yu tossed both coordinates to Ferr.

To show his sincerity, Ferr hadn't tried to decode the obtained Hard Drive and didn't know what was inside.

However, he had just watched Li Yu extract one of the coordinates from the Hard Drive and immediately hand it over to him.

He had personally witnessed the importance the Satan Civilization placed on this intelligence. Even though Satan was currently in a somewhat chaotic state internally, he still paid quite a price to breach the Base storing this intelligence.

Yet Li Yu gave the coordinates to him, who had just defected.

This trust made Ferr involuntarily sit up straight and say solemnly, "Please rest assured, I will absolutely not betray your trust."

Li Yu did indeed trust Ferr relatively well, but this wasn't decided by a first impression.

Rather, without Ferr knowing, he had already probed the other party using the Bewitching Sound Seed, and there were no problems.

Moreover, since there were two different coordinates, it meant there would be more different coordinates. Most likely, none of them were where the entrance to Gensokyo appeared, so tossing them to Ferr was harmless.

After sending Ferr off, Li Yu pondered. That Friend of Hunter's, Lamon, knew very little, and the Barton behind him was very secretive; no useful information could be squeezed out.

To get valuable information, he still had to start from the High Echelons. His first thought was Return Star.

But Return Star was quite guarded against him too. If he asked directly, it would probably be useless.

After thinking for a moment, a flash of Thunder suddenly crossed Li Yu's mind. He almost forgot, he seemed to be the "The Overlord" of the Salvation Ark.

The Salvation Ark should know about this matter, right?

Ever since accidentally merging his consciousness into the Salvation Ark's so-called The Overlord last time, Li Yu realized that this method might have unexpected uses in the future.

Li Yu still kept the remote link device for the Salvation Ark's The Overlord from last time.

Arriving at a certain battleship of the Meteor Fleet, as the heavy mechanical doors opened, the neatly arranged Mechanical Rings were stored inside.

The activation procedures were rather complex, and the minds of those Salvation Ark captives were all affected by some kind of thought wave. As long as Li Yu attempted to control them, the only outcome would be their heads exploding.

But this couldn't stump him. He just needed to use the Allspark Runes to directly Enlighten them.

The massive Mechanical Ring slowly unfolded. The various mechanical structures interlocked with each other, forming a cruciform ring that emitted a certain special fluctuation.

And just as Li Yu was preparing to merge his Attention into it, he suddenly felt a piercing cold radiate from the center of his brow, and then instantly cover his entire body.

What the hell!?

With his current lifeform level, he wouldn't easily feel cold or hot anymore. This situation was absolutely abnormal!

He stopped the movements of his hands, but the center of his brow still had a cold feeling, as if something freezing was pasted on it.

He realized something was wrong. This was clearly someone secretly making a move against him.

Having had the experience of facing the Solar Councilor last time, Li Yu directly took out the [Virtual Goggles] and put them on to check his own status.

Sure enough, he found an abnormal status—

[Death Cross Mark — A mark from Legendary Assassin Siegel Yuri. Those marked by him will never be able to escape the lock of Gungor's Dagger and will welcome death in fear.]

[Death Cross Mark]?

Legendary Assassin Siegel?

Li Yu frowned slightly. Where did this character Suddenly Appear from? And he even had a "Legendary" prefix?

He went to the Black Hole Network to check and easily found the other party's basic information. After reading it carefully, Li Yu was somewhat surprised. If looking solely at this information, the title of Legendary Assassin was quite factual.

Siegel's first recorded action was 345 years ago, an assassination of a small Civilization Leader.

Assassinating a Civilization Leader right upon debut showed how confident he was in himself.

And this was indeed just his beginning. For 345 years, his mission success rate had always remained above 98%.

His battle of fame was assassinating the Holivias Crown Prince, someone on the level of Titus, while surrounded by layers of heavy protection.

This made him famous overnight!

His Strength information was very mysterious. As an Assassin, almost no one had seen him act, and data in this regard was scarce.

It was only known that he had a powerful Mechanical Dagger.

But no matter how heavily guarded the target was, he could always succeed!

And now, he had set his sights on Li Yu!

(End of this chapter)