Chapter 359: Assassination

The sky was dim, and two black dots flew in from the distant sky, slowly landing in a patch of woodland in Anbian City.

These were two Griffins of similar size.

Ramsey jumped down from the back of a Griffin and said to Angusi, the Regiment Commander of the Third Knight Order, "You just stay here with the Griffins and wait for me."

"Do we really not need to get any closer, Viscount Ramsey?"

Angusi looked at the city not far away; this place was still a certain distance from the castle in Anbian City.

"No need. If we get any closer, there will be too many people, and it will be easy to expose our tracks."

He had come to carry out an assassination; besides covering his face, he also had to hide his movements well.

Griffins were not common things.

If a Griffin appeared in Anbian City, the first thing people would associate it with would be Hesusu Auduin of Yueguang Valley.

In that way, Yueguang Valley would not be able to shake off the suspicion of assassinating Luoning.

Ramsey letting the Griffins stay here was for the sake of caution.

He changed into black coarse linen clothes, carried a bundle containing a mask on his back, and then stepped out of the woods, walking toward Anbian Castle.

Night fell.

After Luoning, Ruidar, and the others finished dinner, he returned to his own courtyard.

After becoming a Meteor Knight, he possessed the ability to learn the secret technique "Scorching Ray".

On the way back from Golden Feather City, he had once asked Meilongnika about the cultivation process of the secret technique.

For a secret technique formed by the fusion of two attributes, whether one could master it depended on two points.

The first is Attribute Affinity; in Meilongnika's words, it is the degree of difficulty in mastering attribute power. The lower the affinity, the higher the possibility of mastering the secret technique.

Luoning's affinity was super-grade in both elements, so naturally, there was no problem.

The second is the Knight's perseverance and determination.

Learning a secret technique is a process of constant attempts and experiencing failure; if one gives up and loses confidence after failing a few times, one will ultimately be unable to master it.

During this period, Luoning followed the experience passed down by Meilongnika, attempting to fuse and compress two types of Battle Qi.

Perhaps because he was a Great Archmage with extremely high Mental Power, his control over the two Battle Qi of different attributes was very high.

Now, he had already fused and compressed these two Battle Qi in his palm into a spherical object.

Although this ball looked harmless on the surface, the pressure inside was very great; once it erupted, the power could not be underestimated.

"Next is to control it to shoot outward through an extremely fine hole to form an extremely fast, ultra-high-temperature ray."

Luoning looked at the ball formed by the fusion of wind and fire in his hand, his thoughts wandering:

"Scorching Ray is for long-range attacks on people; if I hold this wind-fire double-compressed ball in my palm and simultaneously control the Battle Qi inside to rotate at high speed, could I strike enemies in close combat?"

Luoning decided to give it a try.

Whoosh—

In a trance, the night wind became a bit stronger.

Luoning frowned slightly.

His current Mental Power was very high; ordinary wind and grass movements could not escape his perception at all.

Just now, he seemed to have detected a hint of something wrong in the wind.

"That shouldn't be, right?"

Luoning quickly released the Detection Wind Magic, and his vision switched instantly.

In the sensory world of Wind Elements, he perceived a human figure falling into his small courtyard.

Although Luoning did not bring Tangmu or Dawei with him on this trip, Ruidar still had Qiaofuli arrange two guards to watch in front of the courtyard gate, and there were also Guards patrolling nearby.

For this person to enter his courtyard quietly without being announced, besides coming with ill intent, they must possess no weak strength.

In his perception, this person went upstairs as if they were very familiar with this building.

"It looks like someone very familiar with Anbian Castle; is it a remnant of the Bolante Bandit Group?"

Luoning dispersed the vision of the Detection Wind and looked toward the room door; at this time, the person had already arrived outside the door.

"Person outside the door, since you've come, there's no need to hide; come in."

Ramsey outside the door had originally wanted to sneakily see if there was anyone in the room, but he suddenly heard words that made him freeze.

He had walked all the way here, relying on the cover of the moonlight and his superb skills to bypass all the guards, so how was he discovered by the person inside when he reached the door?

"This Luoning, could it be that he has some kind of perception ability?"

Although Ramsey was suspicious, he was bold due to his skills and stepped out in front of the room door.

Luoning's eyebrows twitched; the person was tall, but dressed in black coarse linen clothes, and wore a pitch-black Dog Head Mask on his face, making it impossible to tell what his identity was.

"How did you discover me?" The slightly hoarse voice was completely different from Ramsey's original tone.

"My hearing is exceptionally sharp; I can hear even the crawling of a stink bug clearly."

Luoning stood up, "Who are you?"

Ramsey chuckled coldly; he was very confident in his own footsteps and believed the other party absolutely could not have discovered him due to sharp hearing; he figured it must be through some other means.

"Your performance is calm enough, which I have to admire, but don't think you can delay time through conversation."

Swoosh!

Ramsey's voice disappeared instantly; under his extreme speed, the floor where he had been standing cracked.

"I am the person who has come to kill you!"

The next instant, he appeared at Luoning's side, his long sword slashing horizontally toward Luoning's neck.

"So fast!"

Luoning's heart was startled; the move the other party used should be the level-seven Wind Attribute Battle Technique "Wind Instant Step", which was why such extreme speed erupted.

The Yanliu Sword was gripped in his hand, and he blocked it in shock.

Ramsey sneered inwardly; although the outside world claimed Luoning was capable of killing the Skull Society's president—that is, the Golden Knight Mondo encountered on the Screaming Sea—regardless of whether it was true or not, before a Meteor Knight, there was no power to resist.

The sword's edge drew close to the opponent's neck, and Ramsey seemed to have already seen the scene of blood spurting and head separating from body, but a sharp sound shattered the image he had envisioned.

Clang!

The longswords collided, emitting a sharp, explosive ringing sound, and Ramsey discovered with horror that his sword had actually been blocked.

"Impossible!"

His expression changed drastically; although he had not used his full strength in this strike, even a Golden Knight would have been unable to block it, so by what right could Luoning do so?

"Surprised?"

Luoning turned his sword's edge, parrying the opponent's longsword and striking straight for the face, attempting to tear off the opponent's mask to see the face underneath clearly: "Let me see, who exactly are you?"

"Delusional!"

Ramsey unleashed his full power; his entire being was like boiling water in a pot, and the mere pressure of the Battle Qi radiating from his body whipped up a strong wind in the room, blowing tables, chairs, sofas, and furniture askew and causing them to emit clattering collision sounds.

Two guards at the courtyard entrance heard this sound and turned back to look at the second floor with some surprise.

One of the guards guessed: "What is going on? Could it be that there is a woman in the Count's room?"

"Don't talk nonsense, which eye of yours saw the Count bring a woman inside? Besides, does bringing a woman cause such a commotion?"

The other immediately denied it: "In my opinion, the Count must be practicing swordplay in his room."

The two were quite in agreement with this view, and could not help but sigh in their hearts; as expected of a noble, he was not even afraid of damaging those expensive pieces of furniture while practicing swordplay in his room.

But soon, they sensed that something was wrong.

They heard a series of sword-clashing sounds, and the residual power generated by the collision of Battle Qi even tore the windows apart, causing the entire building to shake.

"No, this isn't right!"

The guards widened their eyes: "The Count is in a battle!"

They hurriedly drew their longswords and rushed toward the courtyard, but just at this moment...

Boom!

Sharp flames directly burst through the roof and walls of the second floor, rushing into the night sky and illuminating the darkness.

The strong wind brought by the residual power blew the two men, who were preparing to rush into the building, into the air, causing them to crash against the courtyard wall.

Their eyes were filled with terror; they knew that this was no longer a level that they, as Intermediate Knights, could get involved in.

"Quick, quickly go notify Lord Ruidar!" (End of chapter)