Chapter 1844

The female warrior bared her blood-stained teeth at Su Xiao. Although her strength was far behind Su Xiao's, she was definitely a ruthless character, and she was very loyal to Bloomer. Finding that things couldn't be done, she immediately chewed up her tongue and the poison sac in her mouth, letting the poison rapidly enter the blood circulation system.

Su Xiao stood up and gripped the hilt of the Dragon Flash. With one slash, he broke the female warrior's heart. Perhaps his overdrawn luck hadn't recovered yet; killing ten assassins in a row didn't drop a single treasure chest. But the mana permanently increased by his talent ability had reached the 200-point limit, which was a pretty good harvest.

After the accumulation all along, Su Xiao's mana had reached 8226 points. It was still somewhat difficult to break ten thousand, and he had two ways to increase mana: one was through talent ability, and the other was to improve real intelligence attributes.

If he wanted to accumulate mana to over ten thousand points as soon as possible, awakening talent ability was the best choice. However, the current 8226 points of mana were already enough for Su Xiao to use in battle.

Killing ten assassins gained a total of 3.7% of the World's Source. The last three assassins to appear had strength around Stage 5, slightly stronger than a Stage 5 newcomer contractor. From this point, it could be seen that it was very difficult to obtain the World's Source in this world.

Clearly, Bloomer was still quite restrained. It wasn't that he was soft-hearted and didn't send powerful assassins, nor was it that he couldn't find such people, but that such people were very difficult to control. Once they failed, it might implicate Bloomer himself, unlike the female warrior and others who would commit suicide immediately after failure.

Su Xiao had just walked to the bottom of the castle when the window on the third floor was pushed open. The old priest threw out three corpses from the window one after another.

"Bloomer's people?"

Su Xiao didn't look at the corpses on the ground. The manor could be said to be extremely lively tonight. Thirteen assassins had come to visit. Whether there would be more later was temporarily unknown.

"Not sure. These are three alien mercenaries, not barbarians from the west or north. They should be from the Kurodo tribe outside the south. Their black skin is very easy to recognize. They shouldn't be dead men. They said the employer was a wandering poet named Bo, which sounds like a pseudonym."

"Kurodo?"

Su Xiao kicked a corpse beside his feet to lie on its back. This alien mercenary had pitch-black skin all over. If executing an assassination, this could be considered a racial talent. In the dark night, as long as they didn't show their teeth when smiling, they could use the dark night as cover.

Northern aliens (barbarian dead men), southern aliens (Kurodo tribe), professionally trained female warriors, official transcendent who could manipulate blood (high-level dead men), fake maids (wild transcendents), several dead men—these miscellaneous assassins mixed together gave Su Xiao a sense of rule-breaking.

Although he hadn't had much contact with Bloomer, it was unlikely that such an old fox would send alien mercenaries, and these alien mercenaries didn't have tight lips, actually revealing the employer's identity.

More importantly, the possibility of Bloomer sending people to assassinate Princess Pedera was very low. That old fox had already seen that Pedera was Su Xiao's puppet + suspected plaything. Risking killing such a princess had no meaning at all.

Su Xiao, deep in thought, went to the third floor. When he pushed open the door to Pedera's bedroom, the princess was curled up in the quilt, leaning in the corner of the bed. The Ahoge King sat at the end of the bed, and the Old Mystic stood at the window.

Puchi!

A slash as fast as thunder. After the long sword pierced through a piece of air, the blade was stained with blood.

Both the Old Mystic and the Ahoge King were somewhat surprised because they hadn't sensed that there was actually someone else in the room. There wasn't a single bit of aura.

Su Xiao could detect this person not because of his intuition ability—his intuition ability also hadn't detected the other party's aura. The other party should have some kind of racial talent.

The reason Su Xiao judged that there was someone here was entirely because of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was absolutely top-notch in terms of concealment and was also extremely skilled at anti-concealment. Over time, Su Xiao was of course also skilled in this aspect, just like Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Benny all understood some sword skills, but sword skills weren't suitable for them to use, after all, combat styles and body shapes were different.

The long sword slashed forward, and a man covering his throat appeared. His skin was pitch-black. After his throat was slashed open, he actually lunged at Pedera, intending to grab a hostage.

Bang!

Su Xiao kicked the alien mercenary's head into the wall, and a crisp crack sounded under his feet.

"Fourteen in total, but these four are a bit strange."

Su Xiao picked up the alien mercenary's corpse and threw it out the window directly.

"I, what should we do."

Princess Pedera spoke with a trembling voice. It was her first time seeing so many people die.

"Sleepy, go back to sleep."

Su Xiao moved his slightly sore left forearm and pushed the door out of the bedroom. The Old Mystic closed the window, smiled at Princess Pedera, and also left the bedroom.

Princess Pedera felt like crying. She looked at the Ahoge King with expectation in her eyes. The Ahoge King pressed her hand lightly on her head.

"It's okay, with me here, I won't leave."

"Hmm!"

Pedera nodded very hard. Clearly, she was going to have insomnia today.

Early the next morning, when the first ray of morning light climbed over the horizon, a large group of soldiers was already guarding the courtyard. These soldiers had sharp eyes and strict discipline. They looked like veterans who had just retreated from the border. Although some of them had physical disabilities, their combat experience was even richer.

"Search all suspicious personnel in the nearby area, seal off all entrances and exits. As long as it's alive, even if it's a mouse, you have to drag it out for me!"

Wu Fu roared at the top of his lungs. He had just led his army to the manor this morning and saw the slash marks and large pits in the courtyard, as well as several corpses.

Through the Old Mystic, Commander-in-Chief Wu Fu learned that Su Xiao had been assassinated last night. Wu Fu was so angry he nearly died on the spot. He had finally met a royal who didn't embezzle military funds, but the other party had been assassinated just after he left.

Wu Fu was furious. If Su Xiao hadn't forbidden him from large-scale searches, he would have even dug three feet into the surrounding area.

Half of Wu Fu's anger was real, and the other half was faked. As for who sent the assassins, Wu Fu knew it clearly, but he couldn't say it explicitly. That person was someone he couldn't afford to offend.

In less than half an hour, the courtyard was completely sealed off. Except for specific people, no one was allowed to enter or leave at will. There were three checkpoints at the front. In front of the door were twenty elite soldiers, and inside the door was a defense line formed by nearly one hundred soldiers, so as not to let the first defense line be broken through. As for the third defense line, those were two war beasts larger than houses.

Even if one could rush through these three defense lines, there were hidden sentries on both sides of the rear corridor. Mechanical crossbows were hidden in the grass on both sides, and four war hawks were landing above the castle, circling in the air from time to time.

The benefits of spreading money to the military were reflected at this time. Under this defensive formation, Su Xiao felt that even if Amu cooperated with him, he might not be able to rush in, unless Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang first buried explosives, then there would be a chance to kill into the courtyard. As for attacking the castle, the heavy shield charging soldiers ambushed on the first floor were no joke.

The front defense line was fine, but as for the back door, whoever dared to sneak in from there would be poking a hornet's nest. More than five hundred elite soldiers were all in the backyard.

The current situation was that this manor was already about the same as a military camp. As long as a flag was set up at the door, no one would doubt that this was a military camp.

In the Senate's conference hall, Bloomer was rubbing his forehead lightly.

"You mean, Wu Fu led 1,200 elite soldiers to station in the Right Imperial Manor?"

Bloomer clearly hadn't slept well last night, and some dark circles could be seen under his eyes.

"That's right, and he even pulled over the two war beasts from the barracks outside the city, which even alarmed the City Guard. Those 1,200 soldiers are all elites who retreated from the border."

The servant in a gray robe spoke in a low voice, and Bloomer raised his hand to indicate that he already knew.

"Is Wu Fu trying to tear his face with me? How much military funds did Kuku Lin actually give him?"

"It is said to be... all of it."

"What?"

Bloomer was stunned upon hearing this, and the senators beside the conference table raised their heads one after another. They were also very surprised.

"So that's how it is. Wu Fu has already been fed, and he is busy wagging his tail in front of his new master. No wonder he didn't reply to my secret letter. If I'm not careful, that guy really climbed up. Since that's the case, let him climb higher."

Bloomer's implication was clear: the higher he climbed, the harder he would fall.