Chapter 1852

The sky-high flames illuminated most of the street. Su Xiao did not linger near the Senate. He took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and headed toward the Right Imperial Manor. An alibi was very important, so only Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Amu knew about this plan. Of course, when discussing this in the team channel, Benny also saw it, but it had already run off somewhere to roam.

The Holy City in the second half of the night was very quiet. Su Xiao walked slowly through a small alley, with rats darting through the darkness from time to time.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang followed Su Xiao, yawning. Suddenly, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang bumped into Su Xiao's leg and looked up at Su Xiao in a daze.

A strange smell of rot filled the alley. Su Xiao stopped in his tracks, his gaze fixed on the exit on the other side of the alley.

A cold wind blew away the strange smell in the alley. Su Xiao pressed one hand on the hilt of the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan. The black dragon skin wrapped around the hilt felt delicate. This thing was a gift from Lilim; there was only one strip, which Su Xiao wrapped around the hilt. According to Lilim, the origin of this black dragon skin was significant; her great-grandfather had died in the mouth of this Black Abyss Prison Dragon before being surrounded and killed by the Demon Race.

"Xiang Bubu, blend..."

Su Xiao's words were cut off halfway. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang blinked; just now, Su Xiao had suddenly 'disappeared.'

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang immediately blended into the environment. It took a side step to prevent any random attacks from the enemy. It saw its dog paw flip, and a glass bottle the size of a thumb appeared in its hand.

With a crack, the glass bottle hit the ground, and a cloud of fluorescent white powder exploded.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's nose twitched. It quickly determined that there was no spatial collapse or anything of the sort in this area. In other words, Su Xiao hadn't been dragged into an alternate space; this was one of the most common methods used by top-tier assassins.

Determining there was no spatial collapse in this area, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang took out a mass of silver fluid and tossed it hard toward the high ground. This mass of silver fluid grew wildly in mid-air like tree roots, with a portion wrapping around Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's dog paw.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang retreated with all its might. It only heard a snap, and the surrounding scene seemed to be dragged backward, with those silver roots dissipating rapidly.

This confirmed to Xiang Bubu that Su Xiao hadn't been teleported away by a formation.

Su Xiao had suddenly 'disappeared,' but Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang didn't panic, because it knew that panic couldn't solve any problems. Finding the cause first was the best method.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang tried to contact Su Xiao through the team channel again, but at this moment, it discovered that it couldn't open the adventurer team channel at all.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's tail curled up, feeling that this matter wasn't simple. It was very likely that it wasn't Su Xiao who had a problem, but that it had fallen into an illusion or was being affected by some ability.

Thinking of this, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang gritted its teeth, its dog paw slightly raised, touching the ground with only one pad. If one observed carefully, they would find a metal flake the size of a grain of rice stuck to the pad.

Di Da La la...

Blue-white electric arcs flashed. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was electrocuted into an awkward dance on the spot. The scene before its eyes twisted, the surrounding buildings disappeared, and it was lying in a patch of wild grass, with a metal wire wrapped around its hind leg—it was the Boundary Breaking Line.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang stood up with a jolt. It bit the Boundary Breaking Line with its mouth and pulled hard a few times.

Zzz~

The Boundary Breaking Line retracted. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang looked in the direction the line was being pulled. Su Xiao was standing in a patch of knee-high wild grass, with no one else around.

Although Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was very confused now, it immediately blended into the environment and retreated rapidly.

Twenty meters away from Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Su Xiao looked left and right. His experience was completely different from Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's. Just now, he had suddenly felt spatial power emerge. A trap had been pre-set in the alley earlier—a spatial trap. If his perception wasn't wrong, it was driven by the eternal power of dark nature.

That spatial trap had three effects: one, teleportation; two, shielding perception; three, temporarily creating illusions.

The illusion was of no use to Su Xiao; he ignored it directly. He felt something was wrong the moment he stepped into the spatial trap, but it was already too late to withdraw.

Clearly, an enemy had known long ago that Su Xiao would pass through there. This could only mean one thing: there was a mole by Su Xiao's side, a mole from another faction.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Amu were directly ruled out. The suspicion on the old priest and the Saber-wielding King was very low. Zoss was suspicious, but he wasn't in the manor tonight. As for Wu Fu and the others, it was hard to determine. After all, these people were temporarily recruited by Su Xiao; having one or two moles was the most normal thing.

Su Xiao was currently competing for royal power, so the fact that there was a mole wasn't important; this was inevitable. What was important was how the enemy knew Su Xiao would assassinate Blumer tonight and set a trap on Su Xiao's return path.

Su Xiao's return path was random; where he walked depended entirely on his mood. Therefore, the enemy definitely wouldn't have set only one trap. In order to teleport him outside the Holy City, the enemy might have prepared several, or even a dozen, traps.

But now, none of this was important. Whether it was a mole or a leak of intelligence, he had to deal with the incoming assassin first.

A rustling sound came. Su Xiao turned his head to look. A tall figure walked out from under the moon. In the bright moonlight, Su Xiao judged this to be a tall fat man, nearly three meters tall, like a small mountain of meat.

The small meat mountain had finger-thick iron chains wrapped around its head, the chains digging deep into the flesh. Although it was fat, one could clearly see the contours of muscles within that fat. A large machete covered in blood and minced meat revealed a dark red luster under the moonlight. This machete was over two meters long, rectangular in shape, and a palm thick, with a bright, exceptionally sharp blade.

"Woo~"

A strange sound came from the small meat mountain's throat, and the small eyes squeezed into the fat revealed a fierce light.

"Finding you is such a hassle, Duke Kukulin. Not staying in the Right Imperial Manor late at night, are you out for a stroll?"

A voice came from behind the small meat mountain. Just as Su Xiao thought there was someone behind the meat mountain, a thin, small figure straightened up from the back of the meat mountain's neck.

Judging from the height of the torso, this was a dwarf. Most of his body was integrated into the back of the meat mountain's neck, with several green conduits connecting him to the meat mountain.

"The master has ordered: capture him alive."

This time the voice came from behind Su Xiao. It was an old man leaning on a metal cane, his face covered in age spots. His height was at most 1.5 meters.

There were only two assassins. Based on Su Xiao's combat experience, the old man behind him wasn't hard to deal with. As for the meat mountain + dwarf, this was a very strong combination, with strength not even below his own. The strong men of this world had finally appeared. Compared to the assassins sent by Blumer, this time it was a true enemy that could threaten Su Xiao's life.

"Old Cripple, this Duke Kukulin is much stronger than you imagined."

The dwarf on the back of the meat mountain's neck spoke. He was different from most dwarves; it wasn't that awkward body proportion, just relatively thin and weak.

"Can't capture him alive?"

"If we risk our lives, it would be good enough to kill him. From now on, you go and focus on dealing with that dog; that's not an easy opponent to solve either."

The dwarf looked at Su Xiao with solemn eyes and even nodded at Su Xiao.

In his heart, the dwarf felt some admiration for Su Xiao. A Duke of noble status actually had this kind of strength—this wasn't something that could be obtained just by power.

"I am Baha of the Western Border, Duke. Let us slaughter each other in blood, hehehe!"

The dwarf laughed, his laughter both manic and heroic. The mud under the small meat mountain's feet sank, and with a boom, it rushed out like a tank crushing toward Su Xiao.

The enemy looked like a strength-type, but Su Xiao didn't retreat a single step. Practicing the blade technique required moving forward without hesitation. If he didn't even have this momentum, then his blade technique would have been practiced in vain.

Clang.

A blade light cut through the night, and a large machete slashed down vertically.

Boom!

The ground within a hundred meters was overturned, plant roots flew everywhere, and the fresh smell of mud appeared.

Su Xiao held the hilt of the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan with one hand and pressed his other hand against the spine of the blade. The incoming machete was blocked by him.

With a swish, a verdant metal needle pierced past his ear. The dwarf on the back of the small meat mountain held a biological conduit, and the large lump on the back of his head quickly deflated.

"Heh, fast reaction, but... the bee tail is unavoidable."

Just as the dwarf finished speaking, the verdant metal needle had already pierced toward the back of Su Xiao's head.

Puchi!

Blood splattered. Exile pierced through the dwarf's skull, stopping after going through more than half.

"Alalala, there's also this."

The dwarf's thinking was clearly chaotic, but he didn't die. Bright red granulation tissue grew along the wound on his head, quickly wrapping around Exile.

Like swallowing, the bright red granulation tissue surged, forcibly swallowing Exile into the dwarf's skull, finally stopping in the dwarf's chest cavity.

Su Xiao tried to split Exile, but unfortunately, Exile was wrapped by a gelatinous substance, so he decisively gave up. The enemy's regenerative power was very strong, and Exile's lethality was limited; leaving it in the enemy's body was also a good choice.