Chapter 3798: Assassin

On the fifth floor of the treatment hospital, in a ward with simple furnishings, Su Xiao was eating breakfast and looked at the new assistant Alana standing well-behaved on the side.

Compared to the previous assistant, the Dark Star Witch Phyllis, Alana was a more competent assistant. Moreover, the other party came from a declining witch family, and this family was a supporter of the Moon Witch Serisil.

If it weren't for the Starry Sky Research Association's intervention, the scheduled assistant would have been Alana, who had the strength of the Ninth-Tier peak. She could rank in the top five in this world in Abyss studies, ancient linguistics, etc., and had a good understanding of various folk legends, ancient records, etc., and she had a strong ability to save her life.

As long as Alana took a deep breath and entered a breath-holding state, she would blend into this piece of the world around her. In this case, she was not afraid of any attack, and others wouldn't be able to find her.

Conversely, Alana's body would bear a huge burden due to this state. Her longest breath-holding time was 5 minutes, and she had to breathe for at least 10 seconds afterwards to let the soul energy in her blood be full again before she could enter this state again.

This talent ability seemed to have stronger survival ability than Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's environment-blending, but in fact, it was not. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's environment-blending was more like a passive state that could be actively activated, without any consumption. If it wanted, it could even sleep comfortably while blending into the environment.

Alana's talent was inherited through family blood. She was a relatively excellent successor. It was strange to say that a family with such top-level assassination talent had actually declined, and the relevant records had been completely erased. According to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's investigation, this was deliberately done by someone recently, and there were rumors about the general reason for the decline of this family.

One of the most credible rumors was that one of the leaders of the Dark God Sect, the Dark Twins, came from this family.

Su Xiao dealing with the Dark God Sect this time, wanting to find the Abyssal Archbishop directly, was almost impossible. The current Abyssal Archbishop would definitely not show up unless it was a last resort.

After the other party escaped from the Eternal Light World, they paid a huge price. When they met at the Gluttony Castle before, Su Xiao noticed a point. The Abyssal Archbishop had been trapped in the Eternal Light World for nearly 100,000 years. As an Abyss-type, he was constantly eroded by extreme elemental power. Even if the other party successfully escaped, it would be difficult to return to the peak of the past for a while.

Coupled with the price of using the strongest backstabbing weapon "Disdain," and the evil consequences of the continuous depletion of the source power in the Eternal Light World, as well as the "Lightless" oath curse used by the Lord of Eternal Darkness before his death to retaliate against him, and being soul-slashed by Su Xiao, these five-fold weakening made the other party's strength roughly between Supreme and Transcendent. Although the upper limit of the past was still there, it needed time to recover.

Directly using the 【Old Hunter】 title effect to track the Abyssal Archbishop was not wise. Su Xiao had a feeling that his biggest opponent in this world might not be the Abyssal Archbishop. This formidable enemy, he should have to deal with for a long time. The opponent's immortal means were concept-based, which was the most difficult World-Extinguishing existence to kill.

Compared to directly dealing with the Abyssal Archbishop himself, hitting the Dark God Sect as a whole in this world now had a better effect. At the very least, solve the few leader-level figures of the Dark God Sect first. In this way, the vision returned to the Dark Twins.

The Moon Witch Serisil sending Alana to be Su Xiao's assistant was undoubtedly the best assist. This little assistant was not only proficient in various occult studies but might also have a blood relationship with the Dark Twins.

Alana wore a gray-white long coat, which looked slightly silver-bright under the reflection of the sun. At night, after putting on the hood, this clothes could perfectly blend into the night. The black line marks on the back of her right hand looked like erosion marks, and also revealed a bit of pattern, very thin and light. The purple pupils tried their best to show well-behavedness, but in fact, she had many thoughts. Her nature was not lost in kindness, but she also had a bit of black-belliedness.

"How much do you know about the Dark Twins?"

Su Xiao spoke, which made Alana, whose gaze was a bit wandering, come back to her senses. She said in a lively voice: "I can't remember clearly, but I am sure I know the Dark Twins, and they should be my blood relatives, but there is no memory left about this."

Hearing this, Su Xiao's brows frowned a bit. Alana seemed to have amnesia, and it also seemed that her memory in this regard had been sealed. Thinking about it, it was what the Dark Twins did before rebelling from the family.

Alana didn't die because of this, perhaps it was the last bit of humanity of the Dark Twins, or perhaps Alana had a unique significance to them.

The Moon Witch was still reliable. She sent a beautiful and capable assistant and provided an entry point to deal with the Dark God Sect. As for how to help Alana restore her memory, Su Xiao had to find a way himself.

Preparing potions, treating deep damage, etc., Su Xiao was good at it, but restoring memory, or unlocking sealed memory, was a relatively unfamiliar field. After a little thought, Su Xiao had a guess and asked:

"The things we are going to do next are extremely dangerous. How is your courage?"

Su Xiao put down the tableware. Today's breakfast was good, but there was a strong poison in one of the cups of fresh milk. He put this cup of fresh milk aside.

"My courage? Mr. Bai Ye, just rest assured. In terms of fighting, I might not be able to help much, but I am definitely not a timid person."

"Really?"

"Of course, I am a witch."

"Hmm, I'll test your courage in a while."

"Ho... how to test?"

Alana was a little guilty. She actually had a secret buried deep in her heart. Don't look at her high attainments in occult studies, she was actually super afraid of ghosts, dead souls, etc. It wasn't because of fear of death that she feared these, but a kind of indescribable personality defect. But the more she was afraid, the more she had a little expectation. It belonged to the kind of person who was scared to death in her heart after seeing a ghost, but couldn't help but want to see it again.

If Alana and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang teamed up to arrive at a place of ghosts, that scene, just thinking about it, made people laugh. Before meeting ghosts, both sides were, "Don't be afraid, I'm here." After meeting, it was not a horror game, but a running competition game.

"Mr. Bai Ye, don't you like fresh milk? Then I won't help you prepare this kind of breakfast tomorrow, and change to other delicacies."

Alana was about to take this cup of fresh milk to the dining cart, but was stopped by Su Xiao. He picked up a sugar cube and threw it into the fresh milk. The fresh milk in the cup began to show a solid state like milk jelly, and then foamed and overflowed.

Seeing this scene, although Alana didn't know that this was the sugar-induced proliferation reaction of biological potent poison, she also thought there was a problem with this breakfast.

"I'll go investigate right away..."

"No need."

Su Xiao, sitting on the hospital bed, stood up, picked up the long leather coat on the hanger, put it on, and then walked out of the treatment hospital. Coming to the beautiful backyard, he sat in front of a fish pond and fed the long-bearded fish inside. He had already guessed who poisoned today's breakfast. It was more than 90% likely to be the E Luo family where the Dark Star Witch Phyllis was.

The new generation of Supreme level cultivated with massive resources died, and the E Luo family was extremely angry. Knowing that Su Xiao was a potion grandmaster, they still chose to poison him. Compared to the actual significance that could be achieved, this was more like a statement, a must to make Su Xiao pay the price.

In fact, Su Xiao didn't want to kill the Dark Star Witch Phyllis so early. If the other party just tripped him secretly and dragged his feet, Su Xiao had plenty of means to handle the other party and make the other party play a major role in the plan while clearly wanting to help with the trouble.

The problem was that all this was based on the Dark Star Witch Phyllis being able to maintain the state of tripping him secretly, rather than the feeling of drawing a knife to backstab him not long after they met. This definitely couldn't be left, and must be solved immediately, otherwise, he might really be backstabbed.

Every move of the Dark Star Witch Phyllis afterwards greatly exceeded Su Xiao's estimation. The speed of the other party's malice was too fast, so fast that as a witch who could be promoted to the Supreme level, even if it was piled up with resources, she shouldn't have such stupid behavior.

Even if the Dark Star Witch Phyllis's strategy was insufficient, her family, which had existed for hundreds of years in various power struggles, and could hold the thigh of the Starry Sky Research Association without much strengths, would the family's decision be stupid? Would this kind of family living in the cracks of big forces pay massive resources to cultivate a clan member with no strategy until she reached the Supreme level? This didn't make sense.

Reasoning this way, he had to figure out why the Dark Star Witch Phyllis suddenly had a great reduction in strategy. According to Alana, Phyllis was a senior three grades higher than her. In the Witch Academy, this was a small expert in faction struggles.

Therefore, the Dark Star Witch Phyllis was not stupid at all. The other party's words and deeds reminded Su Xiao of a person, the rule-breaker Ling Yao he met in the Eternal Light World before.

It seemed that this was the means of devouring fate after the Platinum Apostle assimilated. The degree of concealment was too strong to guard against. Under the remote influence of the Platinum Apostle, the Dark Star Witch Phyllis's original plan to "trip him secretly" was magnified to "finding a chance to trick Su Xiao to death." As time was pushed, this idea was magnified to "finding a chance to backstab Su Xiao," and the gaze occasionally revealed gradually became fierce.

Before, on the pedestrian street in front of the drink shop, because of Baja's few words of mockery, the Dark Star Witch Phyllis almost broke down on the spot. How could a small expert in faction struggles break down so simply? It showed that at that time, the Dark Star Witch Phyllis had already been devoured of a lot of fate.

Before, Su Xiao thought that the Platinum Apostle's ability was an enhanced version of the Gray Gentleman. Now it seemed that both sides were different types. The Gray Gentleman had many incarnations, while the Platinum Apostle was that you didn't know where he was, and whether the people around you had been affected by him. After being devoured of a lot of fate, they started to die.

The Platinum Apostle's move was undoubtedly successful, making Su Xiao, who was in Moon Ring City, completely offend the E Luo family and become enemies with the Starry Sky Research Association, one of the four major forces of the Witch camp.

All this required a lot of information to support it to be achieved. As a rule-breaker, the Platinum Apostle couldn't have such information channels in the Witch World, but the Dark God Sect definitely had them.

In this way, it was fine to default the Platinum Apostle and the Abyssal Archbishop as a group. And in this plan, Su Xiao felt the handwriting of a few old friends. When the Priest tricked people, he had such a feeling. So it was the Priest + Platinum Apostle + Abyssal Archbishop. This enemy camp was really too strong.

Looking at his own side, the Moon Witch Serisil had the ability but was dragged down by the infighting of the Witch camp. And the president of the Starry Sky Research Association was a witch no weaker than Serisil, but this person's idea was not to deal with the Dark God Sect.

On the contrary, the president didn't hope that the Dark God Sect would be weakened. If Serisil freed up her hands, the next one to deal with would definitely be the president, then the increasingly strange Sky City, and finally the Ancient King City.

That is to say, Su Xiao's two teammates, the Moon Witch and the president, couldn't help him do anything, but had to decide the winner between each other. Only after confirming that their position as the boss was stable would they come to help Su Xiao with all their strength.

Don't think that because your side is at a major disadvantage, the enemy side is actually united. Can these three super old schemers—the Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and the Abyss Archbishop—really trust each other wholeheartedly?

Dealing with these three old schemers had to be gradual. Now finding the information of the Dark Twins was more important. Of course, there were also three camp shops of the Witch camp to activate. Now Su Xiao already had 6820 points of reputation.

Beside the pond, Su Xiao took out a bottle of recovery potion and gave it to Alana, which made Alana show suspicion and ask: "This potion with strong life aura... I'm not injured... is this... a meeting gift?"

"Drink it."

Hearing this, Alana knew it wasn't a meeting gift. She hesitated and tentatively asked: "Can I drink it later? I've been a little... indigestion recently."

"That's fine, then keep it, step back a few steps."

Su Xiao drew the Zhan Long Shan together with the scabbard from his waist and threw it to Amu.

"Like this?"

Alana stepped back a few steps.

"Step back again."

"Oh~"

Although Alana couldn't guess what Su Xiao was going to do, she did it. With her predecessor as a reference, she naturally wanted to be a well-behaved little assistant. As long as she could survive this time, she would have a bright future and would definitely be the confidant of the Moon Witch in the future. Thinking of this, Alana's mood became better and better.

"Mr. Bai Ye, what are we going to do?"

"Help you cure amnesia."

"Ah?"

Alana was even more confused, but the next moment, she felt the wind blowing in her face. Her hair tied into a beautiful fishbone braid was blown away by the wind pressure and flew up. At this moment, Alana was quite beautiful. Unfortunately, Alana herself had no intention of feeling her beauty, because the Mr. Bai Ye opposite had already attacked with a straight kick.

The strong death aura came to her face. No, Alana felt that she was already wrapped in cold death at this moment. This death aura was so strong that it was like liquid. Her rapidly shrinking pupils and the brain running at overload made everything around her seem to stop. She saw the sight from when she was born and just opened her eyes, the smiles of her mother and father in her swaddling clothes, and the big dog in her family that came up to her and looked at her affectionately when she just learned to crawl.

And when she just became sensible, the swing her father made for her in the courtyard, and when she was ten years old, a dark and bloody night without a moon. It was from then on that her family moved away from the ancestral house and began to decline. In the end, only her family of three was left, as well as her grandfather who was serious, old-fashioned, and had never said a word to her in her impression.

【Close-Combat Grandmaster: Lv. 85 (Technique/Passive)...

Lv. 80 Ultimate Ability: Power Penetration, Kick Technique Seven-fold Enhancement (Ultimate/Passive): Kick attack judgment is upgraded to "Ascension Level," and there is a high probability of making the enemy trigger the "Death Retracing" effect, thereby reducing the enemy's avoidance probability.

Alana's memory about the Dark Twins was sealed by unknown power? It didn't matter. Just let Alana break through this seal through "Death Retracing." No one stipulated that the "Death Retracing" effect attached to the straight kick could only be triggered during combat.

The scorching sun in the afternoon made the ward with the breeze blowing in look exceptionally comfortable. Alana's eyelids moved, and then she gradually opened her eyes. After being confused for a few seconds, she gradually realized what had happened.

Alana's hidden black-bellied personality was finally about to be revealed. She sat up with surprise and anger, and just as she was about to say something, a potion stood on the dining cart by the bed. The delicacies on the dining cart couldn't attract Alana at all. The "Witch Potion" with charming purple had already made her heart beat.

This made Alana's emotions constantly fluctuate with anger -10 points, anger -10 points.

"Is this... for me?"

Alana asked with a complex gaze. She didn't know whether she should be happy or worried about other dangers later.

"Yes, all these belong to you."

Su Xiao pointed to the bedside table on the side. Alana looked in the direction he pointed and saw a set of potions, 9 bottles in total, standing in the tray. Including the 1 bottle on the dining cart, there were 10 bottles in total.

In the Witch World, "Witch Potion" was a very popular permanent gain potion. This was a witch-exclusive potion. After drinking it, in the next 30 natural days, the growth of the witch's mental power and soul energy would increase by 5-8 times on the original basis. More importantly, this potion could be drunk multiple times. As long as you didn't drink more than 10 bottles within a year, it would be fine.

The best "Witch Potion" Alana had ever seen was at an auction. That bottle of "Witch Potion" had light purple particles in the potion. Like this bottle, the "Witch Potion" whose potion itself revealed a charming deep purple, she was seeing it for the first time.

The surprise came too suddenly, but recalling the "Death Retracing" just now, Alana was angry again in her heart. After cycling back and forth between happiness and anger like this, she let out a long sigh and said: "Mr. Bai Ye, if you need me to do dangerous things in the future, you must inform me in advance. You don't want such a cute assistant to die, right? It must be, right."

"Oh."

"So perfunctory, but business is important. Mr. Bai Ye, the life review I just experienced made me see some pictures. That was 10 years ago, when I was still young..."

According to Alana's description, Su Xiao knew some information about the Dark Twins. In Alana's family, the Dark Twins were very special clan members. Whether it was Alana's father, grandfather, or even great-grandfather, they were exceptionally respectful to the Dark Twins. In Alana's impression, her father seemed to have said that he grew up watching the Twin adults.

Therefore, Alana didn't know how old the Dark Twins were. This seemed to be her two ancestors who had been accompanying the family until ten years ago. Ten years ago that night, Alana's family planned an assassination. On that moonless night, they assassinated the Moon Witch Serisil.

This assassination undoubtedly failed. The strange thing was that after this incident, Alana's family actually became a supporter of the Moon Witch Serisil. On the contrary, the Dark Twins joined the Dark God Sect and became one of the leaders of the three major sects.

The three major sects of the Dark God Sect in this world were: Extreme Dark, Black Hole, and First Ancient.

It was strange to say that it was also starting from the assassination on the moonless night. After that, the Witch camp could be described as having many talents. The president of the Starry Sky Research Association who traveled abroad returned, and three excellent successors appeared in the Witch Academy.

Carefully savoring this matter, it was found that the assassination itself did not harm the Moon Witch Serisil, but more than a dozen old witches in the high-level of the Witch camp were all affected because they were discussing with Serisil how to deal with the Ancient King City. Only one old witch survived, and because of the subsequent rescue was ineffective, she died in the treatment hospital.

No need to think, it was known that the Moon Witch Serisil planned this assassination, but this assassination caused heavy casualties to Alana's family. As the two ancestors of this family, the Dark Twins almost fell out with the Moon Witch, and then threw themselves into the Abyss and joined the Dark God Sect.

Did Alana's family do the assassination of the Moon Witch because they were stupid? No, in fact, the head of the family at that time had no choice. Those dozen high-ranking old witches had been pressing step by step, worried that this assassination-lineage family would serve the Moon Witch, resulting in a situation where both sides would perish together.

In the early days, the Dark Twins joined the Dark God Sect for the sake of the family, but not long after, they became addicted to it. The original intention had long been forgotten. They became terrifying existences. The most shocking time was that the life force of tens of millions of creatures in a big city was sucked away by them, and this was just one of their many shocking acts. For power and eternal life, the Dark Twins could do anything and bear any price.

"We should go to my family's ancestral house to see, maybe there will be gains there."

Alana stretched. Her state was good. After all, she didn't really get a straight kick. If that were the case, she would have left this beautiful world.

"Location."

"The one near the Sigor River... the dead city that became a silent place because of the Dark Twins."

After speaking, Alana looked out the window.

Su Xiao took out the city manual he bought before. After finding the page of the Silent City, he found that this city had recovered some vitality. At least there was a transfer tower there. However, it cost 500 Soul Coins to take a transfer array from Moon Ring City to the Silent City. If he rushed, it would take at least five days.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang took out four notes, rolled them into balls, and then Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Alana drew lots. This made Alana a little confused. In the end, Baja won.

"Hahaha, my luck is invincible, then I'll go to the Silent City to set the coordinates first."

Baja flew away. The reason for drawing lots was to decide who would take the coordinates to the Silent City. Otherwise, Su Xiao and the other five passengers would cost 500 Soul Coins each, which was a cost of 2500 Soul Coins. The transfer tower business was the benefit that the witches gave to the local craftsman guild, and this cost could not be avoided.

But if Baja spent 500 Soul Coins to take the space tower to the Silent City, and after setting the coordinates there, Su Xiao could go there through the "Law-Exterminator Transfer Array." His Law-Exterminator Transfer Array had been developed to now, and the cost of one consumption did not exceed 30 Soul Coins.

"Alana, can you adapt to long-distance space transfer?"

Su Xiao spoke, pulling Alana back from her thoughts.

"Of course, Mr. Bai Ye, I'm not the kind of weak witch you think. It's just a long-distance transfer, absolutely no problem."

Alana smiled, looking exceptionally confident.

Until Alana was in the defensive armor, her smile disappeared completely. Her small eyes indicated that she had realized the seriousness of the matter.

*Thump! *

The transfer array started.

"A proper transfer array will never make a terrible thumping sound. You must stay away from those transfer arrays that make terrible thumping sounds. That is the advanced camouflage of the space railgun—Alana's Diary, page 150."

Ancient King City, back street, branch of the neutral force, Hunter Guild.

After the one-eyed old man behind the wooden window processed the commission document, he handed it out of the window. Out of personal friendship, he reminded the Black Witch outside the window: "Casper, are you sure you want to hunt the Law-Exterminator Bai Ye? Even if you are an assassin whose strength is only below Owl, but..."

"I know what I'm doing."

The Black Witch Casper spoke. The dark golden vertical pupils under his black hood had exceptionally powerful oppression.

The Black Witch Casper turned and left the Hunter Guild branch. The sky was covered with dark clouds, but this did not affect his mood. He was constantly challenging himself. This time he chose the Law-Exterminator as his prey, so he naturally had his trump card.

I saw the Black Witch Casper take out an old wooden mask. With this artifact that could be called an assassination-lineage artifact, he had the confidence to succeed, even if every time he used this thing, he had to pay 80% of the reward he obtained so as not to be eroded by this artifact with original sin characteristics.

At this moment, the thing in the Black Witch Casper's hand was named... First Ancient Mask.

One could only say that he originally thought that the Godspeed rule-breaker had reached an astonishing height in terms of death-seeking, but the Black Witch in front of him had completely surpassed the Godspeed rule-breaker. This one was going to wear the First Ancient Mask to assassinate Su Xiao. ===== CHAPTER 3799 =====

I can only say that I originally thought the high-speed rule-breaker had reached an astonishing level in terms of courting death, but this Black Wizard here has completely surpassed him. This guy is actually planning to wear the Ancient Mask to assassinate Su Xiao.