Chapter 64 - First Blood

The last person to speak of the mercenaries was a man of brown hair, slightly overweight, brown eyes, carrying a long, thin sword around his waist, looking in his forties. This man was an independent mercenary, unlike other mercenaries who had participated in Mercenary Missions many times, living and speaking alone. He was also famous for humiliating the new mercenaries and eventually maiming them by provoking them. He had joined the conversation of those who spoke at the time and had easily managed to provoke his target.

The mercenary whom Asil opposed spoke with a laugh: "HAHAHAHA, have you heard my brothers? He told me to take my word back, hahahaha... Brat, do you know who I am? My name is Enbi Mada. I've been on more difficult missions than you could ever imagine. Who do you think you are and you tell me to take my word back?"

After Enbi Mada's words, Asil replied with no hesitation:

"Shut up! I don't care who you are! You can talk about me all you want, I can tolerate it, but you can't say anything bad about my father! Take that back, or I'll make you regret it!"

His father Cem Mirza was very valuable to the Asil. Asil, although he felt indebted to Medivh and did not want to involve him in his own affairs and put him in danger, there was a limit to what he could stand. Cem Mirza was the bottom line in his heart. And Enbi Mada unknowingly had crossed this line. This caused Asil to stop holding back.

Sirius's voice echoed in his mind when Asil rested fearlessly on the man opposite him. "Brat, you have absolutely no chance of beating the man you're dealing with. Even if you use it all, even if you manage to strike a single blow by sacrificing half your life, you certainly can't defeat him. He is in the fourth level of the Nascent Profound Realm, he is one whole realm superior to you. What do you think?"

After Sirius's speech, Asil replied instantly. "Then I will strike a blow at this man who has insulted my father by sacrificing half of my life."

Sirius laughed and spoke with delight after this reply. "HAHAHAHA, so my student can get serious when it comes to it... Child, you finally want revenge. Finally, a moment has come for me, hahahaha... Go and do your best with all your strength. Try to strike one blow at the right time. I will help you with my own strength as you strike that single blow. Go and crush him, Child, HAHAHAHA..."

After the speech, in which Sirius called him child instead of brat for the first time and used a satisfied tone while speaking, Asil did not give any answers and looked at Enbi Mada with determined eyes.

Medivh and the mercenaries who did not know the conversation between Asil and Sirius instantly looked at Asil with strange expressions. No one expected such a reaction from Asil.

According to mercenaries, Asil was a man who had no experience, perhaps even ascended to the fourth level of the elementary profound realm thanks to Medivh. According to Medivh, Asil was interesting, capable of good perception and logic, well brought up. He did not expect such a move from Asil, but the astonishment that resulted from his move did not last very long and he was quickly replaced by satisfaction. Medivh understood that he had underestimated Asil after this move.

Enbi Mada's facial muscles twitched, and after drawing his weapon, he spoke as he took a step forward and slowly began to move towards the Asil: "Brat, you're going to make me regret it, are you? Come and make me, hahaha!"

As Enbi Mada drew out his long sword and began to walk towards her, Asil also took his right hand over the dimensional ring in his left hand to take out his swords.

Seeing Asil's move, Medivh looked at him with a delighted smile and take a step forward to help without hesitation.

At that moment, however, an ice-cold girl's voice came from behind Enbi Mada, which caused the movements of Enbi Mada, Medivh, and Asil to stop involuntarily.

"Stop this nonsense now! You're slowing us down! Once we get to the outer part of the Black Dragon Mountain Range, the Young Lady would not go any further and stop there. When that time comes, you can handle your things the way you want! If you understand, don't linger and move on!"

When this girl's voice was heard, everyone looked unconsciously in the direction that the sound was coming from, and when they looked there, there was a chill in their hearts. The reason this chill occurred was because of a cold pair of eyes looking towards the side where Asil and Enbi Mada were. These eyes were black and also callous, like the depths of a bottomless abyss. It was as if no person that was there meant anything to the owner of these eyes.

The owner of these eyes was the girl in the black dress who came with the Young Lady Nyks. After she spoke, the young lady Nyks turned toward her, gratefully approving with her head, and then turned to one of her bodyguards and said something in a low voice. After her speech, the bodyguard immediately turned to the Asil with Enbi Mada, telling them to settle their affairs later and move on.

After the words of the bodyguard, Enbi Mada briefly looked towards the girl in black and then, after nervously spitting on the ground, joined the advancing group and continued the journey.

As he left, Asil stopped where he was for a short time. Then, to repel his anger later, he buried it in his heart and proceeded. As for Medivh, he didn't say anything or react any differently and kept walking.

After a few minutes of walking, Asil looked towards the girl in the black dress and asked Sirius in his mind: "Master, how high is that girl's power? When she spoke, the feeling I felt in her was much stronger than Enbi Mada."

Sirius immediately replied: "Brat, if I rank the people here as general levels of power, that girl is second on the list. I mean, I wouldn't recommend you do anything to piss her off. Otherwise, even if you do everything you can, you'll die before you can hurt her."

After Sirius's words, Asil asked no further questions and continued walking.

Time progressed, and the entrance to the outer section of the Black Dragon Mountain Range was finally visible. The entrance section of the mountain range was bumpy and wide enough that many horse-drawn carriages could fit side by side. There were many trees around which were thick-bodied and tall. Because these trees were so tight and so numerous, you couldn't see what was going on in the distance. Also, due to the light fog moving out of the Black Dragon Mountain Range and up to the entrance of the outer section, the eyesight of the people in the escort group was slightly reduced.

When they arrived at the entrance to the outer section of the Black Dragon Mountain Range, the guards told the mercenaries to move more slowly and to be cautious.

The escorting group continued to advance deep into the outer section of the Black Dragon Mountain Range. After a walk of about twenty minutes, there was a change in Medivh's pace, followed by a change in the speed at which he quickly entered near Asil and spoke solemnly and quietly:

"Asil, we are surrounded. Be careful."

After Medivh's abrupt sentence, Asil looked towards him and gently approved with his head.

But at that very moment, Sirius's sudden and screaming voice echoed from his mind: "Brat, get down!!"

After the sound of Sirius, Asil leaned down unconsciously and felt a chill pass over his head as he bowed. Before they knew what had happened, they started screaming and the road they were walking on was soaked with blood.

Asil looked around quickly and saw that six people had died due to arrows lodged in their bodies. Out of the six dead, there were three wounded and one of them was severely wounded. There were also many arrows stuck in many places. Most of these arrows were in the vicinity of the girls in the middle section of the escort group; however, when Asil looked there, he found that there were no arrows in a field of about five meters around the two girls riding horses and that all the arrows that were thrown there had fallen apart from this five-meter field, all of them cut off.

After the sudden attack, the people became more alert and immediately pulled their weapons and tried to sense where the enemy was.

As they tried to sense the enemy, the girl in black spoke again in her cold voice: "Because of your sudden attack you have already killed six people and wounded three others. Most people are on alert after this attack. It's only going to take time for you to try harder. Go out and say whatever you want.. I'll leave it up to you how to say it. Say it with your mouth or with your blood!"