Chapter 66 - First Blood (3)

Immediately Nyks's words, one of the bodyguards who had just betrayed the escort group and came to the side of the masked man immediately laughed and spoke: "Hahahaha...Young lady Nyks, aren't you forgetting something? After the leader of the Vesta Family adopted you, the power of the Vesta family Rose mysteriously instantly. Naturally, the other families tried to find out what this was like, but they didn't find anything as a result of their research. All people know is that this development has something to do with you. Those who accept your offer will be rewarded generously by the leader of the Vesta family. But that's an offer that will stand if they survive."

"On the other hand, if they fight against you, they have a good chance of survival, and they learn how the Vesta family mysteriously suddenly got stronger, and they get a share of the money we make when we tell the secret to other families, and they have beautiful moments with a girl that never been seen before but wondered by many. Don't you think our offer is better? For example, I am quite curious about the taste of the mysterious young lady of the Vesta family, hahahahaha..."

The fear in Nyks's eyes and tremble in her body increased after the words of the bodyguard. As she shivered in fear, the girl in black had no change in her body and was watching with her ice-cold eyes whether there would be a change around.

After a few seconds, three bodyguards and seven mercenaries, including Enbi Mada, who found the masked man's offer reasonable, left the area where the escort group was and marched to the side of the masked man, then as the initial betrayers turned and looked at the escort group.

The masked man waited a few more seconds to speak, and then when he saw that there was no one else coming to their side, he looked at the girl in black and started talking: "Now you're forty people left. So what are you going to do now, young lady?"

With no sign of fear in her eyes, the girl in black first looked at the traitors, the masked people around her and the broken masked man who seemed to be the leader of the group, spoke coldly right after: "So you intend to learn the secret to the sudden rise of the Vesta family and sell it to other families. I see. So we'll only have to kill five people each."

After the girl in black spoke in a tone of no emotion as if she were talking about something insignificant, she got off her horse and extended her left hand, and suddenly a long sword appeared in her left hand. This was an all-black sword that seemed quite normal, with a small blood gutter in the middle to drain blood, one side sharp, a little over a meter long, the handle section roughly a little thicker than three fingers, and slightly sloping and decreasing in thickness as it moved towards the tip. But when it appeared, despite its normal appearance, the bodies of those who were the weakest as profound power trembled involuntarily and all had goose-bumps in their bodies. Even those stronger than them felt fear in their hearts. To them, although this sword seemed normal, it was a very dangerous and powerful sword.

After the girl in black drew her sword, the others who remained in the escort group drew their weapons one by one and prepared for the battle that could begin at any moment. At that moment, the closest mercenary to the girl in black looked at her and spoke. "Young lady, frankly, I couldn't figure out what a maid was doing with us at the beginning of this mission. But now I realize that my vision is very shallow and superficial. I am grateful to you for teaching me that." After the mercenary spoke, he raised his voice and continued to speak by looking at his friends who were around him and shouting. "Brothers, we don't always get opportunities like this! As the young lady said, each of us only needs to kill five people! Let us show those who betray us what the price is for what they have done and what proud people are made of!! Brothers, let us wet this place with our blood and make our graves and theirs!!"

The mercenary's speech was followed by loud battle cries from the mercenaries in the escorting group, which echoed strongly around them, causing the masked group to sweat and become more alert even though they outnumbered them.

After the battle cries, the girl in black told several guards near Nyks to protect her no matter the cost. She then unleashed her fearsome aura again took a few steps to get close to the man in the broken mask, then she stopped and waited for the enemies to attack.

After his approach, the eyes of the man in the broken mask shone and he drew his two-handed long sword, pointing it horizontally forward and shouting. "Attack!!"

After his command, the masked enemy group inside the surrounding wooded area began to run towards and approach the escort group at an increasingly accelerating pace.

As they approached, Sirius's happy voice echoed through Asil's mind. "Finally... Finally, someone is going to die!! I was bored to death! Kid, go kill some people. I used all that power to you. It's about time that the power that I spent came back, hahahaha."

After his master's words that were joyful because of the situation, Asil looked at the approaching enemies and spoke very quickly. "Master, what are our chances of winning?"

"Brat, if you weren't going to protect that shitty girl, I'd say you'd have a good chance of winning with the help of that black girl's cursed sword and a few others in your group. Likewise, if you'd learned my Art of Black Death, you would have a better chance of winning. But still, considering where you're fighting, I think you might win because of the Cursed Sword of the girl in black. So do your best and try to stay alive. Otherwise, I'll kill you after you die."

While the enemy group advanced towards the escort group as close as ten meters, Asil remained silent then tightly grabbed the swords in his hand and asked Sirius in his mind. "Master, in such an environment your power is coming back quickly, isn't it? If so, will you use your power to strengthen my senses? I'll try it."

At Asil's request, Sirius laughed and answered. "So you're going to use it. HAHAHA, okay, by helping you with my strength, I will strengthen your feelings and strengthen your profound energy to help you use it more freely. Show me if this idea is as good as you think, hahahaha..."

After his master's reply, Asil smiled quietly and waited without moving under the killing desires from all sides towards him...

When the masked group reached the outer section of the escort group, Sirius used his power to amplify the Asil's senses. When he did that, Asil began to feel things around him, even if he wasn't looking. In fact, when he focused on something, he could see the movement of that thing more slowly.

When the two groups collided, the area was suddenly filled with clash sounds. Everyone was defending or attacking with their weapons. No one at the outer section of the escort group stood idly by and were dragged into an intense battle.

The men in the escort group, who were superior in strength when the men in the outer section began to fight, gradually began to lose their superiority because they were numerically very disadvantaged. When he saw this situation, Medivh, a meters yards from Asil, who had come to a slightly more central area as a result of events from the rear of the group, smiled and, after chanting a light battle cry, was launched forward.

His speed was much faster than those at the beginning of the Nascent Profound Realm, and it could be seen from a glance that he had a quality movement technique. When Medivh entered the war in the outer section, the first opponent he encountered was someone in the third level of the elementary profound realm, and this opponent was very weak compared to Medivh. Therefore, as Medivh swung his one-meter-long shiny sword, the person against him was beheaded and his blood splattered around. After killing his enemy Medivh never hesitated and moved towards other enemies.

As he continued to attack, Asil finally got used to his senses, which were amplified by Sirius, and started to run towards the outer ring with his swords. Since Asil did not have any movement technique, he should normally be slower than someone in his level, but because he had a little of Sirius's energy in him besides his own, his movement pace was as fast as someone who is a couple of levels above him.

Asil very quickly became involved in the battle in the outer section, and the first opponent he encountered was someone in the sixth level of the elementary profound realm. Asil, showing no signs of fear or hesitation when confronted with him, leaned slightly forward and launched forward, coming to the front of his opponent. His opponent did not expect such a thing from Asil, whose profound power was weaker than his. So his movements were much slower than normal.

Asil naturally saw this slowness immediately and swung his sword forward in his right hand, trying to fight his opponents by making attacks that he did not contain any profound power during the three months in Kastor's fights, thus gaining both combat experience and body endurance and composure.

After opening a cut about a centimeter deep and five centimeters long on the left part of his opponent's chest, Asil's sword exited his opponent's body and continued to move through the air, bringing some blood from behind. In Asil's attack, the damage was considerably reduced as only the tip of his sword touched his opponent's body, but in such a battle, a wound like this could have been fatal.

When the tip of the sword came out cutting off his opponent's body, he fired a kick with his right foot towards Asil, using a sudden burst of power in his body due to the sudden pain.

As this kick approached, Asil, whose feelings had been amplified, hesitantly leaped backward, avoiding the kick and increasing the distance between them and his opponent to about three meters.

When the Asil's feet touched the ground again, Sirius's angry voice echoed in his mind. "Brat, are you stupid? Why don't you use your profound energy to attack in a place like this? If it wasn't for your medium-level elementary profound weapon, you wouldn't be able to damage an opponent two levels higher than yourself so easily. Quick, use your profound power, and kill this loser.. You should be able to kill him without my profound power."