Chapter 290 An Assassin

The Inanis Family mansion was a secure location that was hard to infiltrate.

Its servants were loyal to the Inanis and could not be bought and the personal forces that they held were also a pain to deal with.

If anything, it was much better to avoid all of the guards if you could and not run into servants at all because the fewer people involved then the better your chances of succeeding.

Of course, that was difficult in itself.

The patrols of both the guards and the servants who resided within the Inanis mansion were numerous and were coordinated carefully so that not one corridor of the mansion was left unoccupied by at least two people.

It was never going to be an easy task, but the assassin managed to do what might have been the impossible.

Not because he was smarter or better than other assassins who could have tried to do the same and ended up failing, but it was because of the gift that the assassin had with him.

It was with this rare gift that the assassin didn't need to sneak into the mansion and attempt to hide from the guards and servants or finish them off one by one in secret.

Instead, all the assassin really needed to do was covertly get into the roof of the Inanis mansion and make his work from down there.

There was no trouble on the roof as he could make his steps quiet and with his attire, he was effectively hidden from the eyes of the guards who took their patrol routes outside of the Inanis Family mansion.

Of course, any other assassin was capable of doing the same thing as he did.

And maybe it was at this point the other assassins would attempt to find a window, or an empty room that they could break into without alerting anyone else.

If they were good with disguises, they might have found clothes fit for a servant and maybe sneak their way to their target's quarters and if they were skilled at fighting, knock out the guards and servants to lessen his potential enemies.

However, that wasn't the case for him.

The assassin's body morphed and shifted, his bones becoming softer as he approached one of the narrow chimneys and sneaked his way from down there.

There were only a few rooms that would have fireplaces within them, and if the assassin had chosen correctly then he was… here!

He poked his head from underneath the chimney and saw the lavish room that was undoubtedly fit for a noble lord.

The assassin also saw the target on his bed. Young Lord Asher Inanis was fast asleep and this was his chance to finish the noble off.

He made his way down the chimney, as silent as a cat, and then crept towards the target. The assassin took out his weapon and approached Asher with the purpose of finishing the job in one quick slash.

But before the weapon could touch the young noble's neck, the young man suddenly dodged at the last minute.

With his eyes now open, Lucius kicked at the assassin's body and rolled away from the bed, avoiding the man's reach.

But the assassin recovered quickly from the attack and immediately lunged for Lucius.

However before he could touch the young lord, a bright fireball shot out of nowhere and struck the man in the face and knocked him back a couple of steps backward.

This ignited the mask that the assassin was wearing, and he swore as he tried to put out the flames.

It didn't make any sense to the assassin at all since according to the intel, Asher Inanis didn't have any gifts.

As the assassin became distracted by the fire, Lucius instantly activated his second spell and cast it on his target.

The Veil of Terror immediately affected the assassin and his entire body stopped as if stunned into seeing something that he didn't want to see, but that didn't make Lucius satisfied at all.

Compared to June's reactions, this one was weaker than one should have been.

Lucius picked up the Wind Scar sword that was kept just within his reach, hidden from the eyes of most people, and he immediately chopped off the legs of the assassin.

It was only after a second later that the assassin managed to recover and realized that he didn't have any legs anymore.

Lucius clicked his tongue, only a fraction surprised because he hadn't been able to fully use the power of Veil of Terror, and this assassin no doubt had a stronger mind than June.

However, before Lucius could do anything, the assassin simply slithered towards him like a snake and then propelled himself forward like a slingshot.

The man had used his gift once again.

Lucius' eyes widened momentarily, stunned that the assassin would attack again, but he quickly used Necklace of the Damned on a spell matrix and charged it up.

A much stronger fireball shot out of Lucius's reach and blasted the assassin away.

This time, the assassin was thrown back onto the floor, his body was badly burned up and he did not get up again, but Lucius saw that he was merely unconscious and was actually still alive.

However, the same couldn't be said for the other things in the room as the powerful fireball had set up Lucius's entire room on fire and was only starting to grow bigger.

Not only that, Lucius started to hear a lot of hurried footsteps and concerned shouting of Asher's name.

"I suppose this was enough of a commotion."

Lucius didn't think that he'd alert everyone and actually intended to take the assassin by himself, but things didn't exactly go as he wanted.

"Asher!" Kiana's voice shouted from the corridor, and it became clear that she and the others were almost close.

The door quickly swung open.

Lucius stepped outside of the room, which relieved the people, until they saw that he was dragging the assassin away from the fire.