Chapter 452: Shadows

Chapter 452: Shadows



The assassin was stunned by the turn of events. He had thought that Adam had been killed inside the poisonous smoke, yet the Fireball hurling toward him said otherwise.

However, he was only stunned momentarily. His years of training and experience allowed him to quickly assess the situation and act accordingly.

Casting a defensive spell was out of the question, thus he hurriedly dove to his side and

narrowly evaded the incoming Fireball.

The following moment, the purple smoke parted and Adam leisurely walked out of it. The assassin was filled with disbelief by what he was witnessing.

Adam was deeply breathing in the poisonous smoke through his nostrils!

"Huuu..." the youth exhaled a foul breath and then breathed in large quantities of the poison. He repeated this several times as he walked toward the dumbstruck assassin.

"This level of poison will not work on me, idiot," he coldly muttered.

He was someone who practiced an extraordinary mana extraction technique known as the Five Elemental Codex.

It allowed him to extract five fundamental elements from the surroundings and merge them into a very pure form of mana.

Naturally, this new mana property allowed him to cleanse and detoxify his body to an extreme level.

In the past, he had even experimented on himself by concocting poison and consuming it, only to have it be immediately filtered and refined by the mana coursing through his veins.

"I-Impossible!" The assassin finally showed a trace of losing composure. "How the hell do you have the antidote?! It can't be!"

"The higher-ups gave me the antidote. How else would I have it in my possession?" Adam stated with an earnest expression as he continued to walk forward.

"Who are you?!" The assassin's expression was filled with disbelief.

"Bastard, I will be the one asking questions," Adam coldly replied. "I was told to win the Flynn Family's trust by neutralizing their Patriarch's poison. So why is it that I'm being hunted now? Tell me who sent you."

The more he heard Adam speak, the more the man felt perplexed. This doesn't make sense! He's one of us? Then why were we sent to kill him? Unless...

His eyes narrowed when he thought of another possibility. He took a deep breath and solemnly stated, "The night is full of shadows."

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself hovering near the boundary of this mystical space.

In front of him were two small orbs of light; they were the soul fragments of the assassins he had just killed. Adam's expression turned disappointed when he learned that the orbs did not contain any memories whatsoever.

Over time, he had come to differentiate between the soul fragments that contained memories and the ones that didn't. The former would have multi-colored lights flashing across its

surface.

The two souls in front of him did not.

He massaged his temples and muttered in annoyance, "It's been so many years since I've acquired this artifact, yet I still can't control it when it comes to anything related to the absorption of souls..."

Adam suddenly turned his head in a particular direction and gazed at a few orbs that he had managed to isolate from the rest.

These were his friends that he had lost in the war.

The youth's lips quivered for a moment before he closed his eyes and shifted his consciousness back to the real world. When he opened his eyes again, they were calm and indifferent.

He gathered the two corpses together and cast a Fireball at them.

As he watched the cold carcasses burn to ashes, he thought to himself, They had to have belonged to a clandestine organization in the city.

A secret society that can train and employ such skilled assassins... I can only think of one. But I can't be sure of that because that's the only one I know.

There is a possibility that these guys were from a completely different organization altogether.

Adam deactivated his spell, causing the surrounding areas to return to darkness once again. Nothing remained of the corpses. The youth then removed all traces of the battlefield and even used a spell to level the road that had been affected by his gravity field.

He turned back around and slowly made his way to Saratoga. An intense foreboding feeling gripped his heart knowing that he had now made an enemy of a very powerful secret organization.

"The night is full of shadows..." Adam repeated the words that the man had said before his

death.

He figured this was a secret verbal greeting that the members of this organization used to identify each other, much like the Twilight Brotherhood.

"Could it really be them?"