Episode 49 – Ruben’s Guardian Spirit
A view of Leuven from a distance.
“Is it over there?”
Connor took a step.
A special assassin, Kerner, belonging to the Shadow Moon Guild.
Kerner was in a situation where he came to Leuven to handle the commissioned subject.
And the target of that request is none other than Xian Ellandur.
It was the name of a bastard in Ruben right now.
The sun disappears and darkness descends.
The silence of dawn is when everyone goes to sleep.
It was clear that Xian was also sleeping in Leuven.
Without even knowing the fate that would come to him.
Conner sharpened his nerves and headed for Ruben.
Ruben reached like that.
“…?”
Connor tilted his head involuntarily.
The scenery of Ruben that he can see now.
“…… Didn’t I say that it was nothing but ruins?”
Rather than ruins… these days.
Even calling it an impregnable fortress was not lacking at all.
“What happened?”
Conner couldn’t shake his doubts.
Empire’s best intelligence guild, Shadow Moon.
As a member of the Shadow Moon, Kerner knew information about Ruben.
But now instead…
Conner hid himself in the darkness and went inside Ruben.
right at that moment.
“Who is there!”
Someone noticed Kerner’s presence and shouted.
From the looks of it, it looked like a mere soldier guarding the territory.
Connor rolled his eyes and looked open.
‘Did you detect my presence?’
Connor couldn’t believe it.
Not surprisingly, Kerner had considerable skill in the art of stealth.
There was a reason he was called a special assassin in the first place.
Unless you’re an expert or higher, you can’t even detect a sign.
However, there is no way that a mere soldier of the territory is an expert.
“what’s the matter?”
“No, I think someone was here.”
Then two guards approached Kerner’s location.
However, it was not possible to find a Kerner that completely assimilated into the darkness.
“Who is there? no one?”
“Lee Sang-ta… I’m sure the alarm went off at the guard tower.”
The two guards then left.
Squeak.
Connor reappears.
The presence was caught, but the existence could not be noticed.
If he made up his mind and hid, it would be impossible to find Kerner unless he was a Master.
“…but it’s strange.”
Originally, I shouldn’t have even noticed that presence.
Conner caught his eye on the backs of the two departing guards.
Fortunately, I was able to get over it because I wasn’t caught.
If he had been discovered, he would have had to kill needlessly.
Killing other than the target was not good.
Conner from the underworld.
He was also a criminal worthy of being called a beast.
Still, he was on the side of avoiding indiscriminate crime.
Super Assassin Kerner.
The title of ‘special class’ does not simply mean the aspect of skill.
Of course, I didn’t like the rules given by Diana, the head of the Shadow Moon Guild.
It’s because the rules are forcibly imposed on Kerner, who works according to his own standards.
what though
There were no major complaints about the rules themselves.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been active as a member of the Shadow Moon in the first place.
The bastards of the underworld needed to be stepped on a little.
Connor looked around calmly.
A completely different landscape from Ruben’s information that said it was no different from ruins.
This could never be called ruins.
I don’t know if it’s a good town to live in.
“Was the information wrong?”
Conner swallowed his doubts and slowly went inside Ruben.
Right then.
“Kong! Knock!”
A barking sound came from somewhere.
the place you looked at.
It was a ranch.
And a large wolf in the paddock was barking furiously at Kerner.
It’s twice as big as a normal wolf.
Sharp fangs were quite menacing.
That’s why it’s more than a wolf…
‘······ Witchbeast?’
He was called Masura.
Hell Hound.
As beasts and monsters living in the dark forest.
It was a monster that was mutated by the influence of demonic wolves.
It was a mutated beast, so it was less threatening than a monster.
Still, a witch is a witch.
More than anything.
‘Why is the demon in the territory?’
Why is the demon in the territory?
And the Witchbeast was a beast that could not be tamed.
Truly a beast created with blind murder intent.
But how…
Even the feeling is quite sharp.
That Hellhound seemed to notice Kerner’s presence.
“Keong kong! Kwong Kwong Kwong! Kreur…!”
“Happy. Why is he suddenly like this?”
At the sound of the Hellhound’s bark, someone who appeared to be the manager of the ranch came out.
Fluffy hair, probably from sleep.
But what?
happy?
What’s so happy about that face plate that looks like it came from hell?
“Happy. Quiet. Everyone wake up.”
“Beep…”
Then the hellhound lowered its tail and became quiet.
“·······”
Kerner’s mind goes blank.
Soon the ranch owner and the hellhound went into their respective homes.
‘What kind of territory…’
Connor looked at it and moved slowly.
Right then.
tall.
Conner’s body stiffened.
It was because I felt something alien to my senses.
-What are you?
Startle!
A terrifying voice came from behind Conner.
voice?
No, it wasn’t a voice, it was a will embedded in my brain.
Cold sweat trickled down Connor’s cheeks.
I didn’t even feel the approaching popularity.
He hadn’t even unlocked his stealth yet.
The master of that will had exactly penetrated Kerner’s stealth technique.
And that is impossible unless you are a master.
So now this being is at least a master.
‘How could the master be in a territory like this…?’
Connor raised his tension and turned slowly.
and sight seen.
‘girl?’
what a b*tch it was
A pretty girl with long white silver hair.
But something was strange.
It was difficult to see because of the darkness of the early morning.
However, it was a girl who felt quite different.
‘what?’
Connor looked at him silently.
– I came here because I felt a strange energy. Um… Is this the first time I’ve seen your face? sorry. I still don’t know people’s faces well.
Before long, he came closer to Conner.
-What are you doing here? What’s there?
Then he turned his head toward the ranch where Happy was.
‘Gap!’
Conner swung the dagger in his bosom without hesitation.
Unfortunately.
Once the existence was discovered, it had to be killed.
Kwajijik-!
A dagger imbued with the power of an aura rushed through the air.
however.
jjwoong-.
“…?”
The dagger… was eaten.
It wasn’t blocked, it was literally eaten.
A dagger wielded by Kerner.
It was swallowed up in the thick darkness that bloomed around it.
“…!”
Bounce, open eyesight.
‘Oh, how could this be…!’
Connor looked very upset.
That blow was a kind that even an expert knight could not easily block.
Even the Master wasn’t like this.
Because it literally hit the perfect gap.
But how…!
Soon the woman’s voice was heard.
– What? Were you hiding your life? What are you doing?
At the same time, a terrible fear rose up around them.
It was an overwhelming fear that I couldn’t even resist.
‘This, what this…!’
Conner’s whole body shuddered and trembled.
It was Conner who had been through a lot of things as a special assassin.
Among them, there were things that could be called ‘horror’ itself.
And the top class assassins are the elite of the elite who survived the horror.
For Kerner, fear was nothing more than a tool to sharpen the senses.
however···.
But this wasn’t it.
All the nerves in my body tremble as if I had been electrocuted.
Horror and fear burst out like fireworks, grabbing hold of the mind and stretching it.
she gets closer
Before long, Kerner saw her true form.
Two dark gray-white eyes.
It’s like having two tombstones stuck in it.
That’s why ‘that’ is a person.
non-human beings.
– You really can’t. Let’s go to Xi’an. no Xian is sleeping now. Stay with me until tomorrow morning.
That is.
Kyaaa
“Turn it off, go go go go go…!!!”
It was the last scene Kerner remembered.
#
next day.
“therefore···.”
Xian wanted something to happen.
That’s also the man kneeling in front of Xian.
“You mean this man broke into Leuven during the night?”
-huh.
Leah responded vigorously to Xian’s question.
-At first, I didn’t know because I was hiding it. So I thought it was Young Ji-min, but it wasn’t.
Xian slowly looked at the kneeling man.
Then the man suddenly banged his head and hit the floor.
“My name is Conner. He is a high-class assassin belonging to the Shadow Moon. I recently received a request to assassinate Mr. Xian, and broke into Ruben yesterday. Wrong. Wrong!”
I started blowing on things I didn’t even ask!
Xian really wanted something.
No, he said he was a high-class assassin?
So, even if the mouth is heavy, shouldn’t it be quite heavy?
Xian looked at Leah with an absurd expression.
“What were you doing during the night?”
-Just what…
Leah smiled and spoke.
-At that time, there was that disgusting kid in the hall. I messed it up like back then, but it turned out like that… hahahaha.
The disgusting kid that Leah is talking about.
It was none other than Saint Aria.
And at that time, when Leah messed with Arya… it was really terrible.
It had some resistance to Araya Leah’s evil thoughts and demonic energy, so it was only to the point of being robbed.
It was a force that no one else could ever, by any means, endure unscathed.
no wonder.
Sian shrugged and looked back at Conner.
“A special assassin belonging to the Shadow Moon?”
“That’s right!”
At Kerner’s answer, Xian thought for a moment.
shadow moon.
Xian did not know the shadow moon.
back of the empire.
A guild that rules the underworld.
and super assassin.
These were the best among assassins.
An assassin that even the master’s knights should be nervous.
It was truly the best in terms of assassination.
Of course, Leah didn’t care.
Anyway, if it wasn’t for Leah, it would have been a really big deal.
“Why me in the shadow moon?”
“That, up to that point, I’m good at it too… I’m just a b*tch who works for only getting paid…”
– What? Can’t you answer me straight?
Leah’s intimidation made Conner terrified.
“Gee, I really don’t know! I didn’t tell you who the client was, saying it was a top secret! Really!”
Xian quietly looked at Leah.
Leah’s gray-white eyes twitched.
Then Conner shook his body and said.
“No, I only know that this is a request managed by the guild leader himself!”
“This request was directly managed by the head of the Shadow Moon guild?”
“That’s right!”
A quest managed by the Shadow Moon Guild Leader.
That meant that he had put in a request directly to the guild leader.
And the guild leader of the Shadow Moon was not an easy existence to meet.
There aren’t that many beings that can do that.
“hmm···.”
Xian was lost in thought for a moment.
‘Could it be Isabel?’
It was possible, but not certain.
It’s literally just speculation.
I had a heart attack, but no physical symptoms.
deepening troubles.
“hey.”
Sian slowly opened his mouth.
“Yes, four!”
“How much did you get for the commission?”
“It was 200,000 gold!”
200,000 gold.
Even for the cost of hiring a high-end assassin, it was quite expensive.
“Do you have it now?”
“Oh, no…”
call!
“there is!”
Xian held out his hand and said.
“Give it to me.”
“Ha, but…”
“no?”
“no! I’ll give it to you!”
Conner took out a slip from his pocket and handed it to Xian.
“chit? If you do this, you won’t be able to do it right away.”
Xian clicked his tongue and put the slip into his inventory.
“So, then I…?”
Conner asked softly.
Xian thought for a moment.
I tried to kill Xian first, so I should pay the same price.
It was embarrassing to do so.
See, it happened before I could do anything.
Even so, it is an ambiguous situation to let them live like this.
‘Um… Ah! okay.’
Xian suddenly showed his palms and said.
“I’m asking you, please. Didn’t you touch the villagers?”
“no! Absolutely not! I won’t touch anyone other than the request target!”
– I was trying to kill you?
“That, that, that…!”
Conner shuddered, trembling, and shut his mouth.
“good. I didn’t touch you, so I’ll save you.”
“thank you! thank you!”
Conner shouted, banging his head on the ground.
“From now on, you can work at Ruben without pay. For now… let’s catch some monsters with the soldiers. There was not enough manpower at the time, but it worked well. Don’t worry, I’ll give you food.”
“yes yes?”
Kerner wondered what Xian was talking about.
But Sian did not answer and asked Leah.
“ostrich. Can you take out more of this bastard’s head?”
– To what extent?
Xian said as if it didn’t matter.
“You’re not going to think about anything else again?”
#
Dark City, Vener.
And the darkest part of that Vener.
A silver-haired woman stood there, as if bathed in moonlight.
Shadow Moon Guildmaster, Diana.
The silver hair shining in contrast with the darkness created a very mysterious atmosphere.
And Diana didn’t know how to deal with the situation.
“Why aren’t you coming?”
It was also because Kerner, who had sent the mission, hadn’t come.
Originally, I should have come and reported right away.
Super Assassin Kerner.
Because he was one of the best in the Shadow Moon Guild.
The assassination of Xian Ellandur was nothing.
that it hadn’t come yet.
that means that.
“Mission failed?”
Diana wondered if this made sense.
That would be the case, because there was only one chance that Kerner would fail the mission.
Master’s existence.
then.
“Cyan Elandour is the Master?”
Diana quickly shook her head.
because it didn’t make sense
The Master was truly at an extreme level.
The ultimate realm that humans can reach.
It is not a state that can be reached so easily in another moment.
Even more so if he was called the Dunjae of the world.
So Cian Elandur is not a Master.
But Kerner failed in his mission.
It is clear that Kerner was beaten by the Master.
If so, one possibility.
There was a Master next to Xian Ellandur.
However, the Master’s existence is precious.
Empire’s best intelligence guild, Shadow Moon.
If the Master had been born, there was no way Diana would not know of its existence.
That’s why there was no possibility that a new Master would be next to Xian Ellandur.
The only possibility I can think of.
“······ Durach.”
Durak Elandur.
The head of the Ellandur family.
The No. 1 sword of the Empire in name and reality.
After all, he is the father of Xian Ellandur.
Although he was an illegitimate child, it was undeniable that he was related by blood.
but.
“Wasn’t it an abandoned child?”
Surely it was.
Empire’s best intelligence guild, Shadow Moon.
The information couldn’t have been wrong.
However, it may not have been updated.
A recent National Day event.
There, Xian Ellandur was chosen by the Zodiac Sword.
As a result, there was information that Durak showed interest in Xian.
But I thought it was simply the level of interest.
“Durak protects Xian Elandur…”
Diana was finally able to come to this conclusion.
This conclusion was the only information Diana had now.
Xian Elandur became the Master.
The fact that Durak was protecting Xian was much more likely than this.
Of course, the truth never was.
A misunderstanding that occurred because they did not know of Leah’s existence.
Sian was unintentional.
Diana could only draw that conclusion.
“I haven’t heard that Durac moved.”
It seemed like they were moving in secret.
No matter how much the shadow moon is the best information guild in the empire, there was nothing to do if Ellandur was determined and hid it.
Elandur is Elandur.
Even more so if the target is Durak.
Diana calmly looked up.
“Hres.”
“Did you call?”
At Diana’s call, a man jumped out of thin air.
Diana opened her mouth slowly.
“We completely cancel all requests related to Xian Ellandour. From now on, tear up all requests related to Xian Ellandur.”
“······ The backlash from the clients will be severe.”
“I take it.”
Diana continued.
“Also, change the interest level of Xian Ellandur to Limited Express.”
“·······”
“If you’re thinking of investigating Xian Ellandur, don’t do it. You are protected by Durak.”
“…!”
Hres’s eyes widened.
“and.”
Diana handed something to Hres.
“Tell Xian Ellandur. I want to keep a good relationship in the future.”
Hres accepted what Diana had given him.
A sign in the shape of a crescent moon.
It is a sign that symbolizes none other than the shadow moon.
It was a mark that only the guild leader, Diana, could use.
Hres slowly opened her mouth.
“You probably already know that Shadow Moon has received an assassination request. Would you like to maintain a good relationship with us?”
Diana nodded and said.
“So you have to lie flat. Promise to listen to everything you want. Also, whenever you give that token, once. I will handle any request myself.”
“·······”
Hres was speechless for a moment.
Shadow Moon Guildmaster, Diana.
The authority to move her directly was not something that could be easily obtained.
Even more so if the contents of the request were not covered.
“It’s worth it.”
“······ All right.”
Hres disappeared from the spot just like that.
A moonlit night in Venere.
“Sian Ellandour…”
Looking up, a new star was shining in the sky.