Chapter 87: The Fate of Selfishness
Just when Kayn thought that it was okay now, the face of the man turned serious.
"Our leader said no team will move from their spot unless being told so,"
While still wearing a calm look on his face, Kayn responded, "We were just trying to get a better view of the Green Horn Village. You see, our team's location doesn't allow us to have that. So, they ordered the two of us to scout out what is happening,"
"Take me to your team,"
"Okay, follow me,"
Kayn started leading the man and his team to a supposed location of his team.
"This ain't going to work," Gilbert whispered to Kayn.
"That's why you have to start doing something. You are an assassin, try to work something out,"
"Are you sure that it won't ruin your plan?"
"I don't have a plan right now, so be my guess,"
"Alright,"
All of a sudden, Gilbert disappeared from the group.
The man quickly noticed Gilbert's sudden disappearance. "Weapons up!"
"Who are you?"
"Me?" Kayn pointed at himself.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
In the next moment, Kayn threw two daggers out from his collar.
Clang! Clang!
The man quickly parried the two daggers. He was already expecting Kayn is an enemy, so he prepared himself for any possible attack.
However, to the man's surprise, his dagger is now covered in ice.
"What is this?!" The man panicked.
"It's called Freezing Point. An Active Skill of those two daggers which allows me to freeze the weapon of my enemy for a considerable duration of time and prevent them from using it," Kayn kindly explained.
"Clever. But I have more daggers," The man pulled two daggers from his waist.
"And I also have more," Kayn pulled out two more daggers from his Storage Ring. There weren't any daggers hidden in his collar. His action before was a simple discreet motion of getting items out of his Storage Ring. Simply put, he disguised the motion of waving his arm by pointing to himself.
As an assassin, the man was naturally able to see through Kayn's previous actions. Thus, he quickly warned, "Be careful, he is an assassin just like us,"
"Understood!"
"Roger!"
"I think you're mistaken," Kayn shook his head before waving his arm. The Molten Ice Sword appeared on his hand. "I am a Knight,"
Whoosh!
Kayn sent a Molten Ice Slash toward the man.
Seeing the attack, the man quickly used the trunk of a tree as his cover.
Boom!
The trunk of the tree was easily cut in a half.
But the man was no longer there.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two daggers flew in the direction of Kayn from the east.
Noticing the daggers, Kayn brandished his sword to block the two daggers.
Clang! Clang!
Quickly following that, he activated Sword Dance to increase the strength of his next attack.
"That is Sword Dance, be careful!" The man quickly warned his teammates. He might be battling Kayn right now, but there's no telling for certain if the latter won't attack the others.
Hearing their leader's warning, everyone created some distance from Kayn.
Unbeknownst to the man, that was exactly what Kayn intended to achieve.
Just now, Kayn had noticed that the four assassins has positioned themselves in locations that allows them to deliver a critical attack on him. In order to prevent that, he has to force them to change their locations.
"That was stupid," Kayn muttered to the man.
Aside from preventing them from attacking him, he made them change location so that Gilbert would be able to launch an attack.
"Argh!"
One of the four assassins dropped from the tree, lifeless.
Speaking about the devil.
"Watch out for his companion," The man instantly remembered Gilbert.
"You better out yourself too," Kayn brandished his sword toward the man.
Clang!
Boom!
The man was sent flying.
While in mid-air, the man remembered that Kayn had just applied Dragon Dance on himself. Meaning, his next attack would deal one hundred fifty percent damage.
It was already too late when the man remembered that as he already smashed into a tree.
Bang!
"How unlucky…" The man muttered as he watches two daggers flying to his head.
Splat! Splat!
Without wasting any time, Kayn turns his attention to the remaining three assassins. He absolutely can't let anyone escape from here as that might risk them getting found out.
"What's your plan?" Gilbert arrived beside Kayn.
"They have distanced themselves quite far from each other. Even if we split up, one of them is still bound to escape," Kayn muttered while picking up the two daggers he had thrown earlier.
"How about I handle two of them while you handle one?"
"Can you do it?"
"Are you underestimating me?"
"Of course not!"
"Just because you have killed their leader, you instantly think of yourself highly?" Gilbert coldly harrumphs before leaving.
"What a hypocrite," If he didn't say that line himself, it would be Gilbert instead who will use it against him. "I guess this means whoever has more skill can kill the third assassin,"
In the 'Tower', an individual's level doesn't always mean that they are powerful. It is always their skill in combat that matters in the end. So, even though Gilbert is level forty-nine, that doesn't mean he can instantly overpower everyone whose level is lower than his.
Kayn is backed by his experience and combat capability from the second life. Even though the current state of his body can't handle that level yet, that is still not a hindrance for him to being highly proficient in battle. So, although he is still at level one, he can still compete with Gilbert to a considerable degree.
Regardless, it would still be impossible for him to defeat Gilbert in a one versus one fight as the latter clearly has a lot of Passive Skills and Active Skills in his arsenal.
Kayn quickly followed after Gilbert.
In the next moment, Kayn and Gilbert split up.
Kayn went to the assassin at the far right, while Gilbert went to the assassin at the far left, thus leaving the third assassin in the middle.
The only way to easily go back to where they came from is to either go right or left. But with Kayn and Gilbert blocking that path, the third assassin felt confused.
"Quickly come to me so that we can help each other block them, and so that you can escape and report the situation here,"
"No, come here!"
What's even worse is, he is more than aware of the fact that the people threatening his life aren't only Kayn and Gilbert, but his two remaining comrades as well. This is one of the disadvantages of joining the Tenderfoot Village, everyone only cares about themselves.
With no other choice, the third assassin could only turn back and go in a straight line while hoping deep inside of him that there would be a chance for him to save himself.
Just like what the third assassin had expected, Kayn, Gilbert, and his two comrades went to chase after him.
"What are you two doing?! You should be distracting them so that I can escape!"
"I also want to report it. So, why don't you distract this man yourself?!"
"I thought that we were comrades?!"
"We are! That's why you have to sacrifice yourself!"
"Damn it!"
Kayn and Gilbert could only stare at each other, slightly surprised at the scene happening between the three assassins. Nevertheless, they were happy.
They both know that even if they don't do anything, it would be these three assassins themselves that would deliver their heads to them.
"This is what happens when you adhered to the ideology of the Tenderfoot Village," Gilbert expressed his thoughts.
"The fate of selfishness," Kayn shook his head in pity.
With that in mind, Kayn and Gilbert inserted even more pressure on the two assassins that they are each chasing so that they would similarly do the same to the third assassin.
As time continues to pass, the closer the two parties got to the third assassin. The man could only feel helpless and desperate deep inside to escape from death.
"Damn you two!"
Being driven to the end and left with no other choice, the third assassin can no longer hold back from attacking his comrades.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
The third assassin threw out two daggers to his left and right, hoping that they would hit his two comrades…
No, scratch that!
The two traitors!
Clang!
Clang!
"What are you doing?!"
"We are comrades!"
"I don't see it that way anymore. So, please just die for me to live!"
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
The third assassin no longer bothered to keep count of his daggers as he keeps on throwing one dagger after another.
Since the third assassin is now attacking them, the two other assassins also decided to launch a counterattack.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Unfortunately for the two assassins, because Kayn and Gilbert are currently chasing after them, they couldn't focus solely on counterattacking.
Seeing this, Kayn and Gilbert looked at each other and quickly came into a tacit understanding.
Taking out two daggers from his Storage Ring, Kayn turns his focus to the third assassin. Because it's currently two against the third assassin, they planned on making it four against one.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
On the other side, Gilbert also threw two daggers.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
They made sure to only throw their daggers when the two assassins threw theirs so that they can use their daggers as a distraction to keep the third assassin preoccupied. By doing so, there would be a high chance for their daggers to land on their target.
Clang!
Clang!
"What the!"
As expected, the third assassin was unable to defend Kayn and Gilbert's daggers.
The third assassin could only watch helplessly as the four daggers penetrated his body one after another.
In the next moment, the third assassin fell to his death.
Seeing the death of their previous comrade, the two assassin's faces turned dark. They can already imagine the scene of them dying next.
"Your death won't be in vain,"
"We promise to make these traitorous bastards pay for their sins,"
It was Kayn and Gilbert instead that swore to take revenge for the third assassin, evidently insulting the duo for causing their comrade's death.
"AHHH!"
The two assassins could only scream loudly in hopes of calling the other assassins. This is their last-ditch effort to see hope.
Unbeknownst to them, Gilbert has already cast a skill on himself a long time ago that prevents any sound nearby him from escaping their surroundings.
Not long after the death of the third assassin, the two assassins also fell to their deaths soon after. The last thought in their minds was that their allies has choose to abandon them as they didn't appear no matter how loud they cry for help.
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