When he woke up, Shadow Serpent found himself leaning back in a chair.

She jumped up subconsciously, but after looking around, she realized that this was the safe house she had been living in for the past few days.

The owner of the house is away all year round, and this has become the residence she "borrowed" during this mission.

It looks like he's asleep.

She clearly remembered that she was supposed to go on an assassination mission to wipe out that Grandia and Alyssa together, but she didn't expect to fall asleep so defenselessly.

Recently, I seem to have slackened a lot.

The shadow snake caressed her forehead, and on this cold winter night, a little sweat seeped down and swept across her delicate cheeks.

She opened the drawer and pulled out a ring from inside.

The ring is made of sterling silver, and on the inside, a sentence is written in dignified text - dedicated to the beloved Lina.

It was a gift from her fiancé, a man who was also a member of the Dark Blades.

Originally, after this mission of Shadow Serpent, the two would retire at the same time, take their savings for many years, and buy a manor in a quiet town somewhere to spend the rest of their lives together.

"Grian......

The Shadow Serpent whispered the other's name, then looked out the window.

The bright moon was hanging high, and it was already late at night, so it seemed that I had slept for a long time.

Perhaps because it had not slept so comfortably for too long, the Shadow Snake felt refreshed, and even the air was filled with fragrance.

Now that the best time for the assassination has been missed, when people fall asleep, the surrounding security will become stricter, Shadow Serpent thought about it, and finally decided to discuss it another day.

But she was still a little uneasy, and the night was long and silent, and she sat quietly in her chair like a dagger ready to fire.

Until, there was a knock on the door.

Knock, knock knock –

An incoherent knock on the door alerted the Shadow Serpent.

She slowly drew her short knife in her right hand and approached the door step by step.

There was no reaction outside the door, and the Shadow Serpent thought about it, slowly controlled it with its magic power, and opened the door.

What she saw next, however, was completely unexpected.

A man, covered in blood, was lying on the ground, and from the wounds on his body, blood was still pouring out, looking precarious.

And this person is none other than her fiancé Grian.

"Grian!?

Shadow Snake did not immediately come to the rescue, but secretly mobilized her magic power, and it was not until she confirmed the identity of the other party through some special technique that she came up.

"How did you end up like this, and why are you here?"

With an anxious look in her eyes, she tore open the other party's clothes and saw that there were already several deep wounds on her sturdy body.

Shadow Serpent hurriedly pulled out the medicine to stop the bleeding, but Grian grabbed her wrist.

"Lina, you...... Let's go!"

He was so angry that his face was pale, and he couldn't tell that he was the former bronze powerhouse.

"I met a powerful guy who is not his opponent at all, and his target is the Dark Blade!"

Grian said, spitting out a few more mouthfuls of blood.

"Wait, don't talk, I'll take care of the wound first. ”

The Shadow Serpent pressed against the bleeding wound, applied the powder to it, and wrapped it in a coarse cloth.

After finishing his work, Shadow Serpent looked at Grian lying on the bed with pity and asked.

"Who is it that has this kind of power?"

She thought of a few enemies on weekdays, but there were really few who could beat Grian, who was stronger than herself, like this.

"I don't know, it's a knight, holding a huge long sword, but the movements are unexpectedly fast, I was defeated in three moves, if it weren't for all kinds of props, I'm afraid it would be a corpse now. ”

Grian said in a weak voice.

"However, as I was leaving, I seemed to hear him mention the name Grantia......"

"Is it her people?"

Shadow Snake was completely shocked, could it be that this Grantia was really a pawn of the Trest family, and he just investigated a little, and the other party took revenge on the entire organization violently?

It seems that this commission is not so simple.

Shadow Serpent thought that he already had a plan to stop it.

But as she caressed Grian's chest lovingly, she noticed something strange.

Grian...... Aren't you supposed to be at the organization's headquarters, thousands of miles away in Swift?"

Even with the fastest speed, it would take Grian more than half a day to arrive, and the way he looks now feels a little weird no matter how he thinks about it.

Once he began to be suspicious, Shadow Serpent suddenly felt that everything around him had become hypocritical.

She remembered that she had never snuck into someone else's room to use it, and that she had booked a good room in a hotel in Christinetown.

She remembered that she had never had a fiancé, and that the only guy she had a crush on had died on a mission a few years earlier, also named Grian, and that Shadow Serpent hadn't had an intimate relationship with anyone since.

She remembered that she hadn't slept tonight, but had sneaked into the Trest family's villa in Christine, bypassed several layers of defenses, and found a maid outfit ready to sneak in to assassinate her.

"Ahh

At this time, the Shadow Snake suddenly came to its senses and remembered the guy in armor.

And everything around it faded and quickly turned into dust and disappeared.

"What?"

She found herself still in the Trest family's mansion, but she had been moved from the hallway to a quiet, empty room.

Trying to move his hands and feet, the Shadow Serpent found that the space seemed to be frozen to death, standing still.

"How's it going, is the plot I set up pretty good?"

Behind her, the knight was speaking faintly, a cold breath spreading from him.

"You're actually playing with my spirit!"

Shadow Serpent scolded angrily, she couldn't twist her neck, she couldn't see each other, and she could only judge the position of the two by the shadow.

"Are you trying to trick me into giving up my mission?"

Although she looked very angry, she was actually quite calm, and she knew that she had encountered a powerful enemy, and if she wanted to survive, she had to use both soft and hard measures.

It's not that Shadow Snake hasn't encountered situations where she has been caught by the enemy, but at those times, the other party is greedy for beauty and wants to do something unspeakable before killing her, so that Shadow Snake seized the opportunity and successfully counter-killed.

She will even use her body, pretending to surrender, and then do it after a while with the other party, and for an assassin, her body is also a weapon that can be used.

"Wait, friend, I'm just a guy who takes money to do things, we don't have to do it, you don't want to anger the Darkblade, maybe, we have another way to communicate......"

Just as she was thinking about how to tempt her enemies and find an opportunity to sneak attack, the tall knight standing behind her spoke.

"No, the reason why I showed you that kind of illusion is just to test my ability, as for you, ......"

Shadow Snake listened, and for the first time in his life, he felt a chill to the bone.

"When did you get the illusion that I would let you go?"

In the next moment, the cold blade of the sword pierced directly through the back of the shadow snake, bursting out of the chest and piercing the heart directly.

And the shadow snake, which raised its head and roared, also saw the appearance of the man.

It was under the glowing armor, a white bone, and in the hollow of the eyes, the soul fire was emitting a strange light.