Predator Throne 3: The Eve of War
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At least that's what Du Kekao thinks, practicing swordsmanship every day under Zero's guidance, martial arts is a compulsory course for Noxian nobles, but he still practices until he can't lift his arms. And that's just the simplest part.
More difficult and dangerous are the missions.
The high-level tasks he took over in the name of "Dog" were in fact almost all completed by him alone.
Zero just stood by coldly and watched him fight with men, and anyone who touched his mind would be forced back by the sharp cane - like a nobleman on a hunting horse, sitting on a tall horse, watching the hounds bite their prey in a desperate situation.
Death passed him again and again, and Zero was just as coldly watching.
"Only by knowing the means of the killer can you beware of the killer in turn, and all the big people in Noxus must always be wary of the knife behind the back."
Zero said, he pulled the bell rope and called the boss One-Eye to come up and clean up the body.
That was the first time they had encountered an assassin.
The man had come in through the window, and there was no platform around him, he should have been hanging from the roof, and the thistle on the windowsill did not play its due role, so the other party was the means to understand him.
"It's against me." Zero said.
"Who?"
"A woman. The woman in the carriage we met the day we met. β
"Why?"
"The talents that can't be obtained will naturally be destroyed. It's just that I didn't expect their investigation to be so fast. β
Foothold, means of prevention...... Even the time of rest.
If it weren't for the fact that evening, Zero had taught Du Kekao the mental method of controlling his murderous aura after his daily sword practice. I'm afraid it will be a tricky thing, and no one can cope well with a sudden assassination while bathing.
There was three knocks on the door, and then the knocker left.
Zero received the code, moved a piece of the floor in the corner of the room, and squeezed in four or five strong men. They carried snakeskin bags, scalpels, and voodoo dolls made of dried straw, and the last man was the most ordinary, carrying a mop in one hand and a small jar with a lid in the other.
"Auntie-sama."
Zero nodded, and they put on light green gloves and masks, and began to get busy, one of them dividing the body into small pieces of various sizes, one picking it up and putting it in a snakeskin bag, and the other dismembering the voodoo doll in the same way.
"It's a premium service. Even if the person's body is noticed, it will be judged to have been committed by a dark magician. β
The big man in the lead laughed as he dismembered the corpse, "That's our nemesis." β
"Nemesis?"
Zero nodded: "Although the murderous business is our specialty, the nobles prefer to find black magicians to do things, because no one dares to find out about them." The police department and the aristocracy were terrified of mystical powers. Wait a minuteβ"
He pressed the big man's hand that was cutting the flesh, and peeled off the back shoulder of the corpse's clothing, and there was a scar on a piece of skin that looked like it had been corroded by strong acid.
Then, as if to confirm something, he nodded again, withdrew his hand, and motioned for the big man to continue.
Du Kecao didn't know what he had discovered, but he could only watch as the professionals expertly handled everything, and finally the man who came with the mop spilled the detergent from the jar on the ground, covered it with blood, and then disappeared without a trace.
A clean fragrance fills the room.
After they finished their work and left, the boss brought hot water and poured it into the tub according to the old rules, as it is done every day, and when the boss left the room, closed the secret door on the floor, Zero crushed the unknown herb, and the juice fell into the steaming water of the tub along the lines of his palm. Finally, he dipped his hand in the water, spread his fingers, and drew clockwise circles in the water.
A whirlpool emerged from the water, and fragments of green herbs swirled in it.
This is an oriental herb, which was obtained by the tavern keeper with one eye.
"What did you find?" Du Kekao asked, taking off his sackcloth jacket.
He inexplicably remembered his first embarrassment, when he was still shouting "How could a Noxian nobleman bathe in front of others?!" Covering her clothes, she looked like a woman from a good family, until Zero raised her emotionless eyes and said to him indifferently: "Otherwise, tomorrow, you may not even be able to climb." β
This kind of high-intensity training, without the effect of this herb, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to progress as fast as this at all.
"The man used to have a tattoo on his body that was automatically destroyed when he died." He said, "It's common for magicians to do this, but I'm worried about one thing. No, it's pretty certain. β
"What?"
Du Kekao stepped into the tub, his muscles relaxed by the hot water mixed with the juice of the herbs, but then his body tensed again at the sound of Zero's answer.
"Black Rose."
Noxus is a country ruled by the great general Darkville, which has lasted for nearly a hundred years, and Darkville, who lives as long as an old monster, is the guardian of the nobles - the pillars of the state, but these long-rotten nobles have never been interested in pleasure, and the real control of the country is the dark magician except for Darkville's army.
The Black Rose, the largest organization of dark magicians, pierced into the government like a plant that extracts nutrients, plundering power from the nobility into its own hands, and blooming bewitching thorny black flowers above the vast state apparatus of Noxus.
General Darkville left this phenomenon unchecked, the power of the Black Rose was a fact, and the nobles had long since become its puppets.
"I knew this was going to happen, but sooner than I expected." As Zero spoke, the boy's forehead showed worried lines for the first time, not at all commensurate with his age.
No wonder he was in a hurry, as was his training, and he wanted to teach him everything in a few months.
Zero sat by the tub, silent, as if lost in thought.
Indeed, the black rose is a behemoth. Any part of it would be ruthlessly crushed against it, not to mention that it was this monstrous organization that was now targeting Zero.
"Tomorrow." After a long silence, Zero said.
"Action? Do what? Du Kekao looked at the resolute look in the boy's eyes, the look of determination that had found his goal.
"Now that we've been targeted, let's strike first."
"Start? Are you crazy? Our opponent is Noxus' number one! β
Zero smiled: "The Black Rose is a behemoth, but it was negligent from the beginning, that is, it did not keep these predators on a good leash - they will bite one day." β
He paced to the safe in the corner of the room, and a brass key that Du Qucao had never seen slid into his hand, and he opened the safe, and the golden glow flooded into his eyes.
"It's gold. All the proceeds of the mission, I have exchanged them for gold bars and stored them here, and now it is time to use them. β
Heavy sacks landed on the bar, revealing a dazzling golden sheen from the sagging opening, and dragon coins poured out of another cloth bag, like spilled wine, piled up on the bar, and then squeezed to the ground from the edges.
"What is this?" One-eyed looked at Zero, but he didn't look surprised, just said, "I didn't expect this day to come so quickly." β
"SSS-level task delegation. I need all the manpower. Including homeless people everywhere. All you can muster. All. β
"Understood." One-Eye nodded and walked out of the bar.
In full view of the drinkers, he took off all the wooden signs hanging on the mission wall and threw them aside. The wooden plaques with various quests and corresponding levels and rewards are now in disuse. Once he was hesitating in front of this wall, but now-
"You will be the commander of this operation, and hopefully your sandplay will come in handy." Before that, Zero said to him.
ββEnd of text,To be continuedββ
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