Ice Ridge Heath, midnight, foggy.

A rusty, steam-powered personnel carrier crept along under the cover of thick fog and night, steel tracks tumbling, leaving deep plough marks in the frozen ground.

In the last section of the carriage, more than twenty men dressed as thieves crowded here.

The air was filled with the strange smell of sweat and tobacco.

“S... S-Class Mission?! ”

"No... How did we get involved in such a high-level mission? ”

"Captain Tiger, is there any mistake, this mission is to infiltrate the 'Burning Steel Castle' to assassinate an Imperial Baron?"

"I heard that the lord of 'Burning Steel Castle', Marquis Barrett... But the [Great Demon Hunter] who has awakened the four genetic locks, no one dares to make trouble in his territory..."

"Yes, Captain. And although that target, Dr. Morin, is only a baron, after all, he is an official nobleman canonized by the Empire, and if he is killed, the Imperial Inquisition will directly intervene in the investigation... Will we, the Weasel Thieves, get into trouble? ”

“...”

In the carriage, the trainee assassins of the "Weasel Monster Thieves" did not expect that their first mission would encounter the highest danger level of the "S" class mission in the group!

Heard... The mortality rate of this kind of mission transcendent is extremely high, not to mention that they are rookies who have not yet awakened.

Hearing this, a brown-haired young man with clear eyebrows in the corner jumped slightly.

Sure enough, the luck since the crossing has been as bad as ever.

......

Wren felt that he was probably the saddest traverser.

A year ago, after working overtime until the early hours of the morning for half a month, he woke up and came to this strange world, and his soul penetrated the body of a fifteen-year-old boy Rennes Hermes, who had fled.

I thought that if I didn't have Ji Tailai, I completely got rid of the fate of social animals. I never thought that on the first day he came to this misty world, he was almost bitten to death by a "big rabbit" full of dog teeth in this boundless wasteland!

He later learned that it was one of the creatures at the bottom of the food chain in the wasteland, the dog rabbit, a carnivorous rabbit.

He knew that he had come to a murderous magical world.

Then, before being bitten to death by a rabbit, he saw a scene that he would never forget.

With a loud roar, a steel castle with exaggerated metal tracks and wheels, powered by a steam engine, burst into view like a monster from the fog.

On the castle, a hooded assassin leapt from a tower of a dozen stories and slashed the neck of the calf-sized rabbit.

Wren was rescued.

Originally, he thought that he was going to run in time, but he didn't expect it to be the beginning of a nightmare.

This vicious "Weasel Monster Bandit Group" is completely a concentration of bandits who do all kinds of evil!

They brought orphans from all over the world, controlled them with poison, and trained them to become cold-blooded professional thieves and assassins...

In this way, Wren underwent brutal training at the base of the "Weasel Monster Thieves" for nearly a year and became a [Trainee Assassin].

Today, for the first time, he went out of the new training base to carry out a mission.

Well... Destroy the door mission.

......

Tiger of the Nineteenth Team and the new instructor shouted, "Hey, hey... Be quiet, little ghosts! ”

The level of this mission reached the highest S level, which really exceeded everyone's expectations.

The trainee Assassins in the carriage gradually turned into terror.

Tiger pursed his lips and said, "Don't worry, although this mission has a certain risk, Leader Quinn will also participate in it, and there will be no problems... You little ghosts, just follow the merit points. ”

Hearing the instructor say this, the newcomers were overjoyed and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, really... Boss Quinn will also be involved in this mission? ”

"Then it must be fine now. With a presence as powerful as a leader, no task is a problem. ”

"I'll just say, there's no way we're new to such an important mission..."

“...”

Hearing this, Wren's slightly frowning brow relaxed.

Finally, the dark cloud of "bad luck" in his heart also dispersed, and he no longer felt that this was a train to death.

The wanted criminal of the Omar Empire with a reward of 16 million thousand miles, [One-Eyed Wolf] Quinn, is indeed outrageously strong, giving people a full sense of "security". He watched the guy jump from a cliff hundreds of meters high unharmed, and he could easily pierce steel plates with a dagger...

At this time, another newcomer was curious: "Captain Tiger, what do you say is so special about that Baron Morin, it is worth the commission to spend such a large price and ask us to sneak into the 'Burning Steel Castle' to destroy the door?" ”

It's not just others, it's also the doubt in Wren's heart.

There was something unusual about this mission.

It stands to reason that a group of monster thieves like them, who hunt in the wasteland, would never venture into a large territory to assassinate a nobleman.

Not to mention that the difficulty of the mission will be extremely high, even if it is successful, it will be endlessly pursued by the royal family of the Omar Empire.

Even if the employer is willing to pay a high price for the commission, the sane monster thieves will not dare to accept it.

But this time, the leader Quinn not only took over the task, but also participated in it himself, which was particularly unusual.

Wren speculated that there must be some big secret hidden in that "Baron Morin" that would make Quinn take the risk...

"Who knows? I heard that he was a very rich surgeon..."

Tiger replied disapprovingly, as if it made no difference to kill anyone.

Shrugging his shoulders, he added, "And, for us, what difference does it make if he kills for a vendetta or makes money. Anyway, aren't they all about money? ”

"Oh, too..."

"Shhhh Stop talking, put on a gas mask and get ready to get out of the car! ”

"Yes, Captain."

“...”

As soon as the words fell, there was no more sound in the carriage.

The group of light-armoured Assassins were sorting out the daggers and muskets pinned to their holsters, and then quickly put on various gas masks to cover their faces.

In the corner, Wren also wears a sharp-beaked crow-shaped gas mask made of black leather with a blank face.

In an instant, these young men wearing thick dark wind gas masks turned into cold killing machines, and the carriage was filled with a thick aura of slaughter.

......

A short time later, the centipede steam personnel carrier arrived at the intended location.

"Everyone got out of the car and sneaked close to the walls. Remember, none of the people in Morin Manor remain! ”

"Yes, Chief Quinn!"

“...”

There is a "fog tide" tonight, with heavy fog and very low visibility.

The group took advantage of the night to sneak quietly.

Wren was accustomed to this fog of light toxins.

This is a mysterious world shrouded in thick fog all year round, and there are dangers and unknowns hidden everywhere.

After walking a short distance in the thick fog, the huge city that had been hidden by the thick fog suddenly became clearly visible.

Then, once again, he was shocked by the architecture of this world.

"It's... Is it the human city of this world?! ”

Although he had heard of it for a long time, Wren was still shocked when he looked at the steel castle in front of him.

"What an exaggerated miracle of steel, such a large city is actually a steel castle powered by a steam engine..."

Even he, who was accustomed to seeing high-rise buildings in his previous life, was shocked by the scene in front of him.

It's been almost a year since he traveled to this strange world, and it's the first time he's seen a large city where humans gather.

The lights in the "Burning Steel Castle" were bright, and a giant searchlight dispelled a large area of fog, allowing people to see clearly the steel giant beast with teeth and claws in front of them.

The city was large, roughly equivalent in size to a county seat in Wren's previous life, but denser in architecture.

The Gothic spires are lined with jagged roofs, and the 30-story walls enclose the entire city. The city is surrounded by tall buildings, cobweb-like bridges and pipes...

Giant war hammer iron arms, siege ramming corners, metal cutting machines with a diameter of tens of meters... There are also large-caliber guns that are several meters short and tens of meters long are particularly eye-catching.

Dense rivets stitched together heavy steel plates, and huge, exaggerated tracks and wheels held the entire giant city up.

The most bizarre thing is... Above the buildings in the black city, there stood chimneys that towered into the sky and smoked.

This is the hallmark of a large steam boiler!

The whole giant city exudes a strong rough industrial style, like a steel hedgehog, which gives people a very strong visual impact.

This is a steam-steel castle, a real mobile war fortress.

This steel barrier is also the greatest reliance for the human beings in this world to survive and reproduce in this wasteland full of fierce beasts and monsters!