When he was still in the hall on the first floor, the reason why Locke proposed to let Raymond, Tina, and himself hide on the second floor was precisely because the narrow terrain at the staircase was easy to defend and easy to defend.

Hearing Locke's voice reminding him, Raymond didn't hesitate for half a second, and immediately moved to block Locke and Tina behind him, clenched the hilt of the curved sword with both hands, and condescendingly stared at several pairs of scarlet eyes that lit up from the darkness below the stairs.

But those red pupils swayed in the dark corridor, and then attacked at a speed that Raymond didn't expect.

Assassin Skill - Shadow Attack!

At different times and places, the Nightborn Killers who hunted down Raymond, Locke, and Tina, along with their four companions who had invaded the second floor at the beginning, also chose this rogue class to advance to the skills that Assassins could only learn.

This has invisibly proved that they are all second-order professionals, even if they are only newly advanced, but they are completely the most elite assassins in the Night Descent organization at this time in this era.

Despite his geographical advantage, Raymond alone was naturally unable to deal with the successive attacks of several second-order professionals at the same time.

After hurriedly parrying the first dagger that came head-on under the parry of his sword, the Nightspawn Killer who first attacked Raymond leaned sideways very tacitly, and the blade of the second killer grabbed the gap between Raymond and the curved sword that Raymond had no time to withdraw and stabbed up, aiming in the direction of the swordsman youth's abdomen.

Although Raymond was very unwilling, he knew that if he didn't retreat and avoid, his stomach would probably be cut open by the opponent's dagger in the next second, so the future sword master had no choice but to give up the terrain advantage of occupying the staircase and take a step back to avoid the dagger that stabbed him in the abdomen.

With this retreat, several Nightspawn killers on the stairs suddenly rushed to the second floor of the tavern like beasts breaking free from their chains.

As Raymond takes a step back to dodge the attack of the second Nightsborn Killer, the third Killer, standing behind the second Killer, steps forward from his companion and breaks into Raymond's line of sight. Raise the third dagger and continue to stab at the swordsman youth.

"Brother Raymond!" Tina's eyes widened and she screamed with urgency.

The future Sword Master's brows furrowed.

However, at this moment, Locke's figure passed by him in the same direction. With a sharp "ding", Locke rushed to Raymond's side in time and used a long sword to open the dagger of the third Nightborn Killer for Raymond.

The future Sword Saint was stunned for a moment.

Although he didn't know when and where Locke picked up a long sword, he immediately seized the opportunity and brandished the curved sword in his hand to force back the enemy who attacked him again. However, with Locke, he took a step back and examined the enemy in front of them.

Standing on the wooden floor at the staircase on the second floor of the tavern, the two young men fighting side by side counted the number of each other five with the help of the lights.

……

"Ferrandon, they're catching up." Arroyo turned his head to look behind him, only to find that the three Nightspawn Killers who had found him and the red-haired girl hadn't long since broken into his field of vision and bit the backs of both of them.

Ferrandon's eyes were as scarlet as the Nightspawn killers.

The red-haired maiden grabbed Arroyo's sleeve and led her down the stairs to the corridor on the third floor of the tavern. The ponytail on the side of her head flicked in the air as she turned her head, and after she turned her gaze and Arroyo noticed the enemy chasing them, she didn't have the slightest intention of stopping, and pulled the young thief around a small corner, and prepared to continue walking up a new flight of stairs.

"Wait. Ferrandon. Turning his head and raising his gaze, the young thief realized what the girl he had known was planning to do, and his heart was suddenly anxious, and he immediately reminded the latter, "Further up is the roof, we will have no way out!" ”

"But to get to the roof, you need to open an iron door." With a reluctant look on her face and a pair of scarlet blood-colored eyes, the red-haired girl looked at Arroyo's eyes with half of her fair and beautiful cheeks and smiled slightly. "The key is in my hand, so the door will let us through. Then block the uninvited guests. ”

As she spoke, she let go of the hand that was gripping Arroyo's sleeve, turned her face sideways, and ran quickly down the stairs to a platform at the end of the stairs, took a bunch of keys from her upper shirt, and inserted one of them into the keyhole of the door in front of her, and twisted it around.

The iron door made a "clang" sound of unlocking.

The next second. With no choice, Arroyo followed her to the door, and the three Nightborn Slayer slayers ran up the stairs connecting the second and third floors to the third floor of the tavern at the same time, and looked up to continue to find the two of them.

Ferrandon turned around and looked down to catch up with himself and the three enemies of the Young Thief, before pulling out the key in the keyhole. Reaching out and pulling open the unlocked iron door, Arroyo urged him sharply: "Come in, hurry up." ”

“…… Well. The young thief hung his wounded left arm and clenched the short sword in his right hand, and immediately understood that this was not the time for indecision, so without much hesitation, the red-haired girl walked through the frame of the iron door and left the room of the tavern to the roof of the tavern.

A cold ray of moonlight immediately fell from the dark night sky.

Passing through the iron door opened by Ferrandon to the roof of the tavern, the young thief suddenly felt that the space in front of him was open, and the night wind brushed in front of his nose, making his mind suddenly sober up from the frightened and chaotic state before.

But of course, he didn't have time to sigh at this moment.

After his feet were out of the space of the tavern and onto the rooftop, the thief youth immediately turned back, put the short sword back into the leather sheath at his waist, and looked at the latter with an eager tone and said, "Ferrandon, come here too!" ”

As soon as the words fell, he immediately stretched out his uninjured right hand to the red-haired girl who was still standing outside the door.

However,

"Ferrandon?" Suddenly, Arroyo saw that Ferrandon didn't seem to mean to come with him, but was still standing there with the iron door in one hand, looking up at herself with the pair of blood-colored eyes that glowed with scarlet eyes in her eyes, and looked at herself with a calm smile.

In an instant, the young thief sensed something.

"Hey, Ferrandon—" He hurriedly shouted the girl's name again, trying to take a step back and reach out to pull the latter to his side.

The next moment-

"Bang!"

He only had time to see the iron door in front of him make a loud noise, and it was closed again in front of him by Ferrandon.

Suddenly, the iron door that blocked the rooftop and the tavern room also blocked the thief youth and the red-haired blood girl from the outside and inside the door.

The air seemed to freeze heavily at this moment.

Arroyo stood stunned in front of the closed iron door for half a second, and then—

"Ferrandon!" Feeling that something important was about to leave him again, the thief young man's eyes widened, and finally he roared uncontrollably, "Open the door, Ferrandon, you fool! Why you should do it! What the hell are you thinking! ”

Crazy to reopen the closed iron door in front of him, only to find that the door was relocked from the inside before he could scream. His gaze suddenly became dazed again, and he lowered his head to stare at the doorknob on the iron door that was tightly screwed by his right hand.

“…… Ferrandon? After a while, the young thief put down his hand that had trembled slightly from the iron door, raised his forehead and stared at the iron gate in front of him in a daze, and the picture in his mind was associated with the other side of the door, where the red-haired girl was.

Then, the night breeze swept through his face with a cool feeling, and the girl's voice came into his eardrums from the other side of the door, still replying to him in a voice that was clearly audible, but still pretending to be calm, "Wait a minute, Arroyo...... A lady doesn't show her ugly side to her husband. ”

After the words fell through the iron door, the red-haired girl pressed her back against the door behind her, a bitter smile on her face, and sighed softly, then raised her head to look at the three Nightspawn killers who had finally arrived in front of her.

One against three.

It seemed as if she had planned this in her mind before she brought Arroyo all the way here, and was ready to do so.

As for the confidence that underpinned her daring to do so, it dates back to her natural ability to tear apart a rebel soldier with her bare hands in order to save Arroyo in that village in the Moork Mountains on the border of the Empire, in order to save Arroyo.

Blood: Rage ...... (To be continued.) )