Vieri de Pache sat anxiously in the mansion shaking his left leg rapidly, trying not to fall asleep too early with the slight tingling in his crotch.

Under the strict control of the ascetic ideology of the Holy See, there was a scarcity of nighttime entertainment in medieval Europe, and even in the early Renaissance, it could not be improved.

Normally, Vieri could have found some female companions to wrestle with, but now he doesn't have the right hardware.

Lacking the entertainment of the night and bored, Vieri's eyelids began to fight, and he wanted to sleep until dawn.

Unsure of which day the Assassin would arrive, Vieri's luck made him unable to bear the onslaught of sleepiness and staggered to the bed.

The elite Templars who were guarding in shifts were not as useless as Vieri, who still roamed the mansion with kerosene lamps in high spirits.

When Lu Xiao accelerated towards the mansion, the fire on the roof gradually spread.

The high temperature overhead and the amplified light of the fire alerted several Templars, who loudly inquired about the situation from their fellow archers on the rooftop, but received no response.

"Something is wrong, be vigilant!"

A strong man in full-covered armor commanded in a deep voice, "Dario, Luka, you two go up and take a look. ”

"Yes."

Two Templars in light leather armor climbed up the outer wall, and the relatively nimble two quickly reached the rooftop.

The first thing that came to them was a wooden roof structure that had been ignited by the fire, followed by two corpses with arrows in the head.

"Team...... Belch! ”

Dario was about to send a warning down when an arrow came through his and Lukka's throats out of nowhere, and the two fell limply to the ground under the watchful eye of the other Templars.

"Enemy attack!"

Although it was unclear why the two men had fallen, the Templar captain in full armor had used his experience to tear open his throat and roar, and a rapidly flashing black shadow had already approached the Templars with the help of the shadows of the building illuminated by the firelight.

The people who slept in shifts in the mansion were awakened by the sound of the knight captain's broken gong, and hurriedly began to put on their clothes, including Vieri, who had just slept with his clothes closed.

Rushing out of the room before the others, Vieri was greeted by several still twitching corpses and scarlet blood all over the floor.

"This ......"

Vieri, who was cruel and tyrannical by nature, had not seen blood, but he had just not expected that he had only been asleep for a short time when the well-defended mansion was violently attacked by the enemy.

"What about the enemy? How many people are there? Did the Assassins send a large force? ”

The other Templars who had just come out in armor looked at each other, and no one could answer Vieri's question.

"Drink!"

The shouting and clashing of weapons from a short distance attracted the attention of Vieri and a dozen shift guards, and the group hurried to the place where the sound was made.

"Ugh!"

Vieri, who arrived at the scene, happened to see the Templar captain in full-cover armor, held down by a suspicious figure wearing a gray hooded robe.

Vieri, in a panic, did not forget the education he had received since childhood, drew his magnificent sword at his waist and gave the order: "Archer shoot!" ”

Seeing the arrival of enemy reinforcements, the gray-robed man did not stay in place, gave up the tin can in front of him and hid in the shadows of the building again.

The Templar captain staggered back two steps, finally unable to maintain his center of gravity, and his heavily armored body collapsed to the ground.

A Templar beside Vieri hurriedly stepped forward to inspect it, and found that the heavy captain's neck armor had been pierced through a tiny opening, and the blood gushing from the major artery in his neck had spread out of the armor, apparently hopeless.

"Damn the Assassin!"

Vieri also noticed the tragic situation of the highest-ranking Templar captain, and he gritted his teeth and waved his sword wildly.

"Find it! I want to get the exact number of Assassins who have invaded the mansion in the shortest possible time! ”

"Yes!"

Leaving some to protect Vieri, the rest of the Templars scattered in an orderly manner to search the mansion.

The shocking corpses were more present in front of their eyes, most of them had only very small wounds, but the location of these wounds was very fatal, which directly led to their death.

……

"Whew~"

With the stupid order to divide the troops issued by the pig-like opponent, Lu Xiao, who had just exercised vigorously, successfully infiltrated the weakly defended mansion.

After forcibly using the Hidden Blade through the armor many times in a row, Lu Xiao could feel that the side of the Hidden Blade that he was accustomed to in his right hand began to dull.

Although it was a little different from the original plan, I managed to sneak into the mansion without any problems. ’

In Vieri's character, eighty percent of the codex was kept in the master bedroom of the mansion for his personal safekeeping.

Lu Xiao lightly bypassed the Templars who were searching for his whereabouts, and took advantage of Vieri's nervousness to calm down and quietly slipped into his bedroom through the window on the other side.

'Bingo~'

Using his Hidden Blade, he carefully picked open the small box on the table, and the encrypted pages inside confirmed that it was Altaïr's Codex.

took out the codex from the box and put it in the hidden pocket on his chest, Lu Xiao closed the lid of the box again, quietly exited the room from the original way, and thoughtfully closed the window for Vieri.

It's not that Lu Xiao didn't want to take this opportunity to kill Vieri, but this death-scared coward was accompanied by nearly ten Templar guards.

Under the enemy's high alert, it was difficult for Lu Xiao to quickly kill all the guards around Vieri by surprise, but it was easy to let himself fall into a quagmire and not be able to extricate himself.

Even in the tense state of the mission, Lu Xiao still maintained enough calm, and seeing that he couldn't do anything, he immediately decided to evacuate.

"Ugh!"

Dashing out of the shadows of the building, he covered the mouth of a Templar in his way from behind, and stabbed his left Hidden Blade in the back of his neck.

The Templar's screams could not be heard, and only a muffled snort came out under Lu Xiao's restraint.

Dragging the body into the shadows to hide, Lu Xiao quickly climbed the wall and jumped outside the mansion.

"There it is!"

Someone found Lu Xiao climbing up the wall, but when the archer shot the arrow, Lu Xiao had already landed on the other side of the house, and disappeared into the market stalls with complex terrain in three or two steps.

Seeing the other party's fleeing figure, Vieri finally woke up from the state of hot blood, his heart was cold, and he hurried back to his room to check the situation.

Vieri's nervousness was relieved to see that the box on the table was safe and sound, but when he opened the box to check further, the blood pressure of the heir of the Patch family was once again full.

"Chase! Give me chase! Be sure to get the stolen Codex back! ”

At this time, it was obviously too late to give the order to pursue, and Lu Xiao, who had repeatedly surveyed the nearby terrain, quickly left the market, climbed onto the roof again and fled quickly, and returned to the Auditore mansion in just a quarter of an hour.

"Whew~"

Putting down the blood-stained hood, Lu Xiao began to calm down the rapid breathing caused by a long period of high-speed running.

That's when the system sends out a new message: "Complete a random mission, infiltrate the Templar Stronghold and steal the Codex, rewarding you with a chance to win a chance to win a prize draw at the best level in this world." ”

'Oh? ’

"Crunch~"

Without waiting for Lu Xiao to check the reward, one of the doors of the Auditore Mansion quietly opened, and a sneaky shadow cat rushed out of the room, just in time to take a look at Lu Xiao who was standing in the atrium resting.

The two who looked at each other saw each other's faces clearly with the help of the faint moonlight, and Lu Xiao looked at Ezio in front of him a little speechlessly: "Where are you going to sneak away at this time?" Wasn't Lady Mary's education strict enough? ”

Ezio was also surprised to look at the large blood-colored marks dotted on Lu Xiao's gray robe: "Lu, you are ......"

"It seems that the time has come."

Giovanni, who had been closed off for many days, stepped out of the shadows and looked at Ezio with a serious expression.

"You two come with me, this is not the place to talk, don't wake Petruccio and Claudia."