"The arrival of a person means the departure of a person, and the first person to cause harm to you will be qualified to leave. ”

In the open field, Gordon had to be on the lookout for projectiles, whether darts or sentry arrows, from the surrounding woods, which made it uncomfortable for him to be accustomed to assassinating people or going head-to-head.

The Oath Sword was clenched in his hand, and he watched everything around him vigilantly, and the sudden strange noise on the left made him turn back unconsciously, but a black shadow rushed out on the right.

The man didn't use a dagger, or he realized that the margin for error in trying to use a dagger to complete an assassination in such an open place was too low, but a thirty centimeter short sword was just right.

With swiftness, the Assassin burst out of the shadows, aiming for Gordon's neck.

The person in front of him is much stronger than them, and there is no need to keep his hand at all.

Gordon sensed a strong warning, and the Oath Sword swept away, trying to avoid the Assassin, but the latter shot three darts from his hand.

If he was injured, the game was over, and he had no choice but to dodge sideways, allowing the Assassin's blade to get close.

The short sword struck like a poisonous snake, and then slammed directly into the sword of the Oath Keeper.

Gordon raised his sword and slashed hard from above, he had to force the assassin away, as he could already see another opponent approaching.

The person in front of him had no intention of retreating, and his short sword was prepared for this, and the sleeve blade of his left hand had been ejected, and he wanted to use the short sword to hold Gordon's oath sword, and then get this assassination opportunity.

When he was about seven years old, he remembered that his family was so poor that his mother could only sell him to a merchant ship and work as a boy for a perverted captain, which was really an unimaginable miserable life for ordinary people, and this kind of injury was not only the beating and scolding of the slave, but also the more disgusting things that he did not want to remember for the rest of his life.

He had to go out and kill that scumbag, and he had to question his mother to his face.

But as the great force of the short sword came, and with a crisp sound, the sharp blade of the Oath Sword sliced through his hat and cut a bloody streak on the top of his head.

The Oath-Keeping Sword, forged from Valyrian steel, finally exerted its due power, and was indestructible, and the short sword forged from stainless steel could not withstand the heavy blow.

If it weren't for Gordon's eventual retraction of power, the Assassins would have faced a definite cut.

"Enough!"

Atabai stopped the game, and the magic weapon in Gordon's hand made the game extremely dangerous, and the young man didn't deserve to die in this place.

"I already know what you're capable of. ”

Following his order, all the Assassins gave up the assassination and walked out of the jungle, while Attabai walked up to the wounded Assassin and lifted his hood, blood already running down his cheeks.

"Let's go down. ”

He commanded the Assassin, then turned to look at Gordon, "Nice sword." ”

"Thank you for the compliment. ”

"You're so much better than I thought, Gordon. ”

"It's just my sword. ”

Gordon cracked his mouth and smiled, this feeling of a long face is honestly really good.

"Your growth is rapid, half a year ago, the assassin who came back described you as just a young boy, you don't need our training, your swordsmanship is more suitable for you. ”

Atabai led him to one of the thatched huts, no different from the others, the master of the Assassin shrine in the East Indies, Master Atabai's living conditions would surely put the lavish paladins to shame.

"You are special, you are very talented, there has never been an assassin at your age who can achieve such strength, what are you here for?"

"I came for help. ”

"If you join us, the Assassin Brotherhood will step up when you help. We are present in every city in the East Indies, in every country in Europe. ”

Gordon was silent, he was no longer the naïve boy he used to be, and there was admiration and estrangement in his heart for the Assassin Brotherhood.

"Why could Mary be an Assassin, you know she's a pirate. ”

"Because she has the potential to become an Assassin, she is decisive, sensitive, kind, and yearns for the light. ”

"But she is here, in the Holy Land of the Assassins, you learned the methods of the Assassins to kill people from your teachings, and then went to loot those merchant ships and kill those ordinary people!"

Gordon's hatred for pirates is no small at all, and the tone of his voice can even be called gritted teeth.

"After she became an Assassin, she stopped killing innocents. ”

"You know that as a pirate, as long as she plunders, she will kill ordinary people, and she can't restrain all her subordinates. ”

"I know. ”

"Why? Assassins were born into ordinary people, and you know better how difficult it is for them to survive, and why you can watch these things happen and do nothing. ”

"Because you can't be detached, you just have to follow the rules of the game in this world. ”

Atabai was very calm and seemed to have seen through the world.

"The rules of this world are not reasonable, I think you are well aware of it, the nobles make rules to protect their gold coins and maintain their rule, this world is minted by murderers. You killed the Portuguese jailers, they just held their posts, you killed the Spanish soldiers because they wanted to kill you, you attacked the French fortifications, and how many poor people died, why? because you wanted to save the slaves, you wanted to live. ”

Everything about Gordon is transparent here in Atabai, and everything he wants to keep secret.

"The world needs change, and change requires bloodshed, and perhaps you take killing a Templar for granted. An ordinary person has made you guilty, but you never thought that maybe the Templar had just put down his hoe yesterday and rejoiced that he had a new job. ”

"No, no, no. Gordon kept shaking his head, trying to deny it all.

"That's not right, to be merciful to the enemy is to be cruel to yourself, but you shouldn't kill innocent people under any circumstances. ”

"Yes, that's true, but life is equivalent, and born in this world, there is no such thing as an innocent person in this era. ”

Gordon was silent, he couldn't accept Attabai's words at all, or his knowledge from the era of peace.

"How can you accept all this with peace of mind!"

"Because I know that everyone we kill is to save more people, and we are united because we have nothing to rely on but each other. This is a war that has been going on for tens of thousands of years, from the very beginning of the first human empire, when our war with the Templars began, for the freedom of faith, for the survival of more of your so-called innocents, rather than allowing them to rule, oppress, and persecute them. ”

"If freedom of faith needs to be perpetuated in this way, then there is no point for an assassin. ”

"Unless you can find a better way to change the world, or destroy the Knights Templar completely, this is the only way, and this is the rule we have explored for tens of thousands of years. ”

Atabai didn't speak again, looking at Gordon, who was depressed and silent, and gave him plenty of time to think.

But it was too long, and it was so long that the night spread, and the sound of the camp dissipated, and the broth brought into the grass hut congealed with a layer of fat.

Eventually, Atabay shook his head: "You are not ready to join this war. ”