"Ghost Assassin" Blair, after a crushing defeat to Owen a few years ago, although he was lucky to save his life, but also made him feel a deep crisis: if he failed again, he may fall into the abyss of hell. In order to be able to survive, Blair has been practicing frantically over the years to improve his strength.

However, Blair's cultivation was limited to **, that is, a lot of practice and long-term training of his old profession, the Assassin's combat skills, and in a few years, his combat skills have been greatly improved, which is not comparable to when he fought against Owen back then, but in contrast, his dark magic cultivation has stagnated. Because the prerequisite for a great improvement in magic cultivation is to improve his own magic power, which requires him to persist in thinking for a long time, but in this way, he will not have time to practice combat skills. In fact, this is also the dilemma that any demon and martial arts dual cultivator has to face, if you practice magic and martial arts at the same time, then the progress speed will definitely be slower than others, if you want to improve your combat effectiveness in a short period of time, you must have a trade-off, choose one of the two.

Of course, Blair didn't completely abandon magic, and he used another method to make up for the lack of magic cultivation that could not keep up with the progress of combat skills, and that was to use items. Whether under the command of Blios or in his defection to the Lich King, Blair frantically looted magical equipment and props that could help him or use them in the future, sometimes even having to steal or rob them, and his two masters knew about it, but invariably took a resigned attitude towards it.

Therefore, before heading to the mainland to carry out his orders, Blair carefully selected several "treasures" from his collection that could come in handy, such as a scroll that could set up a "mana drain" trap for a long time, a beetle that manipulated corpses with a near-perfect "Death Technique", and corpse casting mercury that maximized the power of corpse explosions.

Before leaving, he had also read a lot of information about Princess Sophia, the target to be captured on the mission, and knew Sophia's abilities, personality, experiences, and the situation of the people around her quite thoroughly. After many iterations, Blair deduced Sophia's actions step by step and laid out them in advance. In his opinion, there are only two biggest threats Sophia can pose to him: one is the soul of the Valkyrie, and the other is light magic.

Just when Blair was trying his best to get rid of Sophia's two advantages, he unexpectedly found that another puller was also playing Sophia's idea, so that her two companions, one unconscious, and the other left. Blair naturally did not miss such a God-given opportunity, but he was still very cautious and did not dare to act rashly, so he waited patiently, and Blair secretly pierced the water storage tank of the floating ship, causing the loss of water, forcing Sophia to go to the field to draw water;

Things turned out to be quite smooth, and after the water break, Sophia, as Blair deduced from her character, first used the Valkyrie Soul to set up a protective barrier for her injured companion, relieving him of his first concern, and then Sophia walked into the trap as he wished. Blair managed to trap Sophia in the "Mana Drain" trap, using several corpses to force Sophia to cast a large amount of magic at 5 times more mana than usual, until all the mana in her body was drained, so that the second worry was gone.

Faced with Sophia, who can't use the soul of the Valkyrie and the magic of light, Blair is completely confident that he can handle it, so he shows up with a swagger. After all, Blair was given the order to "bring her back" rather than "kill her", so he had to end his covert operation when he reached the last step.

However, the development of events took Blair by surprise. In the information he came into contact with before, Blair had always been convinced that Sophia's combat skills were only at the level of a guard knight, and it was impossible for her to be able to compete with herself who had greatly increased her strength after hellish training, but in actual combat, Blair found that those materials were not reliable at all.

Blair used stealth to enter a state of stealth, and launched a wind-like attack around Sophia, although she took the initiative on the surface, Sophia was like an old knight who had been on the battlefield for decades, and responded with a composure that was very incommensurate with her age. She couldn't see the invisible figure of the opponent, and her vision was completely useless, so she simply closed her eyes, relying on her weak sense of hearing and the flow of air to sense the enemy's position, her feet did not move for more than half a minute, and she let the ghostly figure of the enemy fly around her, but the double short sword in her hand was not idle, and every time she swung her sword, she was extremely accurate in resisting one of Blair's attacks, and she seemed to have completely seen through Blair's movements, and prevented his offensive from leaking. The double short sword and the bronze dagger differed dozens of times, making a "ping-pong" sound in the ethereal night, but the bronze dagger was never able to tear through the defense of the double short sword.

In order to make a gap in Sophia's defenses, Blair repeatedly showed up and deliberately exposed flaws to lure Sophia to attack himself, but Sophia was unmoved, and her indifferent eyes revealed a disdain for seeing through his intentions.

After more than a dozen rounds, Blair's shape took a sharp turn, because he had to perform stealth for a long time, which required the consumption of many times his body lì than usual, Blair was tired enough, but he failed to take advantage of Sophia's body, and his body plummeted, and he could not continue to maintain the invisibility technique, and even his movements slowed down significantly.

What Sophia was waiting for was such an opportunity, she had retained a large amount of body in the defensive battle just now, and she took the initiative to counterattack, and the short sword flew up and down in a row, stabbing, picking, chopping, slashing, and slashing, attacking Blair's vital point with a continuous offensive. Blair could only swing the bronze dagger to defend passively, and the shape shì was reversed, and at this time, Blair was not even close to Sophia, and he felt very difficult to parry her attack.

This made Blair really feel that Sophia's melee combat ability was now better than that of Owen who met him in the cave on the Isle of Death, and the years of hard training he had had been completely wasted.

But what Blair doesn't understand is that although he spends a lot of time practicing martial arts, his training objects are at most undead warriors who have been resurrected by dark magic, which is not at all reasonable compared to Sophia's many life-and-death battles. Sophia's practical experience in exchange for her life is not comparable to the simple closed-door penance. What's more, the repeated use of the Valkyrie's soul also allowed the legendary Valkyrie Alvet's combat experience and style to be incorporated into her habits. Now Sophia is no longer the Wuxia Amon of the past, and she is blessed with a variety of enhanced blessing magic, and her combat power is far beyond Blair's expectations, which is also completely reasonable.

"Boom"!

The bronze dagger "Soul Blade" flew into the sky in a whirlwind, and after cutting a parabola, the tip of the knife was nailed downwards to the muddy ground in the mountains.

Blair held up the other hand with his free hand, staring at the girl in front of him in shock and anger. He didn't take a step back, for the girl's dagger was already at his throat, and there was no point in stepping back any further.

"Who sent you, and why did you attack me and Cassius?" asked Sophia sharply.

With a shake of her hand, she could have slit Blair's throat with a single blow, but she didn't because she thought Blair might have an antidote.

"Hee-hee......" Blair sneered.

His eyes changed, from anger to evil. Although Sophia surprised him too much, it didn't mean that this cunning ghost assassin was helpless.

With a sound of "coaxing", the half of the cloak covering the left half of his body fell off the ground on his own, and Sophia was surprised to find that the left half of Blair's body was full of throwing knives from the collarbone to the waist, a total of 13, and black dirty blood flowed straight down.

These 13 throwing knives, which were originally hidden in their cloaks, should have been thrown at their master's enemies, but in the battle just now, they were stabbed into their bodies by their masters in turn.

Sophia was so stunned by such a frenzied act of self-harm, she had no idea what Blair was trying to do, so much so that her movements slowed down for a while, and before she could come to her senses, Blair was out of range of the dagger with a backward leap.

"You forced me. Blair said fiercely