A location in a luxurious manor house overlooking the entire city.

The glow of the faint fluorite illuminates this well-placed study.

On the desk are goblets that seem out of place in their surroundings.

A reddish liquid swayed in the goblet.

This wine is not expensive, or rather belongs to some of the inferior categories, and is not at all suitable for such a luxurious estate.

After having a high enough status, having enough wealth, what you get is more of a tiredness, a sickly tiredness.

The top things are enjoyed a lot, and then try those lower existences, in fact, there is still a kind of fun.

That's what Lisner thought.

As the head of the empire's first business family, Lesner felt that his sense of taste was about to be corrupted by those so-called famous wines.

He picked up his glass and walked to the window, where the entire city was lit up and people were busy rebuilding their homes.

"What's wrong?" Lisner suddenly asked into the empty room.

In the study, a figure stood behind Lisner in the shadows, gray robes with the smell of sewers, and the sound of gears in a metal mask like a skeleton slowly emitted.

"Mission failed."

The rough and somewhat harsh sound is like a fingernail rubbing against steel, making people chill all over.

"Aren't the people who are targeted by the 'mourners' never see the sun the next day?"

Lisner's voice was unfazed, and his eyes continued to gaze at the city below in the night.

"Failed twice in a row, O person who gave away death, don't you have enough death stock?"

"There was an error in the target estimate." The voice is still rough, and it makes people listen to a kind of crazy impulse: "There is an unknown existence, protecting the target in the dark." ”

"Protection?" Lisner stopped shaking his glass: "Who is it?" Who in this world but a saint can refuse your gift of death? ”

"There is not enough information, the 'gravediggers' were killed in the shadows, and the 'gravediggers' were killed by the target through the heart, but it is certain that they were interfered with before they died."

"Has the number of terrifying assassination organizations dropped from five to three in a moment?"

Lisner finally turned around and looked at the figure, which seemed to not even be illuminated by light.

"How many years have you immortal ghosts wandered this world? How many lives have been lost along the way because of you? Can't even kill a little unknown girl now? ”

"The target rating is wrong, she, the princess Naiya. Dodland was not an unknown princess. ”

A different emotion finally appeared in the rough voice, called anger.

"According to the current information, she was raised by a saint who escaped the court of the gods, and has a peculiar bloodthirsty symptom, but disappeared as an adult, and now, the target is a knight who has killed hundreds of demonic beasts."

"Who's to blame?" Lisner said indifferently: "If it weren't for the failure of your first mission, that little girl would have died in obscurity, and there would no longer be any 'Her Royal Highness', no longer any 'hero who saved the city' or anything like that, and now things are getting tricky, Naiya?" I knew her name, and at the same time, the whole city knew her name. ”

Lisner placed his glass on the windowsill and looked at the crowd below.

The whole city remembered her name! Her Royal Highness the Imperial Maiden Naiya..."

"Is the mission continuing?" The other party ignored Lisner's exclamation and continued to ask formulaically.

Even if the assassination had already cost two of their members.

"Go on, why don't you continue, even if you can even take on the task of assassinating the king, but I can't afford to pay for it......"

The head of the Empire's First Business Family can't afford it, and I'm afraid that the people of the whole world can't afford it.

Lisner knew the crazy surnames of the group in front of him, no one knew where they came from, no one knew how many of them were secretly in secret, people only remembered the metal skull masks, and their name "The Undertaker...... Gift to the dead.

You can hire them anywhere, and if you pay enough money, they can help you kill anyone.

Even the current Emperor Dodland XXI, although the price of assassinating him was much lower because of his illness and weakness, Lisner knew that it was pointless, and the emperor's death was only a matter of time anyway.

Now which unknown successor has suddenly appeared.

It's just that now everyone knows her name.

"The value has increased from 100 million to 10 billion, and if it is okay, then ......"

"Ten billion?" This somewhat unbelievable number made Lysner frown: "Even if the name is known to the whole city, it is too rude to increase it a hundred times." ”

This is not a small amount, and it is completely worth the family's surplus in a year.

"It's not the target, it's the person who has been around the target and secretly protecting her."

"Who the hell let the princess escape under your hands several times? Is His Royal Highness Prince Lodrand, Lord of the West, down? Or is Her Royal Highness the Queen of the Night Dance and the widow of the Emperor? The First Knight has always been by the Emperor's side, and it is impossible to send him to secretly protect His Royal Highness! How many people in this world can stop you from giving away death? It's only about seven or eight, right? ”

"There's one more today." He told Lisner without any disguise: "The person who secretly protects the target has the ability to hide the breath that is not weaker than ours, and the "gravedigger" was killed by a throat cut without knowing it. ”

"Able to assassinate your being... Sounds really creepy. ”

“……”

Lisner sighed and continued to stare at the city.

"How strong do you think that person is?"

"The level is at least fifty-seven floors above the top tower."

The Tower at the Top is a position that everyone in the world recognizes to weigh how powerful they really are.

It is set up in the central capital, and legend has it that the dragon god created the building.

There are sixty floors in total! Each time you pass through one floor, you will be able to possess the power given by Lord Ryujin.

After reaching the fiftieth floor, they are all the strongest people in this world.

When he reached the sixtieth floor, he was called a saint and was summoned to the court of the gods, becoming a god-like being.

"Is an existence that came out of nowhere as powerful as the first knight of the empire?"

Lesner suddenly felt that things had become tricky, and as well as weird.

"You know what? Today, the Warcraft Forest, which has been silent for a hundred years, has once again let humans see its horror...... Her Royal Highness turned the tide and repelled those demonic beasts to protect the city. ”

“……”

"That's why that little girl who is unknown will be famous." Lisner waved his hand to signal him to step back: "I don't think she can do this kind of thing, she is too young, that kind of power is not what she should have, one of the monsters killed the knight Kense, the leader of the fiftieth floor of the top tower. Dodland, no matter what, if you sell your life for money, then go ahead and sell it, and I'll pay another 10 billion. ”

Lisner continued as he looked at the figure that had disappeared into the shadows.

"As long as you know which side is secretly protecting Her Royal Highness."

After the figure disappears......

"Someone." Lisner whispered.

The door opened, and a man dressed in a butler's uniform walked in.

"Allocate some funds to the reconstruction of the city, and don't let the people of this city forget the name of the Clauer family."

"Yes, sir."

The butler bowed slightly.

"Someone in the shadows? This... It's terrifying. ”

Lisner drank the wine from his glass. (To be continued.) )