"Guests, you can't go in. Outside the gate of the casino, two guards dressed in staff costumes but looking grim stopped eleven people who wanted to sneak into the casino ball: "Your invitation does not match your identity, I hope you can exchange it for an invitation that matches your identity and come back." ”

"But...... But I couldn't steal an invitation that matched my identity. Pannis innocently blinked innocently and said to the doorman, "Why don't you help us reissue a matching one?"

The two doormen raised their eyebrows, the center of gravity of their bodies had been lowered, and their hands were pressed on the dagger at their waists, but in the next moment, the two of them felt a black look in front of them at the same time, and there was a sharp pain on their faces, and the person had already flown into the air, and the last thing they heard in their consciousness was Pannis's joking voice: "The crown casino is really extravagant, even the doormen use silver-level thieves, I'm afraid the shadow hand can't do this." ”

The two silver-level thieves didn't react to what was happening at all, and they were hit in the face by a pair of fists that suddenly appeared in front of them, and before they even had time to open their shields, they had already flown into the air, leaving a sound of skulls shattering along the way.

"It's good to use the skill of Fighting Mania once in a while, as long as the brain doesn't want them to do that. Well, okay, now the identity matches. Pannis withdrew his fist, dusted his hands, stood sideways by the door, stroked his chest, and made a gesture of invitation to Catherine outside the door: "This beautiful young lady, I wonder if I have the honor to invite you to a grand ball that I have never seen before?"

Catherine smiled wryly and put her hand on Pannis's outstretched hand, and out of the corner of her eye, she swept over the seven or eight stunned guests in the entrance and exit hall inside the door and a few thieves and assassins who surrounded her, either openly or secretly, and sighed softly, "Is it necessary?"

"If I were to be cruel, such a vital activity, I would have brought my most elite and credible troops here. Pennisto held Catherine's hand motionless, but replied softly: "As long as cruelty is not an idiot, he will definitely think of this, so I am afraid that all the service personnel here are his strongest subordinates, since you want to surprise him, of course you have to start here." ”

"Then there's no need to plan to wash this place in blood. Catherine glanced at the two hapless doormen lying on the ground. The skulls were shattered, and they had lost signs of life: "Don't say you don't have this plan, I've already summed it up, every time you squint your eyes, you want to kill the killer." ”

"Just look at the arrangement of this entrance and exit hall, cruelty is not only pinning its hopes on the means of luring war puppets to attack you. Here he also made insurance measures. If only you and Vivien returned, would you really be able to walk upstairs from the surprise attack of the ten Assassins?" Pannis squinted at the Assassins who had gathered around him, and since everyone was blocking the door, the Assassins could not attack, so they had to surround them in a semicircle at a distance. Pannis's gaze returned to Catherine's face. The voice softened again: "These people are placed elsewhere, and according to the law, they will not be wronged if they are executed three or five times." Since there are no innocents, there is no need to worry. And did you know that when a person has too much burden on his shoulders, he will accumulate countless pressures with every step, and he needs to go crazy every once in a while to release the pressure. If you don't learn to release the pressure in time, you will never reach the end, and one day you will collapse halfway. ”

"Whew. Catherine closed her eyes weakly and let out a long breath. As a knight, he was born to fight. Even knights who uphold virtue are never afraid to fight evil, let alone kill. However, Catherine does not like to kill, so in previous missions, she often deliberately avoided some battles that killed too much, but this time...... Catherine sighed, and the hand on Pannis's hand clenched hard: "Then go crazy for once." ”

"Are they really okay like this?" Outside the gate, Amber whispered to Moore, "Aren't you afraid that you will be chased by the Shadow Hand in the future?" ”

"Of course not. Moore smiled faintly: "Pennis is very clear in his calculations, as long as enthusiasm and indulgence prevail in the end, they will be invited to eradicate the mole." Not at all a rule to challenge the Shadow Hand. ”

"What if it fails?" Benn next to him also asked, "Maybe there is this." ”

"They have long been labelled as passionate and indulgent. Moore said, "If they lose, we may be fine, and none of the four of them will want to leave here alive." Therefore, whether you do this kind of thing or not will not have any impact on the result. ”

"Shall we go in with us?" Teresa looked at Marcia, who had already followed. He asked with a bitter smile.

"Of course, we're not done. Moore said, "The intercom has already told us that our two goals are on the second floor." ”

On the first floor of the Crown Casino, the entrance door is a spacious entrance and exit hall, which is rectangular. The sides of the rectangle lead to two corridors on the left and right, each leading to several side halls. The entrance and exit hall is directly opposite the casino gate, there are two luxuriously decorated doors, open the door, you can see a huge hall of tens of thousands of square meters. When the casino was open, this hall was filled with most of the individual visitors and a variety of gambling equipment. The staircase leading to the hall is at the end of the giant hall, and if you want to go up to the second floor, you have to go through the huge hall where the ball is being held.

By this time, Catherine had put away her shield, holding a one-handed sword in her right hand, and her left hand was held by Pannis. Pannis held Catherine's hand lightly in his right hand, and in his left hand he carried a short gun removed from the two armor ornaments in front of the door and carried it on his shoulder, and the two held hands as if they were defenseless and walked to the center of the entrance hall.

In the cruel plan, as Panis guessed, all the high-level manpower that could be used in his elite troops was removed, and the total number of people was more than 120 people. Most of these people were on standby in the ball hall on the first floor, and the other ten people were lying in ambush on both sides of the entrance and exit hall, preparing to use these forces to kill Catherine and Vivien on the first floor in case they were lucky enough to return alive, and never let them take half a step on the second floor. In fact, there was nothing wrong with his plan, but he never expected that Catherine would not only come back alive, but also bring back a large group of people.

"Bang. With a flick of his spear in his back, Pannis' spear swept away an assassin sneaking in from behind, turning back and saying, "Vivien, Lina." You two go back to Moore, and this is my time with Catherine's party. ”

"Be careful not to go overboard. The two girls understood Pannis's impulse very well, in fact, they were actually afraid in their hearts these days, they really couldn't imagine it. If Catherine really died, what would happen in the days ahead. Therefore, the two of them had expressed absolute support for Pannis's suggestion before, but Lina was the priest of the God of Love. I still can't bear to die, so I added: "If you don't take the initiative to attack your ......"

"As you wish. With a twist of his spear, Pannis opened a dagger that stabbed Catherine in the ribs, and Catherine's reaction was like a rehearsal before, stabbing out with a sword, directly penetrating the opponent's hastily opened Douqi shield, and a puddle of blood gushed out from the opponent's neck and sprayed on Catherine's silver scale armor.

The Rogue is the strongest class and the weakest. They have extremely powerful attacks and extremely weak defenses. What they do best is stealth and assassination. If they can't be detected, then once they attack, even if you open your shield, you will sometimes take damage due to the piercing perk attached to their attack. However, if they are discovered, their fragile shields can be easily broken by the same rank of professionals, so most thieves and assassins will work hard to make up for their class shortcomings, in order to effectively avoid counterattacks if they are detected or if the attack fails.

Catherine's wrist flicked, and the round arm shield from the Flash Forest accurately blocked the attack of a bayonet. The arm shield block does not affect the operation of the weapon in hand, and after the barb is opened, the one-handed sword quickly turns, and the blade of the sword sprints upwards against the barbone. Inspired by the fighting spirit, he directly cut off the gauntlet of the stabbing sword, and cut off the four fingers of the gold-rank assassin who sneaked up. The assassin snorted and stepped back, but Pannis's spear was already on his shoulder, and he picked it up. The assassin who was retreating suddenly felt that his retreating power suddenly turned upward inexplicably, and the whole person jumped directly into the air with this power that originally belonged to him. The panicked Assassin wriggled to make amends, but it was too late. Catherine's cold, one-handed sword had appeared at his waist in time, cutting him off with a shield. In the screams of despair, blood and internal organs flew in the air, as if the prelude to a bloody dance party had begun.

"Among the human beings in the world, there are about 8,000 to 9,000 gold-level professionals, of which there are almost more than 500 thieves in the profession, counting the thieves in other races, the total number of gold-level thieves will not exceed 800, among these 800 thieves, about 500 belong to the peripheral members of the Shadow Hand, and only the other more than 300 people belong to the core members. Among these core members of the Gold Rank, there should be about forty people who are subordinate to cruelty. However, Cruel obviously can't mobilize all these people, he needs most of his subordinates to deploy defenses in his sphere of influence to prevent someone from raiding his control area, so in this way, there should be about fifteen gold-rank thieves here, and more than a hundred silver-level thieves. Pannis gently wiped the blood splashed on his face with the back of his hand, looked at the female knight beside him whose scale armor had been dyed red, and asked with a smile: "Only you and me, facing fifteen gold and more than a hundred silver, do you feel more and more excited?"

"You're going to take me badly. Catherine had blood on her face, but she smiled like a witch who had broken free from all the shackles of her heart: "But it feels good to be so wanton once in a while." ”

"Just get used to it, and then, the prom begins. With a flick of his spear, the body of a thief at his feet was picked out and slammed against the extravagant door, which collapsed inward with a thud, plunging the noisy ballroom into silence. (To be continued.) )

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