Chapter 1: The Templar becomes an Assassin
"Wow-"
The icy splash of water slapped on Angel's face and ran down the smooth curve of her cheeks, taking away the remaining bit of fear and nervousness from her.
In the mirror is a dazed-looking girl, about 18 years old, maybe younger. She has long straight hair with soft pale blonde hair, perfectly proportioned facial features set on her delicate face, dark purple eyes like a pair of swirls that attract Angel's attention, and the oversized, blood-stained blouse on her body cannot hide her tall figure.
"It's myself...... No, it's not my ......."
Looking at this perfect female face, she fell into chaos.
Before waking up in the basement of this building, he was still one of the top "surrogates" of the Templar Order of the Church, and even among the few dozen surrogates, Angel Gray was among the best, just by his number "007", there were only 6 stronger than him.
After the world situation changed and all nations and religions united to fight against the increasingly active evil forces, they became the backbone of the various "purifier" forces, erecting the last barrier to prevent the evil forces from invading the world.
It's a pity that all this is in the past.,In the battle to encircle and suppress the superior demon.,In order to protect his friend.,Angel was pierced through the heart by the flame spear thrown by the demon before death.,The last memory is that the team members surrounded him with a sad face.,Then he lost consciousness.。
She slowly stretched out her hand and stroked the delicate face of the girl in the mirror, and the girl in the mirror also reached out and touched her fingers. The girl seemed to have a strange attraction, and the purple eyes seemed to suck her soul in.
"Assassin's Way ......"
After the initial panic, the "memories" of the body slowly surfaced in her mind, and she also had some understanding of the current situation.
First of all, it is clear that she is no longer in her original world.
Steam engines, potions, gods, curses...... This is a world where the level of technology is about between the two industrial revolutions, but it also has extraordinary powers, mortals can have various special powers through "magic potions", but they also have to face crazy erosion, and there is a risk of getting out of control at any time.
This is the city of Tingen, a medium-sized city belonging to the Kingdom of Rune on the Northern Continent, and "myself", Cole Granger, is an unofficial extraordinary.
His mother died of an epidemic shortly after giving birth to her sister Lily Granger, and her father, a sailor on an ocean-going caravan, raised the Cole siblings alone, and died three years ago when he was attacked by pirates on his way to the Byron Empire in the southern continent......
Wait, brother and sister?
Angel continued to dig deep into her memories and smiled wryly.
Even if he "crosses" a day earlier, at least he is still a man......
Just a few hours earlier, Cole Granger had ingested a potion he had concocted and attempted to promote from Sequence 8 "Instigators" of the Assassin Path to Sequence 7 "Witch", but lost control at the last minute, causing the ritual to fail and kill him instantly.
In this world, failure in promotion is often the same as loss of control or death, and death may be a more fortunate ending.
The characteristics of the "witch" potion will make the user's body forcibly turn into a woman, although Cole Granger failed to be promoted, but before his death, the body had completed the transformation, which caused Angel to "replace him" to become the current weak female appearance.
She raised her hand and looked at the skin without the slightest blemish and her slender fingers, and it was hard to imagine that this perfect female body had been a man before.
"You guy is innocent, but it's a pity that you left me a mess......"
Angel doesn't regret Cole's death, as this guy isn't a good guy in every sense of the word.
Cole Granger's initial pursuit of extraordinary power was entirely to make life better for his brother and sister, but after taking the "Assassin" potion a year ago, he began to play the role of an assassin in order to be able to meet the requirements of the "mentor" and to master the potion as soon as possible, and his hands were gradually stained with blood.
This is followed by the Assassin's next sequence, "The Instigator".
Rather than killing their targets with their own hands, as Assassins do, instigators hide behind the scenes, using words to induce evil thoughts in the hearts of others, stir up conflicts, and create bloodshed. Cole was able to get to the point of being promoted to "witch", and she carried no less murders than she did in the Assassin stage, and in her vague memory, Cole was at least involved in several student mass incidents at the University of Tingen, resulting in many deaths, injuries, and disappearances.
By this stage, Cole Granger had completely lost his mind about his quest for extraordinary power.
Being able to upgrade from Sequence 9 to Sequence 7 in a year's time shows that he is a very gifted person, and if such a person is on the right path and receives the right guidance in the Orthodox Church, he will definitely be able to safely grow in strength and go further, instead of rushing to the top and dying in his basement when he is not fully prepared.
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Packing up her mood, Angel Gray walked out of the bathroom.
The strange sight of the world's unique red moon still hanging high in the sky made her not rush out of the house, but carefully inspected the building.
This is a set of two-storey buildings on the ground and one floor underground, judging by the building across the street, it should be a townhouse facing the street, with two entrances and exits, one in front and one behind, the main entrance is in the living room, there is no porch, and the outside is the street that is currently empty; The study and dining room are at both ends of the living room facing the street, and there is a kitchen, washroom and storage room on the back door; The back door opens into the kitchen, leading down a narrow, dirty alley. On the second floor is another bathroom and four bedrooms, two smaller ones are supposed to be used as utility rooms, piled up with a lot of idle tools and broken furniture, the two rooms facing the street are in normal use, the master bedroom also has a small balcony, the basement entrance when she wakes up is in the study on the first floor, the gas lamp on the wall is not turned on, but she finds that she can clearly see the scene in the dark.
"This body has night vision...... This is supposed to be the dark vision that Cole Granger gained after taking the Assassin's potion, and it seems that I, or rather, this body still retains the extraordinary abilities that the potion brings. ”
Through dark vision, she returned to the basement.
The radial mass of blood on the ground had long since dried up, which was ironclad evidence of Cole's failure to be promoted, and the scope and amount of bleeding were so large that Angel suspected that Cole had exploded into a cloud of blood at that time, and she was actually a completely different person now, but she happened to appear in the same place.
"It's a hassle to clean up, even if you rinse it with plenty of water, don't think about the smell of blood going away within a week."
Just as she was worrying about how to clean the basement, she found a black gelatinous substance in the bloodstains.
I didn't pay attention when I left the basement before, thinking it was a fragment of internal organs or a blood clot, but now I can clearly see the difference between it and the surrounding blood stains under the dark vision.
This gelatinous substance, about the size of an egg, is half-spread on the ground due to gravity, and its color is close to purple-red, and there seems to be light circulating on the surface, but there is a darkness around it that seems to absorb the surrounding light, making the gelatinous itself very prominent.
As she approached the gelatinous object, Angel heard a whisper in her ear, and her mood became irritable, as if there was a desire to destroy and kill in her heart, and the smell of blood in the basement was much heavier.
This is an extraordinary feature!
According to Cole Granger's memories, when the Extraordinary Man dies, the power in his body condenses into extraordinary properties that match his abilities and is excreted from the corpse.
The gelatinous substance was apparently left behind by Cole when he died, and considering that he had only taken three potions, "Assassin", "Instigator", and "Witch", Angel speculated that it should belong to the extraordinary properties of "witch".
However, in Cole's memory, the characteristics expelled by the Immortal of Death should have the complete extraordinary power of his life, which means that his body should no longer have the power of the Extraordinary, but the unique "dark vision" is by no means possessed by ordinary people.
Maybe it's because of my own ...... No, it could be that Cole Granger didn't die completely?
According to the ability he possesses, this body should be an "assassin" now?
Former Templar Angel Gray could only smile wryly.
Instead of rushing to put away her precious and dangerous extraordinary properties, she left the basement first and went to the study above.
Under one of the floors in the study was a small dark compartment containing a metal locket that Cole had prepared to buy potion materials for 20 pounds. According to the seller, it can isolate the extraordinary power and avoid the spiritual loss of the material inside.
Unfortunately, Cole didn't have any extra extraordinary materials, and the box had become a box for his weapons, and now it contained only a damaged revolver.
Although I don't know if it really has such an effect, or the braggado of the vendors, this small box is the most suitable container for storing extraordinary properties that Angel can find now, and she carefully picks up the extraordinary property through her clothes with the mentality of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, puts it into the box, and puts it together with the revolver that was damaged by the hammer in the box before.
Luckily, the moment the box closed, the whispers in her ears and the smell of blood in her nose immediately disappeared.
Although it is not completely isolated, at least the side effects are within an acceptable range.
Angel put the box back in the compartment, put a few more books on it, and after closing the trapdoor of the compartment, the whispers finally disappeared completely.
After disposing of Cole's legacy of extraordinary properties, she went to the second floor, and near the stairs was the second bedroom where Cole's sister, Lily Granger, lived, and was brightly decorated in a girlish style. There are dressers, fitting mirrors, and the futon is also lace, but it is covered with a dust cloth, and a thin layer of ash has fallen on it, and it seems that it has been uninhabited for a while. There were a few novels on the bedside table, and a button-up photo frame, which Angel lifted up, and through the crimson moonlight outside the window, she could barely see that it was a black and white double photo.
There are several height lines marked with age next to the bedroom door, and the highest height line reads "18 years old, 156cm" next to it.
Obviously, the clothes that a girl of 1.56 meters can wear are not suitable for this body......
Angel stood by the door and compared his height, and he was more than a head taller than the 156cm line, which is about 1.75 meters. It seems that I can only go and get a set of Cole's clothes to wear first, although the size is not very right, but at least I can put it in, which is better than wearing a little girl's clothes.
The master bedroom belongs to Cole Granger, the decoration style is simple and clean, the color is cold, there is no extra decoration, the wardrobe is full of men's clothes, there are two suits of the same color, a few casual clothes, Angel took a shirt and compared it on his body, the size is the same as the one he wears.
Taking out her shirt and a pair of slacks, she took off her bloodstained and hardened clothes, changed into clean clothes and pants beside the bed, took the group photo downstairs, returned to the relatively familiar study, unscrewed the gas lamp on the wall, and the dim and soft light dispelled the cold brought by the red moonlight.
Through the light, Angel looked carefully at the picture frame in his hand. As she expected, the photo shows a completely unfamiliar group photo of a man and a woman, the man is about 20 years old, with short blond hair, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and slacks, a tall and thin figure, a delicate and soft face, and the corners of his eyes and nose are very similar to Angel now. He wears black-rimmed glasses and a slightly deliberate beard, trying to make his neutral face more masculine; The girl was about 16 years old, dressed in a dress, with a round face, long blonde hair tied into a single braid, and a novel in both hands, snuggled up to the man's side.
With the girl's height and the novel she had seen in her second-floor bedroom, Angel concluded that this was the owner of the second bedroom where the photo was taken, Lily Granger, who had left Tingen a year earlier to study in Beckland.
The "brother" next to her, whose face is three points similar to her current self, is naturally Cole Granger when she was a man.
This was probably taken shortly after the death of their father, and the two looked melancholy, inversely proportional to their bright dressing style.
Angel was studying the details of the photo when a knock on the door interrupted her thoughts.
"Knock knock—"
Who is it?