CHAPTER 176: CHAPTER 146: EERIE ASSASSINATION

The Red Robe raised his right hand, the robe on his body spreading forward like blood, transforming into a dagger-like spike.

He stared at the handsome young boy asleep on the bed, slowly moving forward, raising the spike in his hand.

"This task is much simpler than I imagined."

The Red Robe thought inwardly, watching as he stabbed straight at the handsome boy before him,

"One hundred souls, no, with this fresh soul, it’s one hundred and one..."

Just when the spike was about to descend, the dull sound of flesh being pierced resounded.

The Red Robe felt a sharp pain in his chest, looked down, and saw a black short knife penetrating his chest!

"Aaaah!"

The Red Robe’s piercing scream instantly filled the entire bedroom!

The Red Robe roared in anger, swinging the spike violently to sweep back, but the person behind him quickly dodged!

"Huh? Still not dead?"

Vivian stared at the Red Robe figure with astonishment, then looked at her own short knife, which was lodged in his heart!

Wasn’t this what Durant taught?

A deadly strike, yet this guy still stood there, face contorted, so ugly it was nauseating.

"You actually ruined my favorite body!"

The Red Robe rasped, screaming as he lunged directly at Vivian!

However, as he moved forward, Vivian’s figure instantly vanished from her spot.

At the same time, an urgent metallic scraping sound came from behind the Red Robe, followed by a low whistling cutting through the air!

Ugh!

The heavy sword swept across the air, sending the Red Robe’s head flying!

With a "bang," the Red Robe’s body fell heavily to the ground.

The one wielding the sword was the awakened Luo De.

"How did this guy get in?"

Luo De frowned, staring at the corpse on the ground.

As soon as Luo De spoke, an unexpected scene unfolded before him!

——The Red Robe’s body slowly melted like a heated candle, turning into a pool of black-red liquid.

Even more shocking to Luo De was that this pool of black-red liquid seemed to come alive, quickly writhing to flee!

"Damn!"

Luo De couldn’t help but blurt out, hefting his heavy sword and hurling it fiercely at the liquid!

Poof!

The heavy sword slammed into the ground, slicing the bloodstain directly in two!

However, to everyone’s disbelief, the split bloodstain recombined and continued escaping!

"Still not dead?"

Vivian’s voice was filled with surprise and disbelief as she picked up a dagger and pursued the bloodstain relentlessly!

She seemed like a cat chasing a mouse, constantly swinging the dagger!

But this mouse just wouldn’t die!

Luo De chased closely behind but did not strike easily, furrowing his brow in rapid contemplation.

It was evident that blades had no effect on this thing.

As they say, drawing a sword to cut water only makes it flow even more.

So, what about using fire?

Luo De halted, concentrating, swiftly channeling the scorching energy within his body.

"Vivian, get back!"

As Luo De’s words fell, Vivian instinctively trusted him and dodged aside!

Luo De’s gaze sharpened, suddenly pointing his right hand forward!

In the next moment, a mass of orange-red flame arced through the air, accurately striking the red liquid!

"Hiss!"

A shrill scream suddenly exploded!

Sparks erupted!

The liquid twisted violently on the ground!

Instantly blowing apart into pieces!

The red liquid quickly turned black, drying into clumps within moments, like scabbed blood that coagulated from a wound, extremely disgusting!

Vivian heaved a sigh of relief, lacking any semblance of noble demeanor, and simply plopped onto the ground.

Luo De also let out a long sigh, looking at Vivian with extreme puzzlement,

"What on earth is this thing?"

...

...

As the red blood dried into clumps.

Elsewhere, in an unknown underground chamber, a jar on the shelf exploded suddenly.

Thick fresh blood splattered everywhere, also covering the adjacent jars.

The loud noise instantly woke the black-robed man sleeping on a nearby chair.

He jumped up hurriedly, looking at the words beneath the shattered pot,

——Salpose Black Blood

"What happened? Salpose is actually dead?"

The black-robed man’s eyes widened as if witnessing something impossible.

He hurried back to the old table, searching through it until he found a scroll with Salpose’s name among a pile of scrolls.

The black-robed man quickly unrolled it, eyes moving to the bottom.

The latest commissioned task from Salpose was there——

Commission type: Assassination

Commission source: The Count of Eagle Castle.

Commission target: Baron of Black Pine Ridge, Luo De Tulip.

"Black Pine Ridge? Baron?"

The black-robed man quickly returned to the nearby bookshelf to find information on Luo De Tulip.

After finding it, he widened his eyes, clearly even more shocked,

"How is that possible?"

"How could a small newly appointed baron kill Salpose?"

The black-robed man simply couldn’t believe such a thing could happen.

If this baron were so powerful, would the Tulip Clan have allowed him to serve as Lord in the Northern Wasteland?

"Could it be, this is the Count of Hawk’s conspiracy against us?"

The black-robed man immediately thought of a reasonable explanation,

"That damned noble!"

...

...

The guards swarmed in.

They moved quite quickly, having charged in as soon as they heard the noise.

But everything happened too fast; by the time the guards rushed in, there was only Vivian sitting on the ground, the standing Lord, and the bloodstains on the floor.

Avril also awoke and came out of the bedroom.

Yet she was still caught in Vivian’s memory, too shocked to speak.

"Lord, are you alright?"

The guards asked nervously.

They had already gripped their longswords, quickly scanning the room to find the source of the earlier noise.