Chapter 412: Chapter 187: Assassination

Mentioning this, Landon immediately showed a look of gratitude.

“Thanks to you, Leia is almost fully recovered. There’s just a tiny bit of crystal left in the center of her left hand, but it’s no longer spreading! I am deeply grateful for your help previously!”

“This lady here, I met… encountered at a black market auction, her name is Frey, a Second Rank elf spellcaster.

She was in some trouble at that time, and after I helped her resolve it, she decided to stay with us for a while and act together with us.”

As Landon recounted the story, Frey gave him a grateful look for describing their meeting as an encounter rather than an acquisition.

“This gentleman right here is Mr. Vio, whom I’ve mentioned before. He was of great help during our hardest times, a very kind-hearted uncle!”

While speaking, Landon also gave Frey a brief introduction to Anvis’ identity, to which she likewise respectfully bowed to Anvis.

“Frey? Nice to meet you.”

Anvis paused slightly, then nodded his head naturally at her, a response befitting an elder.

Just now, he keenly noticed her somewhat special bowing gesture.

With Anvis’ experience, he could clearly recognize the subtle differences between the salute she just performed and the courtly rites of Yar Continent.

From the way her hand faced forward as she picked up her skirt, to the left foot stepping back as she curtsied, both were quite standard for the way of bowing from the far side of the Endless Sea, the Elf Continent.

It seems that the identity of this elf lady is no ordinary one. However, now is not the time to delve deeper.

At this moment, due to the previous battle, a crowd of onlookers had already gathered around.

“This is not a good place to chat; if you don’t have other affairs to take care of, please come and sit at my newly opened store.”

Looking around at the environment, Anvis frowned slightly and extended the invitation to the three of them.

“Wait… Mr. Vio, what about them? How should they be dealt with?”

Pointing at the few snowflakes still running around everywhere, Landon looked a bit troubled.

“Indeed, what should we do… How about selling them to Flower Street? Some people like this kind of sheep.”

The moment Anvis finished speaking, the three of them were stunned into disbelief.

“Hahaha, just kidding! The effect of the Group Sheep Transformation is not permanent, so they’ll probably revert back in about half an hour.

And I have a friend here who’s invested quite a lot in Mechanical Factories. I plan to seal their magic power and then send them to work in Mechanical Factories.”

Seeing their expressions, Anvis chuckled with a bit of mischief.

“Find a way to hold onto them, I have a secret technique that can use the soul of other Professionals as a price to forcibly enhance your strength.”

At that moment, the voice of Dark Crow suddenly echoed from Landon’s Spirit Sea.

“… Using a soul as the price? Sounds rather evil. Besides, they are Mr. Vio’s captives, it doesn’t seem like my place to demand anything.”

Hearing Dark Crow’s suggestion, Landon frowned instinctively, feeling some resistance.

“Strength has no division between good and evil, righteousness and wickedness are ultimately defined by the weak subjective consciousness of humans.”

Dark Crow’s voice was serious.

“The same sword, when held by different masters, will do different things. When held by a knight, it is used to protect the home and the country, but when held by bandits, it is used to rob and plunder.”

“Whether it is righteous or evil entirely depends on your own heart!”

“While that is true, some negative aspects of Magic Power can easily affect the spirit of Professionals, and if it goes on for too long, it can even cause their personalities to gradually become distorted.”

However, Landon was not fooled by the Dark Raven’s attempt at concept substitution.

“Hmph! Suit yourself—if you can’t break through to the Fourth Rank before they find you, I just hope you won’t regret it then.”

With a cold snort, the voice of Dark Raven disappeared once more.

However, the supposedly secret conversation between the two was fully witnessed by Anvis.

Obviously, after some recovery, Dark Raven probably regained some strength, and now needed more soul energy to help with the recovery.

Although Dark Raven never mentioned it directly, the fact that he extracted this Secret Technique rather than using other methods to enhance Landon’s strength was no coincidence.

In the end, as long as Landon agreed to enhance his strength using this method, Dark Raven would be able to intercept a portion of the strength for his faster recovery.

With three people and a few sheep in tow, Anvis returned to his newly opened Alchemy Shop, which served as a base, and casually contacted the people from Black Ring Commerce to take the sheep away to be employed at the Mechanical Factory.

At the same time, while chatting with the three and learning that they currently had no fixed abode, Anvis hired Leia again as an assistant, under the pretext of helping her with a medical exam.

Landon was extremely grateful for the kindness of Lord Vio.

However, to avoid bringing the trouble that plagued him to the ‘kind-hearted Lord Vio’, Landon did not agree to stay temporarily in Anvis’s shop, and instead, he bought a small house in another district far from the shop.

Once settled, Landon said farewell to Leia for the time being, and then took the Elf Princess Frey to the Upper City District of Silver Moon City, allegedly to find an uncle of hers from the same race.

He is an Earl of the Silver Moon Kingdom and also has significant influence within the Federation.

In Landon’s plan, he would send Frey back, and then he would hide away here with Leia, living a quiet life of cultivation until they were discovered by enemies again.

Even at that time, he could entrust his sister Leia to the care of Lord Vio and lead the enemies away by fleeing himself.

Landon’s thoughts were simple, but fate often does not follow an individual’s will.

In Anvis’s eyes, the Power of Destiny within Landon had already begun to surge, and even the Favored by Destiny of Frey by his side started to stir restlessly.

This was an interesting Prophetic phenomenon; the fate of a Child of Destiny, once initiated, often triggers the fates of other Children of Destiny nearby to erupt simultaneously.

And Silver Moon City, as the Royal Capital of the Silver Moon Kingdom, had already become a chaotic nexus of fate due to the secret interventions of many High Rank Prophets.

Landon’s arrival at this time was almost like igniting a spark on the powder keg of fate that was the Royal City of Silver Moon.

The plot that followed was, as Anvis had predicted.

After Landon delivered Frey back, that very night, Frey, with tear-stained cheeks, reappeared in Landon’s room.

It turned out that Frey’s uncle had been assassinated, and it was said that the assassin, disguised as Frey, had killed the unsuspecting Earl.

Therefore, Landon, who had taken Frey to her uncle’s, was also suspected of being an accomplice of the assassin. Now the pursuers were already on their way, imminent at his doorstep.

Frey, worried about Landon’s safety, escaped using a special Elf Secret Technique and came to Landon ahead of time to give him a warning.