Chapter 459 - 236: The Third Assassination Attempt on Saint One
A mechanical creation.
It was driven by a Divine Marrow Core inside its body.
Its body was made of Eternal Radiance Crystal, which could absorb massive impacts like a mire. Almost ninety-nine percent of any force that struck it would be converted into its own power.
On top of that, it had the Memory Refining Method, which gave the Eternal Radiance Crystal the properties of memory metal, allowing it to recover even after being destroyed...
Its body wasn’t entirely devoid of flesh and blood; rather, its flesh and mechanical parts had completely fused together.
Even its storage function was integrated into its body, where flesh and machine were one.
’No wonder I couldn’t find his Storage Bag to steal from.’
’What a... troublesome guy.’
Lu Cang drove Saint One into the ground. Although Saint One had mastered Professions like Sword Saint and Demon Warrior in his past life, in this one, he only possessed three Knowledge Element Professions.
No matter how vast his combat experience from his previous life was, without any melee Professions, he struggled immensely against Lu Cang’s close-quarters assault!
His body might be formidable, but based on its performance alone, he was still being thoroughly suppressed by Lu Cang.
But then, a brilliant magical light suddenly flared from his body.
SWOOSH—
He took the full brunt of Lu Cang’s Sixth Form·Extreme, but immediately after taking the hit, Saint One’s body vanished!
The assassination failed again. Lu Cang opened his eyes once more.
He glanced at Leng Qingying beside him.
Then, he closed his eyes again.
He activated Divine Level Future Projection again.
This time, Lu Cang dismantled more of his target’s preparations and changed the type of poison he planned to use.
He drastically increased the dosage.
Before, he had only laced the wine with poison. This time, Lu Cang replaced the entire bottle with poison.
And Saint One actually drank it all in one go!
Before he could even realize something was wrong, Lu Cang was already upon him with his War Spear and impaled him straight through his backside!
"Azure Sky Stream—Sixth Form·Extreme."
Source poured into his body!
"Source·Purification (Tier Five) (Level 401)—100 million souls."
At the same time, more images of Lu Cang appeared all around!
"Azure Sky Stream—Seventh Form·Illusion."
But in the instant Lu Cang made his move, countless life-saving items on Saint One’s body shattered!
He managed to barely save his life from that one blow!
Then, just a moment later, his entire body vanished right before Lu Cang’s eyes—
’He ran...’
’Again?’
’He really is fast.’
With the third preview complete, Lu Cang let out a long breath.
’It seems killing Saint One for good won’t be as simple as I thought.’
’But at least I have the advantage of surprise, operating from the shadows while he’s out in the open.’
...
He had one last chance to use the preview, a chance he was saving for an emergency. Lu Cang always kept one final preview in reserve for critical situations.
"Hm... let’s call it a day."
Leng Qingying asked, "Call it a day?"
Lu Cang nodded. "Yeah, let’s head back for now. We’ll come back and check again tomorrow."
"But say you had an opponent with tons of life-saving measures who’s especially good at escaping. How would you make sure you finished him?"
Hearing this topic, Leng Qingying’s eyes lit up with excitement!
"Hmph, you’ve really asked the right person," she said, crossing her arms and lifting her nose in the air, looking utterly smug.
’Uh—’
’I have no idea what you’re so excited about. A little girl being an expert on how to kill people is not something to be proud of, no matter how you look at it.’
"Our teacher told us that the most important thing for an Assassin is patience."
’How come I’ve never seen any patience from you?’
"Any difficult prey will eventually let their guard down one day."
"No one can maintain a perfect defense at all times."
"And if an enemy’s defenses are too numerous, then what you need to do is find a way to peel them off, layer by layer."
"A truly powerful Assassin doesn’t just kill the enemy in battle. They also make the enemy lower their guard in their daily life, voluntarily expose their weaknesses, or even get a direct handle on them. It’s just like getting a hold of a man’s... jewels. Once you have them, you just need to threaten him, and he’ll have no choice but to sit and wait for death."
’?’
’Little girl, did you just say something you really shouldn’t have?’
’Is that what your school’s teacher taught you?’
’Kumironi, just what kind of school did you send this child to?’
’And that teacher from the Assassin School... I’m seriously going to have to use my authority as Chief Mage to report you.’
Lu Cang’s heart grew heavy as he and Leng Qingying slowly walked back to their residence.
Listening to Leng Qingying explain her views on killing felt absurd and outrageous, but it also gave him a sense of sudden enlightenment...
’It seems my own understanding of assassination is still too shallow.’
’Trying to assassinate an expert like Saint One without any specialized knowledge in this area really was a bit arrogant of me.’
’However, Saint One.’
’I’m very curious to see just how many assassinations you can dodge.’
At this point, Lu Cang felt not a shred of regret or guilt about killing Saint One, because his target was also doing everything in his power to kill him.