A Method Left By My Grandfathers

"So handsome."

Tai Shihan's voice might have been hard to hear, but for some reason Morong Fan clearly heard it. He desperately wanted her to repeat herself, but he knew her prideful ego wouldn't let her do so. Acting like he didn't hear her, Fan walks on the dirt path and reaches the other two male members of the group.

"Do you have any idea where the Clan's physician went?"

"Don't know." Peng Gao replies.

"Don't care." Namgung Wong replies.

'Suspicious.'

Morong Fan quickly judged the two, he could tell that something weird was going on in between them.

'Could it be that...'

Fan shakes his head. He couldn't believe that he had drawn out such a weird conclusion, the two before him were just friends, and there were defiantly straight, but that hint of doubt was still in his mind.

"Doesn't sister Shihan look good today?"

"She does."

Hearing the two, half interested reply Morong Fan's mind jumped to the worst conclusion. It was only understandable that he reacted that way, as he didn't take part in yesterday's incident.

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New Quest Arrived! Reach the dragons and phoenixes Academy without losing a member of your group!

Reward.

Map.

Failure.

Death.

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Namgung Wong couldn't really participate in the conversation with Morong Fan, because he had to take care of the words displayed in front of his red eyes. He didn't want to run into trouble, but it seems that trouble was running into him instead.

'Can I see my stats now.'

[No. Complete two more missions first.]

'Hashi!'

Cursing his bad luck, Wong closes his eyes and tries to think of a way for all the team members to make it past the forest without dying. Separating wasn't even an option, as that was already death in itself.

'Whatever, whenever, I will be there for you mother.'

Peng Gao was thinking of his step-mother. He didn't care about what was going around him. What they did together the previous night was unforgettable and the way she cried for him not to go, just made her look more alluring.

'I will kill father for you, no, I can't beat father, but I will take you away from him.'

He was drunk. His mind thought of the unnecessary, but he knew not to voice them out.

"When are we leaving?" The drunken swordsman asked, since no one was willing to ask the most important question. The earlier they left, the earlier they arrived at the Academy.

"Soon." Tai Shihan answers. She was busy studying the foolish swordsman's troubled face and she couldn't resist the edge to ask, but her face was blushing in the process, "Is something wrong Namgung Wong?"

"Yes... I just have a feeling that we will be attacked by those guys again."

Wong couldn't blurt out that he had a system telling him things, so he just thought of the best way to explain, although that might raise some suspicions in the future.

Tai Shihan took time to process Namgung Wong's words. She wanted to believe him, but only idiots would try to attack a group when the mission is over.

'Unless there have another goal in mind...' Her brown eyes locked on the troubled foolish Swordsman, 'Are people from his family trying to dispose of him secretly?'

Tai Shihan knew that the Five great families had more dark secrets more than they let out. There might call themselves members of the Orthodox factions, but there would even kill a new born child to protect their so called honor.

"Don't worry Namgung Wong, with me around there won't be a person who can lay a finger on you." Shihan said with a sure expression on her face.

"I hope... so." Wong's brows knit closely, as he was full of doubt that he won't lose someone today.

'I hope, I will have to use my charm.'

*

Night came and tonight the Cult leader had sent over his best assassins to complete the job of killing Tai Shihan and her annoying teammates.

Baek Mi Cha was leading the group together with three other assassins, she was the only female member and she was uncomfortable with the weird glares the male members were giving her.

Her long orange hair didn't suit well for an assassin, but as a Peak Level Martial Artist who is just a step away from the Half-transcendent level, she is the best at the job.

After hearing that the group she is supposed to assassinate, had all its members hiding their true strength she is more on edge than ever.

The group was waiting in the forest in the middle of the two provinces and lucky enough for them, when night arrived their targets settled just underneath the trees there were hiding in.

"Boss what should we do next." A black haired assassin asked through the sound whispering technique that gives one the ability to talk without using their mouth.

"We wait until they fall asleep or separate."

All the assassins nodded and just a few minutes after their small conversation, the red head of the group there were attacking excused himself from the others.

"I will take care of him, you guys watch the others. If I don't return by any chance, cancel the mission."

It sounded more like a joke hearing the fifth ranked assassin in the Demonic Cult Baek Mi Cha talking about dying, but the other three just nodded.

Following the red haired brat, Baek Mi Cha was greeted by an odd surprise that never happened before.

"I know you are out there, you might as well come out and do us all a favor."

The young girl was shocked greatly with what she heard. It would take someone on the same level as the demonic generals to be able to notice her presence, even knowing so she didn't show herself and stayed silent.

"I am not going to kill you. I have something to offer you."

"..."

"I have a method to make all the back pains you have been feeling recently disappear, like there were never there."

Wong took a deep breath and stared up at the moon, trying to make his figure more mesmerizing.

"It is a method that has been passed through by my grandfathers who are no longer walking in this world."