13 'The Assassins'
A man came rushing inside the room, panting-
"Master! We are surrounded!"
A brink of fear appeared on the Assassins, But their leader- still in shock of Yun's disappearance, wasn't in anyways feared or panicked. Instead, His eyes became red as he furiously struck his sword again to the already destroyed 'dummy', venting his fury.
"Master! Master!", One of the Assassins spoke out with worry in his eyes- "It's Commander Zhang surrounded us, Please order a retreat!", he requested.
The Master- A man with quite a physique, stopped his violent blows, crookedly laughing inside his covered face, gave quite a killing look over the sliced up 'dummy'.
"Ha-ha! Does that Yun was small trouble enough that this Zhang appeared to break my plans?", He turned back-" Tell our men to do a fighting retreat! Now!"
The Master rushed out of the room exclaiming his order, the Mansion compound- Already packed with Assassins and Black Knights; fell into chaos as The Assassins heard their Master.
Severe bloodshed happened- The elite units of Black Knights and the tough Assassins, both the best in martial arts and fighting skills-
It looked like, it would be a situation of stalemate soon- If Zhang's Black Knights Cavalry didn't rushed in through the Gates, almost crushing the Assassins as they charged through the ranks of battered and exhausted Assassins. But, despite being heavily injured- most of the Assassins successfully escaped from the deadly charge.
A sudden stillness spread across the messed up courtyard as the fighting died out- The Assassins had escaped!
"Search!", the Corporal ordered.
Sounds of steps clicked out from the compound- exposing the bloodbath that had soaked up the peach blossoms to red.
The unmounted knights, in discipline- moved into the inner quarters, searching for any traces of any Assassins left inside.
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But, something was wrong.
A smoke was emerged from the Inner Quarters of Yun mansion, as the knights poured into to search.
At first, Zhang being sitting on his horse didn't notice; But as he smelled the smoke carried out by the storm-
"It's Sulphur!", He yelled out desperately- "All of you! Quickly come out!"
He and the other soldiers ran to stop others-
But, it was too late.
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'Baaaaaaaam!!!'
- A explosion blew up the Inner Quarters, and in no time; the Mansion was in high flames!
"No!"
Zhang being overwhelmed by the intensity of moment shouted out-with a flare of disappointment to himself in his eyes.
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The Explosion, woke up the neighbourhood- even if the silent and desolate county seemed to have no one to be wakened up.
But, someone indeed got woken up from his illusion of intelligence.
'RSK'
He, Knowing the future- had tried to implement his trickiest ways to save his life.
As RSK's had foreseen this Assassination attempt in his unconsciousness, He had taken it just as a nonsense dream, that he dreamt. But, as he got a mysterious letter the previous day- He freaked out!
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'How can my dream become so real?'
'Am I seeing the future?'
-He thought, seeing the small envelope curiously as he got up.
He opened the envelope, which was of really costly paper-
'So, someone Rich has sent this...eh?'
Taking out the letter, he unfolded it- his eyes getting serious as he took a look-
'No way! How can it be? How this letter is same as what I had seen in my dream?'- He was indeed shocked by his dream getting true, But the more of it was of that- what the letter had in itself as content-
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'Yun,
A group of suspects is seen near Qing County,
Hope you can protect yourself.
-Li'
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Neither RSK knew about someone 'Li', nor he either about these 'suspects'. He was totally in a state of horror-
'Should I leave here?'
'Should I tell Dai Fu about this...?'
'What should I do, it's been only awhile me being alive properly- now this? God! Are you really kidding me?'
He was confused. Very Much Confused.
And when he was in this confusion- he was caught awake by Dai fu, seeing whom- RSK's mind accidentally tickled him into a freaking Idea!
It was to bring Commander Zhang's sister to the Mansion- And, as his sister is coming here- by his ability in Intelligence, he should know as well about these suspected group of people; as mentioned in the letter. And because of this, either he would be tracking the area for his sister's safety or would accompany his sister directly-
Whatever he chooses, he would be choosing to save RSK's life indirectly.
Well, shuffled by this sudden idea- He asked Dai Fu to send a message to Miss Yi and arranged a small surprise banquet to cover his plans- As for being drunk, he 'pretended to be' drunk again.
And the wine- the two girls drank, was a strong one, as they collapsed after a while of hustling; Yun* slowly withdrew with all of his soldiers, and servants along with the two girls- now deprived out of consciousness.
By Luck, The real 'Yun' had built a second mansion over the hills- which Daifu suggested to be a safe hideout.
As RSK had noticed it while talking with Daifu earlier, He had quickly arranged his temporary quarters there as from there, his real mansion can be overlooked from the top.
As he had speculated, the Assassins came-
And along with them, stealthily- Zhang's unit came following them. And soon, as the Assassins found the mansion to be empty- their retreat was blocked by the surrounding Black knight units*.
All was going well for RSK- who was overlooking the whole drama from the top of the hill; till, the Explosion shook him off from his 'illusions of acting Intelligent'. He can see his mansion burning down before his eyes but can do nothing other to feel sorry for his residence.
But, This feeling of 'Sorry' soon turned into 'regret'.
He realized his mistake.
He had done a big mistake.
A really big one for him- at least!
