240 The Night Before (5)

"Die!" Regina declared with an ice-cold voice.

And tens of rays of light descended from the sky, impaling the enemies.

Spears, swords, sabers, arrows, pikes, and several other weapons attacked the assassins mercilessly, piercing their arms, legs, chests, and hearts.

"Let some of them escape!" Bloed said at that moment. "We can use them to find the mastermind!"

Regina paused briefly before nodding. Then, she carefully manipulated some of her weapons, mainly the ones attacking the A-Ranks and B-Ranks, and slowed them to give the assassins the opportunity to escape.

And as she intended, the two A-Ranks and four B-Ranks managed to avoid the first barrage of attacks.

They then looked up at Regina with a look of fear. Realizing she was a demigod, the assassins turned around and ran away at once.

Of course, Regina was not going to let them escape so easily. Even if she wanted to locate the mastermind behind the assassins, if a demigod like her let too many people escape, it would be suspicious.

Thus, a new barrage of energy weapons descended from the sky.

The assassins turned pale in fear. They hurriedly did their best to evade the weapons, but evading Regina's attacks was not easy even if she was holding back.

After the second barrage of attacks, two of the B-Ranks and one of the A-Ranks were directly killed.

Moreover, one of the B-Ranks lost one leg, making it impossible for him to escape, and the remaining A-Rank lost one arm.

Gritting his teeth, that A-Rank rushed inside a house nearby, finally escaping. Besides him, The uninjured B-Rank also managed to escape.

Regina glared at them but did not attack again. She then descended to the ground while carrying Bloed and Liu Ying.

"Amazing…" The batkin Rhone looked at Regina with an expression of admiration.

Rana's reaction was similar. However, she quickly remembered about her deerkin friend.

"Miss Regina, please help Greta!"

Regina frowned and walked towards Greta. But at that moment, another voice came from the sky.

"Let her to me."

The group looked in direction of the voice and saw an expressionless fox girl descending towards them.

"Miss Eve, you are here!" Rana exclaimed happily.

Eve nodded.

"Sorry for being late. I came as soon as I noticed the commotion. It looks like Miss Regina arrived first though."

"Miss Eve, please help Greta!" Rana pleaded with a look of worry.

Eve nodded and floated towards the deerkin girl. She then grabbed her wrist and frowned.

"… Such a powerful poison."

When Rana heard that, her face turned pale white.

"Miss Eve, Greta…"

"Don't worry. Nothing will happen to her with me here." After saying that, Eve's hands lit up, and then, a soft glow wrapped Greta.

One second later, Greta's expression turned much better.

"Done. Now her life is out of danger. I'll have to take her to the infirmary immediately though. I need to check her body in case there is any hidden danger."

"Thank goddess." Rana sighed in relief.

Eve nodded. She then looked at Regina with an apologetic expression.

"Miss Regina, sorry about it but can you help me to bring the rest of them to the base?"

"I can."

"Great. I'll be going first then."

Eve said and waved her hand, making Greta's unconscious body float beside her. After that, she kicked the ground and the two of them rose to the sky and flew towards the base.

Regina looked at Rana, Rhone, Liu Ying, and Bloed and spoke up.

"Let's go as well."

With a wave of her hand, the four of them were enveloped in a burble-like sphere of energy and flew with Regina towards the base.

…

Five minutes after they arrived at the base, the group met with the lionkin demigod and Aya's father. Atai also arrived with them after hearing about the situation.

"It's good you are alright." The lionkin demigod sighed in relief.

"Instructor, why were we attacked?" Rhone asked while gritting his teeth, not hiding his rage in the slightest.

"Sorry, we are not sure yet." The lionkin demigod shook his head apologetically.

"That is…"

"Don't worry, my men are already tracking the people that escaped from miss Regina. I'm confident we will catch them soon."

"What about the injured assassins? They surely know something." Liu Ying asked curiously.

Not all the assassins died or escaped. A few of them suffered grave injuries and were caught by the beastmen. They could use them to get more information.

But the lionkin general shook his head with an expression of regret.

"Unfortunately, they took their own lives as soon as they realized they could not escape. Currently, we are analyzing their corpses, but besides the fact most of them were humans, I don't think we can find anything useful."

Rhone and Rana lowered their heads and gritting their teeth.

They were the most affected by what happened. After all, one of their companions almost died due to the attack.

Rana had it the worst. Every time she closed her eyes, she could not help but remember the scene when Greta was injured to save her.

She could not help but think that it was her fault that Greta almost died.

"By the way." The lionkin general narrowed his eyes and looked at Bloed. "What is with Mr. Bloed?"

The rest of the people could not help but look in Bloed's direction.

Currently, Bloed had his eyes closed as though he was thinking about something. He did not bother to open them even when the lionkin general and Aya's father arrived.

When he heard his name being called. Bloed opened his eyes and looked at the lionkin general and Aya's father.

"I think I found something."

"… Mm?"

"Can we talk in a private place?"

Although they were startled by Bloed's request, neither the lionkin general nor Aya's father hesitate to agree.

…

Five minutes later, Eve, Regina, the lionking general, Aya's father, and Bloed were talking inside a room.

���Are you saying that Regina let two of the assassins escape in purpose? And that you are currently keeping an eye on them."

"Yes." Bloed nodded. "The method I use to track them can't be detected with magic, so as long as I'm careful, they will not discover it. I want to use this opportunity to find the mastermind behind it."

Bloed was referring to Oculus' dragonflies. Currently, two dragonflies had separated from Oculus' main body and were following the two assassins.

"Then? Do you have any progress?" Aya's father asked.

Bloed shook his head. "They are more careful than I expected. Currently, they are moving from hideout to hideout and they did not communicate with anyone. They probably are wary of being followed."

Eve, Aya's father, and the lionkin general looked at each other in surprise.

"What do you suggest then?" Aya's father asked.

Bloed thought for a moment before speaking. "… Let's continue the act. We will intensify the search to make the assassins to think we are searching for them, but we are going to let them escape detection for a slight bit… No, let's catch the B-Rank after a while. This way, it will be less suspicious. We will wait until dawn. If by then the A-Rank assassin doesn't contact the mastermind, we will catch him. After all, I can't keep this technique forever."

Eve, the lionkin general, and Aya's father looked at each other before nodding.

"Very well, we will follow your plan."

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