Assassination
The night breeze gave chills to the blond girl.
Zed staring at her with obvious killing intent is not making it easier for her.
'I should've not teased him with that' She thought.
Fabiola can only shake her head, knowing that Zed has a Spartan figure as his role model. It is obvious that he will be pissed when someone said that.
"Try and be cocky ag--", Before Zed can finish his words he senses something coming at a fast speed towards the blond girl.
He immediately takes his raging black from his magic pouch and slashes the dagger that aims at the blond girl's neck.
The dagger was successfully blocked, the man clad in black is unfazed by Zed's action.
The force of the dagger makes a powerful vibration to Zed's spear. Zed's hand is trembling due to the impact.
'This guy is so strong if I didn't have draugar bloodline my arm will be cut off right there', Zed went pale a little.
The man clad in black jumped to make a distance
After properly seeing the man clad in black Zed can see that on The man's right shoulder there is a symbol of a crow spreading its wings on top of a black circle.
"Get out of here kid, don't waste your time protecting her while I'm still generous," said the man in black.
"What do you want! Get out of here before I'm taking this more seriously" Zed replied although his hand is still hurting from the impact before.
The man in black sneered, 'Acting tough eh'.
The man charges at Zed with incredible speed, Zed realizes that he has to take this seriously.
He instantly uses his Madman skill and his draugar bloodline.
His muscle is bulging, his eyes turn bright blue.
There are some changes in Zed's appearance, His breath let out steam.
Then an ear-splitting crash occurs, Zed can see the man clad in black better now although he can see it, his body cannot react as fast as the man.
Looking at Zed, the man clad in black is shocked.
'Is he?', the man clad in black is unsure of something then he seems to nod to himself.
The man backed off smiling, "Well well well look at here, A lone Spartan".
Hearing this Zed is confused, "How do you know?" he said trying to maintain his flat expression.
"HAHAHAHA" The man laughed, "I overheard your conversation before, A Spartan runs from a battle? HAHAHA," the black man laughing so hard that tears fall out of his eyes.
Zed is getting angry, his flat expression changed into a vicious one.
"Oh, trust me I know. Certainly, a Spartan that runs from a battle will be given a death penalty. Having one of Spartans skill doesn't make you a Spartan kid, Let me give Spartans a favor by killing you". the man's eyes give a pitiful look to Zed.
Zed is angry, very angry.
He steadies himself preparing to throw his spear with all his might. His muscle is bulging even more, veins popping, He throws Raging Black with all his might.
Raging Black let out an ear-splitting thunder sound imbued with thunder frevor, Combined with the things he learns from 'Spear Throw of The Legendary Sniping General' the spear Zed throw cannot be underestimated.
The Raging Black cut through the air setting the man clad in black as its target.
The man seems a little shocked by the thunder frevor, but his face expression return to unfazed in a split second.
When the spear greeting the man's face, The man caught it with one hand. The spear didn't even do any damage to him.
"Kid a Spartan is not what you think, They have to obey the law no matter what, so let me ask you a question. If your king tells you to die would you do it?" He said in a serious tone.
Hearing the question, Zed has a doubtful look on his face. 'Do Spartans really have to do that? they cannot have a free life?' Question after question passed Zed's mind, the questions are making him crazy.
One has to know that although Zed read all Spartan related information, He didn't know how they are all living they're life. He only knows their epic scenes and cool phrases. So hearing the man's question he becomes doubtful.
The man says with a ridiculing look, "You are unfit to be a Spartan".
These words sent lightning to Zed's heart, he fell to the ground trembling. 'My role model is The Spartan if I'm unfit then what should I do next' these thoughts make Zed grip his hair in frustration.
The man clad in black disappears and appears in front of the kneeling Zed. He then grabs Zed's neck and lifts him, "You are pathetic".
Looking at Zed, Fabiola and The blond girl snapped out of it and start chanting their Spells.
"Water goddess, show them your deadly sides, Water torrent!"
"Light god give my friends the strength in heart, Heart of Warrior!"
The man simply waves his hand, the spells dissipate from thin air.
He then grabs his dagger from his waist, The dagger shined by the night moon bring a horror feel to it, It is like a beautiful god of death descending to take Zed's life.
The dagger slashed Zed's body, making him bloody all over.
The man in black is smiling viciously like he is enjoying torturing Zed's body and mind.
Just as the dagger that intends to finish Zed off slash down, a sword blocks it.
The man in black is stunned for a moment and leaps to make a distance for himself.
He looked up and saw another man wearing all black. He is Nightgrip sent by Zed's father to spy on him.
"Tchihh" The man in black realize that he cannot stay longer, He then flees from the scene After laughing out loud. The laugh echoed on a quiet night.
Nightgrip then kneels down, lifts Zed's head, and give him a healing pill. Judging from how it's shine and pureness, it is a level 4 healing pill at least.
Nightgrip then looks at his young master and cannot help but to cry of sadness.
Zed's eyes are lifeless, all the torturing he got from the man clad in black doesn't even make him scream.
Nightgrip clutches his hand so hard that it bleeds, he screamed in his heart 'Just you wait Assembly of Shadow, eye for an eye, The Zabinski household will make you pay!!'.
Fabiola is the first to react, She embraces Zed and hugs him.
Feeling the warmth, Zed begins to cry in her embrace.
"It's okay, you just need to learn to face reality and adjust according to it. These things are bound to happen, I know you are strong the strongest young man I have ever seen so a bigger wall blocking you is natural" Fabiola tries to calm Zed down.
Nightgrip then bows to Fabiola saying, "Thank you, young miss. I will have to bother you to take care of young master for a while" Nightgrip is bowing so respectfully that makes Fabiola feel how much he treasure Zed.
After bowing, Nightgrip vanishes from the spot and nowhere to be seen.
The blond girl feels guilty because of the assassin that targets her, Zed tries to protect her and becomes like this.
She then tells Fabiola to bring Zed inside.
Zed cannot help but cry harder, with bloody scars all over his body that is still healing.
Meanwhile, Nightgrip is on the lookout circling the Lanmond mansion, he will stay there for at least two days before going back to report to Duncan Zabinski. He thoughts in his head 'Young master your talent is a monster among monster so a monster steps back are what you will encounter. It is okay for a man to cry once if you pass this calamity make sure to be stronger and never let out any tears to your enemies. I pray to God you will be a whole new man after this"