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Arcanas

Conrad barely scraped through high school and ended up with grades too low to secure a college admission. And for a reject like him, a bleak future was already a possibility. So, he turned to the one thing he knew best, pickpocketing. A heist gone seemingly right thrusted him in the hidden world of assassins and magic. Now a Diviner Marked by the Arcane Master, The Devil, Conrad is blackmailed into working as an assassin in a world where fate is written in the cards. Warning: The story tends to shift the POV of characters.

Headless_Ten · Urban
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39 Chs

The Arlet District

Stepping out of the cab, Conrad and Hermia looked around the streets of the Arlet District, one of the Lindorwic Sect's most notorious locations.

It wasn't far from where they were, but it would have taken them an hour to get here on foot compared to the 20-minute taxi ride. And by then, the night would have already settled in, which would be more dangerous.

As a trained assassin, Connie wasn't worried about his own safety. It was the green-haired woman beside him who he was worried about. 

If an enemy showed up, he could easily take them on if they were weaker than him. It would be hard if they were of comparable strength, and if they were stronger, he'd just make a run for it. 

—The question was, will he be, no, can he be able to protect her?

_There's no way someone that powerful could be living in this dump_