Killing a Man With a Teacup

The two young individuals looked at him calmly.

This was a blatant insult to Barker, who was the top assassin in the area.

Barker was neither standing nor sitting. He just stood there stiffly.

Chris frowned and stood up.

She hated it when someone interrupted Austin's teaching.

The man that was in front of her was very strange. It did not seem like he came in through the door as the door was still closed.

However, she saw the window half-opened.

He came in through the window in the middle of the night. Could it be a thief?

It did not make sense after she thought about it. There were so many guards guarding the courtyard outside. How could a thief enter the premises?

Suddenly, Chris said after smelling a faint stench of blood, "You killed someone!"

Chris was shocked when she finally understood what was going on. She looked at the man in black clothes with a dagger in his hand.

This man was obviously a killer.

"That's right, I'm here to kill you!"

Barker came back to his senses. His face was ferocious, and his mouth was wide open like a wolf.

Although he found the situation to be strange, he decided to kill Chris instead as he could not kill the young man. He wanted to finish the mission quickly and carefully.

Barker was determined. He did not say anything more. He held the dagger tightly in his hand and swung it in the direction of Chris's heart.

Chris was shocked. She took a few steps back and wanted to dodge, but she was too weak.

It was as if Barker had locked onto her. She could not move at all.

She could only watch the dagger that was about to stab into her heart.

At this very moment, a cup that was still half-filled with light green tea flew to Chris's chest in the blink of an eye.

"Clang!"

The dagger hit the teacup causing a crisp sound to ring out.

Barker felt an unusual numbness in his palm that was holding the dagger. He felt as if he had been bitten by countless ants.

After crying in pain, his dagger was knocked aside by a small teacup.

"Ah!"

After the teacup knocked the dagger away, it was still very fierce. Like a bolt of lightning, it hit Barker's chest.

Barker felt as if his chest had been hit by a gun. He flew backwards and crashed into the wall.

A human-shaped gap appeared on the courtyard wall.

The teacup curved and returned to Austin's hand.

Austin drank the tea that was left in the teacup in one gulp and said to Chris, "What are you waiting for? Pour the tea."

Chris was completely shocked.

Was this the teacher's method?

When the assassin attacked her just now, she could feel that his aura and strength were on the same level as the old ancestor, August.

Moreover, her teacher only used a casual teacup to fight him.

This was a little too terrifying!

She was like a puppet. Her mind was still recalling the earlier scene, but her hands were not slow. She poured some tea for Austin.

"Teacher, what kind of ultimate skill is this?" Chris asked stiffly.

"It's not an ultimate skill, it's just a casual swing," Austin said with a chuckle.

Outside the courtyard, blood was dripping from the corner of Barker's mouth.

His eyes were wide open like never before.

His eyes no longer had any life in them. He was slowly dying. 

Just the collision of a teacup had rendered him completely powerless to retaliate.

It was as if he had been struck by a ferocious magical beast.

He did not expect that he would be facing Austin, the strongest and the only heavenly emperor in all the realms.

If he knew this would happen, he would not have come, even if he was forced to.

However, it was too late to regret his decision now.

...

The commotion had alarmed the Nolan family.

As soon as ancestor August received the news, he rushed over.

When he saw the corpses scattered all over the ground, he knew that it was definitely the commotion caused by the other two families in town.

"They're really fast. They've just returned and already sent assassins."

August's expression was cold. He knew that the assassins would return, but he did not expect them to come so fast. 

It caught him off guard. At the same time, his killing intent towards the other two families was triggered.

He brought his men to the courtyard to look at the broken houses.

There was also the dead assassin, Barker.

He felt Barker's aura and muttered to himself in shock, "Peak tier 4, what a big move. I wonder which family sent him here. Hehe, it probably drained their family's resources completely."

"They didn't come here personally. What a pity," said Ancestor August whilst he shook his head.

He then said to his subordinate, "Clean up this place and restore it to its original state as soon as possible. Don't disturb the experts in the courtyard."

The subordinate nodded. He quickly called over a few hundred people to drag the dead bodies away. He also used wind magic to dispel the bloody stench in the air.

August went to the front of the courtyard in an obedient manner. He knocked on the door gently and said, "Expert, the Nolan family's ancestor requests to see you."

He did not dare to enter through the broken wall.

Chris's voice was heard through the door.

"Patriarch, come in."

"Creak"

The door opened.

August pushed the door open gently and entered.

When he saw Austin who was sitting quietly, he bent down and said, "Sorry to bother you, master. This assassin incident has disturbed you greatly. I will be more vigilant next time."

Austin looked at the old ancestor who was over 50 years old and said, "It's okay. You don't have to be vigilant. With me here, the assassin won't be able to come in."

In fact, Austin had already used his divine sense to sense the assassin when he first entered the courtyard.

However, he did not plan to kill the assassin immediately.

He found it interesting. It was a pleasure to meet an assassin on such a dull day.

As for the dead guards, it was none of his business. He did not have much affection for the guards anyway. Plus, they were already dead.

"Yes, yes, yes," every time August spoke to Austin, he felt that Austin became even more unfathomable.

"Master, I have prepared a better courtyard for you to rest in. It seems like this courtyard will not be repaired in a short period of time. Do you want to move forward?" said ancestor August cautiously.

"..."

"No need. Let's just do it this way," said Austin whilst shaking his head.

He was too lazy to move. Moreover, at his realm, it was the same whether he slept or not. His spirit was so strong that he did not need sleep to recover.