Chapter-26: Exchange Items

"Sigh... Its sad that we cannot get this for ourselves." Then the feminine man sighed because he doesn't deserve to have such a high level artifact.

"So what if we can't use it for ourselves, if we offer it to the organization, the higher-ups will surely be extremely happy and drown us in cultivation resources." The other man said delighted.

"You are right. Then shall we go and give it to someone more worthy than this brat." The feminine person said with a dangerous smile.

"Hahaha..... Let's go. He doesn't deserve this." The man also laughed.

Then all the assassins started moving towards Ashmus in a slow speed. They weren't in a hurry to go because they knew that Ash won't be able to escape.

Ashmus who saw them walking towards him knew that he won't be able to keep this sword with him.

He had already decided to give it away, when he took it out.

"Brat, give us the spiritual artifact. It is being wasted in your hands. You should quickly give it to us so that we can hand it over to someone more worthy." The feminine man shouted at him.

"Even if you don't want to hand it over, we can always get it from your corpse. It's that simple." The other man said with a malevolent smile.

"That's right and i don't want to harm your body so you should quickly hand it over." The feminine man said again.

"Sigh... I know you guys are a bit low in the head part but you should at least know that this is a high level spiritual artifact. If you can take it for yourselves, you will become even stronger. Then you don't have to worry about your superiors." Ash sighed and adviced them to think again.

The two of them stopped for a bit and looked at each other. Then they burst out laughing.

After a while, they stopped laughing and looked at him with a malicious smile and the lecherous man said," you think you can incite a fight between us and when we fight ourselves, you can find a chance to flee from here."

"Hahahaha. We are not that foolish. Even if we can take this artifact for ourselves, we can't kill every single person here to keep this secret."

"And if they report it to the elders, the entire organization will hunt us down. And we can't fight the whole organization. Even If we hide somewhere, the organization will surely find us with it's all-knowing network."

"We will never have peace in our life if we go against the organization. What kind of life will it be if we just keep running and hiding. It's better to just give this to the elders and they will grant us a lot of rewards." He said.

"Sigh... Looks like, you guys are smarter than i thought." After hearing this person's words, Ash knew that his plans to start a fight between them had failed.

They were a little bit smarter than he thought. They didn't give in to their greed and fight for the artifact.

"That's fine with me. You just have to give the last dose of antidote and i will give you my sword. What do you think?" He didn't think much about it and said them to hand over the antidote.

"Ofcourse. We will give it to you." The lecherous man look out the last bottle of powder and threw it at Ashmus. There was a white coloured powder in the bottle.

Ash observed the bottle for a second and looked at the two of them and asked," Are these bottles you gave me geniune?"

"Ofcourse these antidotes are genuine. We assure you." They both assured.

"How can i believe people like you?" Ash was still a bit sceptical.

They both looked at each other and said loudly," we swear by our inner demons that the antidote we gave you for healing your villagers, is real. If it is not, then our inner demons shall devour us."

Ash, who listened to their words, was a bit surprised. He didn't think they would swear to their inner demons.

He knew that they cannot break this. If they do, they will be devoured by their own inner demons.

His grandfather had taught him about this in the past. Thinking about his grandpa, he felt sad and his eyes reddened a bit.

But he quickly moved these thoughts to the back of his mind and looked at them.

Then he handed over the spiritual artifact to them. When they caught the sword, they felt s wave of power gushing into them.

They were delighted when they caught this sword. This might be the first and last time they will ever get to touch a sword like this.

They started having thoughts about taking it for themselves. But they shook their head and didn't think about that foolish thought.

They started to observe the sword carefully. They were so engrossed in the sword, that they didn't even mind their surroundings.

Ash, who has already given away the sword, felt a heavy feeling of loss but he didn't think about too much and moved away from the assassins and went back to the blue haired girl's side.

Right now, he does even know if he will survive this. If he isn't even alive, what would he do even if he had the artifact.

When he arrived at the place where the group were, Eira hurriedly went to him and said with tears streaming out of her eyes," Bother, you are hurt so much. Let me wipe the blood off and treat your wounds."

Luna was also crying when she saw the amount of blood.

"Sigh, you don't have to cry that much. These injuries will be healed once i take a healing pill." He said while rubbing their heads.

He then looked at the blue haired girl and said," I'm sorry. I had to give your sword to those bastards."

The girl shook her head and said with a smile," you don't have to worry about that. That sword was of no use to me. Even if you lose it, it won't make any difference to me."

Ash was surprised by hearing her words. He wondered what the background of this girl could be that she didn't even care about such high quality weapon. She could discard even a spiritual artifact without giving it another glance.

But it was not the time to ask about these things. If they can manage to get out of here alive, he would then ask her all about her past.

Currently, he has to heal his wounds. If more of his blood flows out, he will fall into a coma. And he does want to fall unconscious at this time.