Chapter LVIII - Assassin (part 2)

After doing his duty, Evan walked out of the inn feeling delighted. 

His boss mentioned that the red haired lady will be his hardest target, and yet he managed to stab her so easily.

"Anyone who had even a little slice from this knife is as good as dead!"

He laughed like a psycho while he walked on the empty midnight road. There was no one else on the road, because it's already in the middle of the night. He laughed as loud as he could.

The knife, after all, was made out of one of the most dangerous beast's venom. A blue viper's venom. It was said to be able to kill a grown healthy man in mere minutes.

"Who would have thought that this mission would be so easy, yet so rewarding!!"

"May I know what those rewards are?"

VWUUNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!

A deep voice came from behind him. He couldn't move at all because of the heavy killing pressure. And also the fact that there is a long sword pointed at his neck from the side is also one of the causes.

Evan slowly raised his hand. From the sound of it, whoever is behind him is young, probably some knight. Evan was a highly trained assassin. Hell, he was the best in the whole kingdom. So of course, he could get out of this situation.

But Evan doesn't know how he got found since he had always been careful to never leave a trace of himself behind. But he can get out of any situation. He is The Assassin. The greatest of them all.

Evan ducked at high speed and threw a kick backwards. But somehow, his foot only kicked the air. The person behind him had already dodged backwards and created some distance.

Evan finally had a clear look at who he was facing, and he turned shivering right away.

The person is wearing a skeleton mask, with pitch black waterproof robes covering his entire body. All that he could see was that the person was wearing such small shoes, but had a very scary looking mask. 

Evan studied his opponent. From his senses, it felt as if he was fighting someone big. The pressure this guy is emitting is insane. But Evan can still handle it.

Evan activated his demon eyes, the very eyes he stole from a demon race that he murdered and actually gave him the ability to see incredibly fast. It was thanks to those eyes that he was able to become the best assassin.

Evan prepared his short knife, slithered with blue viper's venom, ready to stop the opponent's bloodstream completely. He grinned at the fact that the enemy was stupid to fight him just by using pressure.

But little did he know that the opponent was me.

I dashed forward, leaving no dust at all in my leap. The assassin, whoever this guy is, jumped backwards to try and fight me. He was able to read my speed somehow. And his movements are just as fast.

I just need to pick it up a notch. I dropped a leg to the ground before catching up to him, and I enchanted my whole body with even more energy. I leaped to the side, blended with the surroundings.

The assassin had one weird eye. He was able to see all my movements.

The sounds of metal hitting can be heard, but it's not loud. Neither of us are making any loud noises. 

His moves, despite being incredibly fast, were extremely silenced. He really is a trained assassin.

This fight could prove to be a gain for me.

I dodged to his left and created a fireball. He was not prepared when I suddenly created and threw the fireball.

BLARR!!

The fireball exploded at where he previously stood.

The assassin jumped a little too far because he was startled. So I used this as my chance. Before he was able to land, I threw my throwing knife, stabbing him in one leg.

"Gah!!"

Now he won't be able to move properly, or even run. If he tries to, then I will be able to find his blood trace.

He landed just a few meters from me. Right between us on my right, the crater where my fireball exploded lights the road with its small flames and lava.

I can see his face filled with sweat. He doesn't want to get captured, even if he had to die. This enemy is too strong for him.

What will he do?

Evan recalled the moments of his life. That moment when he assassinated a kingdom's prince was priceless. The look on the spoiled prince, crying as he deepened his knife inside his chest. That was the best moment of his life.

He also recalled other moments, like when he was promoted by the assassins federation as the best assassin of Mazino.

He cried remembering all those moments.

As he cried, he lifted his knife up. And stabbed himself, right in the chest.

"No!!--"

I dashed at him at full speed, trying to stop him from killing himself. But he was somewhat crying and smiling, making me hesitate.

As a result, he sunk his knife deep within his chest, exactly at his heart. By the time I arrived at his falling body, it was too late.

I tried healing him and stopped the venom, but the knife had already pierced his heart. I pulled the knife and tried to form his heart back, but that was beyond my level. In the end, I could only close his wound and remove the poison, but his heart was already extremely damaged from both the venom and the knife.

By the time I looked at his face, I could see his stiff smile.

He already died.

Feeling frustrated, I smacked the ground with my hand without any magic to enhance nor to protect. My hand bled, and the ground cracked.

I picked up his dead body and leaped away before a group of knights came to the scene.