Heart of the Castle

Chapter 304 The power of hatred, the condition of an assassin

The black shadow behind the bushes was silent, only the rustling of the wind passing by the branches. The White Wolf Knight tried to gather his eyes and stared at the darkness, but he didn't notice any existence in the darkness until his eyes were sore and weeping. thing.

There was clearly nothing there.

However, when the white wolf knight showed a suspicious expression, Li Wei walked forward slowly without any relaxation. The knight sword burning with fighting spirit pointed straight at the black shadow, and the leader of the big bobcat, Mengmeng, followed, Flickering like a dream, a low, threatening grunt came out of his mouth.

Out of the corner of the White Wolf Knight's eyes, he caught a glimpse of a black shadow. He turned around abruptly, but only saw the tree shadows shaking in the wind and the leaves rustling. The black shadow disappeared as if it had never appeared before.Maybe it was an illusion, or some small animal ran past his eyes, the White Wolf Knight couldn't be sure, so he could only warn in a low voice.

"Master Li Wei, there seems to be..."

His voice was frozen in his throat, because the shadow under Li Wei's feet suddenly twisted and lengthened, and a small man with a pair of poisoned daggers glowing with green light emerged from it.Almost at the same time, Li Wei's body suddenly jumped forward, and the sword light made a circle of silver ripples as he turned around. It happened that when the little man just showed his head, it landed on his head with incomparable accuracy.

The little man collapsed under the light of the sword like a shadow, and after the tip of the sword swept across, only a piece of black cloth was left behind.Then Li Wei slowly turned around with the knight sword in his hand, pointing at the darkness in the forest, changing direction from time to time, as if an invisible enemy was jumping back and forth around him.

What did Levi see?
The White Wolf Knight only felt pain in his mouth, because he was completely blind and deaf. Although he was holding a sharp sword tightly in his hand, it seemed like a wooden stick that could not bring any help.

A whisper-like sigh came from the night, and then on an old oak tree that Li Wei's sword pointed at the end, the little man reappeared. Wen's cloth, even the face is no exception, only revealing a pair of eyes quietly burning with blood red light. "Levi? Ston, you can actually find my trace?" The shadow assassin said with some disbelief, hissing sound like a poisonous snake sticking out its tongue, which made the listeners feel creepy Feel.

"Of course, I can find you in the Green Castle, and it's the same here." Li Wei's eyes flickered again, "The last time you escaped, you said that your name will become something I will never forget Nightmare, but it looks like you still failed this time."

While speaking, Li Wei raised the knight sword in one hand to guard, and silently swung the other hand behind him a few times.Seeing this movement, the black horse immediately moved slowly towards the nearby bushes. Almost at the same time, Mengmeng, the leader of the big bobcat, let out a few short whines, then jumped back like a ghost, and merged into the darkness.

Seeing that the bobcats also jumped into the darkness, the Shadow Assassin let out a vicious chuckle, "Levi Ston, if I were you, don't play these little tricks, and be careful to let those cute cats of yours collapse Minions." His eyes mockingly looked around, paying attention to every place where the big bobcats were lurking. "The brutality of shadow assassin training is definitely beyond the limit of your imagination. Every shadow assassin who is finally successfully trained has trampled on the flesh and blood of losers ten times or even twenty times under their feet."

"Come back, Mengmeng." Li Wei frowned and greeted. Unexpectedly, the big bobcat, which has always been known as a jungle predator, is still difficult to match the shadow assassin in the dense forest where it is good at. It is worthy of the disaster. The most terrifying silent blade.

Without the advantage of stealth, the combat power of the big bobcat would only be at the level of an ordinary quasi-knight, and it would not be able to pose a threat to the Shadow Assassin who had the strength to compete head-on with the title knight.

The leaves trembled, and then Mengmeng jumped out lightly, purring unconvinced.But Li Wei knew that the leader of the big lynx had already understood the horror of the opponent with his beast instinct, otherwise Mengmeng, who was bold and reckless, would not be so obedient.

"Levi? Ston, this time I came here with no malice, otherwise I wouldn't have solved those little troubles for you. Although your cats can also solve them, they are definitely not as good as a professional like me." When the Shadow Assassin spoke again, he tried to make his tone as frank as possible, but the hissing sound at the end of the sentence simply destroyed all his efforts, making this sentence sound full of deceit and insidiousness.

He himself obviously realized this, so he retracted the two poisoned daggers to his waist, then patted his empty hands, "Can we talk? I promise I won't attack you first."

"What guarantee do you use, the reputation of the devil?" The white wolf knight said while holding the long sword tightly.

However, Li Wei did not believe the judgment of his ears. In the field of vision of the probing technique, the light on the Shadow Assassin's body changed from the blood red that indicated hostility and danger to dark yellow that indicated neutrality.There has never been a mistake in the detection technique, which means that the shadow assassin who calls himself Alans Kate really has no hostility this time—at least not so far.

"In this case, let's talk." In the voice of the White Wolf Knight gasping for air, Li Wei also retracted the knight's sword into the sheath, and gestured to the shadow assassin on the tree, "But you'd better come down and talk, You stand so high, it hurts my neck."

The Shadow Assassin slid down the tree quietly, his movements were so nimble that he could barely see clearly. After a blink of an eye, he was already standing in front of Li Wei, with a mixture of viciousness and curiosity shining in his blood-colored eyes.But Li Wei was looking down at him, because although the figure of the young knight was still under development, he seemed a little taller than the Shadow Assassin, which made the corners of Li Wei's mouth slightly curved.

"Damn the Nine Hells." The Shadow Assassin cursed and took two steps back, "I was much taller than you back then."

Li Wei is quite proud of himself for letting the notorious shadow assassin back again and again with just a smile, but he didn't want to provoke this dangerous guy, so he restrained the smile on the corner of his mouth and said, "Okay, I'm sure about this." You can believe it. But I believe that this is not what you want to say to me."

The Shadow Assassin shook his head dejectedly, his voice still vicious, "I just want to make a deal with you, a deal you shouldn't refuse." The cloak, took out something wrapped in black cloth from inside, and threw it to Li Wei's side.

"This is a meeting ceremony, you don't need to thank me too much."

The White Wolf Knight rushed forward, opened the cloth bag with his long sword, and then let out a groan from his throat. "A human head . . . " he said, "and . . . it seems to be that vampire's head."

"That vampire?" Li Wei cast his gaze to the side, and the cloth bag was soaked with blood, staining the thin snow on the ground with a layer of deep purple—it was indeed the blood of a vampire.The face exposed in the cloth bag was covered with lavender, and the facial features were distorted hideously because of fear, but Li Wei could still vaguely recognize whose head it belonged to.

"Trian?" Li Wei raised his eyebrows in surprise. This guy escaped from the public eye again not long ago. Li Wei thought there would be other troubles, but he didn't expect to meet again under such a condition. .

This time must be farewell, right?
Looking at the head that had lost all signs of life, Li Wei sighed with emotion, perhaps without the existence of Trion, even if he had the heart of the castle, he would still be a member of Viscount Lane's castle. The unknown knight squire.After the calamity is over, you can be qualified as a knight because of the accumulation of merit. Of course, it is more likely that the old man's volcano erupted, and the demon army that came riding on the magma completely submerged the viscount's territory, including Levi himself.

Fate played a joke with everyone here.

"I am very happy to accept this gift, thank you, Alans Kate." Li Wei tapped his chest towards the Shadow Assassin and performed a knight salute. "Now name your deal, I'm listening."

The Shadow Assassin accepted Li Wei's thanks uncomfortably, "Li Wei? Ston, do you know?" He said softly, "You are the first human being to express gratitude to the Shadow Assassin, and everyone else only hates us and fear."

"Do you still want to be treated kindly for the actions of the Shadow Assassin?" the White Wolf Knight said coldly.But Li Wei immediately waved his hand lightly to him, motioning him not to continue.

"Many people are afraid of shadow assassins and think that we are the sharpest daggers in the hands of demon lords, but how many people know our origin? Levi Ston, do you know?"

Arance Kate's question made Li Wei's throat dry, "I don't know." The young knight admitted, "No one knows the origin of the Shadow Assassin, not even the master scholar."

"They know, but they don't dare to say it." Arance Kate let out a piss like spitting out bitter venom from the tip of his tongue, "The raw material of Shadow Assassins is called Embers, and they are all desperate human beings, or Is it because of the cruel fate, or because of the oppression of nobles and big businessmen, in short, they have nothing but their own bodies and hatred."

"They can appeal to the lord, or the sheriff." Li Wei said with a frown.

"Nobles are not as kind as you think. If you still have a choice, you can't be called a qualified ember." Alans Kate tilted his mouth, and hissing sound was like a rattlesnake lurking in his throat Among them, "The transformation process of the Shadow Assassin is so painful that it is difficult to describe. Only the power of hatred can support us. We survived the terrible torment that seemed to be magnified to 100 years in a second. Many people went crazy during the transformation process. , Died silently. Those who successfully survived the transformation had to accept the demon's mind control and death training, and in the end, only one of the twenty embers would be left."

The description of the Shadow Assassin made Li Wei's face turn pale, "You mean, the Shadow Assassins are actually... all human beings full of hatred?"

"Yes, that's why we never felt any difficulty when we killed those noble knights who were also human beings." Alans Kate said dryly. "I used to be a low-level knight, and I had a wife who was as beautiful and gentle as a pure lamb. I cherished her as if I cherished my own life..." The shadow assassin's voice froze suddenly, and his face was distorted. It was clearly visible under the cloth strips, and it took him a long time to groan and continue, "But a lord...a viscount took her away, like a lamb tied up, but I He was imprisoned, and he was also charged with heavy slander."

Li Wei only had an expression of astonishment and sympathy on his face, and a trace of sympathy appeared on the stern face of the White Wolf Knight.

"How is your wife?" Levi asked.

"Dead. In order not to be defiled by that guy, she committed suicide on the day she was taken away. She was still pure like a lamb when she died." Arance Kate replied.

"Where is the lord who committed such a crime?" White Wolf Knight asked angrily, "Did you kill him?"

"No, that person has given up his territory since the outbreak of the evil disaster, slipped to the safe and glorious city of Fermeyer, and continued to live a life of debauchery under the protection of his family." Alans Kate shook it vigorously. He shook his head and said, "Levi Ston, this is the condition I want to trade with you."

"Do you want me to help you get revenge?" Li Wei took a deep breath and said.

"I already have the power of revenge in my hands." Alans Kate patted the dagger on his waist, "But I can't get close to that person at all, because Firmeyer is thousands of miles away, and that person People's families are not something I can sneak into."

"How can I help you? I have no way to go to Firmeyer now, because I have to stay here and wait for His Majesty's order. And even if you arrive at Firmeyer, you, a shadow assassin, won't be able to sneak in." place, do I have a solution?" Li Wei said with a heavy tone.

"I can wait, that person is not very old, and I have enough time to prepare for revenge." Alans Kate's words made Levi's spine tremble, "And you can do it." He lowered his voice and said , the mouth seemed to be chewing some flesh and blood, full of painful pleasure.

"That man, Sir Chirawala, when you help him return to the Merister family, you will definitely encounter my enemy." Alans Kate said, "Because that guy is from the Merister family." The present heir—Benjamin Merister!"

　The second one is delivered!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)