magic high school

"No, Xiao Ye, these bodyguards are even less professional than I imagined." Li Ge laughed, pointing to the convertible. "If they were really that professional, they wouldn't be driving a convertible."

Xiaoye remained silent, but added, "Don't underestimate your enemy."

Li Ge smiled, not responding directly, but looking at Xiao Ye: "It's up to you to infiltrate and create opportunities."

This time, Xiaoye didn't contradict her again, but simply gave a soft "hmm," her fingers unconsciously stroking the hilt of the short sword.

Li Ge noticed that this was a small gesture she made when she felt nervous.

"Don't worry, we'll succeed in the assassination." Li Ge smiled. "After you send me in, you hide outside for now. It's too easy for the two of us to be exposed if we're together. Just follow my instructions."

Xiaoye paused, then nodded almost imperceptibly.

She knew that although she was an assassin, her rudimentary skills were only good enough to kill some company dogs at best. She wouldn't even dare to take on a job killing a company executive, let alone a plan to directly assassinate the king of a country.

This is the difference between a killer and an assassin...

She could only be considered a killer at best, while what Li Ge was meant to do was to be a true assassin.

Then, Li Ge silently handed a small cloth bag to Xiao Ye.

"This is?"

"A brilliant plan." Li Ge smiled and adjusted her mask.

"Xiao Ye, your primary task is to create opportunities and evacuate safely. Most importantly, do not expose your identity. I will handle the assassination." Li Ge repeated the instructions once again.

Xiaoye remained silent, but ultimately accepted it.

"If anything unexpected happens, don't panic. Just open the secret plan I gave you; it's the final step in the plan," Li Ge said. "Don't act impulsively, trust me, Xiao Ye."

The assassin blended into the shadows and nodded silently.

They are currently hiding at a point where the emperor is believed to stop and give speeches during his tours, a distance of more than two kilometers from the actual streets the motorcade will pass through.

Because further in, it's a martial law zone.

This distance is beyond the range of even the Ace Joker, since the Ace Joker is just a pistol, and Li Ge's psionic energy is also insufficient.

Therefore, the best way is for Xiaoye to send Lige in through her shadow while the emperor is giving a speech, and for Lige to use her shotgun mode at close range to give the emperor a good laugh.

The next best option is to snipe from a distance, attempting to wound the emperor in the convertible, which would then trigger the "his fate is unknown" scenario, allowing for a complete kill.

If possible, choose the first option.

"They're here," Xiaoye's voice came.

Li Ge immediately became serious. He picked up his binoculars and saw a convoy slowly approaching more than ten kilometers away.

"Get ready to act."

Xiao Ye silently adjusted her mask, and the next moment, she seemed to transform into black water and merge into Li Ge's shadow.

Saya's Noble Phantasm, Shadow, allows her to infiltrate into any shadow, even move within it, or attach herself to a corresponding shadow.

Theoretically, this Noble Phantasm is more suitable for nighttime, but that's not the case. Strangely, at night, it can only be entered in the shadow of the moonlight.

It seems that her Noble Phantasm requires a light source to be detected.

However, at this moment, Sayo was able to use this treasure to get close by passing through the shadows of the sewers.

Alongside the emperor's entourage, large crowds jumped and danced with tears in their eyes, while the emperor occasionally reached out and waved to the people below.

Xiao Ye led Li Ge forward quickly through the sewers.

Normally, no one should be in this sewer. The country's sewers are separated from the surface by a layer of isolation, and the surface seepage channels are absolutely not large enough to accommodate a human body. However, thanks to Xiaoye's Noble Phantasm, they passed through this channel smoothly, as if it were empty.

"Wait, something's wrong, the plan has changed." Xiaoye's voice came from the shadows.

Li Ge looked around immediately, and sure enough, the convoy had stopped. This shouldn't be the scheduled speech location. Had the emperor changed the location? Or was the intelligence wrong?

"Change direction, get me inside, and then get out of there!" Li Ge said instantly. "This is the best opportunity!"

After a moment's hesitation, Xiaoye nodded.

The motorcade stopped, and the emperor, escorted by bodyguards, prepared to alight and begin to interact with the crowd whose hands were raised high.

"Seal off the perimeter and be on the lookout for suspicious individuals," a bodyguard said.

"Understood. Seal off the perimeter, search the area for weapons, and be on the lookout for suspicious individuals..."

However, they did not see that a dark shadow had successfully passed through their outer perimeter blockade by following the seepage channel.

"This is the best spot, right here," Li Ge said.

"Be careful, I'll be there to meet you." After Xiaoye finished speaking, a shadow seeped out from the ground, and Li Ge appeared at the corner of the apartment building.

"Trust me, Xiaoye." Li Ge gave a thumbs up.

He made no attempt to hide anything, wearing a simple short-sleeved T-shirt, carrying a shoulder bag, and with his mask covering his nose, making him appear very unprofessional and ordinary. He simply appeared in the crowd behind the emperor.

There seemed to be some young and pretty high school girls around, who were constantly filming the emperor's speech with their phones.

Li Ge walked in and stood less than fifty meters behind the emperor, listening to his speech and even clapping his hands.

"Your Majesty, the car is ready, and the venue is ready as well." The Empire's top female bodyguard, as described in the documents, stepped out of the convertible and opened the door for the Emperor.

Then, her gaze slowly and steadily swept across every corner of the crowd, focusing on an unusually still point in the crowd.

The enthusiastic ordinary people pose no threat.

There's a group of high school girls taking pictures over there; they're not a threat.

The young man wearing a mask that exposed his nose, carrying a shoulder bag, and dressed simply...

She looked at Li Ge and found that he hadn't noticed her at all, and was clapping non-stop, while there was a female high school student clapping along with him.

No problem...

Her gaze shifted elsewhere, and she protected the fanatical crowd from getting close.

This is the most important job of their bodyguards. What happens most often in the Empire is angry people rushing towards high-ranking officials, causing them to be bumped and frightened. Some of these people even do such things because they are too enthusiastic and fanatical.

After the emperor stepped down from the carriage, she stopped looking into the distance and instead focused her attention on the people closer to her.

"Your Majesty, here is a microphone. It's very safe here; we're in complete control." Another bodyguard handed over a microphone.

"Very well, thank you for your hard work." His Majesty the Emperor stepped onto the podium prepared for him, picked up the microphone, and said,

At that moment, reporters, radio cameras, and private live-streaming phones were all pointed at the prime minister who was giving a speech.

At first glance, it seemed as if all sorts of "long guns and short cannons" were aimed at His Majesty the Emperor.

Undeterred, His Majesty the Emperor picked up the microphone and said, "My people, my family. Today I stand here not as an emperor, but as a father, a brother, a fellow traveler on the path of life with you..."

His Majesty the Emperor's speech was passionate and inspiring, and the cameras around him flashed.

The morning sun brings forth vibrant life, and all things flourish.

The audience listened attentively.

The bodyguards also said, "Someone will pretend to have heatstroke later, and His Majesty will approach them with concern. Be prepared."

"learn!"

Li Ge silently walked away from the bodyguards and clapped continuously, but the bodyguards acted as if they hadn't seen him at all, ignoring this ordinary T-shirt-wearing man who was clapping along with the others.