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Fan Xiao temporarily suppressed his doubts and continued, "Teacher Tina, I'll check out that dungeon you mentioned when I have time. Let's get back to our previous topic. Your organization... shouldn't be short of people, right?"

The underlying meaning of this statement is asking why we have to keep harping on him.

Does he have that kind of value?

It's not that Fan Xiao lacks self-confidence.

Rather, he didn't reveal his true colors to others, so why should others treat him differently?

“We don’t lack people,” Tina said, “but we lack key talent and promising individuals.”

"A promising prospect...you're giving me quite a high evaluation." Fan Xiao shrugged: "I might not deserve such praise."

"Evolution games are never short of items with all sorts of strange and wonderful effects."

Tina then began to talk about a seemingly unrelated topic: "A very small number of high-level items can even, to some extent, guide one's destiny."

"..." Fan Xiao: "Teacher Tina, don't tell me you happen to have this kind of prop?"

"you guess."

Tina met Fan Xiao's gaze, a slight smile curving her lips.

Her reaction instantly clarified all of Fan Xiao's doubts in his mind.

I chased him from the island of worship to the time-traveling train, gave him a ticket, and told him to come to Roman City...

There are many inconsistencies and contradictions in Tina's actions.

A true gamer shouldn't be so concerned about an ordinary assassin-class player at the E-rank level.

But the phrase "guides destiny" encompasses all the contradictions.

Fan Xiao realized that Tina didn't like being a riddle teller.

The other party provided definitive answers to all his questions.

He quite liked this honest teacher.

Fan Xiao laughed and said, "Guiding destiny... that's such a charlatan's claim. Teacher Tina, would you mind reading my palm?"

"It's so tiring to talk to you, you're always testing me."

Tina looked away, no longer glancing at Fan Xiao.

She leaned back slightly, her petite body resting against the back of the seat, and closed her eyes to relax.

Seeing this, Fan Xiao did not press the matter further.

He was indeed testing the waters.

I wanted to test the extent to which the so-called "guidance of destiny" could be achieved.

However, since Tina was uncooperative, he didn't dare to force her.

He is currently weaker than others and cannot take the initiative.

Fan Xiao glanced ahead. In the passenger seat, Li Jian was staring at the scenery rushing past the window, seemingly oblivious to his conversation with Tina. He wasn't surprised by this.

After driving away from the sea of ​​flowers and traveling a distance further, the car arrived in front of a huge manor.

Sensing the arrival of the vehicle, the manor gates opened automatically, and the old butler drove in, traversing the manor's courtyard.

In the courtyard, many mechanical gardeners are pruning the green plants, and the flowers are blooming in profusion, emitting a faint fragrance.

After passing through the courtyard, the old butler stopped the car, got out and opened the door for Tina and Fan Xiao, and then led them to a retro-style villa not far away.

Li Jian got out of the passenger seat and followed the three of them.

As they approached the villa, a group of maids came to greet them.

They are real people, not robots.

They wore black jumpsuits with white collars, decorated with white ruffled aprons, and lace headscarves—very traditional maid outfits.

All the maids are beautiful, a feast for the eyes.

One of the maids stopped Li Jian, who was about to follow Fan Xiao and the other two, and smiled impeccably, saying, "Sir, you are the 17th distinguished guest to visit here. Please come with me, and I will give you a proper introduction to the history of this manor. Tea and refreshments have also been prepared."

"Um... I was with them."

Li Jian pointed to Fan, Xiao, and the other two.

The maid continued to smile at him.

Despite being a very polite gaze, Li Jian felt a lot of pressure.

He had to give up following: "Okay, thank you for your trouble."

"No trouble, this is what I should do."

The maid turned to the side and gestured for them to proceed.

On the other side, Fan Xiao followed the old butler and Tina into the villa and headed towards the dining room.

At this moment, a maid came up and whispered a few words to the old butler.

The old butler nodded, dismissed the maid, and approached Tina, whispering, "Miss, the Holy Maiden has visited again and is waiting in the reception room."

“Let’s keep her hanging,” Tina said nonchalantly. “The power struggles behind the scenes in this city are none of our business.”

"The Saintess?" Fan Xiao asked curiously, "The one from the Celestial Church, the one in the St. Roman Church?"

"You know her?" Tina glanced at him.

“I don’t know her, I’ve only heard of her.” Fan Xiao asked, “Is she here to win you over? Is she trying to win over Tina Christie, or is she trying to win over… the destruction of a nation?”

"I told you I don't like this nickname."

Tina looked at Fan Xiao quietly, her eyes like a deep lake, calm and profound, without any obvious emotional fluctuations.

But it puts a lot of pressure on people.

Fan Xiao smiled and changed the subject, saying, "Teacher Tina, is there something you need to do in Division 001 that you're using your current noble status to accomplish?"

Tina seemed to enjoy being called a teacher.

After being called out like that, she didn't take it to heart and replied, "Nothing special, just checking on the situation at the new node."

"Just for this, you specifically got the title of earl?"

“‘The Court of Life’ has no set rules, but we all abide by three codes of conduct.”

Tina replied, seemingly ignoring the question, "The first one, I have already taught you with the badge of justice: only those who fear life can judge it. Now I will teach you the second one."

Her languid tone became slightly more serious: "We only become assassins when necessary."

"Does that mean... we have to hide our identity normally?"

"There's no need to deliberately hide; just be one of the crowd."

"The truly wise live in seclusion in the city... Isn't the Earl being too ostentatious?"

"Under the rules, personal preferences are free to follow."

"Ok."

Fan Xiao nodded: "And what about the third rule?"

"If you pass the assessment, I will tell you the third point."

After finishing speaking about the destruction of the country, he shifted his gaze from Fan Xiao to the exquisite porcelain vase placed beside the corridor.

Crack—Under her gaze, the porcelain vase shattered into dust in an instant.

The old butler understood immediately and said, "Miss, I'll see the guests out. The maids will bring dinner over."

"Ah."

Tina nodded slightly, looked away, and continued walking towards the restaurant.

As she walked, her voice, now languid again, drifted over: "To answer your question, that saintess is trying to win over the nobles and has her eye on my newly ascended noble status. If you're interested in her motives, you can investigate yourself. It's dinner time now, so ask me any questions after dinner."

Fan Xiao nodded and fell silent.

……

at the same time.

A muffled groan echoed through the lavishly decorated, spacious reception room.

A young woman trembled slightly, then quickly shifted her feet to steady herself.

Her brows furrowed, and a hint of pain appeared on her usually indifferent face.

Another young woman was sitting in the seat next to her.

Hearing the noise, the other person looked over: "Sakura, what did you just do?"

Chapter 186 Being an Assassin Requires Patience

Sakura is a woman with long legs and a tall figure, who looks to be around twenty years old.

She held her hair in place with a white headband, and her beautiful, slightly masculine face wore a cold expression.

To her left was the person she was protecting—the Holy Maiden of the Celestial Church.

Hearing the saintess's question, Sakura turned her head to look.

The saintess's near-perfect appearance and figure seemed to have been meticulously sculpted by the Almighty Lord.

No matter how many times she watches it, Sakura is always captivated by its transcendent charm and never gets tired of it.

She composed herself slightly and said, "I tried to use the Eye of Surveillance to find Earl Christie, but something unexpected happened. The object I was attached to with my spirit was destroyed, and that part of my spirit disappeared as well."

Eye of Surveillance - This is a Class C surveillance item.

You can designate an area and attach a portion of your spirit to an object in that area, then observe all inanimate and living things around you like a radar.

The field of vision gained through the item allows one to see through stealth abilities below level C.

This tool allows observation to be carried out silently, making it very practical.

However, it has both advantages and disadvantages.

Because it requires a small portion of its spirit to attach to an object, it will suffer a backlash if that object is destroyed.

Upon hearing this, a hint of doubt appeared in the saintess's clear eyes: "You mean... you were attacked? Your talent didn't react?"

“No,” Sakura shook her head and said, “I don’t know what happened either. Logically speaking, this shouldn’t be happening…”

As the saintess's protector, her strength is naturally beyond that of ordinary players.

As a C-level player, after three upgrades, she has raised her original D-level talent to its potential limit—B-level.

Grade B Talent: Super Intuition – One of its abilities is to passively receive warnings of crisis and malice.

Attacks from the material realm and hidden malice cannot escape her perception.

But even she was hurt by the sudden attack.

This is not normal.

"Your B-grade talent didn't work at all...?"

The saint was thoughtful.

She suddenly remembered a rumor about dungeon players.

Some players will always be lucky enough to obtain their own instance from the evolution game.

Among these lucky individuals, there are a very small number of exceptionally skilled players who can progress from low-level dungeons to high-level dungeons.

Some high-level dungeons are essentially complete and independent worlds, granting the player who owns the dungeon an ultimate defensive capability—the Gate Between Worlds.

From a globally disjointed perspective, block all interference.

Or rather, all interventions fail to reach the location of these types of players.

Since the two sides are no longer in the same world, any means of sensing will naturally become ineffective.

Meanwhile, players who control these high-level dungeons can open "doors" and attack at will.

That's arguably the ultimate in underhanded tactics.

Of course, rumors are just rumors.