My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

In a place he had obviously never been to, he saw dead leaves that had been trampled into the soil and several broken twigs on the ground.

Orson's heart suddenly became alert.

Then, he followed the direction of the dead leaves and branches, concealing his breath, and slipped past quietly.

The further he walked, the more Orson felt something was wrong.

"I wanted to catch a small fish, but I didn't expect a big fish to take the bait." At this time, a sinister voice came from a big tree nearby.

"Mr. Orson, it doesn't seem very safe to be here at this time, right?"

Orson looked in the direction of the sound and saw a man standing on a branch looking at him.

His body was wrapped in black clothes and he had a black mask on his face.

Orson looked at the other person's outfit and, for some reason, burst out laughing.

The other party was a little confused by Orson's trick, and then looked at Orson and asked harshly: "What are you laughing at?"

"I laughed at you like a moron. In broad daylight, you were wearing night clothes. Are you afraid that others won't recognize you?"

“……” The man in black looked at Orson. For some reason, he felt that it made sense.

But after being mocked by Orson, he was still very angry. Then he took out a dagger and pointed it at Orson.

"Now that you've seen that, you should know what I'm here for!"

Having said this, he jumped down and stood in front of Orson.

"Level seven, huh?" Orson said this and looked at the other party.

"It seems you have some insight."

"You are the one sent to assassinate me?" Orson asked in a deep voice.

"You could say that." The assassin nodded. "Someone asked me to buy your and Leete's lives."

The reason why he appeared in front of Orson so brazenly at this moment was, of course, because he was extremely confident in dealing with Orson.

You know, only Litt, Marvin, the president of the Antica City Adventurer's Association, and Triss knew the news that Orson's strength had reached the seventh level. Orson did not tell anyone else.

And these three people did not make it public, so others still thought that Orson was still a level six like he was a year ago.

After all, from level six to level seven is a huge leap. Even Prince Arthas, the empire's first genius at the time, spent two or three years in the Imperial Academy to advance to level seven with the help of various rare treasures.

Orson does not have as many resources as Arthas. Although his talent is indeed better, the speed at which his strength improves should not be faster than that of Prince Arthas.

Therefore, when arranging this assassination mission, the other party deliberately chose a seventh-level assassin to carry out the operation.

As for the eighth-level assassins, the empire is not without them, but these master-level assassins rarely accept missions, and the funds required are also astronomical.

The client thought that there was no point in using a butcher knife to kill a chicken, and since he didn't have the money to buy one, he had to settle for the next best thing.

In short, as long as the task is completed.

"So, before you die, can you tell me who wants to kill me?

Me?" Orson asked sincerely.

"Oh, you want to trick me?" The assassin smiled, "Don't take me for a fool."

Then, his figure disappeared from the spot.

Mist Hidden Technique?

The so-called fog-hiding technique is the skill that the assassin profession relies on for survival.

By creating a gas with hallucinogenic effects, the enemy can no longer see their own figures.

This kind of magic is simply a powerful weapon when facing someone who is much weaker than oneself. It can kill the enemy invisibly, which is quite terrifying.

However, when facing someone with equal strength, the assassin can only reduce the frequency of his activities to achieve the effect of hiding.

If you were to launch an attack at this moment, or get too close to someone, you would definitely be discovered.

Of course, this does not mean that this trick has lost its effect. After all, it is an assassin's signature skill. At this moment, when facing an enemy of the same level, he can reduce the intensity of his activities and suddenly launch an attack in a new place while the enemy is unaware of him.

The main thing is a surprise.

Orson frowned, then used his magic power to continuously detect any signs of activity outward, with himself as the center.

Then, he really locked onto a breath.

As a mage, he is very restrained against the Mist Concealment Technique at this moment. After all, it is also a kind of magic. The assassin will consume his own magic power when releasing the Mist Concealment Technique.

As long as the magician is of the same level, he can lock the assassin's position through the magic power released by the assassin.

But at the same time, if the assassin is more capable of facing the mage, the mage's disadvantageous attributes in melee combat will be revealed. In this case, the assassin can basically declare victory in the battle as long as he closes the distance.

However, the opponent seemed to have forgotten that although Orson often used swordsmanship in battle, according to the Adventurer's Association's assessment, he was a dual practitioner of physical and magical skills, and was on the same level as a warrior and a mage.

It's just that Orson has never encountered anyone who needs him to use both warrior and mage skills at the same time during battle.

Then, after locking the assassin's position, Orson stabbed out with his sword.

The assassin was just about to look for Orson's weakness, but he didn't expect Orson to have discovered his position. Although the assassin's main focus was agility, Orson's sudden attack caught him off guard and he had no time to dodge. He could only hold the dagger in front of his chest to block the stabbing sword.

Then, the huge force caused the assassin's body to fly backwards.

He was not known for his strength, but Orson's strength gave him a bad feeling.

He hit the tree and couldn't help spitting out blood.

"You..." The assassin looked at Orson with a surprised look.

"You're curious, why? Right?"

"I'm only a level six, how can I send you flying so far with just one strike?"

"Because I have already reached level seven." Orson said.

The assassin's heart felt as if it had sunk into an icy cave.

I had been pretending to be so cool for so long, but in the end Orson slapped me in the face and almost crippled me.

The assassin wiped the corner of his mouth and then used the Mist Hidden Technique again.

However, this time he did not want to attack. Instead, seeing that the situation was not right, he prepared to escape.

He couldn't defeat Orson at level seven at all.

In order to show off, he lost the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, and was just injured by the opponent's sudden attack. At this moment, he had no choice but to escape.

The assassin even suspected that Orson's previous exposure of his flaws to him was a deliberate attempt to lure him into the trap.

Thinking of this, he quickly used his magic power to design several "clones" in the Mist Concealment Technique.

As mentioned before, the mage can locate the assassin's position through the magic power emitted by the Mist Hidden Technique. The assassin, of course, has made a countermeasure, which is to use magic power to create "clones" or "dummies" in several specific locations that react similarly to his own magic power.

In this way, whether attacking or escaping, causing interference to the opponent will be beneficial to your next action.

But Orson was not disturbed. He closed his eyes and carefully felt the difference between each magical power. Then, he opened his eyes and released a magic towards the front right.

Suddenly, countless vines appeared on the ground and coiled around one place.

After a few seconds, the fog hiding technique was lifted, and the assassin appeared in the place where the vines were entangled.

Now, his limbs were bound, with only his head exposed.

Orson smiled and walked up to the assassin.

"Now, can you tell me who sent you here?"

Chapter 2: Trump Card (K)

"Tsk..." The assassin turned his head away and ignored Orson.

"Don't think you can get anything out of me..."

"Then don't blame me..." Orson said this and was about to take action when suddenly he felt the ground shaking violently.

"What's going on?" As he said this, Orson looked in the direction where the vibration came from, and then his eyes widened.

……

On the other side, Mudrick was resisting the attack of the lion. Due to the interference of Litt and Virgil, Mudrick could not use all his strength to fight against the lion. In addition, his strength was not as good as the lion, so his physical strength gradually ran out.

Faced with the righteous beating, he seemed to be on the verge of defeat.

"Tsk..." Just as he was distracted to avoid the lion's attack, Virgil cut his arm with a sword.

Mudrick was furious and punched Virgil back with all his strength. Virgil was caught off guard and was hit hard, crashing into a tree.

Lit looked at Virgil with concern, but the latter just shook his head, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and then continued to stand up.

Although Virgil was still able to stand up, he obviously could no longer continue to interfere with Mudrick as he had just done.

This is the difference between the sixth level and the seventh level.

Mudrick's attack also exposed his back to the lion. As a fierce warrior, the lion certainly did not miss this opportunity. She slashed at Mudrick's back with a sword.

This sword directly cut through Mudrick's clothes and left a wound on his back deep enough to see the bone.

After the sword was swung out, the lion was actually a little dissatisfied.

Because she just hit it off-center, if it had been more straight and hit Mudrick's spine, he might have lost his ability to fight immediately.

Even so, this blow caused Mudrick to suffer heavy damage. He rolled forward in pain, putting some distance between himself and the lion, then turned around and stared at the lion.

He was already seriously injured, and it was simply a pipe dream to escape from the lion.

At this time, Litt said, "Captain Mudrick, if you hand over the things now, I can still spare your life."

"Heh..." Mudrick smiled and spat out a mouthful of blood foam.

"You think you won?"

As he said this, he touched his storage ring.

"You spent so much time and effort to get what's inside?"

Then, there was a flicker of light, and Mudrick took out a bottle of potion and drank it.

Seeing this, the lion's pupils dilated slightly, and it immediately rushed forward, ready to kill Mudrick.

But even though the lion had already taken action in advance, Mudrick still drank the potion.

Then the lion stabbed Mudrick's heart with a sword.

Mudrick fell backwards to the ground, with the lion's sword still stuck in his chest.

Just when the lion breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly heard a chuckle.

"Ah……"

Mudrick smiled and stood up.

The pierced heart seemed to be fine and continued to supply blood to the body.

Then, under the gazes of everyone, Mudrick's body swelled visibly.

Within a few seconds, a nearly three-meter-tall humanoid monster covered with dark purple muscles appeared in front of everyone. At this moment, everyone could no longer tell how he looked like the original Mudrick.

"Devil..." Shio muttered, words uttered from his mouth.

The demonized Mudrick just smiled, pulled out the sword that had just pierced his chest, ignored the dark red blood flowing down his chest, and looked at the few people with a grin.

"Haha, you've got some vision." As Mudrick said this, his aura suddenly surged, approaching the eighth level.

Of course, it didn't actually reach the eighth level.

But even so, Mudrick at this moment, relying on the powerful qualities brought by his body after being transformed into a demon, is no longer afraid of the lion.

The lion frowned.

Just now she chose to fight quickly and consumed a lot of physical energy, especially at the last blow. Thinking that Mudrick should be dead, she did not hold back. Unexpectedly, Mudrick is now resurrected with full blood and even stronger than before.

"Do you know that the Empire

The devil's attitude?" The lion said this, looking at Mudrick warily.

"Of course I know that once a demon appears, the empire's masters will quickly attack and kill the demon."