Chapter 19 The Instructor Who was Killed in Seconds <TOC> Chapter 21 The Humble Aide
Translator: SumTLMan
While Rayne was killing someone, the secret talks between the man and woman downstairs stopped as they naturally noticed the commotion going on upstairs.
The “Black Market Fair” was originally a place for bandits and thieves to congregate and have a good time. It wasn’t unusual for these guys, who are used to being rampant, to fight and kill over minor conflicts.
A fight of this magnitude wouldn’t have aroused Barzel’s interest, and he didn’t care why the people upstairs were fighting.
But the speed with which the fight had ended was beyond his expectation.
It was a bit of a buzzkill and not very enjoyable to witness.
“Phew… So, that’s the end of the fight upstairs.”
[White Wolf] Barzel took a big swig of wine, smacked his lips and muttered: “But that assassin wasn’t weak, he didn’t look like a novice, so how was he killed in one shot? I thought the two would at least tangle for a few more moments… Hmm, how boring.”
Upon hearing this, the woman beside him still remained expressionless with no words to add.
A battle between two first-order transcendents really didn’t interest her in the least.
Originally, the matter was supposed to end here.
But at that moment, another situation happened.
The soft sound of a melodious flute drifted downstairs.
In the empty “Hyacinth Tavern”, the sound of the flute was particularly clear and eerie!
When she heard the sound, the woman raised her eyebrows slightly and gave a slight exclamation of surprise: “Huh… There’s also a spiritual sequence [Hypnotist]…”
Barzel naturally noticed the faint sound of the flute, and a look of alarm flashed across his eyes: “Tsk, things are getting interesting…”
Spiritual sequence transcendents are rare, and you don’t see these guys every day.
And what a coincidence… For one to be here at this very moment during our secret talks?
Barzel was deep in thought. The commotion upstairs didn’t look like it was of any concern to him… Unless could this sound be a distraction?
As this thought came to him, he looked again at the Omagh Royal Princess beside him with a vaguely unkind expression.
……
Rayne had only been in this world for a short year and had spent most of his time at the “Demon Weasel Bandits” training base, so his knowledge of the world was still very lacking.
Although he had heard of spiritual transcendent’s strange and mystical abilities, he had never seen or experienced it in person before.
Naturally, he had no idea that spiritual spells could be cast through sound waves!
Just as Rayne finished killing off Wolfe with lightning speed, he knew that someone upstairs had probably noticed the commotion.
Thinking that he would take advantage of the time gap between those peoples’ reactions, Rayne felt sure that he could escape far enough away.
Once he blended in with the crowd in the marketplace, he would generally be safe.
But just as he was making a mad dash for the door, he hadn’t taken more than a few steps when a mellifluous sound of a flute came into his ears.
“Oooooooo… Whirrrrrrrr…”
The sound of the flute was like the sounds of nature in an empty valley. The flute’s sound made him feel that every single one of his pores were being soothed, leaving his spirit in a trance. When he looked again at the surroundings around him, it was as if he was instantly transported to an endless grassland with white clouds floating in the blue sky while he was riding a horse along with the carefree wind…
That soothing feeling made him instantly intoxicated and unwilling to wake up.
……
Thump, thump, thump…
The rhythmic clatter of leather boots walking down the stairs.
A few seconds after the flute sounded, a grim-faced Pythius and a dark-skinned woman with an ocarina came out from around the corner of the stairs.
Pythius looked at the blood flowing from the doorway of the room and, although he felt it was somewhat incredulous, had to accept the fact that 9527 had managed to walk out, meaning that Wolfe, who was responsible for monitoring him, had been killed!
The blood, naturally, belonged to Wolfe, his long time friend.
He looked at Rayne, who now stood frozen in place with his eyes glazed over, with a grim expression that looked as if dark clouds were raining down misfortune inside.
Although he had expected the boy to attempt to escape, how could he have anticipated an [Awakened] who had just advanced a few days ago to kill Wolfe, who had advanced to transcendence for many years?
Anyway, with the [Hypnotist] at his side, there was no way to hide the secrets any longer.
Without thinking further, Pythius said to the dark-skinned woman beside him: “Please, Ms Cirsei, I have to bother you to help hypnotise this boy for me. I have some information that I need to get out of him…”
“Of course, it’s a piece of cake.”
The dark-skinned woman with a strange creepy totem on her face nodded and said: “I’ve hypnotised him, so if you have anything to ask, just ask him directly, he can no longer lie…”
Pythius nodded in satisfaction and was about to ask something…
But before he could open his mouth to speak, something strange occurred!
Rayne, who had already lost consciousness and looked like a statue, suddenly twitched his fingers and pulled a ring connected to a string hidden in his sleeve.
Hiss, hiss, hiss…
The sound of gas leaking.
In the next moment, before Pythius could even show the look of disbelief on his face, a cloud of green poison gas exploded. It was a “gas bomb” hidden in Rayne’s chest that was detonated.
……
The scene returns to three seconds ago.
Rayne is unaware that he has been silently trapped.
He is still galloping across the grassland when he hears the danger beep from his “Wisdom Brain”.
[Ding! An abnormal comatose state has been detected, the system is executing a predetermined program…]
The system then took over his body’s neural response and pulled the last poison gas bomb, which had been prepared in advance, left behind by Baron Maureen.
This was Rayne’s last card. As long as he fell into an abnormal coma, this poison gas bomb would blow up, creating a dead space covering an area of over three hundred metres, killing all enemy threats nearby.
After all, this green poison gas was a deadly toxin that even Quinn, a third-order [Demon Hunter], had to avoid!
When he came to his senses, there was already a green fog in front of him.
“This is…”
Rayne looked at the bodies of Pythius and a strange dark-skinned woman on the ground, and the look in his eyes became slightly odd.
Although he “blacked out”, he had no trouble guessing what had just happened and felt scared to death.
His “Wisdom Brain’s” real-time record also contained the following prompt: [Ding! You have lost active consciousness, and the system is executing a predetermined program…]
After reading this record, Rayne realised that he had just walked past the gates of death.
If he hadn’t planned his escape before, he wouldn’t have anticipated this situation and programmed his “Wisdom Brain” to inject the antidote left by Maureen in advance…
If these series of events had not occurred, the consequences were unimaginable!
“Soundwave hallucinations… I’ve been caught unaware and inexplicably fell into a trap! Spiritual illusions are indeed as expected, bizarre…”
With his enemy’s corpses just two metres away, Rayne immediately felt a sense of gratitude and lucky that he had survived.
And with Pythius finally dead, Rayne suddenly felt relieved.
Fate had dropped a boulder on his chest, and at this moment, a hammer fell, the boulder shattered, and he was at peace.
At last, there was no longer that feeling of suffocation at having the hands of fate wrapped around his throat.
Although there had been a slight mishap, his purpose had been achieved in the end.
He had finally come to the end of his miserable days.
Just when he was feeling good, packing up Pythius’s storage ring and ready to embrace a new life at the dawn of freedom…
Another accident occurred.
……
“BOOM!”
In the next moment, a violent explosion made his ears ring without warning.
Like an exploding flintlock, the iron walls of the tavern’s ground floor exploded with a “bang”. The explosion was as loud as an earthquake, and it directly smashed half of the entire steel tavern…
“F*ck, what… What is happening again?”
Rayne was stunned as he looked at the tavern that had suddenly half-collapsed.
Fortunately, the shockwave was a “directed blast”. Otherwise, if the blast radius had spread to him, would he still be standing here alive?
Rayne swallowed his spit hard and wondered if the poison gas bomb had been so powerful that it had triggered a chain reaction that had set off the tavern’s steam-powered boiler.
Clearly, this wasn’t the case.
And looking through the large hole in the broken laminate, things suddenly became clear.
Twenty metres away, a gigantic, three-metre-tall, upright wolf was staring viciously at a dark mass of smoke rising from the rubble not far away.
The giant wolf also spat out words, as if he had been c*cked, and bellowed: “Damn it, you Omagh Royalty! Can’t you people keep your word!”
“A werewolf? [White Wolf] Barzel… Of the Ten Legends of Demon Hunter?”
Having guessed the burly figure’s identity, Rayne’s heart thumped as he assumed a complete defensive stance.
……
“It’s wasn’t me…”
Ymir spat out a mouthful of foul blood as she rose from the rubble after being badly hit by the sudden sneak attack.
One second before, she was puzzled as to why Barzel had suddenly stormed out, but the next moment she saw the familiar palace royal guards that had suddenly appeared all around her and immediately understood what was going on.
In the end, the woman stopped speaking.
At this point, any explanation would’ve been futile.
Chapter 19 The Instructor Who was Killed in Seconds <TOC> Chapter 21 The Humble Aide