Chapter 354 Professional approach

Author: Half-wounded but not broken

Chapter 354 Professional approach

Back to the morning...

Above the canyon road leading from the Sea of ​​Trees to the River Kingdoms, there are scattered people squatting around the disorderly piles of rocks.

The behavior of these people was extremely suspicious. Not to mention the thankless climb up the canyon road, just the way they dressed up to cover themselves completely was enough to make the security guards suspicious of them.

Some people wore burqas, some put on masks, and some even carefully tied their fingers with bandages for fear of exposing any information about themselves.

This group of people has been gathering here since early morning. Until now, the sun is gradually rising and the summer heat is becoming more and more unbearable.

Finally, a buzzing portal opened here, and a guy wearing a mask and a black robe walked out of it.

Although he still has his head hidden and his tail exposed, at least he is dressed a little more formally, and the material of the robe and the workmanship of the mask are also better.

The dark shadows like wooden figures huddled behind the rocks, and when they saw his appearance, they gathered around him.

"Sorry to keep you waiting for so long."

His voice was disguised, and even basic information such as gender and age could not be determined.

"I believe you all know that I have a high-value and difficult assassination commission."

Usually these professional killers go to hidden strongholds to take orders freely, and only for a few difficult commissions will they send special personnel.

"Who is the target?"

"Miaojie. Orion, Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Orion Kingdom."

"But I heard that a group of miscellaneous fish have already accepted this commission."

"That's true, but things have changed."

The man in black robe took out a stack of bound papers from his arms and distributed each piece of information to everyone.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess's guards have almost been killed, but Her Royal Highness the Princess herself is still alive. She was escorted to Naspar."

"Are the new guards adventurers? If the teacher doesn't come forward, a bunch of rookies should have nothing to fear."

"Indeed, but one of the new guards has someone who has recently risen to prominence."

Hearing what he said, the guys who didn't take it seriously also lowered their heads and looked at the information in their hands.

"Hey, isn't this Brevo's demon-slayer hero?"

"I've heard rumors that he can kill the Balor Balrog single-handedly."

"How could such a person be still a student at the Adventurer School?"

The man in black robe waited for the conversation to subside before continuing:

"We have collected as much information as possible, but there is too little information about Pei Renli. If you want to accept this commission, you need to be more careful."

To say there are few is not accurate.

Because the information sent to everyone was bound together into four pieces of paper. Among them, Camille, Anna and Cosette's information was written on one piece of paper, and Pei Renli had three pieces of paper.

However, there is almost no detailed information about Pei Renli, including his origin, place of origin, family composition, etc., and much of the information is all hearsay.

"Where's the reward?"

"The client has paid a deposit of one thousand gold coins, and will pay another high-level magic item after the completion of the transaction."

The price of one thousand gold coins to assassinate the princess is a bit low considering the strength of Her Royal Highness's bodyguard, but if you add perfect-level high-level magic items, it will be different.

High-level magic items are not something you can just buy if you want. If you use them properly, you can easily sell them for 1.5 to 2 times the market price.

This is a lucrative job.

It’s no exaggeration to say that after doing this job, you won’t have to work any more in your life.

The man in black robe pointed at his feet:

"They're coming. That's the passenger carriage in the middle."

A group of people cautiously approached the cliff and looked down into the canyon.

There, there were several carriages moving along the canyon road. Only the one in the middle was a passenger carriage, which was very easy to spot.

"Then what are we waiting for? We can just ambush now."

"You are an idiot, open your eyes and take a good look."

Although you can only see a rough outline when looking down from the top of the canyon, you can also clearly notice a guy wearing a wizard's hat sitting on the carriage.

A few people with telescopes looked at it and immediately said in surprise:

"Isn't that the Thousand Eyes collected by Brevo? It's actually in Perrenli's hands?"

"As expected, we are already on guard. It would be better not to treat the Brevo incident as a rumor."

If you launch an attack now, it may seem like you can catch him off guard, but in fact, you are already prepared. When the time comes, you may teleport up and raise your hand to fire a fireball.

The more important question is, if we do it now, how will the reward be calculated?

There were a lot of people at the scene, and although the reward was huge, these people couldn't get much left over.

To earn this little reward, it is better to take other more suitable orders.

The man in black robe didn't express any opinion, and he didn't care when the killers would take action.

However, he still reminded:

"I have another unreliable rumor here. It is said that Pei Renli is the chosen one of the gods."

"What? Which one?"

The man in black robe shook his head, indicating that the intelligence support stopped there.

The elect are hand-picked by the god and have high prestige in the god's church, equivalent to God's agents in the mortal world.

Regardless of how strong he is, if you kill him, you will be tantamount to offending the church behind him. Even these desperadoes who do the dirty work will not dare to touch its tiger's beard easily.

In other words, they had to find a way to immobilize Pei Renli and kill the target.

This also makes most people very hesitant.

"Hey, voters, I don't believe this."

One of the voices said disdainfully:

"Since you don't take action, I will do it first."

"It doesn't matter, you can go first and be the explorer."

"Don't be jealous when I get paid."

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Time returns to the present——

Although Rice, who was hiding in the illusion, couldn't understand the joke, Perrenli's rejection was already obvious in his answer.

The surroundings suddenly fell into dead silence, with only the slightest sound of wind blowing in the treetops above.

"I thought Brevo's demon-slayer heroes would be smarter, but I have no choice but to kill you too!"

Before he finished speaking, Pei Renli saw a stream of light thrown out of the woods. With Qianyan's powerful visual ability, he could clearly identify it as just a flying knife.

Pei Renli was about to activate the shielding technique when he suddenly picked up Miaojie next to him and brought her closer to him.

The next moment, when the flying knife hit Pei Renli, the image immediately shattered, and Miaojie's clothes suddenly cracked open, as if a silent ghost passed by.

Since the opponent is good at controlling illusions, it is obviously abnormal to throw the flying knife straight up. His words are not consistent with his actual actions. The target is not Pei Renli, but Miaojie.

Thanks to Pei Renli's quick thinking, otherwise someone would have succeeded.

"Burning Hands!"

Facing the direction behind Miaojie, Pei Renli raised his palm, and flames gushed out like a fountain, scorching a large area of ​​marks.

However, not only was there no feeling of hit, there was no struggling figure in the flames. Instead, three points of cold light were seen flowing upstream from the flames.

Pei Renli hurriedly waved his staff, and heard two crisp sounds. The thin needle as long as his index finger was blocked and fell to the ground, but one of them still hit Pei Renli's shoulder.

For a moment, there was severe numbness in the area where it was hit.

"Give me the lavender medicine bottle in my pocket. Yes, that's the bottle."

At a loss, Miaojie hurriedly rummaged around, and Pei Renli took the potion and drank it.

If flying needles are to be lethal, they must be poisoned. The all-purpose antidote that Pei Renli made himself can at least suppress the poison, and Cosette can use magic to remove it when he returns.

"It's really not that easy..."

The sound still came from all directions through the camouflage of phantom sound, and it was impossible to determine the exact location.

"That is a poison that can kill even a wild boar. Ordinary mages are now unable to move."

If it were before going to Brevoir to fight the demons, Perenli would indeed be unable to move now, but now he has a belt of power, his physique has been greatly enhanced, and his resistance to toxins is also stronger.
To be continued...