Ginny ran through the forest while being chased by several people in red capes. She shooter a fireball spell whenever she saw an opportunity but the opponents were too swift and easily dodged everything.
She does not want to waste more of her mana so she stopped at the centre, she knew soon she will be surrounded anyways so she readied herself for a big spell. She said 16 different ancient words to recite an advanced wind spell named ' Wind domain.'
The wind formed a sphere around her and then started to expand, destroying the trees and making a big open area. Some of the pursuers were thrown away because of the wind pressure but some were still standing. When Ginny started to chant another spell suddenly a knife came and pierced her legs. She shouted because of pain and her spell was broken.
But she gritted her teeth and then again started to chant a new spell, this time again the knife attack hit her on the shoulder and she felt weak. ' Poison, there is poison on the knife, I can't beat these assassins. Damnit.'
" You bastards, I will burn your corpse with fire. Just show yourself, cowards." She wanted to curse more but she realised she never had to do do do anything like this in her life. This was her first time being chased by assassins.
She suddenly saw seven men walking toward her, All of them were wearing red cloaks and black masks. They all knew that Ginny was almost paralyzed because of the poison so she would not be able to do anything now.
" We have no plan to kill you if you join our mercenary group. Take an oath using this and we will spare your life but if you refuse then we will take your life." One of the assassins said as he showed her a special crystal imbued with Contract magic.
" No Way, let me go, You will regret this." She said while struggling for breath.
" It seems you chose to die." The person ran toward Ginny to kill her. But when he moved he heard someone shout in pain.
One after another shouts came from where the rest of the assassins were still hiding. Just when Ginny was about to lose consciousness, she saw a boy who was moving too fast and one by one knocking the assassins.
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Rex was teleported out of the GreyForest town, He noticed he was in an unfamiliar place but seeing the forest he was sure it was GreyForest. The special thing about the town is that it resides near the forest with large trees that have grown over a ruined city. The rubble of the fallen city remains but a forest has grown over it.
Just when he was looking for a way, the system screen popped up in front of him.
[ Mission: Save Ginny the mage.
Some assassins have been chasing her to make her submit to becoming the ally of the red salamander.
Requirements,
1- Save Ginny's life.
2- Kill all of the assassins.
Rewards: +5 in strength, +500 backup points]
' Is this a mission given by Aesir or the system?' He thought in his mind.
[ By the system.] A mechanical female voice spoke in his head.
He did not waste any time, more than that he was quite amazed because the system was also showing the location of the enemies and the current condition Ginny was in.
He ran as fast as he can and was surprised by the speed, ' This body is too overpowered.' He was feeling strength and speed in his body that he had never felt before. Unlike his previous bodies, this body was not bulky in muscles, however, he can easily say that it has well trained and fine-looking muscles.
The speed was almost more than double the time when he was in Alvis' body. He spotted the first enemy and closed in as soon as possible, a black dagger appeared in his hands. Before the assassin could even react, the blade passed through the neck.
He spotted one after another, the assassins were wary after hearing the first one die. Some tried to retreat but he went after the ones that tried to retreat first.
5 of them were down just like that, the remaining six spotted Rex as he walked in the middle to check on Ginny because she collapsed on the ground.
They surrounded and threw knives at him, he was not able to dodge all of them and some of them hit his body. He moved but suddenly felt heavy all over his body.
[ Paralysis poison, No backup points available. Poison will not be neutralised.]
His body felt heavy but he still felt that he had more than enough left in him to kill the remaining assassins. The one who looked like the leader went towards the back while the others guarded his escape. This time he threw a dagger at them, the assassins were able to dodge his dagger attacks, if it were not for his unlimited supply of daggers then he would be in trouble.
This ability was called the shadow armoury, he could make weapons and armour with the help of shadow during the time of day and the strength of the shadow also depends on the time of the day. Rex could not maintain full body armour because there was not much son light but it was still enough for him to make daggers continuously.
The Assassin hid in the trees and threw poisonous darts which hit him in many places.
[ Many deadly poisons have entered the body, Backup points are not available. Poison will not be neutralised.]
Just when he was losing all hope he saw Ginny get up from the back and then suddenly lightning rained down from the sky in the entire area and even upon Rex. He almost lost consciousness but regained himself quick enough, he was not the actual target so he was just hurt because of being a little closer.