At that moment even the sound coming from the wind stopped, as both men looked at each other. The dagger in the assassin's hands was still dripping with the other man's blood.
While inside the hole Garen was caught out of guard by the man shaped hole in his ceiling being open to the outside. He knew that eliminated enemies' bodies would be taken by the Tower, but he never thought that he'd be in this position.
While he's still surprised by the situation, he's still in a better state than his enemy, so he used this opportunity to jump out of his hiding place and slash at his enemy.
But the man, even in this stupefied situation, wasn't caught off guard by his enemy attack, he dodged the incoming slash and trust his dagger forward aiming at Garen's throat.
Garen moved his head away from his enemy's weapon, but his enemy had clearly more experience than him, he moved his dagger lower at the last moment, and it hit Garen's shoulder.
Garen jumped backwards as he felt his body being pierced, as he jumped the dagger came out of his shoulder and blood started oozing out of it.
He felt immense pain at this moment and realized that he'd no chance of winning against this enemy. Garen's greatest weakness was his inexperienced, but still, he wasn't stupid, so he used this moment to run away.
He turned towards the center of the forest and started running, his agility had already reached level 10, so he'd a good chance of escaping his enemy.
The assassin started chasing after him, and Garen noticed that luck wasn't on his side as his enemy was maintaining the same distance even after a few minutes of running.
The enemy was slower than him, but again, experience was Garen's greatest weakness, as his enemy pass through the forest obstacles as it was nothing, while Garen had to change his path a few times.
But still, a difference in level wasn't something so simple, as even with the difference in experiences the enemy couldn't catch up to him, and only maintained the same distance.
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After 2 hours running Garen's body was at it's limit, the stress of having an enemy running after him and the toll on his body of running at full speed for such a long time, wasn't something that he could take much longer.
He looked back and saw that his enemy was still behind him, and wasn't showing any sign of exhaustion, this added to his already stressed mind, as he kept running.
By this moment he's already at the center of the forest, and he could see a mysterious cave at the distance that he could use to rest, but that wasn't an option for now.
It's at this moment, that a fireball came in his direction, he's distracted by the thought of resting in the cave and concentrated at his ground, so he doesn't fall.
The fireball hit his left arm and the impact send him rolling at the ground, the assassin chasing him used this opportunity to rush in his direction and pierce his throat.
But he'd to stop as an ice shard came in his direction the next moment, the assassin easily dodged to the side and looked at the direction where it came from.
There he saw two women, they're a few meters apart, both of them looking in his direction with their hands up in the air and glowing a red and blue light.
The next moment, a new fireball and an ice shard came in the assassin's direction. He again dodged to the side but seeing the two women still with their glowing hands up, he ran in their direction and activated his skill for the first time.
His body disappeared and all that was left was a cloud of smoke, the smoke kept going in the women's direction.
Seeing the cloud coming in their direction they both looked at each other and started running in separate ways, the distance between them was already 20 meters when the cloud reached one of them.
The cloud turned back to the assassin's form and a dagger was reaching the ice woman's face. But the next moment the man became smoke again as an ice shard was reaching his stomach.
The cloud moved to the woman's back and again turned into a man's form, his dagger again moved, and this time it found it's place at the woman's stomach.
He showed a smirk to the woman, but she showed one back at him. The moment he noticed the smirk he tried to activate his skill again, but it's already to late as a fire ball reached the man's head and started burning his face.
He fell to the ground screaming, but it didn't take long for that to stop, as an ice shard pierced his neck. The fire woman came closer in their direction, but surprisingly the ice woman walked in the other direction.
"Our cooperation will end here." Said the woman with a glowing red hand.
The ice woman looked at the other with fury, but still maintained quiet. The other woman seeing this reaction didn't say anything else as she put her hands up and activated her skill.
But at this moment the ice shard left the man's body and pierced the woman's heart. She didn't understand what happened as she felt her vision going down.
"Who said that my skill was as simple as yours?" The ice woman showed again her smirk, but she knew that this was also the end for her, as the hole in her stomach was leaking a lot of blood.
She started to feel her head going blank and her thoughts became slower and slower, but at this moment she could swear that she heard a gunfire coming from the sky.
She fell to the ground motionless, her breaths became quiet, her body flickered and the next moment it was gone.
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A/N:
I hope you enjoyed your read. If so, leave a comment and add it to your collection. This is my first novel, and I'm still learning, so if you have any construct criticism, I'll appreciate.
Thank you for reading