"Ah… ah!!!" His wrist had completely been bitten off. The pain caused the dark shadow to scream in misery. With a flash, the little Umbramouse, Echo, suddenly arrived right in front of the dark shadow. The dark shadow stared in terror and amazement at the petsized Umbramouse.
"What… what… what freak is this? " The dark shadow definitely couldn't believe that this was an Umbramouse. He had seen Umbramice all his life and not a single one of them had been this scary. The dark shadow He muttered to himself, trying to ignore the pain of the severed wrist, and in that instant generated a dark layer of protective battle-qi while moving to flee. The eye of the dark shadow saw only the little Umbramouse flicker at his proximity. And then he felt sudden, excruciating pain, as the little Umbramouse had lunged forward and bit him directly on the throat.
Even his protective layer of dark battle-qi was chewed through.
"CRUNCH!" That person's trembling wail abruptly broke off. Half his neck had been bitten off. His head was attached to his body by a thin piece of flesh. The eyes of this dark shadow slowly lost all life, and his body subconsciously wilted down to the ground. At this time, Renji also landed on the ground. He pulled out the dagger at once; blood was already welling from the wound in his chest, staining his clothes red. At the sight of the wound in his chest, Renji's heart quivered. Had his opponent's knife gone in just a few more centimeters, his heart would have been penetrated. "So close.
Just a little further, and my life would've been gone." After this narrow shave, Renji couldn't help but turn to look at the little Umbramouse, Echo.
Echo said in urgency, "Boss, what's the situation?"
"Not too bad. I didn't lose my life." Renji smiled at Echo. If it weren't for Echo, he really would've died. Hearing these words, Echo's face was no longer as frantic as it was earlier. At the same time, he also began to grow arrogant. The fur on his back stood straight, and he began wagging his rear at Renji. Wagging a few times, he exclaimed with glee to Renji through their mental bond, "Boss, you are way too weak. You keep on saying that you want to train yourself, but look! .
You almost just got yourself assassinated by that guy."
Little Umbramouse Echo wasn't about to let an opportunity for mocking Renji slip away like that. Renji only laughed. "Echo, thanks. You saved my life just then." Looking at the two terrifying wounds on his chest, Renji couldn't help but sigh. "And this was just the first day!"
Kaiya Tanaka then showed up, and, surprised, he let out a sigh. "This assassin's ability to deceive people was really terrifying. This time, the little Umbramouse really saved the day. If it weren't for him, Renji, you would've been done for. As for me-this useless old fellow-all I have left is my spirit. There's no way for me to rescue you."
Of course, Renji knows that Kaiya Tanaka-a Saint-ranked Grand Magus only has his spirit left. "Kaiya Tanaka, how could that assassin have acted so quickly? With the help of the magic from the wind-style, I couldn't run faster than him." Renji couldn't get it. Kaiya Tanaka said, "That assassin really should have been a sixth rank warrior but he majored in the strange secretive ways of the dark-element battle-qi. In addition, he should have received specialty training in subterfuge and concealing his aura. A sixth rank warrior who received such specialty training in addition should have more combat power—even when compared to your better-than-average sixth rank warrior; still, battle-qi is a very strange and mystical thing, especially darkness-element battle-qi.
Most likely, he received a specialty in some kind of darkness-element technique that enhanced speed."
Renji nodded slightly. Darkness-element magic or battle-qi was forbidden in the Sacred Alliance. In the Four Great Empires and in the Dark Alliance, however, the darkness styles were not forbidden. Similarly, in the Dark Alliance, light-style magic and battle-qi training was forbidden.
"Boss, come here real fast!" Little Echo the Umbramouse had begun to bounce around next to the assassin's corpse. Renji turned towards him and raised an eyebrow in question. "Echo, what is it?"
"This guy had a pouch on his back," little Echo said, excited.
Renji walked back to the assassin's corpse and found that the black clothes on his back were already in tatters, the sure work of that little Umbramouse. Under the tattered back clothes, a backpack was tightly strapped to the assassin's back.
"Renji, I would bet that the five we saw earlier were killed by him as well. Judging by his strength, who knows how many he has killed? His pouch probably contains several magicite cores." Kaiya Tanaka said with a smile. Renji could not care less. Judging from the skill of this assassin, he might have been able to kill even a normal sixth-rank warrior. He probably had quite a lot of belongings. "Squeak squeak! " The little Umbramouse nibbled the backpack with his teeth and with a single jump leaped upon Renji's shoulder. Seeing this, Renji could not stop secretly raising an eyebrow. "Echo's speed surely is incredibly fast now. Although that assassin was also rather fast, he was only a bit quicker than me.
But the speed of Echo is quick enough that even acted I am not in the position to react for him.
No wonder that assassin didn't even have the strength to dodge or block and was bitten to death by Echo." Squeak! Squeak!" Holding the backpack with his teeth, little Umbramouse Echo shook it a few times. "Boss, hurry up and open it to take a look!" he said rather anxiously to Renji through their link. Echo was very curious as to what was inside the pouch. Laughing, Renji accepted the pouch. It was a pitch-black backpack, too, made of leather—but of obviously much higher quality than Renji's. It most likely used a premium magical beast skin. He opened the backpack. Renji's eyes shined at the items inside. Inside the backpack was a set of clothes, dried rations, and a sack of gold coins.
Inside the largest space of the backpack, there was left behind a big sack of things. Opening up the sack, Renji couldn't help but suck in a cold breath of surprise. "How many people and how many magical beasts has this assassin killed?" Renji was somewhat stunned. The contents within this big sack were all sparkling, rainbow-colored magicite cores, even several large magicite gems mixed. "So many magicite cores! There has to be at least a few dozen cores here." That made Renji excited.
Counting the number of cores, Renji also recognized it by value. Differentiating the amount of magical energy held within a magicite core was pretty simple for a magus. In any case, soon Renji finished the accounting of those various kinds of cores in the pouch. "One hundred and two magicite cores and 7 magicite gems. For the magicite cores, there are five magicite cores of the sixth rank and 26 magicite cores of the fifth rank. Seventy-one magicite cores of the fourth rank; as for the third rank, there aren't any. As for the magicite gems, there are six medium-grade magicite gems, and one is high-grade." Renji could feel his heart pound frantically. "What Renji hadn't caught on to yet was that this assassin, too, had come into possession of third-rank magicite cores; he just didn't bother to keep any."
As for the magicite gems? Magicite gems were typically attached to a magestaff so it could assist the magus in swiftly restoring its Magic force. Each one of them had been acquired after the assassin had killed a magus and ripped the magicite gem from the magestaff. "Those 102 magicite cores probably amount to anywhere around 13,000-14,000 gold coins, while the seven magicite gems are at least worth around 1,600 gold coins. Combined, the total is around 15,000 gold coins." Renji now got somewhat flabbergasted and elated upon getting to that kind of estimate. He never knew or had imagined that he would suddenly have this much money overnight just by getting that one backpack from an assassin.
About his clan… Previously, in order to get the money to send his younger brother, Kenji, to the Stormcrest Academy, the clan had practically emptied nearly all their savings. Even if one demanded that the Reshin clan raise no more than ten thousand gold coins, it would be almost impossible to do so. "This is only my first day inside the Mountain of Magical Monsters, and already I have gotten so much. "How many will I have gained after two months? " Renji's heart was filled with anticipation. However, Renji also knew quite well that there was no way he would constantly meet with such a 'fat sheep' for slaughtering. Most 'fat sheep' were at most moderately strong, if not quite powerful as well.
This time, Renji had nearly died.
He couldn't help but touch the grooves in his chest and the ones on his face that the broken Direct chisel had left behind, thinking back what had happened. In a flash, Renji whirled around and fixed his gaze on the ten dead Tempestwolves. "Worth several hundred gold coins, or so together. magicite cores of the fourth rank. can't let 'em go to waste." And so, holding the knife of an assassin, Renji proceeded to dig out the magicite cores from the Tempestwolves one after another. Now using the knife, Renji understood that it was far sharper than the knife he used.