"Iris!" The archer cried out as the healer dropped dead.
One down.
"You bastard, how dare you?" The archer screamed bringing out three arrows at once.
Well, damn.
These arrows were heavily infused. The archer shot them in his direction, it was blinding fast. There was no time for Shadow to dodge them so he let the arrows come.
As soon as the arrows made contact, Shadow altered his form into a silhouette of a man. The arrows passed through him.
Aiming for the half dwarf.
The half dwarf placed his battleaxe before him, creating an aura shield. The force of the impact was tremendous.
'That… Would have killed me'.
Shadow understood that he was lacking in experience compared to them, but this much? It felt as though the Half dwarf had been expecting that attack.
"What form was that boy?" The half dwarf asked Shadow.
They grew even more conscious. They knew their attacks wouldn't land on him.
He had given away his trump card. He sighed and decided to take these seriously. These weren't mere bandits, these were experienced fighters in their field.
As if to agree with what he just said, the plain-looking woman who had been standing by the side suddenly appeared behind Shadow.
He reacted and swung his blade at her, but she ducked quickly and aimed at his feet. More specifically, his tendons at his feet.
She was an assassin.
And Shadow immediately knew this, she did the exact same thing he would have done.
But her dagger passed through his silhouette once more. She ducked reflexively as Shadow sent his dagger aiming at her head.
She retreated and slowly walked around Shadow.
'An assassin, an archer, an aura user'.
He knew he had to end this quickly, there were still others to kill.
His eyes met that of the Half dwarf, Shadow smiled and nodded his head, then became a shadow…
The best place to attack someone was from their shadows. He threw away the short sword, it didn't suit his skill set.
The first person he attacked was the female assassin, they thought alike and as such, the possibility of her predicting his movement was high.
Concealing his dagger with shadow energy, he slashed at the unguarded spot behind both her knees. She fell to the ground bleeding profusely and screaming.
Another dagger drove its way through the back of her neck. Killing her instantly.
Shadow retrieved his dagger and swiped it clean of her blood.
Two down.
"You demon! You've made a contract with those devils haven't you?" The half dwarf screamed as he swung his axe in his direction.
Shadow returned into the shadows, then appeared on the back of the half dwarf. His dagger at the dwarf's throat.
"What did you say about a demon contract?" He asked, this was the first time he had heard anything about a demon contract from anyone.
Another reason why he had to leave this estate.
"Don't shoot!" The half dwarf screamed at the archer, but it was too late.
His heavily infused mana arrows simply went through Shadow and pierced the back of the half dwarf. Shadow appeared in the dwarves eyes where he could see him.
Dagger pressed against his throat.
"Tell me…"
The dwarf managed to look at him, the arrows had passed through him, maiming all his vital organs.
The archer stood there in shock, he couldn't believe he had killed his friend.
"Go there yourself. Bastard" the dwarf spat blood on his face before falling to the ground.
One more.
Shadow looked at the archer, his hands were shaking as he notched an arrow, tears streaming down his eyes.
"Why would you do this? Why kill the Iris first, then Meg, then make me kill Kev?" He asked, his voice was low, as though he was talking to himself.
Shadow sighed.
"Because your healer could heal you all, she had to go first, the next was an Assassin, too risky. But the third was just a coincidence" he shrugged his shoulders.
"Besides, you were all going to kill me" he added.
The archer looked at him for a moment, then wiped his tears, he muttered something under his breath and began glowing green.
Duplicate versions of himself appeared around Shadow in a circle, they all seemed like perfect copies of the archer, and they all pointed their arrows towards him.
Shadow instinctively knew that each of the copies were real, they glowed green, and maybe it was just a skill. But a skill that could kill any target.
"Die you bastard… For killing my family, you shall…. Uuurgh" the archer tried completing his sentence but found that he couldn't.
His voice.
A wet liquid dripped from his neck, soaking his clothes as the smell of blood hung heavily in the air. The copies of the archer all disappeared at once as the archer held his throat, trying his best not to choke or his blood.
He tried saying something to Shadow and pointed at him with bloodied hands, but fell sideways as his eyes lost the light of Life.
Shadow sighed.
'Well that wasn't so bad' he thought to himself…
Looking at the dead bodies that littered the stables, he turned around and walked away. He had wasted too much time.
He spread his shadow sense outwardly, covering the entire castle. He could feel them inside, they were searching for the vault.
He could also feel the dead bodies of the guards who had been posted in different locations to guard the castle.
They didn't deserve to die.
Three more groups lay scattered about in the castle, he had to kill them before he ran out of mana or else…
He would rather not consider that possibility. He began running up the stairs to his next group of targets.
He went for the one's in the Lord's Chambers, he matched the door down like he always wanted to do, immediately a throwing axe almost pinned itself on his head.
"Shit, what the…" He bent his back all the way to the ground, avoiding certain death once more.
He stood up and looked at this group. These weren't warriors or anything of the sort, these were just killers, men who enjoyed reaping life. He saw the look in their eyes, especially the man who threw the throwing axe.
"Oops, I missed" the man laughed out and so did the others.
"Yeah, you're all dying tonight". Shadow gritted his teeth, then he attacked flashing out his twin daggers.