~Assassin PoV~

My heart was beating faster and faster as I made my way out of the castle and onto the streets of the capital.

After I was a safe distance away from the castle did I have a sigh of relief.

"What a strong presence." I said as I once again started to move away from the capital.

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I made my way towards a tavern and took out a black mask and put it on.

I took a deep breath and went inside the tavern.

Inside I was greeted by people with masks on their face, unlike my mask they had on silver masks along with everyone else in the

tavern.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at me.

By their aura, you could tell they were weaker than myself so I didn't give any of them a second thought and went up to the second floor of the place.

When I got to the second floor I saw the many people with green masks, I only glanced over them as I made my way to the third floor.

Unlike the other floors, the third floor was almost empty as only 10 people were there.

I made my way towards the table they were all sitting by and took an empty seat.

"You are back earlier than expected?" One of the people asked as they looked at me.

"So did you get the job done?" Another one asked and by her voice and figure you could see that she was a girl.

I took a deep breath and looked at them "I didn't kill the boy!" The moment those words left my mouth they all looked at me, I am sure if they didn't have those masks on you would be able to see their stunned expressions.

"Explain!" The woman next to me spoke and everyone nodded and looked at me awaiting an answer.

"I got into the castle and even made my way into the boy's room safely. " I said in a calm tone, this made the rest frown.

"Then why did you not kill the boy?" The woman said in a cold tone.

"Because the boy was not the only one in that room." I said.

"Let me get this straight, you went into the room while the queen was in there?" The woman said.

"Of course not, I made sure the boy was the only one there before I went in, but who could have known that there were would be an expert hiding in the room!" I said and everyone became even more confused.

"An expert?" They all said at the same time.

"That's right, this expert was not any easy expert as he was definitely in the immortal rank."

They all looked at me doubting my words "What are talking about, all the immortal ranked cultivators are not in the capital right now." The woman spoke and they all nodded in agreement.

"I think he wussed out!" The man who spoke earlier said while laughing.

"If you were going to go back on your mission you should not have taken it in the first place." the woman said as she moved her head from one side to the other.

"I am not lying!" I shouted while slamming my hand on the table. This action startled everyone and they became silent.

"If that's true and you really met an expert how are you still alive?" The man said in a tone with disdain.

"I am not sure myself, I never thought I would be able to live after I felt his presence but he let me go and told me to tell whoever hired me a message."

"What was the message?" The quiet man in the corner asked it seemed like the others were more surprised that he spoke then about what had happened.

"He said to tell whoever hired me to beware as he will come after them."

"Did you tell him who hired you? is that why you are still alive?" The bulky man who has being on my nerves all night spoke again with a sarcastic tone.

"You bastard!" I shouted and took out my daggers while he got out his.

Suddenly.....

~Rumble

Everyone halted and looked at the window and saw the appearance of someone who was wearing a golden mask, we both put away our weapons and made a 90-degree bow, the others on the table stood up and did the same.

"Leader!" We all said in unison before we looked back up towards this golden masked man.

"You said you were obstructed by an expert right?" He said in a voice that was filled with a calmness which made the heart shutter.

"Yes.That's right leader." I said not wanting to lie, I had a feeling this man would know if I lied or not.

"What do you think was he stronger than me?" He asked me and I looked at him, looking at the presence I feel from this man and the one I felt from the expert it's obvious who is stronger.

"Leader...He was much stronger than you at least his presence was."I said and everyone looked at me with daggers in their eyes they were all behind me so I could no see it clearly but I was not weak so I could clearly feel their killing intent towards me.

"Interesting... There are only 3 people stronger than me in the Lucas clan but I didn't know that there was yet another one hiding in their ranks. If that is really true then the world is in for a beating unless the other countries are also hiding experts like that." The leader amused himself.

"Leader...About the mission." I said and before I said anything else he stopped me with his hand.

"That's fine, no money is enough for me to go against such expert. If 'He' wants the crown prince dead he needs to go and do it himself." The leader said before he vanished into thin air.

We all looked at the scene he left behind speechless, 'since when was the leader able to cast without a chant?' we all thought to ourselves.