Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 377

Chapter 377

"Master, after you cross that river there will be a small village where we have people station . Today we can just get some rest here . " A druid pointed at a winding and quiet Blackwater River . "Tomorrow morning, we can cross the Blackwater River and walk another 40 miles . Then we will be at the necromancers’ secret base . "

"I notice that the further north we go, the fewer death spirits there are . Is the necromancers’ secret base ahead of us? Why didn’t they send more death spirits over to protect their base?" a mercenary in Ye’s team asked in surprise . Only Ye knew the real intention of the druids, otherwise the mercenary would not have asked so bluntly .

"Well…it could be necromancers are afraid of being noticed by top powers," a druid said .

"Where is Suzanna?" Anfey asked quietly . Is this where they try to set him up? Anfey thought to himself . Using his full telepathy, he tried to see as far as he could . Soon, pictures of the areas around river and even that small village started to show clearly in Anfey’s head . Once Anfey started the Heart of Nature, wherever there were plants, or where the distance between himself and plants was not far, Anfey could see everything around it .

"She is in the village," the druid answered .

There were only about seven people on the outskirts of the village . Four of them were around bonfires, while the other three slept in simple tents . Anfey could not imagine they would try to kill him with just seven people . Anfey did not think they would act just on instinct . After a close search, he still could only see seven people . Suzanna definitely was not in the village .

"Let’s go . We need to get to sleep early so we can leave early tomorrow," Anfey said casually .

"Sure," the druid said .

There were four people next to the fire only a few miles across the river . They found people walking towards them and stood up one after another . The three people sleeping were woken up . Even though the druids with Anfey had sent out signals, they still kept alert . When there were only about 20 meters apart, they still coldly watched Anfey and his group . A druid walked over and whispered to their companion . That guy looked Anfey over for a while before he smiled . "Are you Master Anfey? How are you doing?"

As the guy was checking Anfey out, Anfey was watching him as well . He did not pay attention to the guy in the front, but others behind him . There was a beautiful and tall elf carrying her green bow diagonally on her back next to the guy . She also wore a short scepter on her belt . Obviously, she was a paladin just as Anfey . Two human swordsmen stood next to the elf . All the druids crawled out from the tent . It looked like this was not their first time working together . They stood in formation . If something happened, they could immediately form a defensive line .

"Are you…" Anfey pretended he did not know him . He actually knew not only his name, but also detailed information about him, including his age, childhood, personality, family background and other information .

"My name is Luther . " Luther held his hand out to indicate a seat for Anfey . He smiled . "You guys must be tired from travelling so much . Come, sit next to the fire and rest a bit . We can sit and talk . "

"Where is Suzanna?" Anfey pretended he did not know the answer again . He also looked worried .

"Unfortunately, she went to watch the necromancers around the river . You do not have to worry . You can see her tomorrow," Luther said .

Anfey had a bitter smile and shook his head . "Ok, everybody, take a seat and rest . "

Everybody took a seat around the fire . Luther casually tossed a few logs on the fire . He hoped the fire would make them feel warmer . Anfey scanned the rising smoke . The person who planned this setup was cunning . He knew what he was doing, but the people carrying out this plan seemed too naïve . If the so-called necromancers’ secret base was only about 40 miles away, who would dare to light up a bonfire? Didn’t they worry about being found by the rising smoke? This village definitely had been attacked by death spirits before: the leftover smell made them uncomfortable . If he took such an important job, he should not have stayed outside the village . He should have stayed in the darkest room in the village and quietly hid there in case he was found by any chance .

Luther looked at the druids and asked in surprise, "Where is Captain Babylon?"

"Master Babylon was attacked by Spirit Separation, and…" the expression on the druids turned mournful .

"It is so unfortunate . " Luther heaved a long sigh . "But if I remember correctly, it seems that you are missing one person . "

"We had a fight with death spirits," one of the druids answered .

Luther paused and tried to comfort them, "Don’t be sad for losing your companion . In fact, you should feel lucky that Master Anfey was with you guys, otherwise none of you probably would have come back safe . " Luther turned to look at Anfey with gratitude .

The druids looked at each other but did not know how to respond to Luther . When they were travelling on the road, one of their peers "accidentally" woke up a group of zombies . It would make sense that Anfey should have led them join the battle to kill the zombies, since he was the group leader . However, Anfey ran away from the zombies faster than any of them . Ye also led his mercenaries after Anfey and offered them the opportunity to be heroes . After that, they did not dare make any mistakes "by accident" . They tried to avoid any conflict with zombies . When they heard Luther giving Anfey compliments for keeping them safe, it made them feel uncomfortable .

Luther waited for a while, but no one agreed with him . He had a weird look on his face . If Anfey was powerful, those druids should have given him a lot of compliments and described the fighting scene to give him some clues about Anfey’s fight ability . If Anfey’s fighting ability was not so great, they should have given some compliments out of courtesy . Now they all lost their tongues . What had happened?

"The fight must have been fierce, is it?" Luther had to remind them .

"Yes, master," a druid said with his head down . He understood Luther’s hint, but could not turn the topic to Anfey . He simply could not tell Luther that Anfey had fled from the fight .

Luther secretively gave that druid a dirty look and tossed a few more logs in the fire . He went into thought . He was thinking how to turn the topic toward Anfey without having Anfey suspect him .

That elf was interested in Anfey from the beginning and had been watching Anfey, while Anfey aggressively looked back at her . He kept his eyes on her face and chest . The elf, like any proud female, felt offended, so she turned to look away from Anfey . She sort of looked down on Anfey . In fact she misunderstood Anfey . Anfey only looked at her neck because he was thinking of all kinds of ways to break her neck . He did not have any other intention .

Not only barbarians could go crazy . Sometime people could go crazy as well . At that moment, Anfey was a proof . If they had conflict for their own interests, Anfey would not use extreme ways to deal with them, at least not during the Death War threatening them . They should keep their alliance to maintain their fighting ability . Anfey felt they not only had conflicts, they wanted to kill each other .

Suzanna was not wrong . Anfey was indeed very aggressive, especially when others cross him . Anfey would turn into a cruel person who could use any indecent ways to kill his opponents . His only objective was to wipe out all his opponents in order to leave no possibility that the opponents would rise up . He had checked this person in his mind . Beside this one, he also checked on Manstuly .

Anfey had forgiven them twice . The first time, Anfey ignored Philip on purpose after giving consideration to all aspects, based on the fighting ability he had back then . The second time, he listened to someone’s hint and allowed Marquis Djoser to act crazily in front of him, but this time, he would not let Manstuly get his way . Anfey was still not as good as Manstuly, but he did not have to challenge him in the same way . Anfey had been an assassin for the past ten years . He had killed a boxing champion who had not listened to the underground boxing trainer and a sharpshooter who could shoot a target a few miles way . The boxer’s fighting ability had been as good as his, while the shooter’s accuracy was far better than Anfey’s . Anfey still completed his missions because he knew how to attack his opponents’ weakness with his strength .

"Please allow me to make introductions," Luther said with a bright smile on his face . "She is from elf tribe…"

"Luther, how long have you been here? Did any death spirits attack you?" Anfey interrupted Luther . Anfey was not a machine . Sometimes he could feel annoyed as others since he had been dealing with anger the past few days . These people in front were all dead people to Anfey . He was not interested in knowing a dead person’s name .

"Hrr…" Luther was shocked for a second and shook his head . "No, it has been very quiet here . "

That elf could not help snorting at Anfey to show she was unhappy with Anfey’s rudeness .

"Oh, right, did you see anything here? Does it have anything to do with Shadow Empire?"

"Shadow Empire?" Luther asked in surprise . This name sounded so gloomy . It was easy to guess it must have something to do with necromancers .

"Don’t you know about it?" Anfey looked shocked as well .

"This is the first I’ve heard of it . " Luther shook his head . "Master Anfey, what does Shadow Empire represent?"

Anfey looked around . Luther got what Anfey meant and signaled the people to leave . However, the elf still sat there without any intention to leave . Luther looked back at Anfey, "Master Anfey, can you tell me now?" Luther looked a little nervous . Necromancers were the enemy of the whole Pan Continent, and his enemy as well . No matter what happened here, he would have to fight necromancers sooner or later, so he was really interested in Shadow Empire .