Not far from them, some of the assassins were watching while hiding in the bushes. They were waiting for the signal from those five people. Those people were the strongest individual in this group.

A moment later, the atmosphere turns more rigid and flashes of lightning started tracking on the sky - as the humid air embracing their skins and thunder sounds followed closely.

"Hey, hey, man," called out by someone in an indiscernible voice while tapping the shoulder of the person beside him.

"What?" The person beside him irritably replied a question.

Seeing his irritation, he got worried for a second. But he has to ask. "T-That is the person that our target tonight, right?" He asked in a whisper while pointing to Yeman's direction.

The person beside took a quick glance at him then turned back his eyes to the person he was pointing.

With quite an irritation he replied to him. "He must be the one."

Hearing his reply he opened his mouth again, "I - I heard that a target is a magic-less person, but that guy— don't you think he's a magician? Maybe they got the wrong person?" He doubted.

The person beside him furrowed his brows and admittedly agreed to him. But...

"Idiot! Do you want to die first?" Hastily replied to the other person besides them. "Eh, why?" Surprise the former. "You, don't tell me... You don't know that person covered in black clothing..." Said the third person.

"Pssssst! You idiots! Minimize your voice, what's the purpose of hiding in here if your voices were too loud," muddled by the fourth person beside them.

About 50+ assassins were currently hiding in these bushes. They were rank at most Silver-Grade magician. Each of them was strong enough to assassinate a target alone. Their purpose was to counter the possible ambush strategy of their target's back up which they presumed from their rival guild.

In this empire, if you reached the peak of Silver-Grade magician, you were worthy of respect already. After all, it's not easy to break through to a golden stage. Only those people from great families have a higher chance of breaking through because of their bloodline prowess. And because of their wealth, they have more chances to acquire the needed resources to breakthrough through their bottleneck.

But if you were a gifted individual that born with unique Magician's Seed, then you have better chances of breaking through easier, through hard work and perseverance.

It's not easy to be born with the unique Seed though, they said that it only happened once in a century. But it just a myth saying like that. Since it would also depend on your luck to achieve such a unique Seed.

So attaining the peak of Silver-Grade was already respectful enough to the normal magicians like them who don't have a unique Seed and not from a wealthy family.

And those five people standing in front of their target tonight was already at the peak of Silver. But the truth was one of them already at the golden stage or Gold-Grade Magician.

Even though they were hiding in the bushes. But most of them don't feel the need to do so. Since they believed that those five people were more than enough to defeat any back up sent from the guardian guild.

It was stated that this person - their target tonight was not a wealthy individual. He was just an ordinary citizen, but they heard that he was one of the survivors from the latest subjugation mission. And maybe he was lucky enough to get some hidden treasures. But even so, he could only recruit about 10 to 15 Silver-Grade magicians from the guardian guild. Because someone like him who was a weak person would eventually get the least share among his group.

Yeman stopped and took a glance at the hand that forcefully gripping his shoulder. Noticing that this person had no plan on letting him go, he shrugged off the hand holding his shoulder which causes the person who was holding him to be alerted.

He already received notifications from System about the mark place at him. It was for homing type magic attacks. And it also has an additional fear effect. He believed that it was to divert the target focus.

Gale-Cutter was shocked, his hand had been shrugged off easily by this person who was at most apprentice rank only. Compared to him who was at the peak of Silver-Grade.

Yeman could not believe he just let himself fall in such an easy trick.

This fear had the least effect on someone stronger than the caster. And he already fought a much stronger opponent than these people so it was useless. But he has to be careful next time. He has to be careful next time. In this world, people have different kinds of magic. So it was natural to find someone with a unique ability that might able to kill a stronger opponent. Yeman noted his mistake.

He smiled. Although he could not understand why these people seemed like looking down on him. But one thing for sure, he felt no threat from their strength. Aside from the woman covered in black clothing. She seemed to hide her real strength.

The four people noticed slight changes in Gale-Cutter's mood.

"You!" Gale-Cutter yelled.

Yeman already steps about 3 steps away from him but he stopped and turned back.

Yeman spread his arms and said, "What's the matter, venerable people, you just let me go. In that case, I will take my leave now?" He said with a grin.

The other four people were surprisingly staring at his arrogant behavior. They also noticed Gale-Cutter was standing still and twitching his body with anger. "Hahaha, what are you doing Gale bro, having cold feet in front of the kid?" Said the guy who was flicking his fingers recently.

"Shut up, Ray Boy!" Gale-Cutter shouted angrily. He got mad after his hand was easily shrugged by a weaker opponent. His gripped could even crush a stone - yet, that person just shrugged it off unbothered.

They noticed that his left hand was glowing with a white glow. They became alert all of a sudden. But for some reason, they could not perceive other enemies. Looks like this young man was literally alone in this place. But the client said that— before they came into a conclusion they heard three consecutive loud bangs already.

"Puwahahahaha!"

They heard Gale-Cutter's laugh. The young man was covered with smoke. They sighed. Looks like that young man had really no back up with him.

They were thinking that 'maybe his contract with the guardian guild already ended and no more money to continue hiring them and now waiting here resigning to his fate.'

This mission was certainly a waste of effort for them. They even brought 50+ Silver-Grade assassins around to counter the enemy. But looks like it wasted.

There was not even a need for them to lift their hand since Gale-Cutter already ended that puny person's life. They already expected a charred and half body remains of that person. But a moment later, after the cloud of smokes cleared, they were all shocked staring at the young man grinning at them and his red eyes peeking on his bangs.

"Watch out!" Shouted the woman.

Blag!