Deep in the forest near Manta Village, an explosion happened out of nowhere, from the dust of explosion, one man who appeared to be at his prime is gravely injured while gasping of air. A wound is visible at his right leg and stomach. Then another man spoke inside the cloudy smoke.

" Your not bad, You survive that " walking closer to the man his figure slowly revealed.

" With such caliber as you, how come you choose to stay in that lowly village, you can easily become a general if you join our clan. "

" Interesting, what is the name of your clan then? " said the old man.

He is none other than the village head Sato. After looking at the corpse of the two cultivators who died just a few days ago when the attack of the chimera happens. The two cultivators must be enough to deal that kind of beast, but because for some reason they died with the attack of that chimera, investigating their corpse the Village Head immediately realizes whats going on, so these past few days he is scouting the whole village until he spots this assassin in front of him. It appeared that this assassin is the one who killed that two cultivators and the one who lured the chimera at the village.

" I will not tell you anything unless you swore that you will become apart of us, " Said by the assassin.

" Then forget about it, what if I ask you a more simple question... Are you ready to die? "

Before he could shiver, he died in an instant and become a headless corpse.

Village Head expression was grave, his brown eyes solemn. He can't help but be angry, someone is targeting the village. He must do something about it and he must find the reason why they do something like this.

He snaps his finger and his storage ring lit up, a scroll appeared in front of him.

" This is one of my treasure and it is one-time use only, It would be such a terrible waste if the man behind all of this is weak, it is not just I am wishing for him to be strong but at least that man should put a fight on me," he said excitedly.

He chants the mantra to open the scroll and a ray of light envelops the head of the man. He casually picks it up through his hair and faces the man's face.

" Wake up, and tell me everything you know," he said with a dead tone.

The head slowly opens his eyes, he is in shock, but the emotion of the face slowly vanished and replaced by a poker-face. This is one of the effects of the scroll after reviving someone they will be hypnotized as soon as they open their eyes. but of course, this will only last for a few minutes after that, the body will start to disintegrate, this is the best scroll to use when extracting information to someone but the value of this scroll was astronomical.

" I am Lu Feng, one of the assassins under Ling Family of the Astra Empire. I was instructed to gauge the capability of the village and send someone to annihilate everyone at the village. "

" Hmn. ? Why do you need to send someone if you can do it yourself? "

" It is because of the patriarch of the Ling family, He wanted to be sure that he will not be linked at all to the annihilation of the village, he is afraid that if the empress doubt him, he will be restricted to the things that he wanted to do "

" Hm.? Why does the empress will doubt him? what is the relation of the empress to our small Village? " Sato said, anger in his voice.

" Because of the empress long lost son, there is a possibility that he is one of the villagers. The patriarch wanted to erase the possibility to become at ease"

Sato released a small burst of power into his hand and with a squeeze of his arm, the head explode.

" I never thought this is more serious than I imagine " thought Sato.

He turned around and left the place.