Chapter 296: Assassin -Part 2

The face of the assassin was grim. Half of it was his original face, but the other half was somewhat infused with a monster. Jin did not recognise it, the only association he had, was that it looked as if it was some alien monster from outer space. Half of his teeth were degraded into canine fangs and his nose was partially gone. There was also no skin covering it, revealing facial muscles with maggot like insects crawling in and out of it.

This was also the first time he witnessed someone showing off their cultivation silhouettes and then combining them into one. It was believed, that those who manage to combine their cultivation silhouettes into one giant shape showed depth and understanding of their cultivation, granting them powers untouched by the manuals. Some even rumoured that only cultivation grandmasters, who wrote the manuals, had the ability to combine ten silhouettes into one giant silhouette and purposely left it unwritten so the cultivators who followed the manual needed to seek wisdom and enlightenment about their cultivation style. They did it in the hopes of future generation finding their own ways to improve the manuals, which could lead to overall improvements for that particular style.

Others even hypothesized that a Grade 10 with a combined giant silhouette could potentially have the strength of a Grade 15, something similar to the effects of a spiritual union, but on a higher level. If the weakened victims had not been evacuated in time by the Savants, they would have been killed right on the spot through the black aura the assassin was emanating.

“Why are you that scared? I can make sure you will never be afraid ever again!” The assassin finished his words as he disappeared right in front of Jin. Only to reappear behind him and headed towards Yang Ling, Yuan Ba and Milk.

“You bastard! A healer will never allow her patients to be harmed!” Milk quickly cast a healing over time spell on the stabilised Yuan Ba and intercepted the assassin with her enormous book. Jin wanted to rush over, only to see Zeru diving in and replacing Milk’s position.

This time, Jin could see that Zeru was holding his punches, defending only when necessary. Yang Ling tried to use her Psionic Magic, but she suddenly vomited before being able to attack. “Hahahah! This monster incarnate infusion was meant specifically to go against you, little girl!” The assassin smiled as he stepped backwards when Zeru tried to retaliate back.

“He is good.” Zeru commented, which made Jin shudder at the fact, that the assassin was indeed a capable one, if he even garnered Zeru’s praise.

“System Lock the Dungeon down, prevent any possible escape for the assassin!” Jin commanded in his head and the System replied it had already done so ages ago. “Savants! Limiters unlocked, go full power against the assassin!” Jin commanded as he took out the Tact Tweak and hastily unlocked the skills for 18 Savants present in the dungeon instance.

Within seconds, the Savants who were robot looking in nature, started to regrow flesh, visible to everyone, around their bodies as if they were imitating to be humans. Jin, who had prepared his copies to decode the weapons and armour his monsters had salvaged from the dungeon world into cards, swiped the equipment cards into their respective savant classes.

This allowed the Savants who just gained flesh, to re-equip the armour and weapons on the spot. Most of the Savants looked like the adventurers Kraft had encountered with the difference that their faces were all covered with full Panda Masks. It was a solution by Jin to reduce resources needed to recreate facial expressions in robots during the dungeon making phase. Kraft was also delighted that Jin did that unwittingly, since he did not wish for Jin to see Hark once again in real flesh. After all, if he did, it could spoil his future sessions.

“What can a few robots do?” The assassin sneered after analysing his enemies as he raised his hand and a purple lightning bolt appeared once again at the tip of his fingers. With one throw, the lightning bolt stormed its way through the air towards one the Savants who finished equipping itself.

But the assassin’s luck seemed to go downhill from then on, as the lightning was caught by a Sage Savant who had the ability to reflect spells back. However, the Sage Savant had more under her sleeves. The reflected spell doubled in quality and quantity, which made it too fast for the assassin, who threw it at near full strength to evade.

Next a Priest Savant cast a Holy Blinding Light spell, which worked similar to a flashbang, and a Warlock Savant summoned tentacles from the ground to grab hold of the assassin, who tried to regain awareness of his surrounding.

The purple lightning struck the assassin, but he was not so weak to fall from just one attack as he sliced the tentacles away and punched the ground, causing black spikes to emerge at the Savants. Most, if not all of the Savants evaded this counterattack, with the Assassin Class Savant making use of the spikes as movement boosters to clash head on with the enemy assassin.

“Heh, alright, guess this is a challenge after all!” The enemy assassin took out another dagger with his phantasmic hand, and both started to exchange and evade blows as if it was a dance of death. And how could the dance not be accompanied by music? A Bard Savant played his music with his battle guitar which slowed the movement of the enemy assassin, allowing the Assassin Savant to get a few stabs into him before he decided to fall back.

The stabs were crucial since they were not just coated with pure poison but with a viral solution. Assuming the assassin would be able to escape the System’s lockdown (which he shouldn’t’), the virus would eventually kill him if they were not be able to (The virus take at least months to incubate, so it was a last resort)

Once the Assassin Savant was out of the way, the Wizard Savant summoned an iceberg large enough just a few centimetres away from the enemy assassin’s head, yet the assassin was still capable of utilising a fast escape movement due to his advanced techniques.

“Fuck this shit. Epic Dagger Art. The Banned Decree of Death!” The assassin shouted as he suddenly burst into tremendous speed which Jin could not catch with his naked eye as he turned into an arrow of blackness. The Banned Decree of Death was a combination of a movement skill and a decapitation technique fused together. Like tag, the enemy assassin had used this skill when he reached Grade 10 to annihilate multiple enemies even though they were far apart from each other. The first the assassin aimed for was to no ones surprise the one who was controlling the battlefield. Jin.

Thankfully, Jin had already set up his own defences beforehand. The moment the enemy assassin whirled and spun into the five metre radius of Jin, he had to deal with the magical barrier that Jin had placed…courtesy of Peppers.

“Boom you bastard.” Peppers, who was at the audience seat still dressed in Red Panda Pyjamas eating her bag of potato chips commented. Instead of blocking, the barrier that Peppers had cast was of an offensive nature rather than defensive. When the enemy assassin pierced through the first layer of magic barrier, like reactive armour plating on a tank, an explosive was given off causing damage to the enemy assassin.

Sadly, the assassin did not pierce just one barrier because of his speed, but four of them, with each consecutive explosions being even deadlier than the previous one, which finally caused the assassin to drop on the floor.

Without a sound, the Lord Knight Savant had unleashed the swords of imprisonment from the skies of the dungeon instance and onto the assassin himself. The Warlock Savant then summoned more tentacles to wrap him up, cursing the assassin to debuff him even more.

Ke Loong, the military vendors and Yang Ling, who saw the battle scene were all terrified of this particular Dungeon Supplier. Though at the same time they were even more amazed by the powers he held in this dungeon instance, making them nearly forget about the reason from them being here, the Gearbox demonstration.