Silas gritted his teeth and grabbed the wrist of the man who stabbed him in the arm.
The blade hadn’t hit anything vital toward his arm’s movement, so without thinking twice, Silas ripped the man’s arm out of its socket before reeling his arm back.
However, before he could slam his fist into the assassin’s face, the hairs at the back of his neck stood up.
Tilting his head to the right, an arrow nicked the side of Silas’ ear before shooting right through the eye of the assassin he was holding onto.
‘I guess it’s every man for himself for them too.’ Silas thought and threw the body in the direction of a few assassins that were running toward him.
They jumped over the body without a care in the world, but now that they were airborne, Silas took the advantage and created several flame and water sniper bullets.
These were tier-three spells had created all by himself. It was essentially a normal elemental bullet that spun extremely quickly, had a pointed top, and had enough mana to shoot for several hundred meters before dissipating.
With a swipe of Silas’ hands, the bullets tore through the air while creating loud bangs as they broke through the sound barrier.
They flew through the air, tearing the top of the men’s heads clean off before instantly appearing in front of a hand.
This hand was extended, holding a blade to the throat of one of Silas’ teammates. Yet, the instant, the bullet touched it, that limb was blown off like it was nothing but paper.
Silas could have used this attack against the python, but he knew that it wouldn’t have hurt it nearly as much as it hurt these humans.
After all, the python was essentially covered in armor from head to toe. Everything about it was durable, except for the inside of its mouth and its eyes.
However, even if a human was on the same level as the python in strength, they were still human. They were bags of meat and flesh, with the only thing protecting them being the toki around their bodies.
But assassins weren’t known for their defense. They were known for being able to sneak around and kill enemies without anyone knowing they were even there.
So, if that was their specialty, why would their toki protect them when they don’t usually need a lot of protection.
The only thing standing between Silas and them was the natural layer of toki around their body, and that wasn’t nearly enough to stop most of Silas’ attacks.
Activating wind fusion, Silas’ body began to move like the wind.
His movements were completely silent, and even his presence was slightly suppressed. However, what shocked the assassins was his speed.
Sure, fire fusion was his fastest form to get around in, but that was only in short bursts.
With wind fusion, not only was he fast, but he was also agile. Plus, his reflexes skyrocketed in this form, while his thinking speed got a small boost too.
Silas swerves and ran around cleaving down all the assassins that were on the same level as a dull amethyst core while barely escaping the solid-amethyst cores by the skin of his teeth.
Spinning mid-air, Silas threw one of his knives toward one of the assassins, but they quickly deflected it, and without skipping a beat, they shot forth and attacked Silas.
‘I’ve only killed about 12 of them, and now that they’ve realized that…’ His eyes darted around to find the best place to dodge too, but he quickly saw that the assassin before him wasn’t the only one to attack him.
He could see three arrows shooting at him from three different directions.
He could see several swords and daggers covered in silver, blue, red, golden, and brown hues as elemental rules glowed on their weapons.
None of the assassins were awakened, but they didn’t need to be to have an elemental effect on their weapons.
Almost all of them were using them were covered in enough toki to put them on the higher end of the solid-amethyst core, and just to add salt to the wound, there seemed to be one more that had gone beyond, making him the same level as the python.
Silas was trapped.
Only three of them were attacking his teammates, the rest were surrounding him.
Even if he killed the python on his own, there was no way he could kill all of them, especially when they were attacking him at the same time.
He couldn’t come up with a plan either. His mind had gone blank the moment he had seen so many of them.
‘Was it those damn adventurers from the mercenary hall… But wouldn’t it have been cheaper to hire a single high-level assassin?
Peak pristine amethyst core would have done the trick. One would think that would have been the same level as Death, but from how Life spoke of him, it made it seem like his full strength rivaled even that of the commander before his death.
If that was the case, that would mean there are, at the very least, assassins on the same level as the commander before he went all out. It would have been much cheaper to buy one of them, yet it was almost as if these assassins were somehow cannon fodder.
As if his power was being tested somehow.
Any general should have the ability to fight against most of these without dying, right?
‘Am I being tested?’ Silas thought, but he didn’t let it get to his head.
If he was being tested, it would mean that there was a chance they wouldn’t kill him.
So what should he do?
He didn’t have the time to create a runic spell.
He could combine two spell circles to create a psuedo teir-4 spell, but doing that so close to the rest of the group would definitely be risky.
However, it was a risk he was willing to take.
His life mattered than theirs… Well, at least that’s the way he thought.
He wasn’t a hero, and today was not the day he was going to change that.
‘Looks like I’ll have to go all out this time…’ Silas thought as his eyes blazed with an emerald light.
However, that’s when the screen appeared before him.
[Unknown energy is distrupting your mana flow]
[Unknown energy is entering your body.]
[Mana dampener detected]
[Metamorphosis has been used]
[Attempting to assimilate energy]
“Shit.”
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