CHAPTER 65: ASSASSIN

" what do you know about the crimson veil?" Kenji said, his voice drifting into seriousness, as his words fell hard like a hammer hitting the ground.

Evelyn frowned at this question Immediately. The people that had come here to harrassed her were from the crimson veil, could it be possible that they had revealed the connection she had with them?

" Why are you asking me that?" She said, calculating her words to make sure she doesn’t speak and blabber everything out.

" Because I just angered them for you, and besides I think I’m on their kill list, so I need as much information about them as I can get. But if you know nothing about them, then there’s no need to wrack your brain. Though, I highly doubt that, as it seemed they had come for you," Kenji explained, his words dripping with uncalculated truth.

She wanted to deny having anything to do with them, but hearing his words, she knew that she had been exposed.

She had to have some form of connection with those cultist earlier, or else they wouldn’t know her name, nor would they just openly harrass her. He knew the crimson veil was a somewhat twisted cult group, but he believed that they wouldn’t just attack someone without a reason, that he had learnt after Fubara’s explanation.

" Alright, fine, I’ll tell you everything I know. But promise me you shall not breathe a word I tell you to anyone else," Evelyn said, her heart pounding, as she couldn’t believe she had said those words.

She was normally a very manipulative and calculative individual, each word of hers carefully analyzed before speaking, but suddenly, in front of this man and fox, she was finding it a bit difficult to think properly for some reason, and so due to that, she just wanted to blabber it all out.

" Sure, I promise you that not a soul would be told through my mouth," Kenji said with a smile.

" Alright then, follow me. We cannot speak in this place," she then gesturned for them to follow her into the room she had previously gone to take their passes.

" Alright, I guess there’s no more point hiding it. The crimson veil and I are truly actually connected,"

" How?" Kenji asked with a curious gaze, what could be the thing connecting a notorious cult and a beautiful librarian?

" Well, it all started like this....:)"

•••••••

In a realm with blood crimson trees and poison blue grass, the red crystalized blood of many Innocents covered the poison grass and allowed the humans to walk in this realm in peace.

In this realm, there were nothing but ferocious blood beast and trees. There was no house, shop or vendor, there was only a hut, standing at the center of this little realm.

Inside the hut, a man in a white hooded robe was seated on the ground cross legged, he seemed to be in deep thought, as he had totally lost his sense of the outside world, only now thinking about one thing.

" It is time to start," said the man.

This was saint. The most authorital figure in the crimson veil. Their leader under the Ashen god, and the most powerful man in the five smaller towns.

He has powers everywhere. The government, the knight-order, the adventurers guild, and so many more. This man was so powerful, no one even dared to breath to loud in front of him, as when he gets angry, all hell would be loose.

Suddenly, a slight knock at the door was heard, bringing the saint out of his deep thought.

Immediately, he composed himself and stood up from the ground, moving to a side of the hut and sitting on a lavish throne-like-chair.

" Access," his deep heavy but smooth voice passed through the door and into the ear of the one outside.

Immediately, the door was swung opened and in came in a man in another hooded robe. Immediately the man still his eyes on the saint, he fell to his knees.

" Lord saint, I, your humble servant has arrived," the man said with a hint of reverence and jealousy.

The man was the second most powerful in the crimson veil, but he still had to bow down to saint in this manner.

In the crimson veil, once you’re higher in rank that someone else, you become the master and they become the slave, carefully pointing that status is a major importance in this cult. As when they wake their god, you only get to stand by his side by what status you’re on. You wouldn’t even get a chance if your status is too low.

" Killian, I have called you here today...to begin the revival," said the saint, his voice heavy and resolute.

" What?!" The man named Killian exclaimed in shock," you want to begin the revival?! But we haven’t gotten a legendary beast on our side yet!" Killian exclaimed, his voice riddling with shock and suprise.

" Forget that! We already have more than enough beast, I mean all the dungeons surrounding the five lesser town’s already have the dead body of a sacrificed beast in it. We now control the spacing of beast and their attack route. With such a large force and army, we can immediately attack the towns when caught off guard, we would be the inevitable winners!" Saint said with a grin.

" But-"

" No buts! It is final. I shall give you the dungeon crystals new vessel today, and I want you to Immediately set out for it. I want no problems," said the big man on the throne, he made sure to expel a bit of his aura to suppress Killian.

Killian gritted his teeth as he felt the saint’s aura pressing down on him. * Damn it! It’s just one level above me, why does this pressure feel so much like a mountain!*

But then suddenly, the pressure from the aura vanished in an instant," Killian, have you killed that bastard Kenji yet?"

Killian shook his head," I’m sorry Lord saint, but he has not yet been found by anyone yet. I think he knows we’re coming after him and so haven’t stirred up much trouble, nor visisted any high-end places. He’s like a ghos-"

Bang!

Before he could finish his sentence, a young man barged into the hut, as he panted heavily like he had just run a marathon.

" How dare you!" Lord saint exclaimed as he saw this. He hated it when anyone barged into his home, especially someone of a low rank, as this man was wearing a black robes, indicating his rank as a lesser member.

The man immediately dropped to his knees," Lord saint, please forgive me for this intrusion, but I have come with grave news. The ones we had set out to find Evelyn claimed that they had finally found her, but they were stopped by a man and a fox, and I believe we know who that man is: Kenji!" Said the man while panting heavily.

Hearing the words of the lower ranked man, saint looked up at the sky and let out a cackle of laughter," hahahah! You’re doomed. You should have just stayed in hiding, but you just had to stir up trouble with us again. Well, this is very interesting!" Said the siant with a slight smile.

He then turned to the man on the ground, " you, go off to the abbysal part of the forest and called out Jade, send her to kill this Kenji once and for all,"

Hearing the saints words, both the man and Killian felt their legs go weak.

Did he just say Jade, and the abbysal part of this realm. Oh no!

" Ah Lord saint!" Said the man, falling to the ground, tears welling up from his eyes," please Lord saint, forgive me for barging in, I’m so sorry, I did not do it on purpose! Please don’t let me die!" Said the man, crying out loud like a big baby.

" What? No of course not, i’m just sending you there to give Jade this letter...hand it over to her and Immediately leave that place, she’ll be the one to go after Kenji. Don’t worry, once they see the letter in your hand, they wouldn’t dare to touch you!" Saint said with a smile that seemed both fake and genuine.

Sob~ " really Lord saint? They wouldn’t harm me?" The man said, wiping his tears and looking up with hope.

" Don’t worry, they won’t harm you. Now go, before I change my mind,"

Immediately the man scrambled off the ground, grabbed the letter and fled out in an instant, not wanting the saint to give him a harsher punishment.

Seeing this, Killian felt pity for the man," saint, you know he’s going to die if you send him there,"

" Oh yes I know, but he was the one who dared to barge in. He must be punished," a small smile creeping up the ace of the saint.

" Tsk! I really do pity that child. But right now, we have more important things: give me the crystals vessel,"

•••••

As the man ran out of the hut, he raced towards the abbysal part, though, he felt a bit of fear, he knew that he could count on the words of the saint.

After a while, he reached a part of the forest where light seemed to not be able to touch. There was only a wall of darkness, as no trees even inhabit this side of the realm.

*Gulp*

He then took a step and shouted," do not hurt a hair on my head as the saint has sent me a message to be delivered to you!" He said yelling at the top of his lungs.

But when he didn’t see nor hear a response, his nerves became a bit loose and no longer tense," I thought they said the assassination squad could hear a fly from a mile away, so why can’t they hear my shouts. All of those stories must be exaggerat-"

Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly felt a sharp pain course around his neck, and before he knew it, he could see his body, headless standing with the letter in hand, while he somehow floated in the air.

Before he could even think further, his mind went blank, and his head fell to the ground, closely followed by his body!

Suddenly, a fair and beautiful looking hand took the letter from the palms of the man,"Ah... what a fool. Her voice was almost soft, fingers idly brushing away the blood on the letter. "The saint sent you here to die, but you never even saw it coming. How deliciously tragic." She smiled, but it wasn’t warmth—it was pure amusement at a life so easily discarded."

She waved the blood off the letter and slowly opened it.

Dearest granddaughter Jade.

I hope you have killed the scumbag that I had sent to you. But that is not the only reason why I had asked him to come. I needed him to deliver this message: There is a man messing with our people and soiling our plans. I want you to go out and KILL HIM! Make him wish he was never born, and bring back the Cloud Moon Fox in his possession. If you succeed, I shall owe you a favor. If you fail, well, you die!

Love: Grandpa:-)