CHAPTER 75: RETURN DECLARATION

T.P.P

The male assassin stabs Elaina and pushes her towards the Grand Elder.

The Grand Elder catches her and gently drops her to the ground.

He drops her and chases after the Male assassin while Elaina lays weak on the ground.

The male assassin was moving very fast at 6800m/s, he was slower than usual due to the poison on the daggers of the Grand Elder.

In an instant he was almost out of the clan but suddenly the Grand Elder appears above him and slams him to the ground.

As he hits the ground the Grand Elder follows through with landing straight on his belly with his feet.

The blood puffs out of the assassins mouth.

The Grand Elder jumps off the assassin and lands on the ground beside him.

"You disgrace the title of a Martial Master." The Grand Elder says with disgust.

"Pl...please." The assassin pleads.

"An assassin pleading for his life?

"That’s disgusting." The Grand Elder says to him and smashes the assassins head with his right foot killing him.

He looks at the corpse for a while and dashes back to his courtyard.

He arrives at his courtyard and Elaina was no longer where he left her.

Following a trail of blood with his eyes he looks and sees her sitting by a broken fence leaning her back on the wall.

The Grand Elder walks to her and stands before her.

"Ughh... I always thought that... I always thought that I’d die at the hands of a Grand Master or maybe a Supreme Peak.

I didn’t think I’d be dieing to a Martial Master and betrayal from my comrade... to the betrayal of one I called my love." Elaina laments as she coughs blood.

The Grand Elder remains silent looking at her.

"Seeing as you are here... it is either... he got away or ... you have killed... him.

And I do hope it is the later." She says, her voice filled with pain, not from the injury, but from her feelings.

Her eyes began tearing as she looked up at the moon.

"We... were supposed to spend quality time together after this mission.

I had just finally gotten the courage to ask him out and he accepted.

That fucking bastard!

He said he loved me!

He said he would protect me!

Liiieeess!" Elaina rants out as tears began rolling down her cheeks.

At a point she started coughing blood again.

"Just kill me now please, I do not want to die thinking about a man who betrayed me.

I have committed the crime of falling in Love, I deserve death." She says looking up at the Grand Elder

The Grand Elder squats to her level.

She closes her eyes as one more drop of tears streams down her eyes.

The Grand Elder raises his left hand up to the right to hit her sideways.

He swings down and hits her.

The sun rises and at the Grand Elder’s courtyard.

Inside his room, on his bed laid a pretty mature female with black hair.

She had wrappings covering injuries on her arms and abdomen.

She laid there asleep for a while.

After a short while her eyes blink and then open.

As she wakes up she looks around trying to figure out where she was.

She tries to sit up when she hears a deep male voice saying;

"Do not sit up."

She halts in her movements and the Grand Elder walks before her.

With his right hand he gently pushes her back to laying down.

She laid there shocked.

"What is going on? why am I alive, why am I on a bed... Ughh." The lady groans in pain as she forces herself to sit up.

"Don’t force it, the poison messed you up badly.

You were lucky I was able to extract it in time." The Grand Elder says.

"You... you saved me?" She asks the Grand Elder.

The Grand Elder says nothing for a while and begins pacing about the room.

"Your name is Elaina right?" The Grand Elder asks.

"Y...yes." She replies.

"Good, I always like people who are responsive." The Grand Elder says.

"Why did you save me?

To mock me?" Elaina asks, her voice heavy.

"From the things you said as you neared death, I can tell you have a lot of regrets, your heart is probably filled with bitterness right now after facing the betrayal of your..." The Grand Elder says before stopping as he notices Elaina sobbing silently on the bed.

"I guess Assassins are still humans in the end.

Even the Legendary Sangdaejong attacked us because one of us insulted his sister." The Grand Elder thinks to himself.

He looked at her pitifully for a while and then looks away.

"I’ll come back another time." He says and he exits the room leaving Elaina to cry her heart out.

Back at Yangzo the previous day in the night.

The Dang Patriach, The Second Elder, David and Diana set out to attack the Golden Manor Merchant group’s Yangzo Branch.

P.O.V - David.

We moved at night running between and above buildings approaching the Golden Manor Merchant branch.

From our planning I was confident we could actually pull this off.

With my permission Dang So had explained to the Patriarch of my expertise, assassination.

I have to say, with the planning, tactics and roles he gave me, he is a really smart man.

He is one serious tactician.

As we approached the branch we stopped by some buildings.

With the branch in sight it was my time to act.

I was to eliminate all guards keeping watch without raising an alarm.

And if I slip up the Patriarch was there to silence them with his needle technique.

It was time.

I moved.

Swifty and stealthily I slit the throat of the guards leaving none for the Patriarch.

After I was done I scanned to see if there were any more guards.

After confirming there were none I signalled for them to come.

Through the front gate we stepped into the compound of the branch.

The compound was wide with a tall Pagoda of three stories standing in the middle.

As we step in we notice some guards parading around the building.

I together with the Patriach moved to silence them.

I killed three and the Patriach killed two.

"You are better than I thought, too good infact." He says with an uncomfortable tone.

I said nothing and just smiled.

Now standing in the compound this was were we four had to act together.

Each of us were to move to the North, South, East and West of the building.

After arriving at the locations we all pulled out a bow and two arrows.

I was stationed at the West.

I held one arrow in my mouth.

The other I lit up with fire, pulled it across my bow and fired upwards to the roof.

This happened from all directions.

Now for the second arrow which contains poisonous gas.

We were to each shoot it into one floor.

As it hits something the gas would explode and begin spreading.

I placed it in my bow string, pulled and shot into a window on the second floor.

The Patriarch shot into the highest floor which was the third floor.

The Second Elder shot into the First floor and Dang So shot into the ground floor.

Immediately chaos began as the poison spread and the fire from the roof began spreading.

We didn’t go in.

We waited outside.

One by one they began running outside and we took them by surprise.

Every single one that stepped out, before they could realize we were waiting for them we would have attacked them and they couldn’t react on time.

We were killing them one by one, all four of us working together.

It was exciting just slicing the necks of enemies.

But I had to control my expression so I wouldn’t be seen as a psychopath.

A male figure ran out and I attacked him but he blocked.

The Patriarch follows in with needles which pierces his skull and he drops dead to the ground.

"Who dares attack the Young Master of the Golden Manor Merchant group." A deep male voice is heard coming out from the building.

He steps out and behind him were three other guards with a man who I would guess to be the Young Master in their middle.

The man in front who spoke was a Martial Master while the other three were Late Peaks.

"Damn! another Martial Master? This would be tough." I said to myself as I analyze them.

"The Tang Clan! The Tang Clan have come to seek answers from this young master of yours." The Patriarch boldly declares.

He was not joking.

He had a dagger in his hand pointed at the Young Master.

His expression was notably angry.

They all stood surprised.

"Tang Clan? don’t you mean Dang Clan?" The Martial Master tries to correct the Patriarch.

"No! the Tang Clan is returning back to the Murim and we shall use the Head of this young master to announce our return." The Patriarch states.

"Hahaha... Seriously Patriach? You must be jo..." The Young Master, Hwang Lor laughs.

But he was silenced as the Martial Master stops a needle which was coming straight to his forehead.

He staggers backwards as he sees the needle pierced through the hand of the Martial Master pointing at him.

"You, I will ensure you do not die a peaceful death." The Patriach says to him.

His eyes and tone very serious.