Chapter 84 - Assassination Attempt (2/2)

Noticing that the situation wasn't good, Yulie bit his tongue and activated a blood escaping technique, he also took a Runestone Formation from his spatial ring which he already left charged and activated it, the escape technique allowed him to achieve the speed of an early-stage Soul Forging realm while the Runestone formation diminished the power of the domain blocking him.

”Hmph! You aren't going anywhere.”

Just as Lian was about to catch him, Yulie used another secret technique, his cultivation suddenly started to fall, from the 9th stage to the 8th, and then to the 7th, but his speed that was already very high due to the blood escaping technique increased even more, and soon, he left area where Lian's Domain was in effect, Lian looked at that and couldn't help but sigh.

”He was willing to sacrifice this much just so that I couldn't find his real identity, not that it is too hard to guess who it was anyway, but without capturing him, I won't be able to prove anything.”

Back in the Krune's room, Bary had appeared just instants ago, the instant he showed his presence little light told Krune that the assassin had fled, Krune finally let out a sigh of relief.

Bary was with his Divine Sense fully spread and ready to take Krune away in a moment's notice, the other elders of the guild and even the elders of the other continents nearby noticed his Divine Sense and came out to check what was happening, not long after, Lian Casfiu came back to check on Krune, noticing that everything was okay he left the aftermath for Bary to take care off.

”Don't worry, father, leave it to me.”

Lian nodded and then disappeared in the next second, he had already told Bary through Divine Sense about everything that happened, Bary then looked at Krune and told him.

”The assassin escaped, but he had to pay an enormous price to do so, whoever it was he or she definitely won't try anything against you anytime soon.”

Krune nodded.

”Does Guild Head Bary knows if any of the contestants received an attempt of assassination?”

Guild Head Bary heard that and immediately understood where Krune was coming from.

”Give me a second, I will check.”

Bary then spread his Divine Sense once more and talked with the elders of the other guilds, realizing that someone tried to assassinate a member of the Yule Continent during the Mercenary Selection immediately alerted everyone, the elder of all guilds made a quick check on their members and told Bary that their members were fine, Bary then told the same to Krune.

”I see, then it's not hard to guess the culprit, the mercenary selection has five slots for the Martial Gathering, it would make no sense to attack me, the best was to kill some of the other seeded mercenaries since they still don't know how strong I am, but this assassin didn't do that, which proves that the threat that he is felling is related to the group bracket that I'm in if we look into the combat power of the contestants remaining inside my bracket, there are only two possible contestants able to make it to the final phase, me and Shad Forgon, at moment, everyone still thinks that Shad Forgon is most likely to be the final winner in my group, but this person still chose to come after me, which means that he wants to help Shad instead.”

Krune's face then darkened.

”It can only be one of the Divine Soul Realms of the Sky Fall Continent, or at the very least, someone related to them, they wanted to guarantee that Shad would be the winner of my group and that he wouldn't be too worn out on top of that, my presence in Shad's group had destroyed their plans, thus, this assassination attempt.”

Bary nodded, he and his father had already got to the same conclusion.

”In that case, let's have Shad Forgon to sign a blood contract and confess what he knows.”

Krune shook his head.

”It will turn out to be useless, whoever did it definitely hasn't told Shad about the operation, exactly because he can't get rid of a blood contract like a Divine Soul Realm cultivator can, at most, he would have some assumptions, but that would not be considered as proof of anything, it was also because of this that the one who came was a Divine Soul Cultivator, after all, blood contracts can't bind them.”

Bary couldn't help but agree with Krune, it would have been a very idiotic action to tell Shad about what was going to happen and then have him spill out the truth through a blood contract.

”Then let it be, in the end, this was their only chance, tomorrow we will have the last three battles of the group brackets, whether you lose or win to Shad doesn't matter anymore, they won't be able to stop you from competing.”

Bary let out a sigh and then said.

”My father will keep a look for the time being, so you can rest until tomorrow, I'll come back around nine o'clock to take you there.”

Krune nodded and saw Bary off, but before leaving, he left another of those jewels that Krune used to alert them, Bary also wanted to ask how Krune found out about the assassin but decided to not ask in the end, it probably had to do with some of Krune's secrets after all, when Krune returned, he could see the Yusa and Ao were full of questions, Krune had used Divine Sense to talk with Bary during the entire time, so they didn't know what was happening.

”It goes like this…”

Yusa and Ao faces' darkened, the worst of all was that the side who tried to do that was extremely obvious, but they couldn't do anything about that.

”Let it be, it's just as guild head Bary said, this was their only chance, from tomorrow onwards any new attempt would be just a fool's action.”

Yusa and Ao nodded and then left a little later to go back to their room.

Krune sat on the bed and just sighed.

”That's what happens when you give up your low profile life.”

He shook his head and went back to cultivate, he is almost at the 8th stage now.