Chapter 105: A Missing Guardian (1/2)

After killing the 5 Mages of the Black organization, there were only 6 remaining men alive inside this large cave. So, Leo quickly went to look for them to finally finish everything here.

After a few minutes of running, Leo finally spotted the remaining 6 Black organization soldiers. They were spread out all around the area, hiding and hoping at the same time, that the assassin wouldn't be able to find where they were hiding at.

Unfortunately, their wishes weren't granted. Leo was an assassin and was trained through a ruthless way by his Master to be able to fight in the dark. So, the Black organization soldiers hiding in the dark wouldn't work at all to him, especially since the remaining men alive were just ordinary Humans and not Mages who can cast Magic spells to conceal their own presence, which he could actually still find if he looks around carefully.

Leo was soon able to find them one by one. One hiding around the earth walls that the scarface Mage had casted before. Two on the very side of the cave. And the last remaining three had hidden by acting as one of the dead Black organization's men.

Well, the last 3 had taken Leo a lot more time to find compared to the others. If he hadn't known that there were actually still 3 more remaining men alive, then he definitely would have really missed them.

What could he expect from someone in the Black organization? If they can even do things that could endanger the entire Human race, then surely they can also do something really disgusting too, right? Such as hiding using the cover of Human intestines, broken arms, and etc...

They were really cruel, to be honest. They were already going to die anyway, so they should have just left their dead comrades to rest with an intact corpse instead of digging out their innards or cutting a part of a body to cover their own. Or instead of using their dead comrades, they should have just used the dead Magical Beast lying around the place, since there were hundreds of dead Magical Beast, so he would surely take a very very long time to find them, which eventually would make him give up in the end. Hence, they could have successfully hidden themselves.

Those 3 people really proved the saying, a wicked person is the one who is the most afraid of death. Even they wouldn't hesitate to use their companions' dead bodies in order to live.

Unfortunately, Leo wouldn't allow such beings to have an easy way out. Although he was the one who had killed those mutilated bodies, he still respected their corpses since he still left an intact corpse for them. And since those 3 men had done something really cruel, then in return, he also did the same thing to them. In their case, though, they were allowed to watch their innards being dug out and a part of their body being cut by the Earth Elemental before they finally took their last breath.

No matter who the enemy was, Leo was always taught by his master to respect them, alive or dead, especially in the case of those Black organization's men that he had first assassinated since they were fighting courageously against Magical Beast before being killed by him. Although they were wicked people, what they did was still something worthy of a little tiny bit of his respect.

Sadly, the ones who didn't respect their corpses were their own comrades themselves.

After finally killing everyone, Leo then walked straight towards where the cave of the 1 Star Magical Beast was. Beyond that cave was where the 12 pieces of large Mana stones were located. Although he knew that it was the goal of the Black organization, after being strengthened by the large Mana stones himself, it had also become his goal now.

Whatever was the actual goal of the Black organization, removing the 12 large Mana stones or using them for themselves. Since he doesn't know, then he might as well just use it to strengthen himself.

Blocking a water pathway doesn't literally mean that a person had really blocked it for the whole eternity. The water would still look for another pathway to cross towards what lies beyond the blocked path.

So, despite Leo stopping the Black organization from getting the 12 large Mana stones this time, that doesn't mean that he had also stopped all of the organization's future movements.

The Black organization might change their plan after this, or they might go to the South Sewer. Leo could only assume their next action. But the one thing he knows for sure was; whatever the Black organization planned to do, the best way to counter it was to become more powerful himself.

However, getting the 12 pieces of large Mana stones wasn't that easy. A 1 Star Magical Beast was expected to guard the inside of that cave. Leo doesn't know why was a 1 Star Magical Beast guarding the large Mana stones when they should be the first ones to use them. But, since they didn't, then he would gladly take it for himself, in order to prepare himself for whatever plan the Black organization had in mind for the future.

After a while of walking, Leo finally arrived at the entrance of the 1 Star Magical Beast cave. Powerful pressure made out of Pure Mana could be felt at the entrance of the cave just from standing outside. Obviously, that was what the 1 Star Magical Beast used in order to keep away the other Magical Beast from his turf.