Chapter 624: Lechners past (1/2)

Ajax carefully started listening to the story of the mindless beggar because he felt there might be something useful for him from his story that could help him.

”My name is Lechner. I was an orphan and had to work very hard to enter the assassination circle. When it comes to killing, I would have not cared about anything. With my successful assassinations along with the rewards and money, I used every bit of time for my cultivation to increase it as high as possible.

Finally, after years of hard work, I am finally able to become a gold-ranked assassin,”

Saying till here, the middle-aged man named Lechner paused for a bit before continuing, ”When I was on an assassination mission, I was set up by a higher-up of the assassination circle for retorting his words. Nevertheless, I was able to successfully escape from the trap set by them; however, later I found out that thee trap was not set up by the higher up of the assassination circle; instead, it was a direct order from the assassination sect.”

All of a sudden, the middle-aged man clenched his fists as his eyes turned red and started crying for some reason.

”Calm down calm down,”

Ajax felt that the middle-aged man was truly crying and asked him to calm down before saying, ”If you don't want to say about your past, it's fine. Just inform me about the power structure of the assassination circle.”

”No. Let me share it with someone. The pain is killing me,” The middle-aged man shook his head as he replied to Ajax while wiping the tears off of his eyes.

Ajax nodded his head and allowed him to say.

”That damned assassination sect used my wife and my 2-year old son to bring me out of hiding. Even though I surrendered to them, they killed my family in front of my own eyes. Later, they broke my dantian and said, 'This is what happens when you don't follow the rules of the assassination sect',” The middle-aged man's knees fell to the ground as he slammed the ground with all his force.

”This is my retribution for killing all those people throughout the years. It cost me the lives of my family. I don't have the power to take revenge on the assassin sect,” Finally, the middle-aged man blamed himself for the death of his wife and son.

”Sigh”

Ajax and Darbaudr both sighed at the middle-aged man.

Ajax didn't feel pity or anger regarding the past of the middle-aged man. He simply sighed as he asked, ”What did you do that the assassin sect punished you to this extent.”

No matter who evil the assassin sect was, it would not simply kill someone for no reason. Even the massacre in the Silver Orphanage by the assassin sect must have some reason and Ajax was on a mission to find out the reason and at the same time to take revenge on them.

So, he asked the reason for the actions of the assassin sect.

”Sigh...I accepted a mission but I didn't feel right to complete the mission. So, I dropped from the mission in the middle. Later, I found out that the mission was not successful and they blamed me,” The middle-aged man sighed as he explained the reason for the cruel actions of the assassin sect.

”Huh? What is the mission? Why didn't you feel good about it?”

Ajax raised his brows when he heard the middle-aged man's words because according to the middle-aged man's self-evaluation, he didn't feel anything when killing someone. So many questions raised in Ajax's heart. They were

'What was the mission'

'Why did he feel it was not right'

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Many questions that made Ajax wanted to know more about the mission.

”The mission was to kill every single child below 15 years old in a particular city. I don't kill children and at the same time, I will not encourage those kinds of missions in the assassination circle. That made the upper echelon of the assassin sect quite angry,' Lechner answered Ajax's question without thinking much.

The reason, he was so cooperative and answered everything about his past because, the middle-aged man felt that Ajax had some kind of grudge with the assassin sect and with the barbarian's strength, it might be possible for them to destroy the assassination circle with his help.

Lechner knew how valuable the assassination circle was to the assassin sect. So, he was very co-operative with them.

Moreover, he even had a plan on how to destroy the assassination circle. He was just waiting to know what Ajax and Darbaudr were planning to do to the assassination circle.

”Huh?”