85 Assassination (1/2)

I am not proficient in silent assassinations before but I certainly have experience in sabotage. If only I can do that right now, they won't see what is coming for them. Too bad the class known for the sabotage and traps specialized experts, Saboteurs are not yet implemented yet and will only be available after the First Expansion that will be happening next week.

Observing these guys, I can easily tell that they are indeed what you call the ”scums”. Even Hyde who seemed like a mafia member doesn't have the vibe they are exuding out of their bodies. But I don't think I will just lightly challenge this guy. NPCs in Alternate World are strong and if you are not careful and skilled enough, the NPCs can easily kill you if they wanted to. Even with my high stats and weapon skills, that is not a certainty for me to be able to kill them since they hit hard and these kinds of guys have some sort of dirty tricks like paralysis and other stuff to cause you to freeze and can be killed easily.

There is already a plan in my head that is already ready to execute but I need more time and preparation. If only the skill Clairvoyance which is a skill given to all classes is available, I have a better option for listening and spying on them. Too bad that it is similar to the Saboteur class, they are only released after the First Expansion due to its primary usage in the later maps. My abilities are too limited at the moment.

Since spying to those guys are not possible at the moment, I decided to just focus on the deployed shady guys on the streets. Different from those guys before, these people are easy to dispose of. Even without assassination abilities, I can easily snipe them from where I was hiding and they won't even notice what comes from their deaths.

This quest is needed to be cleared perfectly or I might not receive the reward for activating the Ex job Blacksmith. The other rewards are also unknown so I am enticed to fulfill all of the necessary objectives just to complete this thing. But since the only option is to confront the perpetrator, that might be the only way for me to finish it. If that was the case, defeating all of these guys here might or might not increase the probability of my rewards.

These guys are randomly stationed in different places and most of them are not strategic at all meaning that if one team is wiped out, the other team will not even notice their disappearance. You can say it is kind of pointless but it was still the same a formation for them. Of course, I am not complaining. In fact, this was the perfect opportunity to ruin their team plan.

The necessary skills to immediately defeat a group of enemies is also purchased. After all, if I want to wipe them out without anyone noticing, I have to immediately kill them all in one go.

I did not hastily move and take my kills. One wrong move and every one of them will notice me. I also don't want to hit an innocent NPC. My influence might drop a lot if I do so and the guards will definitely capture me and put me in jail for doing so which I don't want to happen while the quest is ongoing.

Scouting on the surroundings, two groups are secluded to the other groups and have a smaller amount of people compared to the ones near the shop. Might be their purpose is just for the lookout for enemies. Since that is the case, these two groups immediately became my targets. Using the rooftops to silently move to the two groups, I target the group upon the north part. They were not expecting anything to happen around them so they are too lax on their movements which are pretty ideal for me.

I nock my bow and activated the Hunter skill, [Rapid Shooting], allowing me to shoot arrows continuously. Since the Versatile Weapon is a weapon that can transform anything, arrows can materialize as soon as the string of the bow is nocked and it was being used to aim an enemy, saving the time on pulling an arrow out of the container to reload, which is perfect for [Rapid Shooting].

SHUSHUSHUSHUSHUSHU

The arrows quickly left the bow and silently pierced through the heads of the adventurers. Because they were hit in the head which is a vital organ with the additional damage to the sneak attack, HP parameters did not manage to trigger and they immediately died. Of course, I have no idea if the [Death's Favorite] special effect was triggered but if it was, they were killed twice I guess.

”6 down, 7 more to go.”

Still using the rooftops, I silently move to the second secluded group. I made sure no one would notice me at all by using [Stealth] skill that is available in the skill tree of Ninja and Assassin class. Once I managed to get into position, I waited for the cooldown of the [Rapid Shooting] to finish since it needs 1 minute and 30 seconds before it can be used again.

As soon as the cooldown refreshed, I didn't bother to leave it alone and immediately used [Rapid Shooting] to the adventurers with quick succession. And due to the ability of [Stealth] that allows the player who is under its influence to inflict a critical hit, the first one immediately died without any realization of his death. The arrows followed up and before the others can react, the arrowhead manages to pierce their brains, immediately killing them.