209 Chapter 209: Dark Invitation (2/2)

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Even so, the impact was enough to throw him back a couple of steps and force him to relinquish his grip on Shun Yin's sword. The younger man seized the opportunity to free his sword and pull it back to safety while he threw out his free hand, which was already wreathed in flames.

During the brief exchange, Shun Yin had already begun casting his spells.

Before the Assassin could react, Shun Yin blasted him with a fireball at near pointblank range. Smoke billowed upward as the Assassin staggered back, his body and clothing smoldering from the heat and lingering cinders.

”Oh, wow…” Despite the predicament he found himself in, the Assassin continued to chuckle. ”You really show no mercy at all.”

Wordlessly, Shun Yin came at him, raising his sword high up before slashing without any hesitation or cheesy dialogue.

The Assassin parried the blow with his arm. For a moment, Shun Yin's sword sank deep into the man's arm, slicing through fabric and flesh easily, only to stop the moment it reached the man's bone. Despite putting more of his strength and weight into the blow, Shun Yin found that he was unable to cut any deeper.

”What?!”

The Assassin merely grinned in response before he flung Shun Yin off. Black shadows began creeping out of the wound, unfurling and spreading toward him.

”I am an Assassin, remember?” he reminded a stunned Shun Yin. ”It's only natural that we modified and enhanced our bodies…though not to the extent of the Frenzor Sect, but we have at least surgically strengthened our skeleton to absorb impact and become impervious to weapons.”

”…what a monster…”

Shun Yin felt cold perspiration drip down his face as he backed away. He kept an eye on the unfurling shadows that were billowing out of the Umbra Assassin's arm, understandably wary of making physical contact with him.

”What are these black shadows?”

”You'll find out if you touch them,” the Umbra Assassin suggested cheerfully. Shun Yin snorted and jumped back, widening the distance between the two of them. Dropping to a knee, he kept his hand on his sword, getting ready to execute an iai.

”As expected of the successor to the Miyamoto sword style.” The Umbra Assassin glanced at his injured hand. The shadows had stopped emerging from his wound, but it was clear that he wouldn't be able to use the damaged wound for a while. ”How frightening. To think that you would slash a fellow human being who just happened to be walking along the same road as you without any hesitation whatsoever.”

”You're not just a human being,” Shun Yin pointed out dryly as he tightened his grip on both the hilt of his sword and the black scabbard. ”You said you are an Umbra Assassin, right? From the Assassin Guild? So who hired you? The Porter family?”

”Please.” the Umbra Assassin rolled his eyes. ”You think too highly of yourself. Why the hell would the Porter family go through all the trouble of hiring an Assassin from the Assassin Guild to eliminate an insignificant brat like you? And what do you think this is? A Chinese web novel? Nobody in reality will just send assassins after a high school or college kid for no reason other than because he's the protagonist.”

Shun Yin wouldn't be surprised if certain members of the Porter family hired Assassins because they were afraid of him getting too close to Angelica, but then again the Umbra Assassin had a point. There were so many other ways to separate him from Angelica, which entailed much less risk, weren't crimes and were much simpler and cheaper in terms of time and resources to pull off. They could just find an excuse to kick him out of Vermillion High or something instead of going to extreme lengths to assassinate him.

This was reality, not some edgy web novel where the whole world was out to kill the protagonist for no reason other than he was ”trash” or ”unworthy.”

”Then why are you targeting me?”

”What makes you think I'm targeting you?” the Umbra Assassin burst out laughing. ”All this time you're the one attacking me, and not the other way around. You're the one who delivered the first strike, remember?”

”Stop treating me like an idiot.” Shun Yin briefly gestured to the deserted space around him, occupied by nothing except Sakura trees in full bloom. ”You didn't prepare this stage and chase away everybody to lure me here, alone, if your target was someone else.”

”Ah…” the Umbra Assassin slapped his forehead with his uninjured hand. ”It was that obvious, huh? Whoops…you completely saw through me. You're much smarter than I heard you are…”

He never got to finish his sentence. Shun Yin dashed forward and slashed through his body with a flaming blade, cutting the guy in half and cauterizing his wounds from the sheer heat of his fire enchantment. All around the two, Sakura petals were sliced neatly in half, their countless pieces raining upon the combatants. Amidst the veil of pink, Shun Yin's eyes narrowed when he saw the effects of his attack on his opponent.

”He didn't get incinerated…”

Black shadows began dripping from both halves of the man's body, the top half still hovering above the bottom.

”Those black shadows again…”

”No, I didn't. You truly are impressive.” The black shadows began to merge and pull both halves of the Assassin's body together, knitting him back into one whole. ”Whoa, I didn't expect you to actually cut through my reinforced skeleton. Bravo, bravo!”

”Impressive? Me?” Shun Yin snorted dismissively. ”I'm not sure how to feel, being praised by someone who can still move around in such a lively manner even after being cut in half by my sword.”

”Ha ha ha, yeah…I'm also pretty amazing, right?”

Shun Yin glared at the Umbra Assassin. ”Monster.”

”Hey, now…I'm human like you. I'm nothing like those monsters coming out of Emergence Events and roaming outside the city. Look! How can you perceive me as anything other than a human?” The Umbra Assassin waved his arms dramatically even as his body full restored itself with the black shadows.

Shun Yin looked revolted. ”Just what did the Umbra Sect do to you?”

”They turned me into an Assassin,” the shadowy man replied cheerfully. ”Cool, right?”

”Not really.” Shun Yin held his sword up, getting ready to attack the man again. But the Umbra Assassin raised both hands up almost frantically.

”Whoa there! I know you don't believe me, but I really didn't come here to assassinate you. Actually, I'm here to offer an invitation.”

”Invitation?” Shun Yin repeated incredulously. The Assassin nodded and offered a hand in a welcoming manner.

”My name is Ying Bu Si. I am with the Bai Ye Sect.” he bowed dramatically. ”Huang Shun Yin. Would you like to join us and destroy the Porter family…as well as the King of Monsters imprisoned within the deepest vaults of the Global Federation?”