Chapter 173: Not enough right to (2/2)

After this shout, a middle-aged man in black armour with with ash-silver hair emerged from deep within the forest alongside Belinda. An ugly scar ran from his forehead to his nose, adding even more harshness to his already ugly visage.

The moment he stepped out from the Dark Forest after speaking, his body had already launched rapidly towards the soaring lightning. With a luxurious flourish of his right hand, a milky white fighting aura flashed into existence. The suspended lightning seemed to be steered by a titanic force into the palm of his hand.

After the lightning had receded, Han Shuo realized that it was actually a long silver sword. Only, even now the sword was still covered by electricity that had yet to disperse, sparking occasionally with light.

The milky white fighting aura of this man spoke of the strength that he had as either a swordmaster or an Earth Rider. Combining this kind of potential with the lightning demonic arts that this person had cultivated, it was no wonder that this person was so powerful to the extent that even Han Shuo’s Demonslayer Edge couldn’t handle it.

From behind thunder mage swordsman Johnny’s figure, the veil-adorned Belinda walked out slowly. When she reached Han Shuo, she first apologized briefly before turning around to Johnny. “Uncle Johnny, I already told you. Their potential qualifies them to work with us. Otherwise how could I have miscalculated?”

This man, Johnny, of the Calamity Church looked to be an extremely egotistical person, but he was still somewhat respectful towards Belinda. When he heard her say that, he could not help but nod and say, “Their potential can be considered passable, but cooperating with them will not benefit us much. Bob Ascher of the Gryphon Knights is a sky rider. These two people are no match for someone of his potential. Our only opportunity is if you can only use your golem to obstruct the surrounding people while I execute him.”

Emily couldn’t help but speak up when she heard this person’s arrogance, “Apparently, apart from the Gryphon Legion Chief being a sky rider, there are five earth riders by his side. Add to that Clark’s master, great swordmaster Gabriel, and two other water and earth archmages.”

“Just based off of this alone, it has to be a divine swordmaster and a magister, or a divine knight acting in concert, or it’ll be an empty dream to try to kill him alone. Heh heh, I see that although Mister Johnny is a thunder mage swordsman at the level of swordmaster, it won’t be that easy for you once you truly start fighting Bob Ascher, not to mention the followers on his side.”

Most people would know that Bob Ascher had a few followers by his side, but wouldn’t know to the level of detail that the Dark Mantle was aware of. When Emily started describing all of Bob Ascher’s followers in detail, even the arrogant Johnny’s face changed drastically.

“Then, what aid can you bring us?” Johnny stood there silently with a stone-cold face and looked at Emily.

“No matter your goals in fighting Bob Ascher, I just want to tell you not to make moves lightly. Otherwise not only you, but even we will be dragged in as well. If we work together, we can provide you the intelligence on the people by Bob Ascher’s side and can help you distract them for a short period of time, creating the appropriate moment for your assassination attempt.” Emily revealed a confident smile and softly described what the Dark Mantle could do for Johnny.

“Uncle Johnny, this is precisely what we need!” Belinda suddenly spoke up beside Johnny.

“You’re likely members of the Lancelot Empire?” Johnny wasn’t an idiot and naturally made out Han Shuo and Emily’s identity at this point.

Nodding, Emily admitted, “That’s right. I hope you can keep this secret for us if we work together.”

‘Humph. You people are so fake. You’ll cooperate with us when you need us, but will pretend you don’t even know we exist when the matter passes. You’ll come at us with everything you have.” Johnny sneered with utmost sarcasm.

“Then the matter’s settled then. We’ll tell you if we find a suitable time to kill him in the next couple days. We’ll let you know when the arrangements are made. You can make use of the time to find more helpers, otherwise it won’t be that realistic in wanting to kill Bob Ascher.” When Han Shuo saw Johnny’s experience, he knew that although the latter didn’t care for those who worked for the country, he seemed to be used to using others. He looked like he’d agreed to work together.

With the Calamity Church’s current level of strength, it wasn’t feasible to assassinate Bob Ascher alone. Han Shuo and Emily had agreed to work with them not because they hoped they could kill Bob Ascher, but they wanted to make use of the chaos to slip into his manor and obtain the information they needed, and then use the Dark Mantle’s power to take him down.

“Alright, then this matter is settled. I hope you two don’t get up to some tricks, or you’ll regret it.” Johnny finally agreed with a darkened face.