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Chapter 1861: Revised - 563 Assassination_3

Chapter 1861: Revised: Chapter 563 Assassination_3

As a member of the Four King’s Knights, their identity as Guardian Knights had already sealed the fate of their entire clan.

They were inevitably bound closely to the Augustus Royal Family.

The Moon God Arachne would not permit the Four King’s Knights to remain in the Royal Court, and Arthur needed them as bait.

The current Royal Court could not accommodate them.

So despite the seemingly numerous choices, there were actually no real options.

However, for Camilla, who had no foundation in the East Wilderness, the road to the throne was still long.

Leonard Churchill had no expectations about the outcome, regardless of how the Herlands Family chose, it didn’t matter.

What he was more concerned about was where the assassin sent by King Arthur was hiding.

....

The Royal Destiny was extraordinary by birth.

Camilla was no longer the illegitimate daughter who knew nothing about the royal regulations. With Griffith’s teachings over these days, she had already acquired the demeanor of an upper-rank Augustus King on the throne.

Facing the salutes from everyone, she responded with great majesty.

At this moment, it seemed her Royal Destiny suddenly soared up a notch, visibly.

Tracy Garcia, as the High Priest, also stood there earnestly, with a stern expression and wisdom flashing in her eyes.

Leonard Churchill found the two women quite interesting in his heart. In private, the three of them together did not show such a serious side.

However, despite the amusement, Leonard Churchill’s sense of crisis grew stronger.

His gaze swept over the more than a thousand people before him, carefully discerning every expression, yet he found nothing unusual.

However, that sense of crisis felt very real.

Similarly alert was Lenny.

He too was observing the surroundings.

"Strange, where is it hiding... heh, an unexpected place?"

Leonard Churchill couldn’t fathom where that sense of crisis was coming from, his mind moving swiftly in deduction.

His eyes went blank as if in a daze, and everything around him became factors in his deduction.

"I Am the World" deduction had a crucial feature — to allow everything to happen, thus bypassing the limits of one’s cognition to get the closest judgment to the truth.

Leonard Churchill guessed that the sense of crisis must be a method he had never seen before.

So he decisively abandoned using his experience to judge and fell into an almost absolutely rational deductive state.

Tracy Garcia continued to recount the experiences of Camilla, the Exiled Princess.

As the High Priest, her words had an inexplicable convincing power.

Soon, the Herlands Family, who learned about the whole story, gradually lost that sense of alienation. They didn’t even realize that they had begun to recognize this "legitimate Augustus King" from the bottom of their hearts.

The scene was harmonious, and everything was moving in a positive direction.

And suddenly, a breeze blew through.

A window of the dilapidated guild building creaked open, and at the same time, the angle of the light entering the hall shifted, causing the window’s shadow on the ground to lengthen suddenly.

Coincidentally, the shadow was within ten meters of Camilla.

This was a change in the environment that would be normal to anyone’s eyes. However, in Leonard Churchill’s deduction, he captured the optimal assassination moment!

"Here it comes!"

Leonard Churchill’s eyes remained hollow, but his body reacted reflexively.

A strange ripple suddenly surrounded his hand, spell casting: "Day Without Light·Rejection!"

He didn’t know what would happen, so he could only use Repulsive Force to expel everything nearby, forming a vacuum layer.

His sudden action also made Camilla and Tracy Garcia suddenly alert.

Neither woman sensed anything unusual.

At this moment, a bizarre scene unfolded before their eyes.

From the shadow of the window on the ground, a crimson dagger suddenly stabbed out.

The dagger concealed a sharpness that seemed capable of piercing through everything, straight towards Camilla’s chest.

At this moment, Leonard Churchill and the two women finally discovered the assassin.

"What an exquisite stealth technique!"

To evade the all-encompassing perception of the three of them, not only must this person have strength, but also a supreme treasure for stealth, and perhaps... some other factors!

And Camilla, who herself had come from the Orlan Royal Court, knew the experts there well.

Among the entire Orlan Royal Court, those who could manage such stealth, eluding even the perception of the three, was... only one person!

That was the leader of the "Black Blade Organization," the legendary "Emperor’s Shadow!"

The shadow of the Emperor!

The Black Blade Organization was an intelligence agency personally controlled by the King of Orlan Royal Court, and that mysterious leader had served only the King for thousands of years, seen only by the King!

Even the Garcia Family, as the High Priest lineage, only knew of him but had never seen him.

Leonard Churchill immediately thought of this person. Apart from previously hearing about this potentially supreme assassin from Tracy Garcia, he also heard about it once from Noah Wright.

More than two hundred years ago, the Orlan Royal Court collapsed, and the Illumination Secret Society directly participated in the final battle.

That battle resulted in heavy casualties for the Illumination Secret Society, with more than half of the Thirteen Knights killed or injured.

Among them, the "Pursuer of Light" of that generation was also severely wounded.

Leonard Churchill was curious about how the battle turned out to be so brutal, given the ability of the Pursuer of Light was almost unbeatable in the East Wilderness.

Noah Wright said that at that time, there was a shadow assassin by King Orlan’s side that never appeared in any intelligence reports!

It was that assassin who severely injured the Pursuer of Light of that generation.

Now.

That elusive figure is here!

....

Although Leonard Churchill and the other two were surprised by the assassin’s stealth techniques, they had already mentally prepared, so they were not shocked.

Instead, the appearance of the opponent gave them a sense of relief, as if a weight had been lifted off their shoulders.

Moreover, the guy hiding in the shadows indeed had extraordinary stealth capabilities, but when it came to real strength, Leonard Churchill believed that no one in East Wilderness other than a few Chosen Ones could kill someone right under his nose.

The preemptive Spell formed a repulsive field on Camilla’s body, and the black shadow rushed in rapidly, as if crashing into an invisible wall.

With that crash, the figure swayed.

Given Leonard Churchill’s current strength, it was exceedingly difficult for anyone of the Same Tier to get close to him.

Moreover, Camilla herself was also very strong.

Typically, such a preemptive detection of an assassination would pose no threat at all, but unexpectedly, things went awry.

Although the assassin’s figure was obstructed, the crimson dagger in their hand seemed completely unaffected by the repulsive force, heading straight for Camilla’s chest.

The speed was too fast, before the scene in front of Leonard Churchill and the others’ eyes could register in their brains, the dagger had easily pierced through, bringing a splash of blood.

The whole dagger then embedded into Camilla’s chest.

It was only because Leonard Churchill had stepped in just now, that the stabbing missed the heart by an inch.

"!!!"

Leonard Churchill’s eyes sharpened instantly, realizing that this dagger could completely ignore his repulsive field, something even a Ninth Tier could not achieve.

There was only one explanation, and that was the overwhelming power of law!

The assassin’s strength was far from Ninth Tier, and they were even significantly weaker compared to Leonard Churchill and the others.

So, there was only one explanation, the crimson dagger was a Divine Artifact.

Moreover, it was a Divine Artifact powered by Divine Power!

"Cause and Effect Certain Hit?!"

Leonard Churchill also realized that the earlier strike was not because he and Camilla failed to block it.

It was due to a high-level Rule Power on the Divine Artifact.

Once the weapon was used, it was bound to hit.

Leonard Churchill thought of that Evil Weapon once crafted by the last Emperor of Taren, "Mad King" Auduin— the Godslayer Demon Sword [Tirfeng]!

He knew that the Divine Artifact had both the powers of "Certain Hit" and "Godslayer".

But the crimson color of that dagger just now was exactly like the Great Sword.

This led Leonard Churchill to instantly judge.

There was not just an assassin, but also an Outer God!

...

The sudden assassination also startled the Herlands Family present at the scene.

Lenny shouted: "Watch out!"

Ray reacted the fastest, immediately activating his thunder technique and attacking the assassin.

However, it was still too late.

Camilla, the intended target, had already been struck.

The assassin, seeing their successful hit, turned and blended into the shadows, seemingly escaping.

Leonard Churchill’s eyes suddenly flashed with ferocity, and an intense black Gang Air burst forth from his body. He raised his hand and punched in the direction where the shadow disappeared.

"Bang!"

With a muffled sound, that section of shadow, along with the space around it, shattered.

With a splatter of blood, the heavily wounded assassin’s figure appeared from the stealth. But she didn’t dare to delay for a moment, stumbling as she merged into the shadows once more, fleeing.

Leonard Churchill glanced at Camilla out of the corner of his eye. Although she was stabbed, with the [Xismark Holy Grail] protecting her, as long as she did not die instantly, her life was not in danger.

Especially with Tracy Garcia present.

With that, Leonard Churchill’s eyes turned cold, and without any hesitation, he pursued out the door.

His figure vanished on the spot.

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