But now, they were at least still covertly protecting the younger generation of Earth.
In Conference Room 1, two out of the four people present were guarded by fifth-transition powerhouses. These two individuals had rather impressive backgrounds. Someone like Yan Yingyue, who had no connections, even after surviving one assassination attempt, only had a few more guards assigned to her and received one additional life-saving magic weapon. She could not be assigned a fifth-transition powerhouse for protection. On the other hand, the other two targets both had high-level connections; their protective details included fifth-transition powerhouses.
Even if these ten Assassins were incredibly fast, they could not outrun two fifth-transition powerhouses. They were effortlessly subdued.
Most powerhouses preferred to kill with a single blow. But fifth-transition powerhouses were different. They even managed to capture the assailants alive, planning to thoroughly interrogate them afterward.
