"What's going on? When did this happen?!" Luo En was horrified, looking at the threads wrapped around his ankle.
Her strength was greater than he had imagined!
Sequence 7? No, more than that, it must be higher!
"Damn it!" He reached for the gun holster under his armpit, but just as his index finger hooked the hammer, the woman opposite him suddenly vanished.
The gun barrel was only halfway out when a cloying scent assailed him. Luo En found that the woman had already appeared right before him; he could even see the blood foam at the corners of her mouth.
'A rookie.'
Seeing Luo En's reaction, Shelun was pleasantly surprised. His clumsy movements did not at all resemble someone who had undergone long-term training.
Her threads were themselves a diversion, meant to seize the opportunity to rush forward and deliver a killing blow while the opponent was momentarily stunned.
A black flame formed in her hand. She didn't have much spirituality left; this was her last flame, which was why she needed to close the distance, to ensure a direct hit.
If nothing went wrong, the person opposite her would be scorched into charcoal in an instant.
"What?"
Perhaps due to her injuries, or perhaps due to the overly damp ground, Shelun, who had already rushed right in front of Luo En, inexplicably stumbled, her foot slipping…
At that moment, she felt a sense of disorientation. After so many years as an Assassin, this was the first time she had made such a basic Error.
The black flame that should have hit its target, due to her stumble, swept past Luo En, only igniting his jacket.
Luo En used the force from leaning back to perform a golden cicada shedding its shell, flinging off the burning jacket.
"Damn it!"
Shelun was unwilling to waste this opportunity. She pressed forward, using her hand as a blade, and thrust towards Luo En.
This was a unique burst of power for an Assassin, concentrated in a single strike.
Looking at her distorted face, filled with murderous intent, Luo En felt a flicker of disorientation. He hadn't expected his journey to another world to end so quickly.
"Bang!"
Shelun's left chest suddenly exploded with blood, and bone fragments mixed with blood splattered onto Luo En's face. Her hand-blade stopped barely half a centimeter from Luo En's Adam's apple.
"Cough… Who…" Shelun looked down at the bowl-sized hole in her chest. The seeping blood had completely dyed her lace nightgown red.
She staggered, trying to continue her attack, but slipped on her own dripping blood and stumbled, her entire face slamming onto the cold ground.
"What's happening?!" Luo En, who was already seeing his life flash before his eyes, was bewildered. It took him a second to regain his senses.
He wiped away the bloody, pulpy mixture that obscured his vision, then looked down at his empty armpit, and a guess formed.
"No way…" He lifted his left foot and took a few steps back. Then he surveyed his surroundings out of the corner of his eye.
His revolver lay not far away, a wisp of smoke still rising from its barrel.
After a brief moment of shock, Luo En roughly understood what had happened.
Because his jacket had been hit by the opponent's strange black flame and fallen off, the armpit holster and the pistol had been flung off with it.
The moment the pistol fell, the hammer happened to hit the ground, causing it to misfire.
And the bullet happened to hit the opponent's chest!
If the opponent hadn't suddenly ambushed him, the bullet shouldn't have hit her… Luo En calculated the angle and figured out the answer.
Did she die because she wanted to ambush me…? Luo En muttered to himself, looking at the woman before him.
"Although I survived, this scene is truly…"
"Truly, truly absurd!" Luo En touched his wildly thumping chest and couldn't help but exclaim.
He picked up the fallen revolver, opened the cylinder, and found that one bullet was indeed missing.
Because he hadn't practiced shooting much, even with the "Robot" ability's enhancement, if he had fired the gun himself, he might not have been able to hit the opponent, let alone directly hit her chest.
Under the crimson moonlight, this scene took on an absurd yet sacred feeling.
However, before Luo En could rejoice, the corpse, which should have been dead, suddenly sprang up.
"What?!"
In an instant, her sharp fingernails were only a few centimeters from his throat—this woman wasn't dead yet.
Just as her fingertips were about to graze his Adam's apple, a black shadow swooped down from the eaves, as fast as an afterimage.
Lachi's sharp claws precisely sliced open her throat. The Orange Cat used the momentum to swing its tail around like a pendulum, its hind paws directly kicking her temple.
It turned out Lachi had been ambushing in the surroundings all along. Years of wandering had given her unimaginably rich experience in such situations.
"Meow!" As Lachi landed, the bloodline on Shelun's throat slowly bloomed. Arterial blood sprayed onto the surrounding walls.
Accompanied by an unwilling roar, she fell heavily to the ground.
This time, she was completely dead.
"Meow-wu~"
"Meow-wu—!"
Watching the scene before her, Lachi suddenly howled.
This howl was so excited it could scare wild dogs to death.
Luo En felt that Lachi seemed to have fallen into a state of extreme excitement and extreme pleasure.
"Could it be…" Seeing Lachi's appearance, Luo En recalled the profound sense of comfort from the depths of his soul when he had completely mastered the potion previously.
"Lachi drank the Assassin Pathway, could it be that she just now…"
Due to the shocking scene before him, Luo En didn't react for a moment.
Lachi padded over and rubbed against his shins, her cat paws leaving plum blossom prints in the pool of blood.
Perhaps having learned from the previous lesson, Luo En, who had regained his senses, was skeptical about whether this corpse still had any vitality.
After a moment of thought, he raised the revolver and fired 5 shots at the corpse on the ground, taking its pulse, so to speak.
"Bang bang… bang… bang!"
Looking at the opponent's completely shattered head, hit by bullets, Luo En confirmed that she no longer had a pulse.
"To stumble upon something like this just by taking a stroll, first a demonic den and then… I… I'm really unlucky!" Luo En panted, recalling everything that had happened tonight.
To encounter such a thing is my bad luck, but to encounter it and come out unscathed, what does that count as then…? After his tense nerves suddenly relaxed, this question surfaced in Luo En's mind.
"No one should come, right?" Luo En surveyed his surroundings. He was waiting, waiting for the moment when the Beyonder power within the opponent's body would emerge from the ground.
If his guess was correct, she should also produce that transparent substance, just like the corpse he encountered before… Looking at the disfigured corpse before him, Luo En's eyes were filled with anticipation, and at the same time, a question arose in his mind.
If she was like that silver-haired woman in Backlund, then she should also be of a certain Pathway.
Then why is it always women he encounters?
And they all look quite good, all possessing considerable allure… Luo En glanced at the voluptuous corpse, guessing.
Could it be that this Pathway enhances one's appearance? Women become beauties, so will men become handsome?