Chapter 107
Deep in the dungeon, Michelle leaned against the wall silently, her cold gaze locked on Ferdinand, who was holding onto the cell bars, shouting in despair, begging to be set free. But Michelle’s eyes didn’t show any sympathy. She was there just to make sure he didn’t kill himself. Also, she had a suspicious feeling in her chest, like something was about to happen.
The whole day, nothing happened, but once night fell, Michelle’s irises turned bright red in some parts from excitement as she felt a foreign presence enter the Archduchy. She could feel it because she covered the whole mansion in a net of her dark element spirit energy.
Making sure she was completely concealed by the black mist, Michelle closed her eyes, listening to the sound of quiet, steady, approaching footsteps. They clearly belonged to someone not only with a high cultivation level, but also to someone who had gone through intense physical training to be able to move around silently, so they could take care of a target without anyone unwanted noticing.
When the footsteps came closer, Michelle smiled coldly as she counted the number of intruders. In the end, she stopped at number seven. As far as Michelle knew, that was a regular number in the upper realm, when scouting for information or when infiltrating a place to get rid of those with too much knowledge.Seven was a good number because it could be divided into two threes and a one, forming two inconspicuous squads and leaving one person separated from them for an ambush if needed. Or, the separate person could infiltrate deep into an enemy base while the two groups acted as a distraction.
Soon, by the footsteps, Michelle could tell that four of the seven uninvited guests had stopped, and only three continued going towards her. And the moment she opened her eyes and saw the group of three, she heard one of the four left behind move forward, too. A sneaky assassin, in the shadows, as a safety measure.
Even when the group of three entered the dungeon hallway where Ferdinand was locked up in despair, they didn’t notice Michelle, as she was hidden in her black mist. They were completely oblivious to the danger looming over their heads as they stopped in front of the cell, with Ferdinand going crazy when he saw them. He knew that the Ostrich family wouldn’t send a squad to save him. If they wanted, they would have sent them earlier and in a larger number. The time and number just showed that the family gave up on him and decided to silence him.
He started begging and shouting, wanting to live, but all three squad members started condensing their spirit energy. They were suicide soldiers, prepared to die along with Ferdinand if something went wrong.
Seeing the three start to condense their spirit energy, Ferdinand panicked and retreated to the back of the cell, wanting to hide from the upcoming explosion; but before anything could happen, a large sickle appeared behind the three and, without them ever knowing how, they were knocked out with the blunt side of the blade.
When the assassin in the shadows saw it, he instantly wanted to retreat as he couldn’t even feel the wielder’s presence, but without even giving him a chance to react, Michelle let the sickle fall and rushed at him, knocking him out by hitting him at one of his temples with her hand, which was coated with her spirit energy to make sure he fainted.