5 An offer you canst refuse... (1/2)

”What the?!” I shouted in surprise for once, it was murder sure but I wouldn't consider it a slaughter - those guys clearly had the advantage, if it wasn't for their inexperience and ther fact I have such a powerful ability I'd have been completely overwhelemed within seconds.. although looking at the nice chunk of exp I'd just recieved I'd say it was worth it, I spent about 5 minutes in total within the Shadow Realm so that gave me 35 exp in total, putting me up to a total of 43 exp in total! I grinned to myself thinking how close I was to leveling up, despite not being even half-way yet I had a path forward now and knew what I had to do to become stronger than I was before!

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Another part of the city, an old man lay slumped against a wall counting the quarters in his palm - the world is quiet, no sound, no noise as if there's no city at all surrounding this street he just sits quietly..

”Hmm?” The man looked up suspiciously, he felt a familiar presence - one he had felt many years ago the day he had started this job, the aura of a peerless assassin... ”Interesting.” A gummy grin from his toothless mouth can be seen, in an instant he disappears from the spot and arrives near the aura to see the three thugs motionless on the ground and a calm young man amongst the bodies checking them for their belongings.

”A kid?” He was startled, that aura was usually only felt from assassins on his level - it was extremely rare, almost impossible in fact for a complete novice to blend in with the world of shadows and travel within the realm itself was an even more audacious task! A novice could blend their aura with the realm, a master however could travel distances in an instant through the shadows of the world - yet this kid wasn't simply blending his aura, his entire body was merging with the realm as if it was a part of him. ”A natural born killer?” The man was cautious but seeing the kid hadn't dected him it was obvious he was no more than a novice, the corpses on the ground hadn't been killed by some cold calculated killer, if one looked closely the knife in the neck of one had barely managed to hit the mark a inch to the side and the target would've missed entirely despite having been plunged in at close quarters..

The man was confident that this boy wasn't affiliated with any of the other organizations by the way he stood thereafterwards, it was like a complete novice - no stance, no defence in case of a surprise attack, even the most trained spy couldn't resist completely cover the aura of their power especially around assassins who were known for their acute sense to the changes in even the minutest of change in the airflow.

Again the man grinned, this time at his own intelligence for picking New York as his turf, had he picked any other place this juicy piece of meat wouldn't be his to monopolize in the organization, with the contribution points of recruiting this youngester it was possible he could be promoted to even Vice-Leader if not a Deacon Elder by bringing in such a talented youth who could even become the leader of the whole organization in the future with proper training!

With that the old man disappeared again and reappeared behind the young man, tapping him on the shoulder lightly yet exerting his aura on the boy to prevent him from running..

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I was pushed to the ground in an instant, by instinct I muttered, ”Meld” as my hand touched the floor and travelled into the Shadow Realm, ”I order you to stop!” I yelled at the Shadow in front of me, but unlike all the others this one was different - the shadow was larger, it had a dangerous aura about it.

Effects of Ability Ruler have failed, please increase the level of the ability to effect higher level enemies or level up the Monarchs base level to the same as the target of the ability: Currently trying to use Ruler on a level 5 Dark Assassin, Skill failed.

I was stunned, I thought this was the end - I had no way to resist. This was a professional and even had the ability to resist my abilities, I didn't try to run because I had a feeling that even if I ran in the Shadow Realm this man would find me.. sighing I passed my hand through a layer of light on the side of a dumpster.