Castelan District.

Dafordil Street.

Outside Kailen Darkhaven’s residence.

Julian had been hiding here for a while.

Kailen had texted him a couple of minutes earlier that he was anticipating an assassination attack on his life. He requested Julian’s help to use his darkness principle to obscure himself in plain sight, hide here, and lay in wait for their arrival.

Then, eliminate them.

At most, according to Kailen, he anticipated that the syndicate would send large numbers of Rank 3 novice-stage transcendents after him. They could not risk it by sending Rank 4 novice-stage transcendents after a Rank 3 novice-stage "ant" like him that had to be eliminated.

To them, the fact that they would send large numbers of Rank 3 novice-stage transcendents after Kailen meant they didn’t look down on him.

Julian had been here for a while, waiting for the arrival of these assassins. But they were not showing up.

Suddenly, a glint flashed through his eyes, his figure completely obscured from view because of his use of the principle of darkness to obscure himself.

"Speak of the devil."

Julian saw 50 Rank 3 novice-stage transcendent assassins, cloaked in robes, heading in his direction.

"Kailen is really terrifying. His tactical and scheming abilities are even more dangerous than those of those old monsters in the Sier clan, before I became a transcendent and was in the edge region of the universe."

Everything this fellow had said had just happened. If one didn’t know him, they would think he could even see the future or something.

Such a scheming person was very dangerous.

Julian sighed. However, a glint of craziness flashed through his eyes. He felt a thrill. He could not help but look forward to the storm Kailen would get him embroiled in in the future.

Yes... Julian was a lunatic, through and through.

The assassins obscured their features. It was as if they had disappeared from the environs completely. To them, they were laying in wait for Darkhaven to appear, so that they would kill him.

However, something they didn’t expect happened. Several whooshing sounds reverberated in the environs.

Puchi...

The others stared in the direction of their leader. His figure was completely mummified as his dead body and terrified, confused face hung in the hands of someone with streams of eerie darkness flickering around his figure.

The person was smiling as he looked at them. He had white hair and crimson eyes.

"Hello guys." The person spoke casually.

Shit... they had been discovered... How? Who the hell was this? This person had killed their boss? Did that not mean he could kill them?

Wait... had Kailen Darkhaven anticipated this attack? But, how did he make such preparations? Could that fellow predict the future or something? Wait... why were they thinking of all this now?

They had to flee.

Just when they tried to run, they realized they could not move. They stared at their waists. Several chains made of darkness had coiled around each person’s waist, keeping them in place.

When did he...

Before they could even complete the thought, the chains of darkness sunk through their skins like blades. The moment that happened, they turned into mummified corpses in the blink of an eye. They were dead. The dead bodies disappeared.

"All done." Julian was about to leave when he got a message from Kailen.

"Oh, should be beginning now."

His figure turned into a streak of tenebrous light and bolted off.

****

Kailen and Kier floated before a very large skyscraper. They were floating in front of the Insidious Assassin Syndicate.

This appearance of Kailen Darkhaven and the unknown fellow suddenly kicked up a commotion in Richtchard City. Not even Dawnseer and several higher-ups who had been in the city for a very long time recognized this person as they watched the sudden stream started by some transcendents in the vicinity.

What was Kailen Darkhaven aiming to do here? Why would he deliver himself to the doorsteps of his enemy?

At this moment, another figure appeared. Julian Sier. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

So he was allies with Kailen Darkhaven now. Did he know the implications of being allied with someone the Insidious Assassin Syndicate wanted dead? Offending one branch of the Insidious Assassin Syndicate meant offending all their branches in the southern continent. One was as good as dead.

These fellows, were they not courting their own deaths?

Sigh...

As a matter of fact, the other branches would not even have to act. This branch would definitely be Darkhaven’s grave. He was on his own. Not even the mayor and his guild leader could help him deal with such a hegemon organization. As for the stranger with Kailen and Julian, many did not hold him in their eyes.

They felt Kailen Darkhaven was overestimating himself. Even if he was strong, could one person do something to the Insidious Assassin Syndicate branch in the city?

At this moment, Kailen stared at Julian.

"You showed up?"

Julian replied, "Surprised?"

"A bit," Kailen replied.

"Get used to it," Julian replied.

Kailen thought. This fellow was really like Charles. Kailen figured that if in the future he visited the light region of the universe with Julian, Julian and Charles would really hit it off as friends.

"Did they show up?" Kailen asked.

"Naturally, dealt with them," Julian replied.

"Thanks."

"Sure."

At this moment, Kier was in a different world of his own. This was the syndicate that killed his wife. Finally, he could have revenge on them.

Suddenly, a figure stepped out of the syndicate. He floated towards Kailen, his face bathed with extreme killing intent. This man was the uncle of Silence and the head of the Insidious Assassin Syndicate branch in the city. A Rank 5 novice-stage transcendent.

However, his gaze shifted to Kier, and an expression of shock flashed across his face.

"You... Kier...how are you...? I thought they..."

Cedric, the head of the IAS branch in the city, stuttered. It was a shocking sight for him to suddenly lose composure because of this man.

Several watching the stream, and those in the immediate vicinity, were wondering: who the hell was this man Kailen Darkhaven had brought with him?