Awakened: SSS Ranked Soul king-Chapter 118: Failed

As the morning sun rose in the shelter the following morning, the figure of a green haired muruder appeared in the horizon slowly walking into the city.

Thane had chased down Vincent all over the shelter eventually leading into the fog where he disappeared.

Thane hadn't succeeded in killing him but between the harrowing injuries incured and the lack of a slayer capped at red, he was as good as dead.

"Boss Thane, we stand with you!"

"Those Nu scum, they deserve death for this betrayal"

"You should rest lordship"

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The crowd of slayers whim had come out to witness the whole thing spoke in numbers expressing their support for Thane.

This amiable noble of the blacksteels had been targeted in the dead of night. If the Nu had such balls to attack a blacksteel what about the average man?

Besides, no one liked an assassin.

"Are you good?" A flash of light burst through the dark envelope of the night as Victoria appeared carried over by jeime.

"I am fine, the assassination failed, but this is not the end of it. They will try again, but i can promise this, if they try to kill me, I will be forced to kill them. my blade will cut all that bleeds!!" Thanes voice was filled with anger as his eyes burned.

He knew exactly who was responsible, and the thought of it only made him more incensed.

In the next few days, Thane went over to the Blacksteel HQ where Dorn had established an administrative office. There he complained about the attempt on his life causing dorn and the others to fly into a fake blind rage.

Of course, both parties knew the intention of the other. Though dorn did not want to kill him, he wouldn't also try to harm the Nu, Aaron or even the blackberries. They were crucial to their mission.

Hours later, the Nu and Aaron sent out a statement absolving themselves of the entire attempted. They cited it as a rogue operation lead by the vindictive Vincent.

They used Vincent as a scapegoat since he was presumed dead. No one had seen him since that night.

Meanwhile,

"Maintain a tight formation, we dont want any disturbance, he's about to come out" in the middle of the city right infront of the castle, a troop of slayers could be seen standing guard in a rather protective formation.

An attempted assassination was enough to fuel public sentiment in thanes favor..on the outside, it seemed like the blacksteels were united. But underground there was a secret struggle for power between two parties.

Granted the first party didn't actually want power, he just had ideals he wanted to keep and to protect his friends and clear this gate.

However, he was just too charismatic, everyone wanted to be around him and would instinctively take his commands even though they sounded like requests.

Thane was a victim of circumstance and his own pride.

"hold here while we clear the crowd"

Outside the ravens keep castle, a familiar voice sounded as a young man with a scarred face stretched his hand forward causing a team of slayers to open up the way.

Behind him, thane blacksteel and several others could be seen walking out of the castle challenge and moving towards the crowd.

"Let's move now" Cyrus looked over at Victoria and nodded.

Afte the assassination plan, Victoria and the rest had decided to pull out all stops to make sure if it happened again they would be prepared.

The first thing was to call on Cyprus, his team and theirs had spent alot of time with together. With the promise of getting closer to the Blacksteels and as a favor to Victoria he readily brought his men to help with security.

Of course, he wasn't the only one with friends.

"We've scouted the front brother, it's smooth sailing till the destination" Viper and a rather thin young man with determined eyes appeared beside thane and spoke.

Both of them were Blacksteel family members and both were capped at Red.

Unless dorn, and the other members of the blacksteel family joined hands with maybe someone like logan valor,they would have an extremely hard time trying to assassinate him.

However it seemed now to be more about amassing power than anything.

"Good, let's be on our way then" thane nodded a look of determination on his face as they walked through the streets of the broken city.

The supporters of the three clans still remained strong looking over at thanes men with apprehension. They didn't have anything against the guy, the thought of nearly being assassinated by your peers was enough to feel sympathy.

However, they couldn't abandon their allegiance so easily. After all, he was just one guy, the main blacksteel leadership was still protecting the three clans.

After a few twists and turns, a few gazes and downcast expressions. Thane and the rest finally reached their destination from the castle.

"Welcome sir Thane. Its a pleasure to have you with us" outside a barracks like building, Mason Aaron could be seen standing with an amiable look on his face.

They had been involved in the assassination attempt on thane, but none of his men shot a single arrow before being taken down by guillimans soul beast.

So the narrative was that in fact they were not at all involved. The Nu took most of the heat.

"Hm, lead the way" Thane of course knew better. Guilliman and barthold slaughtering their men before they could make a move didn't equate them being innocent.

No far from it. It just meant that they were incompetent and generally untrustworthy.

Unfortunately, Victoria made him promise to meet them since they already had an agreement.

She was more cool headed and understood that the assassination attempt even though carried out by them wasn't proposed by them.

This was an unnecessary enemy they would rather not have.

"Right this way sire" Masons usual arrogant demeanour was no where to be seen as he led them into the barracks.