"You took longer than I thought." Clovis smiled.
"Sorry." Jay's expression turned grim. He had never thought that Clovis would be in this state after fighting the assassin by himself for close to thirty minutes.
He was going at full speed the whole time, but the city was chaotic, so it slowed him down a little bit since the vehicle had to be stuck on the way.
"You…" The assassin gritted his teeth since Jay was the one who cut his arm. If he still had two arms, he would have killed Clovis easily.
At the same time, the assassin knew that he wasn't in condition to fight Jay. He had to escape.
Clovis threw his short blade at the assassin, forcing the assassin to turn his body around.
Clovis was grinning as if saying, "You're not going anywhere!"
The assassin gnashed his teeth. "You—"
The assassin had no time to unleash his anger because Jay was right behind him. He turned around to block Jay's blade, but he was already exhausted. His strength had diminished after all the wounds and blood loss.
His current strength might not even reach Tier 4 anymore.
Jay's eyes turned bloodshot as he unleashed everything he got in this slash. His blade knocked the assassin's arm down. The assassin tried to kick him, but Jay simply stood there as if he didn't feel a single thing.
After that, Jay stabbed the leg and widened its wound by slightly rotating the blade. This way, the assassin couldn't get away anymore.
"You mother—" The assassin roared as he unleashed all he had in a single strike.
Unfortunately for him, it was futile. Jay chopped his last arm. The assassin's face turned pale as the blade flashed in front of his eyes before it cut the head into two.
Both Tier 5 assassins had finally been killed after almost a year they struggled against them.
This was probably the end to their struggle in this city, but Clovis hadn't dropped his guard yet.
The assassins might be important, but they were still not out of danger.
"Jay… I need…" Clovis panted heavily, struggling to move.
Seeing their conditions, Jay hurriedly grabbed Reolf with one hand while helping Clovis with his other arm.
"I also need to report to you about it. We might not have a lot of time," said Jay while bringing them inside the house.
"I know." Clovis took out bandages from Another World Mall in front of Jay since he had seen this before.
Jay noticed it but didn't say anything, knowing that this was Clovis' biggest secret. "I'm going to bring some water."
Clovis leaned on the wall, looking at Reolf, who was lying on the floor with no strength left.
"Thank you, Reolf. If not for you, I would have died." Clovis smiled wryly.
Reolf looked at him with sincere eyes as if telling him that it was because both of them that they managed to last for so long.
Clovis didn't monitor the watch, but his affection rate increased tremendously because of this incident.
As soon as Jay came back, he immediately cleaned up the wound before covering them with bandages. During the whole process, Jay told him about the current status.
"The Panorama Group, huh?" Clovis' expression turned grim.
"Yes and no. What we currently need to do is divert their attention elsewhere."
"Yeah. They are not the only ones making their stance clear. There is one more person with that intention."
"!!!" Jay widened his eyes in disbelief. "He is not our enemy?"
"He is Vina's master. After seeing the situation, he should have realized which side is more profitable. Suppose the Panorama Group hadn't attacked us yet. In that case, he would side with us to resolve the grudge.
"He perfectly knows that I'm going to hunt him down once I get stronger, so he will settle it by helping us this time."
"But how is he gonna help us? I mean, he is strong, but not that strong."
"Didn't I call him a mule?"
"The technology he smuggled?"
Clovis smiled. "There was one technology that the enemy once used, right?"
"Don't tell me…" Jay gasped. "You're talking about the machine that brings the beasts?"
Clovis nodded. "I bet the Drake Group is hiding it in their headquarters. To trick the assassins, we used the jamming to avoid any contact between the assassins, but this also means I'm unable to contact them right now.
"You have to go back, Jay. If the Panorama Group hasn't attacked us yet, use them to bring that device to lure the beasts away. If they have attacked us, you are to retreat with the group and Kanaria's grandfather. The city can be rebuilt, the enemies can be killed, but you can't be revived."
Jay's expression turned solemn. On the one hand, he didn't know if letting Clovis stay here would be good or not since Clovis couldn't fight anymore. On the other hand, this was an important mission.
All of sudden, they heard a loud rumbling.
The deafening sound was similar to a building crumbling, but this time, it was coming from the west.
"Jay. Hurry up! The wall might be breached. The South and West Walls might not be attacked as heavily as the other two, but they also don't have enough soldiers to stop them. If the commander focused on the south, the west would crumble soon. I'm fine here!"
Jay gritted his teeth and hurriedly left the house.
Clovis smiled wryly as he was bandaging the remaining wounds that Jay hadn't covered, of course, he did Reolf first.
"It seems that we have to get even stronger than this, buddy. That assassin is three tiers above us, but of course, we're not going to stop only at that stage. We'll become even stronger until the whole world fears our strength." Clovis looked at Reolf with a sincere expression.
"I'm planning to leave this place after this, which means this will probably be the last time I can easily send you to your home. Even then, I'd like to ask you. Are you willing to follow me?"