Chapter 263: Dealing with the Assassins

Julius was honestly surprised by how easily they allowed him to bombard them with attacks. He didn’t know what they were thinking, but only one of them created a barrier to stop his attacks.

Maybe they thought that since the constructs that resembled shotgun shells were quite small, they didn’t need to worry about them. Or perhaps it was that he was the only person attacking.

Still, it was a mistake that cost them dearly. Chaos was rampaging across the field, but he didn’t let this deter him.

He checked behind him to see if the rest of the others were ready. By this time most of the people had gotten all of their armor and equipment ready.

He had wanted to wait until later to show his strength but that would have put the other people in the group at too much risk. These Conclave people had been watching them for the past few nights and must have decided that tonight was the best chance to attack.

Instead of agreeing like he wanted to do, he reeled himself back and made his way back toward the group. He didn’t want to get in the way of their own attacks. That would just mean he would be getting assaulted by both sides.

It would also save him some mana. That initial bombardment had used a hefty chunk of mana. Furthermore, he had feeling that the Tier 4s within this group had just marked him as a target.

He used [Flash Step] to arrive next to Stephanie who was looking at him with stunned eyes, but also a hint of fear.

“So I guess House Easten did send someone with some skill, huh?” He heard Rolus say from beside him.

He chuckled at the remark. “It’s not my fault if you made the wrong assumption.”

“I know, I know. That’s my bad, I underestimated you,” the man said with an amused shake of his head. “So what else did Easten say to you?”

“They said that you could take a couple of them on your own. Which leaves one or two for me to distract until you can take care of them as well,” Julius told him the plan while watching warily at the man’s massive sword which was exuding an extremely bloodthirsty aura.

The man’s response was interrupted by a salvo of the enemy’s own long-range attacks. Luckily, their mages had already prepared and were able to block most of them with barriers of their own.

The attackers kept up the assault and led to both sides throwing out blasts of mana or other attacks while the other defended. While the enemy had a large amount of people, it was already clear that their mages were more skilled.

While that was happening the enemy warriors had crossed the distance and started to clash with the rest of the caravan.

The sound of metal clanging against metal filled the night sky. Then the first Tier 4 arrived in front of them in a burst of speed. The person immediately engaged Rolus, to which the man with the large sword responded the same way without showing any surprise.

The two clashed in an explosion plume of dirt and dust, trading many blows in an instant.

Neither cared about anybody else, their focus solely on each other.

At least that was how it was for a moment. It wasn’t until a flash of light pierced the air toward Rolus that the man had to shift his attention.

In a display of unbelievable skill, the man parried the axe of his opponent and twirled his huge sword behind his back, just in time to block the bolt of mana.

There are the two Tier 4s, he thought to himself while observing the battlefield.

He was a bit confused by this situation and it wasn’t until he sensed another group of people flanking them that he understood what they were planning.

“Assassins behind us, they might be targeting our supporters,” he warned everyone.

Adrian, Rolus’s second gave a startled look toward him but reacted quickly. The man deployed a mist of ice toward where Julius pointed. The ice wasn’t that powerful, but that wasn’t its purpose. The ice covered the invisible enemies quickly and revealed their locations to the others who weren’t prepared for them.

Julius on the other hand, darted forward to these assassins in a burst of speed, his [Pyrokinetic Embodiment of Ruin] rushing through him, making his speed increase even further. He knew how bad it could be if they managed to do what they wanted.

He smashed a fist full of his Force Concept into the face of the first assassin he engaged. The opponent didn’t realize how fast Julius was and had his head explode as a result.

He then pivoted and backspun into an elbow that crushed the next assassin’s chest, sending the person flying off into the distance. Julius sensed that they were still alive but didn’t go after him and went after the next one.

He was met with a masked woman with a pair of shortswords and they were already slashing toward his face with murderous intent.

Fast, he noted as he calmly sidestepped the flurry of strikes.

When he spotted the woman finally overextended by a hair, he punished her. He sent a blast of kinetic energy at her back, which further exaggerated her overextension, and followed it up with a brutal knee to her face.

Unfortunately, that wasn’t a finishing blow as the woman managed to get her hands up in time to take the brunt of the knee. Still, he felt something crack underneath his knee and kept up the aggression.

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He didn’t allow her to back up and used a small pulse of kinetic energy to restrict her before throwing a blistering fast punch at her sternum. Her willpower resisted slightly, but unsurprisingly it wasn’t a match for his, and was swiftly overwhelmed.

However, to his immense interest, his fist passed right through the woman’s body, and was almost caught with an upward slash to his chest due to being caught off guard.

He barely managed to parry it with his other arm and was once again beset by another flurry of attacks.

She must have some sort of intangibility skill, he realized quickly.

It was quite an annoying skill, but also thankfully quite rare. However, it would seem that this Tier 3 woman was capable of using it when needed.

“That’s a very cool skill you have,” he said to the woman admiringly.

Unsurprisingly, he didn’t get a response, but he could have sworn he felt her mouth twitch upward with [Spatial Perception]. But couldn’t think too deeply about it as she once more blitzed toward him.

He couldn’t help but grin as he continued to fight the woman. Her speed was definitely at the pinnacle of Tier 3 as was her skill. If he were to put her against Aubrey, he could confidently say that Aubrey would lose almost every time. When it came to skill and sheer amount of Concepts, this unknown woman had her beat.

He would dare say that Edgar would have a hard time as well. Especially considering that the large fourth year relied almost completely on physical attacks.