Chapter 264
Chapter 264 Assaulted
Two months later.
Right before the break of dawn. The mist still clung in the air.
A black carriage slowly rumbled out of Feidnan City.
The tall architecture of the city was quickly left behind as the carriage rushed forward. Large patches of farmland started to appear on both sides of the road. One could vaguely see the scattered farmhouses and villages through the thick and dense mist.
As the sun hadn’t rise yet, the road was still very dimly lit. It was very easy to damage the precious carriage when driving in such weather. As a result, there weren’t very many people walking on the roads of Feidnan City. This was even truer the further they got from Feidnan City. Human buildings were built further and further apart. Tall and massive trees started to appear more frequently and in greater density.
Greem pushed the curtain aside and was greeted with a face full of cold, moist air. It was a refreshing and slightly cooling.
Just five kilometers out of the city, and already the forests on both sides felt a little primal and overgrown. This scene allowed Greem to imagine the past. Several years ago, humans, under the lead of the adepts, had forged their way through this primal forest with great difficulty and created settlement after settlement. He could imagine their pain and suffering as they fought tooth and nail against the creatures of the woods for every inch of the land they owned…
“The Black Glove Association?” A grin appeared at the corner of Greem’s mouth.
The short cloaked man pushed his hood down, revealing a green and wrinkled face, along with a hooked nose and a head full of dirty green short hair. He wasn’t a human!
The Head of the Black Glove Association. The one and only Second Grade Green Dwarf Adept- Pyro.
Greem felt liked a heavy rock had been dropped onto his heart when Pyro’s sinister green eyes locked onto him. Even breathing seemed more difficult.
“Is it fine for the Head of the Black Glove Association to so publicly kill an official adept of the Sarubo Clan? Are you not worried that Lady Sanazar will personally visit you lot?”
“Of course we wouldn’t be able to endure the rage of Lady Sanazar… if it was us of the Black Glove Association that killed you today. However, if the ones responsible for your death wasn’t the Black Glove Association, even Lady Sanazar would not have a reason to persecute us! She wouldn’t dare break the orders of the Zhentarim Association and hurt the innocent us, would she?” The green dwarf Pyro spat out coldly.
“What do you mean?”
“Lord Pyro’s words are easy to understand… ” The scrawny and tall one of the trio suddenly pushed his hood down as well. The man laughed wickedly, “Because he won’t be doing anything today. We will!”
This scrawny man had a pale complexion with dried and wrinkled skin. His voice was low and hoarse. However, when he uttered the last sentence, his head suddenly turned 180 degrees, revealing a woman’s face behind his head. ‘His’ voice also suddenly changed to that of a female’s.
The female face had her eyes shut tight. A strange smile was plastered across her face, but there was nothing odd about the way she spoke. Moreover, she… wasn’t a mask or a face drawn onto the head. She was an actual woman.
“Two-face Kane!” Greem gasped.
Even though it hadn’t been long since he ascended to an adept, he still made sure to do his studies and had a detailed understanding of all the famous adepts of the Zhentarim area. With the extreme efficiency of the chip at his disposal, he kept detailed tabs on all the adepts, both famous and lesser-known, that belonged to any adept clan, academy, organization, or force within the Zhentarim area.
Green Dwarf Pyro hadn’t been lying. Two-face Kane didn’t belong to the Black Glove Association. He was a powerful wandering adept.
Kane. Born to a normal noble’s family in the central area of the continent. He and his twin sister were verified with magic talent at a young age and were sent to a small adept academy to study. His experience was similar to Greem’s. He and his sister met a particularly terrifying and evil adept.
He and his twin sister had decent talent, as well as an extremely unique innate mental link. Consequently, they fell into the favor of an evil adept and were chosen for an extremely dangerous experiment on the merging of lives.
What happened next was easily predictable.
The terrifying life-merging experiment had forged the souls of the brother and sister together. They shared a single body, with two faces, one in front of the head and one behind. The two shared one body with two souls, taking turns to use a single body.
The sudden stimulation of their soul energies had allowed the twins to suddenly advance to adepts. Moreover, the chaotic nature of the merger had allowed them to break free of the adept’s control.
Two-face Kane and Lucy, who now simultaneously possessed the strength of two adepts, reinforced with an innate mental link, instantly began a slaughter. They butchered all four adepts and twenty-seven apprentices that lived in the small adept academy before running away and disappearing from the public eye.
As his soul was chaotic and his personality distorted, the Two-face Adept Kane spent most of his days wandering in the central area of the continent, avoiding the capture of the Adept’s Association’s Department of Corrections. On the other hand, most adept clans ignored him. They didn’t want to deal with such a powerful adept, and as such, they let ‘him’ and ‘her’ go unnoticed and unrestrained for all this time.
However, who knew? The Black Glove Association was willing to fork over large sums of money to purchase their services!
Greem helplessly put on a bitter smile.