Chapter 100 - Colorless Breath (2)

As Enbi Mada stuttered in fear, Asil had an expression of delight on his face, and his eyes shone with a desire to kill. He looked at Enbi Mada like a sadist who enjoyed making people suffer and was frighteningly reminded that death was so close to him!

Enbi Mada felt very strongly that if he didn't act, he would definitely die, so this time he went on the attack himself. He had understood the limit of Asil's speed in the fight that had been going on for some time and knew that if he used the profound routing technique he would reach the speed that would exceed that limit. So he should have done it in one move with his fastest and strongest blow.

"Roaring Tiger Cut!"

Enbi Mada roared and proceeded towards Asil as he activated his strongest technique. Asil, too, smiled as if he had become a completely different person.

When Enbi Mada was only a few meters ahead of him, Asil, abruptly used the profound routing technique once again. This time, however, he raised the grains of sands into the air instead of the swords and closed the sight between him and Enbi Mada.

Just a second later, the layer of sand was cleaved by Enbi Mada's Long Sword, and simultaneously a geyser of blood rose into the sky!

When all the grains of sand landed on the ground, Enbi Mada's body fell into a pool of blood that formed on the ground and died on the spot before he could move at all. About two meters behind his body, stood the Asil holding two blood-soaked swords.

At that moment, Asil made an unexpected move and caught Enbi Mada completely by surprise. Normally there would be a surge in the profound energy when profound mobility techniques were activated, revealing that a technique was being used. However, when Enbi Mada and Asil made their final attack, Asil's speed had almost doubled at once, and there had never been any profound energy fluctuation in his body.

It would normally be seen as impossible for something like this to happen. But the 'Breath of silence', the movement technique taught by Sirius, made this possible. The Breath of Silence had a total of four levels, and the only level that Asil was able to use at this time was the first level, 'Colorless Breath'. Colorless Breath was nearly doubling the user's maximum speed when activated, and only expending profound energy when activated. Asil had actually activated this technique before facing Enbi Mada. But by using his normal speed, not his nearly doubled speed until the last moment, he had made his opponent think that was his speed capacity. In the final attack, he caught Enbi Mada unprepared by using his maximum speed at once and killed him in one move!

The other levels of the breath of silence, the Green breath, the Yellow breath, and the Blue Breath were undoubtedly much stronger than the Colorless Breath. But it was completely impossible for Asil to use them now.

After Asil killed Enbi Mada, he put his swords back into his spatial ring and looked at his hands. He couldn't believe himself. At the end of the fight, he wanted to tear Enbi Mada to pieces. That was not something he would normally want. But in the middle of the fight, these hideous feelings began to fill his heart with violence. Asil did not know if this was true. But he thought these feelings had something to do with the other Asil with the Sun Symbol.

Asil would ask his master to make sure of that at that moment. However, this request, with a cold voice that followed, was completely destroyed and replaced with vigilance.

"Impressive!"

The sound from behind was quite cold and did not contain any emotion even though it said 'impressive!'. When Asil heard this voice, he was able to make a guess about who was saying it before he even turned around. He did not know if this prediction was correct. But since he had rarely heard a voice as cold, callous, and familiar as this before, only a few images had formed in his head.

Asil turned around slowly to be sure and saw the owner of the voice. She was a black-eyed girl who wore an all-black hooded dress with no body contours apparent and her face covered with a veil. As soon as Asil saw the owner of the voice, he knew it was the girl in black on escort duty.

The clothes on the girl in the black dress were as smooth as they were this morning as if nothing had happened today. There were no cuts, no imperfection. It was clear that the morning's energy burst barely affected her, did no damage, and only drove her away.

When Asil looked at the girl in the black dress, she spoke again: "It's really impressive. I'm sure you weren't at this level a few hours ago. Otherwise, you'd have caught my attention a little bit. Looks like you've leveled up a few times in a short period of time. And the speed you used just now definitely doesn't belong to someone who's in the first level of the Nascent profound realm. You must have used a profound technique. But when you accelerated using the movement, there was no fluctuation in your profound energy. You must have a very unusual profound technique."

When Asil heard what the girl in the black dress said, his vigilance reached the top. It was only through her brief observation that she was able to understand that Asil had both strengthened several levels and possessed an unusual profound mobility technique.

As Asil watched her carefully, the girl in the black dress drew her gaze over Asil and spoke again after moving forward and passing Asil: "You don't have to be so alert. I'm not interested in how you level up and where you learn this unusual movement technique. I still owe you! I'll pay for it in the future. If you're trying to get out of here, you can follow me."

After the girl's words, Asil was naturally surprised. "I owe you!" What does she mean? When and how was she in debt? Asil did not remember helping her in any way.

"What do you mean you owe me?" Asil asked curiously.

Upon hearing Asil's question, the girl in the black dress stopped her steps for a moment and, after answering, continued walking. "You don't need to know. You'll find out when the time comes anyway."

As this was a rather closed answer, Asil had not naturally learned what he was curious about when he heard it. As she continued to walk slowly, in her mind, Asil asked Sirius how he had helped this girl. But his master's response with a laugh was far more intriguing than the girl in black's closed response: "Haha... Who knows? But my advice to you is to follow that girl for now. I don't think she's going to hurt you, given the current situation."

Asil did not know what his master meant by "Current Situation", but trusted him and followed the girl in black, and soon they approached the exit of the Black Dragon Mountain Range. But when they approached, Asil noticed that there were a large number of people silhouettes in the area where the exit was. The aura of profound energy emitted by these human silhouettes caused a very tense atmosphere to form around it.

As Asil and the girl in black approached the exit, the human silhouettes there became clearer, and soon, when he saw the man riding in front of a crowd of people, Asil understood who they were.

This man was Orion Vesta, the stepfather of the girl they were supposed to protect, who was assigned the escort duty this morning!

Asil thought that when he saw Orion Vesta standing at the head of the group, he somehow found out what was going on as an escort and that he wanted to take revenge on those who couldn't protect his daughter by coming here. If that happens, even if the girl in black was in the fifth level core profound realm, it was pretty clear that both of them would be in a lot of trouble.

Asil carefully looked at Orion Vesta's expression as he slid his gaze towards his face while the girl in black in front of him continued to move forward as if nothing had happened and spoke irreverently to all those people: "How much longer do you intend to stand in front of me? Give me a horse and we'll get out of here! What I wanted to happen has already happened! I don't have to be here anymore!"

When Asil heard these conversations, he suddenly looked towards the girl in black before he could examine Orion Vesta's facial expression. How could she talk like that to so many people? If the possibility in his head wasn't real, it was simply suicide!

But Orion Vesta's behavior after those words made him understand clearly that the possibility in his head was real.

He had at first told the guards behind him to get off his horse and get away for a bit. Then, when the guards were far enough away, she came before the girl in black and spoke in a rather low voice: "Lady Nyks, forgive me for putting you in danger by sending these useless men with you on your journey."

"The people you sent worked fine for me! I gained quite some time with them. Keep serving like this!" The girl in the black dress replied coldly.

"Yes, Lady Nyks." Orion Vesta respectfully approved with his head.

As the guards moved away, they couldn't hear their low toned conversations. But Asil could hear them quite clearly, as he was only a few meters behind the girl in black.. Although he had previously considered the possibility that the girl in Black was the real Lady Nyks, it never occurred to him that this kind of relationship existed between Nyks and his stepfather, Orion Vesta.