Different World Online

He casually lifted the black cloth of a cage nearby and threw the heart into the cage that held the snake man;

Steve turned around and looked at the man in black who was slowly falling to the ground with his eyes wide open and his hands covering his chest. He sighed slowly and kicked his body in disappointment.

"Murderous intent! As an assassin, don't you even know how to hide your murderous intent?"

In fact, this guy is talking complete bullshit. How could an assassin who is close to being a legend not hide his murderous intentions?

The reason why this guy could sense it was because of his half-baked intuitive dodge that he had not yet mastered.

Although the half-baked intuitive dodge cannot be avoided, the intuition is still there;

In other words, he was lazy and didn't practice enough, otherwise he would not only be able to dodge the attack, but also sense the direction of the sneak attack by intuition.

But he really doesn't know how to disguise himself.

Just as Steve was about to do something, his ears suddenly moved slightly and his brows frowned instantly.

Someone is coming!

Steve lowered the black cloth of Helen's cage and, using the cages scattered all over the floor as cover, dragged the assassin's unwounded body to the back of the cage.

Just as he disappeared, a team of patrolling guards passed by.

"Hmm? Why does it smell like blood?"

At the side, another soldier pursed his lips, pointed at the cage where Helen was imprisoned, and sneered:

"Maybe this sick thing is hurting itself~"

"That makes sense! Let's go and patrol quickly. I'm so sleepy after not sleeping all night. You can keep an eye on it for me later."

"Okay, I'm your dad~"

"What did you say, son?"

The patrolling soldiers walked away into the distance, bickering with each other and hearing the sounds of armor rubbing against each other.

It wasn't until they disappeared at the end of the cage that Steve stuck his head out, breathed a sigh of relief, and put down the pickaxe in his hand.

In just a few moments, he had buried the assassin's body under the marble floor.

[Void Shadow] was activated, and Steve's body penetrated the black cloth and fence unhindered and entered Helen's cage.

In the dark cage, Helen, who was still in shock, suddenly had her mouth covered by a rough, dry and warm hand.

"Shh~me, Steve."

In the cage, Steve stared at the girl in front of him who was gradually stopping trembling with his bright eyes, and slowly loosened his hand.

"Tell me, what is the grudge between you and the person who bought you?"

Hearing this, Helen took two steps back calmly, hugged her knees tightly with her arms, and replied coldly:

"Instead of being curious about this kind of thing, you should just take care of yourself!

The assassin just now was from the Thieves Guild. You have gotten into trouble that you shouldn't have gotten into!"

"It's okay~" Steve shrugged and smiled nonchalantly:

"Even if they don't bother me, I will still bother them. By the way, do you know where the Thieves Guild's lair is?"

"I don't know." Helen shook her head.

"What about your feud with Viscount Lowell?"

"No comment."

Hearing this, Steve nodded helplessly and said to himself:

"If you don't want to say it, forget it. I won't force you.

But in order to prevent you from being ruined, I, your old friend, have no choice but to kill you.

You're welcome."

As he spoke, Steve took out the poisoned dagger that he had just stabbed into his body, and looked Helen up and down in front of him, as if thinking about where to start.

Hearing this, Helen's body trembled violently. She pushed the ground with her feet and retreated to the edge of the cage, with her thin back pressed tightly against the cage.

"Don't worry, I'm half-apprentice of Old Pete, I'll be quick and won't let you suffer."

Steve said as he moved closer.

He didn't lie. Although he and Helen didn't have much in common, they were barely acquaintances.

Rather than letting this guy be tortured and humiliated, it is better to kill him with a single blow.

Facing the sharp dagger that was getting closer and closer, Helen shrank her neck, and finally couldn't help but lower her voice and shouted:

"Stop...stop it, I...I said!"

As the words fell, the dagger no longer came closer, but it also did not move away, just lying there in front of her;

Seeing this, Helen felt a flash of humiliation in her heart, and she spoke through gritted teeth.

"Have you heard of the Kingdom of Marandesinu?"

"No."

"Where's the Iron Thorn?"

"I've heard of it." Steve nodded.

I heard that the queen sitting on the throne of thorns is young and beautiful. Does that count?

Across from her, Helen's amber eyes dimmed again.

"Then you must have heard of the Queen of Thorns on the Iron Throne!

She’s my sister…”

The girl's voice, clear as the low song of a nightingale, echoed in Steve's ears until he returned to the hall, still ringing in his ears;

Standing in the hall that was no longer so lively, Steve looked up at the beautiful crystal chandelier above his head with an expressionless face and gently wiped the tiny bloodstains on his fingers.

The girl told a sad story.

Once upon a time there was a kingdom, with a fairly wise king, a beautiful queen and two carefree princesses;

Under the king's governance, the kingdom was not strong enough to rule the entire central region, but it was still considered a regional hegemon.

Until one day, six unexpected guests came to the kingdom’s capital;

They are the Scourge, the flames, the pain, the despair. They are the chosen people of Cyric, the Prince of Lies, the Dark Sun, the God of Murder.

Wherever these six horrible guys walked, the earth gushed out poison, ignited an unextinguishable fire, and the people began to die one after another;

By the time they reached the capital, the entire country had already trembled and fallen into destruction;

Finally, they entered the palace, killed the king and queen, placed the heavy iron crown on the Queen of Thorns' head, and bound the young queen tightly with growing iron thorns;

Then they sat around the square table in the palace and drank the blood that flowed from the king and queen's arteries in front of the child.

The flames died out, and the Kingdom of Marandesinu became the Kingdom of the Iron Thorn. The people here also crawled out of the cold ground and turned into unconscious undead creatures, wandering forever in this polluted country.

Besides her, Helen, sister of the Queen of the Iron Thorn;

With the help of a fragment of a sacred artifact from the king's treasury - a fragment of the Quarri teleportation device, she escaped from that hell. From then on, she had no surname, only revenge.

Thinking of this, a red light flashed in Steve's eyes, and a long-standing hatred surged in his heart.

Xirik!

Although his hatred for the god was not as deep as Helen's, his mind was definitely much narrower than that girl Helen.

Damn! Followers of Xirik, I'll chop you into minced meat first and make it into fried meat sauce biang biang noodles!