Mage Veigar

Chapter 264 Moonlit Night Assassination
It's quiet at night.

In a small single room with bunk beds, the magic lamp flickered.

"General, we will finally land tomorrow."

Lieutenant Yiluo spread out the map and pointed to Shelantu City and said, "After landing, we can hire a carriage from Shelantu City and head east along Alsiri City. If the weather is good, we can arrive within a week."

"Thank you for your hard work along the way."

Vega smiled at Ilo. He was right about him. Apart from his inherent pride, there was nothing wrong with his ability to do things. He hardly had to take care of the trivial matters along the way.

Most importantly, Ilo is very self-aware.

He would not bother with trivial matters, and would never interfere in more important matters. It can be said that he is the only most qualified adjutant Vega has ever met. The previous adjutants could not be compared with him at all.

"This is all within the responsibility of this subordinate."

Yiluo showed joy when he heard this, but he still remained humble.

Vega nodded and said, "It's late, let's call it a day. We can discuss everything after we get to Shelantu City."

"Yes, General."

After Iroh waited for Vega to get ready, he turned off the magic lamp in the room. However, Vega, who was unable to fall asleep for the time being, pulled up the curtains again and looked out the window after a few minutes.

"It's a nice day today."

Vega looked at the huge full moon. It was the first time for him to appreciate the moonlight from such a high altitude.

Time passed by minute by minute, Vega looked at the moon and closed his eyes in a daze. Maybe tomorrow will be a good day. With the inaudible murmur lingering around, Vega fell asleep.

click-

This is the sound of the door lock turning, but the movement is so light that most people can hardly hear it.

With the inaudible sound of the door lock turning, Vega's ears moved, but he did not wake up.

Da da da.

The footsteps were lighter than those of a wild cat, and even Yiluo, who was sleeping on the lower bunk, was unaware of them.

One, two, three...

About four dark shadows entered the room. Two of them raised their daggers and looked at each other, then stabbed Vega and Ilo in the chest without hesitation. The magic power surged on the daggers. If they were stabbed, even a magician would die on the spot.

"W-what!"

Just as the dagger was about to pierce Veigar, he found that a pitch-black dagger had already pierced his heart.

Shadow technique, activated!

In a flash, Vega jumped out of the bed and not only dealt with the person who assassinated him, but also dealt with the assassin who almost took Ilo's life. Ilo was also awakened at this time.

He rolled over and got up, drew out his cross sword and blocked Vega's way: "General, you are fine."

"Don't worry, it's not that easy to kill me."

Vega chuckled, then squinted his eyes at the people in night clothes and said, "Tell me, who sent you? Vizmir? Or Kafyin? Or one of the top ten business families?"

Vega narrowed his eyes and tried to get the other person to talk.

Unfortunately, these people were obviously well-trained, and Vega did not see the answer in their eyes. These people did not even say a word, but rushed directly towards him, as if they wanted to defeat the minority with numbers.

"Iroh, step back."

Vega gave an order, asking Iroh, who was just an ordinary person, not to act arrogantly.

Iroh obviously knew that he would only be a hindrance, so he retreated behind Vega, but he was alert with the cross sword in hand, as if ready to support Vega at any time, but he obviously underestimated Vega's strength. In no time, Vega killed the two professionals who rushed over.

Trying to fight against a magician with the strength of a professional was really an act of overestimating one's own capabilities. But just when Vega killed the second professional, the third professional who had been silent made a gesture towards the door.

As the gesture came down, a noisy sound of footsteps was heard, and a group of people blocked the door.

This group of people were dressed exactly like the assassin that Vega had killed. They were all wearing dark night clothes and half of their faces were covered. Judging from the number of people, there were probably about thirty or forty of them.

"Wait, thirty or forty people?"

Vega's eyes narrowed, and then he thought of the squadron of soldiers on the civilian airship.

Although there are nearly 10,000 people on the airship, professionals are rare. The one who can dispatch so many professionals is obviously the professional squadron of the empire. Only those who have undergone systematic training can cooperate so tacitly.

"Sending troops to assassinate me openly, good, very good."

At this moment, Vega probably guessed that it was not someone in the imperial capital who wanted to kill him, but someone in the Imperial Seventh Army, where he was about to take office. He was afraid that he, an airborne brigadier general, had touched someone's cake.

Moreover, the person who wanted to kill him was quite capable.

The advantage of using the army to carry out assassinations is that even if a murder occurs on the airship, the law enforcement team has no right to retain an army on a mission. The assassination is scheduled on the last day because they do not want the law enforcement team on the airship to have enough time to investigate one by one. Once they leave, even if they find out that it was this squadron that assassinated Vega, they will have no way to find him.

After all, assassinating a general is a serious crime.

However, through this method, exposure can be perfectly avoided, and it can be said that the plan is quite perfect.

"But you want my life just by sending a squadron of professionals?"

Veigar smiled brightly. “Are you guys looking down on Shadow Mages too much, or do you really think I’m a lucky kid? Hahaha.”

As he spoke, Vega retreated instead of advancing.

bang bang bang-

A series of iron weapons collided, and the battle was a completely one-sided massacre.

But after more than ten minutes, Vega became more and more annoyed.

Because the room was too small, Veigar couldn't use his full power. He could only use his Mage Shield to take the enemy's attacks, and couldn't save his magic power by dodging. The most important thing was that the enemy formed a human wall to block the door, and they also had a combined attack technique. He just couldn't kill them. It was clear that the enemy was preparing to consume his magic power.

"The magic power consumption is too great."

Veigar's brows began to frown. He had to give up casting Shadow and Trickery to save mana, and only rely on the Mage Shield to fight, which slowed down the speed of mana consumption.

In stark contrast to the consumption of his magic power, Vega's mental strength increased instead of decreased.

Because Vega discovered that this was a squadron of professionals. Although there were no ordinary people to replenish his magic power, there were enough professionals to replenish his mental power.

But without magic power, mental strength alone is of no use at all.

Vega found that being trapped in a single room was too inefficient. He was about to kill the opponent with one sword, but was blocked by another enemy. This cycle repeated over and over again. There were probably only half of the enemies left, but he had already used 2/3 of his magic power.

"If we continue like this, we might really fall into the trap of these people."

Vega finally stabbed one to death and began to frown. The pain of being pressed in a blind spot and rubbed made him so angry that his teeth itched.

From this perspective, it really feels like a tiger in plain water and a dragon in shallow water.

But at this time, Vega finally remembered something.

"How could I have forgotten the intermediate combat skills?"

Since his combat skill was an incomplete version, Veigar had never taken it seriously, but in this situation, he only needed to add a little bit of strength buff to break through the blockade of the door.

(End of this chapter)