Mysterious, but Naruto

Audrey and Viscount Grelint had absolutely no idea how powerful Sequence 8 or Sequence 7 really were.

However, hearing the undisguised admiration in Hugh Deercha's tone, the two could understand that this Mr. A must truly be quite powerful.

"No matter how powerful Mr. A is, he can't possibly be as good as Mr. Six Paths. No, judging from the situation at this gathering, he probably can't even compare to Mr. Fool."

According to Mr. Six Paths, Mr. Fool should be a reclusive saint, so Mr. A should be at most Sequence 5?

After they entered the living room, they noticed a blackboard on each side.

Seeing their gazes, Fors Wall introduced them.

"This list shows the individual needs of each member of the gathering. Sometimes, if you don't want others to know what you want to buy or sell, you can write it down on a piece of paper and give it to the staff here."

They will anonymously write it on the blackboard for you, which can somewhat prevent potential prying.

Audrey looked at the blackboard and saw that there were people asking to buy materials, selling materials, and quite a few directly seeking potion recipes.

After looking at the items and prices on the blackboard, Audrey had only one thought: these things were too cheap.

Although she had similar thoughts when she looked at the Akatsuki exchange chart compiled by Louis.

At that time, she thought it was a benefit Louis provided to his internal members, and she thought Louis was really kind and generous.

Looking at it now, it seems that she had previously imagined the value of extraordinary things to be too high, and the prices of these items were nothing more than that.

During their conversation, Audrey noticed that Mr. A would glance at her every now and then.

Having gained chakra, her senses were much sharper than before, making her very sensitive to such gazes.

At this moment, Mr. A's waiter came to the four of them and spoke to them in a low voice so as not to disturb others.

"You can write down your needs on a piece of paper and give it to me, or during the break, you can go to the small room there and write down the items you want to sell on the blackboard."

Audrey turned her gaze to Viscount Grelint, signaling him to proceed with the plan.

When we recruited Grelint into the Akatsuki, we told her that we needed to conduct an evaluation.

After learning the details of Mr. A's extraordinary party from Hugh Deercha and his companion, Louis decided to use this as a vetting mission for them.

He was tasked with gathering as much intelligence as possible from the gathering. Once he passed the assessment, he would become a member of the Akatsuki organization, remaining infiltrated there long-term to gather intelligence and materials for the organization.

So Grynt took the slip of paper from the waiter and began to write on it.

[Need the "Mind Reader" potion recipe; selling "Apprentice" and "Master Trickster" potion recipes. Prices negotiable.]

As the examiner for this mission, Audrey had already informed Gryllant about some items that the Akatsuki organization could sell.

Of course, since the other party has not yet joined the organization, all that is known is their name.

Even so, the highest-ranking potion Audrey had told Grelint was Sequence 5.

However, after observing most of the trades here, Grylint determined that the sequence level of most people here was not high, and that sequence 9 and sequence 8 items should be the common trading level here.

While the waiter copies the contents of the note onto the blackboard, he also reads the contents aloud three times. If anyone is interested, they can then request a transaction.

But after waiting for a while, no one got up, so Grelint took the initiative to contact the waiter and selected a few items from the blackboard to trade.

To avoid drawing too much attention, Grelint only purchased two potion ingredients, in addition to two Sequence 9 potion recipes—"Lawyer" and "Hunter".

Grynt's purchase of the Sequence 9 formula caught Mr. A's attention. After staring at him for a while, Mr. A ultimately made no move.

The items Grelint purchased this time totaled less than 600 gold pounds, which was a result of his deliberate restraint to avoid attracting attention.

However, such actions still attracted the attention of others.

The main reason is that Grylint was joining the party for the first time, and he was buying Sequence 9 potion recipes, which inevitably gave others the impression that he was a wealthy ordinary person.

Although there were four of them, they had met two of them before and were considered veterans of the gathering.

This only leads them to believe that Grylint and his group paid Deercha to make the introductions.

Some of the items on the blackboard had been hung up more than once, so everyone present knew that the four items that were bought at once were all the work of this newcomer.

After some time, the free trading period ended, and the discussion session began. Most people remained silent, with only a few speaking up to talk or ask questions.

After about half an hour, Mr. A's party ended, and everyone left in batches as arranged by the waiters.

Hugh Deercha and Fors Wall were on one team, while Audrey and Glynette were on the other.

Led by a waiter, the two left through the back door of the house.

The carriage that had brought the four people earlier was still waiting nearby. Just as the two men were getting their bearings and preparing to leave,

Audrey suddenly felt a malicious gaze, which made her hair stand on end.

Noticing that Audrey was not in a good mood, Grelint also looked serious.

He was just an ordinary person and didn't know what had happened, but he could guess that something must have gone wrong.

Therefore, Grynt reached into his pocket and pulled out the pistol he had prepared beforehand from under his arm.

He was not a naive person. Knowing that he would be facing a group of outlaws after arriving here, he made preparations early on.

Not only did he carry a gun, but the coachmen who were waiting there were also armed.

Once he fires, the people in the carriage will come to his aid immediately.

Even if they are no match for the superhumans, it should buy them some time to escape.

As long as they manage to escape a certain distance, there's a second wave of people he's arranged outside.

In order not to attract the attention of those extraordinary individuals, Grylint did not allow them to get close, but he was, after all, a viscount, and could not easily take risks; necessary protection was still required.

Those observing from afar were also surprised to see the two's actions.

He initially observed that the two were ordinary people, or at least had no experience in fighting.

He believed that dealing with this kind of person was a piece of cake.

But to his surprise, the other side noticed his malicious intent as soon as he revealed it and took corresponding measures.

Dealing with the same person can be very difficult depending on whether they are prepared or not.

Especially since this place is close to Mr. A's party venue, he didn't want to make a big fuss, after all, he was still wary of Mr. A's power.

In fact, he was not the only one who remained nearby to observe.

However, the remaining people had no intention of making a move, at least not now.

They planned to observe how things developed, let those who couldn't hold back make the first move, and then decide how to proceed based on the situation.

In fact, Mr. A, who organized the party, was well aware of what these people were thinking, but he did not intend to stop them. Instead, he stood in front of the second-floor window and looked out at where everyone was.

It should be noted that the existence of extraordinary individuals is strictly prohibited in this world, and all supernatural powers are controlled by the authorities.

In this situation, these people were still able to break through layers of obstacles and become extraordinary individuals, which shows what kind of people they are. Even the authorities couldn't control them, so Mr. A naturally couldn't either.

Therefore, as long as these people don't make a move at his parties or around his house, he'll pretend he doesn't see it, and this is an unspoken rule that everyone knows.

In fact, it wasn't just Audrey and her friends; about 80% of the members in the group had similar experiences when they first joined.

Even he, the organizer, was once targeted by a few fools, and now they have all paid the price for their actions.

Audrey and Gretel walked toward the carriage, keeping a watchful eye on their surroundings.

Meanwhile, Fors Wall and Hugh Deercha, who had left from another direction, were moving closer to Audrey and the others.

Both of them were longtime members of the gathering, so they naturally knew what consequences Grelint's behavior would bring here.

In fact, from a certain perspective, this can be considered as something that the two of them did deliberately.

In their view, the two had already purchased two potion recipes. Although they hadn't yet purchased the corresponding potions, they could still do so through other channels.

Let Audrey and the others see the dangers of the path of the extraordinary, and they will be able to give up and settle down to their noble lives.

Afterwards, Fors Wall and Hugh Deercha repaid the entire price they had paid for rescuing Deercha from prison by saving the two men.

From then on, they were even and had no further contact.

But before the two could arrive, they heard several gunshots in the distance, followed by flames shooting into the sky and several loud explosions.

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Just as Audrey and Gretlint stepped out of the street where Mr. A's extraordinary party was taking place, a plume of black smoke billowed out from the shadows to their side.

The change came too suddenly, and the alley they were in was very narrow, leaving them nowhere to hide.

The moment Audrey was enveloped in the black smoke, she sensed something was wrong. She felt her limbs become heavy and her thoughts slowed down.

The short sword that Audrey had been holding was now rapidly enlarging.

This is Audrey's subconscious reaction after encountering danger; she wanted to turn her bracelet into a giant wooden shield to protect herself.

But before the bracelet could fully enlarge, the assassin hidden in the shadows rushed towards the two of them through the black smoke.

boom!

Audrey felt a sudden weight on her arm as her small, round shield, which had just grown to the size of a basin, was slashed down on it by the opponent's blade.

The attacker had a bad feeling when he saw the wooden shield in Audrey's hand growing rapidly, suspecting it was an extraordinary item.

But since it looked like a wooden object, the attacker thought that with his enhanced and powerful body and the curved blade in his hand, he should be able to break through the wooden shield with all his might.

To his surprise, not only was the wooden shield not split open, but the person holding the shield also withstood his full-force attack.

In fact, Audrey was also in bad shape. The opponent's previous strike was powerful and heavy, and it carried the kinetic energy from the sprint.

Although Audrey withstood the attack thanks to the immense physical enhancement brought by chakra, she now only felt pain in her arm, which limited her movement.

In fact, it wasn't just her arm; although the wooden shield blocked all of the opponent's attacks, they were all converted into impacts, injuring not only Audrey's arm but also her chest.

The impact left her unable to even cry out in pain, and she almost lost her breath.

As for the pain in her arm, that was perfectly normal, since the wooden shield formed by the divine tree did not provide any cushioning and directly fractured her forearm.

However, the surge of adrenaline at that moment allowed Audrey to temporarily block out these pains, and her mind was filled only with the fact that she had been attacked.

boom! boom! boom!

The moment the black smoke enveloped him, Grelint wanted to fire, but as an ordinary person without any enhancements, he was more affected by the black smoke.

His thoughts were almost instantly frozen, until a muffled thud beside him snapped him out of his blank state.

He fired several shots at the creature shrouded in black smoke, which could only be vaguely made out to be a human figure.

In Grelint's mind, he was firing continuously, but under the influence of the black smoke, there was at least a one-second interval between each shot.

Even so, at such close range, in a relatively enclosed alley, dodging bullets would be extremely difficult.

The attacker originally intended to cleave Audrey and her shield in one blow when he swung his sword at her, but Audrey blocked his attack with her wooden shield.

Forces are reciprocal; Audrey suffered a broken arm and two broken ribs as a result.

The attacker was also badly hurt. He felt a tremendous force rushing back from the curved blade, the tip of which nearly slashed his face.

That wasn't the end of it; his arms were numb, and he could barely feel his wrists, making it impossible for him to swing his knife again anytime soon.

Just then, a bullet came from the side, piercing his left chest and exiting from the acromion of his left shoulder.

The attacker intended to kill Grelint with a single blow, but his arms were weak, and the sudden gunshot wound made it impossible for him to continue attacking. He had no choice but to dodge and retreat temporarily.