Ad Sis had cshed well over a thousand times already, but this time it was different. Ordinarily, after having his attacks blocked or parried, Sis would seemingly vanish into the wind, only to appear behind the dark-haired teen aiming for what should be a blind spot, but this time…

  As the bdes of the sword and give made tact, Sis was forced several steps back.

  “You…” Sis said in shock as he looked at A disbelief, with a trickle of blood falling from the er of his mouth. “What did you do?”

  “You really want to know?” Ace smirked as his body disappeared, leaving nothing but a trail of fire and a faint afterimage in his wake. “Let me show you!”

  This was the first time that Ace was able to take the initiative, and he had every iion of taking full advantage of it.

  Sis knew Ace was merely provoking him in the hopes he’d make a mistake, and if he was ho, there was a big part of him that wao throw caution to the wind and wipe the smirk off Ace’s annoying face, but what kind of assassin would he be if he allowed him to get riled up so easily. Plus, his insides were still ing.

  He didn’t know what happened. On the surface, Ace’s st attack had been ner than any of the previous ones, but as soon as their ons made tact, his insides felt like they’d just been rattled by some sort of shockwave.

  Although it wasn’t life-threatening, it was far from fortable. As such, as soon as Ace went oack, Sis vanished into the wind, hoping to buy some time for his io calm. Unfortunately, Ace wasn’t about to let him rest so easily.

  Sis’ eyes suddenly bulged as he saw his oppo somehow follow him, the obsidian bde of Ace’s give arg through the air to chop off his head.

  It had to be uood that Sis’ movement teique, [Vanishing Winds], was a movement teique created and perfected by his master, Ragnor, that allowed the user to truly bee oh the wind, allowing them to all but hide their preseirely.

  The profundity of the teique meant that the only way to find the user was for you to have a higher prehension of the ws of wind or have access to the ‘divine sense’ of a deity.

  Ordinarily, the only way to ter the users of this particur teique was to wait for them to attack, as they became visible agaitag, but Ace genuinely seemed able to locate him.

  Sis khat Ace wasn’t a wind user, and even though he had a powerful soul that surpassed his own, which allowed him to sehe presence of the other assassins from ‘Saber’ that had tried to ambush him in the past, it definitely wasn’t at the level of a deity.

  Just to err on the side of caution, during their first few exges, Sis made sure to pay special attention to Ace’s reas whilst he was merged with the wind, and although Ace had been able to somehow block all of his attacks, he could see from his expressions that Ace wasn’t actually able to sense his presence whilst he wasn’t attag.

  Sis’ shock was uandable, but there was no time for him to sit and think about how Ace was able to do it. Ace’s give was nearing his neck, and he didn’t have time to dodge.

  As unwilling as he was, all he could do was allow Ace’s fme-coated bde to csh with his battle-qi-coated sword, praying to the sn of wind that Ace wouldn’t be able to use the same teique again.

  “Ugh!” Sis grunted, coughing a mouthful of blood as he used the force of the impact to help him create some distance.

  ‘[Internal Destru] really is a useful teique!’ Ace thought to himself as he tio chase after his white-haired oppo. Unfortunately, Sis had learnt from his previous mistake.

  Instead of relying on the invisibility aspect of his movement teique, he focused on his raw speed to put as much distaween them as possible, and even with the new and improved [Soru], the differen speed wasly marginal.

  “So much for capturio force Kong out of hiding,” Ace teased as he tio chase after Sis. “At the moment, you don’t seem to be able to do anything but run away!”

  It was at that moment that Ace’s brows raised with a hint of surprise.

  Sis’ body suddenly split in two, creating two virtually perfect versions of himself. So perfect that not even Ace, with his [Observation], could sehe difference.

  “Since you’re in such a hurry to die, allow me to send you on your way!” Sis voiced coldly as both bodies tore through the air.

  Even though he couldn’t tell which was the real body, Ace wasn’t worried.

  As Sis was running areviously, Ace had to use his ordinairy [Observation] to keep track of the white-haired assassin as his pressed [Observation] only covered a total of 70 meters.

  What shocked him was that even when Sis ehe range of his pressed [Observation], he still couldn’t tell the inal from the e.

  Whether it was their mind, body, or even soul, the two Sis’ appeared to be exactly the same.

  Fighting one Sis was hard enough. Fighting two and finding a ce to terattack with both seemingly equal to the inal in every way was nigh impossible, especially as he didn’t even know which body he should be fog on. Unless…

  Ace’s eyes fshed with resolve as he steeled himself.

  The two es were approag from different sides in an attempt to force Ace to have to make a choi which body he wao deal with, and if anyone were able to watch, it’d look like Ace had frozen with fear, but as soon as the two es were a fra of a sed away, Ace’s eyes fshed, as his [queror’s Hak exploded out of him.

  “It’s you!” Ace excimed as one of the two es appeared dazed before he could nd his attack.

  Ace shifted his body slightly so the sword aiming towards his heart from his rear would miss any vital ans, whilst the bde of his give created a perfect ar the air, ly slig through the neck of the body Ace had found to be the inal.

  Before Ace could celebrate, his eyes suddenly turned into pinholes as he felt what the sword of whom he believed to be the e exiting his back.

  Without a sed of hesitation, the fiery ‘battle-qi’ coating his body exploded from behind, just enough to slow the sword pierg towards his head.

  Ace hurriedly turo face his oppo as his give shot forth like a meteor leaving a trail of fire in its wake, barely making it in time to meet the ining sword.

  As the two bdes met, both Ad Sis leapt back, creating some space.

  Ace ighe hole in his back as he studied the young man in front of him incredulously. He knows his haki definitely attacked the sciousness of the real body, a, he could only wat shock as the body he was certain was the inal faded out of existence.

  “That shouldn’t be possible. Unless…” Ace muttered softly, still trying to his head around what just happened. “Your sciousness s bodies at will.”

  As surprised as Ace was, how could it pare to Sis’ shock? Ace was a child more than half his age, a, even though he had suffered an injury, he had lived through his secret teique.

  For ten years, he locked himself behind closed doors to train in order to avenge his loss to Wukong. In that time, not only did he reach the ninth ah ranks as a warrior and mage respectively, his prehension had even stepped into the profound realms. Something that evaded even Olivier – ‘The Sword Prodigy’ – Akerlund till now.

  He genuinely believed that with the help of his secret teique, he would be able to avenge his loss. But if things keep going as they are, before he evehe ce to challenge Wukong, he might actually lose to a teenager whom he suspects to be Wukong’s junior brother.

  “Ace!”

  “ROAR!”

  Ace looked down at the ground to find Leo and Killian standing in the middle of a gruesome battlefield with the corpses of over 100 assassins lying by their feet. Both stared up at Sis coldly, ready to take a to assist Ace at a moment’s notice.

  “Don’t worry about me; go find Alissa. She’s still imprisoned with a warrior at the middle stages of the ninth rank guarding her,” Ace stated calmly. “Leave this to me!”

  Seeing the blood falling from the wound on Ace’s back worried Killian and Leo, but they both trusted Ace explicitly.

  After taking one final g Ad his oppo, Leo and Kil turo hurriedly find Alissa.

  Sis khat had Leo and Killian joined Ace, he likely wouldn’t stand a ce, especially with the internal injuries he’d already suffered. Still, his eyes never left Ace for even a sed.

  “I admit it; you’re by far the most talented person I’ve ever met,” Sis stated as the shod unwillingness in his eyes receded, slowly transf into resolve. “But I won’t lose; I refuse to lose!”

  As Ace met his gaze, he had to admit he was slightly surprised. He could guess that like Chukaya from the Rohault Empire, Sis more than likely grew up being hailed as an unrivalled genius in ‘Saber’, but uhe so-called stro of the Rohault Empire’s three geniuses, when running into someone more talehan him, instead of allowing it to hinder him, Sis used it as fuel to improve himself.

  “her will I!” Ace said calmly as the respect he felt for his oppo grew.

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