Isekai Assassin: Volume 4 (A Gamelit Dark Fantasy Adventure) by Grayson Sinclair

Author:Grayson Sinclair [Sinclair, Grayson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12- A Contract Fulfilled

As the two of us stepped into the office building, already there was a buzz of activity in the distance behind a pair of wooden doors. Aless and I looked at each other with small smiles across our faces.

“Looks like they’ve gathered a welcome party for us,” she said.

“Aw. How thoughtful of them.”

She tried to hide her chuckle as she drew her twin daggers. “How do you want to do this?”

I looked over at her and smiled. “Together.”

“I like that.”

She held her smirk as we approached the door, and I checked that it wasn’t trapped. There wasn’t anything that I could tell, but the doors were locked.

Fortunately, the wood was thin and the lock cheap, nothing more than something to ward off the occasional low-ranked thief. Certainly nothing I needed to be concerned about.

“You know, it’s quite rude of them to go through the trouble of setting up a party and then trying to lock us out of it.” I tapped the lock with my finger. “Some people are so rude.”

Aless tired very hard to fight back a laugh. “Well, we should teach them it’s not nice to exclude others.”

She stepped up and activated As Swift as the Wind, and as a pale green glow rose just off her skin and a gust of wind stirred up around her, she took a step and kicked the door with all of her considerable strength. The wood splintered and the entire housing for the lock sheared off as both doors ripped off their hinges and flew inward, coming to rest a few feet away.

We entered into what was a large office room, with plenty of wooden desks and leather chairs dotted around, as well as several mountains of papers and parchment strewn between them.

And at the very back, next to a door that led to a set of stairs, were about eight of the cheapest thugs the adventurer’s guild could muster up, all of them armed, and all of them staring straight at us.

As soon as we stepped in, one of the men wielding a heavy crossbow fired. A sharp twang sounded as the bolt whistled and flew toward Aless.

She simply stepped forward and turned, catching the quarrel just before it sailed passed her. And in the same motion, she used the momentum as she spun and launched the bolt right back at its owner. Aided by her enhanced strength and As Swift as the Wind, the bolt might as well have been launched from a crossbow for the speed at which she threw it.

The quarrel whipped right back around in a flash, and Aless’s aim was true as it buried itself into the forehead of the man who’d tried to take her life.

“Oh,” he said, and then pitched forward before leaking blood all over the stained hardwood floor.

Aless frowned. “Sorry. I hate to return gifts, but it really wasn’t my style. Death by crossbow bolt suits what’s-his-face so much better.”

At his death, the others glanced down at their mutilated colleague, in shock at the turn of events.

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