Fantasy Assassin in a modern world

While Fade was rescuing civilians he once again spotted the weird people he saw at the start of the incident in the corner of his eye. Unlike everyone else, they were not panicking and moving in a militaristic manner. Fade saw that these people were now each carrying a large wrapped object. Once the group arrived at a corner of a building they quickly separated and headed in different directions, and surprisingly they all now had the same large wrapped object.

Currently, Fade had no time to worry about who those people were, he already had his hands full with rescuing civilians.

‘Still just in case.’ Fade took a picture of the object and some of the people using his phone and sent it to Harold. He then messaged Harold and told him to inform the military, of course, anonymously. While he was doing this Fade saw that he had a ton of missed calls from his siblings, but for now, he did not bother to look at them. There was even one missed call from Matsuri.

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While Fade continued to save as many civilians as he could, the unit of the Elite Dragon Brigade finally arrived. Once they were on the scene the Gigantes were quickly subdued and the turmoil eased up.

Fade was looking at the progress of the Elite Dragon Brigade from a distance, he was about to head back to meet up with his companions when he then felt a familiar presence had appeared behind him. The steps of the person were as light as a feather and barely made a sound, but her aura was not hidden and it didn’t seem like she was hiding in the first place. Fade quickly raised his hand and wires came flying out. A sword had flashed by and almost reached Fade’s neck but was stopped by the wires.

“It’s you again.”

Fade looked behind him and as he expected it was the beautiful and deadly Leila who had appeared, she was smiling so brightly as she was about to strike Fade.

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“As expected of you Fade, you were able to block my surprise attack.”

“Hmph, you call that a surprise attack?... Anyway, even if I didn’t block that strike it wouldn’t hit me, right?”

Leila showed a very bright smile as she pulled her sword out from the wires and backed away. She then giggled which sounded like a melodious bell.

“You really are the best! You know me so well!” Leila spoke with utter excitement her eyes seem to sparkle as she looked at Fade. “I really want to play with you, but I can’t at the moment.” Leila licked her lips seductively as she looked at Fade as if she was eyeing a piece of diamond.

“What is it that you want?”

“Nothing much, I just wanted to have a little talk with you. I heard that you met the Alchemist.”

When Fade heard Leila speak about the Alchemist, Fade who was about ready to go was now interested to hear what Leila had to say.

“So what?” Hearing Fade’s response Leila’s excitement had reached a new height.

“You really faced the Alchemist and lived to tell the tale! I knew it, I just knew it! To think an unknown assassin like you who isn’t even in the Dark rankings was able to hold your own against the Alchemist.”

“Is that such a big deal?”

“You might now know it, but the Alchemist is part of a group that calls themselves the End of Twilight. Every member of the group is a powerful individual, and most of them aren’t even martial artists, they use something different from a martial artist’s inner energy, they call it the spirit of the world or something.”

‘So there are more people out there that can use mana.’

“Alright then, since you said all that you wanted to say.” As Fade turned around and was about ready to leave he suddenly felt something coming at him. Fade bent his head to the side as something flew past him.

“It’s very rude to leave a lady while she’s not done talking.”

“What else do you want to say?”

“My leader wanted me to ask you if you’re interested in joining our group.”

“Oh, your group, and what kind of group is it?”

“Our group operates similarly to you, we hide in the shadows and protect the people by preventing disasters. Sometimes we do some bad things for the greater good just like you. Of course, our ultimate goal is to save as many as we can from the final outbreak.”

“The Final outbreak, what is that?”

Leila opened her mouth and seemed to be about to say something but then she raised her finger and placed it on her lips with a cunning smile.

“About that, if you want to learn more then you need to join. Of course, there are many benefits in joining our group.” Leila raised a little bit of her skirt showing a bit more of her lovely legs. She couldn’t see if Fade was looking at her legs because of his mask but she felt that no man could resist looking at her beautiful long legs.

“I see, but sorry I won’t be joining... I’ll be leaving first.”

“Wait! Here just in case you change your mind.” Leila tossed a black blank card. Fade caught the card and looked at it curiously.

“Just insert a little bit of inner energy into the card and you’ll find a way to contact us. Just in case you change your mind.”

Fade was rather surprised that Leila was not as forceful in recruiting him as he imagined, after nodding his head Fade jumped off the building and used the wires to pull himself to the building in the neighboring street. Seeing him leave just like that Leila smiled joyfully and also left the scene.