Chapter 2911: A Assassination Plan
Chapter 2911: A Assassination Plan
Date: Unspecified
Time: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City
"What next?" Aqualas asked after the three of them emerged inside a quiet public park within Sky Blossom City.
Their shadow reflected off the damp grass under the distant city lights flickering beyond the trees. Around them, ordinary citizens continued their nightly routines completely unaware that three terrifying existences had just infiltrated the city beneath their feet.
"First, we find a hideout and locate Wyatt," Seraphina answered calmly. "We study his routine, his habits, the places he frequents, the people around him... everything."
Her eyes narrowed dangerously as killing intent flickered within them.
"Once we figure out when and where he’s at his most vulnerable, we ambush and assassinate him there."
A cold smile formed on her face, as if she could already see him drawing his last breath.
"And then we take over Sky Blossom city. Then, the Southern Region... no, all Five Regions... will remember that Seraphina Heatsend is still alive. They’ll remember they were supposed to fear and respect me."
The smile deepened further, carrying resentment accumulated over countless years.
Deep down, Seraphina still couldn’t let go of the humiliation she felt toward the descendants of her former allies. In her eyes, they were ungrateful inheritors living comfortably atop the legacy built by people like her, yet they had dared ignore her summons and refuse her authority outright.
"Do whatever you want as long as I get to continue my workout," Veerott replied indifferently.
He was absurdly easy to satisfy. As long as he could keep training and fighting strong opponents, he rarely cared about anything else happening around him.
Aqualas, on the other hand, was the complete opposite. She was unreasonable, impulsive, and impossible to manage once she grew bored.
"Whatever. I’m going to find that bitch Bloodette and kill her already. I’m sick of this gloomy bloodstorm hanging over the world," Aqualas declared irritably.
Before Seraphina could even object, Aqualas’s body dissolved into flowing water and sank straight into the ground. The earth swallowed her completely within seconds.
She hadn’t waited for permission because she already knew Seraphina would oppose the idea.
"Wait... Aqualas, come back! She’s being guarded by the Stone Supreme!"
Seraphina’s voice echoed helplessly through the empty park, but Aqualas was already gone.
Cursing under her breath, Seraphina immediately grabbed Veerott by the wrist and rushed toward the new TSR Guild headquarters, knowing Bloodette was hidden deep within its basement. The information had come directly from intelligence gathered by her grandniece, the Southern Princess.
"We need to help Aqualas, or all three of us might end up getting killed by them," Seraphina said grimly while sprinting through the city streets.
At that moment, she already understood her carefully planned assassination of the former Southern Hope had completely fallen apart because of Aqualas’s recklessness.
Now, none of that mattered anymore. All Seraphina cared about was stopping her idiotic friend from getting herself killed.
After being abandoned by most of her former allies and companions over the years, Seraphina had come to value her friendship with Aqualas and Veerott more than anything else.
Unlike the others, the two of them had shown up to help her without hesitation when she needed them most. Without bargaining or adding conditions or making demands for favors in return.
For someone like Seraphina, who was surrounded by betrayal and political scheming, that kind of loyalty meant far more than she would ever openly admit.
"We need disguises if we want to enter the building where Bloodette is being held," Seraphina said while quickly altering her appearance.
Her silver hair darkened into a modest brunette shade while her sharp features softened into those of an ordinary office worker. Moments later, a neat office lady uniform materialized around her body, completing the transformation into someone utterly forgettable.
At the same time, she conjured a gray business suit for Veerott. The massive man reluctantly squeezed into it before immediately frowning.
"It’s too tight," he complained while awkwardly tugging at the sleeves threatening to tear apart around his arms.
"It fits perfectly. Stop flexing your muscles every two seconds," Seraphina snapped irritably.
For a brief moment, Veerott’s behavior reminded her so much of her late brother that an old bittersweet memory surfaced in her mind. The resemblance annoyed her enough that she immediately shoved the thought away. This was the worst possible time to get sentimental.
After disguising themselves, the two boarded public transportation toward the new TSR Building while posing as prospective vendors hoping to establish business connections.
Unfortunately, keeping a low profile proved nearly impossible thanks to Veerott’s monstrous build.
Even while wearing formal clothes, he looked less like a businessman and more like a heavily armed mercenary pretending to attend a corporate meeting. People instinctively moved out of his way the moment he stepped into the transport carriage.
Fortunately for them, security within the city itself was relatively lax thanks to the overwhelming confidence everyone had in the city array formation and the secondary array protecting the TSR Campus.
After all, if their genius lord had never considered the possibility that intruders might infiltrate the city by literally becoming water itself, then how could they?
Card apprentices who comprehended Water Rules or related meanings could indeed transform parts of their bodies or their entire body into water-like states or water itself, but completely turning into ordinary water was considered impossible. Anyone who attempted such a thing would normally die in the process.
The logic behind it was simple.
Ordinary water possessed no independent will. Once a card apprentice fully became ordinary water, their consciousness would disappear alongside their identity. And if their will somehow still remained active within the water, then the water was no longer truly ordinary. The city array would immediately detect the lingering soul fluctuations and foreign will hidden within it.
That was why bypassing detection in such a manner was considered fundamentally impossible. But Aqualas was a completely different existence altogether.
As the Ocean Supreme, she had the Card World’s Ocean Rule Stream Spirit acting as her guardian angel and intermediary between herself and the concept of water itself. Because of that, she could achieve something that should have been impossible for normal card apprentices.
For brief periods, she could genuinely become part of natural water without leaving behind detectable traces of soul energy or will. To the city array formation, she and the others had simply been another stream flowing beneath the city. Nothing more.