Night Ranger

"Challenge from the King of Assassins?"

One-eyed Byrd looked at Marvin up and down, and couldn't help but said, "If I'm not mistaken, you should be a ranger, right?"

Marvin nodded and said casually:

"I remember that the rule is that all rogue professions can participate, right?"

Byrd scratched his head, a little bewildered.

Rules are one thing, but reality is another. This was the first time he encountered such a situation.

Ranger to challenge the King of Assassins? Isn't this a mess?

Several instructors who seemed to be in charge of training assassin apprentices heard the conversation between the two and walked over together.

They surrounded Marvin. There are also a few scimitar warriors who are responsible for maintaining order.

One of the scimitar warriors of the Bai nationality said arrogantly: "Want to participate in the challenge of the King of Assassins?"

"You have to ask about the scimitar in my hand first..."

However, before he finished speaking, Ma Wen suddenly made a lightning strike!

Shadow cuts!

The distance between the two sides instantly narrowed.

With a clean hand knife, the opponent let out a cry of pain, his left wrist was cut to the point, and the scimitar was about to fall.

At this moment, Marvin took advantage of the situation.

Grab the blade successfully!

With a bang, he slashed at the forearm of the opponent's other hand with a backhand!

The scimitar warrior looked ashen.

Marvin's speed was really too fast, in a flash, before the rest of the people could react, he had already completed all the movements!

Fortunately, Marvin used the back of the knife. Otherwise, this time, his forearm will be lost.

With a sound of swiping, everyone else drew out their weapons at the same time. Looking at Marvin coldly.

Marvin turned the scimitar in his hand, returned it to the scimitar warrior, and said calmly:

"Is this how you Bai people welcome challengers?"

Among the instructors, one seemed to be the leader, and he looked at Byrd:

"One-eyed, this is the person you brought, what do you say?"

Bird shrugged: "According to the rules. Rangers are indeed eligible to participate in the [Assassin King] challenge."

The instructor sneered: "Very good. Then, let him participate."

"I'll be in charge of the first level myself."

As soon as this statement came out. The eyes of everyone looking at Marvin suddenly turned into sympathy.

Although Marvin's attack was frighteningly fast just now, it was more or less like a sneak attack, and the scimitar warrior he attacked was only at the second-order level.

However, this instructor. But one of the leaders of Shadow Valley, a level 15 character, a master dagger proficient, a strong man who may be promoted to the fourth level at any time!

If he were to be in charge of the first level, this ranger who came out of nowhere would definitely be hopeless.

Bird frowned slightly and looked at Marvin.

Marvin said easily: "Just follow the rules."

...

Challenge of the King of Assassins.

This is a challenge project with a long history. Since the establishment of Shadow Valley, there have been almost every day the participants of the King of Assassins challenge.

only. Those challengers are all assassins.

A ranger like Marvin, although he is also a wanderer, is like a mountain. It was the first time in many years that someone came to participate in the challenge of the King of Assassins.

All of a sudden, the news spread throughout the Shadow Valley as if it had grown wings.

All the people who have nothing to do come to watch.

This is an invisible pressure for those who participate in the challenge of the King of Assassins.

But the challenge itself. It includes the test of the ability to deal with various tasks under high-pressure conditions.

As for Marvin, he didn't even care about other people's whispers. It will not affect his performance at all!

"If it wasn't for the [Black Hole] pass, I wouldn't be bothered to participate in the King of Assassins challenge."

"Only by completing more than two challenges can you be recognized by the Assassin League and get a pass."

The black hole is a secret passage leading to the underground world.

Marvin is not interested in entering the underground world for the time being, but through the black hole, he can find a dark river. Following that dark river, he can directly cross the Sage Desert and reach the Rocky Mountain.

It is much faster to go underground than on the ground. What he lacks most now is time. Arriving at Luanshi Mountain as soon as possible and finding the fire of order is his ultimate goal.

But thinking about it carefully, the challenge of the King of Assassins is not without its benefits.

According to Marvin's memory, every time he wins a project, he can gain a level of [Dagger] control.

This basic ability seems useless to Marvin, after all, he is using a scimitar now, but once he is promoted to Lord of the Night, if he has both the legendary level [Scimitar Control] and [Dagger Control], then these two basic abilities The abilities will be combined into one and become the legendary level [Short Weapon Control].

At that point, he can switch back and forth between a machete and a dagger with ease--provided he's quick enough, or has the item to quickly switch weapons.

No matter what, for Marvin, he had to participate in the King of Assassins challenge.

The whole challenge is divided into many projects.

The first item is to defeat an assassin of the same rank.

This level is a test of comprehensive actual combat ability.

Generally speaking, more than 80% of the people fell in the first level. The instructors in the League of Assassins are all top-notch in actual combat ability.

For example, Marvin's opponent, the guy named Juventus.

...

"Mr. Marvin, if you are ready, please tear off the black scarf from your chest."

In a rather open room, a staff member said so, and then he slowly exited the room.

Above the room, countless pairs of eyes were fixed on Marvin.

The latter remained silent for a long time.

The crowd got impatient and booed everywhere.

Marvin still closed his eyes, quietly feeling the empty surroundings.

Here are the rules.

Once the black scarf is not torn off. The challenge has not started, and Juventus cannot attack itself.

Assassin vs. Ranger is actually a disadvantaged duel. Rangers have the same impressive agility. Especially the dual-knife ranger, the crispy assassin can't even stand the ranger's knife.

But the [King of Assassins] challenge was unfair. Juwen entered the room one step ahead of Marvin, and he chose to sneak or hide—God knows where he is now.

As long as Marvin tore off the black scarf, he might launch an attack in an instant!

The boos of those audiences are actually helping Juventus to blind Marvin's perception.

At least [listen] is useless.

Marvin was not in a hurry, he gently pressed his right hand on the black scarf on his chest.

Everyone became quieter for a moment.

Yet he didn't tear it off. Just press, and slowly pace the room!

"coward!"

"Hurry up if you want to do it!"

"How can such rubbish be eligible to participate in the [Assassin King] challenge?"

The audience immediately began to curse.

The residents of Shadowvale didn't like the ranger challenger. Seeing that Marvin was such a rascal, he couldn't help but yell.

Because Marvin can't use any props except weapons, he can only use his own strength to break the assassin's invisibility.

Juve's stealth is great. At least he couldn't feel any traces.

Fortunately, Marvin has participated in the challenges of the King of Assassins many times, so he has a lot of experience.

Most opponents should choose the slow-moving [stealth].

According to his experience, Juventus should keep a distance of about six steps from him now, generally speaking, not behind - because this direction is easy to focus on - of course not directly in front, but on the side.

"Left? Or right?"

Marvin stopped.

His place happens to be in the very center of the room. This place is the best place to grab the initiative.

In the next second, amidst the abuse from the audience. Ma Wen suddenly tore off the black scarf.

At that moment, he threw a large black square scarf violently to his right hand.

Then the right foot exerted strength, and the whole person rushed to the left like a tiger. Slash with two swords!

The whole process is done in one go, very smooth.

This is a strategy carefully prepared by Marvin. Whether it is the left or the right, Juventus will definitely not be able to get the comfortable shooting space he wants!

Everyone's eyes widened, and they saw where Marvin was rushing. Wherever the two knives touched, there was nothing.

And the black towel. It also slowly fell to the ground.

Neither left nor right!

"Damn it, this Juventus is very tolerant..."

Marvin's heart sank.

However, at this moment, a cold chill hit him from behind!

It's behind!

A cold dagger suddenly appeared on his neck.

cut throat!

Everyone immediately held their breath.

...

In an instant, Marvin reacted—his body jerked backwards.

Accompanied by Juwen's unprepared "Ah", the back of Marvin's head hit Juwen's nose hard, and the scimitar in his left hand was reversed at a very clever angle, and he was stuck in the narrow space created between the electric light and flint. Hold the dagger so that it will not move forward.

A smile appeared on the corner of Marvin's mouth.

Throat cut? You are the ancestor who cut your throat! If he didn't even know how to crack this trick, he wouldn't have risked his life to participate in the challenge of the King of Assassins!

Next, it became Marvin's counterattack time. He instantly let go of the scimitar in his right hand, and grabbed Juventus' right wrist.

Juventus, who was in severe pain, didn't even have time to use [Disappear] or [Strong Invisibility]!

Ma Wen took advantage of the situation and slashed fiercely with the scimitar in his left hand!

bang!

Juwen couldn't dodge in time, so he barely carried it with the dagger, but in the next second, Marvin's scimitar slid down the dagger, directly onto Juventus' shoulder blades!

Snapped!

The scimitar pierced into the flesh, Juwen screamed, and his left hand, which was just about to fight back, also lost strength.

Ma Wen let go, and kicked him mercilessly in the stomach. The latter was kicked flying, and hit the wall in a state of embarrassment.

Everyone was in an uproar!

Marvin was able to break through Juventus' cut throat so easily and freely, and even counterattacked in an instant, directly knocking Juventus down!

This kind of responsiveness and actual combat ability should not appear in a boy who looks like he is only in his teens.

He looks like a complete old fritter.

But no matter what, Juventus lost.

On Marvin's data panel, it shows that the dagger control is +1, and he has obtained the [entry] level of control ability.

"Let's go to the next project."

he told the staff.

... (to be continued)

ps: The third update is here!