Academy Assassination Genius

The reason Han So-yul stepped into the black market after a long time was because of her teacher’s call.

-It’s been a while since I’ve seen your face, and I’ve prepared a gift to congratulate you on admission. come visit me once

It was a blunt letter, but Han So-yul knew very well that he was a tender and affectionate person.

Because she, with her suspicious and cautious personality, was the only one she could open up to.

Even though I must have walked for quite a long time, the scenery of the alley did not change.

But even the scenery was familiar to her.

‘It’s not going to change. So, it must be something that those different species can live together.’

Even if you think about it, the people who live in this alley are strange beyond words.

Among them was her teacher.

At least unusually, it would fit within three fingers.

‘Even if the letter didn’t arrive, I was going to stop by once.’

Han So-yul walked at a slightly faster pace than usual as she walked down the dark alley.

She checked behind her just in case, but of course there was nothing.

‘I feel like someone keeps following me.’

It won’t be Hanzo.

I was a little embarrassed when we met in front of the entrance.

He had no reason to tail himself.

‘Either way, it’s because I’m in a situation where I have to follow.’

She checked the red jewel necklace hanging around her chest.

It took some trial and error, but it was not difficult to figure out the identity of the key.

‘I never thought that this much material would have been processed and rolled around like this.’

Dragon blood. The blood of an ancient dragon that must have lived for thousands of years.

The quantity itself is not large, but the ways to use it are endless.

I had to spend a lot of time and self-restraint for verification, but the prototype using it had just been completed last night.

‘It’s not at a level that can be used in actual combat, but with the advice of the master, that’ll be fine.’

The reason she visited this place today was mixed with such selfishness.

If the stability is increased and the side effects are reduced, the reagent made by refining the ancient dragon’s blood will be her trump card.

‘No matter how much I think about it, I don’t know how Hanzo knew and recommended this to me.’

I thought about asking Hanzo several times, but her pride wouldn’t allow it.

It was also because I intuitively felt that he would not give me an answer in a compliant way.

‘It’s nice to have a rare material called ancient dragon’s blood, but hmm… .’

I couldn’t help the reluctance that came from not knowing what Hanzo’s purpose was.

This is because she has a talent for alchemy.

It was because he had a great talent for exploring and doubting.

‘Turn around here and left again.’

In this unnecessarily large alley, several layers of magic such as spatial distortion and spatial repetition are overlapped.

Only the original form of the alley remained, and it would not be strange to call it a maze or labyrinth.

‘Left, left, right, left, turn around, left, right.’

She went round and round the same place several times and even went back the way she had come.

The alley repeats forever, and even if it goes straight in one direction, there is nothing at the end.

If you’re lucky, you’ll just end up being kicked out of the alley, but in the worst case, you could wander through the alley that repeats itself infinitely until you die.

rustle-

Her ears caught the small noise of cloth rubbing against cloth that would normally not be audible.

‘It’s not an illusion. I was tailed.’

A skill or characteristic.

I don’t know which one, but it was too late to notice because the signs were so faint.

She opened the reagent bottle she took from the holster at her waist and drank it in one gulp.

The sense of Han So-yul is expanded.

Her skin licked the flesh, and her ears listened to the mutilating footsteps.

The senses were intertwined, like touch and taste, hearing and smell, but it was quite familiar to her.

‘The number is one. Are you lucky?’

Her steps stopped, she looked back and opened her mouth.

Standing right under the lamppost, her shadow was unusually short.

“Come out because I know everything.”

She was not alone in an alley that seemed to repeat itself forever.

She spoke toward the darkness where the light of the street lamps could not reach.

wiggle-

the darkness moved

To be precise, a man dressed in black appeared.

“assassination? kidnap?”

As if she was used to it, she asked the man and took out a new reagent bottle.

The color of the liquid in the reagent bottle was an ominously dark purple.

“… … .”

The boundary between black clothing and darkness was ambiguous, and the expression hidden by the mask was unknown.

One thing Han So-yul can be sure of is that the man in front of her is a professional.

It was the fact that he was a human who made killing people his business.

‘It’s awful.’

Han So-yul’s senses smelled the thick blood on the man’s body.

Her brow furrowed at the rotten smell that had accumulated and died.

Even she, accustomed to the smell of blood, couldn’t stand it.

‘come.’

The body of the man who had been closing the distance without a word disappeared.

There was no time to drink the reagents that had been taken out.

The moment my senses sounded the alarm, I twisted my body.

“!”

squeak-

The sleeves of his clothes were cut off by the sword wielded by the assailant.

It was an attack I thought I had avoided, but her blood splattered along with her clothes.

The left arm around the shoulder was cut.

The wound wasn’t that big, but the wound had turned dark blue.

‘Poison, that’s pretty poisonous too.’

As soon as he realized that the dagger had been poisoned, symptoms of poisoning began to appear.

My heart was beating fast and my breathing was rapid.

Sensation in the wounded left hand disappeared, and the fingertips trembled regardless of the doctor.

‘He prides himself on being resistant to quite a few poisons.’

Rare Trait ＜Thousands of Poisons＞.

It was poisonous enough to pierce the strong resistance she had acquired.

Her curiosity was piqued by this, but there was no time to satisfy it.

‘fast.’

A dagger that was swung in succession.

This time, instead of dodging, I deflected the attack with a shield made with condensed magic.

magic shield.

A translucent magical shield materialized in front of her.

awesome-

The magic shield was cracked by the man’s dagger, but it gave him enough time to drink the reagent he had brought out earlier.

‘It’s fortunate that this reagent was taken out in case you didn’t know.’

She drank the dark purple reagent she had taken out.

gulp- gulp-

Suppressing the feeling of nausea, I drank all the reagents.

It didn’t taste like death, but it was better than real death.

‘Ugh, it’s tasteless. Of all the reagents I’ve made, this is the worst.’

What she drank was some kind of poison.

Poison diluted to a level her body could tolerate.

Even with her considerable resistance to poison, it was an item that needed to be diluted hundreds of times in order to use it.

“after… .”

Her breath turned purple.

The heart rate is three times the normal rate.

Blood vessels protruding through the skin.

Her eyes were stained red from the burst thread veins.

“The side effects have not been resolved yet, so I am afraid of the aftermath.”

Pachang!

The magic shield I had created was broken.

The poisoned dagger stabbed one after another.

But.

“… … !”

“why? Are you surprised that your left hand, which should not be able to move due to addiction, moved?”

The dagger aimed at Han So-yul’s heart was caught in her left hand.

Wood deuk-

The dagger in her grasp was crushed.

“Otherwise, would holding the dagger with bare hands and breaking it look more amazing?”

Even though he must have crushed the sword with his bare hands, there was not a single scratch on his palm.

The wound on his left arm, cut by the dagger, had healed, and his skin, which had been discolored to dark blue, regained its original color.

＜Refined and Diluted Dragon Blood＞

An elixir that explosively increases the quantity and quality of mana as well as physical ability.

Since it was just completed last night, the stability was poor, and the expected side effects after using it in practice were terrible.

It was better to be sick for a few days from the side effects than to die or be kidnapped.

In an instant, the balance of victory tilted.

The assassin’s attack did not reach Han So-yul.

On the other hand, Han So-yul’s attacks were gradually accumulating on the assassin’s body.

The clumsy swing of the fist throws the balance off, and the ensuing magic fire engraves the wound.

Boom!

The attacker’s body was pinned to the wall.

I put it in my hand enough not to die, but the taste was certain.

“Check where the guy came from… .”

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Jureuk-

Streams of blood flowed from her mouth.

The dripping blood was telling her that her condition was not normal.

‘I thought I deciphered it perfectly.’

It seemed that the poison that could not be removed was left in the body.

Fortunately, the assailant was defeated.

‘It will take a long time to come to your senses, so first get the antidote.’

The moment you searched through your bag to find the antidote.

“!”

Along with a fishy life, the surface of the reagent bottle he had just taken out reflected the assassin who had just been knocked down.

‘how?’

The man’s physical condition, which should have been mortally wounded, was too fine.

The smell of blood intensified.

Through the broken mask, protruding fangs were visible from the corner of the mouth.

‘vampire!’

He was no ordinary assassin.

A vampire assassin.

It was an unexpected stagnation.

With regret that he should have crushed his heart, he moved his body to react to the surprise attack.

“Ugh.”

Perhaps due to the poison, the body did not move properly.

Although it was Han So-yul who tried to give him his side with the feeling that he would give flesh and cut bones.

“You can’t be careless.”

She couldn’t help but be surprised once again by the familiar voice she heard.

“Hanzo?”

Hanzo stood behind her.

He grabbed the arm of the assailant who was holding the dagger with his bare hand and broke it.

Woodeuk- The wrist was broken, and the man missed the dagger.

Then, using the power of running, he pierced the stolen dagger into the attacker’s heart.

“!”

The assassin’s body turned to powder, leaving only moans that could not scream.

Daggers, daggers, and hidden poisons were buried in the ashes piled up on top of the clothes he was wearing.

“Whew, that was dangerous. Is not it?”

“Hanzo, why are you here?”

“Seeing how they got attacked by accident. It could have been a big deal.”

“by chance?”

“Yeah, by chance.”

Hanzo spoke calmly, but Han So-yul was sure.

The fact that the word ‘accidentally’ is a lie.

“Yeah, thank you for helping me ‘accidentally’.”

Instead of questioning, she meekly thanked Hanzo for his help.

I didn’t want to use the cliché of being a lifesaver, but it was also true that I owed my life.

* * *

I thought about it until the end.

Is it okay for me to intervene?

Is it okay if a flow different from the original is created because of that?

‘To put my worries to shame, I ended up intervening like this.’

But troubles will continue in the future.

As long as the yoke of the original work is tying me up, I will be faced with situations like this many times.

I will continue to choose.

Even in a series of choices, if you set up a single principle that won’t change.

‘It’s better to kill as few people as possible. Even where my eyes can reach.’

From the moment it was decided to take away the main character’s performance, the intervention of the original work and the resulting changes were predicted.

In the end, it’s just a matter of being early or late, and the knowledge of the original work I have will someday become useless.

‘I didn’t know that Han So-yul would be the first person to help by using the original story’s knowledge.’

Han So-yul recovered easily from the wound, but his complexion was pale because the antidote he had could not completely drive out the poison.

In addition, the flow of mana in her body was strange, perhaps as a side effect of the reagent she had just taken.

She was in a body that was not strange when she collapsed.

“Can you walk by yourself?”

“I’m not that bad.”

“I don’t think so.”

She refused my favor and walked alone with precarious steps.

Of course, it didn’t take long for me to lose my balance while walking alone.

I knew that, so I was able to catch him before he fell.

He wrapped Han So-yul’s arm around his neck.

“If you don’t want to be carried or held, at least take some help.”

“… yes.”

She herself would know best that her condition was not normal.

Because of the height difference, I had to bend deeply, but it wasn’t too uncomfortable.

“So Hanzo happened to help me.”

“Why was Han So-yul accidentally attacked by a vampire assassin?”

Not just an assassin, but being attacked by a vampire assassin.

I want bad luck too.

“Do you have something to do here too?”

“That’s the only thing that happens to pass around here.”

Maybe she noticed that I was following her.

But she didn’t do the stupid thing of questioning it.

“I came because I had something I could only buy here. Did you say that?”

“Because here, the Black Market is where you can get everything except what you don’t have.”

I don’t know how long I can live though.

It is necessary to thoroughly calculate the cost of transportation necessary for the return trip.

It’s too far to run back.

“Didn’t it come soon?”

“Turn left here and you will arrive.”

As she went around the alley, the scene that seemed to repeat forever came to an end.

This is the land of rest created by those who have turned their backs on the world.

A place where people who cut off communication with the outside and chose to live in hiding live together.

“Welcome to Hermit’s Rest.”