Vieri de Pache sat anxiously in the mansion, shaking his left leg rapidly, relying on the slight stinging pain in his crotch to try to prevent himself from falling asleep prematurely.
Under the strict control of the ascetic ideas of the Holy See, night entertainment methods in medieval Europe were very scarce, and they could not be improved even in the early Renaissance.
In the past, Vieri could find some female partners to play wrestling with, but now he does not have the appropriate hardware equipment.
Lacking entertainment options at night, the bored Vieri's eyelids began to twitch and he wanted to sleep like this until dawn.
Unsure of what day the assassin would arrive, Vieri's sense of luck finally made him unable to resist the intrusion of sleep, and he fell onto the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
The elite Templars who were on guard duty were not as useless as Vieri. They were still patrolling around the mansion with kerosene lamps in high spirits.
As Lu Xiao accelerated towards the mansion, the fire on the roof gradually spread.
The rising temperature and amplified firelight overhead aroused the alertness of several Templar knights. They loudly asked their fellow archers on the roof about the situation, but of course they received no response.
"Something's wrong, be vigilant!"
A strong man wearing full armor commanded in a deep voice: "Dario, Luca, you two go up and check the situation."
"yes."
Two Templars wearing light leather armor stepped on the outer wall and climbed up. The two people with relatively flexible movements quickly reached the roof.
The first thing that appeared in front of them was the wooden roof structure that was ignited by the fire, and then there were two corpses with arrows in their heads.
"Team...uh!"
Daario was shocked and was about to issue a warning below. Arrows from nowhere shot through the throats of him and Luca. The two fell to the ground softly under the attention of other Templar knights.
"Enemy attack!"
Although it is still unclear why the two fell, the Templar captain wearing full armor still roared at the top of his voice based on his experience. A black shadow that flashed quickly had already approached these people with the help of the shadow of the building illuminated by the fire.
Knights Templar.
Everyone in the mansion who slept in shifts was awakened by the knight captain's broken voice, and hurriedly began to put on their clothes and armor, including Vieri, who had just slept in his clothes.
He rushed out of the room before the others, and what caught Vieri's eyes was several twitching corpses and scarlet blood all over the floor.
"this……"
It was not that Vieri, who was cruel and tyrannical by nature, had never seen blood, he just didn't expect that after he fell asleep for just a short while, the tightly guarded mansion would be violently attacked by the enemy.
"Where are the enemies? How many are there? Have the assassins sent out a large force?"
The other Templars who had just put on their armor and ran out looked at each other, and no one could answer Vieri's question.
"drink!"
The sound of shouts and weapons clashing not far away attracted the attention of Vieri and a dozen guards on duty, and the group hurriedly accelerated towards the place where the sound came from.
"Well!"
Vieri arrived at the scene just in time to see the Templar captain, who was wearing full armor, being held down by a suspicious man wearing a gray hooded robe.
In his panic, Vieri did not forget the education he had received since childhood. He pulled out the gorgeous long sword at his waist and issued an order: "Archers shoot!"
Seeing the arrival of enemy reinforcements, the man in gray robe did not stay where he was. He gave up the iron can in front of him and hid in the shadow of the building again.
The Templar captain staggered back two steps, finally unable to maintain his center of gravity, and his body in heavy armor fell to the ground.
A Templar knight next to Vieri hurriedly stepped forward to check and found that the heavy-armored captain's neck armor had been punctured with a tiny opening. The blood gushing from the neck artery had spread from the armor. Apparently, it had
There's no hope.
"Damn assassin!"
Vieri also noticed the miserable condition of the highest-ranking Templar captain. He gritted his teeth and waved the long sword in his hand randomly.
"Look for it quickly! I want to get the exact number of assassins who invaded the mansion in the shortest possible time!"
"yes!"
Some people were left to protect Vieri, while the other Templars dispersed in an orderly manner to search the mansion.
More shocking corpses appeared in front of them. Most of the corpses had only very small wounds, but the location of these wounds was very fatal, directly leading to their death.
…
"Huh~"
Relying on the stupid division order issued by his pig-like opponent, Lu Xiao, who had just exercised vigorously, successfully sneaked into the weakly defended mansion.
After repeatedly forcibly using the hidden sword to kill through the armor, Lu Xiao could feel that the hidden sword on the dominant side of his right hand was starting to become dull.
'Although it was a little different from the original plan, I finally managed to sneak into the mansion.'
Given Vieri's personality, most of the letters were placed in the master bedroom of the mansion for his personal keeping.
Lu Xiao quietly walked around the Templars who were searching for her whereabouts. Taking advantage of Vieri's nervousness and unable to think calmly, Lu Xiao quietly slipped into his bedroom through the window on the other side.
‘Bingo~’
Use your hidden sword to carefully open the small box on the table [Youyou Reading www.uutxt.me]. The encrypted text pages stored inside confirmed that it was Altaïr's codex.
Lu Xiao took the letters out of the box and put them into the secret pocket on his chest. Lu Xiao closed the lid of the box again, quietly exited the room via the original route, and thoughtfully closed the window for Vieri.
It's not that Lu Xiao didn't want to take this opportunity to kill Vieri, but this coward who was afraid of death was accompanied by nearly ten Templar guards.
When the enemy was on high alert, it was difficult for Lu Xiao to quickly kill all the guards around Vieri by surprise. Instead, it was easy for him to get stuck in a quagmire and unable to extricate himself.
Even in the tense mission situation, Lu Xiao still remained calm enough. Seeing that there was nothing he could do, he immediately decided to evacuate.
"Well!"
He rushed out from the shadow of the building, covered the mouth of a Templar blocking the way from behind, and thrust the intact hidden sword in his left hand into the back of his neck.
The Templar was unable to scream, and only let out a muffled groan under Lu Xiao's restriction.
After dragging the body into the shadows and hiding it, Lu Xiao quickly climbed up the wall and jumped out of the mansion.
"There!"
Someone spotted Lu Xiao climbing up the wall, but when the archer fired the arrow, Lu Xiao had already landed on the other side of the house, and disappeared between the market stalls in the complex terrain in a few steps.
Seeing the other party's fleeing figure, Vieri finally woke up from his hot-blooded state. His heart went cold and he hurried back to his room to check the situation.
Seeing that the box on the table was safe and sound, Vieri was relieved. However, when he opened the box for further inspection, the heir to the Pazzi family's blood pressure increased again.
"Chase! Chase me! We must get back the stolen notes!"
It was obviously too late to issue the pursuit order at this time. Lu Xiao, who had repeatedly surveyed the nearby terrain, quickly left the market, climbed onto the roof again and fled quickly, returning to the Auditore House in just a quarter of an hour.
Di.
"Huh~"
Putting down the blood-stained hood, Lu Xiao began to calm down the rapid breathing caused by running at high speed for a long time.
The system issued a new prompt at exactly this time: "The random mission is completed. Sneak into the Templar stronghold and steal the codex. You will be rewarded with an outstanding lottery chance in this world."
'oh?'
"Crunch~"
Before Lu Xiao could check the reward, one of the doors of the Auditore mansion quietly opened, and a sneaky shadow crouched out of the room, just in time to meet Lu Xiao, who was resting in the atrium.
The two people who were looking at each other used the faint moonlight to see each other's appearance clearly. Lu Xiao looked at Ezio in front of him speechlessly: "Where are you going to sneak away at this time? Isn't Lady Maria's education strict enough?
"
Ezio was also surprised to see the large traces of blood on Lu Xiao's gray robe: "Lu, what are you..."
"It seems it's time."
Giovanni, who had been autistic for many days, walked out of the shadows and looked at Ezio with a serious expression.
"You two come with me. This is not the place to talk. Don't wake Petruchio and Claudia."