Chapter 33 What is Unparalleled (Tactical Leaning Back)
The main task is completed. In order to meet the deadline, Lu Xiao does not need to be so cautious in his next actions.
Judging from the height of the upper passage of the library, it is likely that the top is one of the countless towers in the city. Once the collection of assassins' tombs is completed, Lu Xiao can use the Leap of Faith to quickly escape from possible enemy pursuits from behind.
Returning to the library through the skylight, Lu Xiao stood on the beam and took off the modified short bow from his back, and first aimed at the three guards farthest from him.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Three arrows were fired in a row. With the blessing of dynamic vision, the arrows accurately hit the foreheads of the three people. Their brains were penetrated and they fell to the ground without even letting out their final screams.
Before the other guards had time to react, Lu Xiao kept shooting the guards who were directly exposed within his shooting angle one by one, following the principle from far to near.
Companions fell down one after another after being hit by arrows, which naturally aroused the alertness of the remaining guards.
One of the guards, wearing only light leather armor, ran outside under the orders of his superiors, preparing to run outside the door to sound the alarm and call for backup.
"Whoosh!"
Before the messenger could reach the gate, Lu Xiao's powerful and heavy arrow pierced his head wearing a leather helmet.
The remaining guards finally captured Lu Xiao's position with this arrow, and one by one they hid behind the nearest bookshelf to avoid being attacked by snipers.
Taking advantage of the guards blocking his view behind the bookshelf, Lu Xiao deftly jumped forward on the beam.
When several guards carefully poked their heads out from behind the bookshelf, arrows shot from the other side hit their heads again.
Since this time it was a stealth operation, it was inconvenient for Lu Xiao to put too many arrows in his quiver to avoid hindering the action.
After killing ten guards, his reserve of arrows was exhausted, and there were only six enemies left in the library hiding behind the bookshelves like frightened birds.
"Whoa!"
Lu Xiao caught a trembling guard from above, popped out his hidden sword and jumped down from a high place, neatly "calming" his fear.
"Here!"
A guard at the rear discovered Lu Xiao's traces and warned his companions in a voice that was so nervous that he changed his pitch. At the same time, he raised his sword high, intending to attack Lu Xiao from behind when he was not prepared.
Lu Xiao had actually memorized the opponent's position in his mind before launching the downward assassination. The guard who thought he had succeeded was faced with a vicious attack like a Scorpio's tail.
The blade of the ejected leather boots drew a bright silver light from bottom to top, and a thin red line was cut from the guard's chest to his forehead.
The guard with dull eyes dropped the weapon in his hand with a clang, and the coquettish red blood shot out as he fell to the ground.
The other four guards had just walked around the bookshelf where they were hiding. They happened to see the scene of their companions being tragically killed. The flowers of blood flying in the sky had different mental effects on the four of them.
One of them stopped in fear, turned around, and planned to turn around and run away.
Lu Xiao swung out the flying knife that had been prepared from the inside of the gauntlet where the Hidden Blade was hidden, and plunged it into the back of the guard's head before he could use his legs to escape.
The two guards at the front had bravely raised their weapons and launched a desperate attack on Lu Xiao, roaring like a slaughtering pig.
Although the last guard did not turn around and run away, his steps slowed down significantly and he was obviously hesitant.
"Dang~"
The hidden swords of both hands popped out, and with higher agility, the one who came first and then pressed them sideways on the two men's weapons, deflected their attacks with gentle strength, and let the two guards' long swords cut each other together.
At the same time, Lu Xiao retracted his hands slightly, opened a short distance, then used force again, and at the same time stabbed the two people who were caught off guard in the front of their necks.
"Evil...devil!"
The guard who fell behind saw that all his companions were killed in just half a minute. His spirit was on the verge of collapse. He fell to the ground with tears streaming down his face. He moved his body with difficulty, subconsciously trying to stay away from the stains on his robe.
Bloody Lu Xiao.
When performing his mission, Lu Xiao will not have any sympathy or compassion for the enemy. The sound of rapid footsteps coming from the tower above the library is always a warning to him that the battle is not over yet.
"Crack!"
The blood-stained hidden sword mercilessly penetrated the neck of the last enemy. Lu Xiao sped up his movements and quietly hid in the shadows where the guards upstairs had to go downstairs.
"Huh~"
After a round of intense exercise, Lu Xiao's physical strength was also relatively high. Taking this opportunity, he used the breathing techniques taught by Mario in the past to try to smooth out his rapid breathing.
"What happened down there? Giulio Paige... ugh!"
The first chirping tower guard was pulled into the shadows by Lu Xiao and killed. Except for a few archers who stood on high places and vigilantly aimed their bows at the bottom, almost all the guards who passed the stairs were used by Lu Xiao.
Killed in a similar way.
The Hidden Blade is thin and sharp. It is very useful for silent assassinations and can usually kill the enemy invisible.
However, compared to conventional weapons, the Hidden Blade's sustained combat capability is greatly limited.
After continuously breaking through the armor and killing many people, the hidden sword blades in both hands of Lu Xiao showed varying degrees of wear and tear. Recently, when he assassinated a guard, he even let out a scream while struggling, disturbing those on the tower who were not aware of what was below.
Situation of Archers.
'There is nothing we can do.'
Withdrawing the severely blunted hidden sword, Lu Xiao walked between the bookshelves on his waist, trying to collect the remaining arrows from the corpses he shot.
Three of the ten arrows were too far away to be recovered, and the other three arrows were worn out and could not be used again.
'Four? That should be enough.'
Judging from the footsteps and exchanges upstairs, there should be no more than five assassins left in the entire library and assassin's tomb, and three of them are archers waiting to snipe upstairs.
‘A mid-gate confrontation? Let’s do it then.’
Lu Xiao took off his blood-stained assassin robe and put it on a corpse. Lu Xiao poked the corpse's head out from behind the bookshelf. He himself observed the positions of the three archers through the weak gap between the two rows of bookshelves.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Sure enough, when the hooded corpse emerged, three arrows accurately hit his head.
When the three archers who thought they had succeeded realized something was wrong, Lu Xiao's counterattack was already aimed at them.
"Well!"
"ah!"
"Ugh!"
Three archers were hit by arrows one after another, and two of them were killed on the spot. The last one was only shot in the left arm due to the wear and tear of Lu Xiao's arrow, and he hurriedly dropped the bow and arrow and hid behind the bunker in pain.
Although he failed to kill three people successfully, Lu Xiao still achieved his goal of eliminating the long-range threat.
After taking off the robe from the corpse, Lu Xiao put on the assassin uniform with three holes in the hood again, and walked out of the hiding place openly.
Lu Xiao, who was not wearing a hood, deliberately showed a wanton smile on his face. He stood in the silent library filled with corpses and opened his hands to challenge the three remaining guards.
"Come on, Templars, I'll give you a chance to kill me."