Free Web NovelChapter 38: Owl’s Final Screech
"Where are we?" the bronze assassins muttered in panic as they felt something was watching them, but they couldn’t find who.
While knights also gathered together with the owl hybrid man and looked warily at the surroundings for potential attacks.
Aurielle watched all this from the distance calmly, then thought about her ability.
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## Night Dominion
Creates a localised darkness field.
Inside the field:
• Aurielle becomes stronger.
• Enemies experience reduced perception.
• Shadow abilities become more powerful.
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Then she activated her origin skill as well, "Shadow Sovereign", which grants her more control over shadows and, along with it, its passive effects, which buff her shadow attacks.
WHOSHHH.
One assassin was looking around warily with his dagger pointed out with full concentration, but the next moment he heard a very low sound of air ripping and turned towards it, but then his eyes got wide as a shadow blade suddenly came from behind him and was now heading straight towards his heart, while some shadows were tightly clinging to his body, and he was not able to move even his arm.
"Help!" Seeing the situation was urgent, he shouted hastily, whereupon surrounding assassins turned towards his position, and one even threw his dagger, but –
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"Ugh..." but before he could intercept it, the shadow blade pierced his heart, and a painful grunt escaped his mouth while blood started coming out.
With his widened eyes, he got dropped to the ground with a thud while his face was facing one direction.
A pair of beautiful purple eyes was also gazing back at him.
But he can’t move, and finally, with lots of regrets, the light in his eyes snaps out.
"What happened?"
"Did you see anything?"
Every assassin got afraid, as they felt nothing, and now one of them is dead and lying on the ground as the pool of blood collects around them.
But they failed to notice one thing: that there is not only one enemy here.
"There, attack!"
The hybrid owl man heard their loud voices and charged towards them with other knights.
"Shit!"
Other assassins, cursed as they saw more enemies are coming, then they got in position to face them, but all of them are still wary of the hidden person, who somehow was able to take down one of their own.
CLANG CLANG CLANG.
Soon both knights and assassins faced each other as their weapons collided.
BANG.
The hybrid man was able to injure one assassin in the second exchange, as he was not fully concentrated in the fight.
"Damn it."
He cursed as he felt his stomach having now a deep wound of claw, and then he saw that owl man was about to get stabbed; he shielded himself with his wings.
Thud, thud.
Two assassins attacked his strong feathers; the result was not effective, as they felt they had hit the leather armour.
But suddenly, one of the assassins got his ankle trapped by a shadow tightly clinging to it.
"What?"
He panicked, but with his force, he broke apart and looked warily around; fortunately, this gives the owl man some time to make distance and get some breath.
In the distance Aurielle watched all this and sighed.
"I used too much energy in the last attack."
She shook her head, as these dominion skills she was only able to cast because of her sword, but even with it, she couldn’t use it fully yet.
CLINK.
Then she heard the sound of a chain rattling, but in the next moment a bronze chain made of some strong alloy bound her neck suddenly.
"This is bad," she muttered as she felt a strong force pulling her towards a bronze assassin in the distance.
"Got you," he said with a big smile as he was finally able to find her.
Aurielle tried to break this chain with her hands and with shadows as well but wasn’t able to damage it enough to break it.
"Shadow Step" She finally used her movement skill, but the next moment her expression fell because she found that these chains attached to her were blocking the flow of aether to be channelled through her body properly.
"Do you really think we don’t know about your ability?"
The assassin laughed at her futile attempt from the distance, as he is the same assassin who made the sound earlier and also mocked Luke back.
The other assassins got happy after seeing her get captured and other knights, which now have been reduced to only ten, because Aurielle has transported those who were seriously injured to a far distance.
They were trying to rescue her, but assassins, though injured and tired after fighting so long, were still able to control them.
SCREECH!
But then everyone heard a loud bird screech and looked towards it; there the owl hybrid man’s stomach got pierced and his one wing tore apart, but...
"What the hell!"
One assassin shouted after seeing that the owl man’s one hand had pierced the heart of one assassin while his bird beak had bitten hard into the neck of one assassin.
The assassin with a pained expression looked hopefully towards the other assassin for their help.
But the next moment...
RIPPED!
A ripping sound echoed as Owlman had ripped the assassin’s head from his body with his beak.
SCREECH!
He screeched again and looked towards everyone with a bloodied hand and bloodied face.
"Monster", one assassin muttered as he moved back weakly; on this, some assassins also look warily towards the owl man.
Though, fortunately, he also got injured, as he was bleeding heavily from his gut, as the dagger had cut his internal organs.
"Focus on her, everyone," the assassin shouted to everyone, on which they also returned to their senses, and soon four other assassins also summoned their chains and binds towards the Aurielle body.
"Ughh..." Aurielle groans in pain, as now both her hands and legs are bound, while a chain is wrapped around her neck.
"Protect the baroness!"
The owl man shouted towards other knights, but sadly one assassin also threw one chain towards him and bound his neck.
He looked at the assassins with bloodshot eyes, like he wanted to kill all of them.
"Foolish, you touched something which you should not," he roared while the chain tightened around his neck and said to every assassin.
Other assassins get confused, then understanding comes into their minds.
"Are you talking about her?" The same assassin comes close to Aurielle and holds her head high as he pulls her black hair tightly.
"Ugh..."
"Bastard!" Owlman roared and struggled more fiercely as the blood started coming out from his neck area.
Other knights also struggled fiercely, as many got stabbed in their bodies.
Soon the night dominion ability slowly starts disappearing.
The owl man looked at his master’s wife, who is now in pain, and that bastard who is clutching her hair with a smile.
"MASTER!"
[Chapter End]
