I'm a dragon, I only want to steal princesses

Chapter 23 The Hidden Assassin

The spherical projection immediately appeared, and Li Yuan immediately found the position where the intruder appeared.

[Watcher] is connected to the consciousness of the tower owner. Once a threatening target appears, [Watcher] will make Li Yuan feel it, and the stones that are part of the endless tower will also be aware of it immediately.

The intruders this time were also humanoid creatures. There were three people in total, keeping a distance of about 20 meters from each other, forming an equilateral triangle formation.

Now this triangle is rapidly approaching the endless tower.

Li Yuan noticed in the projection that a small animal looking for food—it seemed to be a weasel—appeared on the path of one of them.

The weasel was stopping at the same spot, turning around to check the surrounding situation.

The man approached quickly, but the weasel still turned a blind eye to the footsteps.

Until the person stepped over it, the weasel was not frightened, and still turned its head around nonchalantly, looking for possible prey or threats.

Li Yuan frowned, and he tried to get a more specific picture, and three pictures appeared in his consciousness.

He saw the appearance of those three people, it was a cloudy sky, there was no moon or stars, and he couldn't see his fingers outside.

But as a red dragon, Li Yuan has excellent night vision ability, and the monitoring effect of [Watcher] can also see through the darkness.

And it's not just darkness that [Watcher] can see through.

He noticed that the three intruders were all wearing close-fitting night clothes, covered their heads and faces, and at the same time their figures were slightly blurred, just like in this clear surveillance video, only their resolution was different from the surrounding scene.

Hidden state - this concept naturally emerged in Li Yuan's mind.

All three of them used some kind of ability or item, which greatly reduced their sense of existence.

Of course they still exist here, they can actually be seen and heard, and they can also be smelled. It's just their ability to perceive their existence and ignore them subconsciously.

Even keen little animals couldn't find them. I'm afraid that even if they swaggered into the gate of the Infinity Tower and walked directly under the nose of Lu Xinglong who was the guard, Lu Xinglong would not know it.

A red dragon who is awake and alert may be able to detect it, but if it is asleep, it is basically impossible.

However, the [Watcher] with real vision easily spotted them.

[Watcher] also marked the danger level of these people for Li Yuan, only yellow-green, even if they were marked as a combat group, the threat level did not increase significantly.

The frontal combat capabilities of these people are similar to those of the dragon knights around Heinrich, and they are completely killed in front of him.

But the alarm bells sounded in Li Yuan's heart.

The three of them were probably assassins or spies, with a high level of concealment ability, and they were definitely not ordinary people.

For a dragon, an assassin with the ability to hide is far more threatening than a knight with a similar level.

This kind of person's frontal combat ability is low, and he cannot cause direct damage to the dragon.

But they have the ability to steal the dragon's most cherished treasure, even the hatching dragon eggs, while the dragon is asleep.

For Li Yuan, the presence of assassins or spies here has even more terrifying meanings - at such a time, who would specially send spies here?
Li Yuan took a look at Zhenna's room. Zhenna's room was now filled with fog in the surveillance projection of the [Watcher], which was the effect of Zhenna's privacy rights in the contract.

However, according to the contract's interpretation of rights and interests, if the [Watcher] determines that there is an emergency situation, such as an intruder entering the privacy space, or a member is violating the contract, this privacy right will be temporarily broken.

At this time Zhenna should still be asleep without knowing anything.

If Li Yuan hadn't noticed these people in advance, these people might not only be able to touch the cellar full of treasures, but also sneak into the room where Zhenna was.

"Please order, my lord." Shitou asked Li Yuan for instructions.

Li Yuan was thinking, and suddenly turned his gaze to the armor piled in the corner of the cellar.

That was the equipment of the knights he killed yesterday, including Heinrich's steam armor.

"I'll solve it."

As Li Yuan said, he turned into a human form, walked towards the pile of equipment, and picked out a barely complete set of armor to put on for himself.With the natural defensive power of a real dragon, it is meaningless to wear this additional set of armor, just like covering a shield made of steel with a layer of gauze.

"My lord, what are you doing?" Shito asked.

"There is something I want to verify." Li Yuan replied calmly.
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Three assassins in night suits move quickly through the woods, their class abilities granting them excellent night vision.

Their target is a tower that is said to be inhabited by an adult red dragon, and their employer has assigned them the task of finding out the whereabouts of a missing dragon-slaying party.

Prior to this, they had already detected the traces of the red dragon from a long distance during the day. From this point at least, it could be judged that the mission of the dragon slaying team had failed.

An adult red dragon poses no threat to them.

It's not that they have the ability to deal with red dragons, but at their level, as long as the concealment is not lifted, the perception ability of an ordinary red dragon is not enough to detect them.

If the red dragon is already asleep, they can make some bigger noises, such as walking along with a little treasure, so that the awakened red dragon will be furious when he finds that the treasure has been stolen.

But they didn't intend to do this kind of stealthy business this time.

What they want to confirm is whether there are any broken and fresh corpses of the dragon slaying team in the tower, or whether there are a few more highly recognizable armors and weapons in the red dragon's collection.

In addition to this, there may be an additional assassination mission.

It is possible, because their employers do not know whether the assassination target is alive or not.

When they were only about 300 meters away from the tower, the three stopped at the same time.

Because they found a figure stumbling around in front of them.

All three of them held their breaths and watched the figure carefully.

With the help of night vision, they discovered that it was a knight in full body armor. The armor on the knight's body had become tattered and covered with dried blood.

Obviously, the knight was seriously injured.

The three of them exchanged glances from a distance in surprise.

The style of this armor is consistent with the equipment of the dragon slaying team they want to investigate the whereabouts of!

The knight is already very weak and has no night vision ability. In this pitch-black night, he can only grope around like a headless chicken.

He couldn't detect the situation under his feet, and suddenly his feet tripped over a gnarled tree root, and his whole body fell forward. The sound of armor colliding on the ground was especially loud in the dark night.

He lay on the ground, struggled twice but failed to get up, just moaned in pain on the ground.

The three exchanged glances again, and one of them who was in charge made a gesture.

The three of them cautiously moved closer to that person, and then one of them accepted the commander's assignment and slowly approached the knight.

He didn't release the concealment right away, but observed for a while. Caution is an essential quality for them.

But as time passed, the knight's groans gradually became weaker.

This knight seemed to be a member of the dragon slaying team. It seemed that he was seriously injured when the dragon slaying failed. For some reason, he saved his life and just escaped from the tower.

The employer didn't ask them to rescue the dragon slaying team, but since there are survivors, they should ask what happened from the other party's mouth, and they must return with the information.

If the knight died, the precious oral information would also be lost.

In the end, he still lifted the concealment, and went down to try to check the status of the knight: "Hey, are you still conscious?"

"Help... who are you?" the knight replied in an unintelligible hoarse voice.

"Don't worry, I'm here to help you. Explain the situation, what about the others—"

His questioning came to an abrupt end here.

Because the knight who was on the verge of death suddenly jumped up, and swiftly swung his palm at him.

His neck was bent at an unbelievable angle on the spot, his skull burst like a watermelon being hit, and his brain and blood splashed out together.

"Fix one." Li Yuan who was hiding in the armor thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)