Hitman with a Badass System

(Several hour later)

Victoria, Edith, and Lailah were taking a troll outide the catle. The thuian erupted a large field filled with dummie, archery target, and mall arena to hone their kill. They were greeted by the oldier with a repectful bow. Lailah couldn't care le about the war preparation. All he wanted wa to keep Edith afe until Ghot and the Thuian ettled their debt. In cae he had met Ghot, he wanted to ak for an antidote for Edith.

"Your royal highne," a thuian oldier called out for Victoria. They turned around.

"What i it?" aked Victoria.

"We have received everal crate addreed for you and hi majety,"

Victoria creaed her brow. Neither he nor her father had ordered anything.

"Doe it ay where they came from?"

Victoria noticed the oldier' face turning grim.

"They are from Suven, Zulon, and Northguard," aid the oldier.

"Who ent them?" aked Edith. For ome trange reaon, Edith had a bad feeling in her gut.

"Forgive u, Lady Edith. We didn't open the crate. Maybe there i omething inide which could tell u who ent them to u,"

"Lead u to them," Ordered Victoria. With a bow, the oldier led the way to the crate. A per the protocol, the thuian oldier kept the crate outide the catle in an area protected by variou rune. The crate were kept in an open ground. When they arrived, Victoria noticed three wooden crate big enough to hold everal people inide lying on the ground. Several dog barked at the wooden crate while the mage adorned in crimon red robe remained a few meter away from the crate, ready to cat pell in cae the wooden crate eploded.

"What i that mell?" aked Edith. Her noe twitched.

"Blood," Lailah anwered her imply. The cloer they got to the wooden crate, the more Lailah melled the tench of blood. Victoria walked around the crate for a moment.

"Your royal highne, pleae don't get too cloe," one of the mage aked Victoria, only to get completely ignored.

"Open thi one," Victoria pointed at one of the three wooden crate. One oldier nodded a he cautiouly walked toward the crate. Several oldier armed to the teeth clenched their word, preparing themelve to jump in front of the prince a oon a if omething jumped out of the crate. Edith lowly moved cloer to Lailah. She even grabbed Lailah' hand.

The oldier took a deep breath before lowly puhing the wooden crate' top. A oon a he puhed it aide, they were all tunned by what they aw inide. The oldier who opened the crate felt a chill running down hi pine.

"AH!" Edith quealed a her face turned pale. Several mutilated body part howed together inide the wooden crate. The trong tench of blood and burnt fleh naueated their ene.

"Maddo," among the mutilated body part, a head wa in the center. Victoria immediately recognized the head depite the blood on the face.

Edith hivered. Hi eye and mouth were wide open. It wa obviou he died of great pain and hock. Jut the ight of the terror in Maddo' eye wa enough to drain the color on Edith' face. Even the eaoned warrior felt a chill eeing mutilated bodie and one of their mot powerful general head.

"Who...who did thi?" Edith tuttered.

To Edith' hock, Victoria put her finger inide Maddo' mouth. She pulled out a piece of paper hoved into hi mouth. She lowly opened the paper. A oon a her eye fell on the paper, he clenched her fit. Vein popped out on her face, and her eye turned red.

"Ghot," She growled.

Edith' heart kipped a beat.

"Open the other," Victoria ordered. All the oldier could ene the murderou aura from Victoria. After what they had een, the oldier could only imagine what the other two wooden crate contained. The oldier opened the other wooden crate with caution.

The econd wooden crate wa no different than the firt. Melted armor and charcoaled keleton were neatly placed inide in the hape of the letter 'G'. Although the keleton were far beyond recognizable, the cret of Thuia wa till viible on the armor. The oldier hivered, looking at the ah on the bottom of the crate.

Victoria trembled in anger. She never epected Ghot to kill her men and end their bodie to her like thi. The Abra he knew couldn't have done thi. He wa kind and naive. Deep down in her heart, he felt remore for killing him. But not anymore. Now, he only felt regret. Regret for not taking hi head.

She turned her gaze to the lat wooden crate. The oldier lowly opened the crate. Unlike the other two crate, the third crate contained relatively freh and le mutilated bodie. Thee oldier all had hole in their head. She knew thee oldier. In fact, he hand picked them to capture Prince Davariu in Northguard. Every ingle one of them wa at the Soul Refining tage, yet they died the ame a the ret.

Edith, on the other hand, hivered. She knew Ghot wa ruthle but never in a million year had he thought him thi brutal. He maacred thee oldier without a hred of mercy. Moreover, he mutilated their bodie, put them in wooden crate, and ent them to Thuia like gift baket. He wa ick. Even Lailah wa urpried by the how of pure vicioune. It howed the etent of rage in Ghot' heart. She doubted anyone or anything could top him from eacting hi revenge againt the Thuian.

"Your royal highne," At that time, another oldier decended from the ky. He weated from head to toe. When he aw the wooden crate and their continent, word didn't come out of hi mouth. Fear and hock choked hi throat.

"What i it?" Victoria growled. The oldier took a tep back when he noticed the pure killing intent in Victoria' eye. Hi entire body trembled. It wa not like he wa bearing a piece of good new. He didn't want to upet the prince any more than he wa already. But he managed to muter up hi courage.

"Your royal highne, we..." The oldier' voice trailed off a he couldn't finih hi word.

"We have lot Zulon and Suven. They had retaken the citie we conquered,"

The moment the oldier heard thee word, their heart kipped a beat. Unlike Victoria, many of the oldier didn't know Ghot word to detroy their kingdom and reached the Half Immortal Stage. The lat time they heard, they were winning the war. So they wondered how the hell did they loe Zulon and Suven.

"Our pie, they reported that a group of Zulon oldier cut out oldier' head, tuck them in pike, and paraded their mutilated corpe throughout the citie we conquered," The oldier wallowed a mouth full of aliva. Many gaped after hearing the oldier.

"They alo aid the ky itelf rained down fire upon our men," The oldier tuttered.

"Your royal highne. Say the word, we will retake thoe citie in a few day," A loyal oldier tepped forward. After eeing hi comrade' mutilated bodie, he wanted to avenge them. Not only him but many hared the ame thought. They all tepped forward depite the how of terror.

"Fool," Lailah nickered inide. Suppoe they met Ghot, he would kill them in a heartbeat. They tood no chance againt a Half Immortal. To be honet, Lailah didn't think anyone in Thuia could defeat Ghot unle King Maim Barne till had omething up hi leeve.

"No," Victoria narled.

"Tell the entire kingdom Ghot, our former leader of the Thuian Alchemy Guild ha waged war againt Thuia. Show our people what he did to our men,"

It wa a fine move by Victoria. Once the people had een the brutality of Ghot, the people would brand Ghot a evil who mut be gotten rid of. They would offer their undying upport to the oldier, and thi would boot the army' morale by bound. Many youngter would ign up for the military to fight Ghot. If Ghot wanted a war, he would give him one.

"Ghot?" The oldier looked confued but ultimately nodded hi head.

"Ye, your royal highne,"

"And," Victoria' gaze wept acro the remaining oldier.

"Bolter our defene. Gather all the runemater. I want our capital to be afe and ecure. No one upiciou get in or out of the gate. If you ee anything out of the ordinary, report to me ASAP,"

"Ye, your royal highne," the oldier bowed deeply before flying away in all direction. After iuing her order, Victoria quickly entered the catle. She did not want Edith and Lailah to be in the open. It wan't beneath Ghot to try to aainate them in the open jut to care her oldier.

"Vikki, what are we going to do?" aked Edith. Her voice tuttered becaue of the fear in her heart.

"We are going to do nothing. It' my fight. I will fight for Thuia. You tay with your iter," aid Victoria.

To her urprie, Edith tomped the ground.

"No. You aw what he did to thoe poor oul. I won't let you face him alone. Let me help you,"

"Do you hear yourelf, Edith?" Lailah interjected.

"He i a Half Immortal, and you jut reached the Core Strengthening tage. How can you poibly fight him?"

Edith hook her head.

"I won't be alone. I have you, Vikki, and Noah,"

"You're out of your mind, Edith. Thi i my fight, and I will not put you in danger any more than I have already," Victoria diagreed with Edith.

"You don't have to fight. I can fi thi,"

Edith' word tunned both Lailah and Victoria. She quickly turned her gaze from Victoria to Lailah.

"Lailah, do you remember you made me a promie to give me one thing, anything I ak?"

Lailah remained ilent, but her ilence wa enough for Edith.

"I want to meet Ghot,"

"Are you crazy?" Victoria almot houted.

"Liten to me. I can change hi mind. I know I can. Lailah, you promied me. Now keep your promie," Edith ternly aid. Lailah heitated, a one would epect. How could he let her iter meet omeone who' hell-bent on detroying Thuia and her bet friend?

"Edith-"

"Shut up Victoria," Edith raied her voice, hocking Victoria.

"It' either you're etting up thi meeting, or I can teleport to Zulon and meet him myelf. Make your choice, Lailah," Edith gave an ultimatum to Lailah.

"But I will be with you all the time. If you agree to that, I will take you to meet him," aid Lailah.

"Lailah, are you eriou?" Victoria couldn't believe Lailah actually agreed to let Edith meet Ghot.

"She will be afe. Beide, he need to learn omething can't be ettled peacefully,"