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"They include a big category of people actually. They might be relative to the player who tries their best in guiding the player in his first steps. They could be also part of the challenge schedule."

He knew he had no relation to Sefiera so the first condition wasn't applied here. Sefiera must have connected to him through that challenge.

"What is the challenge schedule?"

"It's a wide variety of challenges actually. They included the simple upgrade challenge of any guild or the villages to the next step.

It usually appears at the Royal city stage and higher stages. Sometimes, it could be a challenge between two competitors on a political position or the throne of an existing empire."

These words were really important and dangerous. Suddenly many vague hidden issues became clearer at once in front of him. He started to see the whole mystery behind Sefiera. Before he threw his next question to this girl he said to Dronil:

'Be ready to use your seal function at any time.'

'Who do you want to seal? This girl or that sneaky assassin?'

'I believe you already know the answer to that.'

'The distance between you and that girl is so far. If that assassin is beside her then you won't be able to rescue her at the appropriate moment.'

'That's why I need you to be ready to teleport me to the place where he will aim his attack at.'

'That's a lot of trouble. Why don't you use another method?'

'Stop complaining and get ready.'

Ibro then looked at this girl who was ignorant to the huge threat she was facing right now and asked:

"Tell me, do you know of a girl with the name Sefiera?"

At once Ibro felt the familiar traction force being applied to his body. That assassin reaction was superb. Ibro didn't waste any second as he took out his sword from his Inventory.

At once there were multiple hits at his body. All were shielded by his helmet. These attacks were all targeting his vital spots. That assassin didn't want to give this girl any chance to say anything.

These attacks made this assassin get out of his stealth for a second. This second was all Ibro needed to attack this assassin. At once he stroke him with his sword while muttering in deep anger:

"Dream sword skill."

Suddenly that assassin body glared with black light. It seemed his body was resisting Ibro's skill. Ibro didn't stop there as he threw one of his Odd runes towards this assassin.

A loud explosion erupted but it was negated by another glare from that assassin body. Ibro didn't stop in his tracks as he used his sword to hit his enemy without stop.

Each attack was either blocked by this assassin dagger or being negated by a glare from that assassin body.

'Damn, how many items or skills does the assassin have?!'

'This is a skill. I feel its effect is about to end. Keep him engaged in the fight with you so he won't have the chance to go stealth again.'

Dronil seal function was very crucial here. Although it sealed most of that assassin stats, Ibro found a great difficulty in pinning this assassin in his place. In just a few seconds, that assassin was freed from Ibro's barrage of attacks.

"Where are you going sneaky rat?"

This sudden voice erupted to attract both men's attention.

Ibro saw a white smooth long dagger being stabbed into that assassin chest from his back. Ibro didn't stop to know the identity of his helper as he started to strike this assassin with his sword in multiple places.

This assassin was really a nightmare. If he had given another chance he would retaliate without doubt. A retaliation from such a dangerous man was really risky.

In less than 10 seconds, that assassin's body was lying down on the ground in his thick red blood. Ibro then had a chance to see the identity of his helper.

"It's you?!!"

"Are you surprised? Do you think that the Goflan merchant association was this naive to let you be in any random place? I'm not your servant here, I'm your guard.

By the way, thank you for your try to save me. I knew about this assassin's existence but I didn't know about his motives. Now I can guess some of them."

Ibro looked at her in a stupefied way. Her true identity was really a slap in his face. He didn't manage to save her, but he was the one who ended by her saving.

That assassin level was really high, even after getting sealed by Dronil's ability he needed that girl help to kill him. Ibro looked at her in appreciation while saying:

"I'm sorry I dragged you to my mess."

"No problem. What I can't get till now was why this assassin level was lower than what it was supposed to be?"

"Do you know his true identity?"

"Sure, he is one of the black grino groups. It's a very famous assassination group in our world.

Their members' levels can be graded according to the degree of the black color in their clothes. This assassin is a bright black grade. That means he is a very dangerous and highly leveled assassin.

Although I had confidence in facing him, I didn't have enough confidence in killing him. That was the reason why I didn't attack him at first."

Ibro understood the whole truth about what happened behind his back. This was a battle between the two experts and he was just a hindrance in both ways. He thought this girl was ignorant of the threats happening in her back. How ironic!

"I owe you an apology. I thought you can't defend yourself so I tried to protect you but I got in your way in the end. About that assassin level that was my doing. I have a way to seal anyone's power to a certain limit."

"Aha, that explains everything then. Anyway, I have to thank you. Every member of this nasty group has a high bounty on his head. I will apply to his bounty on my own name. I suppose you don't want to get involved in this mess, right?"

Although he had helped her in some way but without her interference he would have lost his life there.

"I have no objection actually. Anyway, I'm involved in this mess myself."

"No, you aren't."

"How? This assassin's bosses will know about his failure in the mission."

"No, you are wrong. Although this is a huge assassination group but it's also an independent group. Their members accept missions separately without the interference of anyone. This assassin mission no one knows about except himself, so you can relax for a while."

Ibro understood her meaning. The danger still existed even after this assassin death. That danger's origin was the one who hired this assassin from the first place to do this mission.

That totally hidden enemy wouldn't stop because of one failure. Ibro felt the mess behind Sefiera had no relation with the word 'simple' at all.

"Can you then tell me the answer to my question?"

She looked at him deeply while asking:

"Are you sure? Some info is safe while you don't know about it."