"What happened?" Damian asked.

He was inside the castle's secret tunnels to not catch any attention; he was whispering through the phone when Neil called him.

"The spy you talked me about. It was too late! They unblocked the dungeon, and the castle now swarms with monsters!"

"What? Is everyone safe?"

Damian had spent little time in the castle, but Glen, Neil, Astrid, and hell, even Joffrey, were decent people he cared about.

"For now, yes. With me, It will be hard for these monsters to overtake us, but I know this is only a distraction!? The Duke is leaving tomorrow morning with an army to take the castle!"

"What do you want me to do?" Damian asked.

"Kid, can you leave the castle and get the help of your leader? If he stops the Duke's army, we will forever be loyal to him and The Dawn!" Neil said.

Neil did not want Damian to get hurt in that mess. He was only there to investigate a murder, but things were not going his way, and the situation was far worse than they imagined.

"Fine, I will see what he can do."

"Thank you!"

Damian stood there thinking about what he should do next. The leader both were talking about on the phone was Damian, who used a mask and altered his voice.

"Can I win against them all by myself?"

The situation was not looking that good for Damian. He was a skilled superhuman, but facing the Duke's army alone? That was just crazy!

"Maybe I should kill the Duke and then run? It would shake them."

Yes, that was the most feasible situation. Damian used his Slime Ring, creating a black mask to cover his face and making his attire different, too, covered with the black substance.

Then, he made four daggers that were floating around him. "Let's do this."

Damian slowly walked toward the tunnel exit, which was inside the closet. He pushed the door, gazing toward the bed where the Duke had slept a few moments ago.

He floated toward it to avoid making noises, stopping beside the bed.

There was no denying he felt a little strange to kill someone like that, but it was a cruel world, and things like killing were done every day.

So, Damian pushed the thoughts to the back of his mind and used his Telekineses to send three floating daggers straight to the vital points of the Duke.

One to the head, one to the neck, and one to the heart. The remaining dagger stayed with Damian in case he needed it.

"Did it work?" Damian thought.

He did not want to get close to the bed, so he used his Telekineses again to move the blanket away, and when he looked at the bed, there was no one there!

"What?"

The Duke was not sleeping there anymore like he was a few moments ago. Damian realized something was off, but before he could try anything, someone came from behind, stabbing his kidney!

Everything happened fast, and Damian could not dodge the attack, but when the dagger tried to pierce his skin, the slime armor surrounding him protected his vital point!

The dagger touched and returned with force, surprising the black-hooded person who looked like a professional assassin.

"What?"

Damian took the moment of surprise to twist his body, using a palm strike right to the neck of the assassin!historical

Even without a body-enhancing ability, Damian still had decent attributes, so the assassin felt the strike, retreating a few steps to create distance from Damian.

"Not bad, but you are not leaving this place with your life!" the assassin said.

The assassin focused on Damian, trying to predict his subsequent movements, but that would be his dawn fall!

Damian stared at the assassin, assuming a fighting stance to confuse him, thinking the two would go in one-versus-one combat, but the truth was that Damian had another attack under his sleeve.

He had one hand behind his back, the same one with the Slime Ring, and created another dagger hidden within his clothing.

"Let's go for it!"

The two ran toward each other, Damian fighting with his fists and the assassin with a dagger.

*Clink

Metal sounds echoed through the bedroom as Damian swiftly dodged the attacks, making the assassin impatient.

"This is my chance!"

Damian noticed an over-extension, a stab that opened up too much of the assassin's guard, and at that moment, the hidden dagger Damian had flown toward that person's neck, stabbing it.

The assassin stopped his movements and fell to the ground, losing a lot of blood. It was basically dead. There was no chance that person would survive that attack.

"Now, where the heck is the Duke?"

The target Damian looked for was the Duke, yet he somehow noticed his presence, fleeing from his bedroom.

"Go, go, the assassin is inside the Duke's bedroom!" a guard yelled from the corridor.

Damian quickly moved toward the window and jumped through, breaking the glass!

Then, using his mental powers, Damian floated to the castle's roof, trying to figure out his next moves.

But as he looked up, someone was walking toward him on that roof. Damian knew it could not be an average guard — they did not have the skills to reach that high place so fast.

It had to be a skilled superhuman when the mysterious person got closer, Damian realized who it was!

"You are the Duke's daughter!"

"Oh? You know me?"

She had no idea the person before her was Damian. It looked completely different and had decent skill, something she believed Damian did not have.

"Are you ready to fight me?" she said.

The situation made it evident that fighting was the only option, so Damian looked at her and said with a hoarse voice, "are you sure you have the skills to be my adversary?"

She laughed at it, "I can only try, you will have to pass through me to find my father!"