On the fifth floor of the treatment center, Su Xiao ate breakfast in the simply furnished ward and glanced at his well-behaved new assistant, Alanna, standing to one side.
Compared with his previous assistant, the Dark Star Witch Felice, Alanna was a much more competent assistant. On top of that, she came from a fallen witch family that supported Moon Witch Cecilis.
If not for the interference of the Astral Research Society, the appointed assistant would have been Alanna, who possessed peak Ninth Order strength. In abyssal studies, ancient scripts, and other fields, she ranked among the top five in this world. She also knew a great deal about various folk legends and ancient records, and possessed extremely strong survival abilities.
As long as Alanna took a deep breath and entered a breath-holding state, she would merge into the surrounding world. In that state, she feared no attack, and no one else could drag her out.
In contrast, Alanna's body bore a tremendous burden from this state. Her longest single breath-holding period was five minutes, after which she needed to breathe for at least ten seconds to replenish the soul energy in her blood before entering that state again.
This talent seemed more survivable than Bubu Wang's ability to merge into the environment, but that was not actually the case. Bubu Wang's environmental merging was more like a passive state that could be activated at will. It consumed nothing, and if he wanted, he could even take a pleasant nap while merged into the environment.
Alanna had inherited this talent through her family bloodline and was a relatively outstanding successor. Strangely, a family with such a top-tier assassination talent had actually fallen into decline, with all relevant records erased. According to Bubu Wang's investigation, someone had deliberately done this recently.