In fact, Chloe had once had a perfect chance to assassinate Isabel.
She had gotten within just a few meters of Isabel, and not a single Senior Generation transcendent had been present. At the time, Iver's healing abilities had been nowhere near enough to treat the fatal wounds inflicted by a Fourth Level assassin...
—She only had to move her finger slightly, and the course of history would have changed because of her.
It could be said that the future of the entire world had been held in the hands of a minor figure just like that.
And under those circumstances, Chloe had missed her only chance.
It sounded regrettable, but it had also been inevitable. It had never been her mission to begin with, and in her understanding, Shadow Stealth was impossible to detect, so naturally she had not gone out of her way to take extra precautions. Besides, killing the royal family was meaningless to her—it was a mission handled by her mentor, Bone Carver, and she trusted Bone Carver enough. As an assassin of the Path of Adaptation, she had always prioritized survival.
—It looked as though luck or coincidence had dictated everything, but in reality, it had been an inevitability built from countless details.
That could not be called a mistake, nor was it fate. It was simply an information gap.
Now, her grandfather Thomas was facing exactly the same situation—
Assassin Master Thomas had actually had a chance to execute Iver.
Although the Sin Thorns Arrow was not lethal to Iver, who was the Child of Candle Holder, the concentrated Sin Thorns contained within it would greatly increase Iver's transformation rate.
The Sin Beast's transformation rate was not easy to raise. Iver had consumed a massive amount of mana while healing the Blood Slaves, but