On either side stood two annex buildings, their roofs ringed with parapets half a man's height tall. With twenty-odd crossbow snipers stationed there, the place's defenses would be quite formidable. If a few mages were also posted here, even an ordinary army of a thousand men could forget about breaking in.
These defensive installations were useless against experts above the Saint realm. But when Lin Qi swept his inhuman spiritual power across the surroundings, he discovered beneath the residence an extremely familiar ancient summoning array—an eighteen-pointed star nested with five pentagrams! Once this magic array was activated, it could summon that terrifying Fallen God. Lin Qi calculated that even the current Chi Nu probably would not be a match for that Fallen God!
Lin Qi could not help baring his teeth. The people Ais Te had hired to attack the Silver Iris Family's strongholds were actually subordinates of the Fallen God Temple? Was it that he and the Fallen God Temple were fated to cross paths too deeply, or had the Fallen God Temple simply stretched its hands too far?
Ais Te's soft voice rang out. "Everyone thinks the continent's Killer Guild and Assassins Guild are the foremost assassination groups. But only core members of reclusive great families like ours know that the Godslayer Temple is the continent's strongest assassin organization."
"They only do business with a very small number of clients, and every job costs an astronomical sum. But they have always handled matters reliably. Once a deposit is paid, there is no one they cannot kill. According to the Silver Iris Family's intelligence, they once successfully assassinated three Popes!"
Lin Qi nodded without betraying any emotion. The Godslayer Temple? A branch organization of the Fallen God Temple?
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