The enemy had been wiped out.
That did not mean every last enemy was unafraid of death. Rather, whenever anyone from the Syndicate tried to escape, the forces from Ravenholdt Manor immediately charged and cut them down.
After all, intelligence suggested that the Syndicate might carry out this assassination in multiple waves. Whether the first wave succeeded or failed, more assassins would follow.
That arrangement alone showed how determined the Syndicate was to pull off this assassination.
If anyone escaped and told their accomplices about the ambush, the enemy would clearly change its plans, rendering their preparations useless.
So they had to kill them all.
In this first ambush, Rhode had clearly scored the most kills.
Although no one had an exact count, it became obvious as they gathered the bodies that at least a dozen had been blackened by fireballs, quite unlike the wounds left by ordinary arrows and bullets.
His ranged firepower was so ferocious that the battle ended before the melee assassins hiding near the camp even had a chance to act.
That made everyone see the Peerless Pair, a team of two Novice Assassins, in a new light.
A top-tier archer like Windstrike could claim around ten lives as well, but he was a Senior Assassin, after all. His rank was far above Rhode and Lilia's.
Everyone therefore guessed that Rhode and Lilia had only recently joined the organization and had yet to rise to the ranks their abilities deserved.
For that very reason, when they reset their ambush positions, Rhode was assigned a more important spot. He was no longer an overlooked nobody.
Then came the Syndicate's second and third waves.
The later waves did not necessarily have more people, but their fighters were clearly growing stronger.
Nor was there much time between attacks. Presumably,