"Remember our objective."
The captain from the City of a Thousand Stars gave the Assassins their final briefing.
Then, without hesitation, they stepped into the Wandering Hell where Bright Moon resided.
Like a band of "heroes" entering the Demon King's castle.
No interference, no resistance.
Hunt, soaring through the skies and exterminating Dark Creatures, never even glanced at them.
Even the red Targeting Rings in the Think Tank's analysis never appeared.
It was as though...
They did not exist.
The Assassins skulked along, advancing through this hell with rehearsed movements.
Even when the Dark Creatures noticed them, they seemed to sense their own kind and made no move to attack.
The Azure Meteors that occasionally streaked past and the skyful of Second Hand Flying Arrows would fall in great swathes when they least expected it.
The colossal Martial Dread Mech swung its Fangtian Ji, trampling the earth while uttering grating words of pride.
Forward... ever forward...
It went so smoothly it was suffocating.
At last, they saw the Pure White Train in the center of the scorched earth.
Just as the reports had described.
Pure white in the literal sense, magnificent, expensive.
The kind of thing that made anyone wonder how much money it had cost with just a single glance.
And atop that Train, two Card Sequence Rings spun ceaselessly behind the master of Evil and Calamity.
Not far below the Train, Yulia and Aloflis were working hard to build a good relationship with WALL-E.
It seemed...
They had not been discovered?
For some reason, that thought arose in the Assassins' minds.
And little by little, it became more and more believable.
"~~~"
Soundless whispers circled their ears~
Invisible malice unwittingly gnawed away at their hearts~
Red Tears' Demon Girl knelt beside Ye Qiyan's legs, resting her cheek on