"Run! Run! The King of Chalk's lackeys are here!"
"What!? How did they find the settlement?"
"Hurry and tell the elders!"
The People of Night fled in all directions.
The knights reached the settlement, slaughtering every living thing around them with merciless expressions.
The knight commander standing on the moving train, however, closed his eyes and did not look at anything around him.
Charlie had failed.
Clearly, he had not held these people back for very long.
Anli had also become separated from the other two young Assassins.
She hid in the shadows, watching these knights and holding back her tears. Forcing herself not to think about Charlie's fate, she gritted her teeth and headed up the mountain.
She was going to find Ye Qiyan.
These knights were too powerful.
Far too powerful for a novice Assassin like her, who had trained for less than three years, to defeat.
What was more, even Charlie, the best among them, was now missing.
Anli could think of only one person who might be able to save this place.
Only one.
"Brother Ye... Brother Ye isn't in his room. He should... he should be on the mountain..."
She did not know where Ye Qiyan was.
Her guess was nothing more than a gamble.
If she lost that gamble, she had no backup plan whatsoever.
All that would await her was despair and collapse.
Fortunately.
She had guessed right.
Following a mountain path known only to the Assassins.
She wound her way through countless turns and passed through a long, narrow tunnel.
Anli entered the elders' courtyard through the water.
The four of them had dug this tunnel so they could occasionally sneak down the mountain during their training.
Now, however, it had become the fastest route for her to reach the summit ahead