The Assassin and The Blind Saint

Arc 1 Chapter 10: The Darkness that follows

Two days after leaving Elberim Village, we were at a lake near the entrance to the Black Dread Valley. We must properly – properly prepare our supply if want to pass through that valley. The Black Dread Valley is famous for its erratic climate and not many resources to survive there. It was the separation between the Alliance of the Hanseatic Neutral Zone and the Habsburg Empire. Having an average depth of – 500 meters, we had to travel 120 KM inside the valley to pass through it.

“Hey, hey Sirius. What are you doing standing still like that?” ask Lena.

Late – this late I saw a slight change in Lena's aura. I think taking that trip will change someone.

“I'm reading a book. I want to make sure I know the information about the place we're going to pass later.”

Lena then reached for my bag bag and reached into the contents. He took out some of the books inside. I just let it go. After all, he would not be able to know the contents.

“ Hee. What book is Sirius?” lena asked while holding the playbook and the diary killed me.

“People – people Temple Goddess Athena like you have a guidebook of her teachings right? The book that Lena holds is not much different for me,” I explained ambiguously.

It has become my habit to record various things related to the mission.

“Well, what book is Sirius?”

“It was a notebook about magic – magic I've seen.”

“Ahh, the temple priests also use a healing magic. I used to aspire to be a great healer and help many people!– Lena.

In this world, only a small percentage of humans are capable of using magic. People who can use it are an important asset to a country. Therefore, some countries create some special schools to develop magic users.

“Then?”

“Ahh... Until now I still aspire like that. But because of my blindness, I started to stop taking magic classes,” she replied in a regretful tone. “Can Sirius use magic?”

“Yes, I can use some magic that can help in my work.”

Actually, I don't have any good talent in magic. My capacity isn't too big. That's why I'm more focused on developing my killing technique and only using my magic in a precarious state.

“Magic is amazing, right? magic can help humans – humans in a wide variety of things!” Lena.

“Yes. However, many of the problems created by magic for mankind are also you know.”

“What does Sirius mean?” ask Lena to be confused.

“Before, before the emergence of people who could perform healing magic, humans relied on their knowledge of nature to make a medicine,”, I said as I looked into Lena's eyes. “But now humans rely more on the Temple Priests because it feels easier and faster. People who are excluded because of the presence of pastors lose their livelihoods,” I explained.

“Ta-but, the Pastors only follow the teachings of – teachings of the Goddess to share her gifts to other humans in need without any bad intentions,” Lena said in a trembling voice.

“It may be like that however, it is a fact that their existence makes the magicians who have no magic lose their jobs to support their families,” I reply.

Hearing my words, Lena just bowed down without retaliating again. I heard that Lena from childhood lived in the temple as an orphan, did I make her sad for talking bad things about her helper? Or does he regret the state of – humans who cannot use magic?

“Lucky about 150 years ago, – humans who do not have magic set up an organization to rival magic in its influence in human life. They overshadow the humans – humans who are sidelined by magic,” I said.

“Really!?” Lena's expression arrived – arrived cheerful to hear my words.

“Yes, they created – technology that is able to compete with magic. The organization then became large to form a country called the Republic of Anconia,” I replied.

The Ouroboros organization often cooperates with them and the officials of the Republic of Anconia often supply some weapons and other unique objects in return for priority to use the services of the Ouroboros Organization.

I closed the book and said to Lena.

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[3rd POV]

In a room in the building of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Republic of Anconia, a man was sitting at his office desk watching some documents. He is Warren Black, a person better known as The Spider in the Alterna Continent.

Geck! Geck! Geck!

“Come.”

A woman in her early 20s opened the door and entered her room.

“Instructure, I came according to your request,” said the woman.

“Ah sit down, I read about your mission report this morning. And don't call me an instructor when I'm here.”

The woman then sat opposite Warren with a slight nervousness. He guessed – what his former teacher wanted to talk about. Will he scold her? Was he disappointed that he had foiled the mission he had given?

“Regarding the death of Bull and others is very dear once but, at least they did not die in vain – and were able to identify their enemies before they were grown,” he explained.

“Ya the leader, according to Bull's analysis, he is the rest of Ouroboros.” said the woman. “How could the Empire hire an Assassin from Ouroboros to guard their Saint candidate seeing how insistent the Empire was in brokering the annihilation of Ouroboros at the 7th Alliance Country Conference a few months ago?” added the woman who was confused by what the higher-ups thought - the higher-ups of the Empire.

“Yes, if the information regarding the Empire hired an Assassin from the rest of the Organization, then the Empire's Position as the most dominant Country in the Alliance of 7 Countries to fight the Demon King would fall,” says Warren. “Is your report on the position of the two of them's whereabouts accurate?” ask Warren.

“Ya, chairman,” answer.

“Alright, after resting for a few days, you join the Rat team. They're in need of a Marksman for their next mission,” Warren commands.

“Readline!”

“Alright, you can go back.”

The woman then walked out of Warren's room. Not long after the woman left, a man walked into Warren's room and asked

“Then, how about the Saint candidate abduction mission?”

“His guard defeated our team that served in that mission, but I know of those who might be passing through the Black Dread Valley,” replied Warren.

“Is that? I think our side will have to wait for them to get out of there to kidnap the Saint candidate,”.

“Yes, it will be easier to wait them out. Then, what will the Devils do now?” ask Warren.

“Seeing that guard can slaughter your team, I guess we have to send some Special people to kidnap the Saint candidate,”.

The Republic of Anconia has cooperation with the Devils behind the scenes. The Republic of Anconia wanted to weaken the Magic-dependent lands, which is why they helped the Devils. The Devils would give some of the resources they had gained from the results of their invasion of the Human Land to the Republic of Anconia in return, in return, The Republic of Anconia helped them spy on the countries in the Alliance against the Devils and send important information about them.

Author Note: Since I have returned home from home, I will update the story again. Maybe 1 – 2 chapters a week because Author will already start working at RL next week.