"Phew~, we were able to escape this time thanks to the gods' blessing. The Linland family's arrogance gave us enough room for error, but unfortunately..."

Covering the wound on his abdomen, the assassin leader, who was the main assassin, spoke with gritted teeth.

While escaping from the pursuit of the Lynland family, he was hit in the abdomen by a cursed weapon.

Simple healing potions cannot heal his wounds. He needs to find a professional with advanced healing skills to remove the curse before he can recover normally.

The situation of the others was not good either. The halfling who led them to escape has now fainted and his current condition is unknown.

"Ahem! Ahem! Boss, is there any way to contact our family or the spies in Ruiyizhuoer? If we keep wasting time like this, I feel like our lives might end here.

We didn't have time to take that guy's body away, and I'm afraid he has been resurrected by the senior priest.

"Oh! I really can't accept it. I put so much thought into the assassination, but this is the result. "

Leaning against the rock wall of the mine, the flaxen-haired man coughed and muttered.

Although his left hand and right leg were cut off at the root, the healing potion had healed his wounds and stopped bleeding.

Now, the only injuries left on him were the injuries to his internal organs which were still slowly healing.

"I should have gone with you. If I had thrown a animate corpse at that guy's body, he wouldn't have been able to revive!"

At the bottom of the mine wall on the other side, a man with a gloomy face took over the conversation.

The ability of his alien dragon mark is somewhat similar to that of the death dragon mark, both of which tend to be more necromancy-oriented.

Unfortunately, those abilities did not directly increase his combat power, and his own strength was only level four.

"Ha! Although this assassination attempt may fail, it is an ironclad fact that we have assassinated a representative of the Dragon Mark Family. The butcher knife we ​​wield will make more people realize that the Dragon Mark Family is strong on the outside but weak on the inside!"

After motivating his companions a little, the assassin leader tore his wound due to excessive movement, and his whole body shrank in pain.

Even though they successfully assassinated a representative of the Dragon Mark Family and fought fiercely with members of the Linland Family, they themselves were actually very vulnerable.

The abilities of some alien dragon patterns are indeed powerful, but the increase in abilities brought by the dragon patterns is limited.

Therefore, even if a dragon pattern stronger than the Twelve Dragon Patterns was born, it would definitely have flaws.

The reason why people are afraid of the alien dragon pattern, in addition to the propaganda of the dragon pattern family, is that it is unstable.

The dragon pattern abilities of the Twelve Dragon Pattern Families can often perfectly correspond to certain spells, and in addition they are given certain special passive abilities.

But this is not the case with the alien dragon patterns.

Their powers are more primitive and less easily controlled.

The weak are extremely weak, and the strong are also extremely strong.

The Takanaan family will also selectively train holders of alien dragon patterns.

The six people who are now hiding in the abandoned mine were basically selected after being "strictly selected" by the Dragon Mark Family and screened again by the Takanaan Family.

The assassin leader finally recovered from the pain of his wound after hunching over like a cooked shrimp and convulsing for a while.

Looking at his companions who were in relatively good condition, he pointed to his dimensional bag and said, "There is a strange device in my dimensional bag that can be used to contact them. Find it and try to contact them. But don't hold your hopes too high. This thing is not very stable yet."

As he spoke, the assassin leader's body suddenly straightened, sweat dripped from his head, and his relatively healthy teeth clenched tightly, as if he would faint from the pain and shock in the next second.

Feeling that the injuries to his internal organs had eased a lot, the flaxen-haired man quickly crawled closer and began to search around the assassin leader.

After taking the thing out, he looked at the somewhat complicated machine and felt a little overwhelmed for a moment.

He is not a mechanical man.

He looked at the gloomy man who was still able to move, but the other party also looked at him with a confused face. It was obvious that he was also someone who could not be relied on.

Seeing this, the assassin leader endured the pain and began to instruct his companions.

"Press this first, then, then press this again! If someone replies, text will appear here..."

After speaking incoherently, the assassin leader could no longer bear it and simply fainted.

Realizing that the other party was not in good condition, the flax-haired man and the gloomy man quickly found some remaining healing potions and fed them to him.

Although the wound cannot be healed due to the curse, the healing potion can still maintain vital signs to a certain extent.

Afterwards, the two began to contact the Takkanan Assassins and Ruiyi Drol's spies according to the instructions of the assassin leader.

…

Storm Bay, Bastion.

After confirming the personnel and itinerary, Carl called everyone to the factory below the bastion.

At this time, a fighter-fighter-sized metal machine was placed on the open space on one side of the arsenal.

It has a pair of glider-like wings, a head that is nearly dragon-shaped, and limbs curled up under the wings, but it also looks a bit like part of a jet device.

"Let me introduce you to the model of the Comet Dragon spacecraft that I am developing. What you see now is only one twentieth the size of the official version."

As Carl introduced, this dragon-like aircraft was based on the Sky Comet Dragon in Monster Hunter.

The current trial version does not have a dedicated energy system, and requires Carl to wear power armor and enter its chest to serve as the energy core.

This was originally a large accessory that Carl prepared to enhance the combat effectiveness of the power armor, and he did not set up too many weapons for it.

But now that the Dragon Mark Family is urging him to set off, Carl has no choice but to use this trial package first.

"Huh? It's a rare occasion that you actually show us your invention. What is this thing for?"

Looking at this creation full of mechanical beauty, even the druid Hope couldn't help but touch it.

"Generally speaking, it's just like the animal transformation of your druids. You can think of it as the animal transformation of my power armor. Compared to the mecha, its activity time and movement speed are better, and it can undertake certain aerial firepower tasks."

Patting the silver-white metal shell, Carl talked about the function of this masterpiece.

The reason why he brought everyone here was to let everyone come up with a corresponding set of tactics around this thing.

Except for Hope and Midris, the rest are glass cannons with no defense capabilities, so Carl hopes to avoid head-on combat with the enemy as much as possible.

And he himself need not worry.

As an armored machinist, his armor can withstand a considerable amount of attacks.

(End of this chapter)