Assassination System

"Oh? You fainted? Damn, what a downer. I thought that you still have some tricks up your sleeves..." The man that approached took off his black robes, revealing the Luzon Clan robes underneath and his young figure that looked to be at his mid-twenties.

"Captain, we've decimated all witnesses in the area, apart from that young woman beside that bitch, there are no other witnesses." A young man's voice echoed from the outside and the man inside the carriage nodded his head.

"Who among our brothers are about to breakthrough? I found a fine cultivation furnace here. Much more, her vital yin is still intact..." The man inside the carriage said and the five disciples outside hurriedly rushed to his side and stared at the young woman beside Natalie inside the carriage.

"Captain, I'm about to break through the Divine Soul Realm so a fine cultivation furnace is necessary for me..." A disciple that looked to be the youngest asked in a sheepish manner, void of the ruthlessness and coldness that he had when reaping the lives of those mortals earlier.

"In that case, you can take that woman with you, after you're done absorbing her vital yin, you can lend her to your fellow brothers to vent out some stress. Afterwards, you can send her to the clan as spoils of war, even with her wilted vital yin, she could still do well as a medicine apprentice..."

The man casually said. His sentence rang loud and clear and contained the verdict that she had for Ruth's future. It was as if he held her life and death, like a sovereign of the heavens. He decided her future within a blink of an eye.

"I thank Captain for his kindness," The young man clasped his hands together. Joy visible on his face as he entered the carriage and walked straight towards Ruth. By the time that he reached within three steps away from her unconscious body. His face looked reddened from excitement and the thought of violating such a flower.

"Don't touch her!" A sharp voice filled with innocence and determination stopped his movements. Lifting his head, he saw a petite little girl who looked to be at the age of less than ten. Frowning, he glared at the little girl, wanting to scare her but she remained stoic before glaring back at him.

"Don't touch sister!" Juliet said with her right hand stretched before Ruth's unconscious figure. The man called the Captain and his brother stared at Juliet in amusement.

The youngest of the squad who approached Ruth earlier, boisterously laughed, "Hahaha, look at this guys! A little girl actually dared to block my way, how funny is that!" His fellow brothers smirked in amusement and stared at Juliet as if they were looking at an adorable animal.

Lifting his hand, the young man rotated his cultivation base and used his finger as a sword. Slicing through the air, the scene turned silent for a moment before everything around Juliet collapsed. The bright beam of moonlight illuminated the carriage as the young man easily destroyed the roof with a wave of his hands.

"How about now, little girl? Can I touch your sister now?" The young man said with a teasing smile on his face, he licked his lips and moved closer until their faces were only about several inches apart.

Breathing onto Juliet's face. He said, "I'm sorry little girl but we need to take that woman and your mother away... And there's nothing that you can do to prevent us from doing that..." His voice sounded menacing, looking to intimidate Juliet but in contrast to her expectations, reality was different.

Juliet remained stoic and indifferent to his teasings. In fact, the light of determination within her eyes burned even more fiercely than before.

"What's wrong with this little girl?" The young man stood up and walked backwards in confusion. His Captain and his fellow brothers also looked in curiosity at the little girl and just the look from her eyes alone told them that she wasn't just a little girl that required protection from her mother.

The young man's display of power should be enough to scare this little girl into peeing her pants yet she just stood there like nothing happened and what's more, she's even glaring fiercely at them.

"Did she bash her head on the wall or something?" Someone joked around, if that really was the case then it could explain why this young girl was so fierce in front of her impending death

The Captain saw that the young man who approached earlier looked intimidated by this strange occurrence so he said.

"She's indeed very strange, but don't get intimidated, she's nothing but a mortal and even a young girl at that, being intimidated by someone like her means that you shouldn't even be working with the Bloodied Hands Squad..."

"Ah!" The young man awakened from his trance and turned to look at his fellow brothers. Clasping his hands together, he said, "I wasn't intimidated, I was just shocked by her strange and eccentric attitude despite the fact that she's about to die."

His frantic explanation garnered the laughter of his squadmates as they all urged him,

"Okay, okay. We get it, okay? Just end her already so we can return by dawn..."

"Come on brother, I know that you have more than what you're showing right now..."

"Don't tell me that you're feeling sympathy and compassionate for her? Hah, what a joke!"

Peer pressure made the young man clench his fists as he angrily turned at Juliet and glared. If not for her glare and strangeness, he wouldn't even feel intimidated in the first place!

Rotating his cultivation base, a tempest formed inside the carriage which destroyed everything including the dilapidated walls around them. Revealing a bloody plain filled with withered corpses and skeletons.

Such commotion awakened Natalie and Ruth who went into shock, and the first scene that they saw terrified them out of their wits as Natalie lunged forward and embraced Juliet towards her bosom.

"You guys... You're from the Luzon Clan!" She shouted and Ruth who huddled with her knees in front of her turned to look at Natalie with an astonished expression on her face.

"Sis... You know them?" Ruth asked with uncertainty along with frenzy laced within her voice.

"Yeah... These bastards are from that despicable clan! I escaped from that place and hid myself well, just how did they find me so easily?!" Natalie explained, her frosty and ethereal countenance disappeared. Replaced with craziness and hopelessness towards their current situation.

They knew that even if she begged for her life, these bunch of cold-blooded bastards would never let them go. Tightening her embrace to Juliet, she sorrowfully sobbed. Success was already within their arm's length but just as she fulfilled her dreams and ambitions, these bastards appeared and ruined everything for her.

Now that they were here, there's no way that she could still deceive her way out of this situation. For a mortal could never fight against a cultivator in a head-on battle, her demise was imminent and her hopes were dashed.

"So you know them, huh?" Ruth suddenly mumbled at the side. Her expression indescribable, yet the faint trembling of her shoulders indicated the upheaval within her heart.

"So you know that they're gonna catch up with you yet you still came with us and brought with you this disaster?!" Ruth exploded, her screams were filled with resentment, anger and deep-seated fury. Standing up, she lunged at Natalie's figure and clutched her head.

"You fucking bitch! Father, mother, sister and even brother gave you their trust but what did you do? You lured such a disaster to us! You ruined my future and everything that I had!" Ruth started choking tears. Natalie didn't do anything other than suffer under her fury as strands of hairs from her scalp were torn off.

The sharp pain that assaulted her nerves consoled her, it felt like the pain was whispering into her soul. Saying that she did good for experiencing such pain and repenting for all the sins that she committed in this life and her past.

"Why... Why did you even come after us... What did I do against you... We treated you right, we gave you everything that you needed, but what did you do? Uwuwuwu..." Ruth sobbed as hard as she could, venting out everything that she kept inside her heart, so that she could live unfettered in her next life.

"Ruth... I'm sorry... I never meant to do any harm to you... I just wanna... I just wanna escape that nightmare and live with my daughter..." Natalie started crying too and the two young woman huddled over each other with their heads on the shoulders of the other.

Juliet swept her gaze at the sorrowful two and hardened her resolve. Taking a deep breath, she walked in front of them, took a wooden splinter of the ground and raised it in front of her in a stance that she felt weirdly familiar with.

If Dan was here, he would recognize this as the first stance that he thought to his daughter, the All-Encompassing Stance. Possessing minimal openings and sufficient time to react against an enemies attack. It was an all around stance that practitioners fancied to practice.

The disciples of the Luzon Clan's Bloodied Hands stared with amusement at Juliet's futile struggles as the young man who was rotating his cultivation base felt like he was just slapped across the face. Staring with a mocking gaze at Juliet, he said.

"I don't know whether to praise you for your determination or mock you for your stupidity but at your age, I really can't blame you... At the least, I'll leave you with an intact corpse that can be buried along with your mother!" He roared and his cultivation base formed a tempest around his body.

Natalie and Ruth were blown away while Juliet bent her knees to keep herself from flying away from the young man's sheer pressure alone.

"Juuullliiieeettt!!!" Natalie helplessly screamed, anguish filled her tone as the young man slowly raised his hand and formed a sword with his index finger. At this moment, the world seemed to come to a halt as Juliet found herself being filled with a mysterious power that stemmed from her determination to protect her mother.

Taking a deep breath and exhaling loudly. Juliet's eyes flashed with a cold light as her countenance turned frosty. As soon as the young man's finger sword descended. Juliet dashed sideways and received his sword, using the edges of the wooden splinter, she redirected his attack to the ground before leaping towards his throat and swiping at his neck.

Boom!

It took longer to describe but everything happened within the time it takes a spark to fly from a flint. The young man's attack summoned a cloud of dust and mud flying towards the skies along with blood. Which made Natalie desperately run towards her daughter's side with a pale expression on her face.

When everything settled down. Everyone was stunned to find a head rolling on the ground with headless body still standing firm, frozen within its previous actions as if a statue.

What astonished them even further was that head belonged to none other than the youngest member of the Luzon Clan's Bloodied Hands Squad!

"Wha..."

"Just what the hell happened..."

The other members of the Bloodied Hands stared in shock at the bloodied Juliet and the head of their fellow brother that rolled on the grassy plain.

"Damn it! Brothers! Prepare for battle!" The Captain frantically leaped backward and so did his fellow comrades, withdrawing their weapons, they all dashed at Juliet again as the little girl lifted his head and stared coldly at their direction.

Her eyes that sparkled with infinite coldness didn't contain any traces of the innocence and warmth that she previously radiated. What's within those jet-black eyes of her was a seething anger that could freeze everything under the heavens.

Sparks flew across the bloodied plain as Juliet danced around with the wooden splinter in tow. Her movements looked immature and amateurish yet it never failed to hit their marks as she deflected the needles that they hurled at her direction.

"Attack her mother and that young woman first! I refuse to believe that we won't be able to pry open an opening!" The Captain commanded and the four of his comrades split up in all directions. Simultaneously throwing their hidden weapons at Ruth and Natalie, the two women crouched to the ground in fear.

"How despicable!" Juliet roared, mustering all the strength that she could, she arrived before her mother and deflected everything that she could before shuffling to another direction. In the end, she managed to deflect all of their attacks but she was left utterly exhausted with her bones and joints creaking in pain.

"Captain! We're out of hidden weapons!" Someone reported and the man called Captain nodded his head and said, "We'll simultaneously attack her, remember not to show any mercy against someone that dared to kill our fellow brother..." He declared in a hoarse tone, his eyes reddened in utmost fury and rage. Only killing Juliet and the two young woman could possibly appease his anger and the soul of his brother.

Noddind their heads at each other, they roared towards the skies and rushed at Juliet with everything that they could. Booming sounds reverberated in the area as Juliet struggled to protect her mother and her friends against the all-out assault of five cultivators.

The strength that she mysteriously took out of nowhere eventually left her and in the end, Juliet was left leaning on her knee on the ground with innumerable cuts riddled across her body. The most shocking injury that she suffered was on her right chest.

The wound was so deep there that one could see her whitish bones sticking out.

"Juliet..." Natalie murmured in hopelessness, her heart broke when she saw her daughter's miserable figure. Ruth who also saw Juliet's injuries reeled in horror, she wondered about how Juliet fought these bastards and how could she remain conscious with such injuries on her body.

"Mother..." Witnessing her mother's tearful expression. Juliet bit her lower lip and struggled to stand up.

"Strength... I need strength... I need strength to protect my mother... I need strength to protect everything that I have and take revenge against these bullies..." Juliet mumbled into the air as she tried her best to stand up despite the sharp pain that constantly assaulted her nerves.

"Brothers, she already spent everything that she has. It's time to end everything. We must bring her head and that bitch's head too along with that young woman and display it on this great plain so that those that would hear our names will tremble in fear!" The Captain declared and the expressions of the two young women paled.

Juliet couldn't even hear what they were saying as she was too busy suppressing the immense pain throughout her body and keeping herself from falling into unconsciousness. Clenching her fists, she bit her lip until it bled when a gentle yet ambitious voice echoed in her head.

"Do you wish for strength?" It asked and Juliet nodded her head. Strength was what she needed to kill these bastards and save her mother.

"In that case, take that weapon of yours and move your body... I recognize your determination, kindness and temperament, you are worthy to possess my Intent..." The voice had a strange empowering voice that soothed Juliet's wounds as she stood up and took a stance with her wooden splinter.

"Another futile struggle?" The man asked and his four brothers stared in amusement and resentment at Juliet's final struggles. Their hands couldn't stop trembling and all that they wanted to do was to kill her and violate her body even in her death.

Juliet slowly lifted her head, the fierce light that burned inside her eyes transformed into a domineering and overwhelming intent that stemmed from her soul.

The silhouette of a lone dagger momentarily appeared above her head as the world came to a halt. The members of the Luzon Clan's Bloodied Hands could do nothing but stare at her approach as she seamlessly moved across the battlefield and reaped their heads one by one.

When the last member's head fell to the ground, the world returned to its previous colors as Natalie and Ruth stared blankly at the sight of six heads rolling beside each other with their headless bodies still standing firm like a statue.

"Just what did happen?" Before their questions were answered.

Juliet fell into the ground, her condition unknown.