The Transmigrated Novelist

In order to make him unable to dodge the concurring attack, he didn't concentrate much of his attacks on the unknown position of Roy, but actually on the known position of Alma.

From the beginning, Roy had shown an initiative to help the blue-haired beauty whenever she was in a tight spot, and even more so when she was in a life or death situation.

Furthermore, it would be stupid to actually spread his attack so much that the power would be useless to actually affect him.

For that reason, he spread 40% of his strength and attention on the surroundings, 20% on defending himself, and the remaining 40% on attacking Alma.

No matter what, Alma was one of his main targets in this mission, Roy was just an extra that he had come across. In the assassin's mind, this was the same as killing two birds with just one stone.

But to his surprise, Roy actually didn't appear to protect Alma this time, as in fact, the blue-haired beauty seemed to have activated a Rank 5 Defensive Formation.

While the Defensive Formation had been damaged and drawn quite a bit of its energy during the first clash with the bandits, these days had managed to recover a bit of its energy.

Normally for such artifacts, it would take at least a year or two to recover their lost magic power, and function properly, but she didn't need it to function properly for long.

All she wanted was to defend against the attack coming for her, this was what Roy told her to do, and she didn't have the time to doubt about his words or intentions at that moment.

'Boommmm…, Clanggg…, Clannggg…, Boommmm…'

The sounds of the shadow weapons clashing on the Defensive Formation felt like metallic weapons clashing on some sturdy rock.

The strength behind the clashes was enough to make loud noises, as the Defensive formation was clearly being drained out of energy with each passing moment.

Through simple calculations, all three of them could understand that the Defensive formation wouldn't be able to hold on for long, and if the assassin increased his output he would destroy it.

Destroying and draining a formation out of its magic power or energy were two completely different things.

The second one would just put the formation into a dormant state and make it unable to use in a period of time, but once the magic power was recovered it would work without problems.

The first one was quite the opposite, as it would destroy the core of the formation, the formation eye, or the formation plate, and would make it unable for reuse.

Most experts, or fighters, would actually prefer to turn off the Formation and defend with their own magic power before the formation was destroyed, in order to preserve the treasure.

Even more so when it was a Rank 5 defensive formation, that could work even against Rank 5 Masters.

Alma was thinking the same, the moment that she felt powerful fluctuations with the magic elements around her, she would turn it off, and then defend herself with her own magic power.

It was her good luck that the opponent didn't seem to have any intention of actually destroying her Defensive formation though and was trying to drain out its magic power slowly.

Even in the eyes of a Rank 5 Shadow Mage like the assassin in front of her, the Rank 5 defensive Formation was a precious treasure.

Furthermore, this seemed to be a really easy to obtain one, so there was no way in hell for him to go overboard and destroy it.

At that moment, suddenly Roy materialized in front of him, as a large hole opened under his feet, making him lose balance.

All this time he had been expecting Roy to appear from behind, or from the side where he had intentionally left weak spots, but Roy startled him by appearing in front.

Without losing time, Roy benefited from the momentary loss of balance, and used a Wind Magic Wall to push the opponent even more of balance, and then jump towards him with a sword in his hands.

Whoever was a bit recognizable towards swords would easily see that Roy's sword seemed to be glued to his hands.

He hadn't become one with his sword, but the sword did seem like a part of his external armor, giving quite the overbearing aura, since it was a greatsword.

After a lot of training, Roy had understood that the sword that mostly completed him was the greatsword, and he was quite a talent in wielding it.

He was so good with it, that he had managed to stabilize his sword aura, and was slowly treading forward towards the sword Force, and sword Energy.

Clearly, he was just in the beginning but that was already great for someone like him, who had touched a greatsword only a few months ago.

Swinging his sword with his full strength, Roy managed to create the traces of a grey silver light that went rampaging towards the opponent.

If that attack connected, even if it wouldn't kill the assassin it would still cause more than a slight injury to his body.

Too bad that he was still not efficient enough with his attacks, and even less with the sword aura that he placed behind his strike.

But more than all those, it was too bad that his opponent was not only much stronger than him but also much more agile and fast.

Even before the sword aura attack reached the assassin, he once again dispersed into 5 shadows and disappeared from where he was standing.

The sword aura attack, landed on one of the shadows, cutting it into two parts like it was some sheet of paper, but there wasn't any sign of blood or injury on the assassin's body.

He looked as perfect as he looked when he appeared, with the only difference of his face had turned ugly, and dark.

It was clear that he hated Roy quite a bit as this worm had destroyed one of the precious Shadows that he had spent so much time refining, and that acted like his extra life.

To be more exact those shadows were like his extra hearts that he could easily exchange places with in order to survive any attack.

He had refined them with the intention of using them against strong opponents that would endanger his life, but right at that moment, he was forced to use them against a kid.

How could he not get angry and enraged with what happened? And this was all the fault of that damned brat. His desire to actually torture and kill Roy just went up a notch.

On the other hand, Roy seemed to be a bit startled and disappointed at the fact that his sneak attack hadn't worked as it should have, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Seeing the look of anger and rage on the guy's face, just made him feel a bit better about himself, as his lips moved with no voice coming out,

"You are finished!"

The assassin who had just reappeared no more than 100 meters to his right was able to read his lips perfectly, as at the same time he felt a great sense of danger creep on his heart.

What the hell!

He could only think like that as without losing even a single instant, he quickly used his Shadow Exchange once again, and appeared at the location of another shadow.

'Booooommmmm~!'

In the meantime, a strong and powerful ax came crashing down upon the head of the shadow he had just changed places with, followed by the sound of a great explosion.

A cloud of dust and debris was suddenly raised at the spot of contact, which made the assassin feel extremely frightened as he had been unable to sense the presence of that attack until the last moment.

But before he could even take a breath of relaxation, he felt once again grave danger upon himself, and he was forced to use the Shadow Exchange once again.

'Boooommmmmmm~!'

Once again the same view greeted him, and he lost the third Shadow in less than one minute, this was the first time something like that happened.

Still, the most important point was that he was still alive. But the situation seemed to be running out of his hands soon enough.

Forgetting about Roy and Alma, there were now two more strong fighters, that were in no way weaker than them, and were clearly after his head.

Against Roy and Alma he could play around like they were nothing, but with the addition of the other two, he would have to suffer quite a bit and use all his strength.

It was impossible for him to go against all four of them at the same time, so he could do nothing else but escape the current situation.

But it wasn't his style to escape a place without completing his job, so he decided to at least kill Alma before he escaped.

With those thoughts in mind, he immediately changed places with the shadow close to her, as a sharp illusory shadow sword appeared on his hand, ready to behead the blue-haired beauty.

Looking that happen Roy used all of his strength to propel himself towards Alma, and help her in defending the attack, but he was clearly not going to reach in time.

On the other hand, Alma had a look of concern for a moment on her beautiful face, but she immediately steeled her resolve and heart, as an Ice Wall started appearing in front of her.

'swissshhhhh~!'

Too bad that her quickly created Ice Wall was no use against the shadow sword, and was cut in two just like a hot knife cutting through butter…