Although interested in the orc warlock she had just captured, Valeera did not let her personal interest distract her from her responsibilities.
Grasping the ends of the dirty cloak and robes, Valeera roughly dragged the orc warlock to the sewer entrance and handed him over to one of the Kirin Tor guards.
Valeera deliberately concealed her real name and entrusted the bewildered Kirin Tor guard to help deliver the warlock to Ronin's mage tower. When anyone asked about the origin, he said it was a trophy of squirrels.
After taking care of the tail, Valeera entered the stealth state and accelerated towards the depths of the sewer.
Since the tracking mark was engraved on Princess Tess without anyone noticing in advance, Valeela could still sense the specific location of the large army even though she was already far behind.
It only took Valeera a few minutes to catch up with the Dalaran intelligence team that had infiltrated the Uncrowned Headquarters.
As an epic thief, Edwin Van Cleef could not look down upon these uncrowned gatekeepers.
According to past practice, he planned to capture the thief first and capture the king most efficiently.
After Jorachi Ravenholdt shifted his focus back to Alterac, which had successfully restored his kingdom, he brought all the elites of the Uncrowned to Ravenholdt Manor to train them personally.
Without the leadership of Choraci and a large number of elites, today's Uncrowned Ones are just a ragtag group. Their leaders are three high-level elite thieves who have not yet entered the epic realm.
Valeera, who was sneaking and hiding behind, evaluated them with her own eyes. According to Sarlayan's usual numerical evaluation standards, the levels of these three people were approximately 48, 47 and 48.
Although there is not a huge gap between elites and epics like epics and demigods, after all, they have crossed a big realm.
If it weren't for the idea of training the team, Edwin, with a level as high as 56, could easily eliminate these three so-called uncrowned leaders who were still quarreling over their interests.
The experienced Edwin was in no hurry to sneak into the heart of the Uncrowned Headquarters.
After bypassing the opponent's loose defense net, everyone followed Edwin into an abandoned warehouse that no one paid attention to.
At this time, Valeera was squatting on a beam above the warehouse, watching with interest as Edwin made arrangements meticulously.
"Princess Tess, please allow me to ask a question first."
Edwin Van Cleef looked seriously at Tess, who was also wearing a black scarf: "Have you ever killed anyone with your own hands before? Have you seen blood?"
"This..." Tess hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to tell the truth: "I have seen blood, but I have never killed anyone with my own hands."
"Is that so?" Edwin hesitated: "If I ask you to deal with the weakest of the three leaders, are you sure you can complete the task?"
Tess took a deep breath and replied with a serious expression: "I can't guarantee it, after all, I have never experienced actual combat before."
"But if something can grab his attention, I'm confident that I can kill him with one strike."
Edwin looked down at the two daggers already held by Tess, and nodded thoughtfully.
After all, Tess is the princess of Gilneas. As long as she really wants to go down the road of thieves, let alone the old king Jean who is still kept in the dark, Prince Liam will never treat her badly in terms of resources. of.
Edwin, who has rich experience, can recognize at a glance that the pair of daggers in Tess's hands are good weapons of epic quality, and they have been tempered in advance with enhanced versions of quick-acting poison and decelerating poison prepared by Valeera herself.
As long as he seizes the opportunity to strike, the thief leader's sophisticated leather armor alone cannot block the sharp epic weapons.
This is pure resource crushing.
The thieves in Yeluzi had to fight tooth and nail to get a set of sophisticated equipment, but a princess like Tess who was born into a royal family could easily get a pair of epic weapons.
Edwin, who was also born in a lower class, felt a little complicated. He thought of his precious daughter who had been clamoring to inherit her father's legacy since she was a child.
'Same people have different fates...'
After being distracted for a moment, Edwin quickly regained his composure.
"Then, I will be responsible for the other two leaders of the Uncrowned. Princess Tess will take the opportunity to assassinate your target."
Tess's tight little face full of collagen nodded vigorously: "Leave it to me!"
Edwin turned to look at the others beside him: "The remaining people work together to seal the battle circle. We must block the returning Uncrowded Thieves before we kill the mission target."
"yes!"
"Very good, last 3 minutes to prepare, everyone remains silent."
In Valeera's view, Edwin's arrangement was a bit rigid and dogmatic for thieves, but at least it was stable enough and there would be no major deviations.
With Edwin's strength, one against three is not a problem.
The reason why Tess was given a chance to kill the enemy with her own hands was to train this little princess who had never been on the battlefield.
Edwin asked himself that he had a pretty good eye for people. Although Princess Tess was still very immature, she was very determined to help her husband reorganize and manage Dalaran's intelligence system. She was not here just for fun.
In this case, Edwin doesn't mind giving Tess a chance to grow.
He saw the shadow of Vanessa's future in this Princess of Gilneas, who was not squeamish at all, and regarded it as a preview of raising his daughter.
Even if Tess fails to successfully complete the assassination mission, Edwin will still be able to help her to ensure that she will not be in danger.
3 minutes flew by.
Edwin, who entered a state of silence, did not speak anymore, but directed everyone through tactical gestures to start taking action according to the pre-specified plan.
Edwin, who was the first to set off, did not use Shadow Step like a rookie thief. He patiently bypassed the traps on the ground that were meaningless to him, and also set an example for Tess who was following behind.
Under Edwin's guidance of deliberately keeping a little shadow, Tess, who entered a state of complete stealth, could see his every move.
Although Tess participated in actual combat for the first time, she did not appear too panicked as she had been educated in royal temperament since childhood.
With Edwin leading the way, Tess noted the locations of all the traps on the ground and successfully bypassed the trap area.
Although Edwin could not see the movements of Tess who was fully sneaking, the trap was not triggered, which meant that her infiltration up to this point had been flawless.
Next it was Edwin's turn to perform. Edwin, who had wandered into the blind spot of the three people's sight, was completely lost in front of Tess.
Tess did not panic, she knew this was a sign of Edwin's official action, and stared at her target with bated breath.
"Ha~"
Valeera, who was following far behind, couldn't help but shake her head and laugh. The seemingly perfect sneaking of Tess and Edwin was very clear in her eyes.
"Still too young."
"Little princess, if you stare at the target like this, it's easy for the other person to develop a sense of crisis."
Although the three leaders of the Uncrowned are not big shots, they are still veterans who have been in the dark zone for many years, and they are quite unique in crisis sensing.
Sure enough, Tess's glare aroused the target's alert, and he suddenly stopped arguing and looked around subconsciously.
"Do you... feel any inexplicable hostility?"
"Hostility? Are you crazy? This is our home base."
"That's right! Don't change the subject, old man, hurry up and put your... uh!"
The youngest and most potential thief among the three let out a shrill scream before he could finish his words. A bloody dagger came out of his left chest. He opened his eyes wide without leaving a last word. He died on the spot.
Edwin took action in advance. After sensing that the enemies were on alert, he could only help the inexperienced Tess wipe her butt and take out one of the enemies first.
"His! Enemy attack!"
The middle-aged thief who had a bad premonition ignored the misery of his companions and was the first one to start shaking people at the top of his voice.
Tess also realized that she had gotten into trouble, but she didn't look back. When things came to a close, she became calmer.
While Edwin entangled the two Uncrowned leaders one against two, Tess entered a state of concentration and approached her target expressionlessly.
This time, she did not reveal any hostility or murderous intent.
Just when the middle-aged thief was tired of dealing with Edwin's very sophisticated attacks one after another, he suddenly felt the sharp pain of being pierced by a sharp instrument on the back of his neck.
"Ahhh!!"
Looking at the middle-aged thief who staggered to the ground with blood spurting from his neck, Valeera patted his forehead helplessly: "The neck bones are so hard, why would you choose the neck to attack... Fortunately, it was an epic weapon, otherwise This time there will be problems with the choice of action."
"Princess Tess is indeed very talented. Once you make a mistake once, you won't make it again, but... you still lack practical experience. Let's find some time to teach this girl some lessons later."
(End of chapter)
