Water Mage in the Flame Realm-Chapter 305 - 295: The Female Assassin’s Identity
The Flame Turtle could no longer laugh at this moment.
He looked at Andrew, who appeared in the center of the hall, with an expression as if he had seen the impossible.
For Andrew to appear at this time, in this manner, was completely unreasonable!
"Lord Gus specifically entrusted ’that person’ to deal with this kid, ensuring this variable would be handled before the third negotiation contest, and clearly succeeded last night. How could there still be a problem?"
The Flame Turtle couldn’t comprehend, "It was excusable that ’that person’ failed last time, considering it was done at the ’Shield of Flowing Fire’, too close to Warm Fire City. But this time, this time was at the Royal Court, on our absolute home ground. How on earth did this kid manage to escape?!"
The Dragon Taming Lady’s attack was extremely strong, and as her partner, the Flame Turtle’s defense was unparalleled below the Realm of Magic.
But sometimes, if one’s defense is too strong while their independent attack ability is too weak, it becomes particularly infuriating when they see an offensive teammate not doing enough damage. It leads to a mentality of: "What? I took all their damage, and none of you killed them?"
That’s what the Flame Turtle was feeling now.
Even though he hadn’t actually participated in last night’s action against Andrew, once one’s mindset is off-balance, they can hardly care about reason.
The Flame Turtle angrily turned to look at the King.
The King, too, was looking at Andrew with a face of surprise, yet different from others present, the King’s expression was extraordinarily peculiar.
A Frost Guard, clad in heavy armor, quickly approached the King and whispered a few things to him.
Upon hearing these words, the King’s expression grew even more indescribably strange.
The Frost Guard reported, "The Warrior Chief’s life token shattered, presumably he has fallen."
If that were all, it wouldn’t be too bad.
The crucial next part: "The Extreme Cold Ice Prison, dis... dis... disappeared...?"
The Frost Guard was clearly there to report information, but due to the incredibility of it, he couldn’t help but stutter.
Having finished, he couldn’t help but betray a bit of uncontrollable confusion and bewilderment in his tone.
Thus, it sounded more like expressing doubt than reporting!
Outsiders did not know that the Extreme Cold Ice Prison, to the Royal Court, wasn’t just another celestial prison.
Inside the hemispherical Ice Prison, frozen within the dome, were enemies of the Royal Court once imprisoned there.
But beneath the Ice Prison lay, in fact, the ancestors of the Royal Court.
— It’s essentially the Royal Family’s ancestral tomb!
Had the plan proceeded normally, Andrew would have been thrown into the Ice Prison and soon become a new funerary object for the Royal Court’s ancestors, buried alongside those trapped beneath the prison dome. This was a method of ancestor veneration for the Royal Family.
Yet, not only did Andrew bounce back to the Royal Court, but the Warrior Chief also died. And the Extreme Cold Ice Prison had... disappeared?!
To the King, it felt as though Andrew was borrowing the Frost Guard’s mouth to say to him, "Capture me? Hmph... now your ancestral tomb is gone!"
"...Hmm, I see." The King waved his hand, signaling the Frost Guard to withdraw.
He seemed very composed, sitting calmly atop the high throne, looking as though he had done nothing significant.
But actually—
"Sorry, though I don’t understand yet what happened, this appears to be my second failure." The King quietly communicated with the Gus Scholar from the Magic Guild through the "Fire God Space", explaining the situation.
He spoke of "the second failure."
It seemed prior to last night, he had already been involved in an action against Andrew.
The Gus Scholar, after hearing the latest situation, paused briefly before responding, "The Shield of Flowing Fire was understandable. Why did you fail this time?"
The Gus Scholar mentioned "the Shield of Flowing Fire". However, back then when Andrew encountered a crisis at the Shield of Flowing Fire, it was clearly the Female Assassin who acted against him.
What did it have to do with the King?
"I said, I currently don’t know what happened." The King—or rather, the Female Assassin—spoke in a low voice, "But I will find out."
On the surface, it was the mighty form of the King sitting on the highest throne in the Eternal Frost Hall, but the voice communicating with the Gus Scholar was the Female Assassin’s!
In Andrew’s mind, the Female Assassin should have captured him last night, handing him over to the King.
But it was not so. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
The Female Assassin... is the King!
She was always right there in the Royal Court, right before everyone’s eyes!
It’s just unknown what special means she used to conceal her appearance and aura, presenting herself as the King?
Especially since she was clearly a top Fire Element Warrior, possessing the Fire of Extinguishing like Capella, yet how did she change her elemental attribute to appear as an Ice Element Titan Giant of the Royal Family?
This transformation isn’t just in elemental attributes but in class and even lineage—an impossibility akin to a person holding two Eight Strange Fires simultaneously.
After last night’s events, Andrew naturally knew: The Female Assassin was in the Royal Court.
But he would never have thought the Female Assassin, who had left him with such a great psychological shadow, was actually right before him the entire time. The very leader of the Royal Court he assisted Catherine against during the negotiation yesterday.
"Regardless, a deal is a deal, and the terms we agreed upon cannot be changed."
The Gus Scholar’s voice, transmitted to the Female Assassin’s mind via the "Fire God Space", said, "If you can’t fulfill our agreement to handle the kid and deal with the third confrontation of the negotiation contest, then I can’t give you the final part of the ’Blood Refining Plan’ I promised."
"Naturally." The Female Assassin nodded, cutting off the contact.
All communication between them was conducted in secret.
On the surface, the attention of everyone in the Frost Hall was still focused on the suddenly appearing Andrew.
Principal Charlie, who was already about to declare "forfeit", was quick to snap back upon seeing Andrew, holding back the last word and showing a look of ecstatic delight. Gentle and composed as he was, he was uncharacteristically slightly out of character.
But soon, Principal Charlie suddenly seemed to sense something, and his expression changed once more!
This was because outside the hall, around the Royal Court, colossal sky-piercing ice pillars were silently rising from the frozen earth, together forming a massive, intricate, and extremely powerful array that enveloped the entire Royal Court.
This, of course, was the work of the Female Assassin.
She was originally entrusted by the Magic Guild to act as a judge and intervene in the outcome of the Royal Court’s negotiations in a biased manner. But now, she was preparing to step down personally, even at the risk of exposing her identity.
With Andrew’s return, amidst the members on both sides, besides initial shock and surprise, they immediately understood: This third negotiation contest was back on. No longer an uncontested situation favoring the Magic Guild.
However, at this point, with the Female Assassin ready to act personally, this was no longer just a simple Royal Court contest.
