The Reincarnation of the Kingmaker

Chapter 118: Jude's secret part 1

Naturally, Jude's party didn't make it too obvious that they know that there are other people secretly following behind them.

As a party that has completed dozens of missions in the past, they always carry along weapons and hide them in their clothes. Those weapons though are only meant for temporary use, like buying some time to take out their main weapons from their respective Storage Rings.

Contrary to them though, Kayn carries with him his main weapons most of the time — the Molten Ice Sword and some of the merged daggers. Although he would sometimes put the sword inside his Storage Ring. But those were only the moments when carrying it on his body would make it inconvenient for him.

"They are on the move," Natas quickly warned Kayn, "I think they've noticed that their presence has been revealed to our party,"

"At least they are aware of their own incompetence,"

Kayn signaled Jude's party to prepare for the arrival of their uninvited guests.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Cling!

Clang!

Bang!

Already knowing that an ambush is going to happen soon, Jude's party was immediately able to block the men that suddenly launches an attack at their party.

Whoosh!

Kayn immediately made a swift turn with his right hand brandishing the Molten Ice Sword hiding on the sheath on his waist.

Whoosh!

A powerful sword wave hit the man that jumped out of the bushed, instantly cutting his body in half.

The man's eyes were in complete disbelief as he watches his upper body fall to the ground with his face first.

"Unluckily for you, I am no longer as weak as a week ago,"

If he was still at level 10, he wouldn't have been able to pull that off in one swift motion.

"Abort mission, abort!"

One of the men screamed out loudly as he started running away from Jude's party. The others also quickly followed suit and went their own way to escape.

"Let's catch them!" Charles exclaimed.

"Leave them be, for now," Jude went to stop Charles from taking one more step.

"Why?"

"It's suspicious,"

"What do you mean?"

"Jude's right," Kayn decided to step in. "They were too weak,"

For a group of people to ambush Jade's party with a bunch of weak individuals and then immediately run away afterward could only mean one thing;

"Their main goal from the start was to get a clear understanding of our capability," Jude muttered.

"I am guessing that their main squad is currently waiting for us over at where those men are running right now,"

"Could be one of those hills over there,"

"Or they could also be waiting in all directions,"

"This is really bad,"

"Do you know of any way to get out of this place?"

"There's none other than this path,"

"I am not someone familiar with this place, so I can barely offer you any suggestions," Kayn heaves a sigh of regret. If this was in the Green Horn Village and Split Mountain, he'd be able to think of dozens of ways out as he had gotten himself somewhat familiar with the place during the time he was gathering materials.

"Let's make our way back to where we have previously set up our camp and see what our enemy plans to do next," Jude quickly instructed everyone.

They are at disadvantage here because their enemy has already made advance preparations to ambush them. If they continue moving forward, it would be the same as willingly going over to their trap.

Rather than doing that, he intends on leveling the playing field by getting as far away as possible from their enemy's trap, hoping that they'd abandon their ambush and chase after them.

As they run away, the next thing that happened was exactly like what Jude had expected.

Dozens of movements started taking place behind them.

Although they have no way to get a clear view at their back and they also don't want to look back in any case that their enemy would take that as an opportunity to get them, they could still hear the series of sounds their enemy are making as they chase after them.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

A string of arrows started shooting in the direction of Jude's party. Luckily, because they are moving very fast and are using the terrain to their advantage, none of the arrows were able to get any of them.

"Just hang on everyone, we are about to reach our camp," Jude encourages his party members.

Not long after, Jude's party reaches their previous camp.

Despite the fact that they've cleaned up the place, some leftovers from the seven days of staying in this place still remained. For example, some chopped logs, the dirty kitchen, fences that acted as their wall, and other more necessary structures.

Charles and the other Knight along with the Guardian of their party took advantage of the wall to minimize the area they have to protect.

Jude and the Priest positioned themselves closely behind them so that they won't risk themselves from long-distance attacks.

As for Kayn, he continued moving forward, soon reaching the forest behind Jude's party and disappearing within the greenery.

Jude believed that Kayn is an assassin, therefore he ordered the latter to go to the backline of their enemy and take care of their Mages, Priest, and Marksman while at the same time gathering information about who they are up against and why they are doing this to them.

Unbeknownst to Jude, Kayn honestly already knew who they are up against right now as Natas had informed him along the way. Even without Natas' informing him about it though, he could easily guess that these people are probably the men of the person who posted the mission on the Barracks.

As for why they are doing this, he has not a single clue, at all.

That is why he didn't express any disagreement with Jude's plan as his order coincidentally coincided with his interest.

Using the cover of trees, Kayn soon reaches the backline of their enemy's forces.

He went to a trunk of a broken tree at the side and then crouched down close to the ground nearby it before beginning his observation.

"Three Mages, two Priests, and five Marksmen,"

Kayn quickly finished taking note of their enemy's long-distance combatants.

As soon as he was finished with that, Kayn swiftly transferred to another location that can get him the view of their enemy's close-range combatants.

Fortunately, the spot was somewhere very close to Jude's party, so he would be able to easily return to them once he is done with his reconnaissance.

"Two Assassins, three Guardians, and five Knights,"

In total, there are twenty men in the force of their enemy.

"The leader seems to be that Guardian," Kayn observed closely the man being protected closely by the two other Guardians and being watched intently by the two Priests behind.

Only the leader of a squad would receive such treatment from the others. So, Kayn didn't have any difficulty finding out.

"There are some missing," Kayn wondered where those weak men tried to ambush them at the very beginning.

"They were killed," Natas informed.

"I see,"

The reason is probably that those men have ultimately failed to achieve their mission and also caused the main force to abandon their strategy to chase after Jude's party.

"Is this everyone?" Kayn can't help asking Natas as the latter has been observing their enemy much longer than him.

"So far, I haven't noticed anyone else yet,"

Kayn nodded his head in understanding. "The only objective remaining is to know the reason why these people are doing this,"

From the start, he couldn't help wanting to know the exact reason why the person who had posted the mission about scouting in this place would all of a sudden send out his men to hunt them. If the latter needed information, he would have received what Jude's party have compiled first before doing something like this. In that way, he wouldn't have to go through all this trouble his men are experiencing right now.

"There's probably a good reason for why that person chose to do this," Natas felt suspicious that there might perhaps be another reason behind the decision for doing this.

"Wait here for a moment," Kayn started sneaking closer to the location of the close-range combatants.

"What are you doing?" Natas felt worried.

Kayn didn't bother answering Natas' question as he continued sneaking forward. Not far from him, one of the assassins of their enemy's forces is hiding secretly behind a tree trunk, just like what he did earlier ago.

"Ohhh…" Natas finally understood after seeing where Kayn is going.

"Make sure that you don't get caught," Natas jokingly said.

Hearing Natas' joking remark, Kayn formed a smirk on his face as he signaled to the former using his hand, "Watch me,"

In the next moment, Kayn swiftly pulled the assassin behind while his hand covered the latter's mouth to prevent him from making any sound.

The assassin tried to fight back, but because of Kayn's twenty points in strength, the assassin could only wiggle his body around.

Motioning his hand forward, a dagger appeared on Kayn's hand like magic.

The moment the assassin saw the dagger in Kayn's hand, his eyes instantly opened very wide as he refused to accept his fate.

Nevertheless, the assassin is helpless to do anything to change it.

"Too bad,"

With a quick slash with the dagger, Kayn slit the throat of the assassin.

In order to prevent the assassin from creating any sound, Kayn quickly stabbed the former's lungs very deeply.

"Go to sleep,"

The assassin slowly closes his eyes, the unwillingness to die was very evident on his face.

As soon as the assassin died, Kayn swiftly took some of the former's clothes so that he can disguise himself as part of the enemy's force.