Chapter 65 Hidden Plan
Chapter 65 Hidden Plan
Klaus simply smiled. That was bound to happen.
If you fought the genius earth scientist like that and didn't fix your fighting stances, then you were asking to be humiliated.
Even more so now that Klaus has seen an abysmal improvement in his eyes and mind, making attacking key locations easier. Thanks to that he can easily identify weak spots in the opponent and will be able to attack them with great precision, so fighting him like that is not the best of ideas.
Rock was stunned, looking at the ground as if he had been dumb for a moment; the same happened to everyone around him.
After a moment of dazed silence, he looked up to see Klaus. Feeling the pain in his body, he raised his hand to the affected areas. "What did you do?" he asked with difficulty.
Klaus smiled at him, walked over to him, and gave him a hand to lift him up. "It's nothing amazing; they're just one of the martial arts I've practiced. I didn't expect you to attack me like that, so I unconsciously attacked your weak points, seeing them so unprotected."
'He attacked my weak points so easily?' Rock grabbed Klaus' hand and stood up. Although he had difficulty moving, one of his companions eventually came to help him, surprised at how affected he was.
"Don't worry, I didn't attack dangerous places. I'll have a spar with him when he recovers, and hopefully, he'll have learned his lesson by then." Klaus smiled amicably.
Although those in front of him were astonished, they understood that it wasn't Klaus' fault; at least, they seemed to understand. "Don't worry, kid. In sparring, that kind of thing usually happens, even more so when one of the opponents doesn't know how to defend himself and is so outclassed as his counterpart." Smiled the one who came to Rock's aid.
Along with his words, a clamor of surprise ignited in the surroundings; those who had been running with Klaus were in shock. They had never thought that the young man who had been running with them half an hour ago was so powerful. That ignited them in excitement; many wanted to give it a try.
But Rock's friends were staring at Klaus, and one of them stepped forward.
"Kid, since you won the bet, then your part of the bargain will be fulfilled. You want to train with us, don't you?" he asked.
Klaus nodded to him. "That's right, I like to train with strong people, as it helps me to know my limits."
"Haha, good. That's pretty good; it's a mentality we all like, so let's train. Still, we want to add one condition. You should have used that martial art from a moment ago. Do you think so? It will help us understand our weak points."
Immediately, a smile slowly formed on Klaus' face. "That sounds good to me. But I'll stop if someone can't take that many blows."
"Hahaha, let's see if you manage to get past our defenses one more time now that we're ready."
After that little exchange, Klaus and his opponents started training differently, mixing sparring with casual training and constant learning.
While that was going on, Carion arrived in the vicinity of the venue and watched from afar, stunned, how Klaus was training and taking down his rivals.
'What the hell?'
He almost forgot he was on a mission for a moment, but quickly ducked out of sight to watch from the side.
Klaus' opponents were falling one after another. He then proceeded to explain some other things to them to wait for them to recover, and then they went back to sparring, where they fell again.
It was a repetitive cycle. None of the people present could even win a sparring match against Klaus.
That made sense.
What Klaus was teaching them, while it made sense, they couldn't take advantage of because they were too slow and their senses weren't as supernatural as Klaus'.
But seeing all that from the side made Carion shocked and unable to move for a long time.
He didn't even notice that Klaus approached him an hour later when it was already 6:30 a.m.
"Before 7 a.m., we have to complete the mission. They will feel a severe belly ache in a few seconds, so we will catch them off guard. Be careful; they have highly deadly poison somewhere in their bodies." After saying this, Klaus put a small written paper in Carion's hand and walked away from the people in the training center.
It took Carion a while to move, but when he realized Klaus was no longer near him, so he had to sneak away and go to the designated place carefully.
After a few minutes, Klaus sat quietly on the edge of the roof of one of the bathrooms here.
During this hour, Klaus had been engaged in affecting different parts of the body, which would cause them to accumulate a large amount of gases, which would make them feel a terrible tummy ache. Since they didn't know what it was, they would most likely run to these places. He had a backup plan if they didn't, but he was sure it would work.
A short time later, Carion arrived.
"Klaus, what the hell is going on? I saw you training with them, and suddenly you told me all that... Is that part of the plan?" he asked, hiding nearby.
Klaus nodded.
"There is something weird going on. I investigated this area last night, and it is more restricted than usual; powerful people are in the vicinity helping these guys, and we can't underestimate them. Possibly, these assassins are looking for something else; the moves they had made earlier, it is possible that it was to do so. That's why I approached them, wounded them without them noticing, and now we just have to wait." Klaus said.
He still felt like something was slipping out of his plan, but he knew that once he accomplished the first part, the plan he would carry out right now had no countermeasure. They would indeed need to go to the bathroom quickly and let their guard down, making them vulnerable to assassinations. This was the best time to kill identified assassins and prevent any from escaping.
Even Carion could understand the latter, but he hadn't expected the plan to have changed that much. Originally, they were going to attack them during breakfast or something similar.
"I heard that elves are somewhat compatible with earth magic; are you too?" Klaus asked, looking at him sideways.
"Yes." Carion nodded. "Why? I can't do much with what little earth magic I know, but it might do some good."
Klaus then pointed behind him at the ceiling of the bathroom. "Open two holes there, and make them a little bit; they'll be hidden. We'll go out that way if anything weird happens since the ventilation ducts are a little late."
"Huh? What do we need to go out through previously prepared places for?" he asked, though he didn't hesitate to do so. That tactic was used when things weren't going well or weren't expected to go so well. So Carion was curious.
Klaus smiled, "That's just what you're thinking. Although the plan will succeed one way or another, I feel there are things I don't know about this. Just know that if I yell at you to get out fast, you should do it even if you haven't killed any yet."
Carion was planning to ask something else, but they heard a slight commotion, and Klaus quickly ducked out of sight. "They're coming; finish the holes quickly and follow me to the ducts. Let's do this quickly to avoid trouble." He immediately opened one of the ducts used to maintain the ventilation channels and climbed inside.
Carion followed soon after as he finished his work.
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Soon, the commotion reached the toilets, and all the targets of both came running in. Those who helped them get there left soon after, so the area around the toilets was left completely alone.
They were so preoccupied with their things that they didn't notice anything unusual. Carion had partially covered the holes in the ceiling with a rag, and Klaus's work to hide the sound of the ducts was enough for them not to notice.
Once they both got to them, they noticed they were at their most vulnerable moment when someone was in the bathroom.
'It would have been easier if Carion cut the wind in and out of here, but I can't ask much of him. He doesn't seem to have any knowledge about it.' Klaus thought, taking out his knife carefully.
He nodded to Carion and pointed out several of them.
"I'll take care of 5. Use your ring specialization to prevent them from escaping and take care of killing the two farthest away. Try not to make any noise." He whispered. Then he raised his hand and did a little five-second countdown.
As his fingers lowered, Carion held on tighter to his weapon and stared at his targets until the finger counter reached 2...
And 1.
The moment that the last finger went down, they both acted.
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