It was quite surprising not to see Abercrombie Soren at Karma's wedding.

If he couldn't make it to his sister's important wedding, then he must have been held up by something even more important.

However, because Abercrombie had cut off all communications, even the Mirror Organization didn't know his exact whereabouts. They only knew that he had a conflict with a small lord in southern Luying some time ago. Rumor had it that he had killed many people. The black market and the official authorities of several southern provinces now had high bounties on him, which was no small trouble.

But Soren knew his disciple's character very well. If he killed, there must be a good reason.

He also guessed that Abercrombie might be in a difficult situation.

But after all, it was his disciple's training and growth. Unless Abercrombie actively asked for help, Soren wouldn't take the initiative to intervene as his teacher.

But he didn't expect to meet again in this way.

...

"Dong," "Dong," "Dong"...

The commotion a few blocks away was very loud, as if it was deliberately done to attract people.

Soren teleported to the scene of the battle as soon as possible, and happened to see a cloaked figure fighting with several unidentified individuals.

Soren didn't rush to make a move. He stood on the clock tower with the best view at the street corner, which allowed him to overlook the entire battle.

The cloaked figure was naturally Abercrombie in disguise.

And those other guys weren't military police or Lington constables. Although they were dressed as plumbers, drivers, and municipal gardeners, Soren recognized them at a glance: these people were professional assassins.

Appearing here, it was obviously premeditated.

As soon as Soren arrived and looked at the situation, everything became clear.

He muttered to himself, "Ambushed, huh? It seems they anticipated that Abercrombie would come to Karma's wedding and intercepted him here. Tsk, tsk, daring to make such a scene in the core area of Lington, the employer behind these professional assassins must have a lot of influence."

He glanced at the assassins' moves and even analyzed that they were from an assassin group called the "Seagull Professional Assassin Alliance" on the black market.

Daring to take action here, whether they succeeded or not, was certain death.

These assassins were also suicidal.

So even if they were killed, no useful clues would be obtained.

Soren was very curious, who would spend so much to kill Abercrombie?

Why kill him?

But since he had come, the problem wasn't too big.

Soren also watched patiently.

The assassins were a sixth-tier, two fifth-tiers, and three fourth-tiers, cooperating tacitly.

Such a small team could even assassinate a seventh-tier.

But Abercrombie's response didn't disappoint Soren. He realized that he couldn't escape, so he used silk threads to pull out several mechanical puppets and fought back and forth with these assassins.

Steel cables, hinges, poison sprays, Fei Lian, mists, rain of needles... all kinds of mechanisms on the puppets were used.

In the middle of the street, it was clearly a six-on-one situation, but it was forcibly turned into a group-on-group commotion.

Both sides fought fiercely, each move aimed at killing.

Abercrombie didn't fall behind, and Soren was anxious watching.

Such battles were crucial for the growth of professionals. Not dying meant experience.

As a teacher, he also commented from time to time: "Abercrombie has already advanced to the fifth tier, huh? It seems he's also very diligent in his cultivation. He even has signs of comprehending his own Overlord Qi, not bad, not bad..."

The combat effectiveness of a puppeteer wasn't just about the tier of the main body. The quality of the puppets and the means of manipulation also added a lot.

Soren looked at Abercrombie's puppets and praised them repeatedly.

From his master-level perspective, these puppets were already very good.

Not to mention how high the tier was, just the degree of coordination in combat was perfect for a fifth-tier puppeteer.

What's more, there were also several corpse puppets that could use cursed objects, which made Soren's eyes light up.

"Mechanical corpse puppets... This kid is indeed a born puppeteer."

Looking at this scene, Soren seemed to see himself back then, using living corpse puppets to transfer the curse backlash after using high-level cursed objects.

Now Abercrombie had completely learned his teacher's routine.

And he was performing even better.

The living corpse technology was naturally learned from Soren, but Abercrombie's puppets weren't just corpses, but "mechanical corpse puppets" that had been modified and integrated with Boyle's mechanical techniques.

Such corpse puppets would be more maneuverable in combat, have more diverse attack methods, and various functions to deal with various situations.

He already had his own understanding of puppetry.

Looking at those strange cursed objects, Soren knew that his disciple must have had some opportunities during his time out traveling.

And his second solution, [B-060-Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart], was one of the most suitable talents for puppeteers.

Soren felt that Abercrombie's future achievements in puppetry would definitely be very high.

...

Although the enemies' moves were fatal, Abercrombie remained calm throughout.

Just in the moment of watching, Soren saw that the ambushed Abercrombie not only didn't suffer, but also used hidden steel wires to kill one or two of the weakest fourth-tier assassins.

Whether it was his mind or his strength, he was already very outstanding.

"Not bad..."

Soren's eyes were also full of gratification.

But after all, this was the central area of Lington, destined not to be a protracted battle.

Moreover, Abercrombie had deliberately made such a big commotion to attract people from all sides.

Soren narrowed his eyes and swept around, already in control of the overall situation, guessing in his heart: "Those guys probably know that this group of assassins can't kill Abercrombie, and they should be sending in a top professional to finish the job."

He muttered to himself, a cold light flashing in his eyes.

Soren wanted to see who else dared to come out and kill his disciple at this juncture!

As he expected.

After several buildings on the street collapsed suddenly, the commotion was too loud, and a strange gray mist suddenly appeared in the fog above the street.

Looking closely, it wasn't mist, but burning ashes floating in the air.

Others might not have noticed, but Soren immediately sensed soul fluctuations in the ashes.

The newcomer was a seventh-tier professional.

This kind of ability was rare, and Soren recognized it immediately: "Yo, Terence E. Aaron, one of the Ten Legendary Bounty Hunters, the 'Ashen Knight', a bit of trouble..."

Bounty hunters seemed to be neutral freelancers, but after Soren reached his current height, he had long known that these top professionals were mostly supported by some top consortia in secret.

Those big families would also deliberately befriend these top experts, just waiting for the day when they could be used.

Soren thought for a while, but couldn't figure out who was behind this "Ashen Knight" Terence.

But since he had come, he was naturally here to kill Abercrombie.

Seeing this, Soren's eyes also showed a hint of playfulness.

The burning ashes floating in the air turned everything they passed, whether flowers, plants, or buildings, into gray, like burnt charcoal, and scarlet sparks would light up when the wind blew.

This was the second solution, [A-041-Ember], a rare fire and wood talent.

It could elementalize, and had super-high affinity for wood and fire dual-system laws, quite tricky.

The "Ashen Knight" Terence himself had comprehended the Ember Domain, which was a range-type physical and magical double damage. The high temperature burned the target's skin and bones, and also burned the internal organs from the respiratory tract. The fire poison could kill people invisibly.

A seventh-tier killing a fifth-tier was almost a foregone conclusion for ordinary professionals.

Facing this kind of "Ten Legendary" with special abilities, ordinary fifth-tiers couldn't even last a single exchange.

But Soren still wasn't in a hurry to make a move.

Because he knew that Abercrombie hadn't reached his limit yet.

He had seen just now that his disciple was on the verge of comprehending Overlord Qi.

This kind of life-and-death battle was very important for Abercrombie now. If he could really comprehend Overlord Qi at the fifth tier, his future professional ceiling would be higher.

Being able to fight head-on with this kind of Ten Legendary was a rare opportunity.

Besides, with his teacher here, there was naturally no danger to his life.

The rest was just opportunity.

...

The ashes in the sky spread rapidly, and Abercrombie knew he couldn't escape when he saw this, so he decisively chose to fight.

He raised his hand, and the silk threads pulled by the eight-armed spider spears quickly pulled out several mechanical wooden boxes.

After a series of crisp sounds of "crack" and "crack" of mechanical gears, the secret boxes deformed and opened, and were instantly assembled together through various precise engagements.

A special puppet more than thirty meters tall with countless mechanical arms behind it stood in front of him.

This was actually the Boyle family's heirloom puppet, the [Thousand-Armed Mechanical War Puppet].

The defense of this puppet was very strong, at least ordinary seventh-tiers couldn't do anything about it.

But for the "Ashen Knight" Terence, the problem was big.

If it were a complete mechanical war demon a thousand years ago, there really wouldn't be any problems. But in the past thousand years, the Boyle family had used it countless times, and lacked the ability to maintain high-level puppets, and some rare consumables were nowhere to be found. In Soren's eyes, this puppet was already "full of holes", with flaws everywhere.

"He's put a lot of thought into this. It's not enough to send the Ten Legendary as an assassin to silence him. Knowing that Abercrombie has this puppet, he also specifically found this ability to restrain it. Is Abercrombie going to lose?"

Soren's eyes flickered with light as he carefully observed the battlefield.

He didn't plan to make a move until the last moment.

As he expected.

The "Ashen Knight" Terence's elementalized body covered half the street, and everything on the street was burned to ashes.

Even a few assassins who hadn't had time to escape turned into piles of charcoal in the blink of an eye.

And those high-temperature ashes fell on the [Thousand-Armed War Puppet], also making a crackling sound like burning bamboo tubes. The defensive runes and plating on the surface of the puppet blocked the burning, but the high-temperature ashes that could penetrate the details drilled into the puppet along the gaps in the puppet.

The Ember Domain was omnipresent, which was the most deadly killer move.

Just two breaths later, a figure shot out from the puppet like lightning.

The "Ashen Knight" Terence seemed to have expected this, snorted coldly, and the ashes in the air turned into a big hand, grabbing towards that figure.

Abercrombie was also prepared, and the ejected steel wires pulled him, narrowly flying out and avoiding the fatal blow.

But the extreme high temperature instantly melted and deformed the steel wires. This pull didn't land him on the intended trajectory, but he fell awkwardly on the ground covered with hot ashes.

This ground was within the enemy's domain coverage.

Under normal circumstances, just these few rolls would be enough to seriously injure the body of a fifth-tier professional.

Abercrombie was the same.

After he got up, his clothes were burned, and large areas of his skin were charred. The domain field that hadn't formed yet couldn't stop the intrusion of this high-level law.

However, when Soren saw this, the corner of his mouth slightly raised, and he muttered, "He still transformed himself into a puppet body..."

Soren knew his disciple's dream.

Logically speaking, Abercrombie was at the age when he was growing, and he looked different every year.

But Soren looked at Abercrombie in front of him, and he was almost exactly the same as when he last saw him.

He knew that it wasn't that his disciple's body hadn't grown, but that the body was no longer an ordinary flesh and blood body.

It was a mechanical puppet refined by secret methods.

Abercrombie had transformed himself into a mechanical puppet.

This also meant that he no longer had the most obvious weakness of a puppeteer—the body.

As for the "brain" as the carrier of consciousness, which couldn't be modified by puppets for the time being, it could also be hidden with a spatial device. It was really hard to say which part of the body it was in, at least not on the original head.

Abercrombie had large areas of burns all over his body, but he didn't show any pain at all. Looking at his burned right leg, he even tore it off directly, and then installed another new leg while rolling.

At the same time, he took out three space scrolls, and when he tore them open, a pile of mechanical puppets with various shapes appeared, and immediately sprayed various poisonous gases at the mist.

An elementalized body wasn't invincible, and there were many ways to restrain it.

For example, the special cursed object [Austin's Snake King Spray Gun] that he was holding, which sprayed venom, posed a considerable threat to the seventh tier.

Even in the face of enemies like the Ten Legendary Hunters, Abercrombie never intended to give up, and was bravely fighting all the way.

Seeing this, Soren was already very satisfied with his disciple.

But the difference of two major tiers still made it impossible for Abercrombie to survive in the hands of the "Ashen Knight" Terence.

The masterminds behind the ambush had obviously calculated the time.

The low-level patrol officers on the nearby streets didn't dare to approach, and the high-level military police who dealt with this kind of sudden accident were obstructed and hadn't arrived yet.

He saw Abercrombie being burned again, and his figure disappeared from the clock tower.

...

After all, he was one of the Ten Legendary, and Abercrombie was already proud enough to have lasted so long.

This time, he was burned again. The sense of crisis of death was so overwhelming that his heart was as gray as ashes. He muttered to himself, "Is this all I can do..."

He had contacted intelligence personnel before, informing the officials that he had captured a Grand Archbishop of the "Tianmu Sect", and had been intercepted and hunted all the way.

Looking at the wanted orders from the black market and the officials, he immediately knew that there was a problem with the intelligence system, and there were also internal spies in the empire's high-level officials.

However, the only organization he could absolutely trust was the Mirror Organization, but there weren't many people in the organization who were stronger than him. Someone had to send this hot potato back. He didn't dare to contact anyone along the way, and personally escorted the Archbishop straight to Lington.

He didn't expect to be intercepted.

Looking at the abilities of the person who intercepted him, Abercrombie didn't recognize that this was one of the Ten Legendary Hunters.

The enemy would take action here, naturally with the determination to kill.

Abercrombie sighed in his heart, it was a pity that he couldn't send out the important information he had mastered.

It wasn't that he wasn't careful enough, but the gap in strength was too great.

He had left too many traces along the way, and had long been targeted. It wasn't surprising that he was ambushed now.

He looked at the street corner in the distance, his sister had already arrived. But it was all too late.

Even though the seventh-tier expert of the Roberts family had appeared on the burned street, no one could stop the "Ashen Knight" Terence from killing.

The combat power of the Ten Legendary was extraordinary. In this situation, even an eighth-tier might not be able to stop him.

However, just when Abercrombie was desperate, he suddenly saw a man in a black suit appear in front of him.

He appeared out of nowhere, elegant, calm, and composed, obviously having just come from a wedding.

Then this man stood in front of him.

Looking at this back, Abercrombie immediately felt very familiar. The expression in his eyes instantly changed from shock to joy, and he exclaimed excitedly: "Teacher!"

Soren looked back at him, the corners of his handsome face slightly raised, and he praised: "You've performed well."

...

Almost in the blink of an eye before life and death were determined, people from all sides had arrived.

Karma ran over anxiously in her plain white wedding dress, and several puppets had appeared around her, looking like she was going to personally help her younger brother out of the predicament.

And the captain of the Roberts family's guards followed along the way, listening to his young master's instructions to "save people". The seventh-tier knight captain also rushed towards the battlefield without hesitation.

However, the "Ashen Knight" Terence's ability was too special. At this moment, not to mention a seventh-tier, even if ten more seventh-tiers came, they couldn't stop him from killing.

Everyone watched in despair, seeing that a tragedy was about to happen.

However, at this moment, the man in the black suit calmly appeared on the battlefield.

As soon as he appeared, it was as if the eyes of the whole world were focused on him.

Only Karma widened her eyes, her eyes trembling with excitement as she exclaimed: "Teacher has made a move!"

...

When the "Ashen Knight" Terence saw Soren suddenly appear, his expression changed drastically.

Being able to use space displacement under his nose without him noticing, he immediately determined that this was a top-tier professional.

Feike Leijiadi?

Terence also recognized Soren at first sight.

However, even if he was a prince with a sensitive identity, he couldn't stop himself from killing!

Terence completely ignored Soren, and the elementalized ash body formed a fire tornado, directly bypassing him, preparing to kill Abercrombie with one blow to complete the mission.

However, what this Ten Legendary never expected was that facing his domain, the man in the tuxedo didn't care at all, and even a sneer appeared in his eyes?

He actually saw a hint of contempt?

A surge of anger rose in Terence's pupils. None of the opponents he had faced before dared to underestimate him so much.

Not even an eighth-tier!

His spiritual power surged, and the ashes floating in the sky burned with raging flames, immediately attacking the two of them.

However, in the next second, his anger turned into horror.

Terence looked at the faint Overlord Qi surrounding the man's body. Just by raising his hand and pressing down, he felt as if the space around him was imprisoned, and a terrifying feeling of death, as if someone had grabbed his neck and he couldn't move at all, instantly surged into his heart.

"How is that possible!"

Terence's face changed drastically, and even his elementalized body couldn't be maintained, turning back into human form in the blink of an eye.

He was puzzled and horrified, and had never encountered any opponent who could bring him such a strong sense of death crisis in one encounter.

He was so powerful that even this Ten Legendary couldn't find a chance to survive!

How could it be...

Just as the thoughts in his mind completely turned into horror, Terence suddenly felt that the hand that was pinching his neck was like a mountain of ten thousand tons pressing down on him.

He didn't have time to react, and his whole body was pressed down by that force, hitting the ground heavily.

"Dong!"

With a loud noise, the ground shook and the mountains trembled.

Terence watched helplessly as his head smashed into the ground, creating a crater several meters in diameter.

The speed was so fast that it wasn't until the shock wave pushed down the surrounding buildings that he felt his soul catch up with his body, and he was heavily injured in the pit.

"Puchi" A mouthful of blood spurted out.

Terence felt that his bones and flesh were shattered inch by inch, and endless pain instantly surged into his heart.

The ability to elementalize was useless at all, and he was completely blasted to the ground with one move.

At this moment, this Ten Legendary realized what a terrifying opponent he had encountered.

The plan had failed!

There was no time to be shocked. At this moment, Terence immediately made a decision.

Before the battle, he was confident that even if the old eighth-tier professionals from the royal family or the military came, no one could stop him from killing this small fifth-tier puppeteer.

But he never expected to encounter such a bizarre opponent.

He was even stronger than any eighth-tier he had expected.

After all, he didn't even understand the means just now?

His face was ashen, and he bit his tongue, the bloody taste in his mouth forcing him to be awake for a moment.

Terence had already realized that his opponent was strong, but he didn't realize how strong he was.

He still wanted to use secret techniques to escape and avoid this terrifying opponent first.

Professionals who had reached his level had more or less a few life-saving means. Even if they couldn't win, they still had a chance to escape.

However, this time, he miscalculated.

Terence's spell was instantly condensed, but he found that it was useless at all!

Why couldn't he escape?

He felt a panic that he hadn't felt since he advanced to the seventh tier. Before he had time to think about what went wrong, he heard a voice that seemed to be targeted by the God of Death, who had nowhere to escape: "Want to leave? Did I let you leave..."

This!!!

Terence was instantly desperate.

Because he realized that the elemental power around his body had completely disappeared, as if it had been shielded by a high-level rule power.

No matter what he did, it was as if everything had been seen through.

The man seemed to see through his last thought of self-destruction, and that ghost-like figure echoed in his ear again: "In front of me, you have to ask me if I agree before you die."

As soon as these words came out, Terence's face was ashen.

...

It's over?!

Abercrombie stood behind his teacher, watching this battle up close. Although it was short, it shocked him beyond measure.

He knew that his teacher was very strong, but he didn't expect him to be so outrageously strong!

The enemy was Terence E. Aaron, the "Ashen Knight" of the "Ten Legendary Bounty Hunters"...

A top professional who could entangle an eighth-tier, was defeated in one encounter?

Defeated in one move?!

Abercrombie's face after the puppet transformation didn't have any expression, but his eyes were filled with uncontrollable shock and excitement. His mind seemed unable to believe what he had seen, and he was stuck on the spot for a long time.

It wasn't until the legendary hunter was seriously injured, the high temperature around him dropped, and a cool breeze blew back that Abercrombie seemed to wake up.

At this moment, the two sentences his teacher warned the enemy also rushed into his ears.

"Want to leave? Did I let you leave..."

"In front of me, you have to ask me if I agree before you die."

The tone was as calm as water, but it made people hear a domineering arrogance.

Listening to this, Abercrombie felt an boundless pride rising in his chest: This is my teacher!

And in the distance, a group of reinforcements who rushed over also saw this scene and were dumbfounded, all standing there in a daze.