Rebirth of the Wolf King

Chapter 2: Ambush

At night, Eagle Castle.

When the bright moonlight shone on the whole castle, everyone had already gone to sleep, except for the patrolling soldiers who were holding oil lamps and looking around.

At this time, a black shadow took advantage of the gap between the soldiers' patrols and slipped into the castle at a fast speed. He looked up to the bedroom where Kane was and raised his hand to climb up.

Inside the bedroom, Kane seemed to be asleep, tiny breaths coming from his mouth.

Suddenly, there was a rattle at the window.

"Crunch."

Followed by a slight sound of landing

"Thud..."

A dark shadow quietly walked over to Kane's bedside.

Looking at Kane, who had fallen into a deep sleep, the dark shadow felt very puzzled.

Obviously, last night, he had already shot his crossbow into his opponent's heart, and even watched his opponent die with his own eyes.

After a day, he was training at the castle as if nothing had happened. If he hadn't kept an eye on him, he wouldn't have known how to explain to that lord.

But the good thing is that the other party seemed to be intent on not publicizing this matter, which also gave the black shadow the opportunity to assassinate them again.

This time, Black Shadow guaranteed that he would let his target die completely.

Thinking about it, Black Shadow pulled his long sword out from his back.

He didn't believe that if he cut off his head, the other party would still be alive and kicking.

Immediately, the long knife flew towards Kane, while he should have been sleeping. At that moment, he opened his eyes and rolled to the side, allowing the long knife to finally hit the pillow behind him.

"Pfft ...."

"How..." The dark figure whispered incredulously.

"How come you're awake, huh?" Kane, who had rolled out of bed, had picked up his longsword and stood up.

Sensing something was wrong, the dark shadow stopped talking and instead threw a s***h to s***h at Kane again.

"Action." Kane shouted to his surroundings.

With that, he raised his longsword again and clashed with the opponent's longsword.

"Clang."

Kane, whose strength was unmatched, was quickly overwhelmed by the opponent's attack.

More and more blade marks emerged from his body.

But this didn't make Kane feel cowed in the slightest, instead, it inspired the animalistic nature hidden in his bloodline.

He let out a roar of excitement.

"Ow!!!"

And gradually equalized with his opponent in terms of strength.

And just then, the bedroom door was slammed open.

Two men and women in leather armor quickly rushed in, and quickly cooperated with Kane to suppress the dark shadow.

In less than half a minute, the situation was completely reversed, and until that moment, the Black Shadow, who still had the illusion of escaping, also died.

After knocking out the opponent's long knife, Kane immediately ordered the other two to pin down the opponent.

After taking out a thick and hard rope from the room, under the coordination of the two men, Kane tied the black shadow severely.

Until that moment, Kane did not realize that something was wrong with his body. He walked to the window and observed his body by the light of the moon.

At some point, his arms had sprouted a lot of white hair, his nails were even more slender than before, and his two canine teeth were also pointedly exposed.

Just as Kane was surprised by this phenomenon, the changes that had occurred earlier quickly faded and returned to their original form, along with the knife marks on his body.

"Speak! Who sent you as an assassin to dare assassinate Lord Kane?"

Just as Kane was probing his body, the woman in leather armor next to him had begun her interrogation.

Catherine Chuth was the woman's name, and she was born in Kane's barony, the subordinate village of Maike.

At an early age, she showed excellent talent as a swordsman, and was thus recognized and nurtured by the former Baron, Rachel Gerard.

And Catherine herself did not disappoint the baron's expectations. At the age of 16, she broke through the trainee swordsman, came to the beginning of the first rank, and then two years later broke through to the middle of the first rank, and it can be predicted that in the next few years, she will definitely break through to the second rank, or even the third rank may be possible.

Unlike Catherine who impatiently started the interrogation, the other leather-armored man beside her, after tying up the black shadow, came to Kane's side, and sort of saw the whole process of Kane's change.

However, he did not make a sound, but stood silently aside until Kane recovered before speaking.

"Lord Kane, are you alright?"

Kane, who had come back to his senses, gave the man a deep look, "Marcus, I'm fine, you and Kathryn work together to keep the assassin down."

"Yes, my lord."

Looking at the other party's departing figure, memories of Marcus surfaced in Kane's mind.

Marcus Eimer, the third son of Opid Eimer, as the third son of the baronial family, didn't have the right to inheritance per se, and in the future, he would either have to take a clerical position within the family, or leave the family to become a wandering knight.

And it just so happens that Baron Opid and his own father, Rachel Gerard, are close friends, so he entrustes his son to the other side, hoping to obtain a knight's knighthood.

Marcus himself is also very competitive, not only with the loyal lord Rachel Gerard's help, he soon obtained the knight title, and many times, to obtain merit, would be his life-long knight title, into the inheritance system.

Pushing down the doubts in his mind about his body, Kane knew that now was not a good time for any kind of probing.

He stepped out of the room and followed Marcus and Catherine as they escorted the dark figure to the basement of the castle.

Outside the bedroom, the earlier rattling had caused the servants and guards of the castle to gather outside the door, where the butler, Jace, was doing his best to calm them down.

As one of the few people who knew about Kane's plan, it was Jace's duty to explain to the crowd what was going on and to calm them down.

Ignoring the attention of the others, the escorting trio made their way straight through the crowd to the basement of the castle.

Marcus lit the torches on the walls, and when there was a glimmer of light in the dimly lit basement, the men put the dark figure into a cage and tied his hands behind a chair.

After making sure that the dark figure would not break free, Catherine ripped off the black figure's face scarf.

The face of a young Ossosian appeared before the trio, with greenish-blue eyes and short yellow hair.

Looking into the other's face, Kane said with some confusion, "Strange face .... I don't recognize you."

To this, the black shadow did not reply and just gazed at the three.

Seeing the black shadow's uncooperative attitude, Catherine punched him in the stomach, causing the other party to shiver in pain, but the black shadow still didn't say a word.

"Kid, you won't say anything, right? I've got it covered." Turning around, Catherine then went to get the execution tools.

At this time, the steady Marcus spoke up, "As far as I know, the Ossos, in general, live in the northwestern part of the kingdom, which is not too far and not too close to us here."

"And the Ossos people who have mastered the knight's transcendent ability would only be nobles, but the average noble's son wouldn't care to be an assassin, so they can only be wandering knights or downtrodden nobles."

A hint of change finally appeared in the black shadow's fluctuation-less eyes, which proved that Marcus' statement was correct.