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Chapter 685 The Biggest Mistake
Chapter 685 The Biggest Mistake
Cronker specialized in assassination techniques, focusing on taking out an opponent quickly and silently. He had been with the Crimson Crane group the longest and was by Alba's side before anyone else in the group.
There were rumors that the Crimson Crane had managed to grow larger because of him. The hardest jobs requested of wanderers were assassinations. This was because it would either involve them angering one of the other factions or the kingdoms and empires across the land.
If a person completed such a job, no one was to know who had actually done it. This was why it was simply rumors that Cronker was part of the mass growth of the Crimson Crane.
But then begged the question: Nearly every faction and even clans had groups of people specializing in assassinations or spying techniques, so why did the Crimson Crane have such a person? Maybe the rumors were true after all.
Right now, Cronker was dealing with an opponent he couldn't outright beat or sneak up on. Whatever he had tried didn't work, so he looked to his side, at the three students he had trained, and also at Froma, his fellow ally.
"I know you don't usually work with others and like working on your own, but it looks like you could do with some help," Froma said. "I think it's best you take it."
After finishing those words, she shot out arrows fast and powered with Qi. They were perfectly aimed at Akron, who looked unfazed as they came at him. He carefully stepped forward from side to side.
It looked like he was taking a peaceful stroll through the arena, but each time he would completely avoid the arrows no matter what happened.
"Will you keep him still!" Froma shouted.
"Fine," Cronker said as he lifted up his black covering from his mouth to just slightly over his nose and dashed forward.
The arrows had stopped attacking, and Cronker went from being directly in front of Akron to suddenly disappearing. Quickly, Akron lifted up one of his sword-like needles and stopped a dagger from reaching him.
He then swung both of his needles several times. Cronker, who had attacked from the side, was ducking and weaving each of the attacks, perfectly keeping attention on both of the needles this time.
Froma was carefully aiming an arrow pulled back, and then let go. The arrow went faster than the others before it. In the middle of attacking Cronker, Akron turned his needle weapon to the side and sliced the arrow completely in half.
Seeing this, she couldn't help but click her tongue.
'This is hardly better than when he was just moving toward him. He needs to be on the back foot. He's so much in control of the fight that he can even block an arrow like that. Just Cronker alone isn't going to be enough.'
She then looked down and could see the students were tense.
'Based on what I saw, these little ones weren't so bad. Cronker isn't going to hurt them, and he's going to get hurt at this rate. He's not made for long drawn-out fights.'
"You three, when you think there's a chance, just like I did just then, you need to help your teacher, and then I'll strike. I don't want to rely on you guys like that... but I think we're going to have to," Froma asked.
"The first mistake you made." Akron retracted the needle that had pierced Froma. When the needles exited out of her body, she fell to the floor. "You relied on students to do work that should be done by adults. I guess that's what happens when you follow a student that has gotten you into all of this mess."
Akron glanced at Raze when making that comment. He then lifted his hand with the other needle and pointed it toward Joe.
"When people make mistakes, they need to be punished so they don't do it again."
Cronker knew what Akron was intending to do. With this, he pushed forward through all of the pain, and allowed the needle to go deeper into his body, he ran to the side, allowing the needle to cut part of his body, and dived forward with his dagger.
Reaching out, his dagger moved right in front of the extending needle, stopping it before it hit Joe. At the same time, though, Cronker suddenly felt as if he was falling.
His dagger was dropping onto the floor and so was the rest of his view, until he finally felt his chest hitting the floor.
Cronker had his legs sliced off. Akron had already taken out the other needle from the other students. They had fallen to the ground, and Cronker had done so, but it was because the other needle had been used to completely slice his legs off.
"You need to learn, how are you meant to protect those you care about if you don't protect yourself first? You could have kept fighting against me if you didn't try to protect these, and now I will teach you that protecting these students was a stupid endeavor in the first place."
Both of the black needles were in Akron's hands, and once again he looked to Joe, who was on the floor. While on the floor, Joe looked toward his teacher, looking into Cronker's eyes.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to do something," Joe said, his mouth red.
"No... I was the one that started to like you guys, and I should have protected what I liked... I didn't know the Dark Faction were so cruel!!" Cronker shouted.
Violet and Tilson were looking at the situation. The needle had done something strange to them. They had only been pierced in one area, yet for some reason, they were unable to move. It was almost as if the needle also had a poisonous numbing effect that worked on them.
It showed how amazing it was that Cronker was still able to move despite all of that.
Akron placed his needle right above Joe's head, ready to extend it out. Having it over Joe's head, a strange shadow-like wolf jumped from the side and almost went to bite his hand.
Quickly, Akron sliced through the shadow, and it disintegrated, but the lingering part of the dark shadow from the beast fell onto Akron's skin, hurting him.
"I think you are the one that has made a mistake," a voice said.
Looking up, Akron could see a man standing and walking over to him with his sword covered in a shadowy mist.
"The mistake of touching these students," Raze said.