This terrifying Teigu had been made from a spider-type Danger Beast and a legendary poisonous plant.
It combined the powers of both materials.
'Hm?'
Noah noticed sothing strange through his airflow sensing.
It was an object, and it was very small.
He quickly turned his head and saw a colorful spider hanging from a thread, rushing toward his face.
Boom!
Small sparks blood in the night.
Noah controlled the fire elent and wrapped the spider in flas.
In the blink of an eye, it was burned into charcoal, then turned into powder and scattered away.
At the sa ti, the woman inside the building looked surprised.
"He didn't die?"
Noah knew he had been discovered.
That spider was probably the female assassin's "eye."
And this was not a function of her Teigu.
It was her own skill.
It was different from a beast tar's ability. This was the first ti Noah had seen a technique like this.
Killing intent ca from inside the building.
Rustle... rustle...
Tiny sounds ca from the forest behind him.
With his superhuman eyesight, Noah could barely see what was making those sounds.
Spiders.
They were all spiders.
There were at least a hundred spiders moving through the forest together. They moved quickly between the trees, spinning webs and blocking his escape route.
The forest, now full of spiderwebs, looked like a barrier.
Its purpose was to trap him.
'So she could control spiders.'
That was probably how she had discovered him from so far away.
The female assassin landed on a nearby tree.
Noah turned his head and looked at her. He could feel a cold killing intent from her body.
"Oh my, were you planning to leave already?"
That was the female assassin's first sentence to him, and it sounded mocking.
Noah had never planned to run away.
Still, he followed her words and replied, "I was. But you made change my mind."
"Oh? Is that a confession of love?"
The female assassin twirled a lock of hair around her finger.
She acted shy and used her hair to cover part of her face, as if she did not want him to see her embarrassed expression.
Noah shook his head.
Then he raised his hand and pointed straight at the pendant on her chest.
The female assassin's face changed as her playful expression disappeared instantly.
"You really don't know your place."
She snorted and lifted the hem of her skirt. In truth, she had pulled out several poison needles.
The needles flew out in a triangle formation, aiming at several vital spots.
Noah stood where he was. He did not move at all.
This made the female assassin unable to understand him.
Just as she thought he was a rookie who could not react to this kind of attack, a long whip made of invisible airflow smashed the poison needles apart.
After crushing the needles, the twisted airflow kept moving toward the female assassin.
The broken poison needles were swept into the air by the wind.
Relying on her instincts, the female assassin jumped away.
While in midair, she looked down at the tree that had been torn apart as if a giant beast had clawed through it.
Her expression changed in shock.
'What was that?'
'What destructive power.'
'If I had been hit by that, forget leaving a full corpse behind. It would be lucky if a few pieces remained.'
'And that power...'
'Is this guy also a Teigu user?'
She pulled out two curved blades.
Although she was shaken, her throws were deadly accurate.
The two curved blades flew past Noah from both sides, then curved back toward him.
Noah still did not move.
But the two curved blades were knocked away by sothing invisible and beca stuck in a tree trunk.
"What?"
The female assassin felt the situation had beco troubleso.
That invisible power could even defend his back.
She jumped into the air and landed with both feet on empty space.
Noah used the moonlight and faintly saw a large web of crossing spider threads beneath her feet.
Without him noticing, this whole area had already been covered by a huge net of spider silk.
The woman stood on the web above him and looked down at Noah, who was standing on a tree.
"Interesting trick. Are you also a Teigu user? You can control airflow? Not bad."
Just as Noah expected, once the woman saw his ability, she assud he was a Teigu user.
After all, controlling air was not sothing a normal human could do.
Unless he was a Danger Beast in human form.
But that was even more impossible.
So of course, she would think he was either a Teigu user or a Shingu user.
But in a certain sense, Shingu were rarer than Teigu.
Many Teigu had been lost during the Empire's past chaos, but Shingu had been stored away in dark treasure vaults.
For a professional assassin, chatting during a life-and-death battle was not normal.
'So this was a trap.'
'She was trying to find out what kind of Teigu ability i had.'
Unfortunately for her, the idea that he was a Teigu user was false information.
Then Noah would use only the power of "air" for now and test her out.
Noah pretended to be quiet and raised his hand.
He threw out two wind blades.
The blades were invisible.
Even if she saw his movent, it should still have been hard to dodge because she needed to judge their speed, distance, and direction.
But the female assassin slipped between the two wind blades at a tight angle.
When she saw the brief surprise on Noah's face, she smiled proudly.
"Invisible attacks are troubleso, yes. But they don't work on . After all, I'm very sensitive."
She gave a seductive smile, grabbed two spider threads, and pulled hard.
With airflow sensing, Noah discovered two poison spiders connected to the tight threads.
They had been thrown behind him.
The spiders spat webs at the sa ti.
The webs pierced through his wind barrier.
In terms of toughness, these webs were not weaker than iron wire.
As expected, these spiders were also a kind of Danger Beast.
Otherwise, selective breeding should not have made them this absurd.
If he were caught in these webs, he would not simply be trapped.
He would be cut into evenly sized pieces.
Noah wrapped wind around his hand and strengthened his body with magic. Then he reached back and grabbed the spiderweb in his hand.
The female assassin was shocked.
"No way..."
She stared at the spider silk in Noah's hand in disbelief.
"He caught that with his bare hand?"
'This guy!'
"What are you? Are you an enhanced human?"
The female assassin frowned.
Enhanced humans were monsters created through the Empire's human experints.
They only looked human on the outside.
They were immune to most poisons, and their bodies were tough.
Even if their necks were twisted, they could keep moving as long as their brain nerves and heart were not destroyed.
For soone like her, who used poison, they were terrible opponents.
Skin and bones tough like steel, strong enough to block blades—that was the sign of an enhanced human.
Noah stored the spiderweb away. Then he moved behind the shadow of a tree.
There were no spiders behind that tree.
Using the trunk as cover, he swung around the tree and ca out from the shadow.
The female assassin, thinking Noah was an enhanced human, instinctively tried to avoid close combat and moved backward.
But to Noah, who could control wind, her speed was too slow.
Using wind as a boost, he closed the distance between them in one breath.
Then he gathered wind into the shape of a blade and slashed down.
Seeing Noah's hand close around empty air, the female assassin pulled out two curved blades again and crossed them in front of her.
The wind blade struck the two curved blades.
The female assassin felt a huge force crash into her.
Her whole body was smashed down from the air and slamd into the ground like a stamp.
The impact was so strong that her body bounced slightly after hitting the ground.
Her organs had taken a heavy blow, and she coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Even with that pain, she had no choice but to force herself up and raise her two blades again to block the next slash from above.
Noah pressed the attack.
He gave her no chance to breathe.
The wind blade and the two curved blades locked together.
Under Noah's control, the wind blade began spinning quickly.
Like a chainsaw, it slowly cut through the curved blades in the female assassin's hands.
"Tch!"
The female assassin's gaze turned sharp.
Five or six black spiders crawled out from under her clothes.
The mont they appeared, they jumped at Noah.
But even if they were Danger Beasts, their small size and light weight could not be changed.
Noah did not need to use extra power. He simply strengthened the wind in his hand, and the spiders were blown away.
The female assassin felt despair.
He really was the worst possible opponent for her.
If her Teigu were used on a battlefield, its killing power could be called strategic-level.
Whether it was wiping out a tribe or killing an entire army, all she had to do was mix poison into the water or air.
Water and air were things large groups of people needed.
In other words, she alone could change the course of a war.
But that did not an she was bad at direct combat.
"Direct combat" did not only an fair and open fighting.
Even if two people stood face to face in a one-on-one fight, poison could still strike when least expected.
When even her breath could carry poison, as long as the enemy ca close enough, they would collapse in confusion.
She had seen that expression countless tis before.
But this ti was different.
Her opponent was a Teigu user who could control air.
Her poison gas could not spread to him at all. The mont it got close, it was blown away.
Her spiders' surprise attacks were also useless for so reason.
These spiders had strong hiding ability.
Until now, no matter how skilled the target was, they had never escaped their assassination.
But this guy was like soone with eyes all over his body.
No sneak attack worked on him.
Could he see the future or sothing?
And finally, close combat.
He already had such a powerful ability, but he could still crush her in hand-to-hand fighting.
'What kind of monster is he?'
She had never heard of soone like him before!
Clang!
The mont her curved blades broke, scenes from her life flashed before her eyes like a revolving lantern.
The next mont, she felt sothing tighten around her neck.
When she opened her eyes, she realized that the Teigu she wore had been pulled off by Noah and was now in his hand.
He actually...held it bare-handed.
After a short mont of shock, she showed a strange smile.
"Hahahaha! You idiot! You got careless!"
The female assassin, who had fallen into despair, burst into wild laughter.
Because Teigu were ancient, and because of many events in history, their detailed records had long since disappeared.
Even the Empire no longer had complete and accurate information on every Teigu.
Because of that, so secrets were only known by the Teigu's owner.
Myriad Crimson Spiders: Death Venom Strain was a poison-type Teigu.
If soone touched it directly with no protection, then its violent poison would instantly—
Swish!
Starting from Noah's fingertips, his arm quickly turned dark purple.
"Hahaha! Die!"
Seeing the sudden change, Noah's pupils trembled slightly.
But there was no fear on his face.
He heard what the female assassin said.
At the sa ti, he used wind to make the deadly poisonous Teigu float above his palm.
Then, using Weaver, he directly controlled the poison inside his body.
His pores opened and blood stained by the poison sprayed out like mist.
As the poison was forced out of his body, Noah's arm returned to a healthy color.
It only looked slightly pale because of blood loss.
"Hah... huh?"
'What happened?'
'The poison...was forced out?'
The female assassin stared blankly.
After the poison mist was expelled, it spread toward the ground.
Naturally, it also surrounded her.
There were only a few poisons that the poison-type Teigu could not protect its user from.
The first on that list was the demonic poison carried by the Teigu itself.
"No! Don't!"
Holding her breath was useless.
This poison could enter through pores.
As long as even a little touched the body, it would multiply inside the host like dividing cells.
The female assassin panicked.
Dark purple lines instantly spread across her whole body.
Her skin changed color in the blink of an eye.
She scread and clawed at her own face with her nails until it was torn apart.
In only a few seconds.... she died.
After her death, vines crawled out from her corpse.
Then, as if they had sucked away all of her life force, poisonous flowers blood on the vines.
Every Teigu had a "trump card."
It could be called a "sure-kill move" or a "hidden technique."
There were many nas for it.
Simply put, it was the Teigu's special ultimate move.
Because of compatibility issues, the female assassin could use the Teigu, but she could not use the poison-type Teigu's hidden technique.
Unfortunately, Noah seed to be the sa.
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