RISE OF EROS-Chapter 571 - 570

The Black Wings organization may be considered dark by society, as their business revolves around espionage and assassination, but within the organization, things are different. No one knows who the leader is, yet there isn’t a single member who doesn’t admire him, as the system by which it operates is impressive.

First and foremost, all the jobs they perform are well-paid. Being an assassin is not an easy job; you’re always in someone’s crosshairs, and killing someone is always a dangerous mission, but as they say, "Everything has a price," and the Black Wings make sure that the price is right.

Second, they have connections and power, because otherwise, they wouldn’t remain untouched after the jobs they’ve completed. This allows their members to work without worrying about the consequences.

This also means they don’t accept jobs that could compromise them. The acceptance of missions undergoes a thorough level of scrutiny, ensuring the safety of their members.

Third, they protect their members. While the money is good and the mission evaluation is rigorous, there are always risks in this line of work, but this is where the organization offers a sense of security.

Every member has a life candle, and whenever one is extinguished, the organization investigates the cause. Although it might not matter much after death, members can at least comfort themselves with the thought that if something happens, the organization will take action.

This may seem insignificant, but it provides a sense of comfort and the notion that they matter and that the organization cares for them, which makes them loyal. While many newer or lower-level members don’t really believe this, the older and more important ones know it’s no lie. The Black Wings truly investigate the deaths of their members.

They may not always be thorough, and they might not act if it’s inconvenient, but they do investigate. That’s why, when the leader of the assassins who attacked Andrew and Oliver last time died, they sent a team to investigate.

If the whole team had died, they would have assumed the target was powerful and wiped them out, but in this case, only the leader died, suggesting that his comrades might have killed him, which posed a problem.

Among assassins, it’s not uncommon for these cases to happen, since they are a group of cunning, peculiar individuals, and it’s not unusual for them to kill a comrade for better benefits or take jobs from other employers to sabotage a plan.

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Unfortunately, such behavior is unacceptable within this organization. While it’s true that only the leader could have died on the mission, this was ruled out because the other members didn’t return to report.

For this reason, the organization sent a group to investigate, and if their suspicions were correct, they had permission to eliminate the traitors. Unexpectedly, the investigating group made a wrong move.

They were supposed to reconstruct the events and to find the alleged traitors, they first needed to approach the target, Andrew. While their mission wasn’t to kill him, the mission hadn’t been canceled either, so the group thought they could complete two missions at once.

They infiltrated the Cannes Palace with the goal of capturing Andrew, uncovering what happened, and then killing him. That way, they would receive the commission for both the investigation and the assassination. Stay tuned with novelbuddy

Unfortunately, infiltrating the Cannes Palace was a bad move. They knew Andrew had connections with the Pixoy family, and they also knew this family consisted of high-level vampires, but they didn’t care.

This organization had killed members of families like these on several occasions, so they weren’t worried about infiltrating their territory and killing a friend, in this case, Andrew. Obviously, this confidence stemmed from the fact that they were unaware of Zaros and Lucian’s existence. If they had known, the organization wouldn’t have even taken this mission.

The money may be good, but you have to be alive to spend it, and no one would dare cause trouble in a demigod’s territory, especially one so powerful, and here there were two.

In fact, from the moment this group arrived in the city, Zaros and Lucian had already noticed them, but they did nothing, as they saw the group had infiltrated Andrew’s territory, and Zaros knew well that for Andrew, the Cannes Palace is a temple.

The survivors of the war against the fallen god knew much about gods, spirits, and god-candidates, having seen them firsthand. So, he knew that inside a temple, god-candidates are practically gods.

Only another god can challenge them there, and in this world, no living god exists right now. Although Zaros was surprised to learn that Andrew had a temple after only releasing his third divine seal, it was still a temple.

The moment the assassins entered the Cannes Palace, Andrew discovered them, and using his power within his temple, he subdued them without trouble. The assassins were shocked when they felt the force that restrained them.

They knew Andrew was an expert and had some high-level guards, but they didn’t know he was this powerful. Obviously, they couldn’t have known that this was only because they were inside the Cannes Palace.

In fact, even outside the palace, it would have been difficult for them to defeat him, as Andrew and his guards were far stronger than their intel suggested. After imprisoning the assassins, Andrew, sitting in his office, said, "Oliver, we have some unwanted guests."

Not only was Oliver in the room, but so were all his guardians, wives, and close allies, and upon hearing this, their expressions immediately changed. Oliver, Sansa, and Castor, being the strongest and fastest, immediately understood his words.

In seconds, they disappeared and, in a blink of an eye, reappeared holding five men dressed in black ninja-like outfits that covered their faces. They weren’t unconscious but couldn’t move. Although only their eyes were visible, it was clear they were terrified, as the fear was reflected in their eyes, staring at Andrew as if they were seeing a monster.

They couldn’t believe someone as young as Andrew could be this powerful, and that his guards were equally formidable. Andrew stopped exerting his power over them and coldly asked, "More Black Wings assassins?"

The question shocked the assassins, as it showed they had been exposed, and now they knew the situation was far from what they had anticipated. Looking at the five men frozen in front of him, Andrew asked again, "So, do you have any important information for me?"

Now that they were no longer restrained, they could move and speak, yet they remained silent. It wasn’t that they felt obligated to hide what they knew. Despite being loyal to the organization, hiding information in the presence of such powerful entities was pointless.

They were simply thinking about what to say to get out of this situation. The group’s leader, quicker in thought, immediately came up with a plan and began to speak. "It’s true that our organization was given the mission to kill you, my lord, but our objective is different," the leader said in a submissive tone, with apparent sincerity.

His comrades looked at him and said nothing, as they had no plan themselves, and at this moment, they were as good as dead, so they waited to see how their leader would handle the situation.

In their minds, if they were already dead, they might as well see if their leader could save them. Intrigued by his words, Andrew gestured for him to continue, as he wanted to hear what he had to say.

Make no mistake, Andrew didn’t believe him, as he had sensed their intentions the moment they entered the Cannes Palace, and their plan had been to kill Andrew, although now they knew it was impossible.

Andrew simply wanted to know what he would say, perhaps to gain some useful information. Misinterpreting Andrew’s reaction, the assassin leader continued, "Our goal is to investigate what happened to the group that took the mission."

These words not only confused Andrew but everyone present, and the leader, noticing this, continued, "The life candle of that group’s leader went out, but the others didn’t, so we suspected they had betrayed him."

"We came to investigate that, but since we only knew of their target, we infiltrated to gather information," the leader of the assassins concluded. In other words, he was saying they weren’t Andrew’s enemies despite belonging to the same organization.

This almost made Andrew laugh, but he managed to keep his cold expression, as he didn’t want the tension to disappear. "So, that’s it. Still, that doesn’t interest me; it’s not useful information for me," Andrew said, causing a chill to run down the assassins’ spines.

Andrew paid no attention to this and leaned forward slightly, speaking in a low, threatening voice, "I’m more interested in knowing who placed the mission to kill me." These words sent another chill down the spines of the assassins, not only because of how threatening it sounded, but because they didn’t know and that was sentencing their fates.