Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 939

Chapter 939 Mercenary

Wang Wei's projection appeared somewhere in the southern sea. He saw an invisible man floating above a small island, looking around. He seemed confused at first before regaining his bearing and checking the environment.

The first thing he noticed was how ordinary he looked, especially with the bland black clothes he wore, followed by this person's deeply hidden pride and arrogance.

The second thing he noticed was this man was utterly invisible. Sights, divine sense, sixth or seventh senses, and even divination could not detect this man's presence. It was like he was invisible to all known matter, concepts, living and nonliving things.

'Invisible Grand Dao Source and the cultivation is at least 35%,' thought Wang Wei as he watched the stranger. 'Furthermore, a pseudo Eternal.'

This man's ability was useless to someone of Wang Wei's caliber. As such, he could see him as if he was looking at a towering mountain during daylight. However, he was not complacent because he discovered he could not see some information about the latter.

'Someone paid him to come to assassinate me, but I could not find who it was,' thought Wang Wei as his eyes read the man's Fate Line, knowing everything about him.

This person was called the Hidden Shadow Emperor, the founder of a very popular and powerful mercenary that is very active in the Commerce Hub. His Hidden Hand Mercenary is very famous across many World Communities because the Hidden Shadow Emperor is known never to fail a mission.

He has assassinated countless Emperors, including two Eternal Emperors. Normally, the Hidden Shadow Emperor does not personally go on missions. He often has to remain low-key or underground to prevent garnering the attention of True Heavenly Dao and continue staying in the lower dimension.

As such, unless something happened to his mercenary group where he needed to step in, he never took missions. However, a while ago, an employer offered him something he could not resist, so he chose to accept this assassination mission.

Wang Wei calmly looked at this Pseudo Eternal Emperor. He saw someone paid a hefty price for his head, but he could not see the person who offered the mission; this fact did not change whether he used divination, Yin-Yang Calculation, or looked in the past through the River of Time.

'There are a few people or things who can resist my divination, so I only need to start from them,' thought Wang Wei, eliminating a few obvious individuals like Old Man Nether and the Abyss Gap.

'Once everybody is eliminated, the only one remaining is the Spirit Genesis Sect and their broken Empyrean Artifact,' analyzed Wang Wei with a sneer. He saw the Hidden Shadow Emperor wanted to land on that island to gather basic information about the world before starting his mission.

So, he appeared before him, shocking the proud assassin. Wang Wei saw his facial expression change from shock to bewilderment, then unwillingness, fear, regret, and in the end, returned to the calmness and ruthlessness of a peerless assassin.

"Interesting reaction," commented Wang Wei.

"Are you my target?" asked the Hidden Shadow Emperor.

"I should be," nodded Wang Wei. "Are you no longer afraid?"

"Why should I be? Now that you show up, it only means I'll have to do this the direct way."

"Yes, a peerless assassin should have the ability to kill his target in direct combat when necessary. Alas, you're not even a qualified assassin, let alone a peerless one."

"Who are you to judge me?" said the Hidden Shadow Emperor with a slightly raised voice.

"If you were truly capable, you would have detected the vast difference between us, acted on your based instinct, and run away," said Wang Wei calmly. "Alas, your pride and arrogance will be your downfall." _{ƒrēewebnovel.com}

The Hidden Shadow Emperor's first instinct was anger. After all, he had his pride, something he cultivated after successfully killing two Eternal Emperors. Although he did not grant them true death, he also forced them to spend countless Yuan Epochs to revive themselves.

"Not even begging for your life?" said Wang Wei. "I'm a person fond of talent. So, I can be persuaded to spare your life."

"I have my pride," replied the Hidden Shadow Emperor. In his life, he had two regrets. The first one was a special target he always regretted killing, and the second was that he did not become an Eternal Emperor. However, he made up for the second regret after assassinating the two Eternals.

The Hidden Shadow Emperor did not regret his upcoming death.

"That's a shame," said Wang Wei calmly. A flame enveloped the assassin, burning his soul and body, leaving two floating orbs: blue and red. The blue orb was the Hidden Shadow Emperor's pure soul essence, which can be used to increase soul power and other applications.

The red orb was the purified power of the Grand Dao Source from refining the concepts composed of his body. Such power is the main ingredient for the Grand Dao Enlightening Pill, which can help Great Emperors comprehend their Grand Dao Source.

Wang Wei put these materials away as the Grand Dao Source manifested before him, still looking like a river made of chains of different sizes. A karma thread emanated from his body, connected to a specific chain with a rune or symbol on it.

He used his Dao Will to remove the symbol, signaling the Hidden Shadow Emperor was truly dead, with no chance of reviving.

Wang Wei could hear the collective sigh of the world, thinking how such a powerful and prideful man died so easily; such a fact made many people sad as they contemplated their mortality.

Meanwhile, Wang Wei looked in the distance and muttered, "I haven't attacked you yet, but you dare make the first move?" He sneered while a terrifying killing intent flashed in his eyes. He rarely has a pure desire to kill. To Wang Wei, killing is the least efficient way to achieve things, and he will only do it when necessary.

However, the Spirit Genesis Sect awakened a pure desire for carnage and destruction deep inside him.

Wang Wei immediately used his Divine Sense to call two people, so the void around him trembled as two people arrived in less than a second.