An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

Ignatius was very alert. He quickly retreated with the royal guards when he saw the assassin advancing closer.

Keeping himself alive was a priority now. He just needed to avoid the assassination attempt. When the assassin grew tired, he’d order the soldiers to kill him. This was the safest option.

“Draven, I think Ignatius is right. Safety first. I’ll retreat for now.” Atticus didn’t dare to stay any longer as he slowly retreated with the royal guards when he saw Ignatius leaving.

“Hmm! All of you are just scared!” Draven frowned slightly with a disgruntled look. He then turned to look at Mortimer and expressively said, “Mortimer, you’ve always been a brave fighter. You’re certainly not retreating like those two, right?”

“Of course not!” Mortimer stretched a little bit and smirked, “It’s just an assassin. There’s nothing to be afraid of!”

He became a sovereign after a bloody and hellish experience. There was nothing he had not seen. A worthless assassin was not enough to scare him.

“Good! We’ll see how good this assassin is!” Draven happily nodded as he signaled his royal guards. “Get into formation! Capture that assassin!”

guards withdrew their longswords immediately

Mortimer was eager to show off as well. He quickly withdrew his sword and led

fight a

might appear very skilled as he could defeat the common soldiers easily, but that was

him to kill and attack as easily. As expected, when the royal guards of the two sovereigns showed up, the assassin

terms of skills, armor, and experience. Even though they

were at different levels. A grandmaster would spend much

I thought he was really good. He couldn’t even fight our royal guards. “Mortimer snickered when he saw the assassin being surrounded by the royal guards. He was

money to train the royal guards. How could an ordinary soldier compete against

reward ten thousand gold coins to the person who killed the assassin!” Mortimer shouted, raising his sword

got very excited when they heard that. All

fear they felt earlier had melted into desire. Ten thousand pieces of gold coins were enough