Overgeared

Lantier wasn’t the name of a particular person. Instead, it was a title given to the leader of Eclipse, the strongest assassination group in the past, to keep them anonymous. However, once the 25th Lantier became a legend, a misconception took root in the world.

“The name of the night, who caused death just by speaking, started to be hailed as an object of awe. He unintentionally came out of the shadows and lost his essence. Since then, Eclipse’s position was shaken.”

King of Shadows, Kasim—he had been teaching Faker how to use Lantier’s techniques for the past few years and today, he was telling the story of Eclipse for the first time. As of today, he seemed to have opened his heart to Faker who had mastered Lantier’s techniques. Learning Lantier’s techniques meant one was qualified to become Lantier.

Faker now had to study and understand Eclipse. It was his new duty.

“Eclipse was brought out into the sun along with Lantier and soon became familiar to the public. It lost its mystique. Since it was constantly being mentioned and attracted attention, clients became reluctant to commission jobs.”

It was an assassination organization.

They had to do everything in secret so there was nothing good about the public’s attention. Due to the unexpected circumstances, there were various restrictions and people’s requests were noticeably reduced. The assassins of the organization who absolutely obeyed Lantier expressed their dissatisfaction with Lantier and little by little, the hierarchy of the organization invisibly collapsed.

“The 25th Lantier felt a sense of responsibility and retired, but nothing improved. The organization's forces were rapidly weakened and the information network that occupied the entire West Continent stopped operating. The strongest assassination group fell to an ordinary level.”

The real problem was something else—Eclipse’s system of kidnapping talented boys from all over the continent and training them as assassins collapsed, leaving no talents to succeed Lantier’s name. Gradually, Lantier’s techniques declined and by the time it reached the 32nd Lantier, the mentor of Kasim and Doran, most of the skills had been lost.

“You need to browse the records of the former Lantiers in order to explore Lantier’s true techniques. However, it has been a long time since I’ve lost contact with Eclipse. Their current location can’t be determined.”

“How did you lose contact?”

As the direct disciple of the 32nd Lantier, Kasim was Eclipse’s successor and thus, Faker was a bit puzzled about how Eclipse’s successor lost contact with Eclipse.

After hearing Faker’s question, Kasim explained, “There were signs of a civil war in Eclipse from the time that Master retired. The cause was Doran and I. As you know, we only each acquired half the techniques due to our lack of talent. Therefore, the members of the organization were anxious. Master was convinced that Doran and I could work together to become one Lantier, but... even Doran and I, the people involved, wondered if that was possible. This meant the distrust of the other members was even greater.”

“Did a rebellion eventually happen?”

“Yes, two men who had the support of the executives drove out my aging master. Master was greatly hurt in the process of escaping with us. He taught us in the mountains and died a few years later.”

“......”

“After he passed away, Doran chose to live a normal life, but it was different for me. I sharpened my weapons to get revenge on the empire and at the same time, I tracked Eclipse’s whereabouts. I wanted to regain the records of the previous Lantiers that only the legitimate heirs could read in order to gain more power. However, it was almost impossible for me to track down Eclipse’s whereabouts on my own.”

“......”

I found a very important trail. Eclipse remains

empire. At that time, Kasim acted as escort and observed the interior of the empire he once wanted revenge on. He thought about what would’ve happened if he insisted on fighting the empire to the end. He imagined himself trapped in the Abyss so he visited it with a depressed heart. Then he saw traces

of the prisoners have something to do

desire to become Lantier. Kasim replied with a happy heart, “That’s right. It is reasonable to

understand. I will ask to escort the queen and prince when

empire was in a favorable relationship with the Overgeared Kingdom so there was a high possibility he could investigate the Abyss. Faker bowed to Kasim and left. His appearance that melted into the shadows and disappeared

“Lantier... is he resurrected?”

***

three main categories—Hell, the

be completely separated, but they were ultimately bound to the category of ‘the ground.’ Dragon lairs were the exception. Dragon lairs were located on the ground,

as a threat to humanity, it was no different from hell. In other words, it was both heaven and hell. There were few idiots who dared to enter a dragon’s lair on their own. Now one idiot

are the first player to enter

feat of breaking through the high level magic traps and horde of monsters defending the dragon’s lair will become a

be opened as a

already

change in the reward will increase the level of transcendence by

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blocking attacks to

barrier? Bah. This body has surpassed

“......”

equivalent to the reward for writing an epic. Visiting a lair was a great feat. It was an unexpected reward for Grid, but he

who was holding onto the necks of the elemental kings. He had experienced Braham’s trolling many times and was anxious

thing? I will be pursued and

were valid, but Braham just scoffed. “You don’t understand the character of a dragon

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aware of thieves first. You have no idea how high a dragon’s position is. A

that

will be no traces of us left even if

“That’s right.”

a true

lair. Dragons truly did like shiny things. All types of gold coins and gemstones formed