Hitman with a Badass System

Bombarded by the lightning bolts, the Wise Dragon finally fell to the ground. The ground shook and cracked open in multiple places. Plus, the shock wave sent Nightmare and Gaya stumbling back a few feet. Michael put his feet atop the Wise Dragon, pressing its head further down. The Dragon tried to flap its wings to escape, but an invisible force prevented doing so. A sliver of fear slowly clutched the dragon's heart. The dragon no longer looked menacing. Instead, its round eyes gave a pitiful look.

Seeing the Wise Dragon under Michael's feet, Gaya rushed toward the dragon. On her way, she herself transformed into the Dark Queen.

"You shouldn't have doubled crossed us," Nightmare shook his head, almost feeling pity for the Wise Dragon. People who mess with them would face only one thing, death. Inside Michael's head, the system notification continuously rang without a stop. His badass points soared through from nearly a hundred thousand to four hundred thousand. The way Michael surprised the Wise Dragon and broke the chains earned him the three hundred thousand badass points in mere moments.

"Now tell me what Adelia told her," Michael growled. His voice terrified the Wise Dragon. Moreover, Michael released the Fear toxin from his APD to scare the dragon. He wanted to break the dragon before getting what he wanted. As Michael expected, the Wise Dragon resisted him.

"You are desperate to find her. God or no God, you can't kill me," The Wise Dragon arrogantly chuckled.

"But she can hurt you," said Michael. Gaya didn't need him to tell her twice. Immediately, she took out a crimson red dagger. She raised the dagger. Without even Gaya telling, Nightmare breathed fire onto the dagger, turning the blade brighter and brighter.

Gaya placed the burning hot dagger against the Wise Dragon's face, just a few inches beneath his eyes.

"What-"

Gaya stabbed the Wise Dragon, cutting its words short. Blood immediately spurted out from the wound. Michael saw the dagger for the first time. She told him about this dagger Gilrine gave her when she went hunting with him. Despite its rather ordinary look, the dagger was able to pierce through the dragon's scales.

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The Wise Dragon screamed. It had been decades since the Wise Dragon had experienced pain. But no matter how much the dragon screamed, Gaya did not stop. She twisted the dagger inside to cause more pain.

"This is gonna leave a mark, Wise Dragon," Michael emphasized the words 'Wise Dragon' in a ridiculing manner.

"Tell us what she told you!" Gaya shouted.

"You really should tell them. Otherwise, they will make you beg for death," said Nightmare.

Still, the Wise Dragon did not break. As a result, Gaya drew the dagger out and held the pointy end just a few inches above the dragon's eyeball.

"Do you like reading? Huh, punk, do yah?" Gaya threatened.

Meanwhile, the Fear toxin's effects slowly corroded the Wise Dragon's valor. The dagger hanging above his eyes didn't help him either. The Wise Dragon panicked. Although Dragons perceived the world in a different manner, they still needed eyes. Without them, the dragons were as good as dead. How could he hoard knowledge without his eyes? The Wise Dragon trembled in fear.

Seeing the fear in the dragon's eyes, Michael snickered.

"Last chance. Unlike you, I don't double-cross. Tell us what Adelia told you, and I'll let you live,"

Gaya brought down the dagger, almost touching the dragon's eyeball. The Wise Dragon panicked. It trembled violently. Nonetheless, it couldn't even move a muscle, as though an invisible hand was pressing its body against the ground.

"I heard this line too many times. You will let me go and she'll stab me. Then, you will, I didn't say anything about her killing you," Michael almost broke character and laughed. The Wise Dragon was too wise for his sake. Its words were simply too funny.

"Okay, let me rephrase my words. We won't kill you, not me, not her, not my dragon,"

"How can i-"

"Stab him," said Michael, interrupting the Wise Dragon's words. Gaya raised the dagger to bring it down upon the dragon's eyes with her full might.

"NO!' The Wise Dragon shouted as Gaya's hand stopped in mid-air.

"I'll tell you. Just don't hurt me,"

"That's a good Wise Dragon," Michael patted the Dragon's face.

"She told me about the god-killing arrows forged by the Skyhall founders," Michael creased his brows.

"What else?" He growled. His voice became colder.

"She said there are five arrows, each of them scattered around the world. That's all I know," said the Wise Dragon.

"But did you try to kill her as you did to us?" Gaya punched the Wise Dragon with the hilt of her dagger.

Any dragon would have growled in fury if they weren't affected by the Fear Toxin.

"Tell me more about these arrows, Wise Dragon," Michael moved closer to the Wise Dragon to look it in the eyes.

"I…I gave the cure to her…she teleported away. I don't know more," The Wise Dragon was wise enough not to mention it tried to kill her, resulting in Adelia using a teleportation scroll.

"System, do you know anything about these arrows? Can you track them down?" Michael asked the system. He didn't see any other way to find them as the Wise Dragon really seemed to have no idea about the arrows' location.

[The system level is too low to perform the task]

Unfortunately, the system couldn't help Michael.

[However, the system has sensed special arrays preventing normal teleportation scrolls. If she had used one despite the arrays, the space distortion would have left a mark in the Wise Dragon. Once the host pays two hundred thousand badass points and kills the dragon, the system can scan it to pinpoint Adelia's destination. From there, the host might get some answers]

Surprisingly, the words followed after the system level was too low gave Michael a way to find Adelia. It wasn't much, but it was better than nothing. Michael immediately agreed to the system.

"You don't know anything more?" Michael tilted his head.

The Wise Dragon slowly nodded, wordlessly telling him no.

"Deal is a deal," Michael sighed. Gaya clenched her fist. She didn't want to let the backstabbing dragon live. She was about to disagree with Michael when she saw Michael place both his hands on the dragon's face. The dragon suddenly quivered. Soon, it frantically wriggled its body as its obsidian eyes turned white. Michael began to use the Soul Eater on the Wise Dragon.

Even if the system didn't ask Michael to kill the dragon, he would have done it anyway. The moment the Wise Dragon decided to double-cross him, it sealed its own fate. Besides, Michael knew it was going to double-cross him. How? When he activated his X-ray vision, he noticed skeletons of various races trapped inside blocks of ice beneath the ice floor. The Siw Dragon froze after one gave him a piece of information. That was how the Wise Dragon remained the sole owner of such knowledge. But the Wise Dragon's karma caught up with it when it tried to do the same to Michael.

Since the Wise Dragon was weakened by the lightning bolts and the Fear Toxin, it was easy for Michael to absorb the Wise Dragon's soul. He didn't get as much resistance as he got from the mutated dragon. A cloud of white smoke slowly rose from the Wise Dragon's eyes and floated into Michael's face. He opened his mouth to speed up the process. Gaya had to force the dragon with all her might to stop it from quivering.

As seconds flew by, the Wise Dragon slowly stopped moving. But unlike before, a bright light shot out of Michael, enveloping the Wise Dragon. The light lasted for a few moments, radiating an otherworldly whistling sound. Afterward, the light disappeared along with the Wise Dragon's body.

"What the heck system? I could have sold the dragon's body for billions," Michael was stunned. He never thought the system would take the dragon's entire body and disappear.

[Ding! Congrats to the host for killing a Fusion stage, level-10 mutated dragon. The reward is 500000 experience points as well as 20000 Badass points]

[The Soul Eater has absorbed the soul of the Wise Dragon. The host has received 200,000 Experience points]

[Congratulations to the host for leveling up. The current level is the Fusion stage Level 10!]

The system notification sounded in his head. After killing the Wise Dragon, he was just four hundred thousand experience points away from breaking through to the Half-Immortal Stage.

[Then, you wouldn't have found where Adelia went after teleporting from here] the system rebuked.

[The system has located Adelia's destination using the energy mark in the Wise Dragon's body]

"Where did she go?" asked Michael.

[The Castle of Kane Family]

Yet again, Michael was surprised by the system's answer.

"To the Kane castle? Why?" Michael asked himself.

[Unfortunately, the host lacks the required badass points to teleport away from the Treacherous ocean. So the system recommends exploiting the place and earning more badass points to give the system]

"Yeah right," Michael rolled his eyes.

"What did you do?" Gaya panicked.

"I may have found where your mother teleported to,"

Gaya's heart skipped a beat. Her eyes went wide behind her mask.

"Where?"

"To the castle of the Kane family,"

Just like Michael, she was shocked too. She recalled meeting Elder Kane in the castle last time.

"Elder Kane's full name is Ashton Kane, right?" asked Nightmare.

"I thought it was a coincidence but if she teleported to the Kane family out of all the places she could have, I think it might not be a coincidence. What if Ashton Kane has some connection with Adelia?" Nightmare's questions made sense, and Michael shared the same thought too.

"Let's get out of here," said Gaya.

"Not yet. We have to find the curse-breaking artifact and a way to leave the place," answered Michael.

The trio left the Wise Dragon's dome immediately. Once again, they resumed their journey deeper into the treacherous ocean, searching for the artifact that could give Michael a Legendary Skill.