Creed of the heavens

The light of the stars embellishes the city in the night like a dream, ending the day's hustle and bustle. Near the market, a dark figure with its back to the moonlight can be vaguely seen on the towering tower.

Inserting her index finger into the silver water bottle that had been prepared to soak it, Lu Xiao stretched out her finger against the wind, closed her eyes and silently felt the direction and force of the wind tonight.

With a very weak breeze, the influence of the airflow on the flight of the arrow can almost be ignored.

The inside and outside of the target mansion were brightly lit, and Templar guards holding kerosene lamps dutifully patrolled the mansion.

The two archers on the roof put the lighting on the wall, and their sharp eyes scanned the streets of Florence at night.

Oh, just look at what's useful below.

During the Renaissance, there were still many towers built in the old days in Florence, and no one usually noticed the tops of these long-abandoned towers.

Lu Xiao was sitting on the edge of the top of the tower closest to the market right now.

After confirming the general patrol pattern of the guards of the target mansion, Lu Xiao stood up from the side of the tower, took off the sniper-specific longbow that had been prepared behind her, and slowly drew the full bowstring to aim at the archer on the roof.

In order to prevent the slight movement caused by the death of one of them from disturbing the other, Lu Xiao had to shoot them one after another in the shortest possible time.

"breathe"

Holding her breath, Lu Xiao's eyes spanned a long distance in the night sky, and locked firmly on the two archers on the roof.

"Whoosh!"

At the same time as the first arrow was shot, Lu Xiao immediately spun and wound the second arrow held on the little finger of his right hand. In less than a second, he completed the fine-tuning of the direction, and shot the second arrow as well.

The Templar archers did not let their guard down, but the wrong direction of focus cost them their lives.

Two powerful ultra-long-range sniper arrows hit the heads of the two archers almost at the same time. They couldn't even scream, and were brought down to the ground by the impact of the arrows.

When one of the corpses fell, it happened to knock over the kerosene lamp beside him. Although there was no sound enough to alert the guards below, the wooden frame of the roof unfortunately ignited by the lamp would sooner or later cause a fire.

"Tsk! Uncontrollable factors, this is a bit troublesome."

Lu Xiao didn't expect such an unplanned thing to happen, which invisibly increased the difficulty for him to sneak into the mansion to steal the manuscript.

The unexpected situation shortened Lu Xiao's remaining action time. He was about to climb down the tower, and he was faced with a difficult choice.

Looking down from the edge of the tower, Lu Xiao seemed a little hesitant.

Giovanni and Lavolpe repeatedly told him the key points of the Leap of Faith, but Lu Xiao, who had believed in Newton's deity since childhood, still felt a little conflicted.

As one of the loyal players of the Assassin's Creed series, Lu Xiao once focused on the feasibility of the Leap of Faith, and the conclusion he reached was regrettable.

Even with cushions such as straw, Leap of Faith cannot guarantee the safety of the user, and it is very likely that he will be paralyzed from the fall.

But Giovanni and the others all vowed to Lu Xiao the effect of the Leap of Faith, so there is no room for Lu Xiao to hesitate any longer.

Dry!Both Federico and Ezio have demonstrated it in person, and I don't believe I'm the only one who can't do it.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Xiao plucked up the courage to lightly step on the edge of the top of the tower, and jumped out high with open arms.

Accompanied by an eagle's cry that came from nowhere, Lu Xiao, who was feeling the wind blowing on his face, suddenly heard a prompt from the system.

"Congratulations to the host for overcoming fear and comprehending Leap of Faith E. Effect: Reduce the damage received from falling from a high place. If there is water, straw and other buffers at the place of the fall, it is completely immune to the damage of falling from a high place."

Sure enough, the leap of faith in this world has nothing to do with the laws of physics, Newton, don't be on the coffin, it's not your business here.

"Shh!"

Lu Xiao, who fell into the straw pile, didn't have time to feel the sense of accomplishment of completing the leap of faith for the first time, and rushed out of the straw pile in the next second, patting the remaining straw on his body, while speeding up his pace and running towards the predetermined infiltration point behind the mansion.

Chapter 24 I Infiltrated

Vierid Pacchi sat anxiously in the mansion and quickly shook his left leg, relying on the slight tingling pain from his crotch, trying to prevent himself from falling asleep prematurely.

Under the strict control of the ascetic ideology of the Holy See, nocturnal entertainment in medieval Europe was very scarce, and it failed to improve even in the early Renaissance.

In the past, Vieri could find some female partners to play wrestling with, but now he does not have suitable hardware equipment.

Lacking evening entertainment and bored, Vieri's eyelids began to twitch, and he wanted to sleep until dawn.

Because he was not sure which day the assassin would come to the door, Vieri's fluke mentality finally made him unable to bear the attack of drowsiness, and fell crookedly on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

The elite Templars who guarded in shifts would not be as useless as Vieri, they were still in high spirits and carried kerosene lamps to patrol around the mansion.

When Lu Xiao accelerated towards the mansion, the fire on the roof gradually spread.

The rising temperature and amplified fire above their heads alerted several Templars. They loudly asked the fellow archers on the roof about the situation, but of course they did not get any response.

"Something's wrong, be more vigilant!"

A strong man in full armor commanded in a deep voice: "Daario, Luka, you two go up and check the situation."

"Yes."

Two templars in light leather armor stepped on the outer wall and climbed up. The relatively nimble two men quickly reached the roof.

The first thing they saw was the wooden roof structure ignited by the fire, and then the two bodies with arrows in the head.

"Team uh!"

Daario was startled and was about to issue a warning downward, when an arrow from nowhere pierced the throats of him and Luca, and the two fell limply to the ground under the attention of the other Templars.

"Enemy attack!"

Although it is not clear why the two fell down, the captain of the Templar knight in full body armor still let out a loud roar based on his experience, and a black shadow that flashed quickly approached them with the help of the shadow of the building illuminated by the fire. Knights Templar.

The people sleeping in shifts in the mansion were all awakened by the knight captain's broken voice, and hurriedly began to put on their armor, including Vieri who had just put on his clothes and fell asleep.

Before the others rushed out of the room, Vieri saw several twitching corpses and scarlet blood all over the floor.

"This"

It's not that Vieri, who is cruel and tyrannical by nature, has never seen blood, but he just didn't expect that after he fell asleep for a short while, the heavily guarded mansion was violently attacked by the enemy.

"Where are the enemies? How many are there? Has the assassin dispatched a large force?"

The other Templars who had just put on their armor and ran out looked at each other, and no one could answer Vieri's question.

"drink!"

The shouts and clashes of weapons not far away attracted the attention of Vieri and a dozen guards on shift, and the group hurried to the place where the sound came from.

"Uh!"

Vieri, who rushed to the scene, happened to see the captain of the Knights Templar, who was wearing full armor, being pinned down by a suspicious man in a gray hooded robe.