Recently, the Fourth Prince had been living almost entirely between two points.
Even though people kept bringing him "goods," there were still times when he grew bored of them. He had recruited many new bodyguards, including several famous experts, and that gave the Fourth Prince even greater confidence.
At the same time, he was also considering whether he needed to obtain enough martial strength of his own.
But the moment he thought of First Prince Benjamin, who treated himself like a superhuman athlete, Tserriednich immediately gave up on the idea of training.
He preferred using his brain, not turning his brain into muscle.
The car left the palace and drove toward his hotel. There weren't many pedestrians left on the streets outside.
"Have they still not caught that damned assassin?" Tserriednich still preferred a lively atmosphere.
Ever since those two assassination attempts, the entire capital had been trapped in a state of constant alarm for more than a month.
Sitting in the passenger seat was Leid, the tattoo artist with both arms covered in tattoos.
"Not a single clue. After those two failed assassinations, the other side vanished completely," Leid said while fiddling with his phone.
The driver responsible for the car, however, didn't look good.
His ability had been triggered again.
But just like before, he couldn't determine where the enemy spying on them actually was.
This feeling had appeared frequently over the past while, making it clear to him that the assassin still hadn't given up. But even after all this time, the enemy still hadn't made another move, leaving the whole team exhausted.
That feeling of being watched could appear at any moment over a twenty-four-hour period, leaving the team with almost no time to rest.
After all, the enemy's strength was something everyone had seen for themselves.
If they were careless, that surveillance might turn into a real attack. So every time the feeling of being watched appeared, they had to prepare the most perfect response plan possible.
Now that sensation had appeared again. Did that mean the enemy was looking for another chance to strike?
The car ahead suddenly lit up its brake lights.
A bad feeling rose in the bodyguard driver's heart, and he stepped on the brake as well.
Leid stopped what he was doing and entered a state of alert.
The Fourth Prince also noticed the abnormal atmosphere.
But before he could ask anything, the car suddenly shook violently and was lifted upward.
"Enemy attack!"
Chaotic shouts came through the shattered car windows, but Tserriednich no longer had the attention to spare for them.
He grabbed the handle above the car window, trying to stabilize himself as much as possible. But in the process, shards of glass cut his arm and cheek. At the same time, through the shattered window, he saw what was lifting the car.
It was a massive earth dragon.
Why would something like this appear in reality? Was he still asleep?
For a moment, the Fourth Prince began doubting reality itself.
But Leid did not. Even as the car shook, he remained steady as a mountain and reached toward the Fourth Prince in the back seat.
And as he moved, the tattoos on his arms seemed to come alive.
The living tattoos formed a dried, skeletal arm, and that arm grabbed the Fourth Prince.
Just then, there was a loud bang from the roof of the car.
The sturdy roof instantly caved in. The Fourth Prince cried out in shock, having no idea what was happening anymore.
But the instant the skeletal arm seized the Fourth Prince, Leid had already used that momentum to move from the passenger seat into the back row.
At the same time, the driver released the steering wheel. Under the Fourth Prince's incredulous gaze, he pulled out a handgun, aimed it at his own arm, and fired.
And as that shot rang out, blood sprayed—and another arm suddenly appeared outside the car, grabbing toward the head of the earth dragon lifting the vehicle.
Bang!
The earth dragon shattered instantly under the grip of that enormous arm. The car regained its freedom and began falling downward.
But in the air, a figure was already hurtling rapidly toward the falling car.
It was Ronin's shadow clone.
From the moment the Fourth Prince left the palace, every movement he made had been under Ronin's surveillance.
The person carrying the scroll had arrived at the preset ambush location early. Before the convoy arrived, he bit his finger and dripped blood onto the scroll.
And when he opened the scroll, the life energy remaining in the blood became the perfect fuse, directly activating the seal on the shadow clone.
The shadow clone that broke free from the seal retained fifty percent of the original body's aura from before it had been sealed into the scroll.
A few minutes later, the convoy drove beneath.
The shadow clone instantly formed hand seals and activated Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet.
A massive earth dragon burst from underground and immediately lifted the car carrying the Fourth Prince into the air.
At the same time, the second ninjutsu followed.
It was still Earth Release, but this time it was Earth Release: Sticky Earth Drop.
The shadow clone used Earth Release: Ultra-Lightweight Rock Technique to hover in the air, clearly seeing the driver inside the car injure himself to summon a Nen beast and break the Earth Dragon Bullet.
He also saw bodyguards rushing out from several nearby cars.
Among these bodyguards, at least five were Nen users. The moment they appeared, they immediately spotted the shadow clone in the air.
Then, without the slightest hesitation, one of them pulled out a long blade and performed seppuku.
The space behind the shadow clone rippled slightly, and a claw reached out from within, grabbing toward him.
But one of the shadow clone's arms had already completed Earth Release: Rock Fist Technique.
A large amount of stone covered his arm, and the instant the claw grabbed toward him, he combined it with Weighted Rock Technique and punched out.
The claw was directly blown apart in midair.
Correspondingly, the bodyguard below who had activated the ability instantly sprayed blood from his body, then collapsed to the ground without another sound.
But in the instant the shadow clone was held up by the enemy, two figures shot out from the car.
They were the Fourth Prince, Tserriednich, and the tattooed man, Leid.
But before those two rushed out, another figure had already burst from the street.
It was a man completely wrapped in blue arcs of lightning, and his targets were the Nen users among the bodyguard team.
He was also one of Ronin's shadow clones.
However, unlike the shadow clone in the air using Earth Release, this shadow clone had activated Lightning Release chakra from the moment he appeared.
That was the key reason his speed had reached such an extreme level.
He had to eliminate the Nen users in the bodyguard team in the shortest time possible, ensuring the Fourth Prince would not be suddenly transferred away.
And aside from the shadow clone wrapped entirely in Lightning Release chakra, the instant the Fourth Prince landed, an arm also emerged from beneath the ground and grabbed his ankle.
The Fourth Prince had never considered such a possibility.
But Leid, standing beside him, reacted immediately. The tattoos on his arm squirmed slightly, and the outline of a large ink-black hand formed from tattoo markings smashed toward the arm holding the Fourth Prince.
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