Assassination Contract: Knight Commander Hendrick Kennel

There was no time to waste and as the black haired teenager entered the village, her eyes couldn’t help but be drawn to the large platform in the centre of the place. It was decorated in the colours of the Rune Knights, a fact that caused Elara to cringe. She didn’t think much of them at the best of times and in a way, that was part of the reason why she’d agreed to take on this job in the first place. To her, they were little more than her parents, trying to hold her and in their case, everyone else down. Today though, things would start to change and she could get her new career as a wandering mage off to a good start. Her mission? To kill the leader of the group of knights that were trying to rally support for their cause. The same old self righteous garbage no doubt and as Elara found a nice vantage point of the whole scene, she couldn’t help but smile a little. It felt so good to be free after living for so long in fear and the summoner was more than ready to live for herself.

She’d been told by her employer that it was vital that she waited until the speech was in full flow before actually committing the crime and so there was little else for her to do but wait. Elara didn’t mind that too much and it did give her time to plan her escape from the place once the deed was done. No doubt that would be the hard part and she reckoned that quite a few of her spirits would get a chance to shine before the day was done. As for the kill itself? There was only one spirit that she was going to use, her hunter and most stealthy of spirits, Rengar. She was always thirsty for blood and Elara would make sure that she’d get her full. She’d made so many spirit allies in the short time since she’d left her home and by now they were almost like an army in size. Each one loyal to her and her alone which was a lovely change of pace. Even the ones who didn’t agree with her methods were at least loyal enough to do as she wished anyway.

Taking Rengar’s key in hand, Elara would peep out from her vantage point and watch the platform below, where a couple of knights were starting to get everything ready. They seemed far too busy to pay any mind to anything other than their own jobs and honestly, the guards didn’t look that great anyway. Just a small force that she was pretty sure that she could deal with if things went awry. Still, taking a few more lives didn’t bother her all that much, as long as she got her well earned pay and a chance to stick it to the law. Two birds with one stone really, a fact that brought her a sense of joy.

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The time soon came for the Rune Knight to deliver his verbal diarrhea and as the now rather large crowd waited for him to speak. He looked like a pompous moron as well, fat and balding, his armour clearly not big enough to fit his frame properly. He reminded her of her father, a thought that made her almost vomit. No sooner had the thought passed that he started to speak, a speech of absolute garbage about how the heroic Knights would defend the village from all of its enemies. Yeah, like that was going to happen, she mused to herself. The only people that the law cared about were those who paid them, no one else. The crowd did not seem to be too invested in his speech either and there was plenty of muttering. He seemed ignorant to the fact and kept talking but as Elara made a gesture with her key and Rengar emerged beside her on the balcony,

“You summoned me?” The muscular spirit uttered, her one good eye focused on the girl.

“Yeah,” Elara whispered, “You see that fat lump down there? I want you to rip his throat out.”

“Is that so?” Rengar answered, briefly spying over the edge of the balcony to see her next victim. “Pfft, hardly a challenge.”

“Maybe not but once he’s dead, we’re going to have all of the others to deal with too.”

“Hmm, perhaps that will at least give me a chance to get my eye in. Just tell me when, child.”

As she spoke, the cat like spirit would become invisible although Elara could easily detect her presence beside her. It was a very useful spell and Elara trusted Rengar to find her mark. She could feel the great cat’s fur bristling with anticipation and as the knight continued to spout his sermon, the moment for him to die was close. Her employer had been very specific about the timing and it was just at the height of his speech that the girl suddenly made a motion to her spirit.

That was all Rengar needed to hear and leaping from the balcony the cat would erupt into motion, landing on top of her prey and lashing out with her vicious claws. The crowd ran for their lives at the sudden attack, while the spirit simply focused on her target, beating him to a bloody pulp until nothing was left. It had been all too easy, as expected and the moment that her task was done, Rengar would quickly leap onto the guards who had come to try and put a halt to her assault. The assassination might have been completed but getting out, as the girl had thought, would probably be a bit harder.

Raising a second key to the sky, Elara would summon a second spirit to her cause and with an enormous roar, Taurus would soon appear. With fury, the massive ox spirit would leap off the balcony too, her axe swinging at anything that dared get in her path. The real fight was on now.

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Taurus was relentless in her work and carved through the knights around her like a hot knife through butter. It was an absolute massacre and yet Elara made no effort to stop her spirit from doing so. That had been the deal that they had made, after all. Taurus’s aid, in exchange for permission to annihilate all those around her when she was summoned. So, the black haired teenager simply remained where she was, peeping over the balcony, while she watched her spirits work. Her Zodiacs roar was so powerful that it seemed to turn her opponents to little more than frightened children although due to its effect, they were forced to attack her anyway. The Ox’s axe cleaved through armour, flesh and bone, without any sign of remorse or mercy and as the bodies piled up, she became more and more aggressive with her attacks. She had no intention of escaping at all and as her summoner watched, she began to come to the same conclusion too.

Rengar was busy too, leaping from one foe to the next, battering them with a barrage of claw strikes and then swiftly moving on. The knights just didn’t seem to have much of a counter to the duo’s aggressiveness and Elara had to smile at what she was witnessing. She loathed the law so much and to see them being slapped around so easily was a joy to behold. A sensation that Rengar certainly shared as the laughter that could be heard from the lioness was loud enough for the world to hear. Completely consumed by blood-lust, the assassin reigned terror on those nearby, armed or not, without a care in the world. Honestly, Elara wondered if she’d even need to flee and mused that maybe she should just have her allies wipe the knights out instead.

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