Chapter 333 — The Eden Apple, Human Nature, and Team Cohesion
Temporary Worker in the Ninja Village · Page 1 of 2
Jia Mingyuan, who appeared to be attempting suicide by leaping from the building, was in fact Ezio—the Assassin Mentor, one of the ten reincarnators on the Hero faction.
Accelerated by gravity, his fall grew faster and faster.
Whooosh, whooosh...
The rushing wind whipped past his ears; the barrier it formed kept his velocity constant within a certain range.
Fifty meters...
Thirty meters...
Fifteen meters!
Just as Ezio was about to kiss the concrete and become a splatter of mud, he suddenly swept out a hand, conjuring a mass of viscous shadow matter ahead of him, spun in midair, and landed safely on his feet.
Taking the stairs two at a time, he intercepted a Jia Mingyuan who had slipped away from the fortunate crowd and was trying to sneak off.
"W-what do you want!"
The man was a sleazy specimen with triangular eyes, slanted brows, and a yellow mustache.
He barked with bluster: "Is the Hero Association trying to wipe out ordinary people now?"
This man was cunning.
If a rookie from the Association had heard those words, he would likely have hesitated, perhaps even given the man a chance to escape.
Unfortunately for him, Ezio did not care in the slightest about his rhetoric.
As the man who had single-handedly rebuilt the Roman Brotherhood of Assassins, he never allowed scruples to slow him during a mission; he always maintained a state of undivided focus.
Ezio made a gesture of raising his hand.
The Hidden Blade shot out from his ring finger and pierced straight through the man's cervical vertebrae in an instant.
"You won't die—just paralyzed. We have a few questions for you."
As he spoke, Ezio hauled the sleazy man up and walked toward his companions.
Meanwhile, Kayn, who had witnessed the Assassin Mentor's actions, nearly ground his teeth to dust.
In theory, when a normal human falls from a height of several hundred meters, even into a bottomless pool of water, the impact would severely injure their internal organs; with the wrong entry angle, they might even die on the spot.
Leap of Faith...
No matter how high the fall, as long as there was something below to cushion the impact, death was impossible.
It was a skill that violated the laws of physics.
Kayn believed the man's body possessed some of the special properties of a game character.
Originally, back in the Assassin's Creed plane, when Ezio jumped from a height, he needed a haystack to break his fall or he would die.
Later, in the decisive battle between the two great organizations—the Scythe of Shadow and the Brotherhood of Assassins—Kayn had fought Ezio in a fair contest, only to lose by a single move, defeated by the man's heaven-defying luck, which allowed him to seize the "Eden Golden Apple."
The most valuable one-time S-rank item in the Assassin's Creed plane.
After obtaining the Golden Apple, Ezio used its power to copy Kayn's shadow power.
Now, even without a haystack to cushion his fall and without a parachute, Ezio could jump straight from a plane in the stratosphere and plummet directly onto concrete without suffering any negative effects whatsoever.
However, this former mortal enemy still had a massive weakness.
Water!
Even water above knee height would plunge him into a state akin to "soul departure," completely stripping him of combat ability.
According to intelligence Kayn had once gathered, this state was called "desynchronization."
Though he did not understand the principle behind it, that did not stop him from exploiting it.
This was a Jia Mingyuan even more afraid of water than the original Devil Fruit's knowledgeable ones!
At the thought, a smile reappeared on Kayn's face.
Last time, his opponent had been blessed by the luck of a Child of Destiny, and that was the only reason Kayn had lost a single move.
Never again.
Deafening screams erupted from the crowd, and to Kayn's ears, they were utterly delightful.
"Murder!"
"Help! I don't want to die here!"
"Get out of the way! Don't block the road!"