Chapter 23: It’s an Artist!

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

What had exactly happened?

Elise felt that it was suspicious.

How could a small C-class mission be snatched away?

And the person who snatched the mission was an inestimable super expert?

Elise’s first reaction was that Vivian lied.

But on second thought, Vivian did not need to do so.

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Vivian could have just said it directly, even if the mission failed due to special reasons. There was no need to make up such a lie.

Moreover, it was just an ordinary C-class mission.

She would at most pay back some commission even if the mission wasn’t accomplished.

After carefully understanding the situation, Elise suddenly felt that things were not as simple as she thought.

After turning off the projection.

Elise made a call.

Ring…

After the call was connected, a lazy woman’s voice was heard. “What’s wrong, Black Widow? What makes you suddenly think of calling me?”

Elise said very seriously, “Do me a favor and check on someone.”

The woman on the other end of the phone immediately became interested.

“I’d like to see who it is that Black Widow takes so seriously.”

The woman was a hacker.

To be more precise, she was a top hacker active in the assassin circle.

Be it an assassin or a hacker.

These two professions should be related to men in most people’s impression.

However, that woman made a name for herself in this circle.

She had a nickname, “Deathly Vine”.

It meant that she was like vines that could crawl along the internet to obtain information and sow death.

She had many tasks, such as helping various assassin organizations find people and obtain information.

“Help me investigate a C-class mission. The mission is to assassinate Keynes in New York City.”

She only needed to say so much.

A single name represented a lot of information for a top hacker like the Deathly Vine.

As long as she knew a person’s name, she would be able to find it and see all their experiences since they were kids, and the traces left on the internet, including the account that they secretly registered.

One would not have any privacy in the eyes of Deathly Vine. It was as if they were standing naked in front of her.

“I didn’t expect that Black Widow would pay attention to a C-class mission?”

The Deathly Vine said with a smile.

She and Black Widow were old acquaintances. Both of them had a good relationship in the past.

The sound of typing came from the phone. Obviously, the Deathly Vine had already found the results.

But then, the other end of the phone fell into silence.

“What’s wrong?” Elise felt that something was wrong.

“This mission was handed fifteen minutes ago, and the time of accepting the mission was yesterday.”

“That means that this assassin completed the mission in just one day.”

Elise was stunned when she heard it.

But she quickly figured it out. It meant that the assassin was powerful since he was able to make her disciple afraid of him. A C-class mission would not be difficult for him to accomplish in one day.

However, the Deathly Vine on the other end of the phone continued, “The person belongs to the Spear of God. He has very few mission records. So far, he has only completed four missions.”

“Four missions!”

Elise was shocked this time.

According to Vivian’s description, the killer was very mysterious and powerful.

The means of his assassination were unclear. The target of the mission had died in just a few seconds.

How could such a terrifying killer be a newcomer?

Unless…

When Elise thought of the title, the Deathly Vine just happened to say it.

“Artist!”

The Deathly Vine took a deep breath and said slowly.

“According to the records of the Spear of God, this person is very likely to be an artist!”

Elise’s right hand that was holding the phone trembled slightly. As an A-class assassin, she was familiar with the name of an artist.

She had even had a brief encounter with an artist.

She was an A-class assassin, and she had worked hard for countless years to achieve this goal.

And the goals of those artists were different from theirs.

Elise only wanted to become an A-class assassin, but those artists were thinking about how to achieve a 100% success rate and become an A-class assassin as fast as possible.

It was a completely different concept.

Elise had once met an artist, and she felt a strong threat from the artist. She could only barely keep her life if a fight broke out.

Those artists were far more powerful than A-class assassins.

And her disciple encountered such an existence in the process of doing a mission!

Elise broke out in a cold sweat.

She quickly thanked the Deathly Vine and called her disciple, Vivian.

After a few calls, Elise said hurriedly, “Vivian, I’ve investigated the mysterious killer you encountered during the mission. It’s likely to be an artist!”

“An artist!”

Vivian had been in the field for two years. She had heard of the title artist before.

They were a group of powerful people who regarded killing as art. The ideas on how to do something even crazier filled their minds. Their thoughts were different from ordinary assassins.

Vivian felt a lingering fear.

Would the assassin who killed Keynes kill her too if he had a sudden whim just now?