My Level Zero System
Chapter 46: Chapter 46: Fake death

"Myra, you don't need to pull my hand!"

While walking on the road, Mera suddenly struggled and pulled her sister's hand away, surprising Myra.

"Mera, stop being so childish. Kain has explained it this far and you still don't understand?"

"Understand? What am I supposed to understand? He might die there!"

The two people argued again, one side used reason as the main factor, the other side used emotion as the measure.

Myra couldn't help but sigh.

Mera was already grown up, she always showed herself to be a sharp and wise girl, but in a situation like this Mera directly revealed her straightforward nature.

Only, both of them quickly discovered that someone was following them from behind.

The distance between the two sides was quite far so the two of them couldn't see each other's faces, but they did see a person's shadow.

"Myra, that could be Kain! He's caught up with us!"

"Mera, we have to get out of here!"

Myra's face turned pale, she grabbed Mera's hand, but was asked back in a puzzled manner.

"What are you doing, I saw him waving at us."

"Mera, you idiot!"

Just as Mera said, the dark figure in the distance was indeed waving at them, and it was getting closer and closer.

"Wake up Mera! If it really was Kain, he could have called us. Did you hear that strange guy make any noise?"

At this moment, Myra really wanted to re-educate Mera. But she quickly came to her senses and understood the seriousness of the problem.

The assassins were indeed close behind them.

Thinking of this, Mera's face turned pale.

"He... was killed?"

Mera couldn't imagine, even though she had only been in contact with Kain for a short time, her impression was that he was an extremely strong, extremely intelligent person.

A person like that, yet died like this?

She doesn't know, but she doesn't believe it.

A surge of anger rose in Mera's heart, Myra seemed to have sensed her little sister's crazy intentions. Quickly doused her with a bucket of cold water.

"Mera!"

This time, Myra was forced to become tough, she forcibly pulled the absent-minded Mera forward, quickly running away from the dark shadow that was getting closer and closer to them.

Myra's actions seemed unintentional, but she herself was extremely angry.

However, unlike her little sister, Myra knew that risking her life against the assassins here was pointless.

The two sisters could only reluctantly recall Kain's instructions and head straight into the swamp area.

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Go back in time ten minutes ago.

After successfully escaping the monsters' pursuit, Kain did not have enough strength to go replace his two teammates as planned.

He fell to one knee on the ground, his breathing heavy and chaotic.

The effects of the hormones and magic skills had worn off, and every part of Kain's body seemed to be screaming for them to rest.

Surviving from a great battle, but Kain could not smile.

Because in front of him, more than ten assassins appeared. They stood looking at Kain as if he were a crippled and non-fanged wolf.

"May I ask... what is your purpose? Why are you hunting us,with your power, there should be no need to pay attention to people like us right?"

Kain, who was now cornered, still tried to extract a bit more valuable information.

However, the assassins did not care at all, immediately took out their swords, knives and attacked Kain.

This was a relatively hopeless counterattack. An exhausted Kain was basically no match for so many people attacking at once.

He was stabbed through the chest by a sword, his whole body lost support and fell down, his breath gone.

The assassins did not linger and continued to move forward, it seemed they wanted to quickly deal with Myra and Mera.

So the question here is, is Kain really dead?

Of course not.

But when the assassins had gone far enough, Kain still did not move.

Suddenly, another group of assassins arrived, they didn't pay attention to the "corpse" Kain, but they were quickly following the assassins in front.

At this point, Kain finally broke free from his death feign.

As for how Kain faked his death?

He took off his outer "cloak", which was actually a piece of cloth that was soaked in the monster's blood. This made it impossible for the assassins to tell that his "cloak" was fake.

So why is the cloak swap important?

That's because the cloak Kain wears before, which is crafted directly from the skin of a high-level Reaper, is something that can resist physical attacks.

When stabbed in the heart, Kain skillfully leaned so that the sword when pierced through the blood-soaked cloth that was deflected by his true cloak, and the sword was held tightly under Kain's armpit, creating the illusion that he had been stabbed in the heart.

This trick can be said to be extremely clumsy, and it is basically impossible to deceive an assassin. But this is under the premise that the opponent is a true assassin. The "assassin" in Kain's eyes was just a puppet affected by [Mind Control].

Like once you control a puppet and it touches something. So do you feel how the puppet touched it? In a tactile sense? Of course not, you can only use your eyesight to see it and make an educated guess.

Similar to Magus controlling the assassins, "stabbing a tightly clamped armpit" and "stabbing the heart chamber" are no different.

Of course, Kain could not be completely sure that he would succeed, there was a certain amount of risk involved in this.

As for when Kain had carried out this plan to fake his death, it was probably from the moment Kain discovered that they were about to catch up.

And if this fake death plan succeeded, Kain thought he could move on to the next part of the plan.

An Insane plan, but it also turned the situation from passive to active.

The position between hunter and prey has changed.