RISE OF EROS

Well, I don't want to extend my thanks too much, so I'll leave you with the next chapter, which is longer in commemoration of being number 100, I hope you like it.

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Despite Andrew's insinuative comment, things didn't progress much, because they were still waiting for nightfall for the operation to start and they didn't want to be distracted.

However, the three of them were very lovey-dovey on the sofa in the office. Andrew was relaxed with a beautiful girl on either side and he was lightly fiddling with them.

The small caresses between them had relaxed the tension they had felt minutes before, but even so, they held back to themselves, so as not to lose themselves in pleasure at such a crucial moment as the one they were facing.

The hours passed and midnight arrived. All the actors in the event began to make their moves. Aki was faster than all the others, as the men of the three thugs had barely moved and she had already started her operation.

She quickly infiltrated where Rufal's treasury was located, which was her first target. Even though this man was an idiot in his machinations, he was not brainless enough to have his treasury unprotected.

The cellar of his treasures was located in the basement of his business. It only had one entrance that was guarded throughout the day by two tall, stocky, fully armed-men who looked powerful.

In addition, when going down the stairs that these two men were guarding, there were two other men with similar characteristics protecting the entrance to the treasure cellar. Aki knew all this information since she had infiltrated this building and she even knew the time when the guards changed shifts.

Rufal had 12 men who were in charge of this task. Each pair of men guarded these stalls for eight hours, so Aki knew that after passing the two men guarding the stairs, she would have to eliminate two more men.

The difficulty of carrying out this mission lay in the fact that there was only one entrance, so as soon as Aki eliminated the two men the entrance would be discovered by the two men below, so everything came down to speed that she acted.

Although the men who guarded the treasury seemed strong, for Aki they really weren't much, because she trained with Oliver in her free time and he was a thousand times stronger than these guards, at least in Aki's mind it was like that, that's why she thought it would not be a difficult job.

As Rufal's men left for the Heavenly Palace, the security at the business was lowered and it was at that moment that Aki attacked. Using her great stealth skills, she quickly moved toward the guards at the entrance of the stairs.

One of the guards noticed Aki's approach, but he could only see a shadow because the speed at which she moved did not seem human and before he could draw his sword a dagger was stuck in his throat.

The stab wound was so brutal that the blood that gushed from the assassinated guard's neck splashed onto his companion. Seeing that his partner was killed, the guard drew his sword and wanted to attack while shouting to alert the other guards, but Aki was faster and pulled the dagger from the other guard's throat and threw it hard, piercing the guard's left eye.

The dagger was thrown with such force that it pierced the guard's brain, killing him instantly, but the fall of the guard's limp body resounded loudly, alerting the guards below the stairs.

Aki had no time to hesitate and mercilessly picked up her dagger from the guard's corpse and rushed down the stairs at high speed. The two remaining guards were already waiting for her, but what surprised Aki was that the men had crossbows ready to shoot.

When Aki appeared the guards fired. Being a narrow staircase, there was very little room to maneuver, and the short distance added to the firing power of the crossbows made it difficult for any intruder, but Aki was not just any intruder.

Her great reflexes allowed her to draw her spare dagger and impressively managed to block the arrows aimed at her. The guards were stunned by Aki's feat and that's why they hesitated for a few seconds before drawing their swords, a time that was crucial since Aki reached them and like the death scythe cut their throat at the same time.

Aki is a highly skilled assassin, although she had never killed anyone before being bought by Andrew, the training she received from the organization that kidnapped her was not easy since she had managed to make the girl suppress her emotions in combat and her body moved practically by instinct, always aiming for a person's vital points, hence its lethality.

Having eliminated all the guards, she did not dare to delay, she opened the door and there was a room of about 5 square meters full of gold coins and other items that Aki did not bother to check, she just took out the dimensional bag and put everything away.

Speed was the essence of this operation, she couldn't bother to inspect the different items, so she packed everything and quickly left the place.

She moved through the shadows towards the top floor of the building, as she still had to eliminate Rufal, however, when she reached the office, she did not find him.

She quickly deduced that the three men must have met in some other place, as the operation to attack the Heavenly Palace was a joint attack, which made things a bit difficult for her, but she put those thoughts behind her and moved on to her second target.

The next target was the Dinocal treasury. Like Rufal's treasury, it was in the basement of his establishment, but here things were a little more complex because unlike the previous one, the cellar had greater surveillance.

Two guards guarded the entrance to the basement stairs, and under those stairs was a room where five men stood guard. It was complex to attack this place.

The two guards at the entrance were easy to handle, but the other five were something else, Aki didn't have the confidence to face them in a narrow room and with a frontal attack.

Entering into a dilemma she decided to use the method that she least wanted to use. She first verified that the meeting of Rufal, Dinocal, and Canotto was not taking place in this building and after confirming that they were not there, she breathed a sigh of relief, because she could carry out her plan.

She again returned to the entrance to the basement. She dressed as a waitress and carried a tray of liquor, pretending to hand it over to the guards, but when she got close enough the guards became alert and scolded, "Who are you? What are you doing here?".

Aki smiled and continued to pretend and said, "The chief asked me to bring you liquor to celebrate today's victory," but the guards didn't believe her, as the chief had ordered them to be alert due to the attack they would carry out today, as their defenses were minors.

For this reason, the guards put on sullen looks and drew their swords with the intention of attacking, and Aki understood that her plan had failed, so she threw the tray she was carrying toward them, blocking their vision for a second.

That second was more than enough for Aki to get close to one of them and plunge her dagger into his neck, she always aimed to kill in a single attack, but the other guard had time to launch an attack at the moment Aki had killed his partner.

With her great reflexes, Aki managed to dodge the attack, although she received a minor wound on her arm then she threw her dagger at the guard, he managed to block it with his arm, and although she managed to injure him, it was not fatal, so the guard prepared to attack again.

However, Aki couldn't waste time, by the time she threw her dagger, she had already arrived in front of the guard and without letting him react she plunged her other dagger into the guard's chin, going through his mouth and reaching up to his brain.

The guard died immediately. Aki retrieved the daggers and cautiously went downstairs. The door to the room under the stairs was still closed and although Aki couldn't see inside it, she knew that the five guards inside it were already waiting for her.

The guards inside the room were fully armed waiting for the door to open. Three of them had crossbows pointing on the door and the other two had their swords ready to cut.

They had heard the commotion of the battle from Aki and the guards, so they knew that an intruder had arrived. They were convinced to eliminate the threat as soon as it entered, but Aki would disappoint them because she was not going to enter.

Aki took out of the dimensional bag a rectangular package that seemed to be wrapped in some kind of paper. She had prepared it in case of an emergency, but she preferred not to use it, since this device went against the abilities of an assassin, since it was an explosive.

She placed her bomb at the foot of the door and after lighting the fuse she withdrew. The guards in the room were surprised that the intruder did not enter, but they did not let their guard down and did not intend to open the door.

At that moment a loud bang was heard and the gate they were guarding blew to pieces. The wave produced by the explosion sent them flying, injuring them in the process, in fact, two of them died instantly.

One of them fell unconscious and the other two, although sore and injured, tried to get up, but what awaited them were Aki's daggers. One hit one kill, Aki slaughtered the three guards who had survived.

The treasury door, like Rufal's, was sealed with a strong padlock, but for Aki, it was child's play, she quickly unlocked the lock and collected all the items in the cellar.

When she went up the stairs to the basement, she could hear the footsteps and cheers of the other guards who came to check the place because they had heard the explosion, but they had arrived too late because Aki escaped instantly.

When the guards arrived, they just found the dead guards, the mess caused by the explosion, and the empty warehouse, and like ants in a hot pot they began to search for the culprit, but she had already left the building.

As Aki left, in the shadows outside the building, three men dressed in black with masks appeared, obviously having the same occupation as Aki and in fact the same goal.

"This place was attacked too," one of them said quietly, "What the hell is going on? Rufal's cellar was also emptied, who beat us to it?" Said another of the assassins, clearly annoyed.

The one in the middle who looked like the leader narrowed his puzzled gaze as did his companions, but said nothing. They were old Zoltan's men who would steal the wealth of Rufal, Dinocal, and Canotto, but someone had beaten them to it.

"Let's go to the next place, I think we still have a chance we can't go back empty-handed," said the leader of the three assassins, and without another word, they disappeared into the shadows.

Before long Aki arrived at Canotto's establishment. There the three thugs from the area were meeting, but Aki didn't know if she should attack them, since she still didn't have the location of Canotto's treasury.

She had inspected the entire place and had concluded that the warehouse was not in that place and that is why she doubted. She had no way of knowing that Canotto had no warehouse, he carried all of his money in his dimensional bag.

The other two also had dimensional bags, but they didn't carry all of their fortune, because that would be dangerous, but Canotto didn't think so. He was suspicious even of his men so he preferred to have his fortune close to him at all times.

As Aki hesitated, she spotted Zoltan's three assassins arriving and she quickly hid, avoiding detection. The three newcomers looked at Canotto's establishment and deduced that it had not been attacked yet  and for that reason they were happy.

Unlike Aki, they knew that Canotto kept his money in his dimensional bag and that's why their objective was to attack Zoltan's three ex-companions. Aki heard their conversation and understood that they had the same objective, but she didn't move, as she was outnumbered, so she decided to wait and try to fish in the muddy waters.

Unfortunately for her, while these three assassins weren't as skilled as her, it was very easy for them to infiltrate the place and kill the three men without creating chaos or getting hurt, which didn't allow Aki to rob them in the confusion. So she decided to return and report, since she had managed to rob two treasuries and the targets, were dead, so her mission was considered a success.

While all this was happening, in Zoltan's establishment, the old man sipped a glass of wine with a smile, waiting for his men to return to celebrate his victory, unaware that Candice's men had already looted his money and that an assassin was hiding in the shadows waiting to kill him.

The assassin had not acted yet because she knew the old man's plan and was waiting for his men to return. If Zoltan's men returned with the money from the other three she would eliminate them and take that money as well.

After a while the three assassins returned and reported what had happened. Zoltan was angry when he heard that they had beaten him to it, but when his men notified him that they had managed to secure Canotto's fortune, he relaxed a bit.

He took the dimensional bag and when his men left, the old man drained his wine glass in one gulp. His face did not have the joy that he expected because he did not fulfill his goal, and with a sigh, he muttered, "What bad luck."

"What bad luck indeed", a whisper was heard in his ear and the old man was startled, but before he could say anything, his throat was cut and he lost his life without even knowing who the assassin was.

On the other hand, the 30 men who attacked the Heavenly Palace didn't even have a chance to reach the place as Oliver along with several of his men ambushed them on their way there.

Thanks to Aki, they knew the moment when they were going to attack, so Oliver guessed the route they would take and ambushed them when they were unaware, disposed of the bodies, and returned to the Heavenly Palace to report what happened.

In this way the events of the night had ended and the winners had been Andrew and Candice who had not yet received the good news, however, all the establishments in that area of the red light district were alarmed, since the news had already reached them.