The city's alarm finally stopped.

From the moment the female assassin launched her surprise attack, to when she suddenly set her sights on Andrew after defeating Falk, then to Andrew's valiant counterattack, while Ivan and the red-haired woman interfered, until Andrew and the female assassin collided and both fell—

All of this actually happened within a very short period of time.

After an intense and short-lived exchange, everything seemed to momentarily calm down. The strongest experts in Flaming Shield City gathered both inside and outside the mansion. Other city defense soldiers were responsible for calming and reassuring residents, treating the wounded including Falk, guarding against possible threats from other directions, reporting the situation, requesting support... and so on.

Inside the mansion, in the courtyard.

The female assassin temporarily held back and became quiet.

Numerous eyes were fixated on her at this moment.

However, she was seriously looking at Andrew who was lying on the ground, as if trying to reevaluate this assassination target.

"He really is quite different from what the intelligence described," she thought.

She obtained a file on Andrew's intelligence through her connections within the Warm Fire Commerce Association.

However, even the intelligence that the Warm Fire Merchant obtained didn't contain any real information on Andrew's actual combat abilities.

After Andrew had killed the old mage Humboldt in public, he actually had not had many opportunities to duel, engage in magic confrontations, or life-and-death struggles.

Defeating Rose was more about fighting the desolate beasts under Rose's control.

Defeating Fleur was simply using the Illusion Technique to control her, falling far short of a face-to-face life-and-death struggle.

So actually, Andrew himself didn't know how strong he was now. Despite mainly focusing on business cooperation and market research, his personal combat power was near the pinnacle for the younger generation in this Flame Realm!

It was precisely this personal combat strength, which far exceeded the female assassin's expectations, along with Ivan's interference, and the support and help of the Fire God Mecha, that allowed Andrew to withstand that blow from the female assassin just now.

That also rendered the female assassin's series of brilliant maneuvers imperfect in the end.

As for Andrew himself, to have faced a direct hit from a Tier Nine expert and not die was already a miracle.

If Andrew could truly survive this battle, the benefits he could gain after recovery would be immeasurable. Not only because of the Fire Extinguishing Upgrade Method but also because, as a Tier Three youngster, he could challenge six higher tiers and engage in a life-and-death fight with a Tier Nine expert. This kind of "experience" is invaluable and rarely encountered!

The prerequisite is survival.

As long as he survives, these benefits could be realized!

Yet, it was already Andrew's limit to have taken a hit without dying.

Now he was unconscious, with no resistance capability at all.

"I indeed 'messed up' if measured by the perfect script I had in mind."

The female assassin stood for a moment, seemingly sighing softly, "But perhaps sometimes, there is no need to be so perfectionist!"

She muttered to herself, as if convincing herself, "I just felt a hint of 'Fire God Mecha' aura, but according to intelligence, the Fire God Mecha shouldn't be on this kid. Did he use some way to mobilize the power of the 'Fire God Mecha' and bear a significant portion of my force? In that case, it might not be entirely unacceptable."

Thinking of this, she shook her head, no longer entangled by it.

After all, she was someone who could pick things up and put them down easily.

Plus, she knew well: "Even if it's not the perfect final blow in my plan, I can't drag this on any longer regardless."

Near the mansion, a large number of the city's experts had already arrived. These individuals carried the power of the "Shield of Flowing Fire" array, having completed the encirclement. The force of the city's inherent magic array was fiercely working against the female assassin.

More importantly, from the direction of Warm Fire City, a stronger aura than the female assassin was slowly awakening.

That was Beiru, the chairman of the Warm Fire Commerce Association, showing signs of slowly waking up from seclusion and healing.

Once Beiru awoke, no matter how much confidence the female assassin had in her own speed, breakthrough, and evasion capabilities, she didn't dare to claim she could ensure a safe retreat from the depths of the Warm Fire Commerce Association while being pursued by Beiru.

That was Beiru, the strongest figure of the Warm Fire Commerce Association! In the Battle of the Twin Flames, he single-handedly opposed the three great Earth Fire Scholars of the Magic Guild and ended up merely injured but unbeaten!

Some even say: disregarding overall background strength, in terms of personal power alone, Beiru is the top expert in this Flame Realm, providing such immense support to the overall power of the Warm Fire Commerce Association!

In short, feeling the resurgence of Beiru's aura from the direction of Warm Fire City, the female assassin inside the mansion showed an apprehensive, serious expression.

She knew: this battle had to end quickly.

Now, she completely let go of the mistake she made just now.

Once again, she stepped forward, intending to finish Andrew off.

"Speaking of finishing moves, it seems I haven't had much chance to do such a thing before. It's quite interesting, isn't it?" She squinted her eyes slightly, looking at Andrew, "That being said, I have to thank you, kid. You've brought me quite a few unexpected surprises!

Rest assured, to express my gratitude, I'll give you a swift and clean finishing move. Hmm!"

Her steady steps involuntarily had a hint of briskness. It seemed she wasn't here to kill but to enjoy a spring outing.

However, this brisk pace was actually the footsteps of death!

"Hey, everyone, help out, save him! Stop her, stop her!"

Leia couldn't help but rush out of the room, only to see that the high-level fighters in and outside the mansion were all hesitant to make a move.

The high-level fighters wouldn't care about Andrew's life or death. Although they were somewhat surprised that Andrew survived a hit and his body didn't show obvious distortion (they originally thought a boy at most Tier Three would be shattered to pieces from such a hit), their main focus now was just not letting the female assassin escape, and then waiting patiently for the guild master on the Warm Fire City's side to fully awaken their aura.

Naturally, they didn't want to expose any weaknesses to save Andrew.

Perhaps the female assassin was deliberately luring us to save someone in order to seize the opportunity to escape! Some experts had such thoughts in their hearts.

Seeing everyone indifferent, Leia wanted to pull Andrew away herself, but the female assassin's steps inherently had a repulsive force. Leia had just approached two steps when an irresistible wind pressure pushed her back.

Fortunately, the female assassin seemed uninterested in anyone other than Andrew and didn't harm Leia.

"Havier, Havier! Do something!" Leia was so anxious she almost cried.

Havier was currently the closest person to Andrew and the female assassin.

But seeing that the female assassin was about to strike Andrew again, clearly not threatened, he still shivered and fell softly to the ground, sitting down. Then he was quickly dragged away by a Tier Seven expert. This was treatment Andrew could not expect at all.

In the distance, Ivan had just been grabbed and thrown by the female assassin and still couldn't stand up for the time being. Again, it's not that Ivan was too weak, but this woman might actually be among the top ten, or even top five, strongest in the Flame Realm, truly too powerful.

The knights accompanying as guards revealed expressions of reluctance. They truly tried to step forward to assist, but like Leia, couldn't get through! Their combat power was at most Tier Six, not even comparable to Ivan, how could they save him? They couldn't!

Linda from the Warm Fire Temple also arrived at this time.

But as a medical personnel, not a frontline combatant, she could only stand with her team at the outermost perimeter, helplessly watching with anxiety.

"Damn it, save someone, save him!"

Linda quickly found the leading Tier Eight Crimson Knight among the crowd of experts and shouted, "Do you know how many of our people's lives this young man saved in the Warm Fire Temple today? Or do you feel it's glorious and dignified to watch our commerce association's guest be killed on our territory?"

The Tier Eight strong man's face slightly stiffened, then he shook his head and said in a low tone, "I'm sorry, Captain Linda, I'm very sorr—"

He couldn't finish, as his face suddenly changed dramatically.

At the same time, the female assassin also seemed to see something, frowned, and temporarily stopped her steps.

Then they saw—

In the blink of the moment when almost no one was willing to step forward to save Andrew, and those who wanted couldn't help, Barbara, the third young miss of the commerce association, at some unknown time, stepped between the female assassin and Andrew, using her body to block the assassin's view!

Seeing the third young miss of the commerce association leaping out, the face of the Tier Eight expert turned pale. Now he immediately wanted to step forward, but the female assassin just snorted, and an invisible violent force pushed everyone back again.

"Get out of the way."

The female assassin looked at Barbara, "I don't want to kill too many today. Killing two is enough. Jimmy was the first, and killing this kid will be enough."

Her current demeanor was not as thunderous and reckless as before.

But the force was more contained and cohesive.

Her voice contained substantial force, pressing toward Barbara. The force was just right, as she herself said: killing two is enough. To Barbara, this force was just meant to push her away, not to take her out.

However, Barbara stood motionless.

In her eyes burned a strange orange-red flame.

At the moment of collision with the force in the female assassin's voice, two streaks of blood flowed directly from Barbara's eye corners, and the magic power fluctuations around her were intensely chaotic.

But she didn't move.

Not budging an inch!

She stubbornly resisted the female assassin's force, insisting on using her body to block between Andrew and the female assassin.

The female assassin was momentarily silent upon seeing this.

When she spoke again, her voice turned somewhat peculiar: "You've just reached adulthood, right? Already... Tier Four?"

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