When the owner of the Tavern entered the room where he is supposed to keep his money. I took a look back, and I see the mysterious guy I passed earlier getting up from the table. The guy is holding a crystal in his left hand. The mysterious man is looking at Taka, he is taking out his hat, and he is aiming a crystal at Garnet.

"Conceal!"

Then, a colourful ray leaves the crystal, it flows to Garnet, it is covering her entire body, and it made her scream in pain. Taka she immediately jumps on the man, she punched him and send him a few steps back. The man drop the crystal on the floor, and when he did that, the crystal did not break it. The mysterious man is looking at us, he takes out from his back a dagger, and he threw it to me. But, with the wand I hide it under my clothes, I took it immediately and cast a shield spell on me to protect me from that knife threw into my direction.

"...so close." says the mysterious man to me.

"Who are you?" asks Taka cloning herself three times and preparing to jump on that man.

"I am the fourth one." says the assassin to us. "I am Vidraru, the one who will kill all three of you."

"Good luck with that." I say aiming my wand at him and I shoot a "Fireball" spell at him.

The man did not move, he instead took something from his pocket, and it absorbed my spell, the entire spell. I and with Taka were stunned to see that. An assassin, taking the entire spell into a small object. Then, a clone of Taka (or her original) run to me while the others were going to fight Vidraru.

"This the man from your vision?"

"Yes." I respond to her. "We must be carefully at this one. He seems prepared for us."

"This crystal..." she says to me.

"... Oh, no." I said to her moving my head in disapproval.

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Taka shakes her head in approval, which confirms my darkest fears, and then, we are both having a look at Garnet ho is laying unconscious on the floor. I also had a look at the crystal on the floor, I was about to run at it, but then I saw one of her Taka's clone flying close to me, hitting the wall and disappearing.

"Ha! Ha! Haaaa!" says Vidraru stabbing one of her Taka's clone with his knife, and he looks at both of us. "You two think that I can be defeated with such tricks? I have learned everything about you while my team were in darkness." he is aiming the object which has absorbed my power, and he aims it to me. "Now, Judah."

At this call I was stunned, and before I could see anything, Taka tackled me down. For a moment I thought she was going to sell us to them, but surprisingly, she defended me from the spell which was launched to where I stood. Taka is getting off me, she looks at the assassin, and she launches a few more clones of herself to him.

Vidraru is using his using a stick, which transforms in a high speed into a staff for mages or wizards. The assassin is fighting the clones in close combat, rather than using his spells or any other secret gadget. He puts down almost all the clones down. Not wanting to be useless, I decided to cast a spell to one of the clones of Taka who were at a far distance to him. I cast the spell: "Feel Invincible". The spell has hit the clone of Taka, and it makes the fight between her and that assassin even harder because she cannot be damaged, and her attacks are much more powerful.

I go to the crystal who captured Garnet powers. While I was running to it, the assassin was trying to throw a spell to me, but the clone of Taka who was hit earlier stops him and fight him into a close combat. Thankfully, I was able to reach the crystal, and I am running to Garnet place. But, before I could do anything, something has hit my back, and dropped me down. I was looking at my back, and there I saw it, a dagger which has hit my back.

Vidraru manages to overpower the clone by hitting repeatedly the head of that clone. When Taka's clone has fallen on the ground and disappear, I had a felling that my end will eventually come. Vidraru is walking to me with his staff ready to blow the final hit on me.

"You are a foolish wizard, yet, you are strong for your age, kid." says Vidraru walking in a small pace to me. "You will perish today, kid."

"... Why... Why are you doing this?" I ask him while I am holding the dagger who is stabbing my back.

"Why? It is because of the money. Yugara family will be paying us a big amount of coins for only one girl. And, I will be able to do something very naughty on her while she is asleep."

"Fuck you..." I say to him with my last breath.

Vidraru which is at a close distance to me, he grabs my face, and he told me with an aggressive look.

"Poor choice of words, fella."