The assassins were deployed as a group. And from what Gyuu Park could tell, only the two that were standing in front of him were the main enforcers, while the others were merely followers and peons. He knew not who these people were, who they work for, but he would need to put in some effort to get that information out of them.

The flying teapot exploded in mid air, the water inside became heated by his Qi shot out in all directions at the two cloaked figures. Both of them activated their Qi to guard themselves while lunging at Gyuu Park from left and right.

The man with a gorilla mask struck first, with his spiked flail coated in bright, light blue energy shooting out electric sparks and cracks, he took a swing at Gyuu Park’s left shoulder. The woman wearing a wolf mask was just one step behind, with her curved blade still tucked inside of her sleeve. Though mostly hidden, the blade was giving off an ethereal light green glow.

Gyuu Park moved leftwards and at the man with his left arm raised slightly, intending to create a circumstance where he would be facing the man one on one. The flail head missed its mark from Gyuu Park’s lowering his body, and with a lightning speed, his left arm flung up and to push the man’s flail holding wrist, while his right arm unleashed a palm strike at the man’s upper chest.

“Clunk!” Gyuu Park’s palm strike landed true and firm, caving and cracking something metal underneath the man’s clothes. A metal chest plate. The man was thrown back, his mask almost falling off his face and almost falling into the woman behind him. The woman, quite apparently much faster on her feet, immediately jumped up and swung her strangely shaped blade at Gyuu Park from midair. A light green energy blade shot at Gyuu Park’s face, the concentrated Qi in which seemed like it could easily pierce through the hardest marble.

Gyuu Park lowered his body once again while pushing his legs on the ground to launch him to the side. The energy blade touched only her afterimage in the air, while tearing a hole in the corner of the wall. With a trace of Qi concentrated on his right hand index and middle fingers, Gyuu Park thrusted his right arm at the woman, shooting out a concentrated stream of Qi.

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The woman arched herself backwards and backflipped in the air, and Gyuu Park’s counter attack only ripped a small tear on her cloak as well as scratched the mask a little.

“So, why don’t you enlighten me then, my dear assassins and the graceful usherer of my end?” Gyuu Park steadied himself and his breaths somewhere in the back of the inner sanctum and asked: “You sure seem like fine professionals, you’re sure on a level that’s good enough to know who your employer is and what they want? Am I wrong?”

“It’s no wonder you overstepped the way you did.” The woman behind a wolf mask said with an even colder voice: “You’re good. A prodigy worthy of the name, too bad.”

“Oh, so you know about me? That’s interesting.” Gyuu Park chuckled: “But - why don’t you tell me more? Let me be an enlightened ghost when I walk the bridge and report to the King of Hell.”

“Clever.” The woman scoffed.

“How about I save you the trouble?” The man spit out some blood and spoke through his teeth: “How about you don’t have eyes and mouth so that you fall off the bridge and maybe become a roach in your next life? Then you can continue living your worthless, crappy life.”

“Oh, then maybe I am even more inclined to take you with me then, you monkey.” Gyuu Park kicked the wall behind him, then he jumped left. A hidden compartment dropped open from the floor and a wooden stick and two daggers fell from a hidden shelf. He grabbed the wooden stick and bash the bottom of one dagger’s hilt. The dagger shot at the man wearing the gorilla mask, and he lunged at the man with the other dagger in his left hand, while holding the stick in his right hand. Though appearing to be ready and calm, he knew in his heart that he did not have too much time left. And if he wanted to make the most of the situation, he needed to spill more blood from one of these two. Or better yet, fell one of them.

The man roared and banged the dagger away with his flail, but even though he appeared to be aggressive, he was actually backing away and luring Gyuu Park closer. The woman behind the wolf mask side stepped then crept at him from his right side, with the claw-shaped curved blade aiming at his waist and her other hand aiming at his neck.

Gyuu Park swiftly, if not violently turned his body in the air and swung the stick at the woman’s face. The woman immediately raised her curved blade to face the stick. The sharp tip of her blade instantly bit into the shaft, and with the movement of her arm she redirected the hit to her side.

The woman’s left hand clutched and then flexed. The dark, glowing sharp nails on her middle and index fingers shot out at the push of her Qi. Gyuu Park was not expecting this, and instantly felt two chilling blades sunk into his chest and abdomen.

The woman scoffed, her blade wielding arm twisted and turned, retrieving the blade and swiping at Gyuu Park’s neck.