1088 5th of June - England, London

The streets are noisy from the crowd of people move through the streets of London. Our assassin walks out from the crowd into the silent and tight alleyways. Once he escaped prying eyes he climbs up to the top of the houses and starts running to his target. 

"Around 200 meters, alright that's not that far!" The assassin jumps from roof to roof, he gets close to his target and stops before the next street. 

He looks around the houses and looks for guards as there seems to be many. "1..2..3,4... so far i got 8, there might be more inside, i have to be careful." The layout of the building is pretty straightforward, a backyard, one grand entrance and two stories. The assassin targets a lonesome guard on the roof looking at the backyard. A smaller crowd is gathered before the streets of the mansion, He jumps down as one of the guards at the entrance see him jump down, he walks into the crowd to try and find the hooded man as he already walked past him and is climbing up a tree adjacent to the wall of the mansion. 

"Hey what is he doing?" A person looks at the man jumping to the edge of the roof. "Hey you! Get down here!" The guard yells as he runs inside and runs up the stairs to the roof along with the other guard.

The assassin gets up just as the guard on top turned around. The guard pulls his bow back with an arrow at the ready. The Assassin slides and evades the arrow that was shot directly at his head. As he sled to the guard he jumped up and stabbed him in his chest, he pushed him down on the ground as the two guards started climbing up the ladder. The assassin noticed as one of them climbed out from the ladder.

The guard could only see the corpse of the archer behind the chimney. The other one got up as well as they looked around trying to find the intruder. The guard below by a window grunts as he falls down after the hooded one jumps in the window. He crouches down by the corner of the stairs and sighs.

"Phew, okay i got some medicine, my target should be in here... somewhere upstairs. When will those two come down? I guess if they don't come i will go for them!" He stands up and rounds the corner and pulls out his sword, but as he went to take his first steps an arrow gets shot in his chest. He went to walk up the stairs right as he wanted to go up, he looked at the guard frustratedly as he fell on his back as the world starts to fall down and drown in the sea of the loading screen.

"Damn it! Ugh i almost had it, okay new tactics next time." The player vents out his frustration as the game loads in on the opposite side of the mansion on the streets.

The character opens his eyes as he makes his way into the crowd now going around the mansion. He makes his way into the backyard and crouches by the wall next to the open window. He can hear the guard approaching and as the footsteps stop he reaches in and pulls the guard out the window and stabs him with his hidden blade on the ground. The guard on top hears a grunt and looks down noticing the corpse. He starts to climb down the ladder in search of the intruder. He hears another grunt from the guard downstairs away from the two at the entrance. "Hey! You two! We have an intruder!" The three of them run towards the kitchen where there lies a corpse still bleeding.

A loud pierces their ears as a cloud of smoke appears. The archer turns around as he is stabbed through the throat. The two hear as he suffers and chokes on his blood. The assassin stabs one of them in his abdomen and pushes him over, draws his sword and stabs the other one through his chest. He walks out the kitchen as he sees two other guards stand in front of him ready to attack as the third one strikes him from his side. Stabbing him in his abdomen. Another one goes to slash him, but he parries and stabs him in his back. The assassin strikes towards the next one, but he is being parried over and over again, eventually the other guard stabs in his back and he falls down on the ground.

"Aargh! Alright, alright let's calm down, i just need to be more stealthy it could not be that hard right?" He respawns and goes for the back again, now timing his entrance to the guard on top, he does not wait for the guard to come to the window, rather he enters and finds him turning his back on him. He takes him down "1 down." 

He goes upstairs where he meets one guard face to face. Before the guard could say anything the assassin stabs him in his throat and holds his mouth pushing the guard against a wall. "2 down. The target room is around here on this floor!" 

He crouches down and looks out to a corridor leading to a bedroom and another space opposite side of the hooded one. He leans back and waits for someone to come out of the opposite room. He waits, but nothing happens, he stands up and walks towards the bedroom, he slowly opens it and walks in, looks around as his waypoint points to a desk.

"Huh, i only needed to kill 2 guards? why did i overcomplicate this so much?"

The character walks towards the target and picks up a piece of paper. "This, this is what the mentor wanted. It's a letter that has informations on our bureau and failed missions... also suspections of our previously completed missions. They have more information about us than we originally thought!" He puts the letter away and the game ends the cutscene showing the bureau as a target. "Hmm... now what is in that other room? Maybe there's loot!" The assassin crouches down again and walks to the door. He opens it but the door gets stuck on something. He pushes more and the door swings wide open to reveal a guard on the other side!

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"Damn it! It's one of those strong ones again!" He quickly turns around and runs towards the stairs. As he rounds the corner and makes his way down the 6 other guards face him in the hall. After a moment of thinking the other guards comes down as well. The assassin throws a smoke bomb to help his evasion. He quickly runs out the front door and runs to the alleyways. One of the guards cough and makes his way outside as he sees the hooded man run away. "After him!" Two other guards exit the adjacent building next to the mansion that was previously showed no signs of life. The three of them run after the assassin as he is already making his way to the rooftop.

From boxes to a small outhouse, up to the window and leaping up to the roof. The guards get to the alley just to see him run forward on the rooftop. One of them draws his bow out as they walk out the alley out on the open streets to see the man walk over to another house by a rope. The guard draws his bow. The arrow flies towards the assassin as he jumps down to another alleyway. He runs through the buldings. The guards run after him as they chase him to the market centre. The man disappears into a huge crowd of people.

"Let us go people! There is a murderer on the loose!" The people gasp and look around they let a small passage for the guards. They walk through the crowd away from the market as the hooded man is grinning on the bench watching them walk away. "I guess it would be wiser to go up top." The man clims up the rooftops and gets back to the bureau.

"Mentor! I found the letter that contains all the information they had about us." The assassin greets an older man who greets him with his hood pulled down.

"I knew you would, you did good. What did they know about us?"

"What weapons we commonly use, our failed missions in the past and some suspicions of us. There is also a detailed description of the hidden blade."

"Did you manage to kill the target?" The mentor looks worryingly.

"No, unfortunately i could not find any traces of him." 

"We have to find him and kill him immediately! My scouts have reported hearing about a gathering of nobles by the church, apparently it's a secretive hearing away from prying eyes and the king for who knows what reason. It is said that they will be talking through information and Botwulf will be among them. You go there and kill him before he says anything about us." The mentor orders the assassin and sends him off quickly.

The assassin turns and runs out the bureau. "You leveled up!" A notification pops up on screen. "Oh finally, i can finally unlock counter attack... wait i have two skill points? Guess christmas came early for me!" 

New skills unlocked: Counter kill, Kill streak 

To use counter kill parry an incoming attack and immediately attack to kill your foe in an instant or deal huge damage.

To use kill streak press attack on your next target after you killed someone, and immediately kill your next foe or deal huge damage.

"Now, unto to this Botwulf!" The character starts running towards a cart and jumps up to a window climbing up a building and running through the rooftops once more. As he reaches 200 meters of distance a timer pops up on screen. "A timer? Really?!"

As he climbs and jumps from rooftop to rooftop he closes in on his target right as he rounds a corner. The church is 3 turns away. "This is not good... if i jump down and chase after him he will get there, i have to think ahead!" The player runs around to the church. He drops down and walks towards Botwulf, he stops at a corner and waits for his target. Botwulf stops 20 meters ahead of the assassin and hears an eagle screech above him.

"No.. no! Why did he stop?!" The player yells in confusion and exits the corner to run to his target. A loud sound and smoke escapes from the bomb covering Botwulf in cloud, the templar used the assassin's tactic on him. The character is stunned from the unexpected smoke bomb. Botwulf makes his way to the church and runs inside while a group of 4 enemies gather around the assassin. 

One of them goes to attack him swinging his sword. The assassin parries with his sword and stabs through the enemy dropping him dead. He kicks him off his sword, turns around and slashes the next one's throat stabs him in his back with the hidden blade. The third one tries to stab him, but he dodges under the sword. The guard immediately looks at him, and the two of them try and outsmart the assassin, one of them stands behind his back and the other one his front. They both attack at almost the same time. The assassin jumps back and stabs the guard unexpectedly through his abdomen, as he pulls out his sword the other one swings his and the hooded man easily parries it and kills him with a hidden blade through the throat.

As the last enemy falls down the assassin runs straight to the church as one of the nobles in a hood runs out with a letter in his hand. The hooded assassin puts his sword to the throat of the noble and signals him to turn around and walk in the church. He pushes the hooded noble down on his knees. "Where is Botwulf?!" As he yells out looking for the templar the iconic sound of the hidden blade extending hits his ears. The noble turns around and attacks the assassin. He blocked the attack with his blade just in time. The hooded man's eyes open wide as he sees the exact same weapon on a noble, missing his ring finger. He looks at the man who's hood fell down, it was Botwulf. An arrow flies towards the character. He pushes himself away from Botwulf, the arrow flying in between them. Another smoke bomb goes off as Botwulf escapes.

He jumps on a horse and rides away. The assassin tries to run after him away from the church. He runs to a cart leading up. He quickly navigates up the rooftop trying to chase the Templar, but he loses sight of him. A new waypoint appears on screen, navigate back to the Bureau and report your failure.