My Job Is Quite Unique Chapter 118

Chapter 118 Assassination! The Death of Liu Chen!

“That’s good then…” Su Chen reached out and took out the Green Rope and scale armor from his storage space.

Having advanced to the third-tier, he could also upgrade his weapons.

He went to the basement, opened the storage room for materials, and first took out the Green Rope. His mental power saturated it, and the Ropemaster’s professional ability activated.

Among the piled-up materials around, pieces of refined iron ore floated out, began to soften and glow, as if placed in a melting furnace.

Turning into drops of hot liquid metal, with ripples on its surface, these droplets did not scatter but were drawn by a powerful suction to the greenish whip suspended in the center.

“Chirp—!”

The moment the liquid refined iron touched the whip, a violent sound erupted. It wasn’t vapor rising, but like a branding iron hitting solid ice, the reaction was exceptionally intense.

The originally plain greenish body of the whip greedily absorbed the liquid, quickly devouring and merging with it.

Strands of translucent fibers attached to it, and then, more and more liquid refined iron surged in, no longer merely covering it, but truly merging and reshaping.

On the greenish base of the whip, mysterious dark golden patterns began to wind, like living veins, continuously extending, interweaving, and shining as more metal liquid flowed in.

And at a visible speed, it became heavier and more solid. The surface no longer had a rough, matte feel, but presented a strange luster of deep green mixed with dark gold, with a metallic liquid flowing texture.

[Liquid Metal Illusion Blade (Tier 3): Formed by refining gold mixed with spirit-extracted fibers and upgraded with mental power. It can mimic various weapon types.]

After the transformation was complete, Su Chen massaged his forehead, feeling a bit dizzy.

His mental power was greatly depleted. If his foundation wasn’t stronger than others, he would have collapsed halfway through.

“The consumption is quite high…” Su Chen clicked his tongue in wonder. No wonder it could only be upgraded after the main profession advanced.

If the spiritual intensity was insufficient, even melting the materials would be difficult, let alone deep integration.

The Illusion Blade in front of him had shed its whip-like appearance and now looked like a single entity. Su Chen’s mind moved slightly, and it flowed like liquid, gradually transforming into a metal spear.

“The malleability of the spirit-extracted fibers is very strong, which gives it the characteristic of multiple mimicry…” Su Chen played with the cold weapon.

However, the shaping process was quite long, so it was obviously impossible to quickly change forms during combat, but it was still very good.

He activated his Spirit Communicator to help restore his mental power, and quickly finished upgrading the scale armor as well.

[Purple Gold Scale Armor (Tier 3): Formed by refining purple sparrow scales mixed with high-purity nanoparticles and upgraded with mental power.]

The third-tier scale armor was heavier, and the greenish base scales were mixed with a purple glow. Its defense was stronger, and the response speed of stacking defense was also faster.

Rubbing his head, Su Chen returned to the bedroom and rested for a while. When he opened his eyes again, he felt refreshed and his eyes sparkled.

“Spiritual recovery and sleep are different after all…” Su Chen stretched, feeling completely renewed.

He checked the time and saw that it was already midnight. It was about time. After tidying up a bit, he left, this time not taking the hovercar.

After leaving the Tribunal, he changed several modes of transportation, and also walked for a while, using the [Shadow Wind Boots], his body blurring and difficult to detect.

“…Liu Chen is a Melee Fighter, and his development progress should already be in the latter half of Tier 3. His previous first and second tier professions were top-tier, and he has a good accumulation…”

Su Chen lowered his head, having already put on his mimicry mask, simply changing his facial features.

The mimicry mask he brought from Nanfeng was a bit outdated, but it could still be used for now.

“Hmm, here we are.”

He looked up and saw that it was a high-end hotel. According to the information he had gathered during this time, Liu Chen had a girlfriend and often came here to fool around.

…

“…Hiss, why are you so impatient today…”

In the room, the beautiful woman with wavy hair grimaced in pain, trying to push away the man lying on her chest.

“…Damn it, I’m so angry,” Liu Chen’s voice sounded irritable. “That guy still hasn’t come to find me.”

“Is it still because of that Su Chen?” The woman seemed to know who and what it was about. “He’s also a core seed, why… why do you have to suppress him?”

She was a little worried, “What if it gets out of hand?”

“Am I afraid of him?” Liu Chen suddenly looked up and slapped the woman’s face. The woman cried out and her eyes welled up with tears.

He continued his actions, and in this environment, his emotions were unrestrained. He sneered, “What if it gets out? Who would say anything? He doesn’t have money to buy it, can you blame me?”

“It’s not like I didn’t give him a chance. If he just said a few soft words, I would have given him the things. It’s just a few thunder cores. He insisted on being stubborn, who can blame him, who can blame him?”

Liu Chen’s face became more and more ferocious, and his movements became more and more violent.

“I… I…” The woman couldn’t speak, her pupils dilated.

Silently, the door opened a crack.

Liu Chen’s movements suddenly stopped, his body covered in cold sweat, as if ten thousand blades were bearing down on him. The terrifying sense of threat shocked him greatly.

“Not good!”

At this moment, his mind was lost. When he noticed the other party, a strong wind had already swept over him, and a cold light slashed diagonally. It was a dark golden giant axe, and its edge was already close to his eyes!

“What speed!” Liu Chen’s eyelids twitched. A thick blue airwave had already burst open, and he was flung against the wall.

Then, his skin actually rippled, and his whole body tended to liquefy. In a short time, he had tried his best to elementalize to avoid physical harm.

Although the attack was rushed, he could still feel that the opponent’s strength was not strong.

As long as he blocked it, he could…

However, at this moment, Liu Chen’s pupils dilated, and he felt a sharp pain in his brain. His vision went black, and he faintly heard annoying low murmurs in his ears.

“What is this place!?”

Liu Chen was terrified and looked around. He completely lost control, and the elementalization process was abruptly interrupted.

The axe’s edge let out a whistling sound as it fiercely cleaved into Liu Chen’s head.

Crack—

A crisp sound of bone cracking echoed, and blood spurted out.

“So hard?” Su Chen looked at the axe blade stuck in his bone. Even having lost control, his physical strength was still high.

The intense pain in his head made Liu Chen instantly sober. The attacker was close at hand, wearing a mask, but the black pupils on his bald head stared straight at him.

“Heretic God Cultist! Mental attack!” Liu Chen was shocked and terrified. This intensity of mental attack could even make him completely lose control.

This person was probably a Tier 4 Psionist on the verge of advancing!

“Why are you attacking me!” Liu Chen roared. In the face of death, his adrenaline surged, and iridescent blue scales appeared on his skin, rippling like water.

“It wasn’t me who destroyed the Pang family.” He couldn’t understand. If these Heretic God Cultists wanted revenge, why would they target him?

“So hard…” Su Chen was also surprised. Even with pure physical strength, it was difficult to cleave through, even if the opponent had lost control.

But then he pressed his palm down, and violent mental power transformed into psychic energy surging into the giant axe in his hand. On the axe’s surface, scarlet electrical arcs suddenly burst out like a spiderweb.

The jumping electrical light climbed and coiled along the axe blade, ionizing the surrounding air with a burnt smell, forming a rotating electrical storm around it.

The Scarlet Thunder Prison was compressed into the giant axe, unleashing powerful destructive force within an inch.

Crack!

This blow shattered the scales on his skull and cleaved it down from the center!

“Ah—” Liu Chen’s eyes were wide with rage.

Until this moment, the woman who had been thrown away slowly got up, still not understanding what had happened. She just felt a sharp pain all over her body, and then heard a “whoosh”.

Turning her head to follow the sound, she saw the very familiar body, now split open from head to toe, with blood obscuring her vision.

Through the crack in the two halves of the body, she saw a person, wearing a mask, no hair, with black patterns covering the exposed skin of his face, converging at the top of his head to form a vertical pupil.

Her heart skipped a beat, as if she wanted to scream, but then her eyes rolled back and she fainted straight away.

“As expected of an inner-court seed…” Su Chen looked at the corpse on the ground, having taken the initiative with a surprise attack, it still took some effort.

He quickly scanned the surroundings, and psychic energy surged, penetrating into every crevice of the room, rolling Liu Chen’s belongings into his storage space. He did not find any thunder cores.

“This is his hovercar unlock card…” Su Chen held the black card, ready to check the car.

Before leaving, Su Chen looked at the woman lying on the ground. His heart stirred slightly, “As the only survivor, she will definitely be questioned.”

His spirit rippled, implanting a seed in her mind.

…

He went down to the hotel garage and, sure enough, found a specially cast metal box in the car.

After putting it into the storage space, he made a detour before returning to the Tribunal.

“Probably no problems,” Su Chen had been thinking the whole way back. Recently, there had been frequent deaths of Judges, and Liu Chen’s death among them was just a coincidence.

My conflict with him happened… uh, outsiders probably didn’t even know we had a conflict, and he was Tier 3, while I was only Tier 2.

Su Chen mused, “But he’s an inner court seed after all, which might stir up some trouble. To be safe, I’ll keep my Tier 3 advancement a secret for a while. I won’t retrieve the D-rank meditation method, and I won’t ask the Gu family to prepare Tier 3 auxiliary potions.”

He wasn’t sure why Liu Chen targeted him, whether it was his own initiative or instigated by someone else.

But it was truly disgusting to be constantly interfered with.

“I hope it was his own initiative,” Su Chen assessed tonight’s battle. “With the Wind Boots, in terms of speed alone, Liu Chen couldn’t even react. Although there was an element of surprise, he was no less than a Tier 3 professional.”

Speed was one of the more difficult aspects to improve. After some professions advanced, their strength might increase by more than ten times, but their speed might not increase much, or even decline.

“It was definitely the right decision to integrate the Wind Boots into my control of arcane tools.” Su Chen thought, he had completed the process of controlling the arcane tool before the attack.

The Wind Boots not only provided their own buffs, but also ability enhancements, which allowed him to achieve that level.

Then, he looked through tonight’s gains.

Mainly, it was the small metal box found in Liu Chen’s car. It was extremely heavy to carry, and when opened, electric arcs immediately shot out.

Inside, three irregular crystals of red, blue, and green were displayed. Su Chen could faintly feel the violent energy contained within.

“No wonder it was packed in such a heavy box…” Su Chen clicked his tongue.

If Liu Chen had carried it with him, and those three things had touched him in the room, he wouldn’t even know if he could have survived.

Su Chen reached out and picked one up, feeling his body extracting power from it, which then disappeared into an untraceable part of his body.

Just like last time he touched Arcane Energy Crystals.

Soon, this crystal completely disappeared, and the remaining two quickly met the same fate.

[Swift Wind Thunderbringer has evolved into – Azure Thunder Master]

“Azure Thunder Master, sounds good…” Su Chen repeated it a few times, only then realizing that one of the two job requirements, “infiltrate an area guarded by Tier 3 professionals,” had been completed.

“I almost forgot about that, Liu Chen was also Tier 3…”

Having coincidentally fulfilled the job requirement, Su Chen’s mood improved. The [Azure Thunder Master] could also be maxed out in a few days.

He put the box away, contemplating whether there were any oversights tonight.

Before dawn, Su Chen suddenly noticed the commotion outside growing louder.

He pushed the door open and saw that not far away, people were bustling, carrying torches, and the roads inside the Tribunal were filled with Judges. Several giant war vehicles had been rolled out, and there were shuttle-shaped flying machines in the sky.

Silent and deadly!

“This is…” Su Chen’s heart tightened. Just as he was about to ask someone, a familiar face jumped out of the team. It was Bu Siqi, his expression serious, and he pulled Su Chen into the room.

“Senior Brother, what happened?” Su Chen asked in a low voice.

“…An inner court seed died,” Bu Siqi said in a deep voice.

“What?” Su Chen was surprised. Half of his reaction was feigned, and the other half was not.

He hadn’t expected the Tribunal to react so quickly. Counting the time he returned, Liu Chen had only been dead for less than half a day, and they had mobilized so many people?

Moreover, this scale far exceeded his expectations.

“The one who died was Liu Chen, a crimson gold talent, the future pillar of the Liu family.” Bu Siqi sighed. “The Liu family has been working in the Tribunal for generations, and many of the middle and high-level Judges are from their family. This time, it’s like stirring up a hornet’s nest.”

Su Chen then completely understood the true value of what Gu Bing once called “generational cultivation” – relatives, friends, students, students’ friends, and so on… a tangled web of relationships.

In a blink of an eye, such a massive team was assembled.

Of course, he didn’t regret it; on the contrary, he thought he had made the right move; otherwise, it would have been difficult to deal with later.

“Did they find the killer?” Su Chen couldn’t help but ask.

“Not that fast,” Bu Siqi shook his head.

“If they didn’t find the killer, why such a big show?” Su Chen asked in surprise.

“It’s all because of the Supervision Department,” Bu Siqi said angrily. “For the death cases in the city, the Supervision Department arrived first, and after discovering it was Liu Chen, they sealed off the news and took the body away. We couldn’t get any access to anything. How could the Liu family give up?”

“And many Judges have been quite dissatisfied recently, so they seized the opportunity to make a fuss at the Supervision Department.”

Make a fuss at the Supervision Department… Su Chen finally realized, he thought the Liu family was truly that powerful, but it turned out to be a coincidence.

“It’s probably the revenge of the Heretic God Cultists and the remnants of the Pang family,” Bu Siqi said with a solemn expression. Although he wasn’t sure who exactly killed Liu Chen, the deaths of several Judges recently generally pointed to the destruction of the Pang family.

“The remnants haven’t been caught yet?” Su Chen was puzzled. Was the Supervision Department that useless?

“Not only are there Pang family remnants, but also opportunistic troublemakers and vagrant organizations… it’s hard to catch them all, mainly because of the Heretic God Cultists.” Bu Siqi frowned. “If they say it’s revenge, they’ve only killed a few scattered people. If they say it’s not revenge, they keep making moves. It’s truly strange.”

“Before today, those who died were Judges who participated in the destruction of the Pang family, but now Liu Chen is dead, which makes it even more confusing…”

They… couldn’t be looking for the lost divine blood, Su Chen thought of a guess after hearing what Bu Siqi said.

This kind of “slow killing” doesn’t seem like revenge; it’s more like looking for some clues.

Bu Siqi finally reminded, “Liu Chen is an inner court seed, and his whereabouts are difficult for outsiders to know. Perhaps there are some internal issues as well. Regardless, you should avoid going out recently.”

“I understand.” Su Chen nodded solemnly.

“By the way…” Bu Siqi, who had walked to the doorway, turned back again. “Can you handle that Chu Xuan?”

“According to the news from the Occupational Analysis Department, he has a high chance of advancing to a Tier 3 Top-tier professional. I can find someone to give him a warning.”

A warning… for some reason, Su Chen suddenly thought of Liu Chen.

This guy, he must have been a warning from someone else, right?

“No need…” Su Chen shook his head.

“Sigh, don’t mind appearances too much.” Bu Siqi thought he was embarrassed, and shook his head. “There’s more to the Tribunal than just fighting; there are also human relationships.”

After seeing off Bu Siqi, Su Chen frowned. The truth behind the Judges’ deaths, which involved friction between the Supervision Department and the Tribunal, he had never understood until today.

He wasn’t afraid of Heretic God Cultists coming after him; once his disguise was on, they were all “one of their own,” so it would be easy to talk.

However, other Heretic God Cultists wouldn’t be so easy to deal with.

Although he could disguise himself as a follower of the Heretic God Cult, he would first need to obtain the professional information of other Heretic God Cultists.

“Information about the professions of Heretic God Cultists is taboo, and it’s even more impossible to force it out of those mad cultists. It’s troublesome…”

Knowing this information somewhat dampened his good mood. He simply went to the Logistics Department, reported the loss of the mechanical puppet, and had to pay an additional 100,000 gold coins to get a new mechanical puppet body.

Su Chen had no money, so he had to put it on account. Fortunately, being a core seed still held some weight.

He took it back to the villa, pried open the back of the mechanical puppet’s head, and, guided by the manual, carefully embedded the psionic core into the central slot. A current surged through it.

“Master, thank you for providing Zero with a new body.”

Zero’s familiar voice came out of its mouth. Su Chen conversed with it, discovering that it still retained its previous memory data and his behavioral habits.

“Hmm, I wonder what’s going on over there…” After dealing with miscellaneous matters, Su Chen couldn’t help but think about Liu Chen’s death.

On the surface, there shouldn’t be any issues, but professions were bizarre and varied, and there might be some strange profession that could skip evidence and directly point to the culprit.

“Let’s try that seed…” Su Chen returned to his bedroom, closed his eyes, and tried to extend his mental power following that almost imperceptible connection.

“…Are you sure…”

A voice vaguely reached his ears, then gradually became clear. The scene before him changed, and he found himself in a white room, facing two serious-looking Supervisory Guards.

He wanted to look around but found that his vision was not under his control.

“Is this what the woman saw?” Su Chen realized, then heard a panicked female voice, “Everything I saw and heard, I’ve told you many times.”

“It was a Heretic God Cultist. Liu Chen shouted it before he died, and I saw it clearly. I’m also from the Engraving Department, don’t I know what a Heretic God Cultist looks like?”

“The weapon was an axe, an axe! I didn’t see what it looked like specifically, I only saw the head!”

“Why aren’t you going to catch the killer, instead interrogating me here? If you don’t believe me, find someone to read my memory!”

The woman’s emotions were clearly out of control, and her voice grew higher and higher.

(End of this chapter)