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Chapter 907: Chapter 490, I Became an Investor in Assassin Court?

This assassination aimed at him, the mastermind behind it doesn’t even need thinking about, it definitely is Norberto.

But the mastermind behind the scenes is no longer important, what Gu Hang cares about is the executor of this assassination: the Assassin Court.

Indeed, they are just a tool, but this tool is very important.

Assassinations are their specialty.

Gu Hang kills these elite assassins like slaughtering chickens, and the direct combat capabilities of these elite assassins are just so-so. He can easily crush them with his hand freed.

But the problem is, when the assassin carries out the assassination, the most important thing is to create unfair, indirect actions.

Today, the most important actions of those assassins are all centered around blocking Gu Hang’s Spiritual Energy abilities. First, by utilizing the presence of the black stone bracelet for long-distance sniping; if that fails, then they turn to sealing the Spiritual Energy and using thermite.

These tactics are adopted against a powerful Psychic like Gu Hang; however, if they were dealing with powerful warriors, even top Interstellar Warriors, they would employ different methods.

Accurate intelligence, sufficient targeted methods, powerful technology, fearless elite modified assassins…these are the secrets to the success of the Assassin Court.

Their failure this time was also due to insufficient intelligence. But next time, with experience, they certainly won’t treat Gu Hang as just an Alpha-level target. They might instead use poisons, blow up spacecraft, or similar methods. Even if they detect and intervene in subspace failures, it’s very likely they will bring out some black technology, derived from aliens or from prehistoric archaeological findings, to temporarily block subspace and proceed with the next action.

In short, if the Assassin Court wants to kill someone, if they spare no expense, the success rate is very high.

Gu Hang managed to handle it once, but it’s impossible for him to handle it every time.

However, the Assassin Court, after all, is also a well-defined institution within the Empire; their actions are not without cost.

The leader of the Assassin Court, known as ‘Great Master,’ is also a candidate who could occupy a seat on the Supreme Council. Although not this term, throughout history, they often have been one of the High Lords.

Even, during a murky part of Imperial history, there was a time when the Great Mentor of the Assassin Court governed with terror, violence, and assassination, completely controlling the Supreme Council.

Although that period was brief, after various forces resisted, the Assassin Court was quickly crushed by direct forces like the Interstellar Warrior and the Star Realm Army, thus swiftly ending their reign. But this event still had a deep impact.

Since then, the Assassin Court cannot act independently.

In theory, for the Assassin Court to act, authorization is needed. Depending on the target, the level of authorization required varies.

This means that deploying the Assassin Court as a weapon is not easy.

Gu Hang can think of three possibilities for Norberto and the Iron Fury Stone interest group letting the Assassin Court act:

Either Norberto himself gave independent authorization, and the Assassin Court took action.

This scenario is the simplest, but the least likely.

Norberto should have a certain level of authority as one of the High Lords, especially now when the Assassin Court is relatively weak.

But the target cannot be Gu Hang.

Someone like Gu Hang, requiring a vote in the Supreme Council for appointment, is currently a focal point in the Imperial Political Arena. The decision-makers of the Assassin Court, with a bit of political sensitivity, would know not to act.

This possibility is rather low.

Second, there might be changes in the Supreme Council. Perhaps right after the last meeting ended, another meeting was convened, or there was a secret resolution, overturning the previous resolutions, with several High Lords signing authorization at once. Even if Ou Juren and Galaraldo did not sign, they might default to abandoning Gu Hang.

But Gu Hang quickly dismissed this possibility.

He had previously analyzed that against the ‘Iron Fury Stone’ interest group with Norberto, it’s a major trend of the Empire itself. Whether with or without Gu Hang, it doesn’t affect.

Without the Alliance, they would just substitute another knife to do the job.

Gu Hang’s existence, rather, benefits the propulsion of the larger plan; otherwise, the Supreme Council wouldn’t have granted special approvals for his unsuitable appointment as Marshal, passing with high votes.

A reversal of the basic situation in just a few days, abandoning Gu Hang? This isn’t realistic, it doesn’t make sense, it absolutely doesn’t match the situation of the Imperial Political Arena.

Thirdly, Norberto has his own forces within the Assassin Court, or collaborators. He skipped the usual processes, directly ordering the assassination through collaborators.

This, of course, breaks regulations, but…Gu Hang doesn’t believe that if someone dares act, they would leave very obvious traces, easy for others to catch.

What needs to be settled, would probably be already settled.

After carefully thinking through these possibilities, Gu Hang felt a slight relief.

As long as it’s not the second worst scenario, he shouldn’t continue being targeted by the Assassin Court. If it really were that case, Gu Hang would have to consider fleeing Holy Terra at light speed, or even directly fleeing into the Storm God Kingdom and finding a way back from the subspace to his old lair, then prepare to raise the flag in rebellion.

But the probability of that is extremely low.

The first scenario is also unlikely;text.