Chapter 83: Severing Ties, Second Half

  Lucas looked at Gan Jing with a puzzled expression, secretly guessing what was going on today. In the past few days, he had hired someone to kill him but failed, and this kid had been very low-key and cautious. Why did he come so high-profile today? Did he know who had hired someone to kill him? Then he shouldn't have come! Was it just for the sake of surpassing Franlin's blacksmith shop? But Franlin shouldn't be a fool, Lucas' blacksmith shop had a second-rate blacksmith as its top craftsman, but the town's treasure was definitely not a second-rate weapon. Wouldn't coming here himself make him look bad?

  "Third..." Lucas hesitated for a moment, making sure that Jianjian wouldn't come up with any tricks before saying: "You just said that the weapons and equipment here are all subpar, so I'll give you an opportunity! Come prove it! At that time, I can give you an opportunity!"

  "Good! I've been waiting for you to say that!" Qianjin lifted the wooden box containing the kitchen knife and flipped it over, causing the knife to fall towards the ground. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the knife into his palm.

  A kitchen knife! The onlookers were all stunned. This kid came to the door and kicked up a fuss, and after all that, he brought out a kitchen knife? Is his brain damaged or something?

  The hall was filled with laughter, which burst out from the crowd in an instant. Many people even laughed to tears. People who had seen kicking a restaurant before, but never saw anyone kick a scene like this, with a kitchen knife?

  "This kitchen knife..." Lucas's eyes narrowed, not a hint of smile on his face. As an ironworker, he could tell that this kitchen knife was somewhat off.

  "I picked up a kitchen knife from Franlin's blacksmith shop today. Dryn laughed, looking at Lucas with a somewhat unsightly face: 'Smash all the weapons and equipment in your blacksmith shop to prove that this blacksmith shop always sells inferior goods and cheats people!'"

  The voice fell! People only saw a flash of dazzling light from the house, and the iron-forged kitchen knife collided with a second-level battle knife, scraping out two scattered sparks. After a metallic collision sound, the second-level battle knife was cut off.

  The laughter that had just filled the hall suddenly stopped, and everyone stared blankly at the half of the knife that had fallen to the ground.

  Did the kitchen knife win? Did the kitchen knife actually win against the combat knife? Those kitchen knives used by housewives to chop vegetables? Cut off the combat knife used to kill beasts?

  With a mighty swing of his knife, he stomped the ground with both feet, and with a powerful waist movement, his body swung forward together. He suddenly rushed to a weapon rack, and with a horizontal slash of his cleaver, he forcefully chopped down! Wherever the blade passed, there was the sound of metal clashing, leaving behind a row of swords cut off at the waist.

  A single kitchen knife! With just one strike, it broke ten swords!

  The onlookers' mouths were agape, wide enough to fit a fist. No one could have expected that this young man, who had appeared with such fanfare, would be wielding a kitchen knife and wreaking havoc on Lucas's blacksmith shop.

  The speed of the 9th-level warrior was fully unleashed, and it was not something that ordinary blacksmiths could stop. They didn't even have time to react and block with their weapon racks. The kitchen knife in his hand was like a sickle harvesting wheat, leaving only scrap metal wherever he went.

  In just a few short clashes, dozens of weapons in the room were cut down by kitchen knives, and Lucas's face had turned ashen, as if splashed with ink.

  Lucas glared at the wooden shield that had been split in two by a single slash of the iron-edged knife, his hands shaking uncontrollably. A kitchen knife! What kind of kitchen knife was this? This kid had actually spent a small fortune to have someone forge a kitchen-knife-shaped weapon just to come and cause trouble!

  In just over ten seconds, Lucas felt the onlookers at the door, some of whom had already begun to believe that the ironwork sold was indeed substandard, and couldn't even hold up a kitchen knife.

  "Halt!" Lucas bellowed: "Halt!"

  "Are you going to stop or not?" Qian Jing dodged a store employee's attack and cut through another shield with his knife: "You wanted me to prove it, didn't you? I'll show you. Unless you admit that these are all inferior goods."

  "Damn it!" Lucas shouted in exasperation: "You don't know where to get such a kitchen knife that looks like a vegetable knife, but is actually a top-notch weapon. You want to see our most expensive weapon? Fine! I'll show it to you now!"

  Lucas stomped his foot and headed upstairs, ignoring Qianjin's destruction. Since he couldn't stop him from destroying things, he might as well bring out the treasured weapons!

  Qianjin doesn't care about Lucas at all, today's move is just to collect some interest first and try to damage the reputation of Lucas' blacksmith shop. These weapons also require costs to be forged, and if they are all cut off, it will make him lose a lot of gold coins.

  Hmph...

  The wooden stairs creaked with a sudden flurry of footsteps, Lucas descended from the upper floor, holding a long and narrow wooden box in both hands.

  Cock-a-doodle-doo... Cock-a-doodle-doo...

  Lucas gazed at the hall where almost all the weapons had been cut down by Ganryu, his teeth clenched in anger.

  "Hello! You're ruthless!" Lucas's chest heaved violently: "Wait a moment, I'll break your kitchen knife, and I'll go to the Franlin blacksmith shop to cut off all of your weapons!"

  He smiled wryly, staring at Lucas, with a hint of revenge in his heart. Today, he would first destroy his business, making him more impulsive, and focus all his attention on assassination, so that he might withdraw the several bodyguards who had been following him day and night.

  These days, Qian Jin has been secretly observing Lucas in order to avenge himself and wants to cut him down to eliminate the threat that may come again at any time. However, he found that Lucas is very cautious. After one unsuccessful attempt, he did not immediately send someone to continue the assassination. Instead, he hired several bodyguards to stay by his side and hid in the blacksmith's shop without going out.

  Would you rush into a blacksmith's shop at night and kill someone? First of all, there wasn't even a suitable weapon available at the time. Even if you rushed in, it wouldn't be easy to kill him. Rich people always like to have some secret passages or hidden doors in their homes. A few bodyguards would only need to delay for a little while, and if they let him escape, it would be even harder to kill him afterwards.

  Bow and arrow? Gan Jing had also considered this method, being able to hit the target with full marks doesn't mean he can kill a person with one arrow. Moreover, good bows are hard to find, and wanting to make a good bow himself would take at least a month's time based on the data from Blake.

  After some thought, Qian Jing felt that the best way was to force Lukas! Use a kitchen knife to cut off all his weapons, destroy his blacksmith shop, and force him to spend money to find someone again. At that time, it would be when he was most defenseless.

  Yesterday I almost forgot the second update, but seeing friends in the book review area reminded me. After updating and before going to sleep, I couldn't sleep at all. My past self wasn't like this, for member clicks, I even split updates apart.

  Whatever, I've decided to go to that damn membership click, to that damn click data, from today on, every chapter will be directly transmitted in one breath.

  Tonight at midnight, I will release new chapters again, yeah! Not one chapter, but two consecutive updates.