The Golem Mage

Chapter 824: Merit System.

It had been days since the three assassins were dispatched to the Gordons Clan to eliminate Alec, but with no word or sign of their success, the City Lord was beginning to regret his impulsive decision, the silence gnawed at him as a bitter reminder that he might have once again acted too hastily.

He still fumed at how Alec had exchanged sharp words with him in front of so many people, tarnishing his credibility, and the only way he knew to deal with such a problem was to erase it.

Alec was quickly becoming another Gordons weed, stubborn, persistent, and dangerously difficult to uproot.

On the night of the planned assassination, he had seen the massive array deployed over the Gordons estate, he’d almost allowed himself to relax, convinced that the assassins must have succeeded in their mission.

In his mind, there was no other reason for the Gordons to raise such a formation unless it was to contain either someone or something, and he believed it was to keep the assassins from escaping after taking Alec’s life.

Not that it mattered much if they were caught, he’d been extremely careful, never meeting with them directly, always sending intermediaries to meet the mage agents from the dark guilds, even if one of them broke under pressure and described the mage who issued the contract, it would send the Gordons chasing shadows, with no trail leading back to him.