Fantasy Assassin in a modern world

“Here I got all the non-lethal poisons I could find on such short notice. Even though these things won’t be able to kill a normal person normally, it just makes them feel numb or extremely uncomfortable the worse would make them puke and faint, they are especially ineffective against a martial artist like you. Still, a large amount could potentially kill even someone nearing the Grandmaster level. I don’t know what you were planning to use the various poisons for, but just in case I also gave you the antidotes for each one.”

Loki sighed as he shrugged his shoulders. “As thorough as usual.”

Loki understood that with the flow of mana and inner energy in his body most toxins would be ineffective against him, but after fighting with that alchemist Loki knew that there was something that could bypass that passive ability that any person with spiritual energy uses.

Loki remembered that battle against the Alchemist, he needed to actively push out whatever toxin the Alchemist was using. Due to him doing that, his mana supply, as well as his inner energy, were being drained constantly, not to mention his focus was split into multiple things making it hard to focus on the fight itself.

At this point, he had fought many people that liked using poisons, but the Alchemist used poisons that were nearly undetectable and could bypass a martial artist’s strong resistance to poisons. That means Loki couldn’t fully rely on spiritual energy to fight against the toxins used by the alchemist. This is why he decided to strengthen his base which was his physical body. He planned to momentarily stop the flow of his mana and inner energy and drink the poisonous bottles.

Loki closed his eyes as he took one of the poisons with the number one label. Loki only drank a few drops and after that, he waited for a bit. After some time had passed Loki could finally feel the effects of the poison.

.....

The poison had a similar effect to food poisoning. It wasn’t too strong and was something that the current Loki could endure. Before the effects of the poison could subside, Loki took another one this time it was a more potent poison.

The same as the first one Loki waited for the poison to take effect. Loki’s body was becoming a bit numb, and his breathing started to become a little unstable.

‘So this is the current limit of my body.’ Loki sighed as he started to circulate his mana to expel the poison in his body. It took him a few seconds before his body was cleansed of the poison.

‘So that’s it... I can increase my resistance a little bit more, but I’m already too old to start the poison immunity training that my clan created. I guess I need to create my own form of immunity training, for now, I guess I can experiment with my inner energy to help with the immunity training. Alright then, before I finish creating my personal training regimen I need to hide these poison bottles.’

...

After Loki was done with his morning training he sat down on the sofa and checked on some popular videos online. The most popular one at the moment was something regarding a famous internet celebrity talking about Fade. Loki was quite curious as to what someone like that had to say. The original video has already been taken down, but like everything on the internet it doesn’t stay down for long. He saw that the video has been taken down and re-uploaded multiple times now. Loki decided to take a look at the video before it was taken down again.

“Hey, guys, I have seen many of you in the comment section asking me about the recent urban legend in Leim City. That’s right, I’m talking about the mysterious assassin called Fade. I have seen that one clip of his many times now. That line of his, for as long as the reason is just and the price is right, I shall bring death to any and all evil. Even now it gives me the chills just remembering it.”

The man in the video made an exaggerated gesture as he hugged himself with a weird smile on his face.

“Still, unlike the first time he showed up, there are now many rumors about Fade. In many of those rumors he truly does uphold some sort of justice in his actions. Every single person who has supposedly been killed by Fade were very notorious people, from gangsters, to druglords that couldn’t be touched by normal citizens and even the police had difficulty dealing with them. Based on those rumors, that guy is really like some sort of antihero. I guess he needs some kind of excuse to do what he does.”

The man in the video then shook his head as he shrugged his shoulders. Seeing him act like this made Loki feel a bit weird. He knew that there were many of those so-called internet celebrities that act in this kind of exaggerated manner, but even then he still found it a little bit too much.

“Now many of you have asked me if I think Fade is helping or not. The answer to that question is a resounding yes. Even if this urban legend turns out to be nothing more than a fantasy, just looking at the numbers, in the past several months since the urban legend of Fade started crime in Leim City has dropped significantly. Not to mention just his name alone is supposedly making the criminals and would-be criminals hide in fear. Compared to the Police, this urban legend is making people feel safe. He might be labeled as a criminal by the police, a boogeyman by the criminals, and a murderer by the haters, but in my eyes, Fade is a hero.”

The video ended there and when Loki tried to look at the comment section it was not loading. Loki refreshed the page and the video was no longer there, it had already been taken down. Loki sighed as he shrugged his shoulders and went back to training.