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Stealthily slipping through a dense crowd into the gallery, I used Eagle Vision to spot De la Serre. Heading backstage, Arno was ambushed by two familiar brothers. After fending off their blade attacks in a fierce duel, guards flooded the room, forcing Arno to leap through a window and run to safety.
Navigating toward the heavily guarded gallery entrance, I used the dense, bustling crowd to my advantage, blending seamlessly into the pack of citizens to slip past the guards without raising an alarm.
I successfully breached the interior, tasked with locating my target down in the lower gallery floor. Staying low to avoid drawing unwanted attention from patrolling guards, I made my way toward the lower level overlooking the crowded main hall.
Reaching the vantage point, I activated Eagle Vision to scan the sea of faces below, highlighting my target, François de la Serre, right in the center of the room.
Before I could plan my approach, I spotted a pair of hostile brothers, the very same duo who had chased Arno earlier, lurking near the backstage area.
I was tasked with getting backstage next, where I overheard De la Serre discussing official business with someone; it did sound like they were plotting something.
In a cinematic sequence, Arno was suddenly ambushed as one of the brothers lunged at him out of nowhere. Dodging his attack, Arno pushed the attacker, who got stuck in a wooden piece of furniture.
Before I could breathe a sigh of relief, the second brother drew his sword and charged. Serving as a tactical combat lesson, the encounter forced me to carefully time my parries before launching counter-strikes to drive him back against the wall.
Just as I cornered him, the first brother freed himself and joined the fray, forcing me to take on both aggressive swordsmen simultaneously.
Balancing my parries and strikes, I overpowered both attackers, leaving them reeling on the floor.
Suddenly, the heavy double doors burst open as armed guards flooded the backstage corridor. Arno understood it wouldn't be advisable to fight the royal guards here, so he escaped through a high glass window onto the exterior courtyard.
I had to escape the guards now and stay out of their sight, but there were guards all over the street, so I started climbing up a building to reach the high rooftops, where I broke the line of sight and became anonymous to complete the memory.
** To be continued **
"Be Good, Think Good and Do Good"
