The Magic Empress (4)
Drake’s blade was covered in dragon scales.
Every time his body shook, his scales would rub against each other, making a rattling sound, releasing a powerful wave of energy.
It feels like seeing a living god.
A legendary dragon appeared and it seemed as if it was wielding a dragon.
‘I couldn’t read it… … !’
The assassin of the Black Shadow Swordsman, Dien, clenched his teeth.
The Black Shadow Swordsman is a guild of assassins living in the northern region.
He was one of the most skilled people in the organization, excluding the leader. He was confident in his stealth and concealment skills.
But the attack just now wasn’t even readable by him.
Despite having such a strong aura.
This meant that not only was the energy of the spell great, but it was also stealthy and fast.
‘There is something I cannot defeat.’
Dien checked Drake’s blades while looking for a retreat route.
If someone as skilled as me was capable of throwing a sword, I wouldn’t have had a chance of winning if I confronted them head-on.
At that moment, Drake’s blade, which had been shaking violently, flew violently into the air.
Dien was startled and quickly deployed his stealth technique.
<Black Shadow – Underwater>
A trick that melts into the air, as if pulling out a shadow and wrapping it around your body.
Fortunately, there were many corners to hide in because of the white smoke created by Barossa.
Barossa also tried to increase the concentration of the smoke by reading Dien’s thoughts.
“I can’t go.”
At that moment, Ray struck the ground hard with his frozen white hands.
Tsk tsk tsk!
As the ice spread rapidly, a thick layer of frost settled in the air.
The white smoke of Barossa also suddenly condensed.
Of course, Dien’s hiding skills were bound to be incomplete.
“You said you’d take my life before the wolf bares its fangs?”
Shelford didn’t miss that opportunity.
“But that doesn’t work, what should I do?”
“… … !”
In Dien’s wide-open eyes, Shelford appeared running towards him.
Shelford’s appearance was a little different than before.
In his right hand he held a broadsword, which he usually wields, and in his left hand he held a short dagger, about 60 centimeters long.
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Naturally, the movement had to be different.
Shhhhhh!
Aura-covered broadswords moved furiously, pursuing Dien relentlessly, daggers shooting out like arrows whenever they saw an opening.
A unique skill of the Gardner family that requires perfect mastery in order to be used, as it involves two different sword techniques.
<Wolf Fangs – Tear and Kick>
Chaechaechaechae!
Dien struggled to shake off Shelford, but the broadsword continued to cling to him, preventing his stealth ability from unfolding.
Then, the wolf’s teeth suddenly struck the side of Dien’s neck.
Phew!
Blood spurted out and covered Shelford’s face.
“Yeah, you should’ve hit me when you had the chance. Because of that, I ended up having to bring up a season I never wanted to bring up.”
Shelford’s eyes, dripping red blood, were filled with madness.
There was a lot of resentment and anger in the air.
He didn’t want to show anything that might remind people of Gardner in the first place.
But since it was all in vain, compensation was due.
“You… … are a rebel… …!”
“If you’re going to talk nonsense, why don’t you go to hell and do it?”
Dien mumbled something as if he wanted to say something,
Choaaaak-
Shelford swung his broadsword without hesitation and struck Dien in the neck, as if he had no intention of listening.
And then I ran again.
In the direction where the main body of Barossa is presumed to be.
Hit!
Red footprints were clearly imprinted on the white ice.
Wedge-
“Damn it! I’ve never heard of anything like this!”
Barossa tried to get out of this place somehow while increasing the fog’s toxicity to the max.
If his judgment was not mistaken, Shelford was no ordinary field inspector.
‘That’s clearly the Gardner family’s vision that was known to have been lost… …! How on earth are we supposed to deal with a ghost that disappeared along with the Gwangryongje!’
Ragnar’s previous patriarch, the Gwangryongje, disappeared along with Kyle’s rebellion.
And in the process, the loyal retainers of Emperor Gwangryong also disappeared.
People called them <Gwangryonghoe>.
Wolf Fangs is the absolute vision that the former Gardner family of the Gwangryonghoe used to display.
However, with the disappearance of the old head of the family, the Wolf Tooth has completely disappeared, and now the vision of the <Wolf Fang> has been replaced as the head of the family’s vision.
But wolf teeth appeared after several decades?
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And that too in the hands of a mere inspector of the Baek Gap-yong Unit?
It meant that Marong did not know that fact and was deliberately hiding it from the public eye.
It has only one meaning.
-Baek Gap-yong’s claws had been hidden all this time.
And it was clear that such claws were readily revealed here.
– Since I saw the vision, of course I will kill you.
This was precisely the reason why Barossa chose to flee.
Because he didn’t want to die here.
On the one hand, I also had the thought that if I could tell Troyban that the legacy of the Gwangryonghoe remained in the Baek Gap Yonggi-dae, it might be possible for the Ilgeomhoe to survive.
The problem was that Shelford’s madness began to manifest itself much faster than expected.
Phaaaah!
The point was that Ray’s ‘Freezing’ breathing technique, which he had been using for a while, was also gradually becoming stronger.
The ability to use fog wasn’t of much help in this case.
“I wouldn’t recommend running away.”
bang!
Shelford’s broadsword was already reaching the nape of Barossa’s neck.
Barossa was barely able to block the attack by pulling out a uniquely shaped sword with a narrow blade.
“Ugh… … !”
“Four footprints down there, all imprinted.”
“What the fuck!”
Barossa stepped back, barely able to push Salford away.
<Smoke Strike – Foggy Night>
Wow!
Although existence was scattered into smoke,
“Are you an idiot? Even if you leave footprints, you’re still like that.”
Shelford turned to the side, laughing coldly.
Even if everything is scattered in smoke, there will always be a central location.
Barossa’s footprints were imprinted, however shallow, on the ice.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The pursuit of Shelford began.
Barossa tried to escape somehow, but was caught by Shelford every time.
“Hey, do this properly. Are you going to do it with blood stains left behind?”
“Jeeeeeeenjaaaaang!”
As the wounds continued to appear, it eventually reached a point where it didn’t make much of a difference whether I used my ability to heal myself or not.
No, it would have been better to not do it at all.
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If I didn’t use my abilities, at least my magic wouldn’t have depleted so quickly.
“One sword fight!”
In the end, Barossa used his last resort with bloodshot eyes.
“Everyone! Protect me somehow!”
There was no answer.
But the Ilgumhoe’s inspectors showed their actions.
They all ran towards Shelford, foaming at the mouth, their eyes rolled back, the whites of their eyes showing.
“Khuuuuuu!”
“Kwang!”
It seemed like they had already lost all sense of reason.
<Smoke Strike – Hallucination Party>
Barossa had been regularly administering hallucinogenic drugs to his subordinates.
By mixing the narcotic ingredient into the white fog, he paralyzed the reasoning of his subordinates and transformed them into brainwashed berserkers who would only follow his words.
“These crazy bastards!”
While Shelford and Ray joined forces to force back the Ilgumhoe’s inspectors, Barossa burst into laughter and ran towards the entrance.
“Hahahaha! That’s right! You guys figure it out amongst yourselves! I’ll just go ahead and… …!”
Barossa’s laughter was suddenly cut short when a hand suddenly shot out from the entrance and grabbed her face.
“What on earth are you doing here, Barossa?”
“Ugh, ugh! Ugh, ugh!”
Between his fingers, Barossa’s pupils grew wide.
A desperate look in her eyes telling her to let go.
But the owner of the hand seemed to have no such intention, and applied even more force to the grip.
“This would make them worse than the Rose Family you were laughing at just a moment ago. At least they’ve kept their pride.”
“Eeeeeep!”
“I will only remember the ugly appearance I have now and forget it.”
That was the end of it.
Phew!
Barossa’s head was shattered, and flesh fell down.
“scale!”
Shelford looked at the man who had killed Barossa and his face hardened.
In his left hand, a limp hand was lying, covered in Arin’s blood.
Kant Thomas.
The leader of the Wandering Knights’ Union slowly opened his mouth.
“I will give your friends back.”
Kant threw Arin towards Shelford without a care.
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Shelford quickly received Arin and checked her vitality, while Ray stepped forward to block the enemies instead.
“You don’t have to worry too much. He just fainted due to severe magic drain, so his life is not in danger.”
Shelford looked up again, convinced that Kant was right.
“What do you want?”
The opponent was an ‘enemy’ who had betrayed Ragnar and was now even wielding the sword himself.
It meant that there was a purpose to keeping it alive like this.
“You said Cassandra? Just hand over the child, and I will quietly step aside without doing anything else.”
“what?”
“I understand. You probably don’t believe me when I say I’m just going to leave. However, we also find it burdensome to continue the war like this. That’s why I’m suggesting that we negotiate at a level where both sides can make concessions.”
In the first place, Kant turned his back on Ragnar only because of his relationship with Ed.
I had no intention of continuing to fight in this war that was of little help to the Wandering Knights’ Union.
And that determination became stronger as he crossed swords with Arin.
‘Ragnar, Troyvan… … they all don’t know. This war is not just a war between two great families. There is something bigger behind it.’
Arin and Shelford.
Now that we know that the seeds of the old rebels who should have disappeared along with the Gwangryonghoe still remain in the Baek Gap Yonggi Corps, remaining here any longer is nothing but suicide.
Thanks to his long wandering around the world, Kant was quite knowledgeable about the unknown facts of world history.
Based on this, I was able to vaguely approach the ‘truth’.
So, after this mission was over, I planned to leave the North completely with my followers.
Of course, to do that, Cassandra needed new recruits.
Shelford tried to tell him not to talk nonsense.
Then, realizing that Kant’s gaze was not on him but behind him, he turned his head away.
Thud, thud-
Clap clap clap!
Theo stood in front of Drake’s still-weeping blade as he crossed the broken ice.
‘It’s different again!’
Shelford could no longer read Theo’s temperament.
A complete mess.
It was as stealthy as Drake’s blade, yet it seemed to contain a tremendous amount of power beyond that.
“… … .”
Ray also held his breath and just stared at Theo.
“Theo Ragnar, I have always wanted to meet you. It is a pleasure to meet you. As expected, you are much more amazing than I have heard.”
Kant’s serious gaze was fixed firmly on Theo.
He was as surprised as, if not more surprised than, Shelford.
The sight of someone reaching the ‘edge of the common man’ was seen in such a young child!
He deliberately placed his hand on the hilt of the sword to hide the fact that his hands were shaking slightly.
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“I think this is a good situation to end without having to go to war. What do you think?”
Instead of answering, Theo pulled out Drake’s blade and took the flag.
The slender figure that did not match the large sword no longer looked small.
“Kant Thomas, the ‘Kingslayer.’ He was a great murderer who killed the monarch he had served for over 30 years and burned down the palace where hundreds of people lived.”
Kant’s face hardened.
The past incident that had earned him a dishonorable nickname was a dark history he never wanted to remember.
“Everyone who last saw you at that time testified that you were smiling.”
“… … It’s just groundless slander.”
“Well, that could be true. Actually, I’m not really interested in that kind of thing either.”
One corner of Theo’s mouth curled up.
“The only thing I’m curious about is that you’re strong. You were already at the level of a high-level swordsman when you entrusted yourself to your family, right? I heard that you’re a diligent person who doesn’t slack off on your training. So your skills must have improved since then. I want to see your skills. Come at me.”
“… … It’s an attitude that isn’t even worth responding to. But it is truly Ragnar’s arrogance.”
Crunch!
Srrrrung-
“But don’t you know that when that arrogance is broken, it’s already too late?”
Phaaaat!
As Kant kicked the ground hard, pieces of broken ice flew into the air.
In the mirror-like reflection of the piece,
Kant was laughing.
Like a demon.
It was exactly the same as what had been seen on the day the palace was burning.
How the bastard of the Return Sword Family lives
