Chapter 252 – Priestly Relations

000

While Cleon and Merca break into the thieves’ lair and rescue the boy.

Perdia was crouching on top of the tallest building around the hideout, looking down.

As her assassin, she could feel the unique aura of her assassin.

The killing spree that flew like a dagger and stuck in it, and the unconcealed resentment mixed in between.

When the assassins who drive death in the wind and shadows appear, they are not accompanied by sound.

“Someone preoccupied my position, so I came to see… Was it a business partner?”

That’s why, even if Ferdia didn’t explain how heretical she was, she would have fully understood.

However, considering that she had no sign of her until she came behind her, she could never ignore her skills.

When Ferdia turned her body to look there, she could see a woman wrapped around her body in a black hooded cloak, with her mask her slightly cracked.

“You are Evelynn.”

When Perdia said that, Evelyn shrugged her shoulders and put her hand on her waist on her.

“By the way? Who are you, little girl? Kill me. Do you have a grudge against me?”

“My name is Perdia… As you said, I’m a partner and a sword hidden in Cleon-sama’s shadow.”

As she said that, grabbing her dagger in her hand, Evelynn held her by the throat and turned her head around.

“That guy’s… Huh.”

Evelyn, who showed her pretentious interest, after her self-introduction of her in Perdia, she raised her life force at once and tried to crush Perdia.

However, Perdia is not inferior to him either, and if she puts her life force into her magic power her and spreads it around her.

Something invisible between the two makes a ‘Pang!’

The wind blew, and I could see the fluttering leaves getting in between them and tearing them to shreds.

Highly condensed mana possesses physical power, and most of the murderous things emitted by assassins can actually leave a scar on people in this way.

“So? Can I assume you were waiting there to interrupt me?”

“Interference? It’s different.”

The moment after Ferdia finished speaking, her appearance her shook.

It was from behind Evelyn that her blurred figure reappeared.

“I have come to kill you, who is trying to harm Cleon.”

`It’s a movement that left afterimages…`

Evelyn was a little awestruck by the skills of the young assassin, who seemed to be a little over 10 years old.

Her dagger thrusting at her own side her had no intention of being stabbed, so she twisted her body and dodged her attack by a single piece of paper.

Then she grabbed her backside of her perdia and slammed it hard into the ground she was standing on.

“Cheuk!”

In an instant, Ferdia’s painful breath burst out of her compressed lungs as she missed an opportunity to attack and counterattacked at the same time.

“He has talent, but he’s simple, and he lacks experience. At that age, his skills are definitely amazing, but…”

Saying so, Evelyn objectively evaluated her skills in Perdia, and then she drew out her own dagger and tried to cut down on the back of her hand her.

But the next moment, out of her own sight, she feels the presence of something sharp rushing towards her, and in an instant she lifts her body and uses her dagger to cut it off.

“…Hair?”

It was a sharp spear blade that drew a trajectory freely while being caught in the black hair.

“Chit.”

When Ferdia confirmed that her attack her was blocked, she rolled over and opened the gap between her and her body her, as if even feeling her pain her was an act of hers.

“Aha… Indeed, that’s it.”

Evelyn erased the smile from her face when she realized that her first attack her, which was aimed at her, was intended to catch her off guard.

The difference in age means that it is easy for the other person to look down on you.

An attack that blatantly reveals a mistake or lack of experience that could have been made because of that skill.

As Perdia had predicted, Evelynn easily parried the attack and approached to finish her off.

What Ferdia was aiming for was that situation.

At the moment when the opponent was sure of victory, she used the death weapon, `Youngmu foot magic`, and aimed at Evelyn’s back her.

However, seeing that the opponent is also a seasoned assassin, feeling the soundless approaching spear edge only through instinct and intuition, and swinging his dagger to knock it out.

As she said, it seemed that there was an inextricable difference in experience between Evelyn and Ferdia.

“That skill – ‘the weapon of the god of death’. Then, you are the current ‘shadow’…”

But Evelyn seemed more concerned about something else than that.

Right away, she saw Per Dia’s freely moving hair and her technique her, and immediately recognized what kind of existence she was.

Perdia, without saying a word, poured a little more of her mana into it, and built her defensive stance with her fluttering hair and the blade at its tip her.

“I don’t think the old man died of a lifetime…Was he ‘responsible’? Or was he beaten and killed by someone unsightly?”

Watching Evelyn speak as if provoking her, Per Dia powers her dagger in her fist her.

She must not lose her temper, and must not yield to her anger.

What the assassin kills is not just the object of elimination, but also her own feelings of her.

“The Veil’s Tooth is also out of business. If a child like you is a shadow, there won’t be any more people asking for it.”

“How long are you going to keep talking like that? You must have a time limit.”

When Perdia answered like that, inside Evelyn’s mask her, the corner of her mouth she seemed to rise.

“A time limit? Oh, by any chance, do you think I’m bound by you and can’t get in there?”

As if she was talking nonsense, Perdia looked at her with a cold gaze.

“Umm~ I’m sorry if that’s the case. This time I’m serious too. I’ve already, finished it.”

“…What-“

Perdia’s eyes widened in an instant at the answer she did n’t know what her intention her was.

Suddenly, her presence is felt behind her back.

“Beating the back isn’t your specialty, young lady.”

Evelyn muttered that and snapped her fingers—

Dismissed! I hear her roar, and she wears her assassin’s coat of arms.

From the nape of her neck her, something sharp came out of her and pierced Perdia’s neck her.

“Cuck!”

“Your tent teeth-and shadows. Only one weapon can be manifested and used in a generation. There is a limit to acquiring abilities that transcend humans. If that inspiration is a ‘submarine spirit’ that can unite with the shadows or hide within them .Hwiche`. And, the spiritual art of manipulating your hair.”

Her blood surged in her, and Perdia felt the pain in her throat and her body her gradually loosening up.

“But… Us. The ‘Hydra’s blade’ is different. From the first to me, each of us passes on the tools of assassination that we have handled to our descendents. .Because I am the eighth… I have a total of eight tools.”

When she smiles and raises her hand. A while ago, on her hand that had grabbed the back of her perdia, there was a glove with a red jewel like a beast’s eye embedded in it.

“This guy can leave an imprint where he touches it… It has the power to create a magical blade from there. Ah, that’s what’s embedded in your neck.”

The match has already been won. Evelyn thought.

The blade that pierced Ferdia’s neck, although small in size, penetrated her neck her perfectly.

You won’t be able to stop bleeding.

Being alive is probably thanks to the vitality and resistance to death that have been strengthened through contracts with the shadows.

“He’s It’s a monster. No matter how you think about it.”

Evelynn calmly let out her sarcastic words and drew another weapon to finish Per Dia.

Likewise, it was a red hatchet with the eyes of a red beast, from the handle to the blade, emitting mana that was hideous to the eye.

“Eric’s blood ax. Isn’t it a nice red color? It’s the second blade, but it has the property of being drawn toward it when you smell blood. Actually, it’s a little bad as an assassination tool. The plainclothes sword is being restored, so I’ll have to use this one.”

I don’t think approaching and killing him is such a good idea.

Saying so, while taking her time, she threw the hatchet she was holding at Perdia.

Ferdia drew her somehow lingering consciousness and tried to block the ax with the blade of her hair.

By the way-

“Oh, I forgot to tell you. The ax gets bigger as the blood gets closer.”

The weapon, which had been the size of a hatchet, had suddenly grown to the size of a massive lumbering ax that a stout adult man would have to hold with both hands.

Perdia tries to block it by layering her spear blade and hair on several layers.

However-

Soon, the blade of her spear her broke—and her hair her was cut off.

At her head her, her ax her comes charging.

Kwajik, with a sound.

A pool of her blood spurted out.

001

Elderly – father – teacher – ancestors -.

He who took care of her Perdia, taught her everything about her, took care of her, gave her, and prepared her.

No matter how you think about it, he was too talented to live in seclusion in Elesia.

One day, when I asked him this, he replied.

“There is a reason in this city that she must bury herself in blood and bone.”

Called.

Not long after Elessia was created, a series of murders occurred in the small city.

A serial murder committed by someone drunk with blood.

It was a matter of disturbing the peace of the people shortly after the end of the war with the Empire.

However, in that the traces of the crime were very clean, and that there was not even a trace of physical struggle left on the victim’s body, with only a single wound left.

I could see that it was not just a lunatic criminal who was doing this, but a person with the skill of murder.

It was a group of warriors who couldn’t stay in Elesia for a long time due to the fight against the remnants of the empire that had not yet been completely subdued, but Lesia somehow tried to find the culprit.

At the time, Ferdia’s teacher was in his mid-thirties, and since the shadow of his ancestors was still alive, he was helping him prepare to open a clinic.

His ancestors were also highly skilled as doctors, and it is said that he was in charge of performing autopsies on consecutive murder cases.

But one day, while the predecessor was away, another corpse was brought in, and after an autopsy on it, he was able to find out who killed the corpse.

That wound was made with a technique he was familiar with.

Ferdia’s master fought a desperate struggle with his ancestors.

Even if he used all the skills he had, inherited from his mentor his, and developed himself, it was not enough.

So, he threw it all away. When he confronted him, prepared to give up his own life, he was barely able to end his own life.

His predecessor took countless lives during the war, and because of that, he became a demon drunk with blood.

The number of Elesia residents killed by the previous generation was a little over 20.

The fact that the teeth of the veil that had to bury the wicked killed civilians was too heavy a burden for Perdia’s teacher.

When I went and told the city’s leader, Lesia, she replied.

“Then, please use your power to make this city a better place. A place where the residents can live safely.”

Therefore, he swore not to leave Elesia until his death.

He gathers and takes care of orphans, hunts the wicked in the dark, and saves people as a doctor.

But someday- he himself will be like his ancestors.

He may become a demon drunk with death and blood.

He said that any assassin who is close to death has that possibility.

When that time comes, please ask him to cut his own throat.

Master had talked about Perdia.

Later, it was fortunate that the promise did not materialize.

However, Perdia kept it in her memory of her.

In order to protect someone, there are times when you have to be prepared to give up everything and fight.

002

“Huh…? Huh.”

Evelynn, seeing the ax fly away and her blood her gushing out, turned her body her.

However, I turned my head slightly at the sound coming from behind.

She opened her eyes wide in surprise and had no choice but to turn her body around to face Perdia.

There, still with a neck wound.

By piercing the back of her own hand her with her hair and causing it to bleed.

Perdia, who sacrificed her hand her in place of her neck her, stumbled and got up from her seat her.

“What a monster. How are you still alive?”

When Evelynn kicks her tongue, Perdia takes first place. Move one of her free hands her and a few strands of her hair her.

The imprinted blade pierced her own body and pulled at her protruding coat her.

“Ugh… Keuh… Aaaaa!!!”

She let out a screaming voice, and a blade was pulled from her throat.

However, the amount of blood flowing from her hands and from her neck was enough to take her life from her.

Standing up, the very fact that she could move showed that she had already surpassed human limits.

“… So? What are you going to do? You’ve got your hair cut, your hand shattered, and you’ve got a hole in your neck…”

The next moment, Perdia pulled out a syringe containing her medicine.

Is the pink liquid a recovery medicine or something else?

“…No way, do you intend to heal that wound?”

Evelynn, sensing that something was wrong with her, quickly threw her dagger.

Ferdia manages to dodge the dagger while staggering her body her, then stabs herself in the thigh with her syringe.

In an instant, the pink drug seeped into her body.

“Cheet…”

Evelyn ran quickly and tried to finish her off before her medicinal effect manifested.

However-

“Cool…”

The next moment, a lump of dark red blood poured out of Perdia’s mouth her.

Her body her bent forward.

“Ha- what? Recovery versus failure?”

Evelyn saw the scene and stopped there, raising the corners of her mouth her.

Rurrrr The amount of blood flowing out was more than before.

‘…Died.’

Then, the sound of breathing stopped.

In front of my eyes, the promising assassin attacked me ignorant of the subject and was slain.

“…Gee, it looks like the inside is almost done.”

If she was more procrastinating, she might miss Cleon.

Thinking so, Evelyn retrieved her Eric and was about to leave.

Eric, who had been soaked in Perdia’s blood and became huge, gradually began to shrink in size.

It was not an order she gave herself. That meant, in other words, that the blood around him had disappeared.

“…?”

Could such a thing be? It is said that he became a corpse and his pulse stopped, but blood should continue to flow from the punctured hole.

With that thought in mind, he took out his dagger and was about to approach Ferdia’s corpse.

Bang! A sound rang out.

Perdia’s body her, which was lying on the ground, sprang up in an instant as if she had a spring attached to it, and charged Evelyn.

Her fists her pierced Evelynn’s mask as hard as she could.

It was surprising that what I thought was dead moved, but this speed was faster and stronger than the movement that left an afterimage earlier.

`What!?`

Embarrassment covered Evelyn’s head before pain.

The mask shattered with a crackling sound.

Evelyn moved her hand her, thinking that if she somehow touched her body her with her hand her, she could pierce the area once again.

The next moment, a gale blows Evelynn’s body away, causing her to roll ugly across the roof.

“Keuugh…! Magic!?”

The thing just now was magic, not technology.

However, there was no sign of her using wind-type magic from her to her earlier.

Feeling that way, she glanced down at the falling fragments of the mask.

How the girl in front of you has changed.

Only then did she come into her eyes.

First, her hair her, which had been cut off and was her pride her, grew back before I knew it, and it was long enough to reach down to her ankles her.

However, her spear blades are all broken, and her hair her with good spear blades has been cut off, so it won’t have the same penetrating power as before-

I thought for a moment, but when I checked my magic time, invisible air blades made of wind were moving along the tips of her hair.

And – the wounds you inflicted.

Neck and hands. Both sides were restored as if they had been pierced and cut off.

Instead, in that area, I could see that something like pink scales had grown sparsely.

“Kaheuk…! Ahh…! Arrrr!!!”

And the painful voice and roar coming from her mouth her.

The girl’s voice was mixed with the voice of a huge beast in an instant.

`This magical power- This sense… I’ve felt it somewhere During the war-`

When Evelynn’s assassination squad was working for the emperor of the empire.

A wind dragon with pink scales that I saw there while going in and out of the islands.

Storm of Annihilation. `Ruthios`

The shimmering magical power exerted physical force and overlapped her body as an aura.

“You- no way, that drug…”

Dragon Blood – Dragon Blood.

Originally, it is said that the human body does not react to normal dragon blood.

In order for a human to obtain the power of a dragon, he must kill a dragon and be implanted with the dragon heart itself-

It must be administered by mixing ‘True Elixir’, an all-purpose potion that combines everything, and hemolysis.

Comparing the two methods, it would be the latter that is relatively possible.

However, the odds of that happening were extremely low.

There were less than 10 people in the world who possessed the True Elixir.

They are all people who don’t need hemolysis.

In addition, even if the dragon’s power is obtained through that method, if the dragon that provided the blood does not acknowledge its existence, the body rejects the magic and necrosis.

Evelyn wouldn’t know.

Luti Sions had the ultimate recovery potion, ‘True Elixir’, which Lesia had saved and did not use until the final battle.

The fact that after she gave her blood for Perdia, she gave permission for its use of her.

That restorative power was not the power of the dragon, but the power of the True Elixir.

“…Wow!?”

Although Evelyn was exploring various possibilities in her head.

The next moment, Perdia’s sword her saw her hair and invisible blades rushing rapidly toward him, and she quickly slammed her floor with her gloved hand.

Then, the sword generated from the imprint rose up and succeeded in blocking some of the dozens or hundreds of strands of hair.

But even so, there were too many death hands pursuing her.

“Oops, there’s no… You!”

Although Ferdia was desperately controlling the dragon’s magical power, her heart was probably swelling up as if it would burst at any moment.

This is because an ordinary human body cannot fully withstand the dragon’s power.

It is the power of the ‘True Elixir’ that restores and maintains it as if it were forced to turn back time.

Over time, her powers her will fade from her as the power of her dragon blood her slowly weakens.

Probably- 1 minute at most.

If you hold out for one minute of her, you can subdue her.

However-

“Wind Needle!”

As Per Dia’s mouth opens, her shadowless spear’s tier 3 spell is cast.

Evelynn knew what the spell was, so she immediately wrapped herself in her cloak of her, defending it with a barrier etched into her cloak of her.

More than a thousand sharp wind thorns attacked her body from all directions.

However, her physical and magical attacks her from both sides easily broke Evelynn’s defenses of her.

“Sss… Aaaaa!!”

Evelynn screamed and was exposed to Perdia’s attack.

As if her whole body was being torn to shreds, she battered and ovulated her body.

Her blood spurted out, and a red aura mixed with the transparent wind.

Like that, Perdia was attacking Evelynn for over ten seconds, but-

Soon, with a sudden onset of vertigo, she stumbled and lost her balance.

“Kuh…”

Evelyn’s body her had reached its limits in a shorter time than the one minute she expected.

“..Haha…”

And Evelyn laughed.

Although the barrier of her cloak was broken.

Thanks to her armor, her worn inside her, her fatal wounds were avoided.

“It’s a big deal, it almost happened, kid… But I’m still more-“

“There.”

Next moment. She felt her sharp blade reach her from behind her shoulder her, over her shoulder her, and rest on her shoulder her.

Familiar voice.

Evelyn catches her breath when she sees that the blade is single-edged.

“It’s been a while, damn Master.”

“Rubera… Whoa… Why are you here?”

“I also took lessons as an assassin. If you guys are fighting so loudly… Of course I can feel it too.”

She sighed, took a deep breath, watched Ferdia writhe in agony, then closed and opened her eyes.

“Even if it’s a rotten fate, you’re the teacher. Tell me where you want to cut.”

“What is the option not to cut?”

“…No. I thought you would target Cleon.”

As his name her came out of the pupil’s mouth, she twitched her eyebrows.

“… Yes. You are also on his side of her.”

“-Then?”

“Then. You are my target too.”

In the next moment, Evelyn’s body her fell forward.

But instead of the floor- there was a black dimensional door that appeared out of nowhere.

“Eveline. Don’t act your way.”

“Sorry~ Remilia.”

Beyond, a woman with white hair could be seen.

“Kuh…!”

She was Ruba who briefly thought about jumping beyond it, but even if she went on like this, she wouldn’t be able to deal with it alone.

“Then, Rubera! The next time I see you, it’s definitely the enemy!”

“…I have never been an ally with you.”

Hearing the teacher’s disappearing voice, Ruba returned Barisada to the scabbard.

Then, she carried the fallen Ferdia on her back and quickly left the spot.