Chapter 156 – Assassination Family Raven 2 (15)

As I threw the shadow lance, many people from the northeastern slums came strolling by.

Since it was thrown near a gambling place, it was worthy of curiosity.

I threw a dagger made of shadow at someone who came close.

I thought about aiming for the neck, but I ended up aiming for the thigh.

“Aaaaah!”

“What! There was nothing?!”

“Look. He just doesn’t have anything on his thighs… But why is he bleeding?”

People in the slums began to murmur.

I slowly walked towards the hole I made, and as we talked about various things behind us, one person found the answer.

“An assassin who cuts down without leaving behind any weapons! Cyan Raven!”

“Raven?! Are you here to kill Bergen?”

Instead of answering that I had come to catch the devil, I fell into the hole.

There was quite a difference between the depth of the ground and the underground.

I think it was about 5 m, but I felt a little pain in my leg when I landed.

I used presence detection to find the ones that were supposed to be nearby, but they were running deeper and deeper.

Is this a natural reaction since you must have heard the sound it made when you threw the Shadow Lance on the ground?

I started following them so as not to miss them and to be guided to where I wanted to go.

Although it was a dark place, my eyes could clearly read the surrounding terrain and I knew that this place was better made than I thought.

The tunnel was not roughly dug, but the walls and ground were neatly finished, and there were torch hangers here and there on the wall, so it seemed like it was made before the use of manganese.

‘Maybe the reason all the streetlights in the slum were empty was to brighten this place.’

After walking a little further, I realized that my idea was correct.

The glowing magic stones scattered around the torch rack are there to hide, and there must be a being there that can be said to be the reason this place was created.

As I ran a little faster, I heard a scream.

“Queuoak!”

“Burgun…!”

“Shipal! It wasn’t a secret passage, it was a road to the underworld!”

It seemed like Bergen had betrayed the guys who followed him.

It didn’t seem like you had the strength to deal with many people on your own?

As I ran a little further towards the center, I could smell the smell of death.

Three corpses with their throats cut, two with their hearts pierced.

‘It wasn’t done by an ordinary person.’

The Bergen I saw did not have this kind of skill or power.

Is he just an irredeemable bully who can use a certain amount of power in the back alleys?

So, even though numerous incidents were committed, Princess Rosette said that they lacked validity.

Only the presence of two people remains ahead of this road.

It’s probably the devil and the bergen, which seem to be feminine.

We walked a little further and arrived at a large cave.

The cavity was shining brightly everywhere, probably because it was the first to invest the streetlight magic stone here.

However, there was just light, but I didn’t think it was bright.

A place where the walls and floor were stained a blood-red color, and a bright red cocoon in the center caught my eye.

“He wasn’t a wizard or a monk who used fire. I would have thought he was from the Raven family.”

A woman with long red hair said, holding in her hand a small cup that appeared to be a sacred object kept in the goddess’ temple.

She was wearing a revealing red dress that exposed her pure white skin, and the hem of the dress seemed to be one with the red floor.

Did he make the space itself his own? As I slowly approached the two people, I felt the contaminated mana.

“Are you really the devil?”

“Why? Are you planning to assassinate me?”

“I think so.”

He immediately made a shadow dagger and threw it at the woman.

Pagak

The red floor rose up and blocked the dagger.

“Bergun. It’s time to break up. I can’t overcome that with the person I am now.”

“Yes. I’ll see you in the next life.”

When I left the blind spot to throw the dagger again, the sight that caught my eye was Bergen swinging a small hammer at a woman who was holding a glass on her stomach.

Clink.

With that sound, a holy relic in the shape of a small cup was destroyed.

Pagagagak

And the small hammer-shaped relic that Bergen was holding was also destroyed.

As both sacred objects were destroyed at the same time, sacred power from different sources, which had no place to contain itself, gathered near the cocoon and was compressed in an instant.

As soon as I thought I was going to explode, I immediately turned my back and fell down on the unpleasant floor.

Fuuuuu!

Just before the explosion occurred behind his back, his entire body was wrapped in shadow craft and shadow armor.

It prevented me from getting hurt directly, but the force of the explosion was enough to send me flying into the wall.

Kwaaang.

After one explosion passed, I fell to the floor.

The mana I recovered as much as I could on the way here has decreased considerably.

I wished I had thrown the Shadow Lance before doing something like that, but the moment the two holy relics arrived here, I realized I was too late.

Even if the two relics were destroyed by throwing the Shadow Lance, a similar phenomenon would have occurred.

The two people and the sacred object had disappeared.

And what remains is a cocoon that is starting to crack.

The contaminated mana that comes out when the cocoon splits… No, Magi was very upset.

“Well, this is fine.”

Walking out of the split cocoon was the red-haired woman we saw earlier.

What has changed is that the body has shrunk a bit? Her clothes were bare, and the red color that filled her floor and walls was sucked in as she walked.

With every step she took towards me, she wore red clothes that tightly wrapped around her body, absorbing the red color around her.

On the walls and floor that were exposed, only the white bones of those who had disappeared from the slums remained.

I threw a dagger made from Shadowcraft and the demon easily deflected the dagger’s trajectory with a wave of his hand.

“A person from the Raven family. What is your name?”

“Cian Raven, devil, what is your name?”

“Maharis.”

『Quest』

〈Kill the demon Maharis.〉

-Upon completion: Enhanced Shadow Mastery (E+2)

Upon hearing the name of the devil, the name Maharis was renewed.

So, all you have to do is kill that thing.

“Now. Cyan Raven, die?”

Maharis said to me with a charming smile.

Is it a mental attack? However, no change occurred due to the effect of self-establishment.

Still, I made a dagger through Shadow Craft and held it to my neck.

“That’s right. You should listen carefully, right?”

Skill Link-Boost

Shadow Mastery. Flame wheel.

Shadow Circle.

“I don’t want to hear that.”

The dagger, which became stronger and faster as it passed through the ring of shadows, flew towards the woman’s eyebrows.

Kwagagagagagagagagak!!!

The red suit that covered her entire body instantly covered her face, and although she was pushed quite far, her head did not explode.

I didn’t use it quickly and didn’t mix it with the flame, but is the damage done?

‘The strongest enemy I have ever fought.’

By blocking the Shadow Circle, it became clear that it was the strongest enemy.

“Ah… What is it? That’s strong.”

Maharis, a demon whose entire body was covered in red, spoke in a slightly slurred voice.

Did it give you a shock that shook your brain?

Skill Link-Boost

Shadow Mastery. Flame wheel.

Shadow Circle.

Flame wheel.

Once again, I used the shadow circle and flame wheel to create four rings.

Then Maharis escaped the ring’s line of fire.

‘This is the problem with shadow circles.’

I tried to aim by twisting the hook, but I gave up throwing the shadow lance at Maharis, who was approaching me while quickly moving his body left and right as if he would not be hit again.

He made the spear made of shadows in his hand disappear, then made a sword and passed it through the four rings.

Enforce. Enforce. Enforce. Reinforcement.

It’s my first time using it this way, but it’s definitely the strongest sword I’ve ever made with Shadow Craft.

And at that moment, Maharis leapt and swung his right arm wide, and the red suit transformed into a long claw.

Kaaaaang!

I secured space for myself to move by striking away the claw with the shadow-filled sword.

And then another attack with the other arm.

Because the claw’s size was abnormal, it was difficult to block and then counterattack.

If so, you must avoid it and counterattack.

I used Perception to read the claw’s trajectory and fell back.

Buuuuung

The four blades cut in front of me with a difference of a sheet of paper, and I put my left foot back strongly and swung out the sword in my right hand.

‘Are you saying the hair is red too?’

There was a reason for the posture of swinging the left-hand wide and creating a loophole that made it difficult to use the right arm.

The fluttering red hair instantly twisted and gained strong physical power, blocking my sword.

“Don’t you regret not listening to my orders earlier? You will die painfully.”

The mouth part of the red suit covering Maharis’ face disappeared, and red lips appeared.

The corners of her mouth were slightly raised, as if she was confident of her advantage.

“If I kill you, I won’t have to die.”

Maharis’ hair began to change shape.

Her hair, which had blocked my attack, split into two, forming the shape of her arm, and sharp claws emerged from the end.

The claws were as long and sharp as her long sword.

‘Can I cut down demonic energy with Shadow Mastery?’

I thought that even if I could cut down demonic energy, I would reach my limit first since I could not use my insight indefinitely.

‘A technology that can efficiently burn demon energy.’

I decided to try a technique that I had only assumed would work, although I had not used it in practice.

Skill Link-Boost

Shadow Mastery. Burning fire.

A lot of negative attribute mana gathered in my left hand, and I stretched out my palm and released all the negative attribute mana at once.

It was confirmed that the moment Maharis slashed negative mana while swinging the claw, the claw’s blade weakened.

As expected, what was needed to deal with that guy was the negative mana created by Shadow Mastery.