Chapter 251 – Assassination Family Raven 3 (5)

Not only were the trees cut down on the path of revenge that one had to take when returning to the Raven family, but assassins from the Raven family were blocking the entrance.

“Cian Raven, I will return to the family with Princess Rosette.”

When I used Yeongtu (影套) to restore my hair color, the assassins opened an entrance and I slowly walked down the path I came out of at the end, as if running away.

At first glance, I thought the tree had been cut down, but seeing that there were more broken trees, it seemed that matriarch Terrance Raven had used the shadow to personally destroy the Path of Vengeance.

‘The matriarch used shadows freely.’

I didn’t remember it at first glance, but it seemed like black tentacles, or what could be called thorns, were spreading out around the matriarch Terrance Raven, destroying the surroundings.

I was a little curious whether it was the use of shadow magic or if it would happen when a certain level was reached.

“I thought the Crow family’s intelligence agents had contacted me and restored it to some extent.”

As I got closer, traces of that day were still intact.

A corner of the Raven family mansion was blown off, and the Crow family was in even more serious condition.

Should we say that it is a sign of internal destruction after taking something that should not have been taken in? Since the opponent was more miserable than the Raven family, I thought it would take quite some time even if the carpenters worked hard to repair the mansion.

Is it impossible to hire a wizard to restore it? When I thought about that, Cyan Raven’s knowledge came to mind.

In order to use recovery magic, you need the memory of mana contained in the remains of the building, but Shadow Mastery destroys the memory of mana, so it was difficult to find traces with magic.

Likewise, since it makes it difficult to use tracking magic, I thought that the negative attribute mana characteristics were being utilized well as an assassin.

‘That’s why, when an unidentified assassination occurs, we suspect it is the Raven family.’

At least that was the atmosphere within the empire.

When I came back, I entered the dark and quiet matriarchal hall of the Raven family.

The person who seemed to be busy restoring his family name was still sitting quietly in his seat with his eyes closed.

Every time I slowly approached the matriarch, I began to feel the power that Terrance Raven possessed little by little.

Are you intentionally opening up your power? The strong presence felt even from afar made it difficult to approach, but I was able to walk forward.

The problem was the person next to her, but Princess Rosette seemed to be barely able to keep her spirits up as she held onto my arm tightly.

As we got closer, Terrance Raven gathered his strength and slowly opened his eyes.

“Xian and Princess Rosette.”

“Meet the matriarch.”

Unlike me, Princess Rosette didn’t say anything.

The head of the family told me without paying any attention to Princess Rosette.

“You returned earlier than expected. Why?”

“I just wanted to put Princess Rosette in her safe place.”

“I see.”

She answered differently and moved her gaze to Princess Rosette.

“Rosette Yurisian, there is probably little you can do now that the Raven family has severed ties with the imperial family, right?”

“I will work for the place that will become my home. It appears that the two families still need my help.”

“Go ahead. “I guess you chose Xian?”

It was almost expressionless, but Terrance Raven seemed to be smiling ever so slightly.

“Yes.”

Princess Rosette nodded her head and answered briefly.

“Good. From now on, I will work for my family.”

“And, I would like to use Cyan Raven for personal reasons.”

“Don’t you remember the cost of hiring an assassin for the Raven family?”

“I will soon become a member of the Raven family. Do I need to pay?”

“Hmm. Well, that’s good. I will give you the authority to decide Cyan Raven’s mission from now on.”

“Thank you, matriarch.”

“Then I’ll have to see if he’s grown enough to receive a solo mission.”

In an instant, Terrance Raven raised his mana

Feeling like all the surrounding shadows were being sucked into Terrance Raven, I quickly hugged Princess Rosette and used the wave wheel to move toward the entrance of the Gajujeon as if running away.

“Sian?! By any chance, with the head of the family?”

“Rosette. Working as usual.”

After saying that, I closed the door to Gajujeon.

At that moment, thorns made of shadows began pouring out from the wall.

Although he was using shadow armor to protect his body, it was clear that if he got stabbed, something serious would happen, so he quickly ran towards Terrance Raven while avoiding the thorns while deploying a spinning wheel.

Terran Raven slightly lowered his hands as he quickly threw a shadow dagger made of shadow craft in both his hands.

At that moment, the wall of shadows that fell from the ceiling absorbed the dagger.

“That power was learned from me.”

They probably heard that I was Blaze, so I decided to show them what they wanted to see.

Yeomryun Fist (炎wheel拳) Ilryun (一wheel)

I hit the wall of shadows hard with my fist that passed through the ring of flame.

But that’s all, there was no loud noise or destruction.

Yeomryun Fist (炎輪拳) Two Wheels (Two Wheels)

I absorbed the scattered heat and struck the wall of shadows with my fist, which went through two rings of flame even stronger, but there was still no sound.

Yeomryun Fist (炎輪拳) Three Wheels (Three Wheels)

My right fist passed through three rings of fire, possessing more power than the previous two attacks, and I used the wave ring to go around the wall and face Terrance Raven.

“It’s a flame that looks like it will go out if you blow on it.”

Of course, I know that there are limits to how I can handle flames with this body full of Yin attribute mana, but I was still a little annoyed because I felt like I was dishonoring Master Flame King by using the Flame God Art that I had learned.

In that case, it should be shown as an attribute. While absorbing the heat in my hands back into my body, I used the Yeon Flame Magic with negative mana.

Skill Link-Boost

Shadow Mastery. Flame wheel.

Shadow Circle.

A ring made of five shadows that appeared on the way to Terrance Raven.

And I created a spear of shadow and threw it right away.

Because the Shadow Lance was used from a close distance, not far away, the Shadow Spear had reached Terrance Raven the moment he closed his eyes.

Gagagagagagagagagak!!!

This time, the nature was definitely different, as the shadowy hands extending around Terrance Raven were blocking the shadow lance.

When the four hands grew to eight, then sixteen, and completely covered the Shadow Lance, the Shadow Lance disappeared.

“Disappeared?”

“Sixteen. Useful, but unqualified.”

The shadow hand that made the Shadow Lance began to disappear to fly towards me in a very threatening manner.

Skill Link-Boost

Shadow Mastery. Three-wheel resonance (破輪共鳴).

I immediately expanded the sound resonance of the sound attribute, increased the strength of my body, created two swords, and cut down the shadow’s hand.

In its current state, it appears that weapons made through Shadow Craft are not affected by Terrance Raven’s shadow.

However, he dodged and slashed at the quickly recovering hand of the shadow and headed towards the matriarch, but the distance was not so easily closed.

When the thought occurred to me that I wanted to use the shadow energy to completely cut it down so that it could never recover, my whole body stopped.

“You learned an interesting method.”

Terrance Raven slowly approached me as my entire body was engulfed in shadow and my movements were blocked.

“But because the nature has changed, being able to interfere means that on the other hand, it can be interfered with by Shadow Mastery.”

As Terrance Raven circled around me and retrieved all the shadows that had been cast before his departure, I was released from the state of Falun Resonance.

“Reach the end of Shadow Mastery first.”

After saying that, Terrance Raven, the matriarch, sat down again.

And he waved his hand out as if he was not interested.

“I will keep that in mind.”

Similar to Master Yeomwang’s advice, I thought it was right to learn everything first and apply it perfectly, especially since my Shadow Mastery has not developed much at all.

Master Flame King told me to freely use the Flame Divine Technique at 8 stars, so wouldn’t it be at least A rank? But how lacking is D-rank Shadow Mastery?

When I opened the door of the family home and came out, Princess Rosette, who was waiting with her hands clasped together, came up to me and touched my body with her hands.

“Xian, are you hurt anywhere?”

“Yes. I almost died, but they didn’t kill me.”

“That’s good. Shall we take a break? I think I’ve been given permission to change the two families. Since I was standing outside, they gave me this.”

Princess Rosette took out one of her papers and showed it to me.

[Grants Rosette Yurisian the authority to control the internal affairs of the Raven family.]

[Terrance Raven.]

Was the document with the head of the family’s seal already prepared when I said I would return for the regular reporting session yesterday?

In any case, it seemed to mean that the Raven family had become a safe place for Princess Rosette.

“I couldn’t say anything earlier because I was in a hurry. Are you really planning on making me your home?”

“Yes. It’s not like you violated the princess of the empire like that and didn’t think about taking responsibility, right?”

She lightly stroked Princess Rosette’s orange hair, thinking that she should never have touched her in the first place, whether she had been under her brainwashing spell or not.

“At least it looks like Princess Rosette will take her place as his wife.”

Even if I marry many women, no one will surpass the princess of the empire.

“That’s enough for me.”

Now that the head of the family has almost acknowledged my relationship with Princess Rosette, it seems that Princess Rosette will have more work to do in the Raven and Crow families than expected.