Chapter 257 – Assassination Family Raven 3 (11)

The fully-armed orc dodged his punch by pulling back.

And I immediately made two long swords using shadow craft.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Boom!

The surrounding orcs were banging their weapons on the ground to encourage a fight with me and the fully armed orcs, but I think it was me and the orc shaman who were actually fighting.

After awakening the fully armed orc, the orc shaman sat cross-legged on a high platform that looked like an altar. The eyes of the orc shaman sparkled.

When I saw the orc who was swinging his fist move to grab the largest sword among the weapons lying on the floor, I rushed in and swung the sword.

Kaang!

Perhaps because the armor he was wearing had been magically treated, he could not cut off his wrist in one go with a sword made with Shadow Craft.

The fully armed orc, who was unable to pick up his weapon due to my interference, extended his free left hand towards me, and I raised the sword of shadow and stabbed it into the fist that was thrusting towards me.

Pooh wow!

“Cooooo!!!”

The orc screamed loudly, perhaps because the pain was too much to endure even if his thick arm, which was not protected by the armor, was split in half because he had become berserk and his sense of pain was paralyzed.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Boom!

The orc screamed in pain, but the surrounding orcs just kept pounding the floor in time with the beat.

I swung the sword of shadow between the head and body, aiming for the gap between the fully armed orc holding his left hand, which was split in half, with my right hand.

Suddenly! Tuuk.

The head of the fully-armored orc, who was heavily armored and strengthened by the power of the orc shaman, easily gave up his head and fell helplessly to the floor.

I kicked the orc’s torso to the floor and looked at the orc shaman.

The orc shaman, who was looking at me cross-legged with his blue eyes open, suddenly burst into laughter.

Haha!!! It’s such a perfect corpse!!!”

Boom!

The moment the orc shaman who said that stood up and struck the floor with his staff, a large movement of mana could be felt.

Boom!

As the surrounding orcs pounded their weapons on the ground in response, a bluish energy flowed from the orcs’ heads and began to seep into the body of the fully armed orc.

“Rise, warrior!!! Death is a new beginning!!!”

Dark blue light began to emanate from the orc shaman’s head.

A very dense concentration of contaminated mana? While squinting slightly, a blue-black mass settled into the body of a fully-armed orc with a flickering blue energy, and a blue-black energy began to radiate out.

At that moment, all the orcs around, including the orc shaman, began to collapse helplessly in their seats, but on the contrary, the decapitated body of the orc in front of me rose up holding the huge greatsword that had fallen on the floor.

Blue smoke began to rise from his severed neck, and he picked up the head with blue eyes from the floor with his split hands.

‘Was Dullahan originally made like this?’

As soon as the fully-armed orc fell, he immediately revived himself by infusing his soul with the surrounding orcs, so I thought he was expecting that the fully-armed orc would lose to me.

The Dullahan Orc’s armor began to change shape as it turned black.

As the large and clunky iron armor transformed into a perfect full plate armor, the gap between the armor that I could cut through completely disappeared.

The silver iron helmet also changed into a black helmet and the Dullahan Orc, holding his head tightly with his left hand, pointed his greatsword at me.

It’s a Dullahan made using the decapitated body of a knight. Although it uses the body of an orc rather than a knight, does it have the ability to act like a knight?

The orc shaman I was supposed to get information from also died from the magic just now, so there was actually no problem if I escaped without dealing with him.

“Now that the person I am seeking information from is gone, I will have to kill you one more time.”

He got rid of the sword of shadow he was holding, grasped the remaining sword tightly with both hands, and moved forward, swinging the sword.

Kaaaaang!

The Dullahan Orc neatly blocked my attack with a great sword surrounded by dark blue energy.

When he went berserk a little while ago, he felt a little sluggish, so I was able to stop him before he picked up the weapon, but his overall physical ability has improved to the point where it is difficult to stop him if he does that move again in his current state.

The Dullahan Orc swung a large greatsword with one hand, and I felt like I was handling a weightless greatsword of shadow.

Sigh! Sigh!

The range is long and the attack speed is fast, but if you use calmness and insight, you can definitely avoid the attack.

One way would be to retreat from a distance and throw the Shadow Lance to destroy it all at once, but the words of matriarch Terrance Raven came to mind.

‘First reach the end of Shadow Mastery.’

Both strong people I know tell me to reach the end of the skills I am currently learning first, but what is the end of Shadow Mastery?

I knew it as Shadow Craft until now.

Although I could not use Shadow Dive, the most basic skill of Shadow Mastery, I was able to use Shadow Craft, the last skill, so I was able to receive the last name Raven and became an assassin of the Raven family.

But reach the end? What is the end of Shadow Mastery?

Are you talking about having mastered all the shadow magic?

I discarded the Shadow Sword and used Shadow Craft to create a Shadow Greatsword to repel the Dullahan Orc’s attack.

Go go!

There’s something I’m missing about Shadow Mastery.

‘I don’t know.’

My growth method was different from other people, so no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t grow right away.

The exception would be the enlightenment gained from ‘Yusian’s’ quest?

The way to grow a possessed body is to clear given quests.

And if you complete the quest, you will reach the end one day.

Let’s use everything I have generously.

Wave wheel.

By exploding a ring of heat from the Danjeon, his physical abilities were greatly strengthened in an instant.

When I swung the Great Sword of Shadow with all my might, the Dullahan Orc who had blocked the attack was greatly pushed back.

Skill Link-Boost

Shadow Mastery. Flame wheel.

Shadow Circle.

Five rings that could amplify and strengthen the power of the shadow appeared before my eyes, and I stabbed the great sword of shadow into them.

Normally, I would throw the weapon and convert the power contained in the shadow ring into acceleration, but there was also a way to use it like this.

The ring of shadow was absorbed into the great sword of shadow, adding negative mana.

Black energy began to bloom from my shadow’s greatsword, similar to the sword held by the Dullahan orc with blue-black energy blooming.

And in this state, I used the spiritual energy of the black spirit killing method.

The great sword of shadow I was holding disappeared without a trace, leaving only the handle.

I held on to the remaining handle and swung.

Suddenly!

I can’t explain exactly what cut it down with, but the Dullahan Orc was split in half by my attack.

Perhaps because it was cut by something containing a lot of negative mana, the traces of the fully-armed orc turning into a Dullahan disappeared, and it returned to its original appearance as a fully-armed orc.

I looked around when the orc that was standing on two legs disappeared again.

More than 40 orcs were lying down with something missing, and I made a shadow sword and moved to confirm the kill.

‘It would have been nice if the quest had been cleared.’

Phew. Puuk.

After repeatedly stabbing and pulling out the sword at the head of an unresisting orc, it was finally the orc shaman’s turn.

Would it be better to check if this guy has a tattoo first?

I took off all my clothes, starting with the wolf skin I was covering, but there were no tattoos on my body like a goblin shaman.

Is it any different from the goblin shaman? Because he was smart enough to speak the imperial language.

Are you giving a tattoo to someone who lacks brains like a goblin and gives them the power to handle polluted mana?

Or is it because the entity that gave it power is different? Did you learn it on your own?

Several possibilities came to mind, but I, lacking knowledge of magic, could not come to a conclusion.

‘I have to go back now.’

I made a shadow sword and finally stabbed the orc shaman in the head.

『Quest』

〈Defeat the fragments of Shahemoth, the demon of the mirage.〉

-Completion: Shadow Mastery (D) -〉 Shadow Mastery (C)

“This guy was a fragment of Shahemos?”

The moment the quest was cleared, the surrounding environment began to change.

The place that seemed to be a colony of Orcs became an ordinary vacant lot, and the Orcs that I confirmed and killed by stabbing their heads began to turn into smoke and disappear.

The fully armed orcs in the center of the clearing have also changed into ordinary orcs with no armor.

Everything disappeared and all that was left was the orc I was stabbing its head in and the two orc corpses in the center of the clearing.

“How did the shape remain?”

Obviously, I stabbed the orcs in the head with a sword made with Shadow Craft.

The Shadow Sword, made of negative mana, has the power to cut through magic and destroy magic circles, but it didn’t work on these guys?

Or should I fight with my weapon strengthened like when I cut down the Dullahan Orc?

While I was thinking complex thoughts, a blue window appeared before my eyes.

『Quest』

〈Defeat Shahemoth, the demon of mirage.〉

-Upon completion: Shadow Mastery (C) enhancement

Even though the fragments of the mirage demon Shahemos have this power, I have no idea how to defeat the main body.