Chapter 263 – Assassination Family Raven 3 (17)

“Listen carefully. You can only hear the sound of running outside.”

Said the Seche in my arms.

Doo doo doo doo

We could hear the male grass bison running and breaking trees, making us feel like he was getting closer to us, but he wasn’t.

I don’t know how they connected the inside and outside the forest.

The female grass bison and her cubs we saw in the forest looked at us curiously for a moment, then seemed to lose interest and started eating the grass on the ground.

If the male is in estrus, the female should also be in estrus. How did they manipulate that into an illusion?

Since I don’t know much about the ecology of grass bison, I don’t know exactly what the situation is, but I think I need to deal with something inside the forest.

“Sister Seche. I think there is something in the forest, so I will look for it and come back. Even if the males come inside, they will stop attacking if they are among the females.”

“No, I’ll go with you. I know I can’t add anything with my weak sword, but I still don’t want to back down like this from the start.”

The body looked at me with one eye with a firm resolve.

“Then maybe I should tell you one more secret?”

“I said I could follow you for the rest of my life, right? Was I serious?”

Seche answered with a bright smile.

“Okay. Then let’s go together.”

As I thought it would be difficult to travel without the surrounding women, I allowed Seche to accompany me.

On the way to the center of the forest, nothing strange happened, such as not being able to escape from the outer track to the outside of the forest.

But can the strangely wide area also be said to be an anomaly? It was a narrow space from the outside, but I walked for a while and arrived at the center.

At the place we arrived, there was a black crystal that gave off an ominous aura and a tall woman with golden hair standing there.

The woman was wearing a white dress, but the fabric was too small to be considered a proper dress.

Almost all of her breasts were exposed except for her nipples, and the fabric extending from below her navel only slightly covered her vagina.

The unique thing about this woman is that she wears an overly revealing dress, but still has a mysterious atmosphere that doesn’t feel lewd.

“Elf?”

It had long ears.

Their ears were three times more pointed than those of ordinary people. When they turned their heads from the black crystal and looked at us, their thin ears fluttered.

I thought Rosette was the most beautiful in this class, but an elf whose appearance rivaled her beauty looked at me with her light green eyes and said.

“You’re the one who kept getting in the way.”

From these words, I could tell that the elf was also a fragment of Shahemoth, the demon of mirage, and that there was a connection between the fragments.

Is it okay for me to reveal my true worth by continuing to fight against the fragments? At least now I have to fight to get out of here.

“In what sense is it an obstacle?”

“Everything.”

When the elf stretched out her hand towards me, a light green blade of wind shot out.

I used Shadow Craft to overlay the sword with negative attribute mana, used Perception to read the trajectory of the flying blade of wind, and then cut it all down with a single sword.

It was much easier to cut because it was longer horizontally than a magic missile targeting a point.

“Did you make the forest strange?! I know that elves are a race that loves nature!”

When Seche saw the elf attacking and me cutting it down, he quickly hid behind me and spoke to the elf.

The elf who heard those words slightly raised the corners of his mouth in a sneer and stretched out his hand to the black crystal.

Black lightning flashed across the elf’s hands, and his skin began to change color from the tips of his fingers.

Her white skin, which had no blemishes, began to turn brown in an instant, and the elegant yet decadent white dress she changed into a short black tank top and black shorts.

Then he held a dagger of an appropriate size in both hands, twirled it with his fingers, grabbed it, and then lunged at me.

“Your appearance has changed?!”

The moment Seche said those words, I pulled out my dagger and blocked the sword swung by the elf, now the dark elf.

I think I know why you say I’m annoying.

“Seche, step aside.”

“I’m sorry I followed you here!”

After confirming that the body was moving back significantly, I immediately used the wave wheel.

With similar force, he immediately pushed away the dark elf who was clashing his swords and threw the dagger and sword in succession.

The dark elf immediately changed the trajectory of the swords I threw with his dagger and bounced them away, and I used a skill that he would not like.

Shadow Craft, I made two black long swords in my hands.

After using the skill, I felt that it was somewhat similar to the power created by the fragments of Shahemoth, the demon of mirage.

Shahemoth, who implements it so perfectly that you can’t even tell if it’s real or fake, wouldn’t like this skill of just combining shadows to create something.

As proof of this, when changing to the appearance of a dark elf, the color of the eyes changed from light green to yellow and became slightly smaller with a frown.

“It’s sloppy. It’s sloppy. It’s sloppy.”

“Because I’m not as concerned about perfection as you are.”

Because we don’t make weapons to deceive someone, we just make weapons to kill someone.

I used skill link to hit the flying dark elf by bouncing my body so fast that it was difficult to react like I did when using Palyun.

Skill Link-Boost

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

Because it’s in the forest, I can absorb the shadow’s mana once using the Yeonyeong Shingoku (連影神功), but I thought using the three wheels was a bit of a waste.

Even if you only use the two wheels, the power is strong enough.

Activating my physical abilities, I ran forward in time with the dark elf’s charge.

Kaang!

A perfectly crafted silver dagger that seemed to have been copied from something real somewhere intersected with a black sword made of lumped shadows.

Shahemoth seems to care about the completeness of the mirage or illusion he creates, so he doesn’t seem to like Shadow Craft, which is black no matter what he creates. Shadow Craft is the ability to manipulate shadows in the first place.

It’s a skill with a different direction from the beginning, but I’m just getting angry by myself.

But if that point is said to be devil-like, would it be devil-like?

Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang!

The moment I used Palun Resonance, the strength of the dark elf and I were at the same level, but there was a difference in the weapons we used.

A dagger that perfectly duplicates its weight and adds a small burden every time it is swung, and a long sword of shadow that has even lost its weight because its purpose is not to imitate but to kill the opponent.

Even though I continued to fight using the same strength, I gradually began to win.

Every time I failed to completely block an attack, red solid lines began to be engraved on the dark elf’s body one by one.

I didn’t know what would happen if the dark elf, who was retreating and receiving the attack, touched the black crystal, so I used the wave wheel to quickly end it.

The moment the two rings of shadow that resonated within my body exploded, I gained power beyond my limits and swung my sword at incredible speed.

Kaaaaang!!!

The perfectly executed dagger was cut by the attack, but the dark elf was able to avoid mortal wounds while losing his weapon.

However, the power accumulated by bursting the two rings still remains.

I made the shadow longsword held in both hands disappear and created a new shadow greatsword, holding it with both hands and cutting the dark elf in half.

The dark elf, who disappeared like smoke as if the illusion created by the mirage demon was correct, glared at me with both eyes even when his upper and lower body were separated.

The look in his eyes was annoying, so I swung the great sword again and cut off his head horizontally.

The dark elf’s body was quickly disappearing, as if it no longer had the power to maintain its shape. If it were not for disappearing like this, it would have been very difficult to distinguish it from the real one.

However, the quest to kill the fragments was cleared when I completely killed the Orc Shaman instead of defeating the Orc Dullahan last time, so is that really the black crystal?

I cut down the black crystal with the great sword of shadow.

Pakak!

As the crystal split in half, the space began to tremble.

The area of ​​the forest, which seemed ridiculously large from the outside, was drastically reduced, so my body and I, who had fallen slightly, came into close contact, and a female grass bison and her cubs appeared on the side.

“Muuuuu?”

“Radish!”

These guys also made a noise like a cow, as if the current phenomenon was strange.

“Uh… Um…”

“Let’s get out of here for now. I don’t know what the males are like.”

“Yes.”

Since Seche gave a stiff answer, I felt the need to talk briefly.

“What’s wrong with you all of a sudden? It’s okay if you speak as easily as before.”

“So, Sian is Cyan Raven?”

“Couldn’t you make the connection between the name and the black hair?”

“Yes. I had some doubts. I thought Blaze could be that strong. But Blaze, who I thought was an adventurer, was also a Cyan Raven.”

“I’m glad Xian isn’t such a rare name.”

“I don’t know if I can say this to you, a member of the Raven family, but I thought the people of the Raven family would just walk around blowing black smoke and killing people. I thought they were something that wasn’t even human.”

“Really? When you saw the three bodies that night, wasn’t it that person?”

“You’re a human! But now that I know your identity, am I going to die? It’s been a day since I was able to use sword skills?!”

“Of course, the easiest thing is to kill Seche and silence him.”

As soon as he said those words, Seche’s complexion quickly worsened.

“Or, if you keep quiet until Seche dies, I will take care of you. Seche only met Sian.”

He said while touching Seche’s cheek.

“Whoa… What if I make a mistake after drinking?!”

Then, with a sigh, Seche said.

“You don’t have to get caught in the Empire. The Raven family has the eyes and ears of the Empire.”

“I need to quit drinking.”

I think that would be better too.