Chapter 269 – Assassination Family Raven 3 (23)

The structure in the mountain felt similar to a laboratory.

Water was bubbling out of a test tube filled with green water, and it either contained something or was empty.

Most of the things inside seem to have been collected from creatures, including humans, wolves, orcs, and elves.

“Just a stone…”

Suddenly!

I cut off the head without even looking at something that appeared around me and spoke to me.

When I used presence detection, there was a being with heavily contaminated mana a little further down.

Breaking the ground and rushing in right away is one way, but for some reason I wanted to look around this place a little more.

I walked slowly to see how hard I worked to collect creatures.

The illusory demon Shahemos also appeared about three times, but it seemed like he had given up because he cut off his head as soon as he appeared.

When I looked around all the test tubes, there was a staircase going down.

I went down there and there was a strong smell of rotting corpses.

There were a lot of people in a prison with iron bars, and the dead and the living were mixed.

Didn’t they give any special food to the people they collected from Edburnil’s estate?

“Please save me…”

One person probably sensed me passing by and stretched out his hand through the iron bars.

After giving him a brief glance, I was walking forward to go back downstairs when I heard a swear word coming from behind.

“Please save me! I don’t want to starve to death like this!!!”

I heard so many people asking for my life that I wasn’t particularly moved.

Of the people I went to assassinate, half asked me to spare their lives and half cursed me.

Thinking like that makes me want to kill that thing.

I made a shadow dagger and plunged it into the forehead of the guy who was yelling at me.

“Ha. What on earth are you?”

The guy spoke in a tired voice and disappeared into smoke, as if the illusion was disappearing.

“I will meet you soon.”

“A monster-like guy.”

I threw a dagger made of shadows at its head as well, as if there were illusions created in other prisons as well.

It’s not that there are no living people, but I don’t feel the need to save them right now.

That’s how I came down to the 3rd basement level.

The large space was shining brightly, probably because bright magic stones were placed here and there.

It’s not that good for me, but it doesn’t mean there aren’t shadows around.

In the center of that large space, the demon I had to slay, Shahemos, was sitting on a small elephant, with one leg on top of the other, frowning.

Shahemos had long, dark gray hair, and compared to the Maharis I saw last time, she didn’t feel like a mature woman.

Would you say she has a similar body type to the girl who first appeared earlier? Shahemos looked at me and spoke first.

She said, “She should have been more careful about that eerie shadow. It was scanning me and I guess she could tell where I was?”

“Is this Shahemoth, the demon of mirage?”

The answer to my question was the numerous Shahemos that appeared around me.

“Shahemoth is me.”

“No! I am Shahemos!”

“I am Shahemoth! You idiot!”

“Stupid?! If I’m an idiot, then you’re an idiot!”

Suddenly, Shahemos’ vision of starting a childish fight began to strike with her fists.

That appearance was intrusive, so I made a great sword of shadow and cleaned up the surroundings.

The bodies that should have originally disappeared like smoke came together again and appeared as a mature Shahemos.

Her gray hair was flowing down, just like Shahemoth’s as she sat on her elephant, but her violent body was a definite difference.

Moreover, the naked Shahemos threw away the restraints of her clothes and rushed at me.

“What does this look like?”

“Let’s play fun games that adults can play~”

“Hey, isn’t that what it is? You’re ‘playing dirty games’, right?”

Shahemos, who had grown handsomely while saying such nonsense, ran towards me, but I swung my great sword once more.

Perfect!

Shahemoth, sitting on the elephant, snapped his fingers and all the illusions created around him disappeared.

“To be honest, it’s hard to beat you now. Why on earth did you show up so quickly? I thought I could take two more years.”

Shahemos got up from the elephant and said to me as he warmed up.

2 years, if you think of Roman and Yui, not me, they will be 21 and 20 years old respectively.

Is the hero party at an appropriate age for adventure? I thought it worked in a strange way.

But I don’t have to wait that long.

“You just came out as the person I had to go through.”

To clear the quest, all you have to do is kill Shahemoth, the demon of the mirage in front of you.

“I said it would be hard to win, I didn’t say I couldn’t win.”

When Shahemoth grinned, sharp teeth came into view.

And appearance wasn’t important.

The giant golem’s fist appeared around me and countless spears and swords began to rain down on where I was.

I could tell with my intuition that it had proper physical power, unlike the poor illusion I had been creating just a moment ago.

Breaking wheel.

I used Shadow Craft to create a long sword and ran forward while avoiding attacks.

Then I dove into Shahemos and swung my sword, but it seemed like Shahemoth in front of me from the beginning was an illusion.

That kind of barrage of weapons, that’s what it felt like when I sparred with Chris Roanna.

When asked if I was stronger or weaker than that, I thought I was weaker.

Compared to the barrage of bullets flying like crazy, that’s just an inefficient waste of mana.

Shadow Armor.

Shadow Armor, which was an application of Shadow Craft, did not just protect the skin, but became a proper armor of shadow, completely covering my body.

Bang! Cancan! Visor! Kang!

When the numerous attacks made by Shahemos rained down on me, my mana drained little by little, but I did not suffer much damage.

The most important thing now is to find Shahemos.

Skill Link-Boost

Yeonyeom Shingong (連炎神功). Presence detection.

Presence detection-wave

If I had created my own illusion like before, it would be impossible to find Shahemoth by using Presence Detection-Wave, but now I was creating a lot of illusions of inanimate objects, so I was able to find him right away.

It seems like the only people on this floor are that little elephant and Shahemos.

Breaking wheel.

After receiving the attack with his body, he moved again in the direction where Shahemos was.

A space where I couldn’t see anything, I swung my sword towards that place, trusting the presence detection-wave.

Go go go!!!

The sword of shadow, which can cut magic, was strongly interfered with because of its strong defense shield.

Behind the slightly cut shield, Shahemos was looking at me with a surprised face.

“How did you find out about this place…! Ugh! It’s annoying!”

Shahemos covered his body with illusions.

Shahemos swung the hand of the werewolf seen on the first floor, a complete transformation, unlike when creating something by removing mana little by little.

There was dark blue mana swirling at the tips of the black nails, so I had no choice but to dodge by falling back.

And at that moment, Shahemoth, whose arm had changed to that of a werewolf, surrounded me.

They all had dark blue mana wrapped around their fingernails, and they attacked me in an instant.

Shadow Dive.

He turned into a shadow and escaped from the sparkling space with the claws wielded by Shahemos, and used Wave Wheel Resonance.

Skill Link-Boost

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

Then, he tightly grasped the great sword of shadow and swung it round and round.

Suddenly! Suddenly!

All Shahemos caught in the surrounding radius were divided into three pieces.

And it ran straight toward the main body, but the main body split into several pieces.

Now, Shahemos has continued to increase to the point that it is difficult to find the main body even with presence detection-waves.

It was clear that I would get tired first if I continued to cut and cut again and again to defeat him.

Shadow energy.

The great sword of shadow is wrapped with a dark shadow that can eat up mana.

With a great sword engulfed in shadow, he cut down a group of Shahemoth, whose hands had become the hands of werewolves, in one fell swoop.

“Huh? Did you just say that?”

“What?!”

“There is no recovery!”

The remaining Shahemos began to panic equally.

When I think about it, it was strange to create such highly detailed illusions indefinitely.

It was clear that the mana used to create the illusion could be immediately recovered, like the Yeonyeom Shingong (連炎神功).

However, since it was cut with a sword wearing a shadow, it could not be retrieved.

I finally entered into a war of attrition with Shahemos, but I had already spent too much time and mana.

The assassin, who was supposed to aim for a short decisive battle, wasted his energy fighting too many enemies.

“Good profit!!!”

“There’s still a lot of left!”

Shahemos appeared everywhere again.

Breaking wheel.

He swung the great sword of shadow wearing a shadow, breaking the two shadow rings inside his body

All Shahemos around were split in two and then turned into smoke and slowly disappeared.

I quickly looked around and saw that Shahemos no longer existed, but the quest had not been cleared.

In order to recover mana, he completely removed the shadow armor and great sword of shadow that he wore and slowly returned to the center of the third floor.

“I feel like I was fooled until the end.”

After dazing for a moment to recover my mana, I realized something was missing.

“Where did the elephant go?”

A giant elephant’s foot, a girl with gray hair.

I thought Shahemos was humanoid and fought desperately, but what if that small elephant was its main body his from the beginning?

“Damn it… !”

I ran straight to the second floor and spread out my presence detection very widely.

Consuming only mental power was very useful in this situation.

On the second floor, people still alive showed weak movements, but there were no elephants.

On the first floor, specimens were floating in test tubes, but no movement could be detected.

And when I came out, I immediately used the Yeonyeongsingong (連影神功).

Skill Link-Boost

Shadow Mastery. Yeonyeom Shingong (連炎神功).

Yeonyeongsingong (連影神功).

I absorbed a lot of mana from the shadow covering the mountain and digested it into my own mana, and immediately used presence detection-wave to find Shahemoth.

I came down to the first floor again, feeling despondent as I was planning to search the mountain all night.

There was a small elephant sitting crouched behind the large test tube that I had missed checking as I was rushing up, holding its breath as if it were dead.

“I found it.”

“Click ahhhhh!”