Chapter 277 – Assassination Family Raven 3 (31)

After the fortune-telling breakfast, the two women slowly opened their eyes.

Hayley may have received the effect of improving her health, but Princess Éowyn will now be able to use her sword energy to a lesser extent.

You can use a very faint level of sword energy like Seche uses, but it will be easier in the future just because the path has been opened.

“Cian Raven slayed a demon at the cost of the lives of two women.”

“But you never know when you might get drunk. Is it okay to make it public like that?”

“We deliver it to the kingdom and move the Holy Kingdom and the Magic Tower to begin an investigation, and the Holy Kingdom is stimulated to step forward to kill the devil.”

As I spoke, Hayley and Éowyn spoke without forgetting what they had to do.

“I will stop by one more time this evening. If things go well, that will be the last time.”

Hayley said as I stood up.

“But wouldn’t we be able to meet sometimes?”

“I don’t know if there is a warp gate, but it’s realistically difficult.”

Upon hearing that, Hayley smiled slightly regretfully.

Since I was planning on seeing it one more time this evening, I left the temple.

*

He came out with Shahemos, who had changed into the appearance of a young girl.

Yesterday he stuck to Seche well, but today he kept his distance and stuck to me.

When I think about it, even my soul was squeezed last night, so my whole body felt a little uncomfortable.

“How about getting a simple mission from the Adventurer’s Guild today?”

“That’s good. If it’s a mission related to actual combat, you can build up your skills, and it’ll be fine.”

Since I had an appointment in the evening, I thought it would be okay if it was a suitable mission, so I joined the Adventurer’s Guild.

Today too, we attracted people’s attention as we brought a child from the noisy adventurer’s guild.

“Are they an adventurer couple?”

“The hair color is very similar to my husband’s.”

While listening to those rumors, I looked through the mission list and picked one up.

“How about this?”

It was a search and subjugation of a group of orcs a short distance away.

I could do it quickly if I used all my strength, but I didn’t think it was appropriate for a mission to be completed within the evening.

“Let’s just collect herbs. We also have Shahe.”

As I stroked Shahemoth’s gray hair, it hung a little more on my leg.

“Well, yeah, sure.”

I received a request for herb gathering, which is the main means of earning a living for novice adventurers, and was given instructions from the receptionist.

The message was to be careful of the herbs we had to dig up and the beasts that might be around. When I showed my silver-level adventurer ID card, the receptionist tilted her head and tapped her palm with her fist as if she understood.

“Are you teaching your child to be an adventurer?”

“Well, that’s right. We play outside and do missions as well.”

This problem seems to occur if Shahemos is in his young form.

After roughly speaking, we received our mission and went outside Stemore.

I felt at ease coming out after being in a city with so many people.

Originally, the Raven family lived in a quiet place.

We were able to easily collect herbs on the outskirts of Stemore’s territory because Seche, who had been an adventurer from the beginning, knew about herbs.

Now that you have finished collecting the necessary herbs, you can return. Seche gave the bag containing the herbs to Shahemos.

“Xian, can you spar with me?”

“Didn’t you gain enough practical experience on the way to Stemore?”

“Still, I want to try mixing swords with the most skilled person. Isn’t there a request fee for this too? I can do it well if it’s a night job ♡”

“There are no specific conditions needed. Then we will go slowly.”

I said that and pulled out the sword I was wearing at my waist.

Seche saw that and immediately pulled out his sword.

“Isn’t it usually necessary to repel the challenger’s attacks?”

“I am an assassin.”

Kang!

I haven’t learned any special sword skills.

I just swing the sword where I see an opening.

Kang! Kang! Kang!

Seche held the sword with both hands and worked hard to block the attack I swung with one hand.

Every time he blocked an attack or took a step back, he kept swinging his sword towards the gap that appeared, and Seche’s eyes changed slightly.

Kaang!

Rather than blocking, he deflected the attack and engulfed me in sword energy.

It was a counterattack that would have resulted in a fatal wound to an ordinary person, but I just struck back the sword covered in sword energy.

“Wow. Just hit that?!”

“Because the sword energy is not stable. The best thing to do now is to aim for the moment it touches the body and release it.”

I lowered my sword, thinking that building up mana by gathering more luck was my top priority.

“Hehe. As expected, the master is much stronger! I haven’t even shown 1% of my original ability.”

Shahemos came up to me and said.

Have you developed a devil-like temperament? Yesterday, I was treated so badly by Seche that my child became a little strange.

“Do you want to join us?”

“Okay. Let’s stick together!”

Shahemos, who spoke cheerfully, carefully put the herbs on the floor and took off his clothes, contrary to his words.

Shahemos, now naked, became her smoke and took on the appearance of an adult woman, wearing a gray dress that matched the color of her gray hair.

Did you implement the clothes? I could feel that Shahemos had grown after having sex yesterday.

“Master, give me some mana.”

“Yes. It looks like I don’t have enough mana to change shape and fight yet.”

She grabbed Shahemoth’s shoulders and infused her with her sonic mana.

She then took the sword and pointed it at me.

“I won’t lose.”

“Hmph. The devil who has lost all his sweetness says I can do it too.”

“Without myself or mana.”

I filled Seche with mana and watched the two fight.

Shahemos felt a little clumsy since she had little experience using her sword, but she pushed on without paying attention.

‘It seems similar to what I just did?’

She did it in a way that left her opponent with no choice but to block, cutting again and again, looking for an opening.

‘Ceche is definitely talented.’

I don’t know if she’s done such an easy assignment as a top escort for only 2 years, but she really put up a good fight.

Kang! Kang! Kaang!

But it was Shahemos who won.

Her Seche’s sword flew away and fell to her floor, and Shahe Moth held up her face and smiled.

“Huh? What happened?”

Hehe. You look down on the devil.”

“No, I was winning? What was that blow at the end?”

“It’s the power of the devil.”

She said to Seche while holding Shahemos’s shoulder, who had lost all the mana I had given her with her blow, and putting back her mana.

“Devil’s power? I heard you can only transform?”

“You can think of it as Shahemoth conjuring up an illusion of herself delivering her perfect strike. She can’t summon things like that around her like she used to, but she seems to be able to put them on her body.”

“Master, how did you know?”

Shahemos asked me with a surprised face.

“Because you and I are connected, I can roughly figure it out.”

One-sidedly, I am holding on to the soul of Shahemos, but that too is a connection.

Is it because our bond became a little stronger after what happened last night? An interesting feature has emerged.

“Still, I held back well. If you had seen me cut off your head until you got sick of it, I should have stopped you.”

“It’s not that I don’t like Seche that much. Thanks to that, I connected with my master quickly♡”

After saying her request, Shahemos transformed back into the form of a young girl and put on the clothes she had left on the floor since she was naked.

“I feel like I’m possessed by the devil. Let me know if it’s really the devil…”

She thought that if Shahemos grew a little more, she would be quite useful.

*

She sparred briefly and ignored Shahemoth, who told her not to leave him with her body, and she headed to the temple of the Goddess.

However, even without presence detection turned on, she could sense that there were many people in the temple.

I used presence detection at the door to see how many people were inside.

Twenty-four people, two of whom I know are Hayley and Éowyn.

As I opened the door and entered, the knights sitting on the table stood up all at once.

“So, what’s going on?”

The knights were glaring at me as if they were going to kill me, but one of them walked towards me with a passionate look in his eyes.

“Cian Raven, I heard that you received Princess Éowyn’s life in exchange.”

“That’s right. Together with Priest Hayley, we killed the demon with the lives of two people.”

“Then. Can’t we, the princess’s knights, use our lives instead?”

The knight drew his sword and pointed in front of him, bowing slightly.

Other knights also began to adopt a similar bowing posture.

When I slightly raised my head and saw Princess Éowyn, she had an expression on her face that was difficult to explain.

Is it something like gratitude, and apologies for the knights?

“It doesn’t make much of a difference if you add up your lives, but… That’s right. Since this has come to an end, let’s put your necks on the scale as well.”

I made two semicircular knives that cut the necks of two women.

One of the knights who saw that couldn’t hold back and rushed at me.

“For the princess!”

Suddenly!

A red line was drawn on the neck of the running knight.

“Aaaaah!!!”

Suddenly!

Another knight rushed forward, screaming.

Are you planning on getting hurt like this? Although I knew I wouldn’t be able to reach them, I left a trace for the knights who rushed at me, like Princess Éowyn, who they had to protect.

As soon as I swung the weapon, Hayley rushed out to treat my wounds.

However, because so many of them were attacked at almost the same time, the wounded knights held on by stopping the bleeding with their hands.

The knight who first tried to talk to me and knelt got up and grabbed his sword.

A bright blue sword waved.

“Stupid guys…”

The knight who said that rushed towards me, clad in mana.

Is it about half the speed of when the wheel exploded? I was wearing armor like that, but I thought I was a little faster with this speed.

Breaking wheel

The knight’s throat was slit.

Twenty-two knights carved a half-circular scar on their necks and approached Princess Éowyn and spoke.

“Do you think a princess, twenty-two knights, and one priest can move the kingdom?”

“If you don’t want to start a war with the empire, you should get help from the Holy Kingdom and the Magic Tower rather than discussing this matter.”

“Then I guess my job is done.”

I donned a heavy robe and escaped from the temple where the knights who had not been healed were still groaning.

The work in Thembus Kingdom is over, so it’s time to go back.