Chapter 471 – Assassination Family Raven 5 (2)
A man with black hair walks down the street wearing a black coat in broad daylight.
In places other than the Empire, people might just assume that he is someone who likes black, the same color as his own hair, but in the Empire, people tend to look at him differently.
‘Assassin of the Raven family.’
People from the Crow family have also learned the basics of Shadow Mastery, so they can handle negative mana and even have black hair, but they are well integrated into the lives of the villagers.
The only unique thing about it is that it lives in the third building to the left of the biggest pub in town? It is a place where accidents caused by drunk people often occur, but since there are a lot of people going around, it is possible to move there at a high price for the land, but they did not sell the place.
In the case of adventurers traveling to various places, some people may realize the commonality and realize that it is the Crow family’s safe house, but knowing this does not make much of a difference.
Because there is no one who does not know that the Raven family is behind the Crow family.
Isn’t it enough to be a little more careful about how you behave? Well, no matter what, even if you know the identity, there were constant incidents in the empire where people would ask you to kill the other person by risking your life.
Even if you know that an assassin from the Raven family will come to you if you have an accident, you can’t stop showing off your power and trampling on others.
Considering the life value system, which started with the idea that everyone’s life was the same and was later maintained because it was good to be able to kill more, there should have been a base for the Crow family in the wizard’s village, but it did not exist.
That’s because a person with black hair wears a black coat, which is normal fashion in a place where many crazy wizards would do it, but the mana he carries stands out.
Yin attribute mana is quite difficult for ordinary people to detect.
However, as we delve into magic, it is said that wizards, especially those skilled enough to belong to the Magic Tower, naturally feel an aura of discomfort towards us.
Just think of what Chris Roanna noticed right away when Yusian, the main body, used negative attribute mana.
Of course, there is no problem in daily life as one can maintain non-attribute mana and convert it and use it when necessary, but Cian Raven and the people of the two families could not refrain from doing so.
Therefore, they deliberately did not set up a base here, where it is almost impossible for the Crow family’s intelligence agents to hide their identities and operate.
However, since it is impossible not to collect information at all, instead of collecting it directly, they pay money to purchase information, but the Crow family’s information processing department evaluates its reliability as low.
‘I don’t know if I can get any information about the head of the family here.’
I thought as I entered the entrance of Tear Dust, the largest merchant in the village near the Magic Tower.
It seemed like the biggest merchants would always be full of people, but this place wasn’t much different from the adventurer’s guild.
Since the materials needed for a wizard’s research are not always the same, he raised a request and subcontracted it with the feeling of spreading the request to adventurer guilds in each region.
Since they also handle materials for commonly used reagents, the inside of Tear Dust felt like it was split in half, and I headed toward the area that handles materials.
If I wear a robe, I can escape from other people’s eyes, but now I have no intention of hiding myself, so as I walk, people’s eyes gather again.
“Hey… What brought you here?”
A female employee, like a hamster trembling in front of her prey, looked at me and smiled awkwardly.
“It would be nice if you could connect me with someone who can talk about the Magic Tower.”
“Uh… Please wait a moment.”
When the hamster female employee walked quickly to tell her boss about me, I was shocked and looked at what looked like a mission sheet.
‘Highly difficult missions such as collecting troll blood, fairy blood and wing powder, and gathering moon grass were entrusted to the adventurer guild in Tear Dust.’
Before going on an assassination mission, I stopped by the Crow family’s safe house, and when I checked the missions given by the adventurer guilds in each village, there were quite a few similar things.
There was no weak place like Teib Village, where the monsters around were only a few goblins, but the adventurer guild in the large village was all on a mission.
“Shall we go inside? It’ll be better than talking outside.”
The female employee spoke to me in a trembling voice and I looked at her as she nodded.
He still couldn’t make eye contact with me, and he seemed so pitiful that I didn’t even want to bother him.
“I will do that.”
When I entered the room that the female employee showed me, there was a man sitting there who looked a little older. When he looked at me coming in with the female employee, his eyes started to tremble.
Would it have been better to hide my identity at this level? Well, the wizard may have noticed, but walking around like this seems quite burdensome to other people.
“Have a good time!”
A hamster-like female employee sold out her boss and ran away to survive.
Since there was still someone left to tell me the information, I sat down across from the man, and the man who saw me sitting spoke cautiously.
“What brought the Raven family assassin here?”
If you just listened to what he said, it was hostile, but seeing him speak in a trembling voice, it seemed like he was just very nervous.
If you’re someone who hasn’t committed a major crime, wouldn’t there be a need to be hostile towards someone from the Raven family? People from the Raven family are people who avenge the weak.
“Has Terrance Raven, the head of the Raven family, been here recently?”
“If you say recently… It’s difficult to give an exact answer. But if you say within a year, uh… I see. There was a time when the head of the house visited the Magic Tower, but I don’t remember hearing about him coming out. He was an assassin from the Raven family, so he finished his mission and left no trace. I thought he would have gone back without leaving anything behind.”
To assassinate with minimal traces, the Raven family’s assassins use shadow magic.
But of course, if someone dies, a body is left behind.
“I wonder if there are any wizards who have recently died in the Magic Tower. I guess the Magic Tower doesn’t always use the corpses of wizards as test materials, right?”
Princess Rosette knew for sure which wizard Terrans Raven had been assigned to assassinate, but she did not want to reveal the target, so she questioned the man.
The man was properly confirming the information, which was different from the fear he had when he first saw me.
The Crow family says they rate information reliability low, but looking at things like this, it might be okay to raise it a little…
“I’m not sure about that. We, who supply materials to the Magic Tower, don’t know for sure the internal situation either. If a wizard says something is needed, they bring it to us, and we can guess how much progress has been made in the research by looking at how much of the material is needed. If someone dies, it’s just assumed that they died of old age or a side effect of magic.”
“So you didn’t record it clearly?”
“Yes. Isn’t that the same for the Crow family? I don’t know how many people are dying at this very moment.”
Although not all deaths are recorded, deaths with unclear causes are recorded by the Crow family’s intelligence agents.
If the cause of death is a person, they may come to the Raven family for a request, and it will be valuable basis for determining validity.
Thinking that it would be right to keep reliability low, I discussed the next clue.
“Has there been any recent change in the amount of Moonlight Herb required by the Magic Tower?”
It is a flower that contains negative mana that grows in nature, and is sold at a fairly high price because there are limits to the area where it can be collected.
“Wolryeongcho… The amount of Wolyeongcho obtained from the Magic Tower has decreased slightly. Is this visit related to the wizard who buys Wolyeongcho?”
The man asked me with a slightly awkward expression.
I only mentioned one ingredient, but I felt like I figured out who should have died in the first place.
I don’t have the information I want, but am I glad that I know the information I handle well?
“That’s enough. Thank you for welcoming me even on a sudden visit.”
I got up from my seat and came out of Tear Dust while sorting out the information I had confirmed in my head.
The fact that less Moonyeongcho is needed means that there has been progress in magic research or that there has been another way to obtain negative attribute mana.
I wanted to raise my hand that there was another way.
‘It was said that the reason the Magic Tower requested assassination for the Raven family was because there were signs that they were trying to summon a demon, and they also made human sacrifices.’
The method Shahemos used to create demonic energy was to pollute mana with people’s feelings of despair.
But what if there was someone by your side who could supply negative mana that goes well with demons without the need for contamination?
As Princess Rosette and I had guessed, there was a high possibility that Terrance Raven was collaborating with a wizard conducting demon-related research instead of assassinating him.
Why do you abandon the assassination mission and cooperate? If you cooperate with that wizard and the devil, you will be able to kill more people.
‘In that case, I should definitely take this opportunity to sort things out.’
If I compare how I looked when I last met Terrance Raven and how I look now, I think I have become stronger than ever.
It is quite possible that she gained other powers while cooperating with the research.
‘You’ll understand once you try it.’
I was covered in shadow as I headed to the Magic Tower.