Chapter 475 – Assassination Family Raven 5 (6)

While searching through the messed up cave with Shahemos, the male wizard I had put to sleep suddenly came to mind.

Even if the effect of the sleep magic circle is strong, is it possible to sleep in this situation? With that in mind, I expanded my presence detection range and was able to see a sleeping figure snoring in the corner.

He was sleeping as if he were using dust as a blanket, but when I roughly blew the dust away with a fan, a very tired-looking face caught my eye.

“It looks like you’ve had a hard time.”

The life of a wizard was quite complicated.

Helping a senior wizard who was conducting research on demons was difficult, but an assassin from the Raven family appeared to kill the wizard.

Rather than killing the wizard, the assassin cooperated with the research and left for the Demon World, offering himself to the devil with the negative attribute mana that the assassin left behind.

Even if the wizard knew that he had lost control of his body to the devil, he had no intention of escaping and was cooperating with the research…

“Are you an accomplice?”

In order to hear the story, I poured my mana into the wizard’s body and destroyed the sleep magic circle.

“Whoa? Ugh…? Is it scratchy?”

Then the wizard woke up, rubbed his eyes, and frowned as if the dust that had been blown away by fanning his hand still remained.

“The condition of the cave is not normal, so get up first.”

“Uh… Are you here to get paid?”

He must have known that I was an assassin of the Raven family and talked about the price.

So, does that mean that this guy was the one who sent the Raven family’s request to assassinate the wizard of the Magic Tower? It was not included in the information that Princess Rosette gave me.

‘Is it natural that it was submitted anonymously?’

“The demon Escrow has been defeated. In return, I would like to take the materials related to the demon research conducted here. Is that okay?”

Although I asked, the wizard staggered to his feet at my words, which were nothing more than a notice, and finally began to understand the situation in the cave.

As I followed his gaze, I saw Shahemos sifting through what looked like a pile of trash. It seemed right to ask a wizard who knew this place for help.

“Ugh… If you defeated that demon, it’s natural for something like this to happen! Hey, wait a minute, you can’t touch that thing!”

The wizard, who had been sleeping on the floor a little while ago, saw what Shahemos was doing and ran towards him, grabbing his neck as his blood pressure rose.

“Huh? What should I do?”

“Because it’s faster to do it alone…”

When Shahemos got up, there was a moment of silence, as if the wizard was speechless.

“That’s not the assassin over there, right?”

Wearing a black leather rider’s suit that clung to his body, Shahemoth looked like an assassin, except for his gray hair and golden eyes.

Especially since he came with me, an assassin from the Raven family, I thought it was natural for him to misunderstand me like that.

“No, but I can kill you.”

Shahemos smiled and spoke to the wizard as he put on a claw with a silver blade.

When the wizard flinched at those words, Shahemos removed his claws, approached the wizard, tapped him on the shoulder, and said.

“It’s okay. I don’t know much, so I’ll ask you a favor?”

“Yes.”

The wizard, gulping, nodded his head like a broken doll, and Shahemos walked past the wizard and towards me.

“But master, isn’t this broken?”

“This?”

When I turned my head in the direction Shahemos was looking, I saw that the warp gate that was supposed to be near the wizard was completely broken.

“Was the warp gate weak enough to be destroyed by the shock wave?”

“The master is quite strong even without putting in all his effort.”

“Is that so?”

As I opened and closed his hand, I thought about the connection between the techniques I used earlier.

‘As expected, the black wheel receives the power of the shadow energy better.’

I didn’t even know if I could really cut through Escrow’s leather, which had been strengthened while concentrating my magic energy, without any trouble.

Kugu Palace.

While the wizard was frantically gathering research materials, we heard that there was trouble in the cave.

“Wouldn’t it be dangerous if I left this alone?”

“Is this place collapsing? The data flew out and it was a complete mess! I heard the warp gate was also destroyed!”

“It’s okay. I’ll try to take as much time as possible. Also, can you give me information related to the Raven family first?”

“It’s in Master’s room. Let’s go!”

The wizard placed the materials he had packed on a desk that looked relatively intact and ran over.

I installed large black reinforced walls to support the ceiling and floor of the cave.

Because the cave had to be continuously prevented from collapsing, more mana was consumed than blocking one attack with a shield.

‘It would be better to save some mana to use Shadow Dive to escape.’

“Shahemoth, check if there is a way to escape from this cave other than the warp gate.”

“Road? I understand.”

Shahemos came out quickly and ran in the opposite direction of where Escrow had fought.

While maintaining the shadow wall that supported the cave, I checked the materials that the wizard had organized and left.

‘A study on how wizards have magic as their basic resource. Is this a way to become a warlock?’

Since I had limited knowledge related to magic, I couldn’t fully understand the formula, so I skimmed through it to check.

I don’t think it’s a bad idea to use mana and convert it whenever necessary, but is that possible with the help of the status window?

I briefly recalled a time when the nature of mana in the main body was changed and used, and when I thought of using a skill, I was able to convert it unconsciously.

‘There is a reason why the hierarchy where the main body is located higher than here.’

“Holy shit! The assassin must have been fighting a demon, but the hideout is completely messed up! How did I ever study under that human!”

Even though he did research related to demons, he must have been sincere in his research and became angry when he saw that the place where the data was stored was in disarray.

If we had fought using flames in earnest, there wouldn’t have been any paper left, but it would be nice to think that our lives were saved, and it ended well.

As I looked at the wizard in silence, he shrugged his shoulders and spoke in a hesitant voice.

“Well… Anyway, advance payment for assassination? Aren’t you going to kill me as compensation… You have to say what you want to say.”

“Unfortunately, this mission was one that did not require compensation. The one I was trying to kill was Terrance Raven, and the mission given to him when the target, Terrance Raven, came to the Mage Tower was to kill a wizard who seemed to be his teacher, but he abandoned the mission and committed suicide. Because I did what I wanted, it was a very complicated situation to get paid.”

I thought that a normal member of the Raven family would prefer to just kill this guy and be done with it.

(Master. It’s completely blocked. It looks like they used magic to discover the space beneath the ground.)

After Shahemos went to the other end, he relayed the state of the cave to me through his soul.

Is it difficult to get out without using the warp gate? It would be nice if this wizard could restore it.

“Is there only one exit through the warp gate?”

“Uh… Yes. I don’t think the research we are doing is something that can be proudly disclosed to the public.”

When I held out my hand, the wizard gave me materials related to the Raven family.

Compared to the research on converting basic resources into demonic energy, there was a lot of information I could understand, but the more I turned the pages, the more interesting the content became.

“I didn’t know that the origins of the Raven and Crow families would be discussed. Even as a member of the family, I don’t know much about it.”

“Master, as much as he is crazy about demons, he was also passionate about how humans can control demonic energy. He thought that if he investigated people from the Raven family who could control shadow magic, something could come out. For the purpose of research, approaching an assassin from the Raven family was a good idea. Because my life was precious, I continued to experiment with crossing the line more and more.”

“You couldn’t bear to see that, so you threw a letter to the Raven family?”

“Yes. There was news coming from the outside that the Raven family had experienced some major internal troubles and had changed a bit. So I didn’t know if it would work or not, but I asked them to kill my teacher, but I didn’t know it would backfire. Raven had to go back after just assassinating him. My heart skipped a beat every time I saw the two of you working together, thinking that a family assassin would suddenly talk to you and cooperate with you after looking at your research materials.”

What would it be like to watch right next to the research of two people, a crazy wizard who studies demons and an assassin who is crazy about murder?

First of all, I thought that voluntarily putting myself in such an environment was an emissary.

“At the end, an assassin from the Raven family betrayed him. He used the Master’s research in reverse and opened the door to the Demon World and went away. At that time, the Assassin opened the door to the Demon World and retrieved the remaining Yin attribute mana to deal with the devil. I succeeded in signing the contract, but it wasn’t long before I was completely consumed by the devil, and you came when the devil who enslaved me continued to grow in power.”

Escrow was a physical demon, and no matter how much he modified the old wizard’s body, he would have had many limitations in demonstrating his power.

Thinking that if an assassin from the Raven family other than me had come here, something serious would have happened, I recalled an interesting content from the research materials.

“So, if this research material is research done by Terrance Raven and his teacher…”

“It would be true that the Raven family has a devil at its origins. Otherwise, humans would not be able to live with negative mana.”

I learned something quite interesting.