Chapter 58 – Assassination Family Raven (16)

There were too many enemies to fight alone, including two armed hobgoblins and a shaman goblin who could use magic from a distance, and the state of the armament was too good.

The person holding the halberd has changed to holding a baton, but if you stab it with strong force, it will be very painful.

Wouldn’t it be better to just keep making daggers and throwing them for long-distance attacks? I had a thought.

The hobgoblin holding the great sword swung the weapon sharply, and the moment he struck the sword away, the baton stabbed in.

I thought that something that had become slightly sharp from when I ground it on the floor would now be fatal if I got stabbed.

Should we trust Shadow Armor and just force our way through? Rather than wasting time like this, it might be better to give him a good slap.

Kagagak

I held my sword tightly while using my shadow armor to block the baton that pierced my side.

The other hobgoblin tried to cut off the hobgoblin’s back with the great sword I had struck, and I deployed shadow armor on my back and decapitated the hobgoblin holding the baton.

Seokgeuk

What’s the point?

As soon as I killed a hobgoblin, I felt a strong impact on my back, so I threw away the great sword I was holding and rolled forward.

As soon as I got into position, I used Shadow Craft to create two daggers at the same time and threw them at the shaman goblin who was aiming at me with his staff.

Caen

Puuk

She hit one with her cane, but one got stuck in her left shoulder.

And Hobgoblin, the greatsword, seemed to be staying still and raised his sword to make an additional attack on me, who had struck me once.

“Keuuuuu… Burn!”

Calmness kicked in, and my options began to increase.

It is too late to use Shadow Craft to block the goblin’s great sword.

If you try to use shadow armor to protect your entire body from flames, it will cost too much mana.

I have no choice but to avoid it.

I jumped up and down with both arms on the ground.

Kwaaang!!

The Hobgoblin struck the spot where I was with his great sword with all his might, and purple flames rose from that spot again.

I immediately got up, took a stance, and produced a sword of the original length.

“I didn’t expect that.”

The Hobgoblin’s great sword was ignited with purple fire and was burning brightly.

Since the color of the flame was purple, I thought it was not normal fire magic, but it looks like it was a curse mixed in.

Even though the hand holding the sword was burning with purple flames, the hobgoblin gave me a red look.

Is it possible for Berserker to forget the pain like that?

“Kwoaaaaa!!!”

The hobgoblin approached, swinging a great sword engulfed in purple flames.

I could offset it with a shadow sword made with Shadow Craft, but I decided to let that guy go.

We have to deal with the guy who is the most problematic first.

I made another dagger in my left hand and threw it.

The shaman goblin skillfully swung his staff to block it and pointed it right at me.

“Slow down!”

Movement slowed down for a moment.

It’s not a mental attack, but I’m not immune to that type of debuff?

The shaman goblin grinned with a dirty look on his face, and I couldn’t help but see the great sword wrapped in purple flames trying to cut my waist.

“Xian!”

The moment I heard that voice, an arrow made of light flew towards the shaman goblin, and the moment the shaman goblin’s concentration was broken, I was able to move my body as I wanted again.

Kwaaaaang!

He created shadow armor to block the Hobgoblin’s great sword, but the impact could not be offset, so he was stuck in the cave wall.

It’s much better than having your body cut in half or being hit head-on by that cursed flame.

When the arrow of light flew towards the Shaman Goblin once again, I once again aimed at the Shaman Goblin, not the Hobgoblin wielding the flaming greatsword.

Pooh wook

It’s dangerous to make a mental attack on Princess Rosette!

“Kekkekeek…!”

The goblin whose heart was pierced squeezed out the remaining air in its lungs, let out meaningless sounds, and died.

“Kerrrr? Krrrr!”

As soon as the shaman goblin died, the hobgoblin’s berserk rage seemed to have been released, and he threw the great sword on the floor and let out a scream as if the pain of the burns inflicted by the purple flames was all at once overwhelming.

“It will hurt a lot.”

Seokgeuk

I swung my sword at the nail that the armor could not cover, and the hobgoblin’s screams stopped.

The quest was cleared, and I was worried about the reward, but I couldn’t help but turn my attention to the person who created the current situation.

“Rosette? How are you here?”

“Whoa… Xian, did I do well?”

“Thanks to you, I survived.”

“Ah! Is it over?!”

Is the black-haired woman who comes in next, an intelligence agent for the Crow family?

***

Snap

Princess Rosette stood up at the sound of the door being unlocked.

She held the dagger engraved with the Raven family crest left behind by her Cyan in her hand, in case someone didn’t recognize her because of her orange hair and something bad happened.

“As expected, home is the best… Who are you?!”

Marie Crow, an intelligence agent for the Crow family, was startled when she saw a woman with orange hair inside the safe house.

She was a beautiful looking woman she had seen somewhere, but she had no information about the woman having bright orange hair.

“Shh! Please look at this!”

A strange, confident woman held out a dagger to the trespassing subject.

Is the engraved emblem the Raven family emblem, the woman protected by the Raven family assassin?

After closing the door and entering, Princess Rosette Yurisian spoke as she looked at the woman she saw for the first time with suspicious eyes.

“Do you recognize me? This is Rosette Yuri Sian, and I dyed her hair.”

“Ah! Princess Rosette? How are you here? Shouldn’t the princess come from the Raven family?”

Marie Crow was relieved that she was the person she had first thought of, but she thought about the situation of Princess Rosette Yuri Xian.

Because she is the link between the royal family and the Raven family and the conscience of the Raven family, it was her promise that she could not leave the Raven family.

“You still don’t know the information about the original family. The head of the Terrance Raven family sent me out with Cyan Raven to tidy up the house for a while. That’s why I came to this village, which is close to the Path of Revenge.”

Marie Raven was quite surprised that Cyan Raven and Princess Rosette had come to this small town where people from the Raven family did not often come, so she couldn’t help but ask one question.

“What about Cyan Raven? Where have you gone?”

“I thought you might have been caught in the goblin’s nest…”

“Huh? Oh, no! You shouldn’t go there!”

When Marie Crowe raised her voice, Princess Rosette was embarrassed and had no choice but to ask why.

“What’s wrong there?”

“Contrary to the information I found out from the guild, there are over a hundred goblins, and there are goblins that can manipulate minds, which can be called special entities. As soon as I confirmed this, I went to the next village and hired adventurers, and I was planning to subdue them when the sun rises tomorrow. Did you go alone?!”

“Yes. Is it even dangerous in Xian?”

“Reconnaissance will be fine, but if Sian is attacked mentally…”

Princess Rose couldn’t help but swallow her saliva as she saw the Terrans Raven family’s rampage up close.

Although she is different from the typical Raven family assassin, Cian Raven has also learned Shadow Craft, the final stage of Shadow Mastery, and does not know what the results will be.

“Intelligence agent?”

Princess Rosette realized that she had not yet heard the name, so she asked him to tell her.

“This is Princess Marie Crow.”

Marie Crowe realized her intention and said her own name.

If the princess knew her own name, she would not suffer any loss later.

“Marie Crow, can the adventurers leave right now?”

“Yes. I just came back from a quick dinner outside, so the adventurers are probably eating now.”

“Let’s go quickly. If we cooperate with Xian to subdue the goblin horde, it will be fine.”

“I understand.”

“And I will join you. Ordinary people need light to brighten the night.”

“Well… What should we do if the princess gets hurt…”

Marie Crowe was more afraid than grateful for Princess Rosette’s ability to act.

***

“So, you came with an adventurer and went inside first without fear?

It’s true that I received her help, but I don’t know what to say to Princess Rosette for this ridiculous behavior.

It’s true that she almost fell victim to a trick hidden by a shaman goblin, and it’s true that she received help, but she seems to have completely forgotten that she is a princess.

“Well, when the goblins and adventurers at the entrance to the cave were fighting, Marie and I entered the cave first. The goblin guarding the entrance was dead. Then, the path split at a fork…”

“Why are we divided there?”

“When I see the goblin in the cave dead, it seems like Xian has gone deeper. Marie also said that there are goblins that can manipulate minds, and I thought it was important to protect Xian from mental attacks…”

Fortunately, the mental attack didn’t work on me, but I almost got into big trouble because of something else.

“First, thank you. I remember the road on the way wasn’t that nice…”

I decided to leave the Raven family because I wanted to see something good, but that night I ended up seeing a scene of mass murder.

If Princess Rosette had sharp eyes, she would have been able to find the woman I stabbed to death in the place where the goblins and women were having an orgy.

“I guess I can’t help it. I thought Xian was more important than those people.”

Does this mean that in Princess Rosette’s eyes, I have higher priority than others?

It may have several meanings, but let’s think about them later.

“Marie Crow?”

When I told her the name I found in Princess Rose’s story earlier, Marie Crow bowed her head.

“Yes, Sian.”

“Then, you must have seen the woman on the other side, right?”

“Yes. Confirmed.”

Marie Crowe’s voice lowered as she remembered the women who were carrying the goblin’s children at the crossroads on the other side of the road that Princess Rosette didn’t yet know about.

“Can we get all the women in this cave out?”

“If the adventurers take out the hundred goblins outside, the road will be opened, but their condition is…”

Now that the shaman goblin is dead, they must have come back to their senses.

It must be difficult for both the woman coming to her senses from the pile of goblin corpses and the pregnant woman.

Let’s consider ourselves fortunate that her original target, Marie Crowe, is fine.