How the Shadow of the Marquis Lives

Chapter 121

Altima hadn’t spoken strongly in the past, but it was against Allen’s move for revenge.

She remembered the last words of Allen’s father. Forget revenge and just live happily ever after.

Altima had the same thoughts, and had hoped that Allen would not think dangerous things like revenge.

But now that things have happened, I can no longer object.

“Whoa… … All right, Altima. I’ll talk.”

「Oh, yes. Sorry for coming out.”

“no.”

It’s not that Allen doesn’t know why Altima appeared at this timing.

He let out a small sigh and started talking to Xian about the past.

Actually, there was nothing to talk about for too long. Because Xian already knew something about Professor Derek’s case.

It didn’t take long for Allen to explain the rest of the matter.

“… … I see. So you’re saying that the black magician who uses that fire is your enemy?”

“I’m not sure, but maybe.”

Allen still vividly remembered the events of his childhood. I have never forgotten a single day of that day.

On that day, when a man’s hand gesture caused a burning fire to hit the village and sweep everyone away.

“Just because he uses fire doesn’t necessarily mean it’s him… … .”

“Still, the chances are high.”

“huh.”

Allen looked at Xian with eyes filled with strong will. He only wants one thing.

The black magician who is said to be here is checking to see if his enemy is right. And if the enemy is right.

cutting with one’s own hands.

“Blind. Can’t we help Allen? The only person I can ask for is you.”

Altima made a rare, weak sound and ejaculated at Xian.

A black magician who uses fire. It was no longer possible to stop Allen as long as clues were found to him who might be his enemy.

Then, for Allen’s safety, he needed strong allies.

Among the people Altima could ask for, the strongest was none other than Cyan.

It was for this reason that she looked at Xian with uneasy eyes.

and.

“good.”

Seeing Xian’s willing answer, she opened her eyes wide.

Allen’s revenge is always Allen’s personal circumstances. That’s why she was thinking about how to ask for a favor.

Xian answered much faster than she thought.

“Anyway, I was going to go after checking the black magician. If he’s an enemy, I’ll help.”

The reason Xian readily accepted was no different.

Because that’s what I was going to do anyway.

‘If they came here at this point, it’s highly likely that they came to find the giant.’

They may have clues to the King of Giants.

And even if it’s not that, you probably know something about the connection between the Empire and the Dark Magic Tower.

‘Right now we’re going around here, but eventually we have to go to the continent.’

Either succeed in finding the giant king, or give up halfway through. Either way, when the ending is over, you have to go back to the continent.

And the continent at that time was never a safe place for him.

I had to gather as much information as I could for him.

‘Because I can draw and eat that guy’s power.’

You can also absorb the energy of the black magician there. You can have him descend and make him a slave like Hector, but that’s completely ignoring Allen.

In many ways, there was no reason to go without catching him.

“thank you!”

“Nothing. Because it overlaps with my purpose.”

“Thank you, Xian. Thanks to you, my anxiety has gone a little.”

Allen said with a smile. Seeing Xian talking calmly reminded me of the first time I saw him in the past.

The time when I picked up a child who had fallen down with a nonchalant face and accepted the flowers.

In his eyes, Xian didn’t seem to have changed at all.

“Whoa! what? What are you talking about?”

“Alternatively, alternately. I swept everything up to the tree in front of me.”

At that time, Erze and Hector, who were hunting ants, returned. The Altima on Allen’s shoulder quickly turned into flames and disappeared.

Xian looked at the two and asked.

“Was there any unusual entity that Ban was talking about?”

“huh. They were bigger and had thorns just growing out of them.”

“Is that all?”

“Also, my body is very hard… … .”

Before Cyan and Allen departed, Ergé’s explanation continued.

By the time I heard all of that, the ants started coming back.

Cyan and Allen raised their swords and rose from their seats.

* * *

The territory of the ants was encroaching on the graves of the giants. one of them.

In the tomb of the giants, the largest tree growing hundreds of years old is embedded in the basement.

Beneath it was the nest of the queen ant.

“Did it spread roughly?”

“yes.”

In that dwelling, there were two men. The queen ant, the owner of the dwelling, was squatting in the corner, and the two of them were standing like in my own room.

Among them, a man with a low position, who was bending over, opened his mouth.

“I think we can start the search soon.”

“good.”

The man who received the report raised the corners of his mouth and bumped his palms.

Then, his hands turned black, and eventually the skin all over his body gradually darkened. A red glow began to appear in his eyes.

Even as the man in front of him changed into a demon-like figure, the prostrate man remained as if he were used to it.

[Looking for a giant. There are only a few left in the Empire. There must be many more here.]

a ringing voice. The man had already given himself up to the devil.

“You will find it soon.”

The prostrate man glanced to the side. A queen ant nestled in a corner. An entity they have subdued and completely subjugated.

Among the countless monsters in the tomb of giants, they chose ants. And forcibly expanded the territory of the ants.

It wasn’t a difficult task. They are ants with a large number from the beginning. It was enough to drive out other monsters with just a little care.

That’s how it ate more than half of the giants’ tombs.

It was time to start a full-scale underground search.

[Keuk. Empire bastards must be boasting as if the world is mine by now, right? Stupid guys.]

“What will the Demon Dragon King do?”

[…] … .]

The devil, who was laughing in the middle of it, suddenly hardened his expression and closed his mouth.

Then, with an annoyed expression, he shouted at the man.

[Of course I have to drive him out too! Was that bastard apostle a b*tch named Pamela?]

“yes.”

[good. Once I retrieve the giants as they are, I will start looking for them from that year.]

“… … .”

The demon turned angrily. The prostrated man stared at the demon’s back.

He accurately read the emotion that passed by in an instant in the devil’s distorted expression.

“I was scared.”

it was horror

[what!?]

At the man’s words, the devil turned around wildly. Then something filled his vision.

[Oops!]

It was the man’s palm.

The man who got up before he knew it grabbed the devil’s face and slowly lifted it up.

The demon grabbed the man’s arm and struggled to shake it off, but the man’s arm was so strong that it didn’t move at all.

[You, you bastard!]

The devil was frightened. The man he knew was just the lower end of the Dark Magic Tower. The devil’s power is a piece of rubbish to be stung by a sweet lure.

But what does this power mean?

“I don’t know what happened. If you bring up the Dragon King, everyone reacts the same way.”

[Keck, Kehek!]

The man gave strength to his hand. His hard fingers began digging straight into the devil’s temple.

The devil struggled as much as he could, but the man had no intention of letting him go.

“There is no need for a frightened dog. Garbage that can’t even be used as an arrow shaft.”

Kwajik!

The devil’s head just exploded. The demon’s body, with its head missing, fell to the floor.

The man bent down and picked up the demon’s corpse. Then, he threw it at the queen ant, who was staring at her.

The ant, who had been deprived of its place and troops and could not do anything at this moment, looked at the man’s eyes and snapped at the devil’s corpse.

―Wagjak, Wood Deuk.

Before long, the man glanced down at his hands as he caught a glimpse of the ants that were devouring the devil’s corpse.

A fire soared once in that hand, and all the dirty blood on it evaporated.

“Then let me start alone.”

The man muttered and began to give orders to the ants.

Let it spread far and wide throughout the Tomb of the Giants.

* * *

While Erze and Hector were resting, Cyan and Allen took care of the ants.

Of course, I didn’t forget to collect the bodily fluids of the unusual ants that Ban talked about.

“Looks like those guys.”

I could tell at a glance what kind of guys they were.

In the midst of all the ants that were full of ants, there were much bigger guys in the middle.

As Ergé said, some had thorns and some did not.

“Then, as I said before.”

“huh.”

Cyan and Allen ran among the ants.

Soon, they rushed madly, glowing as if they had sensed something other than their companions.

It was Allen’s spark that struck them.

‘Leave the normal ants.’

assigned roles in advance. Allen will be in charge of the normal ants, and Cyan will be in charge of the unusual individuals.

Allen’s flame burns all the demons of the ants. In the process, there was a concern that the bodily fluids of the unique individual that Ban asked to collect could be altered.

For that reason, Allen decided to wipe out the normal ants, and Cyan went in between them and killed the unusual objects with his own hands.

The ants collapsed, and Xian ran between the blue flames opened by Allen.

Burning like the flames of hell, it had no effect on Xi’an.

Before long, Xian approached an entity much larger than the others.

―Kigigigigi!

Xian poured more aura than when dealing with normal ants. And cut the guy’s neck.

Caen-

Xian was a little surprised.

The upper is much harder than expected.

‘It’s like some kind of steel.’

The ant shook the cyan and shook its head. As Xian frowned and opened the distance, the ant’s leg fell over the head of such a time.

Kung, slightly avoiding the falling leg, Xian stepped on his joint and jumped.

Kagaga River!

He plunged the knife into the ant’s head. It was a sword with stronger aura than before.

I couldn’t believe it was piercing the ant’s carapace, and I heard a sound as the sword dug into its head.

At the same time, bodily fluids gushed out like fountains.

Xian took a bottle from his bosom and poured the bodily fluids into it.

Then he looked around.

‘Allen is blocking the normal ants well, and there are about 10 steel ants left?’

If they don’t show up anymore, that means they’re everything right now.

There are some that Erze collected, so if you catch that much, it’ll probably be enough for a research sample.

at that time.

―Koo-gu-gu-gu-gung!

The ground started to shake violently. On top of the dying steel ant, Xian grabbed the sword and balanced it.

“draft!”

Allen hurriedly joined us.

Along with him, Xian looked at the situation with a frowning expression.

Then I opened my eyes wide.

―Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!

As the earth shook, a swarm of ants dozens of times larger than before covered the mountain and rushed toward us.