How the Shadow of the Marquis Lives

Chapter 123

Xian went through the forest with Zach.

I had to deal with ants every time I took a step, but I couldn’t stop them.

“Huh!”

Zach decapitated the ant with the sword that caused the aura and pierced the stomach.

He took care of four or five dogs like that and looked towards Xi’an.

Xian had already built a mountain with the corpses of ants.

“Go quickly.”

“Ah, yes.”

When Zach saw that, he put on a dejected expression.

Having already been subdued at the entrance to the city, I knew they were a strong group, but I didn’t expect them to be this strong.

The momentum alone was comparable to the Masters I had seen before.

‘What is it?’

As a result, I became more and more curious about my identity.

He certainly doesn’t look that old, but at that age, he’s reached this level.

“This way looks good. There are no dangerous terrain, and above all, it will be difficult for winged ones to attack.”

No matter what Zach was thinking, Xian was thorough in his mission.

There were more than ten routes to Everwhale that Caldwin knew.

I was checking the 6th one, but this route was the best so far.

‘Even if only those with wings are blocked well, the safety will go up.’

That was what Xian considered most important.

Huge trees grow on this route, covering the sky with their branches and leaves.

You won’t be able to completely block the winged ants, but you’ll be able to stop a lot of them.

“I agree too. For now, it would be better to decide this way.”

Zach also looked around at the giant trees around him and talked.

This is the tomb of the giants. It’s not just the monsters that are affected by that fraud. Compared to continental ones, the grass was much tougher, and the trees were taller.

Among them, the giant trees in this place were even taller than the surrounding forest.

Enough to wrap around a tree and require a few people to hug it with their arms wide open.

“First, check the rest of the route and go.”

“I get it.”

Xian spoke while looking at the sky that could be seen little by little through the branches.

Still blue sky. But there wasn’t much time left until sunset.

“I’m in a bit of a hurry.”

“okay.”

It’s a bit tight to check all the routes before sunset.

Xian and Zach left to check other routes.

after that time passed.

The two people who had seen all 10 roads arrived in front of the giant forest again.

Looking at the forest of trees that looked like giants in front of him, Xian spoke.

“I think this is the best, what do you think?”

“I agree too.”

There was no easier way to escape than here. All other roads are either open to the sky or too empty to stop the ants from pursuing them.

Xian and Zach nodded and returned to the city.

It’s already been more than half a day. The sun had already set.

“Will the city be okay?”

“About a day is enough. Also, your colleagues are there.”

If I couldn’t stand this much, I wouldn’t have settled here in the first place.

Zach confidently answers.

however.

Seeing the flames rising in front of them, the two stopped abruptly.

“What about that fire?”

“It’s the city side!”

Zach was frightened.

It was by no means a small spark. It’s as if the whole city is on fire.

“Damn it!”

Zach let out a disgust and immediately started running.

How in just one day? What the hell happened?

His mind was filled with confusion, and he didn’t even notice.

A human figure falling from above him.

– Kaang!

“Huh!”

It was Xian who stopped it.

He stepped on the ‘island’ and ran to attack the assailant who attacked Zach.

I thought he was flying far away, but he corrected his posture and landed.

“be careful. It’s still their domain.”

“Oh, thank you.”

After a brief conversation, the two looked at the assailant.

At first glance, she seemed like an ordinary woman.

But red eyes that glow in the dark. Its shiny skin reminiscent of black steel had fangs that curved horizontally on both sides of its lips.

No matter where you looked, he wasn’t human.

“Queen! It’s a queen ant!”

“Queen? is that?”

Xian frowned at Zach’s words.

Certainly, it’s not that there aren’t any corners that remind me of ants, but it was more like a human than an ant.

“The mayor said he had seen it before when he was young. The queen ant reconstitutes the body of the prey she ate and uses as a weapon.”

“Then that… … .”

“Not one or two people have been eaten by him.”

It is said that the human form that has been eaten so far is implemented and used here and there.

Xian raised his sword and aimed it at him.

With Zach’s information, I knew the guy’s identity and abilities. However, Xian knew something that Zach did not.

‘I can feel the devil’s energy.’

Demonic power is felt in the queen.

Originally, she had to rely on Ravi to sense the devil’s power, but now Xian could sense the power alone.

How many demonic powers have you absorbed so far?

‘Then what’s inside is not the queen ant, but the devil.’

he judged so

In the past, at Mt. Gryupane, Erze and Ravi fought a demon that descended on the body of a high orc baby.

If you think about that time, it is not impossible that you descend on the body of an ant.

A queen who leads the giant ant would have a much more useful body than most humans.

“I heard that the Queen doesn’t come out of the depths, so why are you here! Do, you have to run away!”

Leaving behind Zach, who was frightened and backing away, Xian took a step forward.

Zach trembled when he saw Xian like that.

“Are you going to fight?”

“You go back to the city. Assess the situation and call for help if you can afford it.”

Zach shuddered.

what the hell is that! To stop the terrifying queen ant alone!

‘Stand, no way.’

A possibility flashed through his mind.

Are you trying to give yourself time to escape? risk your life?

Zach looked at Xian with eyes as if he were moved.

However, what was in Xian’s eyes was not such a beautiful thing as the spirit of sacrifice.

It was fighting spirit.

“It is rather an opportunity.”

If you catch him, this mess will end.

Seeing Xian talking like that, Zach was at a loss for words.

* * *

Zach turned and ran towards Keldwin.

Seeing that, the queen ant wriggled her eyes.

Soon, one of his hands changed and turned into something like a long awl.

Then he spurred the ground and stabbed Zach aiming for the back of his head.

– Kang!

Xian’s sword, which penetrated at once, removed the guy’s awl.

“I’ll be back soon! If there is no chance, run away too!”

After Zach said that, he ran toward the city.

He slashed indiscriminately at the ants that stood in his way and made his way to the burning Keldwin.

What was left was Xian, the queen ant, and the ants surrounding them in a circle.

“What is your name?”

Xian asked the guy. To the devil who stole the body of the queen ant.

-this… … um… … ?

But he couldn’t speak properly. Just stuttering like a child just learning to speak.

‘Is the vocal organ not good?’

Thinking so, Xian stabbed his sword and entered.

However, it only brushed the queen’s dark hair. Effective hits could not be fed.

The queen ant immediately counterattacks.

Sian grabbed the awl with his left hand.

‘Ravi!’

‘yes!’

Xian was also left alone because he had a good chance of winning.

I don’t know who that guy is, but I’m confident that if it’s a demon, I won’t be able to break free from Ravi’s chains.

Soon, an invisible, intangible chain wrapped around the queen ant.

A chain of oppression born with the providence of Hell.

‘This is the end of this commotion.’

If only the queen ant is restrained, this division will end.

It was Xian who thought so.

– Kyaa!

The chains had no effect on the queen at all. The guy roughly pushed off Xian’s hand and kicked his foot up.

Seeing the result different from what he expected, Xi’an widened his eyes and distanced himself.

Then the queen’s back wriggled, and wings sprouted and soared into the sky.

‘The chain doesn’t work?’

Xian frowned as he saw the queen staring at her while floating in the air.

Why didn’t the chain work? Does that guy become a demon with a higher rank than Ravi?

‘No, that wouldn’t be it.’

If that was the case, he would have restrained Ravi reversely at that moment. Like Psyche, who was bound in reverse while trying to redeem herself.

If he didn’t, it means he’s not higher than Ravi.

Then there are two possibilities. One being equal to Ravi, and the other being.

“… … Aren’t you a demon?”

His own guess that the true identity of the guy was a demon that descended to the ground was wrong.

But if it’s not the devil, what is this energy of hell that I can feel sticky even at this moment?

At that moment, the queen ant’s ability that Zach had just heard about appeared in Xian’s mind.

‘Use the body of the devoured target.’

If you use that ability.

The guy’s true identity.

“You ate the devil.”

It is not a demon that descended into the body of the queen ant. It was the queen ant that ate the devil.

How he was able to eat the devil’s corpse.

The answer came without thinking deeply.

It must have been procured and fed by the black magician who was here.

“Tsk.”

Xian clicked his tongue.

If it was a demon, it would have been easier, but it made things difficult.

-Kia!

The queen ant fell like lightning to Xian.

Suddenly, the guy’s other hand also turned into an awl and pierced Xian.

cooong!

Xian took out the sword ring from the seal and blocked the guy’s awl. At the same time, he changed the sword he was holding into a big sword and instructed him to attack.

While attacking Xian, the secret sword rushed toward his exposed back.

– Kiy!

Kagaga River!

However, a number of thorns, like tree branches, grew from his back, and he cut off the secret sword.

Kang!

Xian tried to cut off the guy’s arm by swinging the sword ring wrapped in an aura, but that didn’t work either.

‘It’s definitely hard because it’s a demon’s body.’

The strength was so high that it could not be compared to the steel ants of the past.

The counter-elasticity was also no joke, to the point that the hand on the side that had been knocked off trembled.

‘then.’

Xian’s eyes sank and he exchanged sword strikes with the queen several times.

The sword wheel wielded by Xian in the front, and the secret sword wielded by Ravi in the back.

They were simultaneously attacking from the front and back, but the queen ant was also formidable.

Her extremely sensitive senses made it possible to know the location of the secret sword as if she were looking into it, even without seeing it.

However, even if sword attacks could be stopped, there were some things that could not be stopped.

‘When breaking something hard.’

The aura of the night that blooms from both the sword ring and the secret sword.

It was spreading in the space like ink on drawing paper, and after dozens of sword strikes, Xian’s aura was already filling this place.

‘I have to cut it off at once.’

With overwhelming power to cut everything off.

Xian raised his sword.

Then the queen flinched, perhaps sensing something ominous.

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The secret sword in Xian’s hand bent and took the form of a saber. sword spirit, brain name.

The aura of the night that had been spread here flocked to the sword that poured out lightning, and before long it began to emit black lightning.

-… … !

The queen trembled greatly and immediately jumped backwards on the ground.

A group of ants like a tidal wave. The queen took refuge in it.

Without stopping, the ants around them pushed forward and created a barrier between Xian and the queen.

While trampling and crushing the ants in front of them, they built a solid wall at the Queen’s command.

There were also hundreds of courtesy steel ants among them.

Xian struck the sword at the wall, no, at the queen hiding behind the wall.

[ Heavenly Sword (霜天劍) – Heavenly Thunder (天雷)]

Black lightning fell, turning the sky upside down.