How the Shadow of the Marquis Lives

Chapter 162

It wasn’t that I didn’t understand.

In fact, the atmosphere at Everwhale these days has been quite tense.

What is being done here is an agreement to end the war. In other words, the war is not over yet.

This Everwhale could be said to be the battlefield where the last war was fought.

The only difference is that the pen and the food are exchanged, not the sword.

That’s why Xi’an is also living more quietly.

‘Because that has nothing to do with Psyche.’

That was just the position of the people on earth, and it had nothing to do with Psyche.

From her point of view, she just wants to return to the contractor, but an irrelevant obstacle is blocking her way.

It was the same as having made a lot of concessions just by being patient until now.

“Okay, let’s go.”

So Xian didn’t block anymore.

He nodded and rose from his seat, putting on the black coat he had draped over the chair.

It was a functional coat optimized for night activities without any common silver ornaments.

[Are you coming too? I’m fine with myself.]

“I’m going to the place where the queen is, but I know what will happen and send her alone.”

Xian smiled bitterly and showed her the spirit imprint on his wrist.

It was Ravi’s imprint, and Ravi absorbed Psyche’s power well and created a sword called Ice Crystal.

After all, Psyche lost her power because of her, so how could she send her to such a place alone?

[Still, it’s dangerous to get caught. Don’t do that, stay here.]

“are you okay.”

Moreover.

When Xian had a fight with the Dragon King, Psyche helped Xian despite having no reason to fight him.

Before that, even when he said he would go to the domain of Haeryunggung, he said he would accompany him without hesitation, and it was her help that he escaped from Elia’s seal in the first place.

In this circumstance, Xian was not ungrateful enough to throw her away on the grounds that it would be dangerous if discovered.

“You don’t have to be caught.”

He stepped on the window frame and held out his hand to Psyche.

Perhaps knowing that Xian’s intentions were firm, Psyche did not dissuade her any more. She slipped into gear and, as usual, wrapped around Xian’s wrist.

-widely!

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Just like before, he jumped under the roof of the night sky.

Then, they headed to the inn where Elia and the envoys of Glacier Baengnyeong were staying.

It was a place I had already been to twice, so I was able to arrive without hesitation.

“Then what do we do now… … .”

The roof of the building opposite the accommodation. Hiding in the shadow of the chimney, Xian pondered.

Up to this point, there were no boundaries, so it was easy to approach, but this front was a problem.

Originally, this ideal was a place where the boundary was thick, and not only that, but it seemed that the boundary was further strengthened because of the dagger thrown the other day and breaking the spear.

No matter how much the night aura was hiding Xian’s presence in the night, it was a point where some devising was needed.

[Enough here.]

“huh?”

[Please wait here.]

Psyche slid down from Xian’s wrist and rubbed her torso three or four times with her mouth.

After removing one such small scale, she handed it to Xian.

“This?”

[It’s weak, but it’s a scale that’s connected to me. If something happens, I’ll send you a signal with this.]

He told me to wait around here because he would contact me if something really big happened.

Xian nodded and held the scales.

“Apart from the other knights, if it were the queen, I think she would have installed several layers of barrier magic, would that be okay?”

[What are you looking at me for?]

When Xian asked, Psyche grinned.

Even so, it looked like a small baby snake, so it was dignified and there was nothing… … .

Although she lost her power, it didn’t mean that her status had gone down.

devil of hell. Being on the same line as the Demon Dragon King – although there was a difference in weight – he should be able to clearly see through barrier magic.

[I can’t break it, but it’s good enough to escape undetected.]

“okay. Be careful.”

Xian came down from the roof and lowered Psyche to the ground.

While receiving his send-off, Psyche secretly approached the accommodation of Glacier Baengnyeong.

* * *

‘Hmm, though it’s quite tricky.’

As expected, barrier magic spread all around the inn.

The flow of magical power invisible to ordinary people was clearly reflected in Psyche’s eyes.

A magic circle that completely covers the entire inn is flaunting its existence by scattering colorful lights.

Dodging and bypassing all the lights one by one, Psyche approached them.

‘It’s cha.’

Unlike magic that emits brilliant light, there were also several types of magic that were extremely faint even in Psyche’s eyes, but all of them were useless.

In the first place, she doesn’t just detect magic with her eyes.

Rather, it was her other senses that were much more developed than her eyes.

After grunting for a while, she was able to climb the outer wall of the building.

‘It was over there.’

I already know the room where the rumor is. I had been here before, and above all, there was a string of contracts, so there was no reason to get lost.

She climbed up the outer wall and approached the window in Yu Seol’s room.

Fortunately, the window was slightly open for ventilation.

It was a small entrance that people would never pass through, but to her, as a snake, it had nothing to do with it.

She slipped through the gap.

But at that moment.

“uh?”

Psyche felt a strong sense of incongruity.

everything has changed

The magical power that enveloped him everywhere, the air that touched his skin, and even the scenery he could see.

She must have entered a room in a luxury inn, but strangely, what she saw before her eyes was a dense forest.

A forest surrounded like a fence and a temple located in the middle.

‘Where are you? Are you sure you entered the room? What about Seola?’

Psyche’s expression hardened even more as she first traced the strings of the contract again.

At first, I thought it was a trap magic. Traps such as forcibly warping enemies caught in the distance.

But that wasn’t it.

If that was the case, the string of contracts that led to rumors would have been that far.

However, the string of the contract that I sensed in the room was clearly here.

It wasn’t that she was blown away, but that Psyche was still in that room.

‘There are two possibilities.’

One is mental magic.

But the odds of that were very low.

Mental magic is a magic that has a disastrous success rate even if it is performed by a person with a high status for a long time to a person with a low level.

If Elia had been able to do that, she would have subdued the Demon Dragon King long ago and remained.

If there are any other possibilities.

‘Space Magic… … In other words, sealing magic.’

Haven’t you experienced it before?

With Xian, the whole forest is the experience of being trapped in the backspace.

It meant that it was unfolding in this room with so much detail that you wouldn’t even notice it until you walked in.

Psyche first sent a signal to the scales that Xian was holding.

It seems that her existence has not been discovered by Elia yet, but it is already an emergency from the fact that something like this is installed in the room of rumors.

If it was the queen’s room, they would think it was to protect themselves, but what was the reason to spread space magic of this scale in the room of Yuseol?

Without Psyche, Yuseol is just an ordinary girl who can’t make even one common ice arrow.

-gulp.

Psyche swallowed.

If it had been her in the past, she would have done it without hesitation, but now that she lost her power, she couldn’t.

Right now, she doesn’t have the strength to withstand Elia.

still.

‘Let’s go in quickly.’

I came this far and couldn’t go back.

Rather, it was to the point where I regretted why I hadn’t come sooner.

* * *

forest temple.

It was Elia’s own private estate built a long time ago.

A girl was now lying in such a temple.

She is lying on the altar, dressed in spotless white clothes. A dense magic circle was drawn around the altar.

They were by no means recently drawn magic circles.

The magic circles that had been drawn one by one for decades, no, hundreds of years ago, were stacked one after another as if to prove the time.

And at the very top, Queen Elia who draws a new magic circle for this generation.

Outside, negotiations to end the war were in full swing, but she wasn’t very interested in that.

Now she has only one purpose.

Moving memories and souls from Garcia’s body, which began to crumble over time, to the body of the next generation.

The method she chose after encountering the Demon Dragon King and experiencing extreme fear was not passing on the vast amount of knowledge and time she had accumulated on her own to the next generation.

She did not think that her descendants would be able to surpass the Demon Dragon King by leaving such things behind.

He thought that only she, who was born with the highest talent and eventually became a hero who saved the world, could stand up to the Demon Dragon King.

So she chose to preserve herself and created this forest temple and soul transfer magic.

‘It will end soon.’

Elia slowly, really slowly drew the magic circle step by step.

It was a job that required great delicacy. Even though she had already done the same task dozens of times, Elia was not vigilant and reviewed it even more carefully.

In the meantime, I looked at the sleeping Yuseol with a comfortable face.

‘I was surprised when I first saw it.’

I didn’t really think much of it when I first saw it, but after seeing it again, I was surprised.

Elia, thinking that she should slowly prepare the body of the next generation to replace Garcia, watched all the children of that generation.

All the children of the Yu family, including Yujin, Yeonyeon, and Yuseol, as well as the children of other major families.

However, there was nothing to fill the spirituality.

Elia, who thought that Yoo Yeon-yeon had a chance, let this generation pass moderately and try again in the next generation.

What surprised her was when she saw the 6-year-old Yoo Seol again.

Clearly, when he was just born, Yu Seol, who had no talent or power and was not considered a vessel that could accept himself, began to grow explosively from the age of six.

To be precise, her power itself was still insignificant, but the vessel for accepting it widened.

To the extent that even all the other children of the same generation put together can’t even say one thing.

‘In this way, the time to transfer the soul and regain strength is greatly reduced.’

Originally, a person’s vessel is prepared in proportion to the body, and it is a hardship when a vessel enters the body of a small person.

Elia’s purpose is obviously to raise the level through generations, but it takes a considerable amount of time only to regain the previous level when the vessel enters a small person.

However, if the container that accepts the power is large like Yuseol, he could transfer the soul while maintaining a large part of his current state.

She began to pay attention to Yu-seol, and after the war broke out and Yu-seol ran away from the academy and returned, she thought that she should start working in earnest.

First, call her to the fairy palace and keep her nearby. At the same time, it is said to be good for the body, and various reagents and medicinal materials are ingested little by little.

Reagents and medicines are not particularly bad for the body. Rather, they were items close to restorative medicine or elixir.

From now on, it is the body that you will enter, so there is no way you can feed bad things.

‘Although I was in a state of confusion because of the war.’

Rather, I saw this as an opportunity.

Based on experience, it is easier to move the soul in times of war than in times of peace.

It had nothing to do with the settlement of the soul, but when it came to a more practical matter, namely the succession of the queenship, I liked the chaotic times.

I made a decision like that, and put Yu Seol aside.

It’s been about a year since I activated the forest temple and started drawing magic circles in earnest.

Now was the time to bear fruit.

‘I’ll have to talk about it even if it’s raining soon.’

It was the only noble family in Glacier Baengnyeong that knew Elia’s secret.

Exactly, only the head of the family knows.

This is because Biga itself was created by Elia in the first place to easily solve various realistic problems.

In order to easily succeed to the queenship as Yu Seol, there were several tasks that had to be done in advance.

I was sorting out the things I had to do one by one.

“huh?”

Her hand froze in the air. Something that shouldn’t have been detected.

“… … .”