How the Shadow of the Marquis Lives

Chapter 59

“Oh… … ugh… … .”

“yes! Ugh!”

Erze struggled to lift his eyelids at the soft touch on his cheeks.

All that was reflected in those eyes was a collapsed cavity.

He was buried in the rubble, and the spirit of Xian was desperately waking him up.

“uh… … how… … .”

“Ugh!”

The moment I was about to mutter, “What happened?” A small shadow fell over her head.

She raised her head.

A baby orc with large insect wings was looking down at her.

Her heart sank.

‘ah… … .’

I remembered.

Due to this guy’s unknown attack, the underground cavity is half destroyed, and the debris falls down.

He tried to avoid it as much as possible, but it was impossible to avoid all of them.

Even more so, there was a shock caused by the sound waves it fired.

I fainted because of it.

It seems that the fainting time was short, but… … .

[You are foolish, fellow countryman. Did you come to eat me with that insignificant power?]

He spoke to her, no, to be precise, to Ravi, who was on her cheek.

I couldn’t figure out what he was talking about.

Ravi trembled and buried his face behind her ear.

[joy.]

He lowered his altitude to the floor and picked up Ravi.

Ravi twisted his body around to get out, but it was impossible. I couldn’t escape the guy’s grip.

Cleverly, only the arm part of the body was released, and the state of being free from the danger of the leash.

[Still, it seems that there are some things piled up. It’s just fine. I will eat you instead of the pigs’ magic stones.]

The guy lifted Ravi up and opened his mouth wide.

“yes! Ugh!”

Ravi shook his body as if he didn’t like it.

The whole scene caught the eye of the collapsed Ergé.

‘Spirit of Xi’an… … .’

her eyes twitched

Even though she was shrunken by fear, she opened her mouth involuntarily.

“… … Don’t.”

The baby orc rolled his eyes at her.

Then he spoke with a mocking expression.

[Can’t you hear me?]

The guy let go of his hand.

Labyrinth fell into his mouth.

The scene was locked in Ergé’s eyes like slow motion.

She opened her eyes wide.

right after that.

‘ah… … .’

A strange feeling came over her.

everything has stopped

The feeling that the whole world is frozen cold.

In that remote place, only she was left helpless.

‘This… … .’

The experience that I had as a child, and that I had recently experienced again.

Could it be because of trauma? Tears welled up at first.

but.

―Because the moment of realization always comes suddenly.

she didn’t cry

Xian’s words lingered in her mind over and over again.

moment of enlightenment.

Why did you come back so soon?

Because it’s an emergency? Or to hustle yourself for not getting anything out of the last two experiences?

I couldn’t tell.

But either way it didn’t matter.

The only thing that matters is that you came back.

The cold that invades the body, the unknown fear and fear. and loneliness.

In all that sense, she no longer ran away.

I just accepted it as it is.

If this is really the moment of enlightenment, as Xian said.

[The reason why I take up a knife in this cold world. ]

I thought it might give me the strength to overcome this situation.

‘ah.’

Black lines stretched across her eyes. The lines stretched out and began to branch.

As if it would cover everything in sight.

It wasn’t any seniority or mental method, it was the mana she awakened on her own.

The color of that mana is getting darker.

“… … .”

Before long, the world started to move again.

Ravi, who was suspended in the air, fell into the baby orc’s mouth.

Ravi’s eyes trembled with fear, and the baby orc’s eyes were filled with unparalleled joy.

Even though it was a small power, it was always fun for them to prey on their fellow countrymen.

at that time.

hooked

[…] … ah?]

A dagger was lodged in his neck.

The baby orc trembled at the burning pain rising from his neck.

Thanks to that, Ravi fell to the floor instead of his mouth.

[This year… … !]

Even though the dagger was stuck in his throat, he did not die. Because this body was not his true body.

The baby orc frowned and looked down.

there.

“Don’t eat.”

Red-tinted eyes stared at him in the dark.

* * *

Xian’s sword wrapped in aura falls down.

Although Ravi wasn’t here, there was no problem with casting an aura. Because all that energy belonged to Xian.

[Hoo!]

Seeing the sword surrounded by a black aura, Haqsh’s eyes lit up.

His anger and jealousy, which once flared up, did not subside at all, but a small curiosity intervened in them.

[The proof of a great warrior! The young guy is amazing!]

He lifted the glaive that was wrapped in speculation.

Quaang-! The shockwaves from the two auras collided and spread to the son-in-law.

Xian frowned.

The power struggle is disadvantageous this way.

Haqsh twisted the corner of his mouth into a laugh and swung the ax in the other hand.

[But immature!]

Xian opened her eyes wide.

His ax was aimed at his own sword, not himself.

His fighting spirit penetrated the jet-black aura little by little.

It meant that this side was being pushed back in the operation of the aura.

‘Tsk.’

Sian clicked his tongue and jumped back to spread the distance.

An ax came flying furiously at him.

Xian opened his eyes wide and bent his upper body to avoid it.

[Speculation is not something that is used like that. It’s a human child.]

Haqsh grinned.

Tsutsutsutsu.

The guy’s overflowing speculation slowly subsided.

But that didn’t go away. Smaller, but more sharply compressed, the blade of the glaive began to sharpen.

It exudes an energy that seems like it could cut you just by looking at it.

“… … .”

concise and sharp.

A highly compressed aura with no gaps.

Tsutsu.

I’ve already seen it twice, including the time of Isaac. Xian remembered them and tried to compress his aura.

Roaring!

But it didn’t work out.

The slightly compressed aura could not overcome its own strength and poured down again.

Seeing the rising black aura, Xian frowned.

You have to admit what you have to admit.

Compressing the aura was still impossible for him.

but.

‘I’m not the only Aura.’

He got into a position and kicked the ground.

[ Sangcheon Sword – Island ]

The distance between the two narrowed as if it had folded, and the sword wrapped in a gust of wind pierced Haqsh’s throat.

[No way!]

Quaang!

His glaive struck Xian’s sword.

Xian was not taken aback. The blockage was already expected.

he kicked the ground

The next moment, he was already occupying Haqsh’s right side.

Seeing Xian’s sudden disappearance, Haqsh’s eyes widened.

Not being caught off guard by that appearance, Xian thrust out his sword.

[ Heavenly Sword – True ]

A sword without a trace cut through the boy’s throat.

however.

Knock!

His big hand gripped Xian’s sword tightly.

A sword surrounded by a jet-black aura. However, his hand was also wrapped in compressed speculation.

[Left tricks.]

He laughed and hit Xian’s head with a glaive.

Seeing the rushing glaive, cyan’s eyebrows were wrinkled.

I tried to draw the sword, but it wouldn’t budge.

It would be impossible to dodge the sword. The sword once stolen will never come back.

There is no Ravi right now, so the sword cannot be retrieved.

If the only weapon was lost, this battle was an unconditional defeat.

“Kuk!”

So what he chose.

It was a forced twist.

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

Koo Goo Goo!

His sword engulfed in a wild aura and cut down on his hand.

Quaang!

[…] … !]

The glaive that hit Xian’s head was stuck to the ground.

From a short distance away, Xian brushed off the blood on his sword.

His eyes were sunken.

Haqsh looked at Xian and his own hands with a slightly surprised expression.

The palm, which was wrapped in compressed speculation, was torn in length.

I never thought I’d break through the speculation and succeed in the attack.

[Quack! It was a guy who could have done it. It deserves the mark of a great warrior.]

Haqsh squeezed his hand.

The dripping blood evaporated in an instant. When I opened my hand, the wound on my palm was already forming.

Even if it wasn’t as much as Ravi’s night’s rest, it was a level of regeneration that transcended humans and ordinary Orcs.

Xian clicked his tongue.

As long as it has low regenerative power, it is not possible to attack by gnawing with small wounds.

It is necessary to somehow create an opening and kill it in one blow.

[But that… … Can I show you this easily?]

Looking at Xian with a complicated expression, Haqsh laughed. Boldly for one shot.

Rather, Xian, who had hurt him, made an uncomfortable expression.

‘Thunder is hard to hit.’

The power is perfect.

Lightning spread with an aura-clad sword.

Even with his own Aura, which was still lacking, he pierced his compressed fighting spirit, so his power was beyond anything.

If you hit it right, you’ll be able to crush its head no matter how well it defends itself.

But fitting it was difficult.

There is only one thunderbolt sword. A straight line from heaven to earth.

If the opponent doesn’t know about the existence of the skill, they won’t know.

Since it is a swordsmanship that neglected defense from the beginning, it is easy to be countered by an opponent who has been hit once.

It wasn’t good in many ways.

Dismissed!

Xian ran up to him and thrust his sword.

With a thunderbolt sword that cuts from top to bottom.

But again, it didn’t work for him.

suck! Harksh dodged the thunderbolt with agile movements unsuitable for his large size.

Also no.

Knowing that it would miss, Xian quickly moved into the next move.

Haqsh threw a glaive at Xian.

Caang! Kang! Kang!

In the air, his glaive and Xian’s sword collided again and again.

In between, Xi’an was constantly looking at the timing to insert the Thunderbolt.

[Khahahahaha! Isn’t it too obvious!]

Hakshi noticed them like a ghost and avoided them all.

Eventually, the battle began to enter into a war of attrition.

In other words, Xi’an is going back unfavorably.

‘I have to write a number before it’s too late.’

I couldn’t waste any more health and mana.

Caan-!

big bump. Xian’s body was slightly pushed back, and Haqshi was also briefly shaken from his balance.

Xian’s eyes shone.

[ Ghost Sword (鬼力劍) – Ammu (暗霧)]

As Haqshi preoccupied the direction to be located next, Xian’s sword shot like a snake.

Kang!

It was Hakshi who somehow blocked it, but with that, his posture was disturbed once more.

It was too small a gap to be said to have collapsed, but it was the biggest opportunity for Xian.

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

His sword fell as black lightning.

can not avoid.

Xian and Haqsh were both convinced of it.

Blood began to form in Haqsh’s eyes.

[cheeky!]

He let out a cry like an animal and built up his fighting spirit.

Koo Goo Goo!

Black lightning falling down. A sword imbued with heavenly energy.

Haqsh raised the glaive with bloodshot eyes.

[If you can’t avoid it, stop it!]

His eyes were bloodshot and his muscles swelled twice as much.

His entire body began to heat up red at the speed of blood flow.

His glaive rushed in to tear Xian’s heart apart.

Xian’s sword cut down the guy’s head.

and.

aaa!

An incomparable shock wave swept through the son-in-law.

“What, what!”

“what’s the matter!”

A shockwave so huge that it resonated even with those fighting in the plaza in the center of the garrison, a little far away.

Tuduk! Dudududuk!

Trees in the vicinity were helplessly broken and uprooted, and the ground was greatly dented.

Gradually the binge lessened, followed by silence.

Which of the two is standing up?

[Keu, hahahahaha!]

High Orc’s Great Warrior.

Even though one arm was torn in half and blood was spurting out, he was the one standing anyway.

Xian was lying on the ground, leaning against a tree that had been brutally broken down.

“Cool!”

He coughed up blood and looked up.

My eyes were squinting.

Is it the aftermath of a shock? My vision was slightly blurry, as if it was out of focus.

With that blurry vision, I could see Haqsh raging.

[Well done for a young human! It was a good battle for the first time in a while.]

Harksh approached with a smile as if only the joy of victory was left over the anger.

Life dripped from the glaive in his hand.

aww

Xian gritted it.

Then I got up.

My whole body was creaking like a cog that didn’t mesh.

[Ha ha ha ha ha!]

Xian raised his head.

In the distance, I see my classmates fighting desperately against the high orcs.

They couldn’t afford to come this way because they were dealing with the high orcs in front of them.

Among them, Instructor Tail. When he saw Xian, he tried to run right away, but over ten high orcs marked him intensively.

Instructor Tail was screaming for his throat to tear as he slashed the glaive between them.

no one to help

From the beginning, there was a big difference between the strength of the students and the high orcs.

Instructor Tail, the other classmates, and Erze.

A situation in which they were all thrown into a life-and-death battle.

The scarlet sunset was lighting up the battlefield red as if burning its life.

And now.

“after.”

Even that sunset is sinking.

Xian let out a deep breath and stood up.

[hmm?]

Seeing Xian standing up as if he was more normal than he thought, Haqsh squinted his eyes.

Meanwhile the sun was setting over the ridge.

The setting sun has set and darkness is coming.

Xian let out a long breath and fixed his sword. A thicker black aura enveloped his body.

The night has come.