How the Shadow of the Marquis Lives

Episode 71

Xi’an’s movements changed after he was convinced that the warlock was here.

He put the secret sword back on top of his head and settled still, catching the incoming Lizardman.

“draft! Didn’t students tell them to evacuate!”

On the way, the instructors or instructors who are fighting in the middle of the battle.

“draft! Altima talked about this, but maybe this… … .”

Students, I also ran into Allen.

I also thought this guy wouldn’t have evacuated.

He had a hearing ear around him, so he blurted out the end of his words, but Xian was able to fully guess what was going on behind the scenes.

“maybe. I’m trying to find out where he’s hiding.”

“really? Did you find any clues?”

“no.”

Xian shook his head as he spat negative words at Allen, who instantly turned bright.

“I’m just going around looking for anything suspicious.”

“Um… … .”

“how about you. Any way to detect him?”

“No, neither do I.”

Xian and Allen’s gaze collided in the air.

At that moment, the two people who understood each other nodded their heads.

Then he started running in the opposite direction.

It is a random search without any clues. It is far better to split up than to stay together.

‘Ravi.’

‘yes… … .’

On the way, he kept asking Ravi, but he didn’t seem to feel any special energy.

hooked!

Slashing at the Lizardmen blocking his way, Xian observed the arena without exception.

‘yes!’

Awesome!

At the same time, Ravi’s moving secret sword was holding the wyvern overhead.

At first, it was not as sharp as when Xian sent his thoughts and controlled it, but he was still able to knock down 1-2 Wyverns without difficulty.

In the first place, no matter what the wyvern does, Ravi, the sword, does not take any damage.

Because it was only a one-sided chase and Bell, Wyvern had no choice but to be defeated helplessly.

Lizardmen and wyverns used to cut down smoothly, but Xian was just nervous.

‘The clue is… … .’

No matter how much I search, no matter how much I stare at it, I can’t find any clues.

No one is hiding, and no suspicious artifacts are found.

Even at this moment, lizardmen were pouring from the blood pool and wyverns were pouring from the black gate in the air.

“Kaak-!”

Another Lizardman rushes in. I started to get annoyed at the guys who endlessly ran into the yard without a clue.

Xian’s eyebrows twitched as he swung his sword.

Kang!

However, the sword was blocked.

Xian flinched on the spot.

“Kakak!”

As if laughing at him, the Lizardmen roared and stabbed bloody spears.

Shook! Shu Shu Shuk! Kang!

Xian retrieved his sword and slashed his spear.

But it gets stabbed again and again. Sharp blows, each aiming at a vital point.

It was completely different from the Lizardmen so far.

‘Ooh, ooh! Ugh!’

In the meantime, Ravi sent an urgent thought.

Looking up, I saw Ravi struggling with a single wyvern.

The movement of the wyvern was also different from before.

In this situation, the monsters who had been defeated with ease suddenly became stronger.

Xian’s eyes brightened.

‘It’s a clue.’

There must be a reason for the sudden change.

For example, someone cast support magic behind the scenes.

Finding it will give you clues to the Warlock’s location.

At that thought, Xian raised his aura.

A black aura covers him.

However, it did not spread outside and was completely contained within Xian.

‘Concentrate on the senses.’

Focus on strengthening the senses including sight and hearing rather than muscle strength or quickness.

Although the opponent has become stronger, it is not difficult to defeat them.

What was needed now was not strength to overwhelm the enemy, but a sense to not miss clues.

“Karak!”

Whiik-!

The reinforced Lizardman’s spearhead fell like a guillotine. Calmly avoiding it, Xian stabbed the sword.

Kirik. At that speed, which can never be seen as fast, the Lizardman raised an eyebrow.

Poof!

The Lizardman who sneers and stabs the spear vigorously.

Ignoring that, Xian observed the wyvern that he and Ravi were dealing with.

‘There is no special flow of energy.’

There was no appearance of support magic entering in real time.

If so, there is a possibility that it is a form of magic that lasts for several hours when it is applied once.

There are fewer clues than in real time, but that’s okay.

If you look at that mana pattern, you’ll see something.

Kang!

While organizing his thoughts like that, Xian dealt with the Lizardman.

In the meantime.

‘huh?’

I felt something out of place.

“Karak! Kaaa!”

Upon seeing Xian, who stopped for a moment, Lizardman rushed at him with shining eyes. There was a smile on his lips that he had already won.

however.

Kwaji support!

“Cuck… … ?”

Xian’s sword completely shattered the Lizardman’s spear.

It didn’t stop there and landed on the guy’s head.

Kwajik!

His sword cuts him in two as he shatters his skull.

Lizardman’s dismembered corpse fell to the ground.

Not feeling the excitement of having won, Xian pushed the corpse with his foot and turned it sideways.

I saw something shiny near the nape of the corpse’s neck.

‘scales?’

It was the scales.

However, it is different from other scales that cover the body tightly. Unlike the other scales, that one scale grew upside down.

Xian raised his head.

‘Ugh, uhh-!’

Ravi is tearing up as he sees the wyvern, who can’t be caught no matter how much he chases it.

Xian, who observed the creature’s movements for a while, began to control the secret sword by sending his own thoughts.

Awesome!

A little time was enough for the reinforcing wyvern’s head to fall off.

Xian picked up the head of the wyvern, which had fallen while splattering blood, with both hands.

And look to the side

‘… … It’s here too.’

Sure enough, I saw scales that were inverted just like the Lizardman.

Xian’s eyes were shining and he hunted all the Lizardmen nearby. Ravi also dropped the wyvern’s neck mainly.

That’s how I checked the nape of more than ten objects.

The inverted scales did not exist except for the strengthened object from earlier.

‘This is it.’

I found a clue.

And at the same time, the suspect also came to mind.

The instructors and students I saw while walking around earlier. Some of them were neither instructors nor students.

“Kuh! President! I can’t stand it any longer! President! President Zerech!”

The man who is struggling to stop the students in the area that is being pushed back.

Wearing blood-splattered armor and wielding a sword encased in an aura.

Xian immediately ran there.

“Now, are you a student too! Hide behind me!”

“… … .”

Sian approached him and saw the nape of the man’s neck.

There was a square band attached there, as if there was a wound. In exactly the same location as the reinforced objects.

It’s possible that it wasn’t, but I couldn’t help but check it out.

“If it was my misunderstanding, I apologize.”

“what?”

Xian approached him and quickly removed the band.

The man’s face turned blue in an instant, and he hurriedly covered the nape of his neck with his hand.

A large toad-like hand covers all the places where the band was located.

However, in the short time after the band fell, he couldn’t avoid Xian’s eyes.

On his neck, which he looked at for a moment, an inverted scale had grown.

“Allen! It’s here!”

He called Allen in a loud voice and swung his sword at the same time.

Towards the city’s garrison captain Kelln.

* * *

“You little bastard!”

In an instant, Kellen’s face turned ferocious.

His mind couldn’t have been more complex.

How did you find out about the existence of the poison in your throat? Could it be that I ran into some unleashed enhanced entities?

But even so.

‘I wouldn’t normally pay attention to scales like this!’

As he thought, there was no one who cared about each and every scale of a lizardman or a wyvern.

In fact, there were a few more strengthened Lizardmen and Wyverns besides the ones Xian faced.

However, there was not a single person in this arena who noticed the existence of Yeokrin while defeating it.

Except for Xi’an.

“It’s you too.”

Xian’s eyes flashed and he swung his sword.

Kellen raised his sword. The corners of his mouth twisted grotesquely.

“Interrupt me on a student topic!”

An aura dwells on Keln’s sword. Brilliant bluish sword. That skill that is said to be one level for a swordsman.

‘Kill it once!’

As he fired his sword, Kellen had no doubts about Xian’s death.

Among the High Knights, Kelln possesses an intermediate or higher level of skill.

This is enough to lead a knight in a small or medium-sized territory. That’s why I was able to serve as the captain of Everwhale’s defense.

however.

Chaeeng!

“What… … !”

Sian’s sword broke Keln’s sword.

Seeing the fragments of his sword scattered in the air, Kellen’s hair went white for a moment.

Is your sword broken?

My sword surrounded by an aura?

His gaze naturally turned to Xian’s sword.

‘… … !’

A black aura blooming there.

Not an ominous black like a black gate floating in the air, but a black aura that feels stable like the night sky.

He was dazed by the fact that the student was using an aura.

“Allen! Lock it up for now!”

“uh!”

Arlen, who ran this way before he knew it, lit a blue flame.

He had just arrived and was unaware of everything, but at Xian’s words, sparks were scattered without a shadow of a doubt.

[ Purification area, chain ]

A flame rises around the keln and creates a hexahedral coffin.

It wasn’t as gigantic as Professor Derek’s time since he didn’t use the power of the clear stream, but it was big enough to contain a keln.

“what’s the matter?”

“What are you doing all of a sudden!?”

People approached with frowning faces at the sudden uproar among the allies.

What are you doing when you have to join forces to overcome this crisis?

It was those faces.

“This person is the culprit of this situation!”

Allen shouted loudly at the crowd.

The word, of course, spread with a very big wave.

Instructors and students begin to hum.

The eldest of them asked Allen.

“Criminal, what the hell are you talking about? Please explain to me.”

“that… … .”

Allen looked at Xian, who was constantly watching Kellen from the side.

He shouted and saw that he was the culprit, but in fact Allen didn’t know why he was the culprit.

Xian was the only one who knew that.

aww

Without taking his eyes off Kellen, who was gnashing his teeth in the ‘chain’ and looking this way, Xian explained briefly.

The presence of enhanced Lizardmen and Wyverns.

Inverted scales on the nape of their necks.

And the fact that Keln also has scales in exactly the same position as it.

“Really?”

“There were definitely individuals who were much stronger in the middle.”

“It’s not normal for people to have scales on their necks… … .”

There is reason to believe.

However, it was difficult to see it as perfect evidence.

I can definitely see the scales on the nape of Keln’s neck, but could it be that it’s not just scales, it’s just a skin disease?

While people were confused like that.

Xian had a complicated head in a different way.

‘President Zerech. Why doesn’t it move?’

If his guess was correct, if he found the culprit, Zerech would have to move. to rectify the situation.

But he still doesn’t move.

With both hands on the cane, he raised his head and looked up at the sky.

People are confused when they see Kelln, and Xian is confused when they see Zerech.

Meanwhile, Zerech muttered.

“Are you coming?”

The only one who saw him muttering was Xian, who was paying attention to Zerech.

right after that.

Koo Goo Goo Goo!

The ground shakes and the air trembles.

Outside the city, the magic circle spread out in the meadow began to radiate light.

A number of lights rose from the magic circle that was installed to surround the city, gathered into a spiral, and ascended to the sky.

Then.

Kururureung-!

The sky is overcast.

Before I knew it, dark clouds covered the sunlight, and the blue sky began to turn a dark gray.

“What is this!”

A disturbing wind blows.

The weather began to change as if a storm was about to blow.

“Is it weather control!?”

“You mean you use such great magic? Who the hell?!”

“I don’t know!”

One of the great magics that change the weather and change the battlefield at once.

Some magic instructors guessed that it might be that kind of magic, but unfortunately it wasn’t.

The change in weather is just a natural accompanying phenomenon.

distant antiquity.

Even considering the time when the giants were alive, it was a distant past that should be called ancient times.

The era that was called a myth.

‘The losers of the Age of Myth, they startle the heavens and shake the earth just by existing there.’

Zerech’s eyes sunk deeply.

Why did the record I saw in an old book suddenly come to mind?

It wasn’t long before he knew why.

And the identity of the gaze that hadn’t disappeared since a while ago.

The gray sky, the clouds are clearing.

[The Demon Dragon King looks at the ground.]

A huge, distant, long forked bright yellow eye appeared.