How the Shadow of the Marquis Lives

Chapter 139

Xian looked around.

The place he was standing was a desert full of sand. A cactus can be seen sparsely in the distance.

I looked at the environment around me, looked up at the sky, sat down for a while, and touched the sand.

“There is nothing special about it.”

There was nothing that looked very different from the present world he was in.

The only difference is that the sky is gray and you can see another little sun next to it?

Because it is a desert, the temperature seemed quite high.

Even when I’m still, I’m sweating.

“Psyche?”

In the meantime, Xian caught something strange.

Psyche, who must have come in with her, has disappeared somewhere.

He was looking around and calling her name.

“Here, here.”

A sound came from below.

Looking up, there was something like a small, slender baby snake with white scales on the sand.

Psyche’s voice came from the snake.

“Is that your true self?”

“No way! I can’t be such a little snake! Just use a little too much force.”

When Xian asked, Psyche responded in a huff.

Does it get smaller with force? For some reason, it reminded me of Altima attached to Allen.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

Psyche climbed on Sian’s ankle and wrapped it around his wrist.

At first glance, it only looked like an unusual bracelet because it was so small.

Even the bracelet was hidden by Xian’s sleeve, making it difficult to see.

“It can be dangerous if you meet other guys in this form, so I’ll hide for a while.”

“what. Have you been doing a lot of things that you wanted to do?”

“Nothing like that. As you will soon find out, this is a place where there are so many outrageous things that incur resentment, and even when there is no such thing as resentment, a lot of annoying things happen.”

“okay?”

“If they found out that I lost my powers, even a stranger living on the other side of the continent would come looking for me to kill me. So be careful not to bring up my name.”

Xian looked at Psyche with new eyes.

Even if it was a request from the contractor, Yu Seol, he would take such a risk to help himself.

Even though it would have been better for her to die herself, as she was going against Ravi’s shackles in the first place.

“what? what’s the matter?”

Psyche frowned and asked if she felt Xian’s gaze.

Xian shook his head.

“no… … . Be careful not to reveal your true identity.”

“joy. It will be comfortable for you too, so work hard.”

Xian put her on his wrist and started walking down the street.

There was no map, so I got a rough direction and walked aimlessly.

“You don’t even know where this place is?”

“I don’t know if there is a village where you have a little bit of sand.”

“I’ll have to find an oasis or a village first.”

“That way, we can get some information about the Princess Haeryung.”

Haeryung Palace.

Right now, Xi’an’s destination was that guy’s territory. However, it’s never a good idea to just rush in like this.

First of all, you will have to find out the information as much as possible and go in when the odds stand.

“If you go slowly, I will regain some strength. Let’s go leisurely.”

“okay.”

It also has the meaning of waiting for Psyche’s power to recover.

That’s why it wasn’t a good decision to find and invade his territory right now.

“What about you, that spirit… … Since you are there, the trip to hell won’t be too difficult.”

“Spirit-nim, you mean Ravi?”

“huh.”

As Psyche said, Ravi’s presence exerts absolute power over demons.

Even if that is the opponent of the King Haeryung.

but.

“You can’t walk around indiscriminately in shackles.”

The head of the palace, Haeryung, knows Nemesis.

The existence that had the same power as Ravi.

Wasn’t he the one who even drew in the giant, wary of that power?

“It’s good to hide Ravi’s power if possible.”

Therefore, Ravi’s existence should not be discovered until the last moment, really the last moment.

To put the shackles on his neck with certainty the moment he caught his guard and showed up.

“okay? Well, since Princess Haeryung is known for being sneaky, it could be dangerous.”

“Then you should be more careful.”

The two began to cross the desert while talking about the future, such as the purpose of the journey and the course of action.

Food is dry enough for two days. And if it happened, it wouldn’t be too much to hold on if you caught and ate a scorpion.

Drinking water could be a problem as it is a desert, but that was fine as long as it was in Xian.

– Squeeze.

“That’s good.”

“I didn’t know it would be used like this… … .”

Sword Spirit Changhae. Xian laughed bitterly as he drank from the plain sword that spewed water.

It felt strange to use a sword for fighting as a water supply.

Well, it is true that it is of great help in crossing this desert.

Convinced that good is good, I crossed several sand dunes and went straight in one direction.

The day after one night like that.

– Kang! Can-can!

The sound of metal colliding is heard.

It was an artificial noise that could never be heard in nature.

Xian stopped for a moment to gauge the direction and distance the sound was coming from.

“Are you going?”

“of course.”

“Take care of yourself.”

Hearing Psyche’s concerns, he headed towards the sound.

– Chae-chae-chae-chaeng!

―Quaaagh!

The closer you get, the more clearly you hear the screams and weapons.

I headed towards the epicenter of the sound, being careful not to show signs of Xian.

What you see there is a carriage with fancy decorations.

And it was the masked people who were attacking the carriage.

* * *

A flag was hung on the carriage.

A pattern in which two highly curved swords cross each other with a dragon’s head in the background.

It was the flag of Bailyn, one of the nobles of this area.

“You bastard! Where did the assassins come from!”

The decrepit warrior escorting Bailyn’s carriage shouts loudly.

However, none of the masked people reacted to that shout.

Silently, as if everyone was doing what they had to do, they did the work without any involvement from those who were being attacked.

The work they did was to cut down the escort warriors surrounding the wagon like peeling an onion.

“Ah!”

“Tyr!”

Watching his subordinates fall one by one, the old warrior’s eyes were bloodshot.

In the meantime, the young warriors who had been together for a long time and raised with great effort were being cut mercilessly by those gangsters.

However, no matter how grievous, the warrior could not give the order to retreat.

Because it was his duty to risk his life to protect the wagon, no, those who rode it.

Before long, many of his subordinates fell, and the number of those who were still standing were fewer than the masked men.

Only then did the masked people stop their wielding swords for a moment.

They were talking about the requirements at the point where they had more heads.

“Turn the wagon back to Bailyn.”

“what?”

“Turn the wagon back to Bailyn.”

“What is your purpose! Who the hell sent you?”

“Turn the wagon back to Bailyn.”

The old warrior shouted, but the voice that came back was the same.

He gritted his teeth and approached the carriage.

smart.

Compared to the urgent situation, the warrior who politely knocked on the door explained the situation to the person in the carriage.

and after a while

No matter what answer he heard, when he returned, his face was filled with some kind of determination.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t honor that request. This wagon must enter Pandemonium. That is what Bailyn meant.”

“… … .”

The warriors escorting the wagon were determined and their momentum rose, and the masks also raised their bloody swords and spewed out their murderous intentions.

If the request doesn’t work, all that remains is force.

In the meantime.

“I don’t know which one would make more sense.”

A voice broke through the immediate atmosphere.

Both the escort warriors and the mask stared at him in awe.

None of them noticed the others approaching.

“Hey, human!”

“Human!”

“… … !”

And when he saw Xian, he was even more astonished.

Xian frowned at the new reaction, but soon understood.

The discovery of humans in the world of demons is certainly a surprise.

“by the way… … .”

when he tries to speak again.

“I am an eyewitness. kill.”

A mask spurred the ground and ran toward Xian.

Firmly compacting the sand on the floor, he swung his gleaming sword at Xian’s neck.

Soon after, he cut off the new type of human, but he did not feel the characteristic flesh cut.

What cut the mask was an afterimage that rose like a mirage.

and.

―Flash!

A bolt of lightning fell over the head of the mask.

Sword spirit brain name. The thunderbolt spread with it literally split the head of the mask.

Seeing that, the mask that gave the order stiffened.

The current move was so fast and powerful that he couldn’t even see it.

But you can’t retreat just for that reason. If they do, they don’t know what their master will punish them.

“All over!”

He gave strong orders to the masked people around him.

That command was his last voice.

hooked!

The big sword that fell from the sky was deeply embedded in the crown of his head.

Despite being taken aback by the suddenness, the other masked men obeyed orders as they had been trained and rushed at Xian.

the flying ghosts.

They were weapons with sharpened blades that could cut off at least a finger by simply holding it.

Such weapons attacked Xian countless times.

Kang! Can-can!

Awesome!

However, not a single blade touched Xian.

With a sword ring, Xian removed the swords one by one and cut off the mask.

In the meantime, the secret sword controlled by Ravi flew in from behind and was steadily cutting off the back one by one.

Even cyan alone was too much for them, but there was no one who could stop Ravi from attacking them from the sky.

“… … !”

“… … !”

They fall down without a single scream.

They didn’t make a single sound even in the midst of dying, probably because they had received such training.

‘As expected, these are the guys who can’t communicate more.’

I could tell just by looking at it. These masks were hardly an opponent to talk to.

Having come to that conclusion, Xian slashed off the mask that rushed at him without hesitation.

After that, it’s time to drink a cup of tea.

All the masked people became corpses and soaked the sand on the ground with blood.

“Everything, you are… … .”

The old warrior guarding the carriage called for Xian without being able to hide his trembling voice.

Xian looked at her once and murmured.

“It definitely makes me feel that it’s a hell world.”

He looked around at the warriors escorting the carriage and the masks lying on the ground.

Then I bent down and took off the mask of the fallen guy at my feet to check his face.

It was not a human face in it.

Even the warriors escorting the wagon, and those wearing masks.

In the real world, it was a Lizardman classified as a monster.

“Humans are much rarer here.”

Xian thought about what Psyche said.

Certainly, this is a different place from the world he was in.