How the Shadow of the Marquis Lives

Chapter 165

The interior of the ruins was very wide and high. It is wide enough to easily fit a house.

Most of the large space was occupied by one giant.

A giant whose head reaches all the way to the ceiling even when sitting still.

Serge.

Eyes covered with a thick shadow, but still shining brightly, looked down at Psyche.

-Thank you for visiting me when I was bored, but I have to go back, kid. I was told not to let anyone in after this.

Because Psyche now has a body like a small child, the contrast between the two seemed even greater.

It was a guardian that Elia had set up to protect the temple.

As you can see, a member of the giants.

In the past, when the giant king declared war and his compatriots jumped on the bandwagon, he put a knife directly into the monster-like giant king’s neck.

Thus, the traitor who threw him directly into Elia’s seal.

From then on, he was acting with Elia.

Even though she knows that she seals away all of her compatriots.

“Are you that b*tch’s subordinate?”

Psyche looked up at Serge and spoke harshly.

-You’re a pretty rough-mouthed kid.

“Doesn’t it look rough!? where is seolah? Are you behind him?”

one step.

The obstructor encountered in a situation where there was only one step left to the place where the rumor was.

Psyche’s eyes were bloody and she glared at Serge.

Contrary to her full of emotions, Serge just sat still and calmed down.

-The name of the child Ellia brought must be Seol-ah. You are here to rescue the child.

“okay. That’s why I want you to step out of the way.”

-refuse.

A child who becomes emotional and rushes to save someone who is caught.

It was a very sentimental thing, and in fact, Serge had such feelings in his heart.

But I had no intention of keeping it out of the way.

Because he had nothing to do with worldly affairs, and he had no other reason to live other than helping Elia.

“Then die.”

Looking at Serge, who was only calm and weak in this situation, Psyche’s eyes split red like snakes.

She gathered the chill in her hand and threw it.

Compared to Serge’s size, it was as small as a grain of wheat, but the energy it harbored was not small.

Fain!

However, the sphere thrown by Psyche exploded in the air before reaching Serge.

Even after being attacked, Serge did not stay still.

He raised his hand and gently pressed it to the ground.

cooong!

Then Psyche felt the heavy pressure and sat down.

“Kuk!”

She gritted her teeth and gave strength to get out of the spot.

Koo Goo Goo! Shortly thereafter, the floor of the temple collapsed.

With the feeling of hair standing on end, Psyche gathered cold air again and wrapped it around her.

‘It’s similar to the attack the queen used to do.’

A goose-inducing attack that feels like squeezing space itself.

Did Elia teach him this kind of magic, or was it originally Serge’s ability?

I didn’t know that, but I knew one thing.

‘Worth a try.’

It is an attack that Elia has suffered countless times and has already identified to some extent.

If this was all of his ability, even he could do it now.

cooong!

Meanwhile, Serge held out his hand again.

This time, pressure came from the front and rushed at Psyche.

It was an attack that could not be seen or heard, but Psyche’s skin sensitively sensed the flow of air.

Originally a snake, her skin was much more developed than her eyes and ears.

‘here!’

Quaang!

She dodged and the wall shattered again.

Seeing that he had avoided it twice, Serge, who had been calm, twitched his eyebrows.

One time may be a coincidence, but twice is inevitable.

He knew now that his opponent was clearly sensing the pressure.

– Indeed, you can.

Serge paid his respects with a small admiration. However, his hand was swung with full intent to kill.

thud! thump thump thump!

He waved his hand even faster.

It gets faster as you go. At the same time, pressure resembling a storm surged inside the temple.

Psyche lowered herself and moved swiftly in the complex winds of pressure.

Her skin sensed all the currents of the air and was relaying all the information about this place.

Sensing the irregular wind flow, contrasting the direction of Serge’s palm.

Reading the grain of the wind, he avoided it by choosing only the weakest intervals.

however.

-You’re quick too!

Serge greatly exclaimed, and slammed his palm down on the floor.

Then the air in the whole room fell.

An attack with nowhere to run. The only way out is to go outside the temple.

Psyche’s feet, which instinctively tried to escape there, froze for a moment.

some kind of foreboding. If I go out of here now, I feel like I’ll never be able to come back.

The premonition made her feet dull for an instant, and Serge did not miss that gap.

– Wave!

cooong!

The pressure that covered the entire floor fell and Psyche was buried there.

Without looking at it from there, Serge continued to move his hand.

All the irregular winds that had been avoided as if walking on a tightrope until just now spurred on Psyche.

Kwakwagwagwang!

“Cuck!”

Psyche crawled to the floor at the frantic attack.

The wind, like an eternity, stopped for a moment. It was judged that Serge had succeeded in completely neutralizing it.

-Go back.

He spoke as if he was granting the last word of mercy.

Even at this moment, Serge’s calm voice reached Psyche’s ears as she fell on the floor.

Her fingers twitched.

– If you do this, you really have no choice but to kill yourself.

I have no choice but to admit it. The current self is weaker than that guy.

If it was her past self, she might not know, but now she used a large part of her power to create Xian’s ice crystal.

I have no intention of regretting it.

Even if it was the last resort to defeat the Demon Dragon King, the one who made that decision was himself.

I just had to accept it.

That he is no longer the mighty demon of the past.

so that.

“after… … .”

Psyche stood up, spitting blood in her mouth.

The fighting spirit in those eyes never faded.

Rather, it was higher than the first.

-… … .

Serge’s eyebrows went down.

In the end, I wondered if I should take the name of this innocent child.

Whether she knew what he was thinking or not, Psyche gathered her energy.

Its skin began to sprout scales like that of a snake.

She was a mighty demon, but not from birth.

Bondi is a very small snake.

The appearance when it was wrapped around Xian’s wrist was her original appearance when she was born.

And she became stronger by devouring everything she encountered.

Beasts, monsters, and demons.

It was she who climbed up from the ground, swallowing upside down all who would kill her.

“If you release Seol-ah inside, I will return.”

This kind of situation was one of the trivial everyday things that I had experienced numerous times since long ago.

* * *

The essence of the World Tree was firmly rooted in Elia’s body.

However, this does not mean that real tree roots have grown inside the body.

It meant that the energy contained there took root in Elia’s energy and was completely mixed.

The entire forest at the same time began to tremble.

The soil and the stones, the bushes and the trees, and even the air and the sun.

Nature, which was just there, had a will.

A will that resonates with Elia, who became the world tree itself.

Murderous intent towards Xi’an.

-Quaaang!

The ground Xian was stepping on exploded.

At the same time, innumerable roots as thick as the pillars of a building sprang up and attacked Xian.

Awesome!

Xian swung the ice crystal and cut off several roots at once.

Frozen and broken roots. However, the roots continued to sprout, and the targeting of Xian did not stop there.

The ground rises and the atmosphere condenses.

The ore that was deep in the ground rose high into the sky and heated up, then fell as a rain of hot molten water.

– Chiiyiik!

The most threatening thing was the rain of molten metal published at the end.

The shaking of the ground can be solved with an aura scaffolding, and the roots of trees can be frozen with ice crystals and cut down.

But the rain of molten iron didn’t work that way.

Even if you can offset the immediate rainwater by swinging the ice crystal, the rainwater that falls right behind it will dig in.

Even if he tried to block it by making an ice wall along the sword path, the heated molten iron quickly penetrated the ice.

In a disaster as if the whole world was trying to kill him.

“… … .”

Elia picked up a white twig from her forearm.

Soon, it turned into a longbow that seemed to be three times its height, and put mana arrows into its strings.

An arrow containing the power of the essence of the World Tree.

The target is the center of the disaster. It was Cyan Agrid’s head.

-Tooung!

Elia’s arrow left the protest.

Xian, who was struggling to defend himself in the midst of the disaster, trembled.

The mana that was happening around me now, to the point where it seemed like a prank, was rushing in at high speed.

‘Ravi!’

‘yes!’

At Xian’s signal, Ravi’s sword unfolded.

[ Upper Heaven Sword – Dark Rain ]

The swords of black aura, which originally fell in the form of rain, now rose in reverse.

I intercepted the arrow of the world tree that was shot through all the disasters that hindered Xi’an.

Hundreds of swords copied by the sword wheel collided with a single arrow, and at the same time mercilessly shattered.

Hundreds of swords were all broken, and arrows from the World Tree rushed in.

It would have been nice if the sword could shoot infinitely, but unfortunately, the copying ability of the sword wheel was limited.

Eventually, the limit was reached and the sword ran out, and the arrows of the World Tree fell on Xian without hindrance.

However, the power was slightly reduced.

Xian raised an ice crystal and swung it at the arrow.

-Quaaang!

In the aftermath of the two energies colliding, the surroundings completely turned to dust and began to collapse.

The roots that hindered Xian, the earth that rose up, and the molten iron that fell from the sky were all blown away.

-Paaang!

Before long, the arrows of the world tree exploded, scattering their energy.

Xi’an was perfectly located at its center.

Eventually, the aftermath of the explosion gradually diminishes.

“Tsk.”

Elia clicked her tongue.

At the epicenter of the explosion, I could see Xian standing safely.

No, it wasn’t to the point of being safe. He had wounds all over his body and blood was dripping from his forehead.

Despite using the recovery ability of the night aura, this much meant that the wounds were by no means small.

“It seems to have managed to block it well.”

Elia raised her bow again.

The arrow contained the arrow of the World Tree, no different from the one before, no, even sharper and sizzling.

“How are you going to stop the next one?”

she protested The tip of the arrow aimed at Xian without hesitation.

Xian looked at her with sunken eyes.

at the same time.

‘Ravi.’

The aura of the night engulfed the son-in-law and spread.

As if they were going to dye this space into night.