Chapter 94
Damn it. Damn it!
A member of the Wraith, the black magician was continuously muttering curses as he ran across the forest.
This can’t be happening. It really can’t be!
-Find Daphne Akion.
At the leader Yan’s command, he had thoroughly searched everywhere to find the training institute where Daphne was being trained. And not many days later, he discovered the training institute in the Ansiha Mountain Range.
-Once you find her, kill her immediately.
-Never let her fall into the hands of others.
He didn’t know who these ‘others’ referred to here were. But he didn’t even think to question it. Because it was Yan’s command. Because it was the command of the ruler who leads us.
As soon as he discovered the training institute where Daphne Akion was, everything afterward proceeded smoothly.
He cast a magical barrier around the training institute and summoned a chimera.
He didn’t let his guard down at all.
Daphne Akion was the warrior’s child, and moreover, she was a wench who hid power enough to overwhelm three black magicians at once.
So he tried to kill Daphne Akion with full force, thinking that with this much, he would naturally succeed!
‘She was a magic swordsman?’
The black magician recalled the sword that Daphne had shown. At first, it was a sword enveloped in red flames. But when the sword was swung twice, three times, the flames gradually turned black. Just like the power of calamity that the Wraith so much drew and desired.
‘I have to report it.’
Since he failed to kill Daphne, he himself would die. But his own life didn’t matter. They were immortal beings who live eternally in the world called Wraith.
Therefore, he had to somehow escape from here and report about Daphne.
He couldn’t collect the chimera’s corpse and couldn’t erase the traces, but reporting took priority over that…!
“Where are you going in such a hurry?”
An unfamiliar voice pierced his ears.
“You seem very busy. If you’re that busy, why didn’t you come out yesterday? Right?”
As soon as the black magician heard that voice, he could feel cold sweat running down his spine. It was a voice that was somehow chilly and somehow sharp.
“Who the hell are you!”
The black magician stopped his hurried steps and raised his head. Then he saw a man walking towards him fluttering lightly. His hair, freely scattering following the fluttering steps, was mixed with black and white, making it seem at a glance as if it embraced darkness and light together.
“It’s a face I’ve never seen before. Are you a new recruit of the Wraith?”
Shio muttered while staring intently at the black magician’s face, and the black magician gritted his teeth and shouted.
“If you intend to interfere with me, I’ll drop your neck right here!”
“What are you saying. Of course I came with the intention to interfere with you. Is your head not working? Or are you desperately trying to think positively?”
“You bastard…!”
Swish!
“Cut down everything that blocks my path!”
The energy of death, transformed as if into a giant scythe, tore Shio’s body to shreds. Looking at his corpse collapsing with a thud, the black magician snorted triumphantly.
“Hmph! What a worthless guy.”
He wasted time because of this guy. The black magician tried to hurriedly leave the place.
But he couldn’t.
“Right. I’m indeed worthless. So I have to protect someone who’s worth something. Because I have to repay a debt.”
Because a voice that shouldn’t be heard was heard. The black magician’s head turned back as it was, unable to follow the body that stopped at the voice. Then he saw Shio piecing together his shredded body one by one.
“You, you bastard…! Wh, what…! How?”
The black magician was shocked with his mouth wide open.
He clearly confirmed that his neck, upper body, and limbs were all cut off by his own magic.
Yet….
“H, h, how are you alive?”
Why can he be alive? No, how can he reattach the shredded body?
“Ah, my hair got cut.”
Shio clicked his tongue and twisted the cut hair around once. Then he looked down at the black magician with a crooked posture.
“H, hair…!”
The black magician completely lost his mind watching his cut hair growing back. Collapsing with a thud, he had long since wet himself.
“Monster, no, devil? No, Wraith? What the hell… what the hell…!”
Shio smirked looking at the black magician muttering in a daze.
“You’re a black magician who deals with death, yet I don’t know why you’re scared of something like this.”
Shio tilted his head while readjusting his slightly twisted wrist during the joining process. And he extended his hand toward the black magician who was foaming at the mouth.
“Well, die. Goodbye.”
***
“Ugh……”
Daphne was groaning with her eyes closed.
She had woken from sleep, so she wanted to open her eyes and shout a vigorous good morning, but she couldn’t. Because her whole body was full of muscle pain.
“It’s damn…… painful……”
Is this the price for using magic and sword in an unprepared state. Daphne groaned and tossed her body.
Then suddenly she recalled the scene she saw right before collapsing.
The chimera that suddenly appeared, and the children who were in confusion.
“The kids?!”
Daphne forgot the pain and jumped up.
“The kids? Are they okay? Are they all alive?!”
Then she shouted loudly. But no answer came back. Only then did Daphne rub her hazy eyes vigorously and open them upward.
“……”
“……”
What she saw right away was Heros, still with that unpleasant expression.
He was sitting in an armchair with his legs crossed, reading a newspaper, and only then seemed to turn his gaze to Daphne when she shouted.
“Warrior?”
Daphne looked at him with her mouth half open.
“Why are you here?”
Then Heros put down the newspaper he was holding and leaned his body forward. He placed his elbows on his thighs and looked at Daphne with a languid expression.
“No thank you?”
“What?”
“I saved you.”
Daphne blinked her large eyes several times.
“Why are you showing off? If you’re a father, isn’t it natural to save your child? Why do you want to hear thanks for something like that? Did you get hit by black magic in the head?”
“……”
Suddenly scolded, Heros felt slightly depressed, then soon shook his head and pulled himself together. Depressed. That’s an expression that doesn’t suit him at all.
Whether Heros was in that state or not, Daphne decided to ask the thing she was most curious about first.
“The kids? How are the kids?”
“No problem.”
“When you say no problem, doesn’t that mean just that their lives are attached?”
“Aren’t you seeing me too badly?”
“That’s correct.”
“……”
Heros could feel a corner of his heart becoming uneasy.
There were countless people who called him bad, and he never cared at those times, but when Daphne said it directly like this…… how to put it. It felt not very good. He clicked his tongue.
“Their lives are attached, and both arms and both legs are attached too. No injuries, they’re fine.”
“……Really?”
“I’ve never lied to you.”
You probably have a lot……. Daphne thought but deliberately didn’t say it.
Anyway, since everyone was unharmed thanks to Heros coming, teasing Heros more pricked her conscience a bit.
“Well…… okay. That’s a relief.”
So Daphne obediently nodded her head.
“……”
Then silence came in an instant. The air of quietness and awkwardness pressing down the room tickled the eyes, ears, and throat. Daphne raised her right arm that didn’t move well and scratched her cheek.
“But.”
Then she asked Heros.
“Warrior, why did you come here?”
Then Heros’s gaze slowly moved to Daphne. He stared intently at Daphne’s face. To be precise, he looked at Daphne’s gaunt cheeks, shadowed eyes, and dry skin.
“You.”
He said, looking straight at Daphne.
“I came because I was worried about you.”
What is this.
Did he really get hit by black magic in the head?
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