Chapter 14 – 014. The Ghost of the Divine Tree (7)
“What… Called?”
The one who was surprised and asked back was Princess Armitas, who was restrained by the shadow.
It seemed that he was shocked to learn that the person responsible for the manifestation of this strange phenomenon was ‘Elvin Hersha’, who was known to have escaped the capital and was on the run.
The shadow seemed to stop for a moment at Eunhyeon’s words, but soon began to act again and began to strangle Princess Armitas.
“Ugh… Ugh!”
As her airways were strained and she was unable to breathe, the princess let out her dry screams.
“Ha…”
Eunhyeon threw herself and approached the princess.
Paperweight!
In an instant, he closed the distance in front of the princess and roughly tore off the shadow clinging to her neck.
Sparks were bouncing and flashing in Eun-hyeon’s hand, which was holding the shadow.
Eira was staring blankly at the scene.
It was strange.
That the shadow has a form?
Although Eun-hyeon intervened by infusing her mana, scattering the mana in the shadows that gave it form and mass.
In Eira’s eyes, seeing this scene, it seemed as if the shadow was naturally disappearing powerlessly.
A shadow fell from the princess’s body.
After finding her body free, the princess fell helplessly in front of her, and Eun-hyeon caught her body as she fell.
“Coke! Coke!”
Gongnyeo, who was able to breathe again, was coughing vigorously in Eunhyeon’s arms.
Gongnyeo, who regained her fading consciousness, opened her eyes slowly and met Eunhyeon’s eyes, who were hugging her.
“Oh… !”
Surprised by Eun-hyeon’s face for getting too close, the princess tried to push her away.
She grabbed her by the shoulders and held her in her arms, so Eun-hyeon was not easily pushed away.
The Gongnyeo’s struggles to escape from her Eunhyeon’s arms were to no avail.
“If you fall from me now, will you die?”
“What?”
Surprised by Eunhyun’s words, Eleanor questioned her and looked around her in Eunhyun’s arms.
Shadows moved and surrounded Eunhyeon and Eleanor.
Eventually, the shadows, which had been moving like living creatures, began to ooze like slime and gradually take shape.
It turned into a sword, sickle, axe, spear, etc., And the lower part of the weapon swayed like a monster called a worm or a mollusk like an earthworm.
As if weapons were living creatures, they were showing off their presence.
The complexion of Princess Armitas, who was surrounded by her weapons, turned pale.
“Hey.”
“Yes yes?”
“What is your name?”
“Eh, Eleanor… This is Eleanor Armitas.”
Eleanor answered her Eun-hyeon’s question at a daze.
“Great. Princess Eleanor. From now on, you have to put your arms around my neck and hold on tight so that I don’t fall.”
“Uh, uh!”
Eun-hyeon grabbed Eleanor’s hips with one hand and lifted her up.
“You! Where are you touching now… Kyaaak!”
It was the moment when he was angry at Eunhyun with a shameful expression on his face.
When and where Eunhyeon got it, she hit the ax flying towards Eleanor’s head with the sword she was holding in her other hand.
“Hold on tight.”
“Yes…”
Eleanor recognized that she was not in a situation where she could be ashamed and hide what she was saying.
She answered weakly, and then she put strength on Eun-hyeon’s arms around her neck, holding her tightly so that it wouldn’t fall.
“Calm down.”
Who are you talking to?
Eleanor knew that Eun-hyeon was not talking to her.
“Right now, killing this woman won’t change anything. It will only cause confusion.”
Eunhyeon calmly looked around at the unknown shadows of her and persuaded her.
“Let’s have a conversation. Alvin Hersha.”
He called the name of a man who couldn’t be here so calmly.
The shadow weapons roaming around Eunhyeon and Eleanor, ready to attack at any time, emit a menacing look as if to show off their presence.
And I followed Eunhyeon and looked in the direction he was looking.
The shadows coalesced little by little to form a hill, which gradually grew larger and eventually began to take the form of a person.
It was as if the clays were being put together to create a single craft.
The shadow became a human wearing a hood, and the shadow man glared at Eun-hyeon, who interfered with his plan, with eyes that could tear him apart at any time.
“Who the hell are you.”
“Isn’t that an important question in this situation?”
“… Indeed, it is.”
At Eunhyeon’s answer, the shadow man thought for a moment and then nodded as if he agreed.
In accordance with his understanding, the appearance of the shadow weapons became even more menacing.
Eleanor, who was exposed to danger at the center of her aura, felt her chills and tightened her arms around Eun-hyeon’s neck.
“You don’t even need to know. Because I can kill them all.”
“So even if that’s not a good choice.”
“It may not be a good choice for you.”
“No, it’s not about me, it’s about both you and this woman. Furthermore…”
Eunhyeon paused for a moment and thought about it, then sighed and spoke again.
“To your sister, Erin.”
“…”
Alvin didn’t answer anything, but the moment she heard the name coming out of Eunhyun’s mouth, she seemed to be keeping a cold expressionless expression.
His eyebrows twitched and turned into a ferocious expression, and his emotions began to rage.
Alvin said, suppressing the anger emanating from her body as her arms clenched into fists trembled.
“You… What are you, mentioning my sister?”
In the end, the attack from Elvin, who had been concerned about her, began.
Caang!
After knocking out the shadow sword flying towards Eunhyeon and Eleanor in the air, Eunhyeon directly aimed at the top of Eleanor’s head from the right and cut the flying shadow spear.
Elvin’s shadow was relentlessly targeting Eleanor and attacking her from all sides.
However, Eun-hyeon held her Eleanor with only one arm, helped her with her dexterity, and slashed her attacking shadows with her sword.
Starting with the first attack, dozens of shadows rush in from all directions, aiming for Eunhyeon and Eleanor and attacking them.
‘This can’t be helped.’
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Accident acceleration]
[Time Acceleration]
Eunhyun clicked her tongue and activated ‘Thought Acceleration’ and ‘Time Acceleration’.
At a speed so fast that his arms can’t be seen, Eun-hyeon slashes all of Elvin’s shadows and doesn’t even allow Eleanor to get hurt.
The shadows that were blocked by Eunhyeon’s sword and bounced off were running around like giant snakes.
Is that the speed that humans can achieve?
Eunhyeon supported Eleanor with one arm, and even with the use of one arm restricted, she was perfectly receiving the attacks of the shadows.
Ayra thought that if he had been there, he would not have been able to withstand even three blows and would have been hacked to pieces by the weapons of the shadows.
‘Tremendous… Maybe even more than his father… ?’
He was sure that the swordsmanship skills of the knights he had seen so far would not be able to show the same level of swordsmanship teachers as well as students.
It was as if Eira was seeing a part of the extreme swordsmanship.
‘Me too… Can I be like him?’
The moment when a powerful desire blooms in Eira’s heart.
Caang! Caang! Kaaang!
The sound of shadows and swords colliding was unusual.
The frequency of the sound of the shadow and Eunhyeon’s sword clashing began to noticeably increase.
As the shadows who persistently sought Eleanor’s life continued to block their attacks, they changed their target directly to Eun-hyeon, the culprit of the obstruction.
“Ayra!”
Startled by her sudden call, Eira turned her head in the direction she was being called with her eyes wide open.
Eun-hyeon continues to block the attacks of the shadows and shouts while looking at her Eira.
“Hold tight.”
“Ugh…”
Eunhyun whispered softly to Eleanor, and she groaned and nodded her head.
Eventually, he continued to block the shadow’s attack and moved towards Eira little by little.
Then she lifted Eleanor up with her unclasped right hand on her sword, and she threw it at Ayra.
“Uh, huh? Kyaaak!”
It happened so suddenly that Eleanor put on a bewildered look, and then she screamed in the air with her shocked look on her face.
As she was thrown like that, she was defenseless in the air, and the shadows of Elvin, who couldn’t miss her chance, rushed to pierce Eleanor’s body.
Thud!
“Uh, uh uh uh?!”
When Eunhyeon hit the ground with her foot, the shadows that were trying to hack Eleanor’s body stopped for a moment.
As the shadows ceased to act, Eleanor’s body was flying towards Ayra in a safe parabola.
Ayra sees Eleanor flying towards her and struggles with both of her hands, panicking that she doesn’t know what to do.
In the end, she stumbled and caught the flying Eleanor and fell to the floor.
“Ouch…”
Ayra rubbed her own ass against the floor and let out a moan as she frowned.
She immediately came to her senses with her startled eyes when she saw her Eleanor lying on top of herself.
She hastily raised herself up and supported her Eleanor.
“Princess? Gwa, are you okay?”
“Ugh…”
Eira turned her head to check the condition of her Eunhyun.
Eun-hyeon did not move from her seat as if she was pressing the floor with all her strength on her left foot, which was slightly pushed forward.
He felt a sense of incongruity that the inside of the abandoned warehouse, where shadows and swords clashed and made bloody metal sounds until a few seconds ago, was enveloped in stillness.
Eira looked around her with a sense of incongruity.
The surrounding shadows also stopped abruptly, and all actions stopped.
The state of the shadows trembling minutely seemed like an invisible power struggle between the shadow and Eunhyeon.
“Yes… Bloke!”
A man in a black hood, unable to overcome his anger, glared at Eun-hyeon and gnashed his teeth.
Just like when Eunhyeon separated the shadow from Eleanor, he was interfering with Elvin’s shadow by pouring magical energy into the shadows on the floor.
Hearing Erwin’s words, Ayra realized at that moment that Eunhyun was suppressing the actions of the shadows in some way.
As soon as she made eye contact with Eun-hyeon, she read his intentions in his eyes, and she remembered that she had something to do.
Still unable to come to his senses, he wrapped Leno’s arm around his shoulder to support it, and then approached Eleanor again.
“Let’s get out of here quickly.”
“Yes?”
At Eira’s sudden suggestion, Eleanor put on her dumbfounded expression.
Eira looks around her and the current situation, not knowing when the shadows will resume their action.
“Come on!”
Eira, overcome by her urgency, shouted at Eleanor.
Eleanor was startled by Eira’s sudden outburst and shook her shoulders.
She quickly came to her senses and nodded her head.
“Simply like this… Do you know how to send it?!”
Along with the sound of grinding teeth, Elvin’s angry voice lingered in Eira and Eleanor’s ears.
It gave an eerie feeling, but Alvin’s voice only hurried the two women’s fear-stained steps.
“Where… !”
As time passed, the restrictions on behavior gradually began to loosen.
A shadow that made it barely move with the feeling of squeezing the strength it had was rushing at Eira and Eleanor.
At the moment when the spear of shadow pierced Eleanor’s throat, Elvin finally killed her, and she tried to savor the feeling of bliss.
“Your brother.”
Hearing Eunhyeon’s small muttering, Elvin’s eyes focused on him, aiming for the moment when she lost her concentration. Eunhyeon’s control again bound the shadow’s actions and bound them.
‘Good!’
As soon as the three of them safely escaped the warehouse, Eun-hyeon smiled contemptuously, saying that she had accomplished her goal.
“Whoa…”
Eunhyeon let out a big sigh at the end of her work and lay down on the ground.
She took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand.
The abandoned warehouse, which has not been managed for a long time and has not been visited by people for a long time, is full of dust.
Eunhyun was breathing in, not paying attention.
Erwin, a man wearing a black hood, was very reluctant to Eun-hyeon’s attitude, which changed as soon as Eleanor and the others left the warehouse safely, and just stared at Eun-hyeon.
“What you looking at?”
Unable to bear Alvin’s glaring gaze, Eun-hyeon lay on her ground and turned her head to look at her Elvin and asked.
“Do you think I will not kill you?”
“Huh.”
“…”
“The whereabouts of my missing brother. You want to find it.”
At Eunhyeon’s words, Erwin didn’t deny or affirm, and just stared at Eunhyeon.
His reaction was tantamount to proving that he was correct.
The clue to ‘the only sister’s whereabouts’ was a clue that no one had.
“Tell me quickly. My brother, where are you?”
“Hey. Let’s take a break and talk. It’s been a while since I moved, so my body hurts.”
It couldn’t be helped that Eunhyun’s face was so nasty when she was making such a pained sound.
“… Should I just kill him?”
“Emotional control doesn’t work well, so I don’t have much time.”
Alvin was startled by her words as he could see right into her own condition, and her body froze.
Eunhyun was still lying on the floor, but only his eyes were looking at Erwin, observing his condition calmly.
“That’s the downside of black magic.”
“Do you know about black magic?”
“Roughly.”
A type of witchcraft that is manifested based on the organs (瘴气) flowing from the corpses of dead humans, livestock, or living things, or the life of the user, is called black magic in the world.
In fact, this is not the only type of black magic.
The black magic that Erwin used was the art of creating shadows.
A technique that gives mass and shape to the user’s shadow, mimics the user’s thoughts, and adjusts the shadow, which has physical power, to the user’s will.
Furthermore, if you can control not only your own shadow, but all other shadows as well.
Like the bloody battle between Erwin and Eunhyeon, he will be able to handle dozens of shadow weapons with his own will.
This type of black magic, Joyeongsul, can exert powerful power like the previous bloody battle, but the price was also formidable.
“If…”
“If you’re asking how to contain the shadows that are eating away at you, give up.”
“…”
The joyeongsul gives his thoughts and thoughts to his shadow and becomes a ‘fairy tale’ with the shadow in order to use it as he wishes.
As the number of ‘fairy tales’ is long and time accumulates, the shadow and the body of the user become one.
The thoughts that the user gives while assimilating into the shadows are all thoughts of ‘aggressiveness’ to kill the enemy.
The shadow that grew up after eating that ‘aggressiveness’ encroached on the reason of the assimilated user and covered it with the aggressive thoughts given to it.
In a word, it is the same as being eaten by the people you raised.
The reason why Erwin made her ponder, ‘Should I kill her?’ Simply a moment ago, is that she has already proved that her own shadow has eaten her reason to some extent.
“Now then, let’s rest for a while, shall we start a conversation soon?”
Alvin put on a disapproving expression, feeling that she had been robbed of the initiative of the conversation before she knew it.
“I think you have a question for me first, so ask.”
“I think you knew me. How did know?”
“I heard it from your sister, Erin.”
“… !”
Elvin raised his eyebrows, shrugged her shoulders, and looked at Eun-hyeon again.
Secretly within the Magus, she had not revealed to anyone except her sister, Erin, that she had been learning black magic.
By mentioning her brother, she was forced to recognize again that she was the only man who knew her sister’s whereabouts.
“Erin… Are you all right?”
“If you were that worried, you shouldn’t have left.”
“…”
Alvin didn’t respond to Eunhyun’s accusations.
“It’s in an ambiguous state.”
“What?”
“It’s in a state where you can’t die.”
Elvin frowned at her Eun-hyeon’s words, as if she were asking a strange riddle, and she asked again.
“What do you mean?”
“Before I tell you this, I have one condition.”
“Condition?”
“It’s a deal. Elvin. Cooperate with me Then I will help you get your brother back.”
“…”
Elvin didn’t speak for a while and she was thinking about Eunhyun’s proposal.
“What can I do?”
When she showed her consent, Eunhyun grinned and held out her hand from Alvin.
Alvin also smiled at his action.
They shook hands, as if a relationship that had been engaged in a bloody slaughter battle a few minutes before was overshadowed.
It was the moment when an unknown alliance between criminals and extras was concluded.
