Episode 173
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As I was wandering through the pale, shining desert night, an unexpected presence appeared.
“Hey, damn it.”
Master Baro gasped in shock.
The corpse of the desert horse was lying there as if it was waiting for the two people to find it.
“Isn’t this the horse that the elf girl was riding when she ran away?”
Dale nodded silently.
After a silence, Dale said.
“I guess they didn’t intend to just leave us to die in the desert.”
“Oh, it’s that damn test again, what are you talking about?”
“Because that’s their way.”
Elven society is extremely rigid and conservative, and is a community that values tradition and discipline to the point of obsession. In the end, in order to assimilate into them, you have no choice but to obey their rules. That must be why Dale’s teacher, Sepia, has become an outcast and is wandering around the Imperial society.
“No, but rather, you learned some sword skills from the old woman on the mountain? Don’t you have any useful survival know-how for times like these?”
Dale asked, and Master Baro thought for a moment.
“Hmm, well, it’s not like there isn’t anything at all. It’s just a bit… … .”
“a little?”
“It’s so radical that it’s almost ignorant.”
“Are we in a position to be picky between cold and hot rice now?”
“Haha, it makes me f*cking happy to see the world’s greatest prince with a rag in his mouth just because I rolled around with him.”
“What the hell.”
Master Baro chuckled, and Dale put the rag in his mouth again.
It was just then.
“… … !”
Chomp!
Master Baro then pulled out his sword and swung it at the desert horses. Dale and Baro’s two desert horses died before they could even scream.
At the same time, blood spurted from the two horses, wetting the desert sand.
“… … What are you doing now?”
“Haha, but that doesn’t mean we can’t stab our stomachs.”
Master Baro spoke, and only after hearing those words did Dale tilt his head.
“There is an old saying that goes like this.”
Master Baro continued speaking without paying any attention.
“Blood calls forth blood.”
The blood of the desert horse was sprinkled, and it was not long before that.
From a distance, a ‘desert predator’ was scurrying across the sand, smelling blood.
“These people here are the kind of people who can come from hundreds of miles away like ghosts at the smell of blood.”
Master Baro turned his attention to the predator and brought it down.
In the empty space where there is nothing.
Choaack!
“Keeeeeek-!”
However, just as they thought he had lowered his sword into the air, the sand monster rushing towards them screamed and revealed its body. The monster’s blood sprayed across the sand, and Master Baro once again lowered his sword into the air.
The power of distortion that controls the status of the continent’s greatest assassin.
It distorts the phase of the coordinate system, connecting the point where you are descending and the point where the sand monster is lurking.
It was an absurd ability that was truly worthy of the name Salgeom.
“Haha, are you speechless because I’m so great?”
Master Baro burst into laughter as if it were someone else’s business, and Dale stretched out his arm. It was a prosthetic arm made of shadows.
Taang!
The shadowy prosthesis rippled, and a dark bullet struck from the tip of its finger. It was aimed at the bare sand. At the same time, blood sprayed from that spot, and the monster’s scream echoed.
He was a sand lurker.
“They say blood calls forth blood.”
The two horses called out to the predators of the desert, and once again the predators were spewing blood. Furthermore, even the predators were not at the top of the pyramid in this desert.
Kugu palace!
The desert area shook as if an earthquake had occurred, and a monster of incomparable size to the one just now was slithering along.
It was a giant earthworm in the desert.
The blood of the predator is calling forth the higher-level predators that prey on these beings. Desert predators boasting a heft that makes monsters like the Sand Lurker look ridiculous.
Dale turned toward the giant earthworm that was running and twisting through the area.
“Gatling style.”
The shadow cloak, which had gone beyond the realm of a favorite outfit and had become part of Dale’s body itself, began to produce black barrels.
The pouring shadow bullets once again scattered the giant earthworm’s blood onto the desert sand. A sea of blood that was incomparable to the blood that had been scattered so far covered the desert sand.
“Is there a predator higher than this?”
“Oh, this is just the beginning. That is literally just an ‘earthworm.’”
Master Baro laughed heartily.
“I suddenly got to see the ecology of the desert.”
Dale muttered as if it were someone else’s business, leaving behind the endless howls of predators echoing beyond the horizon.
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Beyond the desert horizon, the dawn twilight was faintly seeping in. It was a purple hue where darkness and twilight intertwined, and soon, a heat worthy of the name of the hot sand began to settle on the land.
“I smell meat grilling somewhere.”
Master Baro said so and wiped the blood off his sword.
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The Shadow Lord, clad in a blood-red armor, and Lady Shadow at his side also took up the avatar of a Valkyrie and held her blade.
As the moon went down and the sun rose, blood called out to blood.
Before I knew it, it was a horrific mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. But among them, there was not a single corpse that had a human shape.
The corpses of predators strewn endlessly.
Dale and his party suddenly became an ecological disturbance species, and at the same time, the hunt was not over yet.
As Master Baro said, it was not an ordinary and ignorant method. Even if you had the skills to match, it was a separate matter to continue fighting against an endless horde of monsters.
If Dale hadn’t immediately wrapped himself in the Dark Blood armor and covered his heart with the ‘Ignitor’ using red magic, it wouldn’t have been strange if he had run out of magic power long ago and fallen to be eaten by monsters.
Dale’s secret, which projects a heat engine into the heart based on the imagery of the other world and endlessly supplies magical power.
“Hehehe, you’re just so full of energy.”
In comparison, Master Baro does not even deploy his avatar, and simply maintains his composure without losing his breath.
‘As expected, not just anyone can use the Continent’s Seven Swords.’
Certainly, despite his utterly vulgar behavior, Master Baro was a formidable opponent. A formidable foe that even Dale could not dare to guarantee a victory against.
Furthermore, even he cannot guarantee victory against the monarchs that exist on this continent.
The world is wide and there are many strong people.
In that respect, this was the perfect place to practice and endlessly test and develop one’s abilities.
A horde of predators fills the horizon.
Against them, the black barrels Dale had created were pouring out a barrage of darkness.
Dale’s appearance, pouring out Gatling gunfire against the desert monsters, was very similar to that of “Starship Troopers.”
“Yeah, it’s good that blood begets blood and turns the area upside down endlessly.”
Dale asked, pouring out otherworldly saturation with his endless magical power.
“Can I ask how this connects to calling the mountain assassins?”
“Just imagine if some random dog bone rolled into your dukedom and started causing trouble.”
Master Baro spoke again, sending a blood-red aura into the air.
“Even if you are so nervous, wouldn’t you be able to learn without going there on your own?”
“… … Is that all?”
“That’s it.”
Master Baro answered calmly, and Dale was about to swear again.
The movements of the predators that filled the horizon stopped. As did their cries. Along with the silence, as if the world had lost all sound, a sandstorm swept by.
“It’s a hundred times better to start a fight and let them find you than to look for a needle in a haystack.”
In the midst of the strong winds that were swirling like a sandstorm, Master Baro muttered softly.
As soon as I started muttering, the sandstorm died down.
It was only there that they revealed themselves.
The silhouettes were all wearing hoods tightly wrapped around them.
“Oh, I forgot to mention that.”
At the same time, the desert predators that filled the area bowed their heads toward the silhouettes.
“For your information, the predators of this desert are like hunting dogs raised by the assassins of the mountains.”
Dale, who had figured out the meaning, shut his mouth in bewilderment.
That was when.
“That damned personality is still the same now as it was then.”
Among the silhouettes, a being with a particularly strange feeling opened its mouth. It was the voice of a girl who had not yet been able to take off her attire.
“Ugh, crap.”
At the same time, Master Baro swallowed his breath for the first time and closed his mouth.
The silhouette of a child, clearly visible to anyone, walked through the sandstorm. Then, the hood was removed, revealing a young dark elf with copper-colored skin.
“Grandma… … No, aren’t you the teacher?”
The world’s greatest master, Baroga, knelt down and paid his respects without any hesitation.
I could understand it as soon as I saw it.
“I didn’t know you would come down from the mountain with that heavy butt off.”
“You still say that after seeing the sh*t you’re doing here, you f*cking disciple.”
The old woman on the mountain said.
She was a dark elf with the body of a young girl who had not yet been able to take off her attire.
“Hehe, then why don’t you just stop going around in circles and show up quietly?”
The Master Baro spoke, and the old woman on the mountain answered.
“I was going to do that without you saying anything. Isn’t that right, my child?”
“Oh, sir… … !”
One of the dark elves beside him opened his mouth, unable to hide his bewilderment. It was a familiar voice.
“Oh, aren’t you the girl who abandoned us and ran away?”
Master Baro spoke, and the old woman on the mountain nodded.
“But these people are the ones who claim to be the names of the Shadow Empire…!”
And the dark elf never finished speaking.
Chomp!
I couldn’t even follow the movement. I could only barely perceive the life rushing towards me.
“My child, I told you to do your duty, I never told you to think.”
The dark elf in the hood was torn apart. It was as if he had been put through a vegetable slicing machine, and the meat and bones fell apart along with his hood.
“Yes, so you are the ‘Shadow Lord’ that the worldlings are talking about so much?”
The old woman on the mountain asked Dale, and Dale, who was unfolding his dark-blooded armor, nodded.
The old woman on the mountain asked with interest upon seeing this sight.
“By the way, are you really human?”
“I am human.”
The old woman on the mountain asked, and Dale answered, without a moment’s hesitation.
