085 – Security (10)
Marquis Baros was looking at Tigris and Trisha with puzzled eyes.
“What are they doing now……?”
At present, Trisha and Tigris are clearly aware that they are within the barrier of the Marquis Baros.
However, as if they were out for a walk, they only went around the perimeter of the barrier, destroying the barriers one by one.
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Just watching in real time the barrier containing the essence of Marquis Baros, who had spent a whole day to kill Tigris, was weakening, it felt like my eyes would turn over.‘I heard that you have never fought a wizard at all?’
According to the sources of the Marquis Baros, Tigris had only fought properly with knights, but never had a formal fight with wizards.
At best, I’ve only fought Schwitz’s variants, but such low-level magic and barrier magic are different.
Barrier magic has been developed since the use of ‘rune’ magic, an ancient magic, and is the most historical and effective among all magic fields.
In particular, the barrier magic used now is a magic called ‘Knight’s Tomb’, a magic created by reinterpreting the barrier magic of an ancient wizard called ‘Rayakal’ in the Marquis of Baros into modern circle magic.
‘Even if it’s Tigris, it’s normal that at least that guy here needs to be enchanted by mental magic….’
There are three effects in total.
If you use sword or magic within the barrier, it will take away the Auror.
makes you tired easily. it confuses the mind
Among them, mental magic cannot survive without special magic resistance training.
The sword emitting a golden aura that was held in Trisha’s hand seemed to clear Trisha’s mind.
Whoops-!
If it goes on like this, it will be the Marquis of Baros who will suffer.
This barrier magic is maintained as long as the magic core does not break, but it is these magic stones that amplify the effect of barrier magic and increase its range.
If Tigris and Trisha destroy all the Manastones, Marquis Baros will be left with a rat in the poison.
Then there is only one way.
To kill the Marquis of Baros before he dies.
Marquis Baros reached out to a large black manastone that was emitting dark black smoke.
* * *
Trisha said while breaking the magic stone.
“Uh huh . . . I feel tired after doing this for a little bit.”
Sweat was dripping down Trisha’s neck.
The total number of Manastones Trisha destroyed was 19.
Since Tigris had broken 3 before, he destroyed a total of 22.
“The mana thread is a high-level auror operation that consumes more mental power than the body. I’m not used to it yet, but it would be difficult to use it continuously.”
“Oh, is that so?”
“Let’s stop now and take care of our stamina.”
“yes. All right.”
Now, Tigris himself has started to break the manastones.
“But there are a lot of magic stones. Even if Marquis Baros made some money as a beast, it would not have been easy to receive so many mana stones.”
“I think it’s strange, too.”
The reason that the Marquis Baros had a lot of Mana Stones before returning could be thought to be because they were supplied by Rotana and Arphem.
But now, Rota and Arphem’s clan are also busy using manastones, so the manastone supply is in short supply.
Because I have to go back to the lab.
Tigris picked up the Mana Stone as it fell to the floor.
Even if it was a manastone contaminated with black magic, the quality was very good.
No matter how low it was held, it was clear that it was a high-grade or top-notch manastone.
Manastones are the main raw material used to make artifacts and scrolls, so from intermediate level and above, the quantity is controlled and managed at the national level.
But not just one or two, but dozens of these superlative mana stones?
Aside from the financial power of Marquis Baros, it was impossible to know how he obtained such a top-notch manastone while avoiding the eyes of the Empire.
‘Isak would know.’
Isaac, the successor of Marquis Baros, would know the reason for this abnormal amount of magic stones.
‘I’m going to have to ask you to figure this out first.’
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Just as Tigris was about to insert his sword into the tree, the tree squirmed and moved.Tigris reflexively stepped back.
Trisha also noticeably fell over a certain distance from the tree.
– Whoa, whoa!
The cries of the trees echoed from all directions.
The tree containing the manastone began to call out as if it was swallowing up the trees around it, and its body grew more than twice that of the ogre.
Trisha held the bow strongly.
“As expected, when the trees die, they wriggle and die…”
The trees containing the Manastone started to come to life, and they attacked Tigris and Trisha using their roots and stems.
Both the roots and stems were thicker than the loins of Tigris.
Tigris lit the Salamander’s sword and charged the tree without using Aura as much as possible.
Tigris didn’t even use a single handful of Aurors, but he moved forward, cutting off those thick branches at an invisible speed.
And in the end, it arrived in front of the body of the tree.
Tigris’ 5 aura rings quickly rotated and a very thin black energy formed on the sword.
Sigh-!
Tigris drew his sword crosswise and cut the tree in half.
The magic stone inside the tree split in two and burned, then the tree turned into ashes and disappeared.
Trisha was purely admiring Tigris’s swordsmanship.
As the saying goes, Tigris did not cut the tree trunks that had become harder and tougher with the power of mana stones, but rather split them along the grain.
At Tigris’ overwhelming technique, Trisha had no choice but to stare with her mouth wide open.
“You shouldn’t use your sword as much as possible. After all, if you use swordsmanship, the barrier will absorb the auras.”
“But, how did Tigris use his sword?”
“There is a way. I’m running out of time to teach you that now, so I’ll tell you later.”
“Ah… yes. All right.”
“It seems that even strengthening the body is possible, so use only the body enhancement.”
Trisha pointed her sword at the tentacle-like tree trunk that came from behind.
Pussack!
Unlike Tigris, the cross section was not clean, but it could be cut.
Trisha stood next to Tigris.
“I’ll take the right, you take the left. Don’t even think about cutting it, just prune the branches. Do you understand?”
“Yes. All right.”
“Then I will hit the core of the barrier at once and enter. Please follow me.”
Until now, the reason for slowly breaking the gemstones was to break the gemstones while arranging the physical strength.
However, as the Marquis Baros began to move the trees, the debuff magic that gnawed at the stamina disappeared.
Now that I don’t have to worry about losing my stamina, it was right to run to the core of the barrier at once and hit him on the neck.
– Whoa, whoa!
Tigris pointed his sword at the wall of tree trunks blocking the front.
Then the wall of the tree trunk exploded like a bomb and burned.
With the effect of the salamander’s sword, the tree trunks twisted like crazy octopuses on a fire.
Trisha saw clearly how Tigris would break the wall of that tree.
It is said that the surrounding barrier absorbs the sword energy like crazy, but it takes time to absorb the sword energy.
Tigris completed the swordsmanship by measuring the timing of the barrier magic detecting and absorbing the sword, and using that moment right before it sensed and absorbed the sword.
0.02 seconds to complete the inspection?
No, it’s not enough to create swordsmanship in 0.01 seconds.
It seemed that the old common sense was completely shattered.
The closer you got to the barrier, the stronger the magic effect.
The sweet scent stimulated Tigris’ sense of smell and his eyes began to blur.
‘After all, the hallucination magic is getting stronger.’
People Tigris knew appeared from all over the tree.
Charlotte is dying of a rag all over, Beowulf is trembling and dying under the curse of satiety, and even Linia, who has lost her memory and raised her sword to Tigris…
They were all glaring at Tigris with resentful eyes.
Their desperate eyes cut through Tigris’ heart.
Even the surroundings began to change to the battlefield stained with the red blood of that day, and the broken sword of the adversary and the sword of Dwin began to appear.
Rakan, who had lost his left arm decisively, was looking at Tigris with resentful eyes.
Whoops-!
Tigris bit his lip hard.
The fishy scent of blood spread in his mouth, and Tigris came to his senses.
Tigris used ‘Warrior’s Soul’, one of the advanced Auror skills.
The soul of a warrior was one of the Auror operation techniques created by the ancient barbarian warriors who fought against dragons, giants, and witches with a single body.
It was the ability to ignore hallucinations and hallucinations like now by amplifying strong mental power.
Then the blurry eyes returned to normal, and hallucinations ceased to exist.
‘Trisha is fine.’
The aura that rose from the sword of the sacred fire was firmly protecting Trisha’s body.
Tigris exhaled once.
‘It looks like you haven’t completely overcome it.’
With just one psychedelic magic, my mental state was shaken a lot.
Tigris replaced this unstable mind with anger.
Marquis Baros, who stimulated his trauma, would be cut to pieces and killed.
And the target was not far away.
“How are you…!”
Marquis Baros was startled, as if he had seen a ghost.
Tigris looked at the black manastone in front of Marquis Baros.
The black manastone had a strange shape unlike the normal manastones.
‘······Finger bones?’
To be more precise, does it feel like a human fingertip has been enlarged 100 times?
He noticed it because he was a Tigris who was well versed in the structure of the human body, but other people would just mistake it for a giant manastone.
First off, it didn’t matter.
The Marquis Baros quickly implemented the magic.
“Chain Lightning!”
A black lightning bolt from the tip of Marquis Baros’ wand rushed towards Tigris and Trisha.
Trisha reflexively unfolded the ‘magic shield’ contained in the sword of the sacred fire.
Then a golden barrier protected Trisha’s body.
Gripping support!
The magic of Marquis Baros could not penetrate Trisha’s magic shield and was discharged in all directions.
As soon as Tigris saw the gnome’s magic, he recognized that it was a lightning type of magic, and used the spell of hunting spells.
When it touched Tigris’ sword, the lightning disappeared.
Without the Marquis of Baros to panic, Tigris appeared before the Marquis of Baros.
The Marquis Baros reflexively used a memorized barrier magic, but he could not stop the sword of Tigris.
Zeng-!
The barrier magic of the Marquis Baros was shattered.
And at the same time, the right hand holding the wand was cut off.
“Aaaaaah!”
Tigris pointed his sword at the huge manastone next to Marquis Baros.
As the manastone was cut in two, it lost its black color and fell to the floor.
The movements of thick branches flying from all directions stopped at the same time.
The Marquis Baros went into a state of panic, unable to speak properly.
“Yeah… how can you use my barrier magic… our Baros family’s arcane magic…”
Either way, Tigris took the pocket watch out of his pocket.
The pocket watch turned into a gift, and the gift growled at the Marquis Baros.
“I, Tigris di Norverd, as Inspector of His Majesty the Emperor, will condemn the Marquis of Vale de Barros with blood for rebellion and disobedience to orders.”
“Come on… Wait a minute…! If you kill me like this…!”
The Marquis Baros’ face turned white as he never thought he would really hit his neck.
“Your death will establish the authority and dignity of His Majesty the Emperor.”
“If you kill me, this southern border will fall! Do you think the Beasts will invade the Empire and the Kingdom of Gillion will stand still?”
“If you thought of the Empire like that, you should not betray His Majesty the Emperor.”
Tigris raised his sword.
“It was a long talk. die.”
“not······!”
Tigris mercilessly beheaded Marquis Baros.
The Marquis Baros’ neck flew off, and his old body fell to the floor.
The Marquis Baros is dead.
Trisha couldn’t understand if what she was seeing was real.
The demon who kidnapped, imprisoned and sold the prisoners was dead.
That such a person died so easily. Tricia could not believe it.
‘It’s over.’
Tigris felt more relieved than the others.
Finally, the cleaning of the interior of the empire was finished.
With the deaths of Count Vinsmoke and Marquis Baros, the cause of the imperial civil war completely disappeared, and Rota and Arfem lost two great helpers.
Instead, the Empire will establish diplomatic ties with the Beasts based on the neck of the Marquis Baros and forge a stronger bond to pressure the Kingdom of Gillion.
In this situation, what choice will Rota and Arpem make?
It was not known by Tchrist.
However, one thing is certain: Rota and Arphem’s family lost all the capital and human resources they had invested in the Empire.
Depending on how well the Empire and Tigris use this point, it will determine whether or not they can win the war against Lota and Arphem in the future.
Tigris spoke through a gift.
“communication. Rebellion of the Marquis of Vale de Baros and summary execution for disobedience. Request to retrieve the body to the current location.”
* * *
A day after the death of the Marquis Baros, articles poured out throughout the empire.
[Summary execution for mutiny of the Marquis of Baros!]
[Did you aim for the life of Captain Tejo, Marquis of Baros?]
[Hiring assassins and poachers, Marquis of Baros.]
[Who was the secret agent who executed the Marquis Baros?]
[The imperial secret investigator confirmed that the rebellion was plotted and then executed a summary execution according to His Majesty’s orders…]
[Mr. A, who escaped from the political prison camp, was hell.]
The deaths of the Marquis Baros and Isaac were written that morning, throughout the empire.
Already, the Inquisitors gathered the heads of local newspapers in the Marquis of Baros and wrote articles according to the reporting guidelines issued by the imperial family.
And it was decided to directly manage the territory of the Marquis of Baros, which had lost its owner, directly from the imperial family, and it was decided that the second prince Amyro would receive the post of commander-in-chief of the south and rule directly.
Suspicions arose as to whether he had already planned to kill the Marquis Baros, but that had nothing to do with the fact that he was within the Marquis of Baros.
“Wow!”
“The tyrant Marquis Baros is dead!”
All the citizens of the Marquis of Baros, including Halkiss and Theron, rushed out to welcome the death of the Marquis.
And the noble victims who were hanged while accusing the Marquis of Baros of corruption and corruption were recovered and transferred to the cemetery.
Now, the corrupt soldiers who had lost the center of being Marquis Baros had no choice but to stare blankly even when the people insulted Marquis Baros.
No, on the contrary, they could not afford to pay attention to the people.
It was because he was busy organizing the books and destroying all the evidence of corruption.
But the Inquisitors did not allow them to escape like loaches.
bang-!
“Captain Halkiss. I will arrest you for bribery, neglect and poaching.”
“Damn it!”
The guard captain was about to riot, but the Inquisitors already had the 5th circle enchanted artifact ‘Exhaustion Chain’ in their hands.
Chains of exhaustion bound the captain’s body, and the captain limped as if he had fainted.
In addition to the commander of the guard, he suppressed all officials of the Customs Service and the Railway Management Bureau who were inspecting the goods trains.
Those who committed minor crimes could not be afforded by the current Inquisitor’s power, and instead, only major criminals were caught and imprisoned.
But the dwarfs who had committed minor crimes didn’t have to worry about it.
“It’s him! He took my son!”
“Stone to death!”
It was because the permanent residents came like wolves, caught them, and executed them publicly.
Having read all this through the newspaper, Levis put it down and fell into thoughts for a moment.
‘I’m just going to kill the Marquis Baros…’
I couldn’t understand how he made such a drastic decision.
The current imperial power is said to be skyrocketing without knowing the sky, but he never thought that he would have the courage to strike the head of the southern commander.
‘Besides, I can’t measure the skill of that Tigris guy.’
To break through the barrier magic of Marquis Baros like an iron castle and kill him.
It was a clear mistake of Levis, who misjudged the imperial audacity and the power of Tigris.
Then a priest asked cautiously.
“Levis, what can we do?”
All preparations were now complete to strike Captain Teho.
“It would be pointless to kill Captain Teho now.”
To be precise, it was very dangerous to hit Captain Tejo.
If the Marquis Baros or Isaac had mentioned that Levis was aiming for Elder Tejo before he died, then Tigris would have come after him.
“Captain Tejo gives up.”
There is only one reason to aim for Captain Teho.
To prevent the improvement of relations between the Suin Autonomous Region and the Empire.
However, since the emperor beheaded Marquis Baros for his crime of poaching the Suin tribes, relations with the Autonomous Region of the Suin tribes are bound to improve.
It was not right to reveal the strategic weapon of ‘wild instinct’ in the middle.
“All of you, go to the kingdom of Gillion. Don’t get on the train, go stealthily through the jungle.”
“Yes. Okay. Then, Levis-sama, where do you plan to go?”
Levis thought for a moment before opening his mouth.
“The estate of Viscount Griff.”
There was Morita di Griff, who had the potential to become the adversary of Tigris.