Chapter 70. Such Crazy Talk
His blood was boiling.
Trembling with humiliation, Pasaria regripped his sword.
Ever since he became an executive of the Southern Branch, this was the first time he had been so humiliated.
“I will definitely kill you painfully, Sirius…….”
The wound carved into his left shoulder was cauterized with flames to stop the bleeding.
It was too bothersome to cast healing magic on every little thing.
“Do you think you can do that?”
“Impertinent…!”
Pasaria charged at Sirius once more.
She brandished her flaming jagged sword and unleashed her technique.
This magic flame sword has a wide attack range.
Not only do flames flicker on the blade, but she can also launch flames as an attack.
Pasaria made use of this wide attack range to corner Sirius.
“Haa!”
Boom!
A baptism of cascading flames.
An ordinary mage would not be able to respond properly and would instantly turn to charcoal.
However, Sirius was not like that.
He deployed a defensive barrier of cold air, blocking the flames themselves.
“What a strange technique…!”
Pasaria increased the firepower of her magic sword.
And she clashed head-on, shattering the defensive barrier of cold air.
“Your firepower is impressive.”
Sirius acknowledged Pasaria’s abilities.
In terms of offensive momentum, Shahit, whom he had fought previously, seemed to be better.
However, in terms of the actual power of her attacks, Pasaria was a cut above—no, several cuts above.
It meant that Pasaria’s magic swordsmanship was on a much higher level.
“Did you really only teach Shahit a little bit?”
“Do you think I would teach the essence of magic to a bandit like that!”
Boom!
Flames erupted and engulfed Sirius.
Sirius narrowly dodged it, but part of his clothing was burned.
“For a member of the Black Cloaks, a clean outfit is their lifeblood…….”
Clicking his tongue, Sirius also readied his sword.
Pasaria was a formidable opponent.
Since she was an 8th Circle mage, her mana capacity was large, making it difficult to absorb her with the Force of the Northern Lights.
Freezing her with the Force of the White Night was also not an easy feat.
In that case, what should he do?
“……”
Sirius concentrated the Force of the White Night into his blade.
And he launched himself backward.
“Are you running away…!”
Pasaria released flames like a sword wind and gave chase.
Pasaria had already broken Sirius’s membrane. Therefore, her movements were more confident than before.
Towards Pasaria, who had become bolder than before, Sirius swung his sword in the air.
The white wolf’s sword energy became a sword wind and galloped through the air.
It’s not an ordinary sword wind. It was made by turning the extreme cold air pressure into a blade and flying it.
It was like throwing a blade of ice.
“……!”
Pasaria dodged in a hurry, sensing the blade flying through the flames.
Sirius was surprised that he could attack an opponent far away, thinking that he could only fight in close combat.
Moreover, the attack was sharp enough to cut through Pasaria’s flames.
“This coldness… Did you also turn the freezing magic into a magic sword? What on earth are you….”
When Pasaria was analyzing Sirius’s attack with bewilderment.
Suddenly, there was a blade cutting into Pasaria’s back.
“Ugh……!”
Clang!
The blade passed Pasaria’s right back.
It was the dagger that Sirius always carried with him.
Just now, Sirius threw the dagger with his left hand while throwing the sword wind with the white wolf’s air pressure.
The dagger was stuck not in Pasaria but in a tall tree nearby.
However, since the dagger was imbued with the North Star’s air pressure from the beginning, it could be pulled back using the North Star’s unique attractive force.
That’s how he aimed at Pasaria’s back by remote-controlling the dagger.
Since it couldn’t be handled as delicately as the swordsmanship, it only caused a small wound.
However, it was enough to create an opening for Pasaria.
Sirius was already cutting into Pasaria’s side.
The first form of the Black Shadow Assassination Swordsmanship, Wolf Hunter, unfolded, and the blade became the canine teeth of a wolf biting the nape of its prey.
Pasaria barely tilted her body to avoid a fatal blow.
However, the wolf’s canine teeth pierced Pasaria’s left shoulder.
“Ugh……!”
Pasaria glared.
While Sirius’s sword was still stuck in her shoulder, she tried to move her body and counterattack Sirius.
She twisted her body as if it didn’t matter if her left shoulder fell off completely.
The moment she tried to stab Sirius with her sword.
Sirius’s left hand grabbed Pasaria’s blade.
It was impossible in common sense.
Pasaria’s blade was still burning fiercely.
There couldn’t be a human who could grab it with bare hands.
However, it was possible for Sirius.
Because Sirius’s left hand was covered with the white wolf’s air pressure.
“Ugh……!”
He knocked Pasaria’s blade with his left hand, which was covered with cold air pressure.
And he reached out his palm towards Pasaria’s defenseless chest.
A merciless palm strike exploded right in the center of Parsaria’s chest.
“Ugh…!”
Bam!
Parsaria was sent flying back, powerless.
She flew through the dark night sky and crashed into a nearby tree.
Then, coughing up blood, she collapsed into the forest.
“Ugh…”
Parsaria’s defeat was clear.
She had relied too heavily on her enchanted flame sword.
If she had used it more diversely, it may have been better, but she had been too monotonous.
On the other hand, Sirius had not only relied on his sword but had also used daggers and palm strikes to exploit Parsaria’s weaknesses.
That was where the match was decided.
“You’ll regret this…”
Parsaria spat out blood as Sirius approached her.
“Do you think the Southern Branch will leave you alone? Once they find out that you are targeting not only the Eastern Branch but the Southern Branch as well, the entire branch will come after you…”
“It will be a long time before they find out.”
Sirius put his mask back on.
Today, the ones who annihilated the Nineth Guild and the Sinclair Swordsmanship School and attacked Francis and Parsaria were unidentified men in black.
It would take time for them to figure out that the men in black were Sirius and Andres.
“While you guys are running around trying to catch us, the Alliance’s authority in the south will crumble.”
“……!”
Parsaria opened her mouth wide, her eyes wide.
However, she could not say anything more.
Because Sirius’s blade had cut off her breath.
As he turned his back on the coldly cooling Parsaria, the masked man in black approached him.
It was Andres, who had taken care of the rest.
“Did you finish them off?”
“Yes, what about Francis?”
“I killed him. It seemed like he had noticed who you were.”
“Good job.”
“I also finished off the ones who saw our faces. They were the ones who attacked me first.”
Francis’s villa was burning fiercely.
There may have been survivors, but none of them would have noticed the identities of the men in black.
“I guess this is enough for today. Let’s retreat.”
“Yes…”
Andres muttered in a感慨万千 voice.
“This is the first time I’ve ever experienced anything like this. Wearing a mask and running through the darkness, killing the wicked…”
“It’s not over yet. You have to keep going.”
“Can I keep going?”
Andres’s voice rose slightly.
“There are still many wicked men in the South. They need to be wiped out.”
“But if we keep going like this… I’m worried we’ll get caught.”
Andres, who had lived a noble life in a noble household, couldn’t help but worry.
He was worried that his deviant behavior would be discovered.
“What are you worried about?”
To reassure Andres, Sirius told him in a clear voice.
“The noble son of the Letiud family hunts down the wicked every night, wearing a mask? Who would believe such nonsense?”
* * *
Somewhere in the South.
In a secret place that ordinary people couldn’t even imagine, masked figures gathered.
It was a meeting of the Southern branch of the ‘Alliance’ that ruled the Southern Black Societies.
“The culprits who annihilated the Knight Guild and Sinclair’s Swordsmanship School and killed Francis and Pasaria seem to be a duo.”
A man with a blue mask stood up and explained to the other executives.
“They were wearing black clothes and black masks. They even wore black hoods to hide their hair.”
“They’re meticulous…”
“They hid their identities thoroughly.”
The other executives groaned.
“We don’t even know their genders?”
“Both of them had male voices, but we should consider the possibility that they disguised their voices. So, they could be women.”
The man with the blue mask continued to explain.
“They moved very quickly. They attacked three places in a row in one night, killed many people, and then disappeared. They seem to be skilled at this sort of thing.”
“Skilled, huh… Who the hell are they?”
“Could it be the Alliance…”
When the Alliance was mentioned, there was a brief silence.
The Alliance was never a tightly-knit organization.
The Southern branch belonged to the Yeomje faction, so it was possible that another faction had attacked the Southern branch.
However, they couldn’t just make such accusations without evidence.
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“Have you figured out what kind of magic they used?”
“One of them seemed to be a magic swordsman, and the other one mainly used fire magic.”
“A magic swordsman and a pyromancer combination…”
Then, a woman with a black mask gave her opinion.
“Is the magic swordsman perhaps Sirius Canisルート?”
“……!”
“Did that guy visit the South? I heard he annihilated the Shahit Order as soon as he arrived.”
The surroundings became noisy.
“Right, if that’s the guy who destroyed the Eastern branch…”
“Is he after the Southern branch too? He doesn’t know his place.”
“He must be feeling cocky after killing some of Noje’s subordinates.”
However, the man with the blue mask shook his head and said.
“I don’t think it’s Sirius.”
“What do you mean?”
“According to the information we’ve gathered, Sirius has no powerful flame mage among his subordinates.”
The man continued,
“Analysis of the traces left at the Sinclair Fencing Academy’s banquet hall shows that the flame mage is a wizard of at least the 7th Circle. There’s no one like that among Sirius’s men.”
“Hmm, so it’s not Sirius?”
“No, Sirius might have found a skilled flame mage somewhere…”
As everyone was lost in thought,
The woman wearing a green mask raised her hand.
“Could… could that flame mage be Andres Retiu?”
“What? Andres Retiu?”
“The eldest son of the Retiu family?”
The executives’ gazes turned to the woman in the green mask.
“I heard that Sirius came to the south and is staying at the Retiu family’s estate. And Andres is an 8th Circle wizard who is also skilled in flame magic…”
“If that’s the case…”
“If Sirius and Andres join forces, they might be able to destroy the Nine Guilds and the Sinclair Fencing Academy overnight and kill Francis and Pasaria.”
“….”
“There’s even information that Andres showed up at the Egret Workshop that day and clashed with the Nine Guilds members.”
It was certainly plausible.
However, the response was not good.
“That’s impossible.”
The man in the red mask, who was sitting at the head of the table, said.
“Andres Retiu has had his eyes on the Rigel family for a long time. He intended to make his younger brother’s wife, Leticia Rigel, the next head of the family and take control of the Rigel family.”
“Ah…”
“For Andres Retiu, Sirius Canisroot is a thorn in his side. He’s someone he wants to get rid of. So he wouldn’t join hands with Sirius Canisroot.”
“But, but…”
“In the first place.”
The man in the red mask said in a sharp voice.
“Do you think the eldest son of the Retiu family would go around wearing a mask, running through the night, and attacking the Dark Guilds? Does that make sense?”
“Ugh…”
“And even going around setting fires like an arsonist? Who would believe such nonsense?”
The other executives also gave her mocking looks.
In the end, the woman in the green mask had no choice but to shut her mouth.
“I don’t know who they are, but… since they killed Pasaria, we have to take this as an attack on our entire Southern Branch.”
The man in the red mask said in a sharp voice.
“Search the entire south thoroughly. We must find those two shadowy figures!”
LMAO it really went THAT way