41 – Reach
“… ….”
The point where there was a crack in the confrontation system protecting the imperial palace.
In an outskirts located to the west of the imperial palace, two men and a monster wearing a robe confronted each other.
“It’s been a while, getting along with Your Excellency like this.”
“It’s been several years. There’s never been a time where the two of us would come forward and face each other.”
Teikan responded with a shallow smile at Marquis Liekanter’s words.
“… ….”
And.
There was a monster wearing a robe watching over those two men.
He wore his black robe too deep, and slowly began to raise the corners of his mouth eerily.
“Okay then.”
Hook!
The Marquis of Lyikanter walked forward, swinging his sword lightly.
“I want to find out your true identity, but if possible, I hope there will be no unnecessary resistance.”
While saying that, the Marquis began to pour a bright golden aura into his own longsword.
At least equivalent to Archmage class.
With Teikan Qliphoth, who reached the 8th circle, the Marquis of Lyikanter, who was even called the two pillars of the Empire, gradually raised his energy.
In line with that, the monster in the robe made its first move.
Sug-
“…… ?”
Just lightly raising their hands, the expressions of the Marquis Lycanter and Teikan became strange.
It’s not like raising mana, or pulling out a sword or spear.
Is it all about simply raising your hand?
“What tricks—”
Are you trying to cheat?
…… That moment when Marquis Lycanter was about to speak.
“…… !”
“…… !”
Even the expression of the Marquis of Liikanter as well as Teikan hardened in an instant.
“…… You man, your hand.”
The Marquis’ gaze was fixed on the monster’s raised right hand.
…… No skin
No, maybe it was just the skin.
Muscles, nerves, and everything else that could have been sitting there didn’t exist.
…… Except for one thing, the bones.
Teikan Qliphoth changed his expression to a cold expression and began to pour intense mana into his hands.
“You bastard, you are not human.”
Teikan spat out the words, emitting menacing momentum as if he would explode his magic at the monster at any moment.
[…] … Khehehehe.]
“…… !”
It was around that time that the answer came back.
How should I describe that voice?
Delicately scratching at the ear, very unpleasant and intrusive.
Finally, the sound that never seemed to come out of a human throat.
“Are you dead?”
…… It was the voice of the dead.
Teikan rather calmed down his expression.
As long as the identity of the enemy was clearly identified, there was nothing to hesitate about.
“Marquis.”
“Yes, sir.”
At Teikan’s call, Marquis Lyikanter lightly rolled his eyes.
And after making eye contact with the Marquis, Teikan lowered his voice.
“It’s the Lich, the identity of the author is.”
“…… !”
The Marquis of Liy Canter narrowed her eyes in surprise.
Lich Lich.
In other words, someone who gave up being human for magic.
…… There were only a few of them, and even those were listed on the Empire’s blacklist.
“…… Can you be specific?”
The Marquis asked, and Teikan’s expression became slightly subtle.
“Well… …. I guess I’ll have to watch a little more to know for sure.”
“Well, he is too.”
With a nod of his head, the Marquis raised his sword straight up.
“Then, shall we take off that robe first? Wouldn’t it make it easier to identify your identity?”
“Exactly. If you go in first, I’ll support you from the rear.”
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“hahahaha. Maybe it’s because it’s been a while since I’ve been working with His Excellency, so I feel oddly excited.”
“…… Excessive excitement is not good. Isn’t that a bad thing about you?”
“Don’t worry. Ha ha ha!”
“… ….”
Teikan’s expression was subtly colored with concern, and he didn’t pay attention to that expression.
Down!
The Marquis of Reikanter ran towards the front, raising the corners of his mouth.
To the black robed monster standing right in front of the barrier.
To be precise, toward the rich.
“…… Haap!”
With a short spirit, Marquis Lyikanter straightened his sword.
Ugh-
In line with that, the Marquis’ aura crackled and fired sparks.
Within.
Ahhhhh!
With a loud roar, the Marquis’ sword struck directly into the lich’s heart.
“…… !”
However.
[Keuhehehehe…….]
In an instant, Richie’s voice, strangely unconcerned.
The Marquis of Lyikanter hurriedly pulled back his sword and bit his body.
“… ….”
A line of cold sweat ran down the Marquis’ cheek.
…… That strange presence just now is, by the way.
[Are you the head of Reikanter in this generation? I’ve reached a certain level, but…….]
“… ….”
The lich opened his mouth again, and the Marquis Lycanter frowned.
[Not enough yet. If you don’t grow a little more, your sword won’t reach me.]
“Bullsh*t.”
Quang!
With a single word, the Marquis of Lycanter roughly trampled the ground with his foot, lightly dismissing Richie’s words.
And soon after, the aura was once again wrapped around the body.
“Isn’t it the prerogative of a lich to pretend to be enlightened and reach the highest level? I am not young enough to be agitated by such words.”
With his eyes full of life, the Marquis Lycanter lowered his sword straight down.
[Foolish…….]
So, this time, Richie also showed a noticeable movement.
With a leisurely movement, he raised one hand, or rather, a bone.
Ugh!
The lich’s eyes, hidden under his robes, flashed wildly.
[Let me teach my juniors a lesson, keuhuh…….]
“You don’t even use a sword, but you talk a lot.”
And right after that.
Ahhhhh!
The longsword filled with the golden aura of Marquis Lycanter collided with the hand made of lich bones that held pitch-black mana.
*****
“…… He is over there.”
With bloody eyes flashing, Orca looked back.
The figure of Yulian, who was banging his hands together and raising the corners of his mouth, and Serena, who was calmly lowering her sword with a calm expression, were caught in Orca’s field of vision.
“Persia seems to be following too. Are Aidan and Joshua keeping their seats?”
With a short murmur, Orca moved her gaze back to the front.
And soon after, Orca narrowed her brow slightly at the sight caught in her field of vision.
“Oh, wait. Now, His Excellency, Marquis of Lycanter, is holding the sword…….”
“…… !”
And there was one girl who instantly reacted to that short word.
Serena hurriedly raised her head and increased her speed.
Quang!
“…… Wait a minute. Serena!”
Seeing Serena spur off the ground and running away, Orca let out a sigh as if in despair.
“That guy is also a monster. I don’t think it’s as good as that white one.”
“Well, isn’t he a guy who is even evaluated as someone who will rise to the position of the number one in swordsmanship in the future? If it’s natural, then it’s natural.”
“Oh, surprise.”
At the words of Yulian, who had approached her side, Orca flinched slightly.
But soon she regained her composure, and Orca smiled softly on her lips.
“Let’s see, I even saw Marquis Lycanter swinging his sword at a strange guy…….”
Narrowing the corners of her eyes, Orca let out a small sigh.
“Hmm, I can’t see it well because it’s covered in dust clouds. Should I go a little closer?”
Orca muttered briefly, and Yulian quickly responded.
“Then why don’t we go? Is there any reason to hesitate?”
With that said, within.
Quang!
“…… Uh, hey?”
Yulian ran out as if kicking the ground.
“Haa…… ?”
The Orca was left alone.
She clicked her tongue as she fluttered her red hair once.
“I thought I was too stubborn, but those guys are more. Really.”
Even as she said that, she also seemed to increase her speed even further.
Turning her own flesh to blood again, Orca swiftly crossed her through the air.
*****
“… ….”
Serena Lyikanter arrived at the scene first.
She began to sting her eyes, letting her blonde hair flutter in the wind.
Why was that?
In the battle of those who have risen to a level far higher than herself, she must have stiffened at the momentum they radiate.
“…… Father?”
No.
Since Serena’s gaze was fixed on a certain man.
“…… Cuckoo.”
The man who catches Serena’s gaze, Marquis Lycanter, once vomited blood.
“…… Ah, Father!”
Surprised by him, Serena hurriedly tried to approach him.
“Don’t come.”
“…… !”
Her Tei Khan stopped her by holding out her hand.
Teikan condensed a large amount of mana into one hand while covering the Marquis of Lycanter as if to protect it.
And the very next moment.
Quaaagh!
A huge explosion erupted from Teikan’s palm.
It was flame-type magic that is synonymous with the 8th circle archmage class, Teikan Qliphoth.
[…] ….]
However.
Although it was said that it was an explosion that was moderately sent as a check, it was despite the explosion magic used by Teikan Qliphoth of the 8th Circle.
Rich didn’t even have the slightest wound.
Ugh-
At some point, a pitch-black black shield was enveloping the lich in the form of a sphere.
[Not enough.]
“…… You guy.”
[Not enough, not enough… ….]
“… ….”
At Lich’s muttering, madness gradually began to set in.
And soon, his black eyes flashed wildly.
[To deal with me, you should have come in person! My friend, Friedrich Edwald—!]
“…… !”
Quaaa!
At the same time as the lich roared wildly, the darkness of mana exploded from his whole body.
And the very next moment.
Kyaaagh!
Kyaaagh!
“…… What, that.”
From the center of the lich, the ground began to protrude gradually.
[If you don’t want to greet me directly, I’ll force you to tear your barrier and enter it.]
Kyaaagh!
…… Along with the screams of countless dead.
From around the lich, white skeletons began to rise one by one.