Chapter 111: Zelda (2/2)

”What's wrong, do you not have anything else to surprise me... Well, I guess I'll take my turn now, Zelda.”

A shadow moved from beneath his feet and a shadowy creature soon appeared out of the ground and with the sound of an explosion.

A beautiful female undead lunged forward as the ground shattered beneath her and in an instant.

Yes, it had happened in an instant.

Although Carn wasn't sure if they could call this a battle since this had started they had not been able to take their eyes off their target. However, The female undead — who had suddenly appeared before them and should still be in their view — had moved mysteriously and was now in their midst.

With a speed that the eye could not even see, Zelda swung her twin daggers, tracing several beautiful curves of the weapon's sickly green light in the air.

”Impudent worm, learn your place.”

Her cold words made the hearts of everyone that heard it tighten and the man that had used the dark scroll earlier collapsed lifelessly to the ground, his head rolling away from his body.

”...Huh?”

Nobody knew what had happened. They had all been excited when the man had suddenly produced such a valuable scroll but the situation had not unfolded how they had imagined it and now, a creature that looked like the reaper had taken the shape of their most lustful fantasies and had come for their lives,— stood before them.

Before any of them could even recover from their stupor, the alluring shadow rogue moved again. Her blade moved beautifully like she was performing an intricate dance. With every swing of her weapon, a body fell to the ground lifelessly.

While the men may have been scared shitless, their pride as men wouldn't let them just stand around and die at the hands of a girl. Well, at least some of them weren't. They tried to surround her with their numbers and all swung their blades.

It was evident the strongest amongst them were the Tier 2 mages and most of them were Tier 1s, especially the warriors. However, they were quite experienced when it came to fighting in a group, or maybe it was just their specialty to gang up on people.

They attacked Zelda from all angles, instantly filling up any holes created during the fight. Zelda was a rogue, an assassin-type fighter, and while she could still use some magic. She still wasn't built to take on so many opponents at once in a frontal assault.

However, she was not an ordinary rogue but one that was born in the depths of darkness and specialized in the shadow arts. Not to mention the anger she felt towards these maggots for daring to point their filthy blades at her master.

Skill - Shadow Movement.

Her figure turned blurry for an instant and she melded into the shadows on the ground as she instantly moved behind several men that had only just been attacking her and launched a barrage of attacks at them.

Skill - Shadow Assault.

Her strikes carried the force of darkness and more than half of Carn's men fell lifelessly to the ground as Carn stared at the scene still frozen in fear.

”U-Uwaaaah—!”

A magic-user that watched Zelda continuously kill his friends from the rear could no longer stand it anymore. He wailed in horror as he turned around and ran wildly away. No longer able to think with any form of rationality.

Zelda turned her ice-cold gaze at the retreating fellow and an exasperated grunt left her greyish black lips. Her figure quickly melded with the shadows and she rapidly moved and shot out of the ground in front of the scared man with dripping pants as she spun her slender legs and the head of the man caved in and his body was sent tumbling back several meters.

”Annoying worm.”

Zelda muttered to herself, her usual blank expression had a slight hint of annoyance on them as she was about to land back down and return to carrying out the task her beloved master has entrusted her with and dispose of the remaining worms.

However—

Before her feet had completely touched the ground and she was about to sink back into the shadows. A large blunted weight slammed straight into her back with a force like it had been shot out of a cannon.

Bang! Boom!

Her body was sent flying as she slammed into the ground like a launched projectile.

Tyler who had only silently been watching the battle narrowed his eyes as he traced the large weight that was attached to a chain back to its source.

A dark figure wearing a black long coat with a long straighten collar, a black top hat, and a white metallic mask that covered the entirety of his face walked out of one of the alleys.

He held a sickle-like weapon on his hands that was attached by a chain to the weight on the ground as he tugged on the chain and pulled the weight back to him. Spinning the chain with his left hand he spoke in a slightly metallic but lax voice.

”I had some time and only came here out of a nagging curiosity but it seems I missed out on quite the fun huh... That's quite a shame. I guess I should've accepted that lad's request to begin with but oh well... Who do I kill first.”

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