Chapter 62 Vol. 1 - Ch. 62 - Magic and Battle Aura

The moment Griffin charged forward, a sharp flash of cold light suddenly emerged from the shadows behind the smiling Baron of the Rose.

Relying on his exceptional instincts, Griffin barely managed to tilt his head and avoid the attack aimed directly at the center of his brows.

However, the blade still grazed his cheek, leaving behind a shallow cut.

“Humans truly are foolish and incompetent. Anger is an unnecessary emotion. I taught you that long ago.”

The hoarse voice that had questioned Lico earlier rang out once again, accompanied by the sound of scales scraping against the ground.

Although the voice carried a mocking tone, there was not the slightest hint of emotion within it, as if the speaker were merely a machine imitating human speech.

“Richard, don’t say that about Griffin. I have always liked this child.”

Baron Helmer did not retreat. Instead, he walked straight toward Griffin, who had been forced to stop.

“After all, aside from this stray dog who lost everything, who else would possess such abilities yet willingly allow himself to be controlled by me?”

As he stepped into the moonlight illuminating the plaza, his aged and sinister face was fully revealed.

Despite his wrinkles and terrifying appearance, that same gentle smile remained plastered across his face.

“Gods above, you old bastard... You’re really ugly.”

Lynn stared at him with disbelief.

“And how old are you now? Do you really still have the ability to do something like that?”

He paused for a moment before adding:

“I seriously doubt whether Lilith is actually your biological daughter.”

Feeling as though his sanity had taken direct damage, Lynn immediately launched a series of merciless verbal attacks.

For some unknown reason, the smile on Helmer’s face suddenly froze.

The next moment, the muscles on his wrinkled old face visibly twitched.

Watching this scene, Lynn could not help but rub his eyes.

Was that just my imagination?

But why did it look like there was a faint green glow above this old bastard’s head?

“Cough!”

Just as Lynn successfully delivered a mental blow to Baron Rose, Griffin, who had been preparing to charge forward again, suddenly coughed up blood.

He dropped to one knee.

The blood flowing from his mouth and nose instantly froze into chunks of ice the moment it touched the ground.

“Poison is the most effective weapon, and also our greatest weapon.”

Richard, who followed behind Helmer, continued throwing daggers coated in concentrated snake venom.

“Even the slightest contact with highly concentrated venom is completely different from the diluted poison you experienced before being restrained.”

Richard was a person who valued efficiency above all else. Because of that, he would never give his opponent even the slightest opportunity to recover.

Griffin circulated all of his battle aura, forcing his numb body to move.

He desperately threw himself to the side, barely avoiding the incoming daggers.

However, those daggers had never been aimed at Griffin from the beginning.

They twisted through the air in strange and unpredictable trajectories before flying directly toward Lynn behind him.

“Damn it! Why are they coming at me?!”

Lynn attempted to bend backward and perform a bridge-like dodge, but the moment he exerted strength, he suddenly remembered something extremely important.

There was a massive snake wrapped around his body.

I’m screwed!

“Waaaaah! Griffin!”

Lynn shouted in panic.

“Didn’t you say on the way here that you were the former number one assassin? You said you wouldn’t lose!”

“You can lie to yourself if you want, but why are you lying to your buddy too?!”

Lynn cried out in complete despair.

Fortunately, the fact that he had believed Griffin’s claim of being the number one assassin of Division 364 for an entire year did not lead to him receiving a second chance at life.

Because in the next moment, Lico’s tail moved with dazzling speed.

Whoosh!

It accurately blocked every single dagger flying toward them.

“Liko, have you decided to betray us?”

“Mm... Ah... I suppose so...”

After letting out a lazy yawn, Lijo, who had been resting her chin on Lynn’s head, flicked out her snake tongue.

“Killing people is too troublesome... Restoring my country is even more troublesome...”

“Following them seems like there won’t be so many troublesome matters...”

She paused briefly before adding:

“Besides, I still haven’t slept on a velvet bed yet...”

Seeing that their opponents had become distracted, Lynn immediately took action.

He reached into his chest and pulled out several items he had prepared beforehand.

They were none other than the combustion element jars.

“Pay me back for my property damage, you bastards!”

Using a throwing technique from ancient martial arts, Lynn hurled the jars forward together with the heater he had been holding earlier.

Seeing objects flying toward them, the two opponents instinctively used their throwing knives and staff crossbows to intercept them.

Then—

The cracked heater collided with the combustion element jars.

The next moment, they exploded in midair.

BOOM!

Explosions comparable to Alicia’s attacks erupted one after another.

Massive flames instantly swallowed the space between the two sides.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lynn, whose heart ached so much that he almost shed tears of blood, turned around and ran.

While escaping, he shouted toward Griffin, who was still standing in place:

“Griffin! Eat the material I gave you!”

Hearing this, Griffin’s mind, which was almost frozen stiff by the bone-piercing cold, instinctively followed Lynn’s command.

Before coming here, Lynn had already anticipated the possibility that one of them would be poisoned by snake venom.

After all, their opponents were members of the Blood Snake Society.

Although both he and Griffin had underestimated the strength of the concentrated poison due to their lack of information, they had still made preparations beforehand.

Besides the combustion element jars they planned to promote and sell, they had also prepared separate fire magic stones.

Griffin pulled several magic stones emitting a red glow from his pocket and threw them into his mouth.

Very quickly, the effects of the snake venom that had almost completely immobilized him began to weaken at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Moreover, as the magic stones entered his stomach, he felt a strange warmth spreading throughout his body.

It was as if...

Before Griffin could understand what this strange sensation was, the curtain of flames was suddenly torn apart by a figure.

From a distance, Lynn, who had already escaped far away, clearly saw the person who emerged.

It was an old man with white hair and a white beard.

Although he was already advanced in age, the terrifying strength hidden within his body could still be felt from his knife-carved and axe-chiseled features.

【Name: Richard Frost】

【Race: Demi-Human (Snake Tribe)】

【Talent: A-Rank Scout】

【Battle Aura Level: D-Rank】

【Endurance: C-Rank】

【Physical Condition: An elderly lifeform approaching the end of its lifespan】

【Favorability: -5 (Low-threat individual)】

Richard’s thick black snake tail whipped through the air like a massive whip.

Boom!

The force behind it created a sound resembling a sonic boom.

Griffin noticed the several throwing knives held between Richard’s fingers.

They shimmered with an oily, rainbow-like glow.

That was the reflection of the venom coating their surfaces.

Facing such a fierce attack, Griffin, who was below Richard and still suffering from the lingering effects of the snake venom, clearly had no chance of resisting...

Or did he?

Griffin closed his eyes and felt the surging warmth flowing through his abdomen.

It came from the magic stones he had swallowed.

It was like flames.

A fire burning deep within his body.

He was extremely familiar with this flame.

Because his heart, which had lost its soul, had always been burning with another kind of fire.

A flame called rage.

Then let this old bastard who colluded with that bastard see what the so-called “unnecessary anger” truly looked like!

“Go to hell!”

Griffin roared.

At the same time, he instinctively activated both the invisible flame within his heart and the battle aura surging throughout his body.

【Detected D-Rank Magic Battle Aura. Element: Fire. Fire Slash is forming.】

Watching Griffin swing out a flaming slash, Lynn’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

Why was he coughing out black smoke?!

Wait... Could this actually be the legendary Magic Battle Aura?

Normally speaking, this kind of rare battle aura only existed among a tiny number of witches.

After all, one needed to possess two specific talents simultaneously in order to obtain it.

Throughout history, every woman who possessed Magic Battle Aura had been granted the title of Holy Saint of Glory.

Each of them had eventually become a legendary figure whose power shook entire regions.

Then why was Griffin suddenly able to use this ability?

Obviously, it was related to the magic stones.

It seemed there were still countless secrets worth researching.

“Griffin! Cut him in half! Take him down!”

Lynn, who had completely transformed into a bloodthirsty spectator, shouted excitedly.

However, very quickly, he realized something was wrong.

After the flames disappeared, why was there only one figure standing on the opposite side?

Could it be that the other guy escaped while everyone was distracted?

How outrageous.

What a coward!

“Liko! Where did that old bastard run off to?”

Lynn looked around anxiously.

“...I can’t take this anymore. Can you at least point in the direction with your tail?”

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