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Chapter 304 The Marquis's Wrath

Caroline wielded an emerald-like dagger and charged towards the door, unleashing a burst of emerald energy to prove her words were true.

However, this did not cause any harm. When the wooden door was shattered, the Marquis appeared. He was now covered in blood, and a huge cloak enveloped him, with shadows constantly flowing and struggling on it.

"Another large group of people has brazenly intruded into my territory. Aren't you going to shut up? Despite my repeated orders, you still gather together to disrupt the peace of my land!"

As the Knights' operation to capture people progressed, more and more people entered the Shadowlands through the "Golden Harp Theater" and other passages. The Marquis, acting as their agent, sensed this and was furious.

He believed that if things continued this way, Shadow City would be forced into the conflict between El Isle, the Kingdom, and the Order.

"Your Excellency, you've misunderstood," Caroline tried to calm the Marquis down. "We'll leave now."

"I was wrong, I was wrong." The Marquis ignored him, muttering to himself, his voice growing lower and lower: "When you came, I thought we could have one more ally in the fight against the cultists."

He pointed at Caroline, then turned to Benedict: "I'll turn a blind eye to people like you, just because you're supplying the Shadowlands with resources."

Finally, Chongluoxia pointed a finger at him: "And you! You and that foolish dwarf were originally criminals! I pardoned you once because of the Black Monk. You people, because of my leniency, have treated this place as your own territory! Insolence, insolence! You will all die!"

As the Marquis pronounced his sentence, his withered, gray hair danced wildly, emanating an overwhelming power that was the embodiment of the very rules of the Shadow Land itself.

Strictly speaking, neither Caroline's group nor Benedict and the others violated the order of the Shadowlands, which is willing to devour more living people. However, the Marquis has temporarily distorted everything with his own will, wanting to punish them.

As a dark aura surged forth from the Marquis himself, like a materialized shadow sweeping across the doorway and the entire living room, objects pierced by the shadow rapidly crumbled. Simultaneously, the shadow materialized into forms—ghosts—holding the very spears that had pierced the door.

Those spears were aimed at the five people in the room. Connor and Jeff, who were closest to the Marquis, were pierced on the spot. The ghost lifted them up as if pulling two phantoms out of the flesh and sucking them into the Marquis's cloak.

A soul-piercing wail echoed throughout the core area, sending a shiver down the spines of everyone who could hear it. The long-time residents all knew that the Marquis had once again lost his temper and had imposed the harshest punishment, binding the criminal's soul into his magical artifact.

Rorschach had been gathering power since the spear pierced through the door, and now he launched a [Great Disintegration] directly at the Marquis. The Marquis did not dodge at all; the oppressive shadow mass dissipated, and the Marquis's figure could no longer be seen.

But his voice didn't stop; he roared at Rorschach, "I saw your tricks on Harold Avenue! If you can't disintegrate the entire Shadowlands, don't even think about defeating me with this spell!"

The spirit guards sheathed their spears, intertwining and reforming into the marquis's shape. Although the spirit soldiers retreated, the marquis's domain pressed in relentlessly; the aging wooden planks cracked and turned to dust, and the unbearable walls began to collapse.

If this continues, I'll really die of old age. But this is the ultra-fast version, even faster than a paid cloud storage service.

Rorschach discovered that the Marquis's power form was somewhat similar to that of the Black Monk. He erected a blue light barrier in front of him, which was easily sliced ​​through. He then attempted to replicate what he had achieved in the Upside-Down Church.

In the Upside-Down Church, Rorschach was able to achieve the circulation and gathering of magic because of the relentless pressure from the Black Monk; the two realms complemented each other.

If the space behind Rorschach remains open as it is now, the magic he modified will continue to dissipate. Because he invoked the protective power of the blue light barrier, a faint aura permeates his surroundings.

Caroline kept summoning protective spells such as force field walls, but the Marquis's shadow continued to advance, and it looked like it was about to corner the three of them.

The magic here is unruly; clearly, the Shadow City obeys the Marquis's orders. It's difficult to even manipulate magic in this space. However, Rorschach perseveres and finally reaches a critical point, establishing a magic cycle of absorption, modification, and release.

From the Marquis's perspective, a blue light shone in the darkness, like a tiny spherical vesicle. Not only could his "punishment" not be applied to the three sinners, but he also lost his sense of the "vesicle" space.

This feeling was terrible; he couldn't allow any lawless zone outside his control to exist in the core area.

However, when he increased his output, the vesicles not only did not weaken, but also tended to expand, and symbols he could not understand appeared on their surface. After a while, tree-like relief patterns appeared faintly on them.

The face of the elf Connor emerged from the spirits commanded by the Marquis, greedily clinging to the surface of the blue light bubble, making a whooshing sound.

Benedict looked up at the shadow of the oak tree from inside, his mouth slightly agape in disbelief.

How is Singlev? Now that Rorschach had the time to do other things, he took the Balan Bead hanging on his chest, infused it with an unprecedented amount of magic, and ordered, "Find a way to get Singlev and Freddy out of the core area."

After saying that, he released the beads. Now the entire sac was filled with magic that he had modified. Since the field that was created this time was based on a blue light barrier and was tainted with the aura of Delyuaz, Rorschach could only hope that these could restrain the remnant soul of the God of Deception.

As the bead shot out, the Marquis sensed a dangerous aura. The ordinary glass bead actually pierced through several evil spirits without decaying or shattering.

As they brushed past each other, the bead flickered, and the Marquis instantly lost control of the power of the shadows. Countless souls surged forth and clashed with his own ego, and he himself seemed to split into multiple personalities:

"The Duke's comrade-in-arms." "Is's shallow believer." "Traitor." "Supporting the Queen's ascension to the throne." "Degeneration." Countless fragments of memories echo and reshape the marquises of different periods.

Fortunately, he regained control. He no longer insisted on sentencing these people to death, but instead imposed exile as a punishment, leaving the unsolvable problem to the more essential forces in the shadows.

"Are we sinking?" Luo Xia suddenly realized that he had a slight feeling of weightlessness. The vesicles had no substance, and the floor beneath his feet turned into a black mud that frantically tried to pull the three of them apart.

Caroline tried to cast a spell to make herself and Rorschach float, but the black mud and the "living water" were somewhat similar, climbing up and enveloping the three of them.

The Marquis stared at all of this as the hateful blue vesicle was swept into a black vortex, spinning and sinking into the abyss like a toilet being flushed.

The abyss is called the "Deep Dive Zone".

He unleashed the ghostly spirits surrounding him, howling and brandishing spears to capture members of the resistance. Then, several men formed of shadow separated, which he drew his sword and sliced ​​into pieces, their expressions filled with extreme pain.

(End of this chapter)