Chapter 84
Thud!
Death lightly tapped the floor with his skull staff. The avatar of the Black Circle’s grimoire──The Scales of the Heart.
Appearing as if one were seeing a Victorian-era British gentleman.
In the sense that it was an Avatar of an idea, the concept itself wasn’t vastly different from the Knights’ Avatars.
However, the weight that being carried was incomparable to that of mere knights. Just as the presence behind Dale’s back was.
It was at that very moment.
Thud!
From behind ‘Death’, several crows flapped their wings and swooped straight towards Dale. Like Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds.
A flock of crows, darkening the sky, flew toward Dale in unison.
To counter them, Dale drew forth his ‘Shadow Cloak’. Fluttering the cloak’s hem, which mimicked a black sercoat, he dyed the entire area a lake of darkness.
To block the surging flock of crows, the spiked tentacles of the Shadow Lurker shot forth.
Generating the maximum magical power possible from the three circles, the tentacles, and the two black sources.
‘Death.’
Even the continent’s foremost dark mage, the Black Duke himself, would be but a mere child before its presence.
And──.
“……!”
Shadow Lurker’s tentacles, aimed at repelling the crows, sliced through the air in vain. Like a sword swung toward a mirage.
But it was no mirage.
The surging flock of crows plunged straight toward Dale’s body.
Thud!
─ Did I not tell you?
‘Death’ said.
