Death's Daughter and the Ebony Blade: Volume 6 Part 1 by Maito Ayamine

Author:Maito Ayamine
Language: eng
Format: epub

It was the dead of night. Several shadowy figures raced through the trees of the forest, all blue in the dark. These were the Asura, pursuing the other shadows who had slipped from the cottage under cover of darkness. They had not managed to draw even an inch closer to their mark for no other reason than the traps that covered the forest, stopping them in their tracks at every turn. Safiss, running beside Nefer, clicked his tongue in frustration.

“This is all because he noticed the tail!”

“It was a mistake to try and give our younger members some exper—?!”

Nefer dived low to the ground to avoid the great log that came hurtling at him out of nowhere. Meanwhile, Safiss’s twin blades flashed as he drew them from his back to save himself from being caught in the net that flew up from beneath them. The other two Asura who had been assigned to tail Elliot, as it happened, had quickly ended up snared in a trap and Nefer and Safiss had yet to detect any sign of their catching up. The pair turned back, then sighed and resumed their pursuit.

“These are no ordinary traps,” Safiss said, tearing a scrap of netting from where it had caught on his shoulder.

“That’s right... Who’d have thought he’d even be able to deceive us Asura…” Nefer replied. “I think that man must be a Boundary Master.”

“A Boundary Master? Like they have in the Kingdom of Silquedo?”

“Well, I don’t claim to know everything, but I don’t know of anyone else who can set these kinds of traps.”

Back in the mists of Duvedirica’s distant past, or so it was written in some ancient texts, the Kingdom of Silquedo had dominated the continent. The warriors of that country were supposed to have excelled in the creation of traps. The traps set by the best among them reached the level of “boundaries,” winning them much praise from the King of Silquedo. These great warriors came to be known throughout the continent as the Boundary Masters. It was said that the ancestors of the Asura too had crossed swords with these Boundary Masters who, according to remaining records, had proved formidable adversaries. In the end, the Kingdom of Silquedo had been trampled into ruination by the class three dangerous beast known by some as the Bringer of Calamity and by others simply as “The Maw” and faded from existence.

“But from the stories I heard, The Maw came back and wiped out all the survivors, though what they did to earn a grudge like that I don’t know.”

“I wouldn’t be so surprised if one or two had escaped.” Nefer knocked aside an arrow that came shooting toward him with a knife hand strike while beside him Safiss tossed aside the arrow clasped in his fist with an air of irritation.

“It matters not. The moment that man decided to put himself in our way, his death was assured.” They slipped past trap after trap that sprang up as though in prediction of their movements, until Safiss pointed triumphantly up at the sky.

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