Reborn from Conan

Chapter 930 'Death of Shion' (7k32 in 1)

Chapter 930 'Death of Shion' (7k3 -in-)

Different from the peaceful and tranquil life of ordinary merchants, travelers and monsters in the town, the high-level officials of the Demon Federation headed by Hongwan have actually felt a sense of urgency in recent days. The appearance of Ji Xing and Shivana has added some pressure to them, but they can only hope that the two are just special travelers and pay more attention to other places.

That was the most important piece of information from a few days ago. There was an organized and fully armed human group heading this way. When we sent people to inquire, we only got an extremely unfriendly reply, "There's no need to know about these lowly things."

After investigation, it was confirmed that those people belonged to the Kingdom of Farmus, so Benimaru asked his good friend, the leader of the intelligence system, Souei, to investigate, and he just sent back some bad news.

Not only the knights who came, the entire country of Farmus is preparing for war!

The severity of the situation was beyond what Benimaru could handle, so he immediately contacted Rimuru, but this really made him panic.

The connection on Rimuru's side is disconnected!

The communication magic couldn't connect, this had never happened before!

And disasters always come one after another. At this time, he received a message from his ally, Alvis, the leader of the three beast warriors of the Beast Kingdom.

The Beast Kingdom will go to war with Milim, the tyrant of destruction, one of the oldest demon lords, in a week, and asks the Demon Federation to take in the refugees.

All these factors combined made Benimaru immediately summon the cadres of the Demon Federation.

"what?"

"Rimuru-sama has lost contact? How could this happen?!"

“And why is Milim-sama…”

More than a dozen people at the meeting were extremely shocked. Rimuru's secretary Shion couldn't help but stand up and said, "What does it mean to lose contact? Rimuru-sama is so powerful, how could something go wrong?!"

"Calm down, Shion." Benimaru said in a deep voice, "I don't think anything will happen to Lord Rimuru. I think he is just being held back by something.

This timing is too coincidental. I can't help but suspect that the enemy is plotting something. I have asked Gavial to guard the cave where Lord Veldora is sealed. What we have to do is to protect the town before Lord Rimuru returns!"

Shion took a deep breath and slowly sat back down. Bai Lao, who was also a swordsman from the Great Demon Clan, said, "I also believe that Lord Rimuru will be alright, but Young Master..."

He looked at Benimaru and said, "I heard that two special visitors came to the town yesterday. One was a summoner from another world like Rimuru-sama, and the other was... a flaming dragon? They appeared at such a time. Could they be related to this series of events?"

"Probably not." It was Zhu Cai who spoke up, and she shook her head slightly. "Mr. Ji Xing seems to be a very gentle person, and he was very enthusiastic in providing many suggestions for improving the catering."

"I think so too." Gad, who was always silent, spoke in a buzzing voice.

"Has Gede also met them?" Old Bai nodded gently: "That would be the best."

Just as the topic was about to be changed, Gobda suddenly stood up with a painful look on his face: "I think... I should pay more attention to those two. In fact, I met them once yesterday at noon and once this morning. Yesterday they asked me to recommend a restaurant, and today..."

"What's wrong?" Everyone looked at him.

"That human named Ji Xing sold me a skill." Gobda gritted his teeth.

"……what?"

“What does it mean to sell skills?”

Two or three of the cadres made some associations and sat up straight involuntarily. Gobda gestured and said, "Haven't you heard of that legend? Many adventurers who came to the town have told that story!

In the wild, adventurers will occasionally encounter a mysterious "wild skill merchant" who will descend from the sky on a giant dragon and sell powerful skills to adventurers in a unique way. Many adventurers who were originally D-level or C-level have been promoted to B-level or even A-level because of this kind of encounter! "

"Huh? I seem to have heard of this story too." Shion recalled.

"Wait? Riding a dragon?!" Someone caught the point of the story.

"Could it be that……"

"Isn't this a legend? The wilderness skill merchant in that story... is he?!"

"I thought it was just a story at first." Gobda said, "But he really sold me a very powerful skill, and I can really use it."

Everyone looked at each other in astonishment, rolling in shock.

We should have mastered these skills ourselves, but someone else is selling them out in bulk?

As Gobda's teacher, Bai Lao didn't say it, but he actually valued this kid very much. He said solemnly: "Gobda, seeing how embarrassed you were just now, could it be... that you paid a heavy price for this?"

"No, I just need to donate 100 gold coins to the nursing home built by Rimuru-sama in a year. It's indeed a lot, but there's a one-year deadline, and I can raise the amount by borrowing from everyone."

Gobda said with regret, "It's worth it in exchange for such a powerful skill. Unfortunately, I originally wanted to teach him a lesson by surprise... ah, no!"

He explained hurriedly: "I wanted to give you a surprise, but now that they were mentioned in the meeting, I can only confess."

Although he didn't finish his words, everyone could hear what he meant. Even though the occasion was not appropriate, Old Bai's face still darkened.

Gobda felt cold all over.

The next moment, Bai Lao disappeared from the place where he originally stood, turned into a residual shadow and appeared behind Gobda, slashing with the scabbard.

"It seems that I have allowed you to retain too much energy. At a time like this... huh?!"

The scabbard didn't fall into place.

In other words, he struck empty air.

This had never happened before and made Bai Lao’s eyes widen, and the next moment a crisis struck!

clang clang clang!

He drew back his sword in an instant and, relying on his strong experience in swordsmanship, he blocked four swords that seemed to come from the void in a row. It was difficult to even detect the traces left by Gobda with the naked eye!

That was certainly not spatial movement, but an extraordinary shuttle speed. At this moment, Gobda's movement speed was even faster than his, shuttling through all directions of his body, making it impossible for him to find or catch him, and he could only rely on instinct to defend himself.

When the sword blade was placed on his neck from behind, the old man opened his eyes wide in disbelief. He was also aware of this attack and could dodge it, but he would definitely be seriously injured, so he did not dodge.

Having been forced into this state by Gobda, he had already lost in his heart, but this...

"This is the skill you bought?!"

The other cadres also stood up in shock.

Gobda laughed proudly, "How's that? Awesome, right? This is called 'Alpha Raid'!"

Awesome... Ridiculously awesome... Even Old Bai would suffer a loss in swordsmanship?

Is this really without side effects?

Boom! With Bai Lao's backhand strike, Gobda, who was too proud of himself, screamed in pain, and the topic of the meeting shifted slightly.

……

At the same time, three uninvited guests from the Kingdom of Farmus disguised as merchants have just arrived in the capital of the monster kingdom.

It was none other than the summoner trio of Taguchi Shogo, Tachibana Kyoya and Mizutani Nozomi.

The three of them were feeling very uncomfortable at the moment.

This is ridiculous. This city was obviously built by some low-class monsters, so why does it look more advanced than the Kingdom of Farmus?!

These people and monsters are all wearing beautiful clothes, walking with their heads held high, and looking perfect. It seems like they're living a better life than we are!

Why? !

The flames of jealousy burned fiercely, but they managed to keep a certain level of composure.

The lesson learned a year ago has taught them that there are always people better than you. The shadow of being defeated by Ji Xing with ease is still vivid in their minds. Although they still consider themselves strong, they cannot seem to be invincible.

After all, this is the enemy's base camp, and there may be two powerful guys among the monsters.

Be careful!

"Well, there are so many idiot adventurers who live peacefully with monsters here. It would be convenient to use my ability, right?" Mizutani Nozomi suggested, "Do I really have to be the one to create a riot?"

Taguchi Shogo and Tachibana Kyoya nodded in agreement. The unique ability of the Kyogen Master is indeed a great way to incite chaos. Tachibana Kyoya narrowed his eyes as he looked at this town that was so advanced that it was a bit ridiculous, and a dangerous light radiated from his eyes.

"Then let's choose a suitable target first, Miss Xixing."

"How about choosing me?" At this time, a slightly familiar voice sounded behind them.

The three men froze and turned back alertly, and the figure they saw made them open their eyes wide in horror.

"……It's you?!"

"Why are you here..."

Reflexively, they took a few steps back and looked at Ji Xing with fearful eyes, the man who had left a shadow on them a year ago.

Even Shivana, who had an outstanding figure and appearance and stood next to Ji Xing, was ignored by them.

"Wait!" Tachibana Kyoya suddenly had an association and said, "Based on the investigation of the Kingdom of Farmus and the appearance here, there must be a summoner in this monster kingdom. Could it be you?

That's right, that's right, no wonder a broken slime can build such a city-state, everything that follows is reasonable since you are the one leading it!"

“Is it really like this?” Taguchi Shogo also showed a look of realization.

“Really? That’s… great!” Mizutani Xixing was stunned, and actually showed surprise, and said to Ji Xing: “Um… Oh, I don’t know your name yet?

My name is Mizutani Nozomi, I'm 18 years old, from Yokohama, Japan, and was summoned to this world three years ago. Well, we are both summoners, so we should help each other, right? "

She said tentatively, "You won't bear a grudge for what happened a year ago, right? After all, we were the ones who suffered. If we had known that you were so powerful and could not be controlled by that old man's spell, we would have left with you!

Since you built this town, you must be very distressed that there is no one to communicate and cooperate with, right? Some low-class monsters don't understand the development of modern society, but we are different. The four of us can definitely unify the world if we work together!"

"That's right." After coming back to his senses, Tachibana Kyoya also showed a harmless smile: "I am Tachibana Kyoya, and I will be your assistant. Of course, the premise is that you have to help us deal with the spell. I am tired of being controlled by that damn old man."

Only Taguchi Shogo was a little hesitant. This was tantamount to "worshipping a big brother". Whether as the bad high school student "dominant" on campus before being summoned, or as a summoner with powerful unique skills, he was a little reluctant to serve someone else as his master.

But although he had a lot of experience in the past year and injured so many knights that he even drew a warning from Lazan, when he thought about the battle a year ago, he still felt that his chance of winning was close to zero.

It is better to surrender first, get rid of the control of old man Lazan, and then find an opportunity to replace him!

We are all modern people, so we should be easier to talk to, right?

"Well, since Kyoya and Xixing have expressed their opinions like this." He spread his hands and said in a face-saving way: "Then I will do the same."

Ji Xing smiled and said, "I still admire your rebelliousness, and you seem to have misunderstood. I am not the owner of this town. I am just here for tourism. I just arrived yesterday."

"……what?"

The three of them were stunned for a moment, and Mizutani Xixing slowly forced a smile, walked towards Ji Xing and said: "We are all summoners, don't be so cold, help me, even if it's okay for me to be your subordinate.

It’s always better to listen to a handsome guy from the same place than to an old man. You don’t know, ever since I turned 18, that Lazan always looked at me with disgusting eyes, which often gave me goose bumps, fearing…”

Before being summoned here, she was a 15-year-old girl with dyed hair. She knew how to seduce men with both hands, but her skills were still limited to the beginner level.

She herself felt that it was a bit disgusting to talk like that, but in order to gain freedom, any sacrifice did not matter. At worst... she could find a chance to take revenge on this guy in the future!

As she was thinking this, before she could even reach Ji Xing, she was blocked by a figure.

Taller than her, bigger than her, prettier than her.

She looked at Shyvana, dazed for a moment, and gritted her teeth in jealousy: "Get out of the way! You are a monster, right? His slave? I am a fellow countryman of your master. He didn't say anything, how dare you stop me?!"

Snapped--

The crisp sound of Dabidou and the flying body.

Shyvana was not polite at all and made Mizutani Nozomi spin five and a half times and land at the feet of Taguchi Shogo and Tachibana Kyoya. When she landed, her cute face was swollen beyond recognition and she lost consciousness!

Taguchi Shogo and Tachibana Kyoya tensed up nervously. Did she start a fight? And... couldn't see clearly? They couldn't even see the woman's movements? !

They glanced around, actually hoping that the visitors and residents of the Monster Kingdom would notice what was happening here and make Ji Xing cautious.

But this attention made them even more terrified.

Monsters and adventurers walked past them, treating them as air, not caring about the conflict and the unconscious Xixing at all.

What's even more terrifying is that the monsters and adventurers were talking to each other, but they couldn't hear a single sound!

At some point, they seemed to be exiled to another dimension!

"Do you know why I didn't kill you a year ago?" Ji Xing asked.

Shogo and Kyoya Tachibana looked nervous.

"W-what did you do?!"

"Are you both summoners? Not really. I didn't kill you because you haven't committed any damnable crimes yet, so I'll give you a chance." Ji Xing smiled and said, "You were suddenly summoned from a harmonious society to this world where the strong prey on the weak. At an immature age, you suddenly gained the power to dominate the lives of others. Farmus, who sees you as a weapon, is constantly leading you in a cold direction.

So I'm going to give you a chance to live...if you can change after seeing the wider world."

He stretched out his right hand and squeezed it hard.

The invisible net condensed towards the middle, squeezing and shrinking towards the three people like a space barrier.

Shogo and Tachibana Kyoya noticed something and showed horrified expressions. Shogo swung his fists wildly and Tachibana Kyoya cut them with his sword, but it was ineffective.

In the end, it was squeezed into nothingness, as if it disappeared from the world and entered a different space!

A unique skill from the world of Magical Index.

World Shaper!

With Ji Xing's current power, he can cover the entire town in an instant and banish everything to the different space he created and carry it with him.

People in the different space can see the outside world, but it is difficult for the outside world to see and find the different space.

But after all, it is just a unique skill, so it is okay to regard it as a special barrier ability. If Ji Xing does not continue to repair it, there is a special A-level, or multiple A-levels attack together, there is a chance to create a gap in the 'different space'.

Unfortunately, those three people were not like that. If Ji Xing didn’t care, no one would know that they were rotting inside.

Seeing that Ji Xing had finished handling the situation, Xivana bowed her head and said, "I'm sorry, Master. I knocked that woman unconscious without asking for your permission."

"It's okay. I just wanted to correct their personalities. After all, they provided me with the start-up capital for my business." Ji Xing joked, "If you meet someone who deserves a beating, you can judge for yourself."

Xivana nodded: "From what they said, they are just the advance team. It seems that some country wants to take action here. What do you think?"

"I...watch this while eating hot pot?"

Shivana was stunned for a moment: "Huh?"

……

A few minutes later, the wild mushroom soup pot restaurant.

The waiter looked at the menu that Ji Xing handed over and showed an apologetic expression: "I'm sorry, these two kinds of mushrooms require intermediate toxin resistance to be consumed, and these four also require primary toxin resistance. I wonder if you two..."

"Just serve them exactly as you ordered." A sweet voice came from behind, and the fair-skinned and beautiful ghost girl Shucai appeared again: "It should be fine for you two."

"Ah, Master Shuna." The waiter was stunned for a moment, then quickly bowed and greeted him, then went to prepare the dishes.

Ji Xing smiled and said, "Miss Zhu Cai came early this time, and we haven't started eating yet. And as for mushrooms, there are too many varieties in the Jura Forest that I can't eat in my original world. I'm afraid I can't make as many suggestions as I do for barbecue."

Shuna smiled, "No, I just wanted to ask if the 'Wild Skill Merchant' has any skills related to cooking? I want to buy some too."

"Cooking? Hmm... Let me think about it, arson feast, constant temperature burning?" Ji Xing said: "It is usually used to roast the enemy. If it is cooking, I am afraid it needs to be controlled very finely."

Zhu Cai smiled and said softly, "I'm joking, Mr. Ji Xing. According to rumors, you choose adventurers to sell skills for no reason, just according to your mood. Gobta should have something that satisfies you, I'm just a little curious about this.

I would also like to remind you that the Farmus Kingdom seems to be showing hostility towards our Demonic Federation. There may be a fight here in the next period of time, but I think your safety should not be a concern for us. "

She gave Shyvana a slight bow.

"That's all. I won't bother you any more. I hope you enjoy your meal."

After she finished speaking, she was about to say goodbye and leave, but at this moment, the ground suddenly trembled slightly, and magic that distorted the rules spread to the entire town!

Zhu Cai's face changed slightly: "What is this?!"

"A large magic of the setting type, specializing in the barrier of magic defense." Ji Xing said: "Someone has launched this in the town, which means that ordinary magicians and combatants will no longer be able to use the power of magic in the next three to five days."

Shucai was shocked and tried it, only to find that she was unfortunately in the ranks of what Jixing called 'ordinary magicians'.

Who did it? !

She looked at Ji Xing and Shivana, hesitated for a moment, and still didn't feel comfortable asking these two "passing travelers" for help. She believed that the Demonic Federation had a way to solve the problem on its own, so she bowed and left.

Shyvana asked casually: "Master, was this also done by the Kingdom of Farmus? The caster is a strong magician, the demon Lazan?"

“No, this was done by Demon Lord Clayman’s subordinate Myulan,” Ji Xing said.

Although Shogo Taguchi and the other two were captured by him and taken into a different dimension, Myulan, who was controlled by Clayman, still cast this magic, so the following plot should not change much.

Sure enough, when the mushroom pot in front of Ji Xing and Shivana was cooked, even though he had not received the signal from Taguchi Shogo and the other two, the Archbishop of the Farmus Kingdom still activated the barrier.

Its name is 'Four-Sided Demon-Sealing Barrier'!

As the name suggests, this is a special attack barrier against monsters. The entire Demon Federation is covered in it. Low-level monsters immediately kneel down or lie on the ground, exhausted from pain.

The high-level monsters also felt the continuous loss of power and showed shock on their faces.

Shivana, who was serving soup to Ji Xing, frowned slightly, then returned to normal and said:

"This barrier is probably a huge burden for the monsters in this town. Even the strongest red-haired monster we saw last night would probably be weakened by at least half."

"What about you?"

"Probably less than one-tenth, but it's a disgusting feeling," said Shivana.

"Resisting negative states is also a form of practice." Ji Xing smiled and said, "Eat, eat."

Shivana felt a force emanating from Ji Xing's body and knew that Ji Xing knew what was going on, so she enjoyed the mushroom soup with peace of mind.

While the two were eating, hundreds of elite knights from the Kingdom of Farmus took advantage of the weakening of the monsters and launched a massacre attack on the town from all sides.

The battle lasted for exactly one meal.

The casualty ratio was something the knights of Farmus Kingdom had never expected.

1:167! The Demonic Federation's death toll was 1, but these elite knights were killed in a favorable environment with 167 people!

The only person who died in the Demon Federation was a very important person - Rimuru's trusted secretary, Shion!

……

"how so?"

The square that was full of singing and dancing last night turned into a place of weeping today. People formed a circle around the outside and looked at the lifeless figure in the middle covered with white cloth with tears in their eyes.

Shion's face, which was once full of vitality, was now dead and pale.

Hong Wan and other cadres lowered their heads and surrounded the inner circle. Some of them were injured and looked extremely unhappy.

"Ziyuan..."

"Wow, Lady Shion is so brave and kind!" The usually dull-witted Gobujie wiped his tears and cried bitterly: "She was also affected by the barrier and was powerless, but she still rushed into those humans!

Seeing that she had killed so many knights, the man who looked like the knight captain was so despicable as to attack a child! He could not hurt the child, but Lady Shion still went to save him reflexively, even though he was injured. The result, the result was..."

From his crying, everyone roughly understood what had happened, and couldn't help but secretly curse human beings for being despicable.

I also lamented that Shion was too stupid.

Yes, it’s obvious that those knights can’t hurt the children in the town at all.

This was a supernatural thing that they still hadn't figured out - weakened by the barrier, they shouldn't have been able to fight like this with those elite B-level knights. If they could win, it would be a pyrrhic victory, and it would be easy for them to lose sight of both ends.

But for some reason, the ordinary people in the town seemed to be blessed by God during that period of time. They could not be hurt by swords or touched by fists or feet, which made the knights dumbfounded.

What exactly is that...

"It's my unique skill, Guardian."

Ji Xing's voice came from the outside. People were startled and naturally made way for him and Shivana. Hong Wan even rushed forward.

"Mr. Ji Xing, you mean..."

"The effect of the skill is to select a target to guard. The target will be absolutely protected until I am defeated. However, when the target is attacked, it will consume a lot of my magic power."

Ji Xing continued, "Protecting ordinary people and protecting senior officials like you will cause different losses, so I'm sorry that I didn't use this skill on you."

"It turns out...that's it."

"There is actually such a skill?!"

"No, no, no, Mr. Ji Xing, you don't need to apologize, we should thank you!" Hong Wan said quickly: "If it weren't for your skills, who knows how many people in the town would have been killed by those human knights today. You saved them!"

Other cadres also expressed their gratitude, and the outside crowd was even more excited with an uproar of gratitude.

After half a minute, the square became quiet again. People turned their eyes to Ziyuan again, showing sadness again, not wanting to disturb her peace.

Shuna gently covered her mouth.

"If Lord Rimuru knew that Shion... I wonder how sad he would be."

"Yes." Benimaru looked up at the sky: "I really don't know how to explain this to the adults."

"Speaking of this, it's a bit too early to be sad now." Ji Xing said with a smile.

Everyone's eyes converged again in an instant, and someone asked in surprise, "Could it be... Could it be that you have the skill to bring the dead back to life?!"

"No, that's not true."

Everyone looked disappointed, and Ji Xing said, "But there is also a unique skill, Soul Burial."

Bury...soul?

call--

An invisible breeze blew, and everyone felt a chill. The whispers of the dead echoed in their ears, and invisible light gathered towards Shion's body.

Gradually, a transparent body condensed next to Shiyuan's body. Its shape and appearance were exactly the same as Shiyuan's!

“Is this… could this be…”

The transparent Shion opened her eyes blankly and sat up: "Everyone, I..."

Her eyes fell on her own body lying beside her, and she was stunned for a moment: "Huh?!!"

"I called back her soul, but she can't enter her own body." Ji Xing said, "This state can only last for seven days."

"..."

There was an eerie silence.

Shion's soul stared at her friends for a long time, and Gobda broke the silence: "So... the demon has really become a demon?"

As Gobda screamed as he was beaten up, the atmosphere became lively again.

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(End of this chapter)