9 THRONES

CHAPTER 55: THE SHADOW

On the night before the last fight of the monthly match began, Hasel and the other teachers managed to bring all the dead disciples back to their respective academies.

Although there were some teachers who were attacked while carrying corpses, but with the protection of other teachers of the Soul Wandering stage, the monsters were no different from ants.

Tonight the Wood Sword Academy was very silent, after all the disciples had to make the final match tomorrow so that all the disciples rested early so that they would not get exhausted before the match.

Unbeknownst to anyone at the Wood Sword Academy, a dark shadow figure moved swiftly towards the Wood Sword Academy before hiding in a house that became the residence of the teachers of the Wood Sword Academy.

When he arrived at the house, the shadow turned into a completely black human form, with no eyes, nose or mouth.

The black figure was sitting on the living room chair, he was waiting for something.

Not long after, the door of the living room opened. A teacher in the Wood Sword Academy who was not identified due to being covered by the darkness of the night knelt down in front of the shadow man "Master Taran, it is an honor because you came alone to this place".

The shadow man was a special monster figure under the 9th pillar holder, Ark Vest.

Different from other monsters, the abilities of shadow humans are unique in that not all attacks are capable of injuring them, only certain attacks have the effect of injuring shadow humans.

In addition, the shadow man can change his form into a human and disguise without any problems. Unless the existence of a truly powerful human being, it was extremely difficult to distinguish between a human and a shadow disguised as a human.

This figure referred to as Taran was none other than a subordinate of the Ark's main, the shadow monster that was famous for its power long ago.

Taran looked at the figure of the person who appeared in front of him "I heard Zerten was captured by the Golden Flame, is that true?".

"That's right, Zerten was only captured by the Golden Flame Emperor a few days ago! Fortunately I hid my aura in time. Let alone the Golden Fire Emperor paying attention to me then my disguise as a shadow must be known", said the figure in front of Taran.

"It's bad, Zerten knows some of our secrets! In between, he knows you're the shadow but disguised as a human. Not only you, Zerten also knows thousands of shadowy human members other than yourself who are disguised as humans as well. As long as he opened his mouth, Mr. Ark's plans made over the years must have been ruined" Taran said standing from his chair "I will go to the Human Protector Alliance to kill Zerten before they manage to open his mouth. During this time, you don't act weird!".

"It seems that the throne holders are beginning to realize our movements, they are strengthening the guard against all the strength of cultivators in the world. You've managed to disguise yourself as a teacher in the Wood Sword Academy unnoticed for many years, you must be even more careful so that all our hard work has not failed".

"I see, Mr. Taran" said the figure "But wasn't killing Zerten too risky? It is most likely that the Golden Fire Emperor is guarding him, if master gets caught then the losses we get are too great".

"No need to care about that matter, the Golden Flame is by no means my opponent. If it was the Plant Emperor or any other Emperor, I might not be able to move this easily, but the new Emperor was no problem" Taran said.

Without letting the disguised figure in the Wood Sword Academy speak any more, Taran's figure had disappeared.

From start to finish, no one had noticed Taran's appearance in the Wood Sword Academy.

Not only was Taran's existence, not even anyone in the academy realized that there was a shadowy figure hiding in the academy for many years without being noticed.

Along with the passing of Taran's figure, the disguised shadow man in the academy went back to hiding in his room and slept as if nothing had happened.

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Today was the last monthly match where the 30 participants of the Qi Gathering would fight each other to determine who was the strongest, therefore Vann should not be late coming.

When he reached the living room, Vann found Lifure asleep on the table again.

But this time, beside Lifure was a bag filled with Medicinal Qi.

Looking at Lifure who had managed to make the Qi Medicine in just a few weeks time, Vann smiled bitterly.

It takes 2 months while Lifure is only about 1 week. Although Vann was using firewood that made him study longer, but Vann still had to admit the talent of Lifure who learned this fast, Kyuro did not lie about Dark Elves who were talented in making medicine.

Not only that, Lifure also has a spirit shaped plant level Myth, the spirit can help Lifure more quickly learn about the manufacture of drugs in addition to fighting and accelerate the growth of other plants.

It could be said, Lifure from the beginning had a supportive talent as a drug maker.

Seeing Lifure who was asleep due to working too hard making a lot of Medicinal Qi last night, Vann did not wake her up.

Vann only left a note about the store where Lifure could sell the Qi Medicine, then Vann told Lifure to go on her own without having to wait for Vann because today Vann had to pass the last monthly match, the last part, most likely the match was over until evening.

After leaving a message, Vann left his house and climbed up the mountain again.

The Wood Sword Academy arena was located above the normal disciple settlement, more precisely the academy arena was located where the elite disciples of the Wood Sword Academy lived.

It wasn't just Vann who was going up the mountain, there were also Tude and a few other disciples who had managed to stay alive from the Soul Forest as well as some disciples from the academy or other cultivators strength had started to attend.

In addition to those participants, spectators from various Talper Provinces or even other provinces came to watch.

Hence, very many people had come to the Wood Sword Academy today.

The Tude who was rising up towards the arena certainly saw the appearance of Vann as well.

He gave Vann a cold look before turning away, nor did Vann care much for Tude's gaze just now, he climbed into the settlement of the elite disciples of the Wood Sword Academy.

Different from normal disciple settlements, elite disciple settlements had many houses that were much larger than normal disciple houses.

In the middle of the elite disciple settlement, there was an enormous arena.

Around the arena, there are many spectator seats for people who are interested in seeing the fight in the arena.

That arena was none other than the place where the last monthly match would be conducted, the arena of the Wood Sword Academy.