A mage? A spell engineer!

Chapter 318 Coronation Ceremony

"Liberate all Rat Whisperers! Rat Whisperers are no longer slaves!"

There are quite a few rat whisperers who enter the Shadow City slave market like little lumps of coal. They are short and eat little, and can squeeze into small burrows and gaps to catch frogs and other food for their masters, making them very popular among the upper class of the Shadow City.

Therefore, upon reaching the core area, in addition to announcing the Rat Whisperer Kingdom's attack through song, they also added slogans to incite the slaves to rebel. Some core area residents were so frightened by this strange procession that they shut their doors tightly and didn't forget to kick their Rat Whisperer slaves out of their homes.

"King" Singhlev sat on a large cart made of garbage and wood. The cart had ten pairs of wooden wheels, was almost three stories high, and was slowly moved by twenty mouse whisperers and hundreds of rats pulling and pushing it.

His Majesty the King personally led the expedition, sitting atop the highest point and holding the kingdom's flag.

Freddie, as the royal bard, led the singing at the front of the carriage. His almost roaring voice and the nearly broken strings of his lyre amplified every sound through twenty magical loudspeakers. Meanwhile, the genius drummer, Little Coalball, banged on metal pots and pans.

As the king's personal guards, Rorschach and Benedict stood with their hands behind their backs, wearing earplugs, on either side of Singrev, while Caroline, too ashamed to show her face, used her [Illusionary Body] ability to blend into the gray elf's party.

Damn it, after hearing it so many times it seemed okay. At this moment, Caroline, the Commander, Sirsa, and the other Grey Elves all shared the same feeling of despair.

Singrev swayed his head to the rhythm, looking down at the frenzied citizens of the kingdom, and exclaimed with delight. Moreover, he found himself suddenly feeling hot all over, and suddenly had inexhaustible strength, able to wave the flags incessantly without his hands getting tired.

"Rorschach, there really is power over me!"

"Alright, Singh, stay calm. Don't let the will of the Shadowlands control you!"

"Don't worry at all! I'll always be a beginner adventurer!"

Rorschach could also sense that another portion of the power of order had returned from the deep-sea area and attached itself to Singlev. His only worry now was that Singlev's mind would not be corrupted by the power of the Lord of Order and Is.

Just to be on the safe side, he conjured a blue orb of light and it entered the dwarf's body. Singhlev jolted and shouted, "Awesome!"

Is this a good review? Luo Xia stopped thinking about it and gazed at the Marquis's mansion.

As the procession swept across the territory beyond the core area, the Marquis continued to vent his anger.

He certainly sensed the changes in the Shadowlands. As the seals were broken one by one, it meant that the power system that the Lord of Order had laid out in the Shadowlands was on the verge of collapse. On the one hand, the Marquis was passively absorbed some of the power and strengthened, and on the other hand, he completely lost his perception of the areas outside the core area.

The Marquis pondered for a day and two nights but still couldn't figure out what had happened. Just then, due to the loosening of the seal, more members of the "Return to Our Lady" cult entered the Shadowlands, and the Marquis immediately completed a logical deduction—it was these cultists causing trouble!

Enraged once again, the Marquis used his enhanced power to send out his Shadow Guards. These dark phantoms swiftly roamed the core area, capturing all suspicious individuals and bringing them to the Marquis's mansion.

When the true invaders, the Rat Kingdom, "approached the city," the Marquis prepared to execute a high-ranking leader of the cult.

"To return to Mother Earth's embrace!" The leader of the Shadowlands region of the cult gritted his teeth, employing his family's traditional skill of using his own flesh and blood as nourishment for the alien species. His entire body erupted into a bewitching and robust plant, spraying out a poisonous and aggressive green mist.

The Marquis remained unfazed, employing the same tactics he used against Luo Xia and his group, first unleashing the Shadow Guard's attack. However, he keenly sensed that the individuals rushing into the green mist seemed to be corrupted by Mother Earth, exhibiting not only a tendency to spiral out of control but also mutations and proliferation.

Fortunately, he can also self-destruct. It's not the Marquis himself who explodes, but rather he controls the black shadow to erupt, successfully destroying the mutated plants created by the cultists.

Faced with the mess, he chose to throw the broken branches into the deep-sea area, but the Marquis found that he could not open the deep-sea area.

What on earth happened?!

The master of Shadow City finally sensed the invasion of the Rat Whisperer Kingdom, and transformed into a black shadow, passing through the wall and arriving above the core area.

"It's you! Damn spellcasters!" He locked his gaze on Rorschach at a glance; the others were nothing more than cannon fodder in the Marquis's eyes.

No, the bearded man sitting the tallest and shortest has a familiar feeling. "So, you all wanted to steal my power and take over the Shadowlands!" The Marquis's angry voice echoed throughout the core area. At this moment, he was not only the vessel of the Lord of Order's power, but also a rich accumulation of Ish's pollution. His beard, hair, and cloak had all turned into black tentacles, waving wildly in the air.

It was this pollution that gradually eroded the Marquis's rationality.

Singrev retorted with his magic megaphone: "Who cares about your power? Look at you, you're neither human nor ghost!"

There was no point in saying more. The Marquis summoned a huge fish-shaped creature, which was pitch black and somewhat resembled the creature that swam in the holy land. It opened its abyss-like maw, which could swallow up an entire three-story-high Singrev's carriage.

Despite its enormous size and incredible speed, just as it was about to charge, it crashed solidly into a barrier of blue light. Under the Marquis's pressure, Luo Xia inclined forward inch by inch, the blue light transforming into green, gradually encroaching upon the fish-like creature. The shadow faded, slowly revealing a skeleton.

Before the emerald light could completely purify his largest shadow guard, the Marquis withdrew his summons. The emerald light curtain instantly erupted, and the Marquis pulled up a dark black curtain from the ground, which collided with the impact from Rorschach.

At the boundary where two energies tug at each other, both living things and other matter decay rapidly and are reborn at other times. If one is unfortunate enough to be swept by both forces, it will lose its original form, develop into a form that does not exist in the world, and grow colorful crystals.

"You've gotten stronger, Rorschach!" the Marquis grinned maliciously. "But you're still not strong enough!"

Luo Xia sensed the Marquis suddenly increase his strength, and his dark curtain quickly contracted and concentrated, trying to focus on breaking through a single point of the emerald green barrier.

The boy remained unfazed: "It's not that I'm not strong enough, it's that you're not weak enough."

As soon as he finished speaking, two more figures appeared out of thin air. One was an old man dressed in pure black priest's robes, the Black Monk, who was holding the Crown of Thorns. The other was shrouded in a realistic aura, making his face unclear. Only his red robes fluttered without wind, with dark gold runes flowing on them.

"May the Lord of Order crown King Singrev and bless this great King of the Rat Whisperers with a long and prosperous life, and may he be invincible!" While Singrev was still stunned, the black monk slammed the crown down on his head, causing the dwarf to howl in pain.

The simplest coronation ceremony in the history of the continent of Floren was performed by the last Patriarch of Is, representing the Lord of Light and Order, amidst the cheers of his people and the lamentations of his king.

The Marquis suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, and his hand involuntarily went to his left waist.

He could clearly sense that most of his power had been drained and transferred to the howling dwarf. The Marquis didn't understand why the dark-skinned monk would side with the other.

The energy on one side became disordered, and the green light barrier immediately broke the stalemate and rushed towards the Marquis, thoroughly washing him away. Stripped of the black power, the Marquis instantly transformed from a dashing middle-aged man into an extremely frail old man. Fortunately, at the last moment, the power of the Shadow Land returned to his body, pulling him back from the brink of death, though he was now severely injured.

A mage, clad in a red robe and his face veiled by magical light, also flew into the air, standing beside Rorschach. He pointed his staff at the Marquis and mocked him in a language no one else present could understand: "Your Excellency, as the ancients said, 'The first move always loses,' and 'The left side always loses in a ball fight.' You've committed two grave offenses!"

Caroline, who was hiding among the rebels and preparing to make her move, widened her beautiful eyes, because the red-robed mage was also using Rorschach's voice!

(End of this chapter)