My Beautiful Disciples, I'm really not the Main Character!

Eren leaped from the Phoenix, summoning the shadowy sword that materialized in his grasp.

Using the dark blade, he sliced through the aura blade flying towards his Phoenix, shielding her from the attack.

His sword cut the aura blade in two, but he did not stop there. The purest essence of poison gathered around the shadowy sword.

While it may not have matched the devastating sword technique he had witnessed in his dream, it far surpassed the power of the Pendant of Poison he had used before.

With a decisive swing of his blade, Eren made the very space tremble. A condensed essence of poison shot forth towards the dark figure on the palace roof. Discover hidden stories at M-V-L

The poisonous arc of essence spiraled through the air, leaving a trail of green mist in its wake.

The figure, clad in a cloak as black as midnight, revealed an interested look. At first, he had thought that the appearance of the phoenix in the godforsaken Northern Continent was surprising.

He didn't expect there to be even more surprises there.

He raised a hand to counter the attack. A barrier erupted before him, but the poison's power was relentless. It clashed with the barrier, causing a violent explosion of energy that lit up the space.

The dark robed man hadn't thought much of Eren. He thought that even if the attack was strong, he could easily stop it. After all, the person couldn't be as strong as the Tower Master.

Moreover, he had become stronger with the opening of hell. There was barely anyone in the Northern Continent who could resist him. So where did this man come from?

His barrier crumbled, and he could even feel as if his body itself was getting poisoned. Within a fraction of a second, he reacted and teleported away before the attack broke through his barrier and landed on the palace.

The force of the impact sent shockwaves rippling through the air, causing the very palace to collapse.

The people of the Triad Clan didn't even have the time to escape when they died under the collapsing palace. Even those in the Triad Clan who were strong enough to survive the collapse, couldn't resist the poisonous mist that had spread across every crevice within the rubble.

The Triad Clan Leader had just entered his bunker when the palace had been destroyed. He thought that he had escaped the onslaught, but before he could even be relieved, he felt as if he was being suffocated by the poison.

The entire air around him had become toxic as tens of miles around the palace had been covered in a cloud of poison.

Even Eren was surprised by the strength behind this attack. He had tried the same attack before, but it was nowhere near this destructive.

Was it because his Sword was becoming more active? Or was it because of some external help during Echo of Eternity? He wasn't sure.

He simply stopped himself in the air, looking down at the cloud of poison while his phoenix circled through the sky, rising even higher as if scared of the poison.

A phoenix was a mythical beast with the Bloodline of fire that could burn any impurity in the world. And even then, the phoenix felt an innate fear of that poison.

"Did I... destroy the portal formation?" Looking at the green mist everywhere, Eren was at a loss.

He grew a little too excited when attacking, never expecting his attack to be this destructive.

"I hope I didn't." Eren landed on top of the rubble. Using his Dragon Tongue, he started removing the rubble to find the portal formation.

"Hmm? Did the corpse of those people melt in the poison? That doesn't seem to be the case."

While removing the poison, he could see the corpses of Triad Family Members that had died in the accident, but he couldn't find any bodies of the dark robed figures that had attacked him in the first place.

"Did they escape?" Although entering the Necromancer Tower was a priority, he didn't want to leave those people be.

He was sure that they belonged to the Necromancer Tower. Even if they weren't as strong as a Tower Master, but he was certain that they were at least as strong as a guardian under the effects of hell.

Eren flew higher in the sky, his figure rushing out of the cloud of poisonous smoke towards the Phoenix in the sky.

"That was a strong attack. You have truly piqued my interest."

Eren was flying higher and higher to get a better view of the Triad Clan territory when a voice fell in his ears, accompanied by cold cacklings.

A sharp chain wrapped itself around his neck, pulling him back. At the other end of the chain, the dark figure appeared, drawing Eren's life force through the chain.

"Were you getting worried about your friend on that little bird? Unfortunately for you, the others have already left to take care of them."

"Even if you can reach them, all you will find are their bodies. So why not focus on me? It's been a long time since I found such an interesting toy with such delicious life force."

The dark robed man revealed his face, which was like a shrivelled up corpse, his flesh sticking close to his skull with not even space for any blood in between. He appeared completely pale.

"I don't have time to play around." Eren swung his sword, attacking the chain that had tied around his neck.

"Hmm?"

His shadow sword struck the chain, but to his surprise, it failed to slice through.

"That chain is an artifact that was brought back from hell the last time it opened. Do you think a fake sword can break it?" The old man laughed even louder.

He didn't know what that poison around Eren's sword was, but it wasn't as effective against the artefacts that were of the higher tier. After all, the chain couldn't be poisoned as it wasn't alive.

Even Eren felt frustrated. The Sword of Retribution was a sword that could slice through heaven itself. What was a mere artefact? It was simply because he could only call out a shadow.

Still, he didn't believe that he needed to rely on it. After all, he was different from before. He was much stronger. Since when did an Overlord need to rely on an artefact?

"Fine. I'll do it myself."