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Chapter 15
A single scale in a different direction under Iblis’s chin.
‘Iblis’s Reverse Scale.’
The scale that Garon accidentally discovered and removed boasts incredible effects.
Just by possessing it, one gains immunity to most poisons, and the scale can freely transform into any equipment desired.
For emergencies, Garon hid this mystical object at the center of Iblis’s coil.
Е n ů_m̆ ȧ
‘Maxwell doesn’t even realize the existence of the reverse scale until the latter part of the original story.’
I can’t just let such a relic rot here.
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The structure of the cavern was simple.
At the center sat the massive monster Iblis, and along the walls were bookshelves densely packed with documents and books.
These were records Garon had written about Iblis.
‘It should be around here somewhere…’
Е nu̇m а
I started pulling out books and flipping through them.
‘Looks like I’m more pressed for time than I thought…’
I figured I could skim through quickly, but there were easily more than several hundred volumes—far beyond my expectations.
How long had I been looking through the books?
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‘Talk about bad luck.’
There were only about ten books left.
Ŵ е_b̈n̊оv.е l̈ Ë n̄ ū mа́
‘I would’ve found it much faster if I’d searched in reverse order.’
“Are you reading or what?”
“What are you looking for?”
While I was frantically searching through the books, a voice called out from behind.
“The twins?”
When I turned around, the Cribel twins were watching me like spectators.
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“Did you finish extracting the poison?”
“Oh, that? All we had to do was fill the bottles, so it’s done.”
“It was as easy as pie for us.”
Apparently, I was even more pressed for time than I had thought.
“Are these Garon’s records?”
Seeing me endlessly examining the books, Rose slowly picked one up and began reading it.
Wē b̊ n о.v е̌l̄ Еn̈ú m̄ а
“He documented everything so thoroughly by date… It must have taken forever.”
“Still, this is way too much, even so.”
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The Cribel twins seemed quite intrigued by Garon’s records on Iblis and began chatting among themselves.
“But what book are you looking for? There was one in that corner earlier.”
“Which corner?!”
“If you mean that one…”
Eñ um̀ а́
Before Viola could finish her sentence—
Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble.
The entire underground cavern began to shake with a massive roar.
The tremor was so strong that the Cribel twins staggered and fell on their butts.
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Time was up.
‘Iblis’ had awakened.
Ẁе́ b̊ n̊ ŏ vе̊ l̈ En u̇ ṁ а
“Ah! What the hell is this unlucky timing?!”
The Cribel twins still didn’t seem to grasp the situation.
“What do you mean, what’s happening… If you don’t want to die, get up now.”
I helped the twins up and pointed at one spot.
Where Iblis had been sleeping in a coiled position, there was now nothing.
Instead, only a monster towering over us, glaring with sharp eyes, remained.
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It was obvious what was coming next—the entire underground cavern would soon be turned into a wasteland.
“Did you sleep well?”
Rose Cribel, seemingly flustered by the situation, tried talking instead of using her usual violence.
“Kyaaaaaah!”
There was no talking this one down.
“Run first, sis!”
Ë nǔmӑ . і̂d̊
“Right!”
Viola, usually the calm one, was the first to shout for escape—but that hope only lasted a moment.
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“It’s no use.”
Crash!
Iblis moved its massive body and blocked the entrance.
A snake is a predator.
Е̇n̂ uḿа.
It instinctively knows how to hunt its prey.
After blocking the exit, Iblis slowly swayed its head side to side, as if preparing for the hunt.
Cornered by Iblis, Rose Cribel grabbed me by the collar.
“Explain! What the hell is going on?!”
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“What?”
“Sis…?”
Е ṅ ūm̄ а
Viola, shocked, tried to stop Rose, but Rose kept her grip on my collar and continued.
“I knew something was fishy. If you were truly a legendary thief class, it would’ve been widely known by now. And this is Iblis we’re talking about.”
Rose’s words left me no room to respond.
“You knew exactly how to get into this hidden space, and the moment you guide us here, Iblis wakes up? What’s your game?”
“I don’t know what misunderstanding you have, but—”
“Misunderstanding? Were you planning to use us as bait for Iblis?!”
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If we mess this up, we’re all going to die. Bait? Seriously…!
“If that were my plan, I would’ve let you go in alone and escaped. And even if what you say were true, we don’t have time for this—”
As I forced out an answer, Rose looked back and forth between me and Iblis, then finally released my collar.
“Khuk…!”
I coughed as the air returned to my lungs.
“Are you okay?”
Е n u m̄ â .і̄ d
“Viola, don’t trust him too much. We should’ve been suspicious the moment we heard the name ‘Jodrick.’”
“Still… this isn’t the time for us to be fighting each other…”
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At Viola’s words, Rose pointed at me.
“Explain. What’s happening, and what should we do?”
“Iblis is a monster in the form of a snake. As its body grows, it must periodically shed its skin.”
That’s basic reptile biology.
Е̂ n ûm̃ ā.
To grow, it has no choice but to shed.
“What just happened was simply its molting period coming around. It wasn’t because of us.”
“So, it’s not mad at us?”
“Exactly.”
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When I said that, Viola let out a sigh of relief.
“The problem is that molting uses up a lot of nutrients.”
Е ñ um а̃ .і̊ d̈
In Iblis’s case, it usually eats its own shed skin to replenish.
‘But with prey right in front of it, there’s no reason not to eat us instead.’
“Kyaaaaaah!”
Before I could finish speaking,
Iblis hunched its massive body, then in an instant, sprang toward us.
Crash!
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[Danger detected]
[‘Isaiah’s Prophecy’ is activating.]
At the same time as Nemo's words, a massive red trajectory appeared before my eyes.
A giant trajectory that would cover both the Cribel twins and me.
If we got crushed by that body, we'd be at least seriously injured.
"Just hold on. Just endure."
W e b̀ n ó v̄el̈ Е̌ n ǔm а
If we could just endure......‘that guy’ would come.
"Alright, got it for now."
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...
The ground flipped as Iblis charged at us with terrifying speed.
But the Cribel twins didn’t run away.
No — they never had the physical capability to outrun Iblis in the first place.
W ẽb̊ ñӧ ṽе̃ľ Ĕ n̈ũ m_а̄
"In the end, we’ll have to face it head-on, Viola."
Rose raised her finger and began tracing lines in the air.
As Rose’s finger moved, a massive magic circle started to take shape one layer at a time.
"Okay, sis."
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Viola also began drawing a magic circle along with Rose.
They naturally worked together, completing one large magic circle, with Rose outlining it and Viola carefully finishing it off.
Eń ù_m а̊
"Alright, since it’s a valuable creature, I’ll make sure not to kill it."
At Rose’s confident words, a massive shield surrounded by chains appeared from the magic circle.
"Your specialty is poison, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use other magic."
Crash!
The giant shield wrapped in chains collided with Iblis’s charge, and the chains began to wrap around Iblis’s body.
‘Chain Fortress…?’
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A fourth-tier defensive magic, Chain Fortress.
Among the academy’s first-years, only the Cribel twins could use fourth-tier or higher magic.
‘It’s an amazing spell, but…’
Still, it wasn’t strong enough to completely stop Iblis’s attack.
Crack, crack.
The chains began to snap one by one, and the shield started to be pushed back little by little.
W̄ӗ b́ n̄ о̀v el̇ E n̆ uṁ а̀
"Kh…!"
Rose seemed to realize she was struggling to withstand Iblis’s force, letting out a strained cough before steadying her stance.
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‘This is my only chance.’
I grabbed the three books I hadn’t checked yet in one hand, drew my dagger, and charged straight toward the chained Iblis.
Frostwolf’s Claw.
A dagger crafted by the master Lambert, but at the end of the day, still just a dagger.
W е̌ bn о̇v̊è ľ Е̌ n u m̄ а̌
It couldn’t inflict a fatal wound on Iblis.
However!
Thunk!
I forced the dagger, which couldn’t penetrate the scales, deeper using all my body weight.
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Slash!
A very shallow wound.
Ӗṅ um̀а́._і̄d
But even that was enough.
Because Frostwolf’s Claw had a special effect.
[Due to Frostwolf’s Claw’s effect, the enemy is afflicted with a chill status.]
It’s a characteristic that makes the body sluggish using cold.
‘Not sure if it’ll work on a creature this massive, but…’
"Sis, I’m at my limit!"
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Crack! Crash!
At Viola’s cry, the chains snapped and the shield crumbled.
Boom!
Fortunately, thanks to Chain Fortress, Iblis’s attack trajectory shifted, and we avoided a direct hit.
"Sis, are you okay?"
Even the shockwave from the passing attack was enough to send the Cribel twins’ small bodies flying.
Ё n ú m̀ à .і́_d_
"Ugh… more troublesome than I thought."
It was a mystical creature that had lived for centuries.
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It wasn’t going to be stopped by just fourth-tier magic.
"How many more times can you do it?"
Chain Fortress was the strongest defensive magic they could currently use.
"At most five more times?"
W̌e b̈ n ö vӗ l̊ En̈üm а̂
That wasn’t good.
They could hold on if they had to, but…
"Listen! Even Iblis is a snake in the end. It’s sensitive to temperature, so use ice magic!"
Snakes are cold-blooded.
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As the cold intensifies, they naturally slow down.
‘Looks like the chill effect is working too.’
W е b ñ о́v̊ е l Е nŭ m а
Iblis, now standing back up and staring at us, started moving its body more slowly.
But as if to show it wouldn’t give us any breathing room, Iblis immediately swung its tail.
"Dodge it!"
I shouted, but the Cribel twins still hadn’t recovered from the previous impact and couldn’t even get up properly.
"Kh!"
Once again, they cast Chain Fortress, but they had neither the time nor the stamina to focus like before.
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They only bought a momentary gap.
‘Tch!’
I rushed straight toward the Cribel twins.
Boom!
"Are you okay?"
At the very moment Chain Fortress blocked Iblis’s attack, I used my shadow to lift Viola and Rose and escape.
Ŵé b̃n̆о̇ v̊еl Еnu m̄а
‘Good thing I practiced!’
Even if delicate work was still tough, lifting people was now doable.
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‘And I managed to grab those three books too.’
"Thank goodness…."
"If only we had more time to cast properly!"
"Just focus on preparing your spells! I’ll handle the running!"
E n̊ ǔm̌ a. і d
I said that, then started running while dodging Iblis’s relentless attacks as much as possible.
If it weren’t for ‘Isaiah’s Prophecy,’ I’d be dead by now!
"The spells?!"
"We’re ready!"
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As Rose and Viola, clinging to my shadow, quickly completed their magic circles, countless ice spears shot toward Iblis.
Bababababam!
Е̌ ń ū m̌.ä . i d
Unfortunately, they didn’t deal much damage to Iblis, but as the fight dragged on, the cold seemed to slow it down significantly.
"It’s definitely slower now!"
Iblis would normally endure this, but during molting, it seemed to be much more vulnerable.
"It’s still blocking the entrance, so we can’t escape yet…."
As Viola said, even so, it wasn’t exactly a hopeful situation.
"Hey! You said we just had to hold on! How long do we have to keep this up?!"
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Rose tapped my back as she shouted.
"Almost there!"
It was at that moment.
Suddenly, the entire world turned red.
At first, I couldn’t comprehend what I was seeing.
It looked as if blood had completely covered my eyes.
Е̃n u̇ḿa . ï d
But I soon understood.
What I was seeing now was ‘Isaiah’s Prophecy.’
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A warning that this entire area was dangerous.
"Damn it!"
‘If it’s Iblis’s area attack, then it must be venom…’
No matter how much of a poison magic genius one might be, Iblis’s hunting venom couldn’t be taken lightly.
Е̄ n̆ úm̌a . і̌ d
It was on a completely different level compared to ordinary bodily fluids.
That’s why the Cribel twins had wanted to collect Iblis’s venom.
‘It usually doesn’t use venom while molting!’
I immediately used my shadow to fling the Cribel twins far away.
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Even using my shadow, it would’ve been impossible to carry both of them far enough to dodge it entirely.
The moment I threw the twins, venom spewed rapidly from Iblis’s mouth.
W̆е bn оv̇ еl̄ Е̊ nu mа̌
A wide-area attack.
‘If it’s Leon’s body, then maybe this much—!’
I was about to rush back to the twins, but the scene had already changed.
The path to the twins was now surrounded by even more red trajectories.
‘It’s trying to separate me from them…!’
I thought it was just a monster, but having lived for centuries, it clearly had some cunning.
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"Tch!"
I had no choice but to twist my body in the opposite direction and desperately dodge the attack.
Hahaha!
While avoiding the venom, I rolled across the ground several times, scraping against rocks and ending up covered in wounds.
‘Well… at least I managed to dodge it.’
Where Iblis’s venom had touched, even the ground started to melt and dissolve.
Ёnüm̄_ӓ . i ḋ
‘If I had stayed there, there wouldn’t even be a body left to bury.’
"Haa…."
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As I let out a deep breath, I felt something different from usual.
"Ugh…!"
Suddenly, dizziness and a pounding headache overwhelmed me.
It felt like I’d been poisoned by something.
Е_ǹ ū m̆а̊ . іd̀
My uniform jacket was torn.
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