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Chapter 24
“I knew this would happen.”
It had already been several days since I started spending the nights in front of the girls’ dormitory of the Knight Class.
And finally, things had blown up.
“Why are you here…?”
“I knew it ever since you said you'd handle it on your own. Now, hurry up and hand it over.”
W ěḃn̊о̂v́ е́ l̆ Еñ ù m̃a
I waved my hand dismissively as I spoke.
‘I expected you to steal it, but I didn’t think you’d go so far as to set a fire…’
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“Why are you getting in my way, Leon!”
Raiz shouted furiously, clearly annoyed that I was blocking his path.
“You don’t know how exhausted I am right now, do you?”
I took out an energy tonic and drank it as I continued talking.
Wê bn̊ǒ.v̈е l Е n ü mа́
“I bought five of these from a friend for one gold, and I’ve already had four just today.”
Barely holding on to my fading consciousness, I continued.
“Well, I guess it’s a relief it’s today. If you'd lasted the full five days, I might not have been able to catch you.”
“Get out of my way and don’t interfere.”
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“No, leave that and go.”
I spoke coldly.
Еn u.mа̂. і ḋ
“If that disappears, I’ll be in a lot of trouble.”
If the pendant vanished, I’d be the first suspect. I’d be boarding the express train straight to a dismembered ending I thought I’d avoided.
“We’re the ones who will be in trouble if this doesn’t disappear! They will—”
“No, not at all.”
I cut Raiz off.
“They’re not the kind of people you can trust in the first place.”
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“What do you know about them…!”
Chloe Hendel — more precisely, someone who wishes for the Hendel family’s power to weaken even a little.
And yet someone who could lend Raiz enough power to start a rebellion against the Jodrick family.
At first, I was quite conflicted, but it didn’t take as long to figure out as I thought.
After all, “The Five Heroes” was a novel my brother wrote.
There wouldn’t be a setting that he didn’t come up with.
Ẁ e.b̃nov̇е̄l̊ Еnū m а
“By any chance… do you have a brand on your body?”
A hexagram with an inverted cross drawn inside.
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…!
Raiz carefully touched the back of his neck.
“So it is there.”
Now it was certain.
W е̂ b ǹ о̀v ё l̆ Е́ ǹ um̀ а
The ones who had tempted Raiz Jodrick with sweet words to make a deal.
The main villain organization of this novel.
‘Genesis Brigade.’
The villain group that opposed Maxwell and the others in “The Five Heroes” and ultimately resurrected the Demon King.
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‘I never imagined they were involved since the Chloe pendant incident…’
I wasn’t even fully convinced.
W̄ ĕ b́ nò v е l̄ Еňūm̆а
I had just thrown out the bait because it seemed likely.
And if it really was Genesis Brigade, then Raiz’s current condition also made sense.
His changed behavior. The way he wandered around the dining hall muttering to himself like he had lost his mind.
“Are you sane right now?”
“Leon, I don’t know what you’re talking about, but please, help brother.”
“No, if you were sane, you wouldn’t have set a fire.”
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And in the first place.
[Danger detected]
[‘Isaiah’s Prophecy’ is activating.]
“You also wouldn’t suddenly attack your own brother like this!”
Before I could even finish speaking, Raiz lunged forward, slashing a dagger.
He was aiming for my carotid artery — if I had been even a little slower, I wouldn’t have been able to stop the blood from gushing out, and I would have collapsed.
Е̇ numа
“Huh…? You dodged that?”
Suddenly, Raiz’s voice changed.
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The once bold and manly voice was completely gone.
Instead, it was a very delicate voice that didn’t match his appearance at all.
“A prestigious family… is that what this is?”
“Well, I don’t really have any complaints about the family I grew up in.”
Ẅ èb n̄о vеl Еn̄ŭ m̊ а̌
[Name: Raiz Jodrick]
[Age: 22]
[Gender: Male]
[Unique Trait: Blade’s Trace]
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[Blade’s Trace — You can teleport behind any target within a 50-meter radius that you have previously wounded with a blade]
Square popped up a message, as if warning me to watch out for the opponent in front of me.
W̄е̄.b̄ n̄ӧv̆ е̃ l̆ Е̌ n ǔm̈a
As a scion of the Jodrick family, famed for assassinations rather than open combat, his abilities were specialized for infiltration.
“Whew…”
As I let out a long sigh, the Reverse Scale of Iblis tied to my left arm transformed into a mask.
After putting on the Reverse Scale of Iblis over my face, I let out a light breath. Even with the mask on, there was no problem breathing.
“What is that…? Are you going to take on your brother now?”
Raiz — now with that delicate voice — asked.
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“Brother, my ass… Is it fun to play around in someone else’s body?”
“You catch on quickly. I don’t hate guys like you.”
“At least speak in your real voice…”
The Genesis Brigade was led by the so-called ‘Seven Luminaries.’
And there was only one person among them who would pull a stunt like this.
One of the Seven Luminaries of Genesis Brigade.
Еṅ um̂ ă .іd̀
Illusionist Priya.
“I like this kid, so if you step aside now, I won’t hurt you.”
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“Yeah, right.”
I immediately drew my dagger and lowered my stance.
‘I thought convincing you with words would be the best option…’
If I had intended to fight from the start, I wouldn’t have blocked you head-on.
Ŵ е b́ṅоṽе l̈ Ēn_um̈а́
If I attacked from behind, my chances of winning would have increased several times over.
However, if he was already possessed by Priya, unfortunately, there was no way to bring him back.
“Why do kids never listen to adults?”
Raiz twisted his lips into a bizarre smile and then lowered his stance.
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‘At least… that’s a relief…’
Through illusion magic and mind-control magic, he commands countless legions, making him a powerful opponent.
Wе b n̄о vе̂.l̈ Ĕ n̂ǔ m a
But right now, it’s just Raiz alone…
In truth, Priya’s strengths don’t apply here at all.
I only have to take down the puppet.
‘The problem is that puppet is a graduate of the academy…?’
Before I could even finish that thought, something flew toward me at high speed.
Swoosh!
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Three throwing daggers.
One aimed at my head, one at my chest, and one at my leg.
A vicious attack, fully intending to stop my mobility if it couldn’t kill me outright.
I could block them completely using shadows, but if I clumsily blocked from the front, it would only end up obstructing my view.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Thanks to Isaiah’s Prophecy, I deflected them with my dagger.
Wе̄ bñ o v̆.е̂ l Е ṅ um а
“Good eyes.”
‘Fast!’
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While I was deflecting the daggers, Raiz closed the distance in an instant and thrust his dagger as if to pierce my eyes.
Clang!
I quickly lifted my dagger to block the strike, then immediately kicked Raiz away to widen the distance.
“…!”
W̃ӗ b̃n о vеl̃ E̊n̆ů.m̈ а
A deep, rough voice let out a short groan.
“Leon…”
Raiz’s voice, as he called my name, trembled violently, different from before.
“Don’t interfere… don’t interfere…”
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I hoped he had snapped out of it for a moment, but it was a vain hope.
He was simply having a personality seizure, unable to fully adapt to Priya’s mind control.
Еn.ũ m̄ a . і̇d
“I can do this… no, I have to do it… I must!”
Saying that, Raiz took out something like a small pouch and started slashing it.
‘What is that…?’
A viscous fluid started oozing out from the pouch.
‘Poison…?’
Applying poison to a weapon to increase lethality is a classic tactic.
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‘If it’s just poison, it’s no big deal.’
After all, I have Iblis’s Reverse Scale.
Thanks to its extreme poison resistance, I can ignore most toxins.
“Our dear Raiz has a heart as pure as his face.”
Once again, that twisted voice spoke, and Raiz threw the pouch straight at me.
Splash!
Е̄n̆ ú m̌ а
At that moment, as I habitually slashed the pouch—
‘Maggots…?’
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From the burst pouch, countless maggots scattered and began to cover the entire area around me.
‘Disgusting…’
At that moment.
Raiz’s figure suddenly vanished from my sight.
Ѐ n̄ ŭ m ǎ
It wasn’t just fast — it was as if he had completely disappeared in a flash, like a flickering light.
‘What the…’
Rustle.
At the sound behind me, I instinctively turned around, only to see a blade gleaming coldly right before my eyes.
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“Kh…!”
I forcibly bent my body backward to dodge the sword and tried to adjust my stance.
Ẽn̂ um̃ а̊
“Again…?!”
Raiz vanished again.
No — there wasn’t even time to think he vanished; he appeared immediately at my left rear, stabbing his dagger into me.
“Gah!”
I twisted my body right away, but I couldn’t completely avoid it.
Slash!
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The blade grazed my side, and beads of red blood began to form on it.
“Why… are you interfering…?”
[Due to Frost Wolf’s Claw effect, the enemy is afflicted with a freezing status.]
Raiz lightly licked the wound on his left hand as he spoke.
“Now I get it…”
It wasn’t poison. This was Raiz’s fighting style.
Е̄ n u̇ m̀ а̄_.і̌d
[Blade’s Trace — You can teleport behind any target within a 50-meter radius that you have previously wounded with a blade.]
The maggots in the pouch that Raiz had been slashing.
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He wounded the maggots first and then scattered them all over this area.
In other words, the entire 50-meter radius filled with maggots was now his teleportation zone.
And now, I too was wounded.
‘Even with Isaiah’s Prophecy…’
Е̊n ů m а̃ . і̊d̆
After all, Isaiah’s Prophecy only ‘shows’ danger along its predicted trajectory.
It’s inherently vulnerable to attacks from blind spots.
Against Raiz, who can teleport into my blind spot, it’s a bad match-up.
But.
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“Thanks for setting that fire.”
In this deep night, the building right next door was blazing with a huge fire.
Wе bn о̌v́ е̃ l Е n̈um а̂_
“Thanks to that, my shadow has become quite large.”
I spread my enlarged shadow as wide as possible.
There was no need to carve delicately like when peeling an apple. I just needed to spread it wide enough to cover the entire nearby ground.
“First, let’s clean up these filthy bugs.”
Like a wave sweeping away sand, my giant shadow pushed the maggots far away.
“Whew…”
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I took a deep breath and let it out.
But this wasn’t just a normal breath.
[Iblis’s Reverse Scale effect: releasing a poison mist.]
“This has dragged on long enough. Let’s wrap this up quickly.”
Now, Raiz had to fight under the risks of both Frost Wolf’s Claw’s freezing and my poison mist.
The longer this dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for Raiz.
E n̊ ûm̈ӑ . і́ d
“I said don’t interfere! Get out of the way!”
Raiz once again pulled out throwing daggers from his coat and threw them.
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This time, even more daggers than before. But I didn’t bother to deflect them.
I raised my arms, curled my body, and crossed them in an X shape to protect only my vital points.
I was ready to sacrifice a few holes in my arms or legs.
Over the past few days, while monitoring the girls’ dorm and Raiz, I had already thought through countermeasures.
Е̇ ñ um̊a
Do nothing else. Just focus on the shadows.
“I said don’t interfere!”
With Raiz’s final shout, his form disappeared again.
Raiz’s unique trait, Blade’s Trace — teleportation.
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A terrifying ability, but it has a single weakness.
Blade’s Trace can only move to the ‘back’ of a target.
Е̃ ń um̈a. i̊d́
So even if I couldn’t follow him with my eyes, the arrival point was always set.
Now that all the maggots were gone, the only place Raiz could teleport to was behind me — where he had just wounded me.
I gathered my shadows and focused them.
I pictured it in my mind.
A giant hemisphere filled with countless spikes.
Stab, stab, stab, stab.
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Suddenly, an unpleasant sound filled the air, and Raiz’s voice was abruptly cut off.
In the quiet night, only the crackling sound of the burning dormitory reached my ears.
Drip, drip, drip.
The sound of droplets falling. The sound of blood dripping from Raiz’s body, riddled like a beehive, pooling on the floor.
Without turning around, I just sat down on the ground and let out a sigh.
“Not exactly a sight I wanted to see.”
Ë num̆ а̇. і̃ d
It would be a lie to say I felt no disgust at the sight of a corpse, but that wasn’t the only reason.
Raiz wasn’t just some stranger to Leon.
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“Of all people…”
I didn’t want to see the corpse of my ‘brother.’
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