The Author's POV

"Is that him?"

"Did he really get injured over such a simple mission?"

"He really does look weak"

Aimlessly walking around the mansion, I ignored the whispers and stares coming from some of the students that I passed along the way.

Yesterday night, after completing the mission, I returned to the mansion all battered up. My whole arm was bleeding profusely and my clothes were all torn.

Though I didn't pass out, to the people who saw me return, it looked as if I had been through hell.

Because I had some notoriety, news of my battered state spread across all of the students...and soon I became the hot topic of the first years.

Because the missions that we got were not a secret from the other students, after a bit of digging, people immediately found out who my target was and news of me getting beat up by a ranked individual spread across the academy.

...in the end, this resulted in me becoming the butt of the jokes of the first years.

'Weakling'

'Loser'

'Trash'

Walking along the corridor, I was called all sorts of defamatory names by everyone that saw me.

On a normal day, I would've grumbled and cursed at the people talking crap about me, but today...

Staring at my hands, I recalled the moment when my sword reaped through the lives of multiple people at once.

'...I killed'

I didn't sleep throughout the whole night.

Right now to the people around me I probably looked like a lifeless corpse that was aimlessly wandering around the mansion.

My mind kept replaying the moments where I reaped through the lives of the four bodyguards.

...I could vividly recall Karl's pleading face as he begged for me to spare him.

"Fuuuuu..."

Letting out a long breath and staring at the ceiling of the corridor, I tried to calm my mind.

What had happened already happened.

...There was no going back.

I had killed and I needed to move on...

This wasn't going to be the only time, and it sure as heck wasn't going to be the last time.

This was the path that I had chosen for myself and thus had to take responsibility for my decisions.

Moreover, there was something more important I needed to worry about.

'The massacre of Hollberg'

The second big event in the first arc of the novel.

Tomorrow at 9:45 P.M, the last day of the trip, when everyone was sleeping, an organized attack will happen.

Though their primary targets were Kevin and the others, the other weaker students weren't spared from their pursuit.

...Meaning that I was also not safe.

Though I decided not to interfere, I needed to prepare myself for what was to come.

Placing my hand on my chin, I fell into deep thought.

First things first...I needed to memorize the whole building blueprint.

was happening as well as attract the least amount of attention. The reason why I needed a good view of what was

another incident like the one with Amanda

book with me. With it, I could more or less tell if something outside of the

deviated from the plotline happened, it was my

I needed to quickly recover from the

had healing potions, they couldn't heal all my injuries that quickly. Especially

a full day to completely heal my

slightest movement and I would get an electrifying pain coursing through my body. Though I could tough it out,

needed to sort out

right now, I wasn't in the right state of mind to be put through another scenario that required me

...I just couldn't.

again was causing my hands to tremble uncontrollably. I was not ready mentally to go through such an

tomorrow I would use [Monarch's indifference]

for the first time yesterday did I

I was too emotional.

I had killed someone, the thought of what future lay ahead of me and how many more lives I would take made

Was everything that I was doing really okay? Was killing the correct

continuously brewed inside of my mind

to go before being able to confidently stand

ridding of all my distracting thoughts, I quickly headed

probably going to be the longest two days

...

-Bang! -Bang! -Bang!

"Huff...huff..huff"

dummies, an extremely handsome individual

body was drenched in

-Gulp!

stamina, the young individual quickly dashed before one of

"Die! Die! Die!"

-Bang! -Bang! -Bang!

spread throughout the room as the sound of the collision between his fists and the

continuously hitting the dummies, the young individual laid on the floor

he clenched his jaw hard and he covered

am

was assigned,

wall that he couldn't climb was standing before

he couldn't find any

much more talented

accept the fact that Kevin was better than

"Damm it..."

-Bang!

fist hard, Jin

accept this! Even if my talent is not as good as his, I have access to the best resources and facilities! This should be

and had nothing managed to

He couldn't accept it.

no way he could accept

-Gulp!

his energy, Jin immediately downed another potion and stood

will surpass you

-Bang!

towards one of the training dummies he once again started training until he couldn't stand

process repeated continuously until his fists were

out from

...

small cozy cafe' decorated with beautiful plants and old wooden

had short creamy brown hair looked at the girl in front of her and

did you notice something strange happening these

Amanda frowned for a second before shaking her

"No"

"Really?"

a bit,

"Maybe it's just me..."

discomfort. She constantly felt as if someone was keeping an

in the end, she could only think of it as her being