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.

least amount of attention. The reason why I needed a good view of what was happening was so that I could

didn't want another incident like the one

I could more or less tell if something outside of the norm was

anything that deviated from the plotline happened, it was my job to

recover from the wounds

healing potions, they couldn't heal all my injuries that quickly. Especially since my whole shoulder had been pierced

day to completely heal my

I would get an electrifying pain coursing through my body. Though

to sort out

right now, I wasn't in the right state of mind to be

...I just couldn't.

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

the end, I had already decided that for tomorrow I would use [Monarch's indifference] throughout

yesterday did I realize how many flaws

I was too emotional.

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

brewed inside of my mind as I tried to find the

end, I still had a long way to go before

of all my distracting thoughts, I quickly headed

the longest

...

-Bang! -Bang! -Bang!

"Huff...huff..huff"

inside of an empty room filled with training dummies, an extremely handsome

perfectly honed body was drenched in sweat, and his eyes

-Gulp!

and recovering some of his stamina, the young individual quickly dashed before one of the training dummies and punched it with all

"Die! Die! Die!"

-Bang! -Bang! -Bang!

throughout the room as the sound of the

hitting the dummies, the young individual laid

jaw hard and he covered his eyes

what am I

Kevin's achievements on the first night the mission was assigned, Jin couldn't help

as if a wall that he couldn't climb was

couldn't find any way to bridge

much more

he just accept the fact that Kevin was

"Damm it..."

-Bang!

his fist hard, Jin punched

talent is not as good as his, I have access to the best resources and facilities! This should be enough for me

nothing managed to surpass him who was

He couldn't accept it.

way he could

-Gulp!

immediately downed another potion and

surpass you

-Bang!

once again started training

repeated continuously until his fists were both

only after passing out from overworking himself

...

and old wooden tables and boards,

on some hot mocha, one of the two stunning girls that had short creamy brown hair

something

for a second before shaking her

"No"

"Really?"

for a bit, Emma's

"Maybe it's just me..."

She constantly felt as

the end, she could