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.

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

incident like the

mysterious book with me. With it, I could more or less tell if something outside of the norm was going to

happened, it

needed to quickly recover from the wounds that I had sustained

my injuries that quickly.

still needed a full day to completely heal

right hand hurt like hell. Just the slightest movement and I would get an electrifying pain coursing through my body. Though

I needed to sort out my

right state of mind to be

...I just couldn't.

causing my hands to tremble uncontrollably. I was not ready mentally to

tomorrow I would use [Monarch's indifference] throughout

first time yesterday did I

I was too emotional.

what future lay ahead of me

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

continuously brewed inside of my mind as I tried to find the

long way to go before being able to

distracting thoughts, I quickly headed to my room and started preparing for

probably going to be the longest two days of my

...

-Bang! -Bang! -Bang!

"Huff...huff..huff"

inside of an empty room filled with training dummies, an extremely handsome individual stood in the middle of the

perfectly honed body was drenched in sweat, and his eyes were

-Gulp!

dashed

"Die! Die! Die!"

-Bang! -Bang! -Bang!

shockwaves spread throughout the room as the sound

after continuously hitting the dummies, the young individual laid

clenched his jaw hard and he covered his eyes with

am I

assigned,

wall that he couldn't climb

matter how much work he put in, he couldn't find any way to bridge the gap between himself and

that much more talented than

fact that Kevin was better than

"Damm it..."

-Bang!

Jin

as good as his, I have access to the best resources and facilities! This should be enough for me to be able

orphan and had nothing managed to surpass him who was

He couldn't accept it.

no way

-Gulp!

Jin immediately downed another potion

will surpass you no

-Bang!

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

process repeated continuously until his fists were

out from overworking

...

plants and old wooden tables and boards, two stunningly beautiful young

the two stunning girls that had short creamy brown

did you notice something strange happening these past

Amanda frowned for a second

"No"

"Really?"

a bit, Emma's

"Maybe it's just me..."

few days, Emma had this sense of discomfort. She constantly

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