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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Wjin
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‘…’
Violet D’Crescent.
It was a somewhat embarrassing scene for a well-bred lady like her.
She had heard that Lev Denec was in the sanctuary and had come to see him in person,
only to find the second-year top magic student, Yeriel Artina, with her arms around his neck in an intimate manner.
“…”
If she had arrived a little later, and if they had been an ordinary couple instead of outstanding students like her, they might have violated the school rules.
‘But how…?’
According to the student information she had checked, Lev Denec was a troublemaker from a decent family with a lot of demerits.
On the other hand, Yeriel was from a prestigious family and was recognized as a model student in the magic department for her diligence and ability.
The fact that these two were so close that they were engaging in physical contact,
along with the fact that Professor Diena had accepted him as her disciple, was hard for Violet to comprehend.
Yeriel, who had already moved away from Lev, carefully asked Violet.
“Senior Violet…? Did you come to check on Lev’s condition…?”
“…That’s right.”
Violet answered briefly and indifferently examined the ashen-haired man’s condition for a few seconds.
Judging by the number of bandages, it was clear that he would need some time to recover.
‘But…’
Usually, when ordinary people encounter an archdemon for the first time, they often lose their minds due to the aftereffects.
The heterogeneous fear emitted by demons was so threatening that even if they managed to survive, they often couldn’t lead a normal life afterward.
Conversely, even if they weren’t consumed by fear, their hostility towards demons would increase, making it difficult for them to remain calm for a while.
However, this man’s eyes were quite lively, and he seemed mentally sound.
‘…’
Rather, he had a relaxed expression, as if he knew how good he looked.
When the D’Crescent family received marriage proposals, the men who had this kind of look were all frivolous.
She didn’t know much about this man, but she had a feeling that Yeriel had been charmed in the same way, and anyway, he wasn’t Violet’s type.
“Do you need something from me?”
Finally, the man spoke.
Even by Violet’s standards, who was used to polite society, his voice had a pleasant tone.
In the end, she put together a few polite words and spoke briefly.
“…I’m glad you’ve recovered.”
She couldn’t just bring up the main topic to someone who had just woken up.
‘I’ll have to request a separate meeting with Yeriel… later.’
Although there was an unexpected development in another direction,
Violet had only come because she was curious about the man named ‘Lev Denec’.
“Rest well. I’ll come by again later.”
With those words, Violet disappeared.
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Afternoon at Claris, which had become night again.
I moved to the room next to Edwin’s in the Temple of Restoration for recovery.
It seemed that Edwin’s ‘Fortitude’ passive had worked properly.
He was seriously injured, but it seemed that his full recovery was only a matter of time.
Yeriel had been taking care of Edwin and me in a 30:70 ratio, but when Melissa arrived, she became my exclusive caretaker.
She had also gone through a lot, so she must have been tired.
Yeriel’s care was… endless.
-Lev…! Tell me if there’s anything uncomfortable!
Checking my physical condition, checking my meals, checking my snacks, checking if I had any discomfort, and even answering on my behalf whenever the academy investigators visited.
‘I’m the one who should be worried.’
And whenever things calmed down or the situation was resolved, she would hurry back to my side.
.
.
.
After some time, Yeriel started to doze off next to me.
“Yeriel.”
“…”
“Yeriel.”
“…Ugh, yes?!”
At my call, Yeriel’s eyes, which had been closing, opened wide again.
And they started to close again.
“You should get some sleep.”
“I can’t… Not until Lev is fully recovered…”
“It’s okay. Just for 10 minutes.”
“No… A caretaker can’t use the same bed as the patient, it’s against the rules…”
“5 minutes.”
“Fi-five minutes…?”
Controlling Yeriel was quite simple.
“I really, just for a little while…”
“Yes.”
“Really, just for a little while…”
“Yes.”
If you gently stroke her hair, she quickly falls into a deep sleep, as if sleep comes easily to her.
“You have to wake me up…”
“I understand.”
-Thud.
Her slender body soon occupied one side of my bed.
-…
‘That Edwin, he had such a fortunate life. Leaving a girl like this behind…’
She looked like an angel while sleeping.
The problem was that there was a ‘fallen’ angel inside her.
I covered her with a blanket and thought.
‘I have no intention of waking her up.’
She would probably be very disappointed when she woke up later, asking why I didn’t wake her up,
and saying that she fell asleep without being able to take care of me properly.
The image of Yeriel in my head made me smile faintly as I headed to the caretaker’s chair.
‘Anyway, Violet, was it?’
Perhaps it was because Lev Denec, a character who should have disappeared, had survived this far.
Violet, a character whose main stage was Chapter 4, had approached me.
She was 100% a noble, through and through.
In short, she disliked frivolous types like Kaelan, but…
Funnily enough, she harbored a similar ambition.
A plan to form her own party and defeat the Demon King.
Because of this, she would become unfortunately entangled in a later incident.
Come to think of it, since she was described as a villain who obstructed Kaelan, I thought that she might be a good guy to me.
Using people wasn’t something I was particularly fond of, but Kaelan would be returning to the academy soon.
If I wanted to survive, I had no choice, did I?
Thinking about the characters who had approached me so far,
it was unlikely that Violet had approached me for no reason.
She was also set up to be Professor Diena’s disciple, and above all, she was an archer like me.
There could be enough points of contact.
In other words, this could be seen as me having secured a certain presence in the narrative.
There were good points, too.
Violet was a genius with enormous potential, but unfortunately, she couldn’t blossom.
Therefore, if I could build a relationship with her, I could expect her to help me grow as an archer or become my assistant.
‘Then let’s think about the future.’
The closest episode was…
Chapter 3, the secret meeting between the dark elf Darian, who teaches the half-elf Selena wind archery.
Chapter 3, side story, each person’s vacation.
I had forgotten. Selena had already learned wind archery, so this was also an important turning point.
‘When I recover, I should keep an eye on Selena first…’
After that, in the second semester,
there was the long-awaited Chapter 4, the Hero Selection Exam.
Here, Edwin would once again have his heroines stolen from him one by one by Kaeran, who had returned stronger from Crow’s Perch.
It was a ruthless give-and-take, NTR development by the author.
Funnily enough, that became the driving force that made Edwin stronger again.
‘Hmm.’
Currently, Kaelan had lost his copy ability, so he was probably far less skilled than in the original story.
Perhaps, Edwin might have a chance.
‘…This makes it impossible to predict according to the original story.’
From now on, I could know what major events would happen in the academy, but I couldn’t predict the detailed situations or results.
From the beginning, when I captured Bune, Pandemonium must have been in an uproar by now.
But it was okay.
I had done well so far, and demons were beings that would invade even if I did nothing.
It wasn’t like I had no plans for the future.
Above all, I…
“I have this.”
Even though it had been more than 5 minutes,
-……
Yeriel was still fast asleep.
I briefly checked her condition and then focused on the status window again.
‘I’ll be up all night checking these.’
Bune’s corpse legion, or whatever it was called…
So many had been swept away by a single Shadow Extermination…
An unprecedented number of reward windows awaited me.
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-Ding.
After organizing the big and small things, these were the final stats.
Overall, a huge increase.
Although it was a stat boost, achieving 7.15 agility at this point was exceptional.
In terms of agility alone, it was only slightly lower than the professors at Claris.
Of course, considering the number of enemies killed, one might think it was low,
but since it was the ultra-hell difficulty where growth was slow, and the closed beta had a setting where experience points decreased when hunting duplicate monsters, it couldn’t be helped.
It was fortunate that luck played a part and it was this much.
Well, the main dish was…
the skills inherited from Bune through [Hierarchy].
‘Inheritance, go.’
-Ding.
As I focused on the inheritance button, numerous status windows popped up again.
-Ding.
-Ding. Ding.
-Ding
The first thing that appeared was Bune’s passive, Archdemon’s Dignity.
Like the contract with Ariel and coherence, it allowed for the acquisition of three more unique traits.
Since this one took up a slot, it effectively meant two more slots.
‘That’s reassuring.’
Unique traits couldn’t be deleted at will, but they had overwhelming performance compared to normal traits, so the more the better.
‘I’ll have to farm for traits separately.’
As expected from something based on [Hero of Another World], there was a lot to do.
-Ding.
Next was Bune’s unique skill, Greater Magic Shield…
It had been somewhat downgraded when it came to me, but I had only inherited the ability.
I could simply strengthen the lacking parts with skill points.
‘Alright… next.’
-Ding.
-Ding.
Perhaps because of Lev Denec’s setting of not being proficient in magic…
the [Targeted-Living Dead] skill had been changed to a farming-type unique trait.
‘I couldn’t use necromancy skills anyway, even if I had them.’
Even though the grade was a step lower, it was better than having it disappear altogether.
-Ding.
The last skill of the confirmed rewards was a skill I couldn’t choose last time.
It was Soul Well.
The downside was that it was a demon’s passive, so the effect wouldn’t activate if hit by ‘Execution’ attribute attacks or stacked ‘Demon Slaying’, and the resurrection location was fixed to Pandemonium.
‘Maybe it’s better this way…?’
With a change of perspective, I had a feeling that this might also do something later.
And now, all that was left was…
the flower of archdemons. A numinous skill.
-Dodoroong!
Just then, a status window with a golden border popped up along with a new sound effect.
Will you combine Wind Archery and Bune’s numinous power?
Huh?
Could it be… a combination skill?
Combination skills were simple.
It referred to the Shadow Kill that had become my bread and butter.
“Wait a minute…”
The combination of Wind Archery and an archdemon’s numinous power, I couldn’t even imagine the result…
But based on my experience so far, there was no need to doubt the performance of combination skills.
‘Sigh…’
-Gulp.
With the author’s dirty play, I had also long since thrown away any semblance of normalcy.
Since I was already completely walking the path of a rogue(邪派).
‘Combine.’
Combine, times 100.
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Plot twist, she became the villain of the girls for daring to take Lev’s time from them
Its possible. Just like how Kaelan didn’t originally appear in the main game, Lev also wasn’t supposed to be this far in the story either