Hello Sister

I dug into the tree and found a red compass.

The anti-magic artifact.

If you turn the compass, you extend its anti-magic area and can also reduce it so as not to alert the opponent or others.

This was an item that could be used in many ways. It was insidious and caused damage to the minds of mages.

Trying to activate magic without being able to access it led to complex processes in the brain. The lack of mana made the brain fry like an egg.

Experienced or high-quality mages could work around this like small electric shocks.

I turned the compass slightly and saw its maximum range. Part of the barrier dissolved in front of me.

"About 100 square meters."

It was enough. I wouldn’t let her leave my range to teleport.

I wrapped myself in the forest. Beasts attacked me from all sides.

I cut and mutilated.

With Instructor Rèn’s training, my body had long surpassed its limits. Besides that, fighting Laplatan brought me to a turning point.

My power was clearer and under control.

Each cut slid smoothly and then exploded into furious dragons, sweeping everything wildly.

Each strike killed dozens of beasts. I moved with the wind, blown rapidly in one direction.

I could instinctively feel I was heading the right way.

My sister would be in that direction.

Some students attacked me.

I cut downward and kicked the air.

The wind caused an explosion, and my aura spread across the ground.

I couldn’t move as fast as Laplatan did, but it was still fast enough to surpass them and kick their backs.

I spun my sword in the air and caught the leg of a girl who kicked me.

I kicked her ass, and her body shot forward rapidly. Before her leg broke, a light shone and she disappeared.

''One less.''

I breathed, and a wave formed in front of me. My sword touched the wave, and blue spread everywhere. I knocked down the dragons, and from them, a sea dragon was born, slithering toward the opponents.

My sword ran the entire path and decapitated them instantly.

My strikes hit nothing. They had all flashed and vanished at the same instant my blade touched their throats.

I was glad I had deactivated the artifact before arriving there.

If I had forgotten it on, that girl would have lost her leg, and I didn’t know if I could let these people survive if they had seen.

The smell of blood came from far away, but I didn’t care. I kept moving.

My body slid through the trees. Beasts and people were everywhere. I avoided them as much as possible, but eventually I encountered a difficult group.

The Fourth Princess.

I avoided them like a plague, but they were already following me. I was very unlucky.

The Fourth Princess’s group was made entirely of swordsmen.

Being the best, I should be able to win, right?

But that wasn’t the case. She wasn’t superior to me, and neither were they individually, but together they were clearly superior to me.

A single opening could be exploited by swordsmen at their level.

I jumped over bushes and diverted their attention with feints.

I passed by a lake and cut off the head of a crocodile. Its blood spread through the water.

I jumped inside and tried to camouflage myself.

"Where did he go?"

"I don’t know. He was killing everything in front of him and was still faster than us."

The Fourth Princess and her group went in another direction.

I took the time to breathe, but as soon as my head emerged from the water, a stone whistled past my ear.

Thunder cut a line toward my neck. I struck the water so hard it became solid, and I launched myself upward, emerging from it.

The water split to both sides in a pale red tone.

The blood spreading.

I felt the air burn. The Fourth Princess’s aides created a storm with the rapid movement of their swords.

I feinted the attacks.

Parrying them would be extremely difficult and could open gaps.

I tried to jump and reach the Fourth Princess, but her rapier accelerated at a tremendous pace.

I turned and parried another strike from her group. The boy had fierce eyes and cut like a beast.

His strikes were heavy. The moment our swords touched, his became an axe.

His aura altered the shape of the blade, and the sword stretched and formed an axe.

A dragon swallowed me and threw me backward rapidly.

I slammed into the trees.

CRACK!

Multiple wounds in my skin. Blood flowing. Bones broken.

I exhaled.

I was relieved. At that moment, it was the only thing I could think. If my dragon hit the boy with fierce eyes, his axe would hit me, and I would be teleported.

It was fine. I could still complete my revenge today.

Black hair covered my eyes.

There was blood and water weighing down my hair. My vision blurred.

The blood began to smoke.

I stood up and felt every part of my body. The ground felt like an extension of my body, and I moved with its waves.

The Fourth Princess’s blue hair stood on end. Her lightning was split in half.

The distance she tried to cut at that moment was extended into thousands of meters and at the same time shortened to a few centimeters.

I realized I had completely disrupted her sense of distance. Her hands covered her eyes, which were bleeding.

The tremors across the ground intensified.

The blood on my face burned like embers. It heated and heated like molten steel.

The world slowed. No, not slowed. It stopped completely. That state—I could not lose it.

A state that only Chulsin had reached in all of history. I was almost there.

My body just needed to keep up.

Before my body could keep up, my mind was overloaded with all the information around me. When I took a step, there was no distance between me and them.

They all disappeared in light before I moved my sword.

The air tore out the trees. The calm lake created a wave and cleared much of the area.

Part of the place became completely flat.

My hand was on my head.

— Kh—!

My breath hitched violently.

— Ghk—!

I spat far away.

Blood flowed from my nose and eyes as if I had forced my body into a state it could not reach.

— Khh—!

My vision flickered.

The blood on my face, which had almost dried, was now a stain spread across the ground and my body.

— Hah…!

My lungs expanded sharply.

The blood formed a puddle and entered through my mouth.

— Ghk—!

My stomach convulsed.

I didn’t faint this time.

I held my stomach. My wounds were healing.

I felt something burning inside.

It was boiling my stomach and restructuring my cells. But I was sure—this was not the Axiom. Something was inside my body.

It was healing me and almost put me into the state of Axiom, but I couldn’t trust this thing. I would have to eliminate it somehow.

My eyes returned to normal.

''This, what is this?''

I looked at my body. This strange sensation. And this thing boiling inside.

There was no time to think about it now.

What happened here would certainly draw attention.

I passed through the green of the forest and finally stood face to face with my sister. She was alone, to my surprise. Besides that, I believed I had become strong enough to eliminate her head-on without being insidious.

I moved, walking toward her.

The compass had turned, and magic was nullified.

I stomped my left foot on the ground. A blue wave covered my foot.

Each step made the ground vibrate and dragged everything to the side.

My sword was sheathed.

My sister took two steps back. Her eyebrow furrowed, and I saw her almost stumble.

I looked into her eyes and approached until I was face to face with her.

Nothing more than a few centimeters separated us.

"Hello sister."