Chapter 298

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My mind is clear.

With every flash of brilliant light I see.

With every explosion of scorching red light.

With every collision of dazzling iridescent colors.

A sense of refreshment, as if washing away old grime, even lingered.

Alice (Frey) didn’t take her eyes off the spectacle before her for a moment.

Enduring the onrushing wind pressure head-on.

Taking all the scattering fragments with her small body.

Yet, she didn’t budge from her spot.

Holy Sword.

Neither flashy nor beautiful,

But more steadfast than anything else, a swordsmanship of stillness.

Cutting away all unnecessary things like extravagance and pretense.

The supreme sword energy filled only with practicality and substance.

Scarlet Blade.

A raw, uncut gemstone of a sword strike.

Wielding explosive power that even he himself couldn’t control.

‘Acceleration’, ‘Pyrokinesis’, ‘Heat Ray.’

Overlapping and combining all those Supernatural Abilities.

Unleashing an immeasurable, immense power in a single strike.

This is a Captain-level.

A powerhouse who has reached the pinnacle of Supernaturals.

‘Strong, really…’

I was definitely stronger at the beginning of the semester.

Starting from the field training, he became uncontrollably stronger.

Just when I thought I had caught up, he would leap ahead as if mocking me.

When the gap widens to this extent, I don’t even feel inferior.

No, strictly speaking, I was tormented by inferiority.

I risked my life to save Lucia, who had been kidnapped, but I was of no help and rolled around on the floor like trash. I was unilaterally toyed with by a woman with disgustingly large breasts and almost killed. If Johan hadn’t come in time, I would have really died.

They learned what maddening resentment was.

They realized the pain of a heart being torn apart.

They experienced when tears of blood flow.

Hatred that swallowed even fear burned their hearts like a furnace.

Unlike herself, who couldn’t do anything, Eugene made remarkable contributions to saving Lucia.

An ordinary student reached the Captain-level and fought against a Devil head-on.

They didn’t show it outwardly, but they felt a considerable amount of jealousy. If only we were as strong as Eugene. If only we had such a cheat-like Supernatural Ability like that guy. If that were the case, we would have been helpful too. We wouldn’t have rolled around on the ground so pathetically.

A genius, he said.

The God of War called them that.

Not just a genius, but a disaster.

Not just someone with outstanding talent.

An unreasonable disaster sent from the heavens.

A monster of talent whose very existence is absurd, mocking everyone’s efforts.

The God of War doesn’t make empty remarks.

If he said that, it must be true.

The talent of their ancestors was inherited intact through excessive atavism.

The aptitude passed down through bloodlines gave birth to the unprecedented monster, Alice.

The Pinnacle of Humanity, Iris.

The Chosen One, Yoo-seong.

Alice, who awakened the bloodline of two heroes, was undoubtedly the greatest genius of this era.

Even other geniuses who were considered top-notch fell into being nothing special in front of Alice.

Originally, she was a girl who should have been envied, revered, and admired by everyone.

‘What a joke.’

Frey clicked her tongue.

What disaster? What monster?

A real monster is someone like that guy over there.

If I’m a disaster sent from the heavens, then what is Eugene?

The real absurdity is that guy.

A guy who is like an incarnation of absurdity, even copying the Supernatural Abilities of others.

Jealousy led to inferiority, and inferiority even led to hatred.

I envied Eugene.

I envied his abilities.

I envied his strength.

Their thoughts changed after becoming disciples of the God of War. Even after becoming the disciple of the Commander, Alice didn’t receive any special training. The only special training they received was physical training. That was something they could have done on their own without becoming disciples of the God of War.

It’s not that they were discriminated against.

The God of War accurately pointed out what Alice needed.

All the students at the academy had trained their Supernatural Abilities before entering. By the time they entered the academy, they had already grown to some extent. But Alice was different. She had never done any training. She had rarely used her Supernatural Abilities at all. Even her basic physical strength wasn’t prepared.

She had started training after the incident in the field training, but from the God of War’s perspective, it was still far from enough. Therefore, he made improving her physical strength the first step in her training.

And Alice is different from Eugene. There is a training method that is suitable for each person. If Eugene’s method was to imprint things by directly hitting them against his body, Alice had a completely different training method.

A training method that would be meaningless for Eugene, but optimal for Alice.

She watched.

The teachings of the God of War.

Eugene’s training.

Watching, watching, and watching again, she saw everything.

She remembered what she saw, and she recalled what she remembered.

If she saw it, she could remember it.

If she remembered it, she could imitate it.

If she imitated it, she could make it her own.

Honing her incomplete body.

Indirectly experiencing experience.

Eugene’s training became Alice’s training.

The girl grew stronger.

She was getting stronger without even realizing it herself.

Supernatural Abilities are the embodiment of mental strength.

Changes in the mind led them to change.

The jealousy she had been suppressing was diluted as she watched the God of War’s training.

Eugene’s training was so terribly cruel that she felt jealous.

Eugene was beaten and rolled around on the floor like a blood bag every time. If he didn’t have Super Regeneration, he would have been hospitalized hundreds of times. No, he might have died before going to the hospital. It was that terrible. It wasn’t training, it was torture. Even Frey, who had initially smacked her lips, later looked quite disgusted.

He was beaten and covered in blood and collapsed.

He got up again and attacked the God of War.

Again, his whole body was crushed and he rolled on the floor.

Even so, he got up and kept running.

Again and again. How many times. Without giving up. Constantly.

It’s not enough to simply express it as willpower. It was far from enough. It was madness. A maniacal obsession with strength.

Only then did they realize.

The secret hidden in Eugene’s strength.

They envied his absurd growth and cheat-like abilities.

But behind all that growth was that much effort.

They thought they had worked hard enough, but compared to Eugene’s efforts, it seemed to pale in comparison. If they were told to train like Eugene right now, could they do it? Regardless of whether they had Super Regeneration or not, they doubted whether they could continue to maintain that much obsession.

‘…Yeah, well. Okay. I’ll admit it.’

They decided to put aside their vain jealousy.

It was too petty to only envy what the other person had without putting in as much effort as the other person.

‘You’re stronger than us right now. If you didn’t get stronger after working this hard, it would be even more unfair.’

‘But I hope you don’t get careless or complacent.’

‘If your growth is delayed or stopped even a little.’

‘We’ll quickly overtake you.’

Alice (Frey) repeated what she always did.

She sees. She saw. She surveyed everything with her two different colored eyes.

Eugene and Johan’s sparring.

The growing supernova and the accomplished Sword Saint.

She focused all her attention on the fight between the pinnacles of humanity.

Forgetting even to keep D-Class from approaching Lucia whenever she had a chance, she devoted her consciousness only to the flashes of light before her eyes.

Her vision is filled with light. Her mind was filled with white.

Strong. Both of them were strong. A strength they couldn’t catch up to. A strength that was comfortably on another level.

But that’s okay. Even if they can’t catch up right now, it will be different in the future.

‘Huh?’

‘Oh?’

Then, her fair brow furrowed.

A lightning bolt flashed through her mind for a moment.

Alice (Frey) narrowed her eyes at the inexplicable sensation.

‘…Just now?’

‘Something, I saw something…?’

A wall.

A wall that defines the limits of growth.

When they crossed that wall, they became ‘those close to God.’

And now, a new wall was blocking them.

Because they couldn’t cross the wall, there was no significant change in their growth.

Certainly, she saw it.

It was only for a moment.

But it was definitely imprinted on her retina.

A trace of enlightenment that could cross the wall.

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“!”

Eugene and Johan’s sparring steadily destroyed the training ground.

Even if they were holding back, it was a Captain-level sparring.

The aftermath alone was not to be ignored.

It was a training ground built with the precious taxes of the people.

He couldn’t let it collapse in less than a year after opening.

Yoo-seong hurried to stop the two of them.

But before he could take a few steps, Yoo-seong’s feet were fixed to the floor.

Blue eyes painted with surprise turned to the small girl.

“Heh…”

He let out a hollow laugh without realizing it.

A ripple that stimulated his sense of touch.

Like waves spreading on a calm surface.

The sound of an egg cracking struck Yoo-seong’s senses.

‘It’s much faster than I expected.’

He was convinced that she would definitely reach the Captain-level. If it was that child who inherited Iris’s talent, she could aim for not only the Captain-class, but even beyond. But it’s even faster than he had guessed. He thought it would take at least a few months.

‘Is the trigger… those guys?’

Yoo-seong’s blue eyes moved to the scene of the sparring. They were so focused on each other that they didn’t even recognize Yoo-seong’s existence. Their vision must have been extremely narrowed. They probably couldn’t see anything but each other. Yoo-seong looked around. He looked alternately at the ruined state of the training ground and Alice.

His thinking was short, and his judgment was quick.

The scales tipped to one side without comparison.

“Haa, I can’t help it.”

He shouldn’t interfere with the moment of enlightenment.

It’s a pity, but what can he do?

The training ground can be rebuilt.

Author Note

A/N (Author’s note):
Lucia is receiving the Lucille Buff.

Eugene is receiving the Chosen One Buff.

But Alice (Frey) is growing with pure talent without any of that.

Translator Note

T/N (Translator’s note):
Growing with the power of NTR and selective breeding.