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8.

From the next day, the diligent cadets headed to Rainbow Canyon to mine rainbow ore.

Rainbow Ore is a rare metal with strong anti-magic properties, and is used as a main material when making armor with the ability to counter-demonize.

Deep in the valley. It was an ore that was not easy to mine because it was mainly created in an environment untouched by human hands.

That’s why the midterm exam required students to bring rainbow ore.

But Howard used his money to hire miners who knew where the ore was.

It was expensive and banned by the Academy, but Howard wanted to beat Chris at all costs.

Howard, the eldest son of a noble family, had plenty of money to spend personally. He hired three miners, spending 30 gold per miner.

The miners searched the area for rainbow ore. In less than a week, Howard had 30 kilograms of rainbow ore.

“That’s it. Howard Young-sik will definitely get the highest score on this midterm exam since he’s mined 150 percent of the ore he needs to achieve.”

Bill flattered Howard and tried to please him.

Howard had the same idea. He had 30kg of rainbow ore in less than a week, so he figured that no matter how hard Chris tried, there was no way he could beat him.

Howard went to Professor Berriol to submit the rainbow ore with a relaxed mind.

#

Chris took Lily and Ray to Rainbow Canyon.

Ray had ordered Chris to pull the cart for training, so he was pulling the cart with five pickaxes in it.

The weight alone was so great that Chris sweat profusely.

Rattle rattle.

“Are you okay, my lord? Should I hold you in front?”

“No, it’s okay. This is also done.”

As Chris said, as a result of training, Chris’ weight, which had reached 100 kg, had decreased significantly, dropping to 90 kg.

Although there was still a long way to go, it was clear that he was losing weight.

‘I’ve never even made a resolution like this before, let alone one that only lasted three days.’

Chris had definitely changed when Lily saw him.

Should I say that my personality has changed to one of strong will?

Lily looks at Chris and is reminded of the dead coachman John.

‘John lived a really hard life…’

#

Although Mrs. John was a poor boy of low status, he tried hard to live.

Lily thought John was amazing when she saw him like that.

Lily believed that her current situation was fateful and could not be changed.

She was born an orphan and was taken in by a group of assassins, where she learned the art of killing.

A murder mystery.

A group of assassins who kill people or steal things for money.

The children there were forced to live by killing their emotions as tools.

Same goes for Lily.

Her life was brainwashed into thinking she was born to be a tool for the group’s leader.

As a result of the brainwashing, Lily also gradually lost her emotions and became cold-hearted like a machine.

If he had stayed in the same place, he would have lived as an assassin like other children of the same age and died somewhere unknown to anyone.

It was an unbelievable stroke of luck that she was sold to the Delun family.

Count Laurence decided that in order to keep up with the families around him, he would need to hire a spy and assassin himself.

So I tried to contact Salmak and hire one of his assassins.

However, the price of Grade A saliva was more expensive than Count Lawrence had thought.

Count Laurence, who wanted to use a cannon experimentally, said he wanted to hire a cheaper cannon.

In the slaughterhouse, they advised him to take Lily with him.

At that time, Lily was 14 years old.

A situation where one’s development is delayed and one does not stand out among his peers.

As a young child, I didn’t know what kind of talent Lily had.

If I had known, I would never have let Lily go.

Lily thought back and thought it was a great stroke of luck.

After escaping from the cell and being sold to Count Laurence, Lily became the Count’s personal maid and spy for a time.

But unexpectedly, there was nothing for Lily to do.

This was because the Delun family, which had been greatly influenced by the family, had largely avoided the political infighting of the central government, and because Count Laurence was a man who would get things done quickly but would quickly lose his passion.

Count Laurence tried to use Lily to extract information from rival families and spread bad rumors, but after trying it a few times, he realized that it wasn’t a very cost-effective way to do it.

It took more money and time than expected to wage such an information war, and since there were no immediate results, I quickly became discouraged.

Eventually, Lily, who had nothing else to do, found that the maid job she had pretended to do became her real job.

Count Laurence appeased Lily by sending her as the personal maid of honor to his eldest son, Chris.

“Don’t be too heartbroken. You’re just a temporary maid. Soon, when our family is restored, you’ll be able to work as a spy again.”

He patted me on the shoulder and encouraged me not to be discouraged by the demotion and to try again.

And now, two years later, Count Laurence seemed to have completely forgotten his promise to reinstate Lily as a spy.

But for Lily, it was more comfortable and better to be away from her spy work and work as a maid.

Chris Delun was a perverted, disgusting pig, but after I broke his joints a few times when he tried to sexually harass him, he never came back.

While living as Chris’s personal maid, Lily also became close with John, who worked as Chris’s coachman.

John was a boy who tried to face the waves head on, unlike himself who was simply swept away by the waves of fate.

He always worked hard and had a bright smile on his face whenever he saw Lily.

Lily began to smile little by little as she watched John like that.

Was that love?

Before I knew it, John had passed away too early.

Because of the stupid Chris’ stubbornness, he was struck by lightning while pulling a carriage during a typhoon and died in vain.

On the day of John’s funeral, Lily felt sad, but no tears came out.

It was a shock to Lily.

‘Have I become a person who can’t even shed tears now?’

As a result of training myself to control my emotions to the extreme in the dark, I found myself unable to express my emotions even when I wanted to.

‘Or maybe I never had any feelings for John in the first place… .’

I didn’t want to believe that. For the past two years, John had been special to Lily.

If I didn’t believe that, I felt like something precious to me as a human being would slip away.

In the midst of such confused emotions, my feelings for Chris, whom I had wanted to kill, gradually faded.

It’s true that John died because of Chris, but in a way, the lightning strike was an accident.

It is a natural disaster.

And then Lily saw.

As soon as Chris came to, he ran to the coachman John’s house to comfort John’s family and went to John’s grave to sincerely cry over his death.

I happened to see this while secretly following Chris and spying on him.

Lily thought that if she hadn’t seen that sight, she might have killed Chris.

Chris has definitely changed since John’s death.

And somehow… Lily increasingly saw John overlapping with Chris.

Even though I thought it couldn’t be true, for some reason Chris’s actions reminded me of John.

“What’s wrong, Lily? What are you thinking about so intently?”

yet.

The sight of Chris smiling affectionately at her.

It was too similar to the smile John had been giving her for the past two years.

It was almost as if John’s soul had entered Chris’s body.

“Wait a minute, a stupid and outrageous thought occurred to me. It can’t be happening.”

“Oh, Lily, do you sometimes think like that?”

“Sometimes.”

#

Chris and his party climbed up Rainbow Canyon for a while and came across a group of people.

Four men dressed like hunters and one dancer dressed in revealing clothing that seemed completely out of place among them.

‘What kind of people are they?’

The hunters were no exception, but the woman clearly looked like she had come to the wrong place, as if she were supposed to be in a city bar, not somewhere like this.

The hunters seemed to be stalking their prey, digging along the ground.

“Have you seen any monsters running away this way?”

A hunter asks Chris.

“A monster?”

“It looks like a white horse, but it has a horn on its forehead.”

Chris shakes his head, saying he has never seen it before.

The hunters tried to pass Chris.

At that moment, one hunter’s gaze fell on Ray.

“What a strange looking thing. Is it a water tribe?”

-Krrr.

Ray baring his teeth at the hunters.

“What’s wrong, Ray?”

“Chris. These guys are bad guys. They have unicorn blood on their bodies.”

“What?”

Unicorns were creatures that had to be protected and not hunted as a sacred animal. In other words, they were natural monuments.

The hunters are confused.

Among them, the leader pulled out a dagger.

“What annoying brats. That water tribe brat looks rare. Let’s kill the boy and capture the woman and water tribe brat!”

At the leader’s command, the hunters surrounded Chris’s group.