[Translator – Kie]
[Proofreader – Kawaii]
Chapter 129: The Other Woman (1)
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Damien and Louise followed the two.
“Being a rcenary isn’t exactly a job to be proud of. You have to fight all the ti and get ignored by people.”
“That’s hard to believe. Who would dare ignore Miss Regina?”
“That’s just the way the job is. People have a bad impression of rcenaries.”
The two walked around the city, chatting about this and that.
First, they went to a night market, and then they moved to the square to watch a clown.
“Look at that, Ballad. It’s a song imitating a siren. It doesn’t sound anything like it to .”
“You must know since you’ve heard it yourself, Miss Regina.”
“It was much more beautiful than that. But I never want to hear it again. When I think of all the trouble I went through because of the siren… .”
As the two of them exuded a cheerful atmosphere, Louise’s eyes beca colder and colder.
Unlike her, Damien was more interested in observing the woman nad Regina than their relationship.
‘She’s no ordinary woman. She’s quite skilled.’
The depth of her movents and footsteps, the occasional strong mana that emanated from her.
If Damien’s guess was correct, the woman nad Regina was definitely a high-class expert.
‘A rcenary with high-class skills?’
Even among rcenaries, low-class were rare. This was because there were not many who had learned proper swordsmanship and mana cultivation thods.
Nevertheless, this woman had reached the realm of high-class within the position of a rcenary.
This ant that she had received an advance education sowhere. And there was only one place in the rcenary industry where such a thing was possible.
‘There’s no other place that can raise a rcenary to high-class except for that place… Could she be related to that man?’
While Damien was lost in thought, the two stopped in front of a bar. It was a very luxurious building.
“I can’t tell you how much trouble I had making a reservation here.”
Regina grabbed Ballad’s arm and pulled him. But Ballad resisted and didn’t let himself be pulled.
“Why are you doing this?”
“Miss Regina, I ca here today to ask you a favor.”
“A favor? Why don’t we go inside and talk?”
Regina tilted her head. Ballad opened his mouth to her.
“I would like to thank you again for chasing away the siren. If you hadn’t helped us, the city would have continued to suffer great damage.”
“What’s there to be grateful for? I just did it for the money.”
“I know very well that a platinum badge rcenary like Miss Regina is hard to hire even with money. If you hadn’t shown rcy, our city would have continued to suffer from the siren.”
Ballad bowed his head and continued.
“That’s why the mayor told to grant Miss Regina’s request unconditionally… .”
“Oh, so you’ve been eting out of order all this ti? It’s disappointing to hear you say that.”
Regina said with a sullen face.
Ballad spoke to her in a firm voice.
“I would like you to stop visiting the from today onwards.”
There was a mont of silence.
Regina stared blankly at Ballad before opening her mouth.
“Oh, I see. I guess I’ve been too much of a bother. I’m sorry about that. I won’t call you out from now on when you have work.”
Regina nodded as if she understood.
“And I won’t say anything if Ballard ets other people. I won’t worry about it from now on….”
“As I told you before, I have a fiancée.”
Ballad interrupted Regina’s words.
“I don’t want to do anything that I can’t be honest with her about anymore.”
Ballad said again.
“So please, don’t call anymore.”
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“……Ballad.”
Louise, who had been watching the scene, muttered with a blank expression.
Damien was not the only one who was surprised.
‘He’s a great man.’
Ballad must have known that the woman was high-class.
At the high-class level, one could kill soone just by looking at them.
The fact that he could refuse such a fearso being who desired him was amazing.
‘I think I know why my sister is so attached to this man.’
Looking at Ballad’s appearance, he seed like a reed that could break at any mont.
However, his inner self was not like that. He was a man with a strong heart and a straight gaze.
“……Are you crazy?”
Regina’s angry voice rang out.
“Are you looking down on because I keep making concessions?”
“Absolutely not. I’m just concerned about my fiancée… .”
“That’s what you an by looking down on !”
Regina unleashed her mana. A huge mana exploded and blew away the surrounding objects.
“Ugh, ugh!”
“Kyaaah!”
People on the street scread and ran away. The surroundings beca deserted in an instant.
Ballad’s face also turned pale. He looked like he was about to collapse at any mont.
“……I would like it if I never saw Miss Regina again after today.”
Even so, Ballad stubbornly finished what he had to say.
‘He can endure this?’
Damien couldn’t help but admire him inwardly.
The mana of a high-class person was a weapon in itself. An ordinary person would have felt excruciating pain that would have shaken their internal organs.
Not only was he able to endure it, but he would not even bend his posture.
‘I was wrong.’
Damien wanted Louise to be happy. That’s why he wanted her to marry soone better than Ballad.
However, that was just Damien’s delusion.
Ballad’s inner self was not lacking, even if his abilities might be.
He only had Louise in his heart, and for her, he could face any danger.
‘My sister had the right eye for people.’
Compared to him, Damien was stuck in his prejudice. He couldn’t see the true value of people.
He was ashad and sorry.
At the sa ti, his head cleared up. It was as if his eyes were opened and his vision widened.
“Sister, please stay here.”
As a sign of repentance, he resolved to handle this matter himself.
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“Last warning. If you bring up that fiancée nonsense again, this ti I’ll really… .”
“That’s quite a harsh thing to say.”
At the unexpected voice, Regina and Ballad turned to Damien with surprised faces.
“Damien..?
Ballad asked with a surprised face. It was as if he was asking what you were doing here.
“Let’s talk about the details later.”
Damien naturally stepped in front of Regina. Regina glared at Damien with a displeased expression.
“Damien? I’ve heard that na sowhere… .”
After thinking for a mont, Regina’s eyes widened.
“Damien Haksen? The genius of the Apple Kingdom who rose to middle class in the shortest period of ti?”
Regina looked at Damien with an interested expression.
“I didn’t know you were acquainted with Ballad.”
“If I had known, would you have backed down? This person is going to be my brother-in-law.”
“Ha! Brother-in-law? You’re that woman’s younger brother……. But this is really annoying.”
Regina’s aura beca even more murderous. The surrounding buildings shook.
“You’re just a middle class, and you dare to raise your head in front of ?”
Regina said with a smile full of killing intent.
“Are you doing this because you trust your status as a noble? You seem to be mistaken. Even if I kill you here, the Apple Kingdom won’t be able to say anything to .”
“I know.”
Damien said nonchalantly to the woman’s words.
“If you’re the granddaughter of the rcenary King, you’ll be able to easily cover up sothing like this.”
At those words, Regina’s eyes widened.
“How did you know?”
“You couldn’t have reached the realm of high class as a rcenary at such a young age unless you were a descendant of the rcenary King.”
The rcenary King.
He was one of the Masters who was always ntioned when discussing the strongest humans.
The rcenary King was not only incredibly strong himself, but what was more amazing was the force he had created.
The rcenary group led by the rcenary King was not only large in scale, but it was also famous for the individual strength of its mbers.
It had several high-class mbers and even master-class mbers among its close associates.
The leadership ability to lead all of them, who were thought to be uncontrollable, without any discord within the organization.
It was because of this imnse power that people did not hesitate to call him the ‘rcenary King’.
“You know that and you’re still acting like this in front of ?”
Damien had to hold back the laughter that was about to burst out.
In his previous life, Damien had fought the rcenary King and erged victorious. He had cut off the old man’s neck and turned it into a lump of at.
Furthermore, he had absorbed all of his techniques, so it was only funny that his granddaughter was trying to intimidate him.
Although Regina was a high class, she was still only half-baked compared to the rcenary King.
He thought he wanted to correct Regina’s mistake right here and now.
“If you don’t back down, it’ll be difficult for you too.”
However, Damien was currently in a state of ‘Self-repentance’. He didn’t want to ruin this refreshing mood.
“I wanted to resolve this peacefully if possible.”
So Damien tried to take out the insignia of a knight from his bosom.
Knights were protected by the Church. Their families were no exception.
No matter how much of a rcenary king he was, he couldn’t oppose the Church. After all, the Church was on par with the Empire.
“Think I’ll only kill you? I’ll catch that sister of yours and kill her too.”
At that mont, Regina spoke to Damien.
“Why? Do you think I’m lying? I destroy what I can’t have. Just wait and see. I’ll find that woman even if I have to search the entire Apple Kingdom.”
Regina spoke with venomous voice.
“So I’ll just rip off that woman’s throat in front of Ballard. Got it?”
Damien put the necklace back into his bosom.
The feeling of relief he had due to his ‘self-reflection’ vanished like smoke.
Anger rose in his hollow heart. Killing intent surged from Damien’s entire body.
“You want to try with that?”
Regina, sensing Damien’s killing intent, took off a ring from her finger. The ring transford into a sword.
It was a saber, with a thin blade and a slightly curved end.
Regina held the hilt and scabbard of the saber at the sa ti.
Regina’s montum beca sharp and fierce. Approaching her felt like being cut into pieces by an impending danger.
“I’ll make you pay for misunderstanding your place.”
Regina laughed cruelly. It seed she intended to kill Damien right there.
Seeing Regina like that, Damien burst into bitter laughter.
‘How will you kill ?’
Using dark magic would end it in an instant, but he couldn’t resort to that with so many witnesses around.
‘My body is still too weak.’
Damien’s skill was beyond high-class, but his body and mana weren’t.
That’s why he couldn’t be sure of victory in battle against Regina. There existed realms he couldn’t match with skill alone.
‘Well, if it’s lacking, I’ll just fill it up.’
Damien opened a spatial ring. He reached in and pulled out the heart of a spirit and the core of a sea serpent.
He swallowed them both in one go, without even chewing, and swallowed them down his throat.
“…What are you doing?”
Regina, seeing this, shouted in surprise.
Items containing mana, like potions or cores, required careful preparation and consumption.
Otherwise, not only would the mana not be absorbed properly, but serious injuries could also occur.
For Damien to consu multiple mana-containing items at once was akin to swallowing a bomb.
“If you continue like this, you’ll die….”
Sure enough, before Regina could finish her sentence, an explosion occurred from Damien’s body.
As mana exploded, windows of buildings shattered in its aftermath.
The explosion didn’t end with just one. It occurred continuously.
With each explosion, Damien’s blood vessels burst. Blood flowed from his burst-eye capillaries.
‘He’s using both the Art of Sacrificial Raging Demon Manifestation and the Supre Absorption Technique at the sa ti.’
The Art of Sacrificial Raging Demon Manifestation was a mana cultivation thod that reinforced the body using mana.
The Supre Absorption Technique had excellent abilities in absorbing mana.
When these two mana cultivation techniques were added to the explosion of mana, a remarkable phenonon occurred.
“This is ridiculous… .”
As befitting a high-class, Regina seed to quickly realize what was happening to Damien’s body right now.
With each explosion, his muscles and organs were rapidly strengthening. It was as if the iron was being reforged.
The amount of mana he held within him also increased greatly. It was like a balloon being filled with air.
‘If it’s lacking, then just fill it up.’
To Damien, realms below master class were nothing special.
They were rely realms that could be reached naturally by simply increasing his physical abilities and magical power.
And so, he forcibly raised those two abilities.
Using the Art of Sacrificial Raging Demon Manifestation to strengthen his body, he absorbed and stored all of his remaining mana using the Supre Absorption Technique.
Damien opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Even after vomiting so much blood, his eyes did not weaken in the slightest. They beca even sharper.
The mont she saw those eyes, Regina’s body broke out in goosebumps.
Before her head could understand, her instincts recognized it first.
The fact that the man before her had reached the realm of high class.
“This is ridiculous… .”
Even so, Regina could not help but deny it.
Not only did he survive ingesting two cores at the sa ti, but he used the explosion of mana to temper his body and reach the high class.
It would be more believable to say that a master class had appeared among the mindless goblins.
“You can’t do that twice.”
Damien spat out the remaining blood in his mouth and drew out the Dawn.
At that mont, the entire world was filled with the killing intent that Damien exuded.
At that ridiculous phenonon, Regina unconsciously swallowed her dry saliva.
“Be prepared.”
Damien said in a chilling voice that seed to freeze everything.
“From now on, I will make you pay the price for the nonsense you have spewed.”
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[Translator – Kie]
[Proofreader – Kawaii]
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