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Chapter 279
🕑 Added 2025-02-11 19:00:38 +0000 UTC“Haha, I told you I could do it,” he weezed to Rebecca as he used a little bit of [Phoenix Renewal] to recover his stamina and his missing limbs. “It was a piece of— mmph.”
He was interrupted by Rebecca appearing in front of his face and shoving a bottle of something down his throat.
He flailed around but the woman was much too strong for him and managed to pin him down with ease, forcing him to swallow the potion. He kicked his legs instinctively, but there was nothing he could really do. Rebecca’s Domain had kept him immobilized and he didn’t think exploding his soul to escape it would be the smart thing to do.
Truth be told, he enjoyed the cooling sensation of the injected life mana flowing through his stomach and heading to his injuries.
However, his skill quickly took over this life mana to repurpose it for its own use. In a brief flash of fire, his arm and leg which he had sacrificed was regenerated just like how it was before. He couldn’t help but notice that the small scars he had around his forearm were still there too and gave them a soft smile.
“What the hell was that?” She asked, staring at him with a look mixed with disgust and fascination as she grabbed his newly healed arm tightly.
“I told you he had some sort of healing skill,” Richard commented from behind his wife not showing as much surprise as Rebecca.
“You never said that he had something quite like this. Is this why you were so confident in allowing him to go on that mission?” She asked Richard with narrowed eyes.
The man in question put his hands high up into the air. “I didn’t know it was quite like that. But yes, I had a feeling that it was more powerful than he was telling us. There was no other way Julius should have been able to push himself that hard in our spars.”
With one final dark look at her husband, Rebecca turned to look back at Julius.
“Even if you have such a skill, you shouldn’t be using it like that. It’s much too dangerous for something as simple as dodging an obstacle.”
He looked at the ground guiltily. He hadn’t meant to do something so rash. As a matter of fact, he hadn’t even been planning to show the extent of his healing skill to them. He was just so distracted by completing the course that he hadn’t bothered to hide his skill. Everything just happened so fast and before he even fully realized what he was doing, his arm and leg were gone.
He had gotten the idea from when he was fighting that Tier 5. But this time it wasn’t for more power, it was merely to give the threads less physical flesh to hit.
Furthermore, if there was anyone he didn’t really care about knowing in all of Blumand, it was the two of them. Reinera had already seen his healing skill in action so he wasn’t worried about her. Marcus and Stella had seen his skill in action, so maybe it was only fair that Richard and Rebecca saw it too.
Seeing that he was truly regretful, Rebecca didn’t scold him further. She merely sighed and stood up.
“Are you okay though?”
He grinned at her and showed off his arm. “Yep, completely fine,” he said as he waved it up and down.
She shook her head at his antics but begrudgingly smiled at him. “It was a stupid move. But still congratulations. You are the first person I have seen to finish this course without the use of some sort of spatial skill or other cheating skill.”
Julius couldn’t help but get up to his feet and do a little excited dance. Funnily enough, he was more excited about doing this than completing the Challenge Rift or beating the Tier 4. For some reason, he felt this immense sense of satisfaction.
“Do I get some kind of reward for finishing it?” He asked excitedly to Rebecca.
The woman chuckled and before he knew what had happened he got slapped on the back of the head.
“There’s your reward,” she said smugly.
He rubbed the back of his head which was still ringing from the hit, looking at her in disbelief before looking at Richard and Reinera for support.
Richard was in the middle of backing up, distancing himself from Julius.
Reinera on the other hand was looking at him with a look of supreme disappointment.
***
“You all set?” Marcus asked him, barely giving Reinera’s presence any attention.
“I think so,” he replied with another quick check of his storage ring. “Did the two of you finish everything else you needed to?”
Stella who was standing next to Marcus, sighed dramatically. “Yeah, as much as we could in such a short time. That Tier 5 had some nasty soul contracts attached to him. We actually got more information out of the two Tier 4s instead.”
“Anything of importance?”
“Not really, that list you got was probably more enlightening than anything else we managed to get from them. Like you said, they were smaller pieces of a much larger group. If we are going to find anything worth finding, it is going to be from that Tier 5. But breaking through the restrictions of his soul contracts is going to be very difficult and time-consuming,” she explained.
“What are you guys going to do with them?” He asked.
“That Tier 5 is going to be kept here and under tight lock and key. Marcus mentioned that in the near future, the man will be interrogated by some specialists of House Violet. If anyone is going to break through the restrictions, it is going to be them.”
Julius looked over at Marcus and saw the man nod in confirmation. “It all depends on who created the vows, but hopefully we can see if there is a loophole we can exploit. But that’s not really my realm of expertise, we have plenty of talented mind mages who can deal with that,” the large man said casually as if the use of mind mages wasn’t that big of a deal.
“Can I ask for a favor?” He asked Marcus after ensuring that it was only the four of them around.
“Go ahead.”
“If you find anything out about House Greyson can you relay that information to me?”
The man gave Julius an inquisitive look for a few moments but eventually dipped his head. “That is acceptable. I will keep an eye out for any information they gain from him.”
“Thank you.”
“Don’t worry about it. You played a big role in capturing him in the first place. This is the least House Violet can do,” Marcus said to him with a small smirk.
He returned the smirk with a small smile of his own. “By the way, you mentioned what was going to happen with that Tier 5, but what about the other Tier 4s?”
Stella was the one who answered. “They didn’t have any contracts attached to their souls, but their lack of information on specific details of their operations makes them less valuable now. The Tier 4 woman, Lyn seems to have no real allegiance to them either. Apparently, her services were offered by her family. A family she doesn’t seem to have any loyalty to and she expressed a weird amount of interest in working with us.”
He recalled the fight he had with the woman. She had been quite the impressive fighter. Their fight hadn’t quite been finished, but he had been very fascinated with her fighting skills. She had been a much better opponent than that assassin.
“She wants to work for House Easten?” He asked curiously, a little surprised by her willingness to switch sides.
“Yes, and according to my aura senses, she seemed oddly sincere,” the woman said with a frown.
“She did seem like the type of person who was working for them merely because of the opportunities to fight and not because she held any real loyalty,” he noted.
“I got the same feeling. I told Marquis Easten that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to have her take a vow of loyalty for the time being and monitor her. It’s rare to find such a well-established Tier 4 that’s not attached to another organization.”
“And he agreed?”
“He said he would think about it,” she said with an uncaring shrug.
“What about the other Tier 4?” He asked.
She winced at that. “You left that man in quite a disastrous state you know? I don’t think he will ever recover unless someone spends a lot of money on natural treasures or a really powerful healer. He might be executed just to put him out of his misery.”
He similarly winced. That had not been a part of his plan when he used his aura against the man. At the time, he had gotten a bit carried away with his new shiny skill and newfound control that he just unleashed his aura onto the man. Looking back, he had absolutely brutalized the man’s aura and soul far beyond what he needed to.
The thing that assuaged his guilt was the fact that this man had tried to kill him and the others in the caravan.
Stella gave him a sympathetic smile. “Go on, say your goodbyes before we leave,” she said while pointing over at the group of people congregated off in the distance.
***
He managed to say goodbye to almost everyone he had gotten to know over this period. It was a bit sad, but the thing that made it easier to bear was the fact that it wasn’t like it was goodbye forever.
With things like spatial magic, they would never be that far away. Although it was hard to predict when he would be able to come and visit them.
But after everything was all settled, he and Reinera were finally prepared to leave.
They stood next to Stella who used some type of skill to wrap a barrier around them and with one last wave goodbye, he felt the familiar tug of being pulled through space and vanished into thin air.
During the transfer, he made sure to pay extra close attention to how Stella was able to do so.
It happened very quickly and he wasn’t able to catch much of it, but he did sense one thing. It was as if the woman’s will or aura was wrapped around him and was the primarily reason for why the space was folding onto itself before his very eyes.
He didn’t know what it meant exactly, but he felt pretty confident that it was a significant hint about figuring out spatial abilities of his own.
However, he didn’t have a lot of time to figure that out because the next moment he was spat out and he found himself standing in front of the walls of Heston just like he had been when he first arrived all that time ago.
Comments
Kemlion
Told myself I could be patient for next chapter. I am not patient. Hello again, Patreon
Amanda
Thanks for the chapter! I love that his reward was a slap to the back of the head hahaa!! And excited that he’s getting little glimpses into how a spatial affinity would work!! Back to school we go! :)
Hamfist
@DeathTick in the previous few chapters we have had the marquis tell Julius that he was going to be "properly rewarded" since he had to deal with a t5, Marcus tell the marquis that Julius had damned well better get extra rewards for dealing with a t5, and Grace tell Julius that "they'd better" be giving him something extra for dealing with a t5.
Hamfist
What makes you so sure that he was an adult in the previous life? Ryn never gave us an exact age but from the synopsis and prelude it sounds like Julian was probably in his late teens.
Rabbit -
I think the 2 souls merged. So yes while he has the life experience of an adult he also has the childish side. I think if the author forgot about that then Julius wouldn't be running into battle killing people without remorse. We would see him much more conflicted or breaking down. To be honest I'm surprised Marcus, Stella or Marquis Eastern don't see him as a child and weren't concerned for Julius's mental state after killing all those people.
Sambor P
And it's not a problem from last couple chapters it's like it started gradually from fist 20 chapters he became more and more like a kid who gets scolded and non stop feeling guilty. Guilty he didn't told his friends about this thing, guilty he used this ability, guilty that people saw him hurt himself(because he himself is doesn't feel much pain thanks to his willpower abilities)
Sambor P
I feel like Author forgot that Julius is not a child mentally. He is a reincarnated adult. Why is he acting all the time like some stupid emotional kid? There was no internal monologue about him being an adult in a long time and it seams author actually forgot.
greg
Stella to became mentor !!! Spatial incoming.
Tanner Lannister
We going to get a fun pov change mid chapter of the spar with the combat instructor being like wtf this child was a 3 tiers below me a few months ago now he’s fighting me at full power
Thomas Grimshaw
Yes, but that was only with tier 4s attacking them not a tier 5, the rewards were to be increased if I remember correctly.
DeathTick
Julius could probably beat most of his instructors now ngl. At most they'll have some wisdom to give him, and some like the old professor that gave him the aura veil item, might be able to teach advanced aura and mana control techniques. Also, i do wonder how the royal family will react to Rienera coming back with Julius. Will they pester him and scorn him, ultimately making him their enemies, or will they thank him for bringing her back alive safe and sound.
DeathTick
Pretty sure they did the mission to repay the family for allowing them to use the challenge rift
Zack
Ah, right. Maybe the rewards aree coming later? They did leave pretty quickly
Adrian Auriat
no i mean the rewards for the mission
Alexikon
Man, are we then ever going to know if he could have gained Enlightenment from the painting?
Zack
We did. It was the head slap.
Conrad Manaugh
Back to school. I originally wasnt about leaving school, but you made it work. Good job author
Raymond Mouton
Thanks for the chapter. The head slap was well deserved. The berating of Julius by Lily will be fun to read.
Orthneil Kelley Jr.
TFTC!!!
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Adrian Auriat
we didn t see the rewards ?
Xepen
Pfft it’s definitely because of him the murderhobo tier 4 wants to join Easton. Something tells me she won’t be happy to find out Julius isn’t actually a part of their house.
RedLeaf
Oh boy. Time for the main event! The conversation with Lily--and the rest of the crew--should be veeerrry entertaining. For us!
Rallaster
Bring on the wrath of Lily! 🤣🤣🤣
Oliver Reilly
So back to school
Zach
TFTC! ITS LILY TIME, LETS GET READY TO RUUUUUUMMMMMMBBBBBLLLLLLEEEEEE
William Johnson
There and back again achieved! Time to get a stern talking to, and then spars! Thanks for the chapter!
Quentin Cozzi
Thanks for the chapter!
Draven Leal
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