Chapter 106: The Night of the Purge (5)
He walked out calmly from a perfectly round hole, as if he had cut through it with millimetric precision.
A middle-aged man suddenly appeared.
His entrance was so striking that even the two assassins hesitated for a moment. They, too, seemed to have sensed something—this man was not like the weak villains they had faced so far.
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‘Damian, the professor of the Blessings Department.’
I recognized that person.
Both showed surprise and confusion on their faces. And although I tried to stay calm, I was also taken aback. However, my surprise had a different reason.
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The fact that he turned out to be the main villain behind all of this was almost absurd.
He was the man who, just the day before the festival, had offered me a personal consultation.
No, what truly left me speechless was something even more ridiculous.
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‘Although thinking about it…’
But I would never have imagined that he was behind all of this.
I had assumed that the alias of “Professor” was just a title they used to refer to him in secret. But it turned out he really was a professor.
An extremely competent and respected academic. Now that I thought about it, something had already seemed strange when he offered me that Russian black tea.
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It was as if someone had planned it so that our interactions would occur under those exact circumstances.
Why hadn’t I detected anything suspicious about Damian during our meeting?
The answer came quickly—I didn’t have my Sashimi knife with me at the time. That had been a rare exception, but it just so happened while I was speaking with him alone.
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“Hey, Professor! Why the hell are you so late, huh? If you had come earlier, things wouldn’t have turned out this way, damn it!”
‘I definitely take back what I said about things going well.’
As my thoughts wandered, the dark-skinned villain raised his chin and shouted, as if scolding him:
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“And now you’re blaming me for your weakness? How absurd. You all seem more fickle than the students I teach.”
Damian observed his surroundings with his hands behind his back. His eyes, devoid of interest, scanned the scene before he responded indifferently.
“Hmm.”
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Something that always caught my attention about villains—they’re incredibly impulsive, as if their brains had no filter.
“What the hell did you just say, bastard!?”
The villain, who just a moment ago seemed to be looking at a savior, changed his attitude instantly at that small taunt, showing his aggression.
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At least she had some common sense when she was in danger. Unlike this guy, who didn’t even hesitate to lash out at Damian, his only ally at this moment.
‘Is he an idiot?’
Now that I thought about it, Choi Seol-Ah was probably one of the more reasonable among them.
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Damian let out a deep sigh at the villain’s brazen attitude. He slowly shook his head before speaking.
“…I knew an empty drum makes the most noise, but this is ridiculous. It’s almost embarrassing to be a villain alongside someone like you.”
“Hey, don’t ignore me!”
“Haah…”
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“What did you say!?”
“What the hel⎯!”
“I was planning to let you live, but you’re too loud. Allow me to educate you.”
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A dry bang echoed in the air, immediately followed by a spray of blood.
Before the villain could finish his sentence, Damian snapped his fingers.
The head that had once been firmly on his shoulders simply ceased to exist—without even a single scream.
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Despite his ability to perceive fast movements, he had not been able to follow what had just happened.
Knox, upon witnessing the scene, trembled visibly, his lips moving without forming words.
“That… that is…”
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The two assassins gripped the hilts of their swords tightly, exhaling briefly. The way they held their weapons reflected their readiness to face death at any moment.
With just a single spell from the professor, the course of the battle had completely shifted.
The face of the family leader, Altair, also hardened completely. His vast experience and confidence, forged through countless battles, had not prepared him to face something like this. Even for someone like him, this magic was completely unfamiliar. His shock was understandable.
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Meanwhile, Cladi, with an expression of joy and relief, crawled toward the professor with servile movements.
The enemy had yet to reveal their full capability, and charging blindly would only guarantee a pointless death.
They seemed about to launch an attack, but with a glance, I signaled for them to wait.
Altair and Knox exchanged a brief look and, without a word of protest, nodded.
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“You’ve come to save me!”
“Me? Save you? Why would I do that?”
The professor, with a calm and neutral expression, slightly tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.
Smiling pathetically and trembling with nervousness, Cladi displayed a completely humiliated expression.
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A malicious and resonant laugh filled the air with an unsettling sensation. Cladi, utterly stunned, stared at him with a vacant expression.
The professor suddenly burst into laughter, his voice echoing through the hallway.
“…Huh? W-What do you mean? If not to save me, why would you have gathered the villains here, in my residence?”
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“But tell me, what reason would I have to save you? A being without the slightest value, who only knows how to crawl from one side to another like a bat.”
“Ha ha ha! Oh, thank you, dear Cladi. It’s been a long time since I laughed this hard at a joke like yours.”
Then, his tone changed drastically, turning cold and cutting.
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Cladi’s eyebrows twitched once, then twice, before his expression twisted with a mix of rage and humiliation.
“……”
The professor verbally tore Cladi apart without mercy, completely destroying him with his words. Although most of what he said was factual, he did not hold back in crossing the line with his personal insults.
“Parasite, useless, garbage, waste… None of those words can truly describe what you are. Your father, deep in hell, must be weeping bitterly at what you’ve become.”
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The professor’s tone turned icy, his gaze sharp as a blade.
“And if you’re curious, I’ll tell you why I gathered the villains in this place.”
“That joke wasn’t funny,” the professor replied coldly. “But what are you? A so-called ‘original’ who depends on us villains without any sense of direction or intelligence.”
“What right do you have, as a villain, to say something like that!?” he shouted, trying to cling to the little pride he had left.
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“It’s been a while, Cadet Kang Geom-Ma. Have you been well?”
“……”
“You were just bait. Something to distract and disorganize their forces. Even for me, facing an alliance of the Corps Commander, the director, and the Auditore would be impossible. My true goal isn’t you, an insignificant being.”
After saying this, the professor turned his head toward me, showing a composed and polite smile, as if nothing had happened.
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“I was aware that Choi Seol-Ah might betray me. As you well know, she has an almost desperate obsession with survival, even if it means acting servilely. I was certain that in a moment of crisis, she would ally with you.”
“You must be wondering how I got here. Allow me to explain before you get too angry.”
“……”
With a calm and friendly voice, he continued.
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It was an undeniable fact.
“……”
Damn pervert.
“That’s why I secretly cast a magic listening spell. Just a modest ability from my repertoire, nothing more.”
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“Please, don’t misunderstand. I don’t have such unpleasant tastes. I simply understood her nature from the beginning and took a preventive measure.”
So, when Choi Seol-Ah reported the villains, his ‘impeccable’ timing had been this guy’s doing. I frowned, and he waved a hand as if trying to reassure me.
I couldn’t help but be baffled by how brazenly he admitted his crime.
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‘If I tell her this, she’ll probably want to disappear from the world.’
…Well, coming from a villain, I suppose it wasn’t surprising. In the end, he had only done what villains do—bad things.
But thinking about Choi Seol-Ah, living without knowing she was being spied on, I felt a bit sorry for her.
The professor turned his gaze toward Cladi, completely erasing his smile and replacing it with a cold, distant expression.
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“You damn lunatic!”
The professor slowly raised his right arm, bringing his thumb and middle finger together in a poised gesture.
“As an academic, I’ve heard those kinds of words before. But what a shame that this will be your final statement.”
“And the reason I gathered the villains here was to make sure you didn’t run away too soon. You always do the same thing, Cladi. When you’re scared, the first thing you do is run. That was an inconvenience I needed to fix.”
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“……!”
He could feel it. He knew there was no escaping his fate.
Cladi began trembling as if his body was being shaken by an electric shock.
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“…Damn it.”
Finally, as if he had lost all hope, he collapsed to his knees. His vacant eyes reflected nothing but resignation and emptiness.
Rage started boiling inside me as I watched the situation unfold. I had come here specifically to finish off Cladi, and now this professor planned to steal my final blow.
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‘That damn bastard.’
I can tolerate many things, but I wouldn’t allow him to take my target. I wanted to slit his throat myself to ease my conscience.
Professor Damian smiled sinisterly as he looked at Cladi.
Besides, in Korea, there’s an unspoken rule—stealing the final blow is absolutely forbidden.
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With those words, Damian snapped his fingers sharply. At the same time, I extended my perception domain.
Snap—
“You’ve lived comfortably for too long. I don’t think you have any regrets about your life.”
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The remaining time of [The Blessing of Pain Insensitivity] was about five seconds.
Even with the pain reduction provided, the duration of [The Blessing of the God of the Sword] was, at most, ten seconds.
⎯⎯⎯⎯Hiss⎯⎯⎯⎯
If I wasn’t completely sure of my next move, we would be the ones who ended up losing.
That’s why I had to use my domain to find an answer.
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Then into hundredths, thousandths, until finally, the entire flow of time seemed to stretch to surreal levels.
Amidst that distorted flow, I noticed an anomaly in front of me.
First into tenths of a second…
I felt time begin to fracture into segments.
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He was compressing the air like a bomb and making it explode.
Perhaps due to my experience facing multiple magic users, I instantly understood the core of this spell.
‘I found it.’
The air began to ripple and compress, accumulating energy. It was a completely unnatural act that defied the laws of physics.
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However, I noticed one detail. Extending from Damian’s index and middle fingers was an invisible thread connecting the mage to the air bomb.
An incredibly dangerous magic that required no shape, mass, or visible medium to activate.
It was wind-element magic.
Essentially, it was a perfect unilateral attack with no apparent weaknesses.
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A red line was superimposed over the thread—one that I could only see thanks to my enhanced perception.
‘…But.’
I couldn’t cut the thread because it had no physical form.
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Swish!
As my domain faded, I grabbed the cord and hurled Murasame with precision.
⎯⎯⎯⎯Thud⎯⎯⎯⎯
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Murasame’s blade sliced through the space between Damian and Cladi in an instant.
Only after I heard Damian’s fingers snap did the air bomb explode into the void.
A flash of light cut across the gap between Damian and Cladi.
Snap! Boom!
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“What… what did you just do?”
Damian remained completely still, his neck slowly turning toward me.
“…!”
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“Didn’t you say I was smart?”
The confidence he had displayed up to that moment had vanished. His words were clumsy, and his pupils trembled with panic.
I touched my temples with my fingers, pretending to recall something.
“…”
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Altair looked as if he wanted an explanation, but there was no time to stop.
They, too, seemed speechless, merely blinking.
Damian didn’t respond. Just like Altair, Knox, and Cladi, who could only blink in astonishment.
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I retrieved Murasame by pulling the cord and gripped it firmly in my hand.
Holding the knife felt much more natural than throwing it.
Whip—
I locked eyes with Damian. His pupils were still shaking violently.
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Even when he obliterated the dark-skinned villain’s head, he showed that he was still just another villain.
It was logical. The more knowledge someone had, the more they feared the inexplicable.
I had uncovered the secret behind his air magic—something he considered infallible—and his reaction proved it.
Although Damian tried to present himself as a different kind of villain, to me, he was no different from the rest.
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In fact, compared to him, even Choi Seol-Ah seemed more intelligent.
“Damian.”
An idiot drunk on his own power who had killed his only ally.
I took a step forward.
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‘Approximately eight seconds left.’
He instinctively stepped back and began gathering his magic once more.
It wasn’t much more than an instant. But that was all I needed to end this battle.
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“I’m going to cut you.”
I stared directly at Damian and declared in a firm voice.
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