“If you want to consume magical power the fastest way… wouldn’t it be not to attack? Magical power inherently has a property to protect the owner, so it would be considered a waste to use it when the owner is in danger.”
“So, to awaken magical power, should I deliberately expose myself to attacks?”
With a wry smile, at that moment, Walter thought of a plausible possibility.
If he were Eisen, on the day of the tournament, he might do something like poisoning his own food, applying poison to the armor he wore, and so on.
Although using a real sword was generally prohibited in the tournament, there were numerous cases of people dying or getting critically injured accidentally.
Desperate to awaken magical power quickly, Walter decided to make good use of that point.
“So, if I let myself be attacked while suppressing the poison from spreading throughout my body with magical power, magical power will be used twice as fast?”
“W-Well, yes, but it’s too risky.”
“Tell me how to do it.”
Walter, wanting to avoid being completely affected by the poison, thoroughly mastered the method of using magical power to defend against injuries and entered the match.
Since magical power needed to be used abundantly to approach awakening, Walter entered the arena with the intention of maintaining defensive magic from the moment he stepped in. He drank water while keeping the defensive magic, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his body.
‘Adding something to the water I drink recklessly?’
He didn’t know what kind of poison he had ingested through what route, but thanks to it, his magical power consumption began to double.
It was just as he wanted.
Swoosh—
The swords that were clashing made a chilling sound as they slid apart.
Walter decided to give a reward to Eisen, who moved as he wished and helped in awakening. A reward that tore apart the trust and loyalty he dedicated to those despicable guys.
“Eisen, have you ever thought that the potion in my water, which you think is not poison but an elixir that activates magical power?”
“What…!”
For a moment, Eisen’s heart tightened.
At first, he thought Walter knew that he had put something in the water and was surprised that he was aware. However, that wasn’t the case.
It was because he suddenly sensed Lexion’s magical power becoming unbearably heavy.
With a squelching sound, something seemed to split, and soon Walter’s magical power infused into the sword became as sharp as thousands of needles. Just touching it felt like piercing the flesh.
It was the awakening of magical power.
“The one who ordered you to take the poison is actually me, hoping that I would accidentally kill you.”
“…!”
Originally, Eisen was a rational and logical man. However, now that Walter had awakened magical power after eating what Patricia gave him as a poison, his reason and mind were practically frozen.
‘But there’s no reason for the Count and Lady Patricia to do this to me—.’
If it hadn’t been to his liking, he would have been expelled from the position of the head of the assassination squad long ago. Instead of using such a cumbersome operation to tarnish Gurthark’s honor.
After seeing Eisen’s wavering eyes, Walter answered on behalf of him.
“Well, you’ve proven your incompetence by failing repeatedly, haven’t you? Even fellow assassins won’t trust a leader like you.”
“…”
“If you die in an accident, you could shape public opinion by saying that Gurthark lost a knight because of Lexion, right? So I thought it would be a waste to just kill you.”
“…!”
Seeing the light disappear from Eisen’s eyes, Walter smirked and used his sword to send Eisen’s sword flying into the air.
It was hilarious to see the guy who had tried to harm Edith, even threatening the lives of Edith and the child in her belly, being abandoned by his master and comrades.
As long as the man in front of him had aimed for Edith and the child in her belly, Walter had no intention of missing the opportunity to bury him.
“Waaaah—!”
When Eisen’s sword, sent flying by Walter, was firmly embedded in the ground, cheers erupted throughout the arena. The winner of the match between Lexion and Gurthark had been decided.
However, at the moment when the referee raised Walter’s victory, an unexpected incident occurred.
“…”
With a heavy cough, blood burst from Walter’s mouth.
“Wh-What’s that?”
“Blood? Why is he suddenly coughing up blood?”
Walter wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, but many witnessed him coughing up blood.
The court physicians, responsible for the knights participating in the match, rushed to him. Walter muttered quietly, making sure the defeated opponent, who was leaving dejectedly, couldn’t hear.
“It seems someone poisoned my water.”
It was a devised move to put pressure on Gurthark under the pretext of an investigation and, at the same time, calm down Edith, who witnessed the bleeding.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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