Everyone held their breath.

A silence as heavy as a lump settled in the examination hall. It was a silence in which no one dared even to breathe. Everyone stopped breathing, losing themselves to the scene before them.

Everyone looked in one direction, thinking the same thing.

‘I saw death.’

Indeed.

Everyone in the examination hall saw death for a moment.

With the explosion of the runaway magic, the magic meter was shattered, and the explosion destroyed even the barrier that the faculty had worked hard to create. It rendered the strongest level of barrier useless in a single instant.

They looked at Gibnen with blinking eyes.

Though the barrier was broken, a thin protective shield remained around the people. This was not a protective magic created by the faculty; it was a protective spell that Gibnen himself had cast.

If he had not been there, everyone gathered would have been swept away by the explosion, leaving no trace.

“What on earth? Where did such a monster come from…”

“I almost… died.”

“Isn’t this the first time a barrier has been shattered?”

“It is the first… unprecedented event.”

While everyone was surprised, Gibnen collapsed, strength draining from his legs.

‘What the hell happened?’

There’s no way I wouldn’t know that she possesses such enormous magic. But from the first day I met her, including the day of the engagement, she seemed like an ordinary person. When you meet someone with strong magic, you tend to feel it somehow, but I couldn’t feel anything from Riley.

It was nothing.

If she didn’t call herself a magician, there would be no difference from an ordinary person. Even the moment she entered the examination hall, I didn’t feel her enormous magic particularly.

And yet she caused a massive explosion.

In a controlled environment, the meter that imposes limits and draws out maximum power to induce measurement of magic power exploded without being able to contain all that power. In a word, immeasurable.

Those with immeasurable magic power appeared across generations. Just thinking of the most recent case, there was Gibnen. But there was no example of completely blowing away the barrier, not just breaking it.

‘So my brother and father…’

Gibnen unconsciously turned his head to look at Gibnen and flinched.

‘No, my brother didn’t know. He didn’t know it was this bad…’

Gibnen, holding the unconscious Riley, looked at her as if she was lovely. It was like the expression of someone admiring a mesmerizing piece of art. In his always cool and calm eyes now rested a spinechilling obsession, a desire to possess.

He rarely shows interest in anything, and now he’s openly displaying interest.

And it’s not just a light interest. That’s… a look that he really wants to own.

I thought I’d only be disgraced.

It’s fortunate that disgrace wasn’t the case.

‘…What do I do with him? He really seems half crazy.’

Now the worry was something else.

(This is a time separator.)

Gibnen came straight back to the mansion.

Rachelle, Riley’s personal maid, couldn’t help but be surprised at Gibnen, who appeared holding the pale and limp Riley.

Contrary to Rachelle, who looked anxious and worried, Gibnen’s expression as he laid Riley on the bed was incredibly calm. Rather, he looked at Riley, lying like a corpse, as if she was adorable.

From Rachelle’s point of view, that warm expression seemed very strange in the situation.

“Sh, should I call a doctor?”

“No.”

“…….”

“She won’t wake up for a day or two. It’s not worth calling a doctor, just watch her closely.”

To Gibnen, her not waking up was expected.

‘Arpeggio was right.’

Even though the core had been penetrated once, it wasn’t completely penetrated.

This time, it was properly penetrated.

Arpeggio had penetrated half, and this time, with the core 100% penetrated, it was only natural that her body couldn’t handle the enormous mana circulation and put a strain on her.

But Gibnen was convinced that this was not all.
Riley is impressive, but there’s no reason for the master to be so startled by just this. There must be something more. Something… that should not be known.

“I will call again, so go out. I’ll guard it now.”

“Ah? Yes, understood.”

Rachel went out, and Gibnen stroked Riley’s face.

“It was beyond expectations.”

“…….”

“I did well to save and keep you by my side.”

If I had simply killed her, I wouldn’t have experienced this kind of fun.

The master is quite cruel, too.

“How cruel to say to eliminate such a lovely thing.”

It has to be eliminated because it’s too dangerous.

Perhaps it was an unnecessary defiance against the phrase that I heard so often in the past.

“It’s my master ‘Yung’ who volunteered to handle it when it was whispered that an uncontrollable sprout should be cut off. Isn’t it ridiculous that this woman was the one the master said had to be killed because he couldn’t handle her?”

Because of abuse, she doesn’t know how to love herself, she’s weak, timid, scared… A woman who doesn’t have a dangerous side even if you look for it with washed eyes is considered a disaster.