Chapter 208: Shinji’s Life Begins
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Zouken Matou.
A powerful mage who had lived for over five hundred years.
He'd abandoned his original dream of eradicating evil, discarding his physical body to become a grotesque mockery of life, a puppet master manipulating worms, his mind consumed by a desperate, mad pursuit of immortality.
They called him—the Worm.
Haru looked at the man—the infamous mastermind behind the Matou family, a figure he'd heard of but never met—a playful glint in his eyes.
"Going somewhere, Gramps?..."
"Impossible—The barrier wasn't breached. How did you get in here?" Zouken's raspy voice echoed through the worm-infested chamber.
The Matou mansion, his lair, had been reinforced with layers of magical barriers over the past two centuries, transforming it into a pocket dimension. Even a True Magic user wielding the Second Magic shouldn't have been able to penetrate it so quickly.
A crackling sound, like shattering glass, filled the air.