Chapter 137.1
Those Who Seek, Those Who Pursue
“…[Treatment]…”
After confirming Grave’s death, I used [Cure] as I left the room filled with corrosive poison.
Although the poison was originally handled in a liquid form, and when gaseous, it was no longer instantly lethal, I inhaled too much of it into my lungs which hastened the end of the battle. Leaning my back against the wall of the passageway, I healed my lungs and respiratory system with [Cure], then I wiped the blood from my mouth and started running down the dark passageway.
Grave was a man with whom I had a history, but I didn’t feel any emotion about his death when I settled the matter because of the unnecessary things he had done. Grave must have had his own feelings for me, but they no longer reached me.
I swallowed a homemade recovery potion and a magic recovery potion that I took out of my pouch as I ran. My magical power and physical strength had decreased considerably. I was aware that I had pushed myself too hard, but I still gained something.
Even before I had mastered Iron Rose, I had always maintained a fighting style that placed emphasis on speed, which was my own unique trait, and after several battles that forced me to overexert myself, I was able to use my combat skill, Iron Rose, even without the need to activate it.
Although the consumption of magic power had doubled from the normal Iron Rose and was physically limited to a few seconds, I felt that this power would be my trump card going forward. And as a result, my magic control skills had reached level 5.
I had advanced, albeit only one step, to the limits of the human species, a realm that only the chosen ones could reach. I strengthened my body to the extent of my muscular strength with my magical control, kicked through the board fence that blocked the windows at a height equivalent to the fourth floor, and leaped into the sky where the sun had already gone down, and it was almost dark, however long it had been since I had entered this castle.
“Nero!!!”
[Gaoooo!!!]
I shouted into the night sky, and with a roar, the Black Gale that cuts through the night picked me up on its back as it danced up into the sky, running up the castle walls.