CHAPTER 468

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Murakan did not forgive Sandra Zipfel for her rudeness.

He didn't need special permission from Jin, nor did he need to choose his words carefully.

He just has to make her pay the price for being unpleasant.

Swuuu...!

The remnants of shadow force and blue flames near Sandra swayed according to Murakan's will.

Silently, the remnants took on the form of awls.

Then, like a descending hawk, they rushed toward Sandra.

There were eight of them. Most of the Zipfel mages were on the verge of exhaustion from dealing with the flames, so they couldn't even react.

Some mages, including Midor, recognized Murakan's attack, but did not act.

It was because they didn't know what kind of trouble they might get if they helped her.

Surprisingly, Sandra avoided three out of eight awls. She showed agile and light movements that were uncharacteristic of a mage, and she offset three with a protective shield.

However, the remaining two were a problem.

"Ugh!"

Hook-!

One pierced Sandra's shoulder, and the other went through her thigh. Even at a glance, it looked like a serious injury, with flesh and fresh blood splattering.

Murakan looked down at Sandra, who was trembling as she fell.

Murakan severely injured a pure-blood Zipfel without thinking for a second.

It was possible only because he has such battle prowess to support his action and it means he could engage in an all-out war against 'the whole of Zipfel'.

At least the members of the other major factions watching Murakan couldn't help but think so.

'He said he would question the acting matriarch, Rosa Runcandel, the Black Panther... Could it be that Murakan holds the actual power of Runcandel, not just a guardian deity? More Power than an Acting matriarch?'

'In fact, the acting patriarch of Runcandel may be the black dragon Murakan.....'

'Then, what will be the rank of the 12th flagbearer?'

'Anyway, Sandra Zipfel is finished. She is doing this even after seeing the best warrior of the white wolf tribe die in an instant with only ankles remaining.... Has she become so numb to fear after living as a Zipfel?'

The special force had such thoughts.

Kinzelo's White wolf and the Red Tiger had no thoughts at all. They were just running around in panic.

'It's not just Sandra Zipfel who is finished. We also won't survive without Zipfel's reinforcements....!'

Latz's eyes were trembling.

Not a single person could survive. Latz was convinced that what Murakan had just said was not a bluff.

The current crew members here couldn't even deal effective damage to Murakan, let alone fight him.

Because of this, Latz made the decision that they had no choice but to surrender themselves to Zipfel in order for them to survive.

Sandra did not activate the magic tower master's staff and was seriously injured by a single blow.

She will die soon.

Latz felt the urge to shout.

The master of the Magic Tower is not Sandra but you, Midor Elnor. Activate the staff, Midor.

[The reason why I didn't kill you instantly is because I'm curious about where this arrogance and heaviness came from. A puppet? Puppeteer? Say it again, Zipfel.]

The cold and low voice gave goosebumps to the members of the major factions once more.

"Hu, Hu."

Sandra picked her breath. It was natural to think that her breathing had become faster due to the terror of death.

But in reality, she was simply a little surprised by the intensity of her pain.

Clank, clank...

Everyone heard the sound of gears turning out of nowhere.

IIt was coming from Sandra. Those who were watching her couldn't help but doubt their own eyes.

It was because her pierced shoulder and thigh were healing rapidly.

'Hey, she is regenerating. A human!'

The white wolves and the red tigers had never seen a human perform a high-speed regeneration.

On the other hand, Latz and his team stared wide-eyed, taken aback.

'Has Zipfel's living golem experiment already advanced that much? It's on a level comparable to the Majin treatment received by imperial guards!'

Living golem experiment.

Zipfel, Vermont, and Kinzelo have been experimenting with living beings for a long time.

Zipfel wants to make a perfect living golem, Vermont wants to make a Majin, and Kinzelo wants to make a Plutonian-type golem.

Recently, Vermont had been confident that they were clearly superior living golem experiments. There were still many unstable aspects to their experiments. Just like when Rick Helter, the leader of the Imperial guards team in the past, lost his sanity after turning into a Majin.

However, Sandra's high-speed regeneration is at the similar level to that of Majin, and she retained her sanity.

Latz thought that achieving this level of high-speed regeneration without the use of living golem surgery was impossible and that it was superior to the Majin developed by the Empire.

'There may be someone inside the empire who leaked information to Zipfel. It's quite possible...'

While Latz was grinding his teeth, Jin also observed Sandra's regeneration a beat late.

Jin had just escaped the core of the muddy aura, erasing his presence as much as possible with his shadow force.

He thought it was necessary to check the outside situation in person.

'....She healed? High-speed regeneration?'

Jin never imagined even in his dreams that he would see high-speed regeneration being used by Sandra, especially after witnessing it in Amela. As Murakan said while looking at Amela, high-speed regeneration is the specialty of inner core demonic creatures or demons.

Amela had a special power of chaos and muddy aura, which had been fully amplified, so it could be so.

'Is Sandra also born with chaos? If that's the case, I don't think she would have suffered so helplessly from the muddy aura.'

Contrary to Jin's thought, Sandra is an ordinary human who is not stained by chaos.

And others don't even notice it but in Jin's view, Sandra's high-speed regeneration was somewhat different from the way he had experienced it so far.

'Sandra's high-speed regeneration doesn't look like healing the wound itself, it's like the time of the wound is turned back.'

Jin wasn't sure. The wound healed too quickly, and she was too far apart for him to get a closer look.

Sandra Zipfel.

Jin had never been involved with her in his present life.

However, in his past life, he had encountered her purely by chance.

He had been waiting for Valeria at the campus fountain when they had a casual conversation about magic

-Matthew Morniyac's classification of magic into three stages? Wow, you are reading an interesting book. It's hard to come by.

-Who are you?

-I mistook Matthew Morniyac for Matthew Worniyac, so I was once scammed by a con artist. I guess you are the type of person who doesn't get scammed easily.

- Do you know me?

-I'm not so bad in the head as to be taken in by scams all the time, but sometimes I do get tricked even when I know about it. Cute, isn't it?

'I didn't find out that it was Sandra Zipfel until about a year later.'

Jin thought she was just a typical mage lounging around in the park, but he had been taken aback when he confirmed her face in a news article.

'Looking back, I wonder if she approached me with some intention. She must have wondered how miserably the exiled Runcandel lives, and why he was strolling around the ​​mage's area.'

That was all the interaction Jin had with Sandra.

Thus, in his present life, he didn't dwell too much on her. 

It was because she wasn't making a name for herself as a mage or contributing to her clan as a tower master like the other children of Kelliark.

Just looking at the mages of Zipfel who came to the Gaifa Islands right away, Midor Elnor is the master of the 7th Magic Tower, and had the highest rank externally.

In other words, she was a pure-blood Zipfel who held a rank equal to the second-rate flagbearer of Runcandel.

Jin could tell from Sandra's demeanor and Midor's gaze that Sandra held more influence in reality. 

'Did she deliberately hide her power and skills like Octavia Zipfel? I thought Octavia wouldn't be the only one, but Sandra is really unexpected.'

The reason Jin thought so was because he found out through the 'marriage' news article that the woman who spoke to him at the fountain was Sandra.

In Jin's past life, she had an arranged marriage with a lower-ranking member of the Vermont imperial family.

This was a common practice that various powers, not just Zipfel, used to their advantage. The "spare" second generation were tied up in political marriage and used as hostages, or used to solve something else.

'If Sandra was a powerful person and hid her power in my past life, she would have had to retire or live in seclusion like Octavia, but I can't think of any reason for a political marriage.'

The moment Jin thought that far, Sandra opened her mouth.

"Ouch, this hurts so much. Uh, I just don't understand. Did my words make you upset? Lord Murakan."

[What?]

"I was afraid that the 12th flagbearer and Lord Murakan would get into trouble, so I stopped the bastard from trying to activate the tower master's staff. I just wanted to meet Jin Runcandel and have a fight, I didn't know that would make you feel so bad!" Sandra said sincerely.

She thought there was no problem with the expression of a puppeteer or a puppet. For her, it's just a fact and she didn't say it in a sarcastic way.

(If others were to hear this) What she said to Midor was also in a similar context.

"To be honest, even if you receive praise, it falls short. I know Black Dragon is strong, but I think it's best to avoid troublesome things, right?"

At that point, even Murakan was speechless for a moment.

Sandra's calm way of speaking left no room for anything but thoughts like, "What's going on here..."

"Well, you're not wrong."

Jin revealed himself and spoke.

Forcing Murakan to continuously deal with her would rather undermine his dignity.

That's why he decided it was better to deal with her himself. He needed to confirm the details of her regeneration.

"Oh! Jin Runcandel!"

Sandra shouted with her eyes twinkling.

"Do you want to fight me?"

Their eyes met. And just as Sandra was about to nod her head and say yes, Jin closed the distance in an instant and thrust his blade into her collarbone.

"I think you are a little short for that, Sandra Zipfel."

Before he even pulled out the blade that stabbed her collarbone, Clunk!

The sound of spinning gears scratched Jin's ears.

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