Chapter 112 - Reappearance

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"What happened to you?!" Ozel asked in a worried tone as he watched Julius leap off the ground and get inside his room through the open window of the 4th floor in the guild building.

"I just had to take care of something," Julius said nonchalantly as he walked towards his bed and falling on his back on it.

"'Something'?! You're talking about a whole king of a great kingdom, no less Wilson. He's rumoured to have the most destructive power due to the monster core in his weapon!" Ozel yelled.

"Don't worry, I took care of him. To be perfectly honest, I think Steven was more of a threat. I actually had to use everything in my arsenal to defeat Steven. As for Wilson, if I didn't underestimate the strength of his war-hammer, I would've been perfectly fine," Julius replied.

"Wait actually? Are you saving that Steven managed to accumulate enough strength to match that of the great kings and queens? Maybe he should be disposed of. I should call on the grandmaster," said Ozel.

"Wait, I've been meaning to ask you. What was the white thing in your eyes when you fought against Steven? When that appeared, a large white blade with a blue engraving on it also appeared. Is that some sort of unheard of monster core?" Ozel asked.

"I can't allow him to know about the second entity. I can't call it a secret art either as he would've heard of it by now if it was one. The best thing would be to lie and tell him it was a monster core just like he assumed which allows me to summon an invisible blade," Julius said to himself before replying to Ozel.

"It actually is a monster core. It's one which allows my blade to appear in my hand at any time. It's a pretty rare one," said Julius hoping that would be the end of their talk.

"Where did you even get something like that. It seems crazy powerful," said Ozel.

"Damn it, now I don't have an answer. I've been backed into a corner," Julius thought to himself as he tried to think of a lie on the spot.

"Now that I think about it, exactly a week from your battle with Steven, you went somewhere on a mission. The B ranked dungeon which you went to with Cece only took you a few hours at most to clear which means that you probably went to a more dangerous dungeon to train for your battle with Steven. Once you cleared it after several days of battle, you were rewarded with that monster core which would explain why you looked so exhausted. You really tried to play it off like you were just doing casual stuff. Your ego must really big but unfortunately for you, I'm too smart to get tricked by you," Ozel said with a smile as he believed that he had actually figured out everything.

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"Wow, he just continues to give me the lies that I need. This is almost too easy," Julius thought to himself.

"Wow, how did you know?! Did I really make it that obvious?" Julius asked as he lied to Ozel.

"Haha, you might be a fighting genius but your intelligence is no match for the great guild master Ozel!" Ozel stated with pride.

"I guess Jun didn't tell him about my 5 months at the library of the limitless," Julius thought to himself.

"Well, I'll leave you here to rest. Your arm should recover on its own considering the strength you have. You don't really need a doctor, so I'll be leaving now," said Ozel before leaving Julius to rest. As such, Yuki went into deep slumber as he could no longer take the pain of having to deal with his broken arm.

"I might as well cultivate," said Julius to himself as he begun to cultivate in his sleep.

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"Oh so I'm here once again," said Julius as he flouted in the empty void.

"Why did you summon me?" Julius asked the white glowing figure.

"I didn't summon you. You subconsciously wanted to come here in your own," the white glowing figure replied which puzzled Julius.

"I don't really have a reason to want to be here. However, now that you mention it, I've been meaning to ask you something. You said that once I do something impressive, you'll allow me to learn magic yet you haven't. I have humiliated multiple great kings and queens, what is more impressive than that?" Julius asked in an angry tone.

"Don't worry, you'll understand soon enough what I meant. Your time will come soon," the white figure replied before Julius woke up.

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"Damn you, I'll show you something impressive. I don't even need magic. I can do everything in my own. I was stupid to think I could rely on you," said Julius with haste as he walked down the stairs of guild building to get a mission and head out for the day so that he could level up as much as possible before his 18th birthday. However when he got down stairs, everyone was gathered around the one of the two boards which offered missions.

"I can see that your hand has healed," said Ozel as he was the only one to greet Julius.

"Oh right, I nearly forgot about that," said Julius as he moved his arms around to see that everything was working properly.

"I see it's a busy day. Why is everyone looking for a mission? Is today some sort of special day?" Julius asked.

"Well that's not exactly what's going on. Quite a contrary actually. Everyone is trying to avoid a single mission," Ozel replied.

"Why would they want to avoid a mission? Isn't their job to take on missions?" Julius asked.

"That is true however there is a reason why everyone wants to avoid that specific mission. It is because it has been seen here before, 10 years ago," Ozel began to speak.

"It's the mission which trapped Steven in the dungeon for 10 whole years."