Chapter 298 – {IF Side Story: Original Heroines} 8
{IF Side Story: Original Heroines}
“Are you lending me this?”
Aria Riverin looked a little surprised when she looked at the sword I handed her. She would be amazed that someone would lend her such a good sword.
“No. I don’t mind just taking it.”
What I said was completely unexpected, so Aria Riverin looked at me with a surprised expression.
“Is it okay to have it?”
“Yes. It doesn’t matter if it breaks, so you can use it as much as you want. Instead, be careful when sparring. Eunchae is stronger than you, Aria.”
Perhaps because she took my words as a provocation, Aria Riverin tightened her hand as she held the handle of her rapier.
“I will definitely repay you.”
As Aria Riverin said those words, power filled her soft pink eyes. Ye Eunchae’s purple eyes smiled at the fighting spirit in her eyes.
“Let’s have a good fight, Aria.”
“Yes, please take care of me!”
And the two girls with their swords drawn focused on each other and raised their magic power.
Aria Riverin’s main attributes were those of light and lightning.
Of course, since he was still young, the best he could do for now was to imbue the sword with magic and surround it with the attribute power of light or lightning.
However, Aria Riverin, who later grew up, would be able to manipulate lightning and light and show off her heroine’s powerful fighting power.
Jijijik-
But now her power was extremely weak.
“I’m going! Haaaaap!”
Ye Eunchae rushed in first with her sword in hand. Yeunchae, who has the strongest attack power among the heroines in terms of her cutting power, swings her sword surrounded by Aria Riverin’s lightning without fear.
Kwaaaaang!
As the two people’s swords and magic clashed, Aria Riverin’s magic became noticeably unstable.
“Ugh?!”
Aria Riverin, who faced Ye Eun-chae’s magic power specialized in cutting down with her sword, suffered a one-sided loss with just one blow.
Aria Riverin, who never imagined that she would fall short of Ye Eun-chae, who was of the same age as her, was embarrassed, but she tried to cope with it and make a move.
Knowing that blocking Ye Eun-chae’s attack, which specialized in her slashing power, with defense from her front would only result in her losing money, she used her own advantage, stabbing, to block Ye Eun-chae’s attack with her own attack. It was a confrontational approach.
“Ugh!”
But even so, it was Aria Riverin who was pushed out.
The reason for this difference was simple.
‘Thanks to Eunchae’s elixir, her magical power has increased.’
Aria Riverin also grew up by taking good elixirs as she was a princess, but she had recently taken more of her elixirs and had a higher amount of magical power than Eunchae.
In addition, Ye Eun-chae also sparred with Min-hye Seomun and Arang Yoohyeon, and found that she was not a powerhouse of a superior level, but her experience when fighting with strongmen of a similar level was also richer.
On the other hand, the people that Aria Riverin faced were either knights from the Kingdom of Riverin who were much stronger than her, or peers whose skills were much lower than her.
As such, Ye Eun-chae had no choice but to have the advantage.
“Ugh?!”
If Eunchae hadn’t received the elixir from me, and if she hadn’t refined her experience by sparring with Seomun Minhye and Yoo Hyeonah in the past few days, their skills would have been similar.
Originally, it was difficult to determine who was better in terms of talent between the two.
However, it was clear that Ye Eun-chae had the upper hand now.
“Ah.”
Eunchae Ye changed her attack pattern to sneakily avoid Aria Riverin’s attack and aimed her sword at her neck.
Aria Riverin seemed shocked that she had lost and that she had been pushed back in sparring.
“It was a good fight, Aria. If she were me a few days ago without Cheon’s help, she would have been hard to beat.”
She is honest, she said, without hiding the fact that she won thanks to my support. And these words soon aroused the interest of Arya Riverin in my support.
“Cheon’s help?”
“That’s right, Aria. Cheon provided me with countless elixirs, and besides, he also allowed me to spar comfortably with Minhye and Hyuna.”
As I listened to Eunchae Ye’s explanation, I could see Aria Riverin’s eyes looking at me, showing interest in her application.
‘But that doesn’t mean you’re asking me for support.’
He was the type of person who would not do something shameless in asking for support without giving anything in return. And this was only part of what intrigued Arya Riverin, not the key to making her my fiancée.
Of course, she would eventually need my support, but it would have to be motivated by me to provide it.
“Should we take a break and spar with Hyuna and Minhye?”
There were Seomun Min-hye and Yoo Hyeon-ah waiting to spar with Aria Riverin, but because Aria Riverin was tired now, she was unable to show a full match.
“Okay, I’m just going to take a 15-minute break. I’m sorry, but please wait a moment.”
“I’m okay.”
“I’m fine too, Aria.”
After asking for their understanding, she lost to Yoo Hyeon-ah and then, after a break, to Seo Moon-min-hye.
It seemed like it was quite a shock for her to lose to Seo Moon Min-hye, who was younger than her.
“Could it really be that much of a difference just with the elixir and the sparring environment?”
As a result, these words ended up coming out of Aria Riverin’s mouth. His competitive spirit was triggered by the fact that Ye Eun-chae and Yoo Hyeon-ah, who were said to have similar skills to him, only took a few days to become stronger than him through my provision of elixirs and sparring among themselves.
Because she didn’t want to be left behind like this.
“Aria, can I talk to you for a moment?”
I got ready to ground her.
* * *
“What is it?”
Aria Riverin was curious about what Seo Mun-cheon was trying to say.
Is there anything else you would like to share with yourself?
‘Is this a story about strength?’
Even if she offered her support, she thought that Aria Riverin needed more support from the Riverin Kingdom, so she planned to refuse the unpaid favor.
Because even if she received support, if she couldn’t give it in return, there was a problem.
“A large-scale terrorist plan using magic bombs planned by a group of villains, Yeokcheon. This is the story behind it.”
But what came out of Seo Mun-cheon’s mouth was a story she had never imagined.
“You’re the one behind Yeokcheon?”
“Yes. And he is also behind Aeternum Somnium and The End. Didn’t you know that the three villain organizations are actually operating under the control of a single mastermind?”
“Does this mean that the three villain organizations have the same background?”
It was a story that was hard to believe.
As expected, the three major villain organizations called Sesaeng were a group that kept each other in check and were never a group that cooperated.
“First, let me explain about the eternal dragon, Terenity.”
And on this day, Arya Riverin heard from Seo Mun-cheon about the crisis that was coming to the world.
Of course, it was difficult to believe that what he said was true, but Seo Mun-cheon went on to personally demonstrate to himself the tremendous powers that were known to the world, to the extent that it was truly considered a speck of dust in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
In addition, he told everyone that he was the true owner of the Yucheon Group and that he was preparing to protect the world from Terenity.
It was so strange that I didn’t trust him after it got to this point.
“Terenity, you’re saying he’s behind the whole conspiracy.”
That’s how Arya Riverin learned about her enemy who killed her mother’s family. Her own mother, Queen Laura, also died because of him!
It was said that all three major villain organizations were created by Terenity, and although the organizations are divided into three, their ultimate goal is the destruction of this world.
I was furious at the fact that all the people who had been sacrificed by those villains were simply victims of Terenity’s pranks before destroying this world.
“Yes, that’s right.”
And the fact that the souls of Queen Laura and others were suffering because they belonged to Terenity further increased Arya Riverin’s resentment toward Terenity.
‘I must become strong to protect the world.’
She didn’t have the arrogance to think she would save the world on her own. However, he would do his best to cooperate so that Seomuncheon could protect the world.
As the princess of the Riverin Kingdom, she would protect the Kingdom. He would go further and help protect the world.
“First of all, I will ask you to talk about this often in the future.”
“Yes. I will help you with anything I can.”
He wasn’t sure if he could do anything to help, but Arya Riverin had promised.
* * *
‘Now the groundwork has been laid.’
I also laid the groundwork for Aria Riverin, so she would soon become my fiancée.
As a result, all of the original heroines became mine.
Kang Mi-hyeon? A bitch like that couldn’t be recognized as a heroine.
