[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss":3,"chapter-i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-4":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Became the Academy’s Final Boss",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1319723,1753,"Chapter 4","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-4",4,"\u003Cp>Chapter 4\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I brushed the dust off my body and looked around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The museum that had been holding a quiet stillness until a few minutes ago was a mess from countless slash marks and explosions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the one who had created this scene was none other than me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearly a hundred guards lay sprawled on the floor like corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, they weren’t dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I offered them a quiet apology inwardly and headed for the main hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a massive main gate in the main hall, and its size was astounding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like the gate of a huge fortress, and I paused for a moment standing before it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strong sense of déjà vu pressed from beyond the enormous door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sensation one I had never felt in my life was like having a blade held to my throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My body hair bristled under the weight of that feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opponent beyond the door was waiting for me to come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I slowly opened the massive door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, my vision turned blindingly white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something flew faster than sound and surged toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My body moved on its own in the realm of instinct, and I twisted my waist sharply to dodge the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I glanced back and saw the place the attack had hit crumpling horribly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From afar came the click of high heels and a composed woman’s voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It's right in front of me anyway.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman, holding a radio and speaking to someone, made a light hum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is bigger than I thought. A-rank Villain, Devil Knight.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wore an intelligent-looking black suit and high heels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cold beauty with white hair fluttering like an albino embroidered the air with countless lightning spears and greeted me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wow…….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the countless lightning spears in the air poured down toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wouldn’t give me time to say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With an explosion unlike anything before, the museum shook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“White Witch. Why are you here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the sound of my voice, interest flickered across her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To dodge this, maybe the A-rank reputation was misassigned after all?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was a little surprised too, but that was only the consciousness of my pre-possession modern life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My body moved as if it already knew what to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darkness gathered in the air and formed a massive shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shield of darkness blocked the lightning spears that poured down like a monsoon, and because of it I could stand unharmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why the hell was she there?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the Part 1 boss of Become a Hero and the Academy’s student council president—of all people—to be here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before I could process the unexpected encounter, she condensed herself into lightning and lunged at me in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She closed the distance in the blink of an eye, and when she swung her hand a wave of electric discharge crashed toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I fashioned a sword from darkness and slashed through the wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jet-black blade of darkness swallowed the light of the electric discharge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She frowned at the sight and then kicked off the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you summon countless weapons and use them like limbs. No wonder you’re called a knight, I suppose.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Electric discharges sparked throughout the main hall as her body floated in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, that would be hard to suppress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on the sensations in my head, I pulled several black spears from the shadows and threw them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang! Clang! Clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I was too slow to hit her, and even if a spear, by some luck, reached near her, her defenses bounced them and they embedded in the museum everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hadn’t been aiming at her in the first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pushed off the ground and leapt toward the spears stuck around the museum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the moment I closed the distance to her, stepping across the spears embedded here and there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I fell into indecision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t attack her like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the Part 1 main boss and the mentor of the Playable Character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, she was an important figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If my attack wounded her, it might affect the flow of the main story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she didn’t miss my momentary lapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive energy gathered in the air transformed into a gigantic lightning spear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, wait…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the giant lightning spear engulfed both her and me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gyaaah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tingling pain and a nerve-searing agony spread through me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the numbness in my whole body, I crashed to the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn, I had let my guard down during a fight…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anything, she had struck even herself with the lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lightning’s power wasn’t that threatening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least I could barely move my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter whose lightning it was, there was bound to be shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I seemed to be keeping my wits thanks to a high resistance stat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, from beyond the dust-filled space, the sound of high heels reached me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this rate it was certain defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hurriedly shed my armor like a shell and hid my body in the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the dust settled slowly, I saw her approaching the armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long leg was placed atop the breastplate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if her high heels were charged with mana, my breastplate was mercilessly dented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her cold blue eyes, arrogant like a queen, fixed on the armor where I had been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Earlier, you clearly had the chance to kill me, yet you hesitated. It’s not like you’d feel any pity… so why was that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“……”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I remained silent and quietly waited for an opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t tell her that her future would end with her falling into a demon and being executed by the Player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could I say I felt sympathy for that tragic ending?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The end of a Villain, consumed and gone, was lonely and pitiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she, unaware of that, sighed when I kept my mouth shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, to be honest, I wasn’t curious about that. Goodbye then.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a lightning spear appeared behind her and fell toward the armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now was the opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant the lightning spear struck my armor dead on, I drew the sword of darkness and charged at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crash!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a heavy impact sound, her body flew far away and slammed into the museum wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ssseuuhba… I almost really died.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I lowered my sword and swept my sweat-soaked hair back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Devil Knight's armor had truly been a godsend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment it had served as a perfect decoy to fool her gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Use the armor as bait to draw the opponent’s aggro, then come up from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she had been even slightly cautious, it had been a risky gamble that might have failed, but the armor, soaked with a surging demonic power, had filled in for my presence and let me deceive her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I approached the fallen woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her state, lodged into the museum wall, looked brutal, but fortunately she seemed to still be breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although I had struck the side of her sword, the blow had landed square on her neck, so the impact had to be considerable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I also caught sight of some of her long hair being mangled and cut by the blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That made me feel a little guilty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the earlier failure had taught me a harsh lesson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once I realized that flimsy pity could cost me my life, I couldn’t hold back my strength anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially against someone with skill comparable to mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To make the same mistake twice would be foolish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, if I left her like that, the heroes would come and treat her later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving the White Witch behind, I headed for the place where the Heart of the Demon was located.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Passing the displays of video records of the Swordmaster’s great deeds and the numerous artifacts he had acquired, I soon saw the demon heart he had slain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A jet-black gem the size of a fist that seemed to swallow every color around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the Heart of the Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I placed my hand on the glass case containing the exhibit, a large magic circle appeared and my hand was repelled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tingling pain ran through me and my hand trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a defensive barrier made of a fairly high-level ward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a half-hearted attack I couldn't remove the Heart of the Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this was why they had assigned this mission to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if museum infiltration was one thing, handling a demon capable of breaking such a high-level ward wouldn’t be easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stronger a demon was, the harder it was to control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with the artifacts on display here, there was a high chance a demon would lose focus and forget its purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sending an uncontrollable mad dog wouldn’t benefit Pandemonium—they were better off sending a well-trained hunting dog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like the body’s original owner had been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been kidnapped by Pandemonium as a child and trained to be their finest hunting dog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I had no intention of being an obedient hunting dog forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day I would become a ferocious mad dog that would bite my master’s throat and choke the life out of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when that time came, I would finally see the happy ending I had longed for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I formed a sword out of darkness and concentrated my power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My SS-rank skill, 【Lamb】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An unprecedented busted skill included to balance the game’s Final Boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a skill that lent the user the powers of demons—the strongest entities in the game's setting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I drew up every power I could use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Dark Relic】, 【Flames of Gehenna】, 【Mighty Strength】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crimson flames burned fiercely over the jet-black blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Flames of Gehenna】 was the consuming flame of annihilation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This force would be the siege hammer to collapse that rigid high-level ward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mana melted away like snow under the sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would finish it in a single strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I surrendered my body to the overflowing power that dominated me and swung the sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwaaaang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time the entire museum trembled violently and a sound of something breaking erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the sensation of something shattering, the protective barrier guarding the Heart of the Demon collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tremendous recoil swept through me and my legs went weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I used the sword as a staff and leaned against it, painfully regaining my posture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mana I had carried was utterly drained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hadn’t expected it to consume so much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using multiple divine powers at once devoured both mana and stamina.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I hadn’t subdued the guards beforehand, I would have been caught before I could even try to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I reached toward the Heart of the Demon lying on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course I didn’t grab it with bare hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heart of the Demon granted tremendous power just by touch, but it also made its owner endlessly crave it and led to corruption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I held the Heart of the Demon in my hand while wearing gloves of darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kuut….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A distant thirst washed over me and someone’s whisper brushed my ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The obscene light the Heart of the Demon emitted wanted me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I desperately wanted to take the Heart of the Demon right then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like being in a desert dying of thirst and seeing a single droplet of water precariously hanging in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t help it—I let the Heart of the Demon slip from my hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It fell to the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t something I could just carry off as it was, was it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The artifact glove I had brought as a protective measure had been pierced by the invading magic item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only reason I had been able to resist at all was the character’s high resistance stat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While I was thinking about how to move the Heart of the Demon, an idea popped into my head.\u003C\u002Fp>",1984,"2026-06-05T19:04:26.586Z",1,"novelbin.me","f42624ddf222d9328d0f2f972de38e42e48e7c375d37eddda32faa82da6626eb","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-5","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-3",137,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-cover.jpg"]