[{"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-65":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},1319797,1753,"Chapter 65","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-65",65,"\u003Cp>Chapter 65\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I went up to the dueling arena, the Sword Empress greeted me with a sword in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked into my eyes and smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good eyes. I can feel the spirit befitting an Academy cadet. Back then, it wasn’t like that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll be in your care.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I took a slow breath in and exhaled, thick steam poured out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps it was due to the burning desire to compete, but my body temperature rose rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just taking a breath can produce this much heat? You must have learned a martial art of extreme yang. One worthy of being called a divine art. What is your master’s honorable name?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t even know my master’s name. He always told me to call him however I wished.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A reclusive hermit, then.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t tell her that my master was the Heavenly Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, she was one of the highest-ranking officers of Pandemonium and was classified as a Special-Class Dangerous Individual by society.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, the reason I could use the Asura Divine Art in the Academy was that it wasn’t the Heavenly Demon’s secret technique—it was a martial art custom-made by my master just for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, even if I used the Asura Divine Art, there was no reason for anyone to suspect that I was the Heavenly Demon’s disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now that I think about it, your weapon?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t use weapons. My master always said that weapons are mere illusions when it comes to mastering martial arts.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh… so he said that. I’m getting even more curious about who your master is. I know of seekers like you—those who abandon weapons and pursue strength itself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are others like that besides me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They couldn’t possibly know that not using a weapon increases proficiency like I do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They must be insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, from their point of view, I probably looked like one of those madmen myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, a countdown appeared on the display board.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sword Empress drew a sword and floated it in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was she planning to test my reactions slowly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dan Chun-woo and Park Siwoo both endured the assault of three swords without much difficulty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Helena—she retired shortly after the third sword appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, how many swords could I endure?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I didn’t want to embarrass myself, I had to last at least through four.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I slowly took a stance and began channeling my mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Internal energy circulated through my body as a heated surge rose from my dantian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The countdown reached three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mana concentrated in my hands, and flames ignited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the manifestation of Fist Energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And finally, the moment the countdown hit zero—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single sword orbiting around the Sword Empress shot toward me like a bullet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The target was my neck!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the sound of metal colliding, the sword bounced off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blocked it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing it directly, I realized it was far stronger than I expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I managed to block it because I had analyzed the pattern from Dan Chun-woo and Park Siwoo’s duels, but if I’d faced it blindly, I might’ve been taken out right from the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rebounded sword returned to her, then once again shot toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, it was a slash, not a thrust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The floating swords, each moving along its own trajectory in midair, were quite troublesome to deal with in person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I struck several times following the sword’s movement paths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traces of fire lingered in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each sword was so solid that my fists went numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whew.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I steadied my breath and looked at the swords carving arcs through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How should I counter that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were many ways to predict an opponent’s movements when facing someone wielding a sword— their footwork, their gaze, their muscle movements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one broadened their perception, it was possible to combine those elements to anticipate their next move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Sword Control Art had none of that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no central body guiding the swords, so the trajectories were impossible to predict.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swords flew in directions no human anatomy could allow, some spinning as they sliced through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I twisted my body to dodge a sword spinning toward me like a circular saw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that instant, instinct screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though I’d avoided a deadly strike, my senses grew even sharper, on edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I immediately detonated the Fist Energy surrounding my hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The burst of flame propelled my body backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in that very instant—another sword pierced the spot where I had just been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My head cooled as if drenched in cold water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That one was truly dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You seem to be thinking too much. Do you really have time for that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before I knew it, another sword had joined the fray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two swords now attacked in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difficulty doubled—no, more than that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could no longer block them head-on like before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I blocked one sword, another flew in from my blind spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She never let both swords stay within my field of vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to my expanded sense perception, I could detect the attacks, but reacting based on that alone was nearly impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I searched for a method, I took a step into True Step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, I clenched my fists and rapidly activated the Asura Divine Art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Internal energy surged through my body, heating it intensely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hup.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a short exhale, flames burst around me in a ring shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flames rotating around my body— creating a fierce wind through their rapid spin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Fire Wheel imbued with repulsive force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the same technique I’d used during the Student Council entrance interview to block Yoo Iseo’s attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this, even swords flying in from blind spots couldn’t easily approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the Sword Empress made a brief comment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You used your head. But I don’t really like tricks like that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, blue flames wrapped around her sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected, the Sword Empress was a truly broken character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Manifesting Sword Aura while in the state of Sword Control Art—wasn’t that beyond even a Playable Character?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If dozens, even hundreds of swords floated in the air, all coated with sword aura, and then fell at once—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t even want to imagine the destructive power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha-ha.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I let out a faint, hollow laugh and clenched the hand I had just opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said she didn’t like tricks?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I was a Player who had refined those very tricks to their absolute limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one failed to grow or succeed, then it would be called a trick—but once you cleared it, that same trick became a clever stratagem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, let’s not fuss over means or methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I unleashed the power of the Asura Divine Art that I had been suppressing until now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A terrible heat spread, and the air shimmered with rising mirages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sudden burst of heat made the Sword Empress pause her sword for a moment and look at me, as if to gauge the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her relaxed expression seemed to say that no matter what kind of struggle I put up, it would all be pointless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply targeting the swords wouldn’t end the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dan Chun-woo’s battle had been the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, since the Sword Empress herself was the core of the Sword Control Art, I had to aim for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t miss the moment she let her guard down and rushed forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I became a streak of crimson light as I charged toward her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, I swung my fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion of flame spread in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwooooom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it, did it not work?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My fist hurt too much for it to have landed on a person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A fine strike.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the flames faded, the Sword Empress appeared between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A third sword had already been summoned, blocking my path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn’t moved a single step from where the duel had begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, danger signals surged through my senses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I immediately flung myself backward and swung my fists in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwaaang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three swords whirled through the air, constantly changing directions and attacking in waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now I understood why Park Siwoo and Dan Chun-woo both fell when the third sword appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With focus, it was possible to handle two weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But once there were three, the attacks exceeded what human cognition could track.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, it could be endured through raw mana or physical strength, but that was merely a temporary measure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I created a massive wall of flame to obscure her view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just needed to buy some time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I recalled Dan Chun-woo’s movements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had seemed to adapt better to the three swords than Park Siwoo had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How had he managed it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, as if to help me, a fragment of Yoo Sung-woo’s memory flashed through my mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hazy image of the Heavenly Demon appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was she training?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Once a martial artist reaches a certain level, they must contemplate their own domain. A territory that they can wholly command and control. Battles between those who’ve reached enlightenment are nothing more than wars to seize one another’s domains.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the storm of swords poured down, wounds began to appear all over my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren’t practice blades—they were real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood soaked through my uniform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But my attention wasn’t on the pain—it was on the Heavenly Demon’s words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was pure instinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yoo Sung-woo’s memories wouldn’t have shown me something useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had to be an opportunity—to break through this situation, to elevate my realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the Heavenly Demon, a domain was ultimately the space I could completely control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pushed the Asura Divine Art to its utmost limit, heightening every nerve in my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was impossible to seize the full Spatial Control, so instead, I focused only on the senses that extended from my own energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sharpened my perception to its extreme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within that heightened sense, I began to feel the movements of the swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gradually, the trajectories became clearer than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that alone wasn’t enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The swords moved at terrifying speeds and in impossible patterns—I had to avoid them along the optimal path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To do that, I narrowed the range of my perception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kept my awareness only within the area where I could move freely and left my movements to instinct and experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, everything within about a one-meter radius around me began to grow vividly clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flow of air within my perception, the shifting of the ground, the movement of muscles, breathing, even the flow of mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flood of information was so intense that it felt like my head would burst—I could’ve drawn my surroundings perfectly even with my eyes closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the Sword Empress unleashed her swords again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Attacks that bent and twisted in from my blind spots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, vision was no longer the issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My senses were moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I released my clenched fists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dan Chun-woo and the Sword Empress had said it during their duel, hadn’t they?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Use your whole body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no need to be fixated on fists alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just needed to use my entire body according to the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now I finally understood what the Heavenly Demon meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A domain wasn’t just the range where I could move my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A domain was the space where I could truly exist as myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the swords invading from outside were finally perceived with perfect clarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All those attacks I thought were simultaneous—each carried a subtle delay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I deflected the first sword that entered my domain with Golden Thread Hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, I caught the deflected sword midair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the Sword Empress’s inner energy, I couldn’t control the sword completely, but blocking the second strike was easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came the final sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I let my body follow the rebound from the clash between the two blades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My heated body naturally tilted, and the third sword grazed past me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every movement flowed together like a single motion—graceful and seamless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A perfectly efficient movement within my domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this was how it worked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon’s teachings, which had existed only as memory and knowledge, began to take shape within me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how much memory inheritance I received, no matter how my body remembered those techniques—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I, the one who controlled it all, lacked understanding, I could never truly wield them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this enlightenment, I could finally land a hit on the Sword Empress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sword Empress’s eyes gleamed as she saw me flawlessly deflect all three swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As expected. Just as I thought, you’ll taste the best. Now then, shall we enjoy the main dish properly?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she said that, another sword rose above her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fourth sword had appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>",2132,"2026-06-05T19:04:26.866Z",1,"novelbin.me","a7f908918d219f3b0b11de57864ff620ceb6342ccad646c26038fe298e939322","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-114","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-113",137,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-cover.jpg"]