[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy":3,"chapter-the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-chapter-252":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Strongest Student of the Weakest Academy",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1027008,1339,"Chapter 252: Aestrea Against The World (XXIX)","the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-chapter-252",252,"\u003Cp>Chapter 252: Aestrea Against The World (XXIX)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky turned dark in a instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aestrea’s brow furrowed hard as a strange, red-purple mist began leaking from Kagetaro’s body, curling into the air like smoke from a dying fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Kagetaro’s body jolted violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He twitched, spasmed, his muscles jerking out of sync.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Veins bulged under his skin,sick, pulsing bumps crawling across his arms and neck like something alive was moving beneath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aestrea narrowed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…The fuck are you trying to do?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Aestrea didn’t waste any time, and flicked his wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『 ✯ Winter Series ✯: Chains of Eternal Winter! (✯ 7th-level Spell ✯) 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fwip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within a second, he summoned over a hundred glacial chains, each one snapping through the air like a whip before slamming down on Kagetaro, binding his arms, legs, torso, even his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fsshh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The magic hissed cold, biting into flesh, dragging the temperature around them below freezing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the restraints, Kagetaro’s aura only seemed to grew stronger, and from the flow of his mana, it seems that he was going to explode his own body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dammit!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slashed the air open with his hand, tearing a rift in space to escape. But just as he stepped through—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something latched onto his ankle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wet, slithering grip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…You’re not going anywhere.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kagetaro’s voice came from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twisted flesh had burst from his body, some grotesque limb or parasite, coiling tight around Aestrea’s leg like a snake made of meat and bone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Scheiße…!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without thinking, he threw up his hand toward Kagetaro.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『 Ice Series: Frost Crash! (✦ 6th-level Spell ✦) 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sphere of frozen force detonated against Kagetaro’s chest, blasting ice shards in every direction, but it still wasn’t enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『 Ice Series: Frost Crash! (✦ 6th-level Spell ✦) 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second blast cracked the ground and split the walls of the dimension, but Kagetaro still didn’t go down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『 Ice Series: Frost Crash! (✦ 6th-level Spell ✦) 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third explosion tore through the battlefield like a collapsing blizzard, a blinding light, bone-deep cold, and an echoing roar that swallowed everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, through the smoke and ice…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kagetaro was still standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And above his head, a black crown began to form, descending slowly, glowing with ominous energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His lips curled into a twisted smile as he whispered words that made Aestrea’s blood run cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Luntheris shall return.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『 ✯ Forbidden Series ✯: Absolute Erasure! (✯ 10th-level Spell ✯) 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Point-blank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spell activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aestrea didn’t even have time to scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt it instantly…. his existence unraveling at the seams. Reality rejected him. His body flickered, his skin turned see-through like fading mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked toward Kagetaro, only to watch the man dissolve into wisps of mana, as if he had never existed to begin with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Aestrea looked down at his hands…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were vanishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Translucent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if he… was being erased from the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Panic hit him like a dagger to the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His breath caught, his chest tightened, and his mind spiraled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘No. No. This can’t be how it ends…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Images flashed through his mind, dozens, hundreds, his entire life flooding back in one sweeping current.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The past and present blurred into one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for the first time in a long time… tears spilled from his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Real tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Where did I go wrong…?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it the arrogance? The moment he absorbed the dragon’s heart, something in him changed…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His pride increased, and he started craving for… more dominance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now… all of that had led to this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His existence traded for ambition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in that collapsing moment, faces flooded his thoughts, people he still hadn’t made peace with, promises left broken:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Christina…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never found her after saying goodbye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivian…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still owed her a visit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lumi…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t fulfilled his promise back when she was still in her serpent form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zeva…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never got the chance to spar with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Violet…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She still wanted to repay him for saving her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yara…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He built her a portal to visit his home, because she wasn’t strong enough to make one herself, because she cared for him, and didn’t want the world to know they had a relationship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alaine…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His high-elf maid who tended his wounds, who stayed at his side longer than anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eleonora…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That persistent, infuriating woman who insisted on making him her disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chaerin…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl he had adopted, the one he began to see as family, and cutely called him ‘Papa’…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twins…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mia and Maria…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Ella…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were simply too many threads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too many lives he was tied to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t die. Not yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had too much left to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in that collapsing void, on the edge of nothingness, something clicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An epiphany.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His lunar-white eyes ignited with fierce light, pulsing with defiance towards his own fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—tick by tick—they began to spin. The pupils shifted into the shape of a clock, each second ticking backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『 ✯ Time Rewind ✯ (✯ 10th-level Spell ✯) 』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time fractured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reality twisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the world rewound…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the way back, to the time the Elven Emperor wiped out the dark elves, just a hour ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you ever decide to turn that blade of yours on me… I hope you’ll have the decency to tell me first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he finished speaking, he glanced once more at Aestrea’s frozen figure, then sighed, the corners of his robe lifting gently as he vanished into a ripple of space that shimmered before collapsing in on itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah—!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aestrea finally gasped, his chest convulsing as if he’d been pulled up from drowning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hands clutched at his throat, his eyes wide and bloodshot, each breath scraping through his lungs like sandpaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air around him shuddered with silver mist leaking from every pore of his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single line of text blinked into view before him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[…You have lost 1.000 years of lifespan.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A system warning appeared in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t care… after all, he truly could have died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mana spiraled outward uncontrollably, rising like steam from boiling water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That spell…. that forbidden spell to reverse time… had torn into him, digging into his essence, devouring a thousand years of life in exchange for one impossible miracle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a single second, his rank had surged beyond the bounds of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond the SSS-rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in that single second… he saw beyond the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Floating far above, watching from a realm he couldn’t begin to understand, were figures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…It was more accurate that to say that they were beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they had been looking directly at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not with fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even with amusement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with boredom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if he were a flickering candle trying to shine in the sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…There’s still more beyond the SSS-rank?” Aestrea muttered, his voice gradually turning dry, almost empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The weight of his own insignificance pressed onto his shoulders, crushing his spine until he collapsed to his knees, eyes lost in the stormy sky above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And strangely…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time in a long while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system answered him, without prompt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Yes. SSS-rank is only the peak of this world. But beyond that, there are countless planets… galaxies… realms.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aestrea lowered his head, the sharp ends of his hair brushing the ground as his fingers curled into the dirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then…” he whispered, voice trembling slightly, “how strong are the beings I saw?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Stronger than you can comprehend. They can bend time, reshape space… and alter the fate of other living beings.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[And that? That’s the weakest of them.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The ones considered powerful… you wouldn’t even understand what they are capable of.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A heavy, suffocating silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Then is my physique actually special…?” he asked quietly, barely audible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[…In this world.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that was the moment he laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A weak, pathetic chuckle, strangled and bitter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ahaha… so that’s it…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had believed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep down, even if he didn’t say it aloud, he thought he was special.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That ascending to SSS-rank would mean that he had reached the summit. That he had something unique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the truth?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was still inside the cage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a bigger cage than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And far above it, there were things looking down through the bars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His smile vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cold in his voice returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Then tell me,” he said, lifting his head slowly, eyes like cracked glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are the ranks beyond SSS?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice changed entirely… as if pride had been erased from it. And… just a dead ambitions remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[…The peak of the SSS-rank is what some call a ‘half-god.’ Beyond that, you have Low-God, Mid-God, Late-God, and True God.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The ‘True God’… that’s the lowest of those you saw.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…And then?” he asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[From there, it’s measured in stars.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[One-star True God. Two-star. All the way to Nine-star.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[And beyond that… is the Creation Stage.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The peak of existence. The supreme state. The final step.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The one who reaches it becomes the true sovereign of the universe.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aestrea stared blankly at the swirling sky above, and then spoke one final question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…And that rank… the one at the very bottom of that divine ladder… that’s where she is? The Goddess I’m a vessel of?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[…Low-God.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Barely a Goddess.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost comical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He laughed again, louder this time, but there was no light in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had thought he was exceptional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That he had inherited something powerful enough to put him above the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that ‘Goddess’?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn’t even scratched the surface of the cosmos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And Elohim…?” he whispered, not expecting the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Nine-star True God.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What else did he expect?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t the Hero, he wasn’t the chosen one. He had almost forgotten that this entire world revolved around Lucas and not himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Fuck…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aestrea leaned back, letting his body fall gently into the shattered remains of the marble below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind was cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky above vast and distant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had survived, but he had never felt so small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However… that only meant that his journey trully wasn’t over. And that… had litten up a fire that Aestrea had lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fire… that was what people called…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hunger.\u003C\u002Fp>",1722,"2026-06-03T09:18:17.304Z","2026-06-03T09:18:22.612Z",1,"novelbin.me","8091ac5450e98394984a904cade441058f40fa78321fa7a82aaead7bf0eb7564","the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-chapter-253","the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-chapter-251",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-cover.jpg"]