I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 168

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The magic power that was about to pierce through my brother’s chest struck the ice wall Antonio had created.

“Brother!”

“Urgh!”

My brother, who had fallen to the floor, groaned and struggled to get up.

As I rushed to my brother, Antonio created ice spikes on the ceiling.

Thud! Thud!

The ice spikes that fell roughly and pierced the floor turned to snow and scattered with a single gesture from Lazarus.

As soon as my brother got up, he raised his arm to block my path.

“Lilliana. Step back.”

“Brother, go take care of Liliana and the children.”

I grabbed my brother and pushed him toward the door.

“Never use your ability. Keep your promise. Absolutely don’t use it. I’ll handle Lazarus. Do you trust me?”

In Trowance, as I grew older, we made several promises anticipating that a day like this would come.

My brother would not use his ability, and I would definitely get help from others.

My brother’s health was only good enough to maintain daily life.

He didn’t have the strength to face Lazarus. On the other hand, I was born to be Lazarus’s adversary.

‘This is the fate I must bear.’

My brother made a complicated expression, then nodded resolutely.

“I trust you. Come back without getting hurt.”

While my brother left to evacuate the people in the manor, Antonio was facing Lazarus with bloodshot eyes, breathing heavily.

“What happened to Chris?”

“Judging by the similar scent to Alicia Berchio coming from you, you must be of the same bloodline.”

“I asked what happened to Chris!”

With Lazarus’s gesture, the trajectory of the ice spear Antonio launched changed and broke the window.

The sharp shattering sound was brief, and the glass fragments that fell to the floor stopped mid-air.

It was as if time had stopped. Soon the glass fragments came flying toward us.

Antonio created an ice wall to protect us.

“Chris…”

Antonio, who was covered in tears, trembled violently.

His ability spun at his fingertips. I also took deep breaths to relax my tension.

“Get a grip.”

Edgar, who had drawn his sword at some point, shook the pale Antonio.

“Antonio. We can bring Chris back. Uncle Francois said so. If he’s in an eroded state, we just need to drive out Lazarus.”

While blocking the ice chunks that were broken by Lazarus’s attack and pouring down on us with his sword, Edgar asked.

“He didn’t drink the black holy water?”

“No. I can feel Chris’s consciousness inside.”

Since I was neither a mage nor a Holy Maiden, I couldn’t easily sense it, but because I was drawing up my ability, I could detect it very faintly. Chris’s soul holding onto hope.

Space tore open beside Lazarus. From that black abyss-like place, dozens of blood-red eyes appeared and writhed.

Edgar wrapped his sword in silver aura.

“Minions.”

Antonio sniffled as ice formed at his fingertips with a crackling sound.

Before applying for the exchange student program together, I had told Antonio until his ears were sore.

That if he came to the Empire, he would be caught up in dangerous situations because of me facing Lazarus.

Antonio came knowing this. Perhaps because of that, he quickly prepared himself mentally and entered combat stance.

“As long as we don’t die, we can heal well and rehabilitate. Let’s beat up Lazarus first. Then we’ll get Chris back.”

“Both of you, don’t get hurt.”

“Lilliana, you’re the one who shouldn’t get hurt!”

Edgar snapped while cutting down bats flying from the torn space.

Lazarus’s minions weren’t just bats.

Poison-spitting snakes, horned goats, all sorts of evil beings emerged.

The ice spear Antonio created froze an entire snake. But the snake broke the ice and spat poison.

I released my ability. My control was still immature, but not as much as in my previous life.

The poison that was about to reach Antonio turned to powder and scattered.

Centered around me, the bat minions dried up completely and fell to the floor with thuds.

“Not bad.”

“Don’t say such things with Chris’s face. Chris doesn’t talk like that.”

My ability spun at my fingertips.

Then I saw several bat minions flying out the window.

I shot my ability like an arrow toward the bat minions, but I couldn’t hit them while dodging the horned goat charging at me.

“Lilliana!”

Edgar, who had been piercing the neck of another minion nearby, ran over and struck the goat’s neck.

A mouth sprouted from the cross-section of the fallen goat’s neck and stretched out, trying to swallow Edgar’s sword.

While Edgar split the mouth in half with his aura, I rushed toward Lazarus.

My ability reached my hands and feet through my heart. My head felt like it would burst from the heat.

At that moment, I was hit by the magic Lazarus wielded and my body flew away.

“Ah!”

Since Edgar threw his body in the direction I was flying, I didn’t hit my head against the wall.

Meanwhile, Antonio crushed two snake minions with massive ice.

“Are you okay?”

“I’m okay.”

I jumped up and drew out a more intense ability.

Due to the dark energy emanating from Lazarus, minions emerged from thin air again.

I gritted my teeth and stretched out my hand. The power spinning at my fingertips burst out intensely, turning the minions that had just set foot on the ground to ash.

“Huff. Hah.”

I was already out of breath from drawing out my power to the extreme.

Edgar stood to my right, and Antonio, who had flattened the snake, stood to my left.

Both were breathing roughly.

“Lily. You know only you can handle that bastard, right?”

“Don’t you trust me?”

“I trust you. I trust you, but… I feel like I can’t hold out much longer.”

Antonio swallowed and trembled. Perhaps because of the situation, he seemed not to have put on his ring yet.

Ice spread out centered around Antonio.

“I’ll provide cover, so you two handle it.”

Edgar, who had been covering for me until now, spoke in a low voice while catching his breath.

Edgar was quietly absorbed, like someone who had been waiting for today for a very long time.

“Lilliana. I’ll handle defense, so you just focus on attacking.”

His aura grew increasingly dense. Even though I knew nothing about swordsmanship, it looked very high in density.

My head grew hot. Reason and emotion floated, and my mind became hazy with elation.

I knew this feeling. I had experienced it on the ship before turning to ash and falling into the sea.

Back then, Lazarus had possessed Francois’s body, and today he had devoured Chris.

On the other hand, I had become a stronger and more solid person than back then.

“When this is over, the curfew will be lifted, so let’s go out and have fun.”

Hearing the chuckling laughter, I drew out my final strength.

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Edith, sitting on the mast, spotted the ship carrying the Dark Mages at the end of the horizon.

She landed on the deck with swift movements and shouted.

“10 minutes until battle! Everyone to your positions!”

The inspectors who had worked together for a long time paired up and took their positions.

The storm Edith had summoned was so fierce that the Imperial soldiers struggled just to maintain their balance.

Leopold had already expressed his admiration for the warship’s speed five times as he asked.

“Do you sail at this speed every day in Trowance?”

“Only in battles I participate in.”

“No ship could escape then.”

Edith shrugged and placed her hand on her sword hilt.

Her hair tied in a single bundle whipped wildly in the storm.

As they approached the Order’s vessel and the two warships grazed past each other with only a small gap, the storm ceased.

And the sea froze. The towering waves turned to ice.

“Let’s go!”

“For Lord Razas! Darkness is the purest good!”

Once the two ships were fixed in place, Edith skillfully leaped between the decks onto the Order’s vessel.

Dark magic flew at her, but she rolled across the floor to dodge and charged at the dark mages, slashing with her sword.

She had been waiting for this moment for so long.

It would be perfect if she could deal with Razas herself, but Razas wasn’t her target.

Crack!

Ice formed from the floor froze a dark mage up to his neck.

Edith struck down on the mage’s head. Blood stained the ice and dripped onto the deck, but it wasn’t an unfamiliar sight.

Black ash poured down on her. The storm swept the ash skyward and dumped it on a dark mage attacking from behind.

“Aaaahhh!”

The ash-covered dark mage clutched at his purple-tinged skin and rolled on the floor.

She turned and slashed his throat.

Not far away, she could see Leopold facing two dark mages simultaneously.

Then she noticed a shadow crawling along the floor beneath her feet, absorbing blood.

Just as she squinted in disbelief at what she was seeing, the shadow became a hand that grabbed the ankle of a nearby knight, toppling him. Then it sank its teeth into his neck.

The knight trembled violently and became a withered mummy in just a few seconds.

“Damn.”

The shadow expanded and became a pit, beginning to swallow the knights.

Without distinguishing between dark mages, knights, and cultists, it dropped them all into the hole, then soon became a giant sea serpent with glowing red eyes.

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