The Low-Ranking Civil Servant Wants to Achieve Success - Chapter 123

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Chapter 123
‘So that’s it!’
The speed was absolutely devastating, and the strength behind it was tremendous.
Thick veins bulged across the High Priest’s thin arms.
Even I, who knew nothing about physical combat, could tell at a glance that this was no ordinary human.
“Kugh!”
Shock flickered across Kiaros’s eyes as he struck the High Priest’s vital point with blinding speed.
“What? Surprised a Dragon-kin might die by human hands?”
The High Priest even laughed bitterly, speaking with absolute confidence.
“Don’t be too shocked though. I’m nearly Dragon-kin myself.”
Despite the vital strike, the High Priest didn’t flinch.
Instead, his grip around Kiaros’s throat only tightened.
Though his frame was gaunt and small, subduing him proved difficult. The High Priest’s eyes gleamed with madness and murderous intent.
‘But there’s a flying experimental subject above a running one!’
The moment Kiaros’s brow furrowed slightly….
“Activate!”
I swiftly activated an attack scroll, targeting the High Priest.
It was one of the scrolls the Tower Master had given me.
I poured all my magical power into it, calculating as quickly as possible.
Of course, normally attack scrolls only inflicted minor cuts….
“Gaaahhhhh! Aaaaaaahhhhh!”
With a deafening crash, the High Priest was hurled backward.
Blood now stained both his back and chest.
I gasped for breath, trembling. As the blank scroll fluttered down, I saw the High Priest’s mangled form.
This wasn’t a minor cut—it was like he’d been slashed repeatedly with a blade. His priestly robes were drenched in blood.
I immediately rushed out and opened the door.
“Gaaahhhhhhh!”
Opening the door dispelled the soundproofing scroll’s effect.
The knights outside heard the High Priest’s anguished screams and came rushing in.
“What has happened!”
“Crown Prince! Are you unharmed!”
They all witnessed Kiaros sprawled on the ground and the High Priest convulsing in agony.
Though they should have been shocked, Kiaros remained composed. He slowly rose to his feet and spoke.
“Arrest him immediately for attempted regicide. Given his superhuman strength, he appears to be an experimental subject of the Gaejofa Faction—cooperate with the Ravens.”
“Yes, sir!”
The knights showed little alarm at the blood-soaked High Priest.
They seemed to assume Kiaros had handled it. He continued in a low voice.
“…And all of you, leave for now.”
The knights seized the still-screaming High Priest and withdrew like a receding tide.
Kiaros turned slowly toward me.
His shadow loomed over me.
“Namia Loapi.”
“…Yes.”
My voice trembled as I answered.
I was terrified to meet Kiaros’s gaze. He asked in a tone of disbelief.
“What was that scroll? Does an attack scroll possess that much power?”
“….”
“And….”
He stepped closer. I retreated a step to maintain the distance between us.
Kiaros asked with eyes narrowed low.
“Why did you use an attack scroll? As if you were certain I, a Dragon-kin, couldn’t suppress the High Priest?”
He was sharp—devastatingly sharp. To grasp such details in an instant….
I glanced up at him with fearful eyes.
“…Did you know I’m in the Dark Age?”
I knew he was intelligent, but I hadn’t expected him to be this perceptive….
My back finally touched the wall as I retreated.
Kiaros slowly came to a halt. Confusion filled his eyes.
In truth, it would have been reasonable for him to say, “This woman is using strange powers too—she’s suspicious. Take her in for interrogation immediately.” Yet even now, he hesitated, afraid of threatening me.
“Crown Prince.”
I confessed with a trembling voice.
“I apologize, but I am indeed a suspicious person.”
“What?”
“I, I mean… I am an experimental subject too. I didn’t know either, but… my mother… she continued experimenting on me….”
My words tumbled out incoherently. Still, Kiaros would understand perfectly.
But the more I spoke, the more horrifying my existence became.
An “experimental subject” who didn’t even know she was being experimented on….
“It’s true that I know the future, and it’s true that I possess strange powers.”
“Namia. Wait. You’re trembling too much—please calm down first….”
Before the bewildered Kiaros, I desperately summoned my strength to continue.
“B-but even if I must die, I will do so by my own hand. I will never bring chaos to the Empire.”
“Wait. What are you saying….”
“Thank you for everything. And to Kibon….”
At the mention of Kibon’s name, my throat suddenly tightened. Tears streamed down my face.
“Please just tell him I left a letter.”
And immediately, I spoke the word I had been preparing.
“Activate.”
The next scroll I had been continuously calculating was a teleportation scroll.
In other words, what Oson had asked of me before.
[Namia, make me a teleportation scroll right now. This instant. I don’t need to go far. Just get me out of the Imperial Palace. Okay?]
That very teleportation scroll—the one I had dismissed back then, saying it would be better to just walk than to teleport thirty centimeters.
But now I could amplify the scroll’s power thousands of times over.
Closing my eyes, I desperately imagined my destination.
‘Father… Tower Master… just one last time…’
Whether I died here at Kiaros’s hands or in the heart of the Gaejo Faction—there was no middle ground for me.
There was no point in hiding and pretending ignorance.
I refused to live in constant fear, merely surviving day after day, never knowing when Mother’s experimental results would manifest in me.
If I had to choose between two deaths, I’d rather storm the Gaejo Faction and see my family one last time.
“Namia…!”
Before Kiaros could finish speaking, my body was engulfed in brilliant light.
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How far could I travel?
I’d poured every ounce of magical power I possessed into setting the Southern Region as my destination.
‘I should have arrived somewhere in the Southern Region by now.’
I had a rough idea of where Father and the Tower Master were.
[Namia, I intend to venture deep into the heart of enemy territory to rescue my daughter and son-in-law.]
I’d pieced it together from the Tower Master’s letter.
Deep within enemy territory…
From what I understood, the Magic Tower itself was vast and sprawling.
For the Tower Master—who saw such immensity daily—to describe something as “deep and expansive” meant it was no ordinary place.
That such a location had remained hidden from the Ravens this long was telling.
[Once the Minister of Education began suspecting the High Priest, we dispatched Ravens to all Imperial Temples. Until then, religious protocol prevented us from interfering within temple grounds.]
It meant the Ravens couldn’t access this space for some reason.
There was only one answer.
‘The Temple.’
The Tower Master had said he was heading south.
And in the south stood the largest Grand Temple on the Continent.
[Are you currently staying at the Parens Grand Temple?]
[Yes, that’s correct. I came up for the Banquet and spent about ten days at the Imperial Palace Temple before planning to return to Parens.]
It was the Parens Grand Temple where the High Priest had just come from.
Eyes closed, I tried to piece it together.
Mother, who’d recklessly descended to the dangerous Southern Region claiming she wanted to undergo experiments. And Father, who’d sold himself to that illegal organization she’d joined.
‘If I venture deep into the Temple… I should be able to find Father, shouldn’t I?’
Originally, I’d been too afraid of getting hurt to even attempt it.
I’d simply waited for Kiaros to mobilize all his power to rescue Father.
But now I had nothing left to lose.
Honestly, I didn’t care if I died.
I was ready to charge forward recklessly.
‘Let’s go. Let’s just destroy everything.’
Unintentionally, I’d become incredibly powerful. With attack scrolls, nothing could frighten me.
In the meantime.
The dizzying spin of my vision gradually slowed to a gentle rotation.
It seemed the teleportation was coming to an end.
My feet touched the ground slowly.
“Ah….”
Despite it being November, a distinctly warm breeze enveloped my body.
I had arrived at the Coastal Village in the Southern Region—the distant sound of waves reached my ears, along with the familiar Southern dialect I’d heard so often in childhood.
My eyes snapped open. In that same moment, I realized I had arrived in the Southern Region.

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