The Broken Possessors of the Infinite Regression Academy

33 – Sword Saint – 5

This was the situation of ‘Karna’, the former knight commander of the Royal Guard, whom Sword Saint introduced as his first disciple.

He was an outstanding knight whose talent was enough for the Sword Master to accept him as his disciple, but the problem was that Karna was too weak to accept the name.

Karna was crushed by the weight of his role as the Sword Saint’s first disciple and the burden of the Sword Saint’s attention. Even if she desperately tries to act okay in front of others, she suffers alone.

In the meantime, while dealing with the demons that invaded the empire’s territory, she accidentally dealt with the humans who were hostages, which was the final blow.

Karna, who was tormented by the fact that she had killed a normal human being, fearing that the name of the Sword Saint would be tainted, was eventually consumed by her karma, and she became a murderer in front of her teacher. .

“…… “I just need to hold on a little longer.”

Unfortunately, Karna’s instinctive choice of action was the correct answer. Those humans were actually brainwashed by the demons from a long time ago. The truth was revealed after Karna had already turned into a murderer.

The place where the corruption occurred was the Royal Guard’s training ground, and it was fortunate that he had bare hands and that there was even a sword saint nearby.

“He was the only murderer we were able to capture alive.”

Considering that most corruption takes place while holding a weapon on the battlefield, so you can’t even dream of capturing it alive and can only respond by killing it, you’re really lucky that you were caught without dying.

I don’t know what you think.

Anyway, Karna, who was the only murderer captured alive by the Empire, was locked in the dungeons of the imperial palace and subjected to all kinds of biological experiments in order to find a way to return her to a human.

She conducted numerous experiments, such as paying a large amount of money to invite several high-ranking priests of the Starlight Church and giving them blessings, beating them to the point of death, or conversely not giving them any attention for a while.

“…… And it all ended in failure.”

But Karna still remained a murderer, and no matter what experiments she did, she never came back to her senses. In the end, she came to the stage where the Empire gave up on Karna and considered disposing of her.

“It’s a pity that I have to let my first student go like this…… I have to do my job as a swordsman. You can’t keep it locked up in your regrets just because it’s an old attachment…….”

Sword Saint looked at Karna with her confused face and said. The corners of her mouth, which had never straightened since she came to the basement, sank even further.

‘Well, it must be bittersweet for me.’

To be honest, my impression was that it was a shame that such a thing happened, but it wasn’t something I couldn’t completely sympathize with. I, too, have lost quite a few colleagues.

But her impression of her swordsmanship was not good enough to make her sad any more than that.

She was a mess from the first time we met, and she received an apology and compensation afterward, but that doesn’t mean the first impression she made after trying to live her life goes nowhere. There was an incident where he came to me unexpectedly last night.

Furthermore, apart from the fact that Geomseong is strangely interested in me, we met for the first time last Saturday and have only seen each other for four days.

It’s not that I was emotionally dry or anything, it was just that I couldn’t help it because we weren’t physically close.

‘The Sword Saint had reason to be wary.’

Of course, regardless of that, I understood why Geomseong was so fierce towards me from the first time we met.

From her point of view, having experienced Karna’s precedent, she probably did not want to make Brünnhild go through the same experience. What is she doing? Even if it means getting criticized herself.

If that’s the case, I think it would have been better if they had called me out separately, asked for my understanding first, and then tried to give me the information.

“Kaaaaa!”

Karna began to glow again, drooling her saliva and clanking her chains. The handcuffs on her wrists dug into her flesh and tore her skin. Bright red blood trickled down her skin where her handcuffs met.

“It got like that because it smelled like a human for too long. I guess I have to leave now. Before that, I’m just going to give you a little treatment with a potion. Would you like to go up with me?”

“I will remain here.”

“I understand. Please do it. “Be careful not to stimulate it too much.”

Sword Saint met Karna’s eyes for the last time and disappeared beyond the dungeon. After confirming that Geomseong had gone far enough that I could no longer hear his footsteps, I carefully looked around.

All of the defensive magic installed is based on the assumption that Karna escaped, and there is no special magical treatment on her chains. This means that intrusion from outside is not a problem.

‘Whoa…’ ….’

I took a deep breath. Whatever I was about to do from now on required quite a bit of determination. Whether you succeed or fail, if the Sword Saint finds out about this situation, it won’t end with a nagging comment or two.

Using magic, he turned his body into fog and passed through the iron bars. As the human scent got closer, the killer’s struggles naturally became stronger.

‘I can’t go back like this without even trying.’

If not now, you never know when you might encounter a murderer again. In most cases, you should get your questions answered here.

Honestly, I didn’t think I would change like that, regardless of whether karma was accumulated in my soul or not. Even though I killed so many people in the old world, I was fine.

But once I knew that such a concept existed in this world, I couldn’t prepare for anything. Isn’t there a possibility that this is just one possibility? Being like that is absolutely unacceptable.

‘If possible… ….’

You don’t have to worry at all whether your karma is accumulated or not. Because you only need to store one magic in your magic tool for emergencies.

A magic that removes abnormal conditions.

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‘There’s no way this would work in the first place.’

I decided to try the experiment without much expectation. All I could think of was that it seemed impossible to me.

They say it turns out like that because of the karma accumulated in the soul, but is there any way that it can be solved by just removing the status abnormality?

Of course, once you learn it, it can be very useful, so in the other world, it is treated as an essential spell that any archmage who knows how to use the highest level magic must learn.

“Kaaaaa! Huh, evil?!”

“Okay, quiet.”

With her teeth, she approached Karna, who was struggling to bite me, and gently pressed her head with her left hand. I looked at the chains that were tied to her body. There was no sign of it breaking yet.

“Off…… Ugh… ….”

Karna couldn’t overcome the force I was pressing, so she lowered her head in an unsightly manner and let out a half-muffled scream. She pressed down Karna’s head with her left hand and used her magic with her other hand.

Like healing magic, it does not exist in this world, so if the Wizards Association sees it, their eyes will completely turn upside down and they will rush to find out somehow.

After the chanting, which consisted only of thoughts, Karna’s body was surrounded by a halo of light closer to mint color, slightly brighter than the green light typical of healing magic. Her head fell down.

“… ….”

Suddenly, I had an ominous feeling.

It’s the same with the fact that the screaming stopped and the struggling stopped. The monster that was so anxious to eat me just a moment ago had lost all strength in its body.

“…… Ugh.”

‘What, crazy?’

It was very cracked and hoarse under the shaggy silver hair, but as soon as the distinctly human voice came out, a chill ran down my spine.

This will definitely work. I was sure.

‘No, you say karma is accumulated in the soul?’

It makes sense that it can be solved with status abnormality removal magic.

‘…… For a moment.’

Now, I looked back on memories that had passed more than 10 years ago.

The status abnormality removal spell actually had a different name. Because the person who created the magic had an unusual ideology, they simply hid the true name and announced it under a different name.

The fact that both of them were extremely long names by the standards of other world languages was the same, so I heard it with one ear and passed it with the other, saying I would just use what I had already used. How did the guy who found out about that fact explain it?

I desperately tried to recall a memory from more than 10 years ago, and soon succeeded in recalling it.

A magic that purifies polluted and corrupted souls, born from the hands of a wizard who believed that the human soul is perfect and will never be polluted or corrupted.

‘Soul purification… ….’

As soon as I remembered that fact, my arms lost all strength. Karna’s head rose little by little.

“Chief Dorothy!”

ㅡBoom boom boom boom!

Late at night, Dorothy, who was organizing documents, raised her head when she heard a voice calling out to her from outside, knocking on the door as hard as she could. It was a knocking sound that sounded quite urgent.

“Come in.”

As soon as permission was given, the door was opened roughly. Someone stumbled inside. He was the deputy cavalry commander. The hair that reached down to his waist was all scattered, and his armor showed that he was really wearing it sparsely.

If it were normal, I would have scolded them to maintain their dignity as a Royal Guard, but since it seemed like a fairly urgent situation, I decided to move on without pointing it out. Dorothy put down her pen.

“What’s going on? “At this late hour.”

“Well, I…… ! The former Royal Guard commander…… !”

“First, calm down and speak slowly. Why Him? “Did he even pass away?”

Of course, Dorothy also knew about Karna, the former head of the Royal Guard. And why did she end up in such a situation?

But mentioning that fact was virtually taboo. The fact that the Royal Guard was consumed by karma and transformed into murderous demons was a perfect topic to break morale.

Despite Dorothy’s words to calm down, the vice-captain, who had been panting for a while, finally opened his mouth.

“They say he has returned to his senses.”

“…… !!!!!”

I didn’t remember much after that. All he could remember was that he had rushed out of the room, and when he came to his senses, he had already arrived in the dungeon.

Most of the Royal Guards who had already heard the news were gathered inside. The knights who were staring blankly through the iron bars recognized Dorothy and turned left and right.

He moved forward slowly. The figure of the Sword Saint was visible through the thick iron bars. The figure of the Sword Saint tightly hugging Karna, whose curly silver hair was covered in dried blood.

The sight of Karna sobbing in the arms of the Sword Saint was far from that of a murderous demon.

‘…… How?’

As Dorothy was looking at the scene in disbelief, a strange being caught sight of her. He was a boy standing near the corner of the prison.

The boy had a half-fidgety expression on his face.