Became The Son Of The Final Boss [EN]: Chapter 48

48.

It was hard to come to my senses.

Everything in front of me turned white.

‘It’s poison.’

The pain that started the moment the potion went down my throat never stopped tormenting me.

I desperately focused on my legs to keep from collapsing.

I felt like I would fall at any moment, but I couldn’t fall here.

Although there was no rule about assassination in the Spring Evaluation Tournament, assassinations often occurred before the tournament to eliminate competitors.

The Imperial Family did not interfere with such assassinations at all.

By allowing assassinations, the level of the participants naturally had to increase.

So, I had to endure.

If I collapsed here, I would also be reduced to one of the participants who failed to overcome the assassination.

The crime of assassinating the Crown Prince was a matter for later; the fact that I couldn’t participate in the evaluation tournament right away was the most important thing to me.

‘Undine… Undine.’

Even as my mind faded, I called out not only Undine but also Undairon.

They were not in their original forms but entered my body as water droplets, following my consciousness.

Water spirits are specialized in healing, purification, and defense.

Even though I was out of my mind, I remembered the settings I had written myself, and with a desperate heart, I summoned the water spirits for now.

Undine and Undairon’s water droplets flowed roughly along my blood vessels.

“Kuh…”

In the end, I couldn’t help but groan.

The people around me turned their attention to my groan but soon ignored it.

Despite the Crown Prince’s strange condition, they focused on the stage. It seemed more important to them how their competitors were fighting than the Crown Prince’s well-being.

‘Not like they’re going to help.’

I bit my lip tightly.

I was biting so hard that I could taste the bitter taste of blood in my mouth.

The water droplets flowed even more violently.

At the same time, the pain gradually subsided, and a strong sense of foreignness was felt in my body.

‘It’s definitely poison.’

As my vision slowly returned, I was able to regain some sense of myself.

I asked Undine and Undairon to gather the poison in my body in one place for now.

The poison struggled to avoid moving, and that directly led to pain.

“Hiss.”

I suppressed a groan and forcibly moved the poison.

The pain, as if the mana circuits were tearing, was at an unbearable level.

In the end, I had no choice but to give up moving the poison and coexist with the mana in the mana circuits.

‘I’ll wrap it with mana for now.’

I created a thin layer of mana around the poison.

It was an extraordinary method, and I myself was wondering how I came up with such an idea.

It is said that humans exert superhuman power when driven into a crisis, and I seemed to be exactly the case now.

The poison was wrapped in a thin mana membrane and did not move, regarding a part of the mana circuits as its home.

‘It’s a relief. It would have been difficult if the poison had run wild.’

I almost forfeited the first game without even playing it. No, I could have lost my life.

This terrible poison placed an enormous burden on me just by its existence.

Meanwhile, on the stage, Riodeen knocked down an unknown mercenary and placed his sword on his neck.

“I… I surrender.”

The unknown mercenary lasted quite a while, but he couldn’t beat Riodeen.

Riodeen also didn’t do his best from the beginning and took a long time to fight in order to warm up.

It was a great help to me.

Because in the meantime, I managed to somehow contain the poison.

“The next participants, Arun Karl Leord and Chen Karl Leord, please come up to the stage.”

The moment you become a participant, your previous status is meaningless.

The commander of the Iron-Blood Knights, considered the best knight order in the Imperial Palace, called the princes without hesitation.

Wiping the sweat from my forehead, I composed myself.

My back was already soaked, but fortunately, it wasn’t noticeable on the outside.

Chen stood in front of me with a relaxed expression.

The Iron-Blood Knight Commander soon gave the signal.

The explanation disguised as kindness was over with the first game.

“I thought you would vomit blood and die, but your lifeline is surprisingly long.”

Chen readily spoke of the assassination attempt.

“You’re going to die in this place anyway. If you surrender now, you can save your life. Maybe only for a little while, though.”

Chen continued, as if he was sure that I would not overcome the poison.

“It seems like you want to suffer a miserable disgrace, so I’ll do as you wish.”

I smiled faintly and summoned the spirits.

Salamander created flames by my side.

The sneer on Chen’s face deepened.

“Are you struggling?”

Chen cast a spell.

His figure disappeared in an instant.

I was purely impressed.

Even though it was magic, Chen’s movements, who was not even a knight, were very fast.

Of course, I wasn’t just watching it.

Salamander created a barrier of fire around me, creating a large flame.

At the same time, I moved with the flow of wind and earth.

Chen’s disappeared figure was revealed, and white light poured out from his staff.

“Undine.”

Undine appeared and created a huge shield in the direction the light was being fired.

Kwaaaang-!

Water barrier.

The magic seemed to be very powerful, and the water barrier shook, and I was also hit.

The mana circuits were twisted, stimulating the poison once again.

‘Damn it.’

From the moment I started the long-awaited match with Chen, I had no choice but to be on the defensive.

* * *

Ken, who was making Polysia flower potions until the end, arrived at the arena late.

He was with the Dull Sword David.

“His Highness is strange.”

At the Dull Sword’s words, Ken’s eyes flashed fiercely.

“Yes. He’s strange. The effects of the Polysia flower are not taking effect immediately either.”

Certainly, Arun’s appearance on the stage was completely different from what the two had expected.

Chen was a 4th circle mage, but a mid-level spirit master was not to be underestimated.

Moreover, Arun was stronger than any other mid-level spirit master.

A spirit master whose spirits moved as if they were one body was much scarier than a mage, and his speed could keep up with that of a knight.

Arun’s advantage was clearly expected, but the flow was going in the opposite direction of expectations.

Ken’s mind raced.

‘His physical condition seems to have suddenly deteriorated. There is no problem with the potion. The servant who was sent on the errand is also a reliable person from the Shadow Walk Guild…….’

Ken said in a chilling voice.

“I was careless. There is no one who can be trusted unconditionally. I think I paid too much attention to the process of making the Polysia flower into a potion.”

The Dull Sword narrowed his eyes and asked.

“What do you mean?”

Ken didn’t explain in detail.

“You watch His Highness’s game. I’ll have to go back to the palace for a while.”

First of all, Ken was going to find the servant who delivered the potion.

* * *

Certainly, I was being pushed back.

Every time I used a skill, I felt pain in my mana circuits, so naturally, the skill was not smooth.

Chen’s taunts and insults were endless.

“Aren’t you ashamed to be a Crown Prince with just this much?”

I didn’t like the fact that he used polite language every time.

‘I’ll save Sylphere.’

Sylphere is the strongest spirit among the spirits I have contracted with, but I have not summoned it yet.

The only way for me to win was to induce Chen’s carelessness and stab Chen’s neck in an instant.

To do that, it was better to hide my strength as much as possible.

I deliberately focused on defense while fighting only with lower-level spirits.

Kwaaaang-!

The fireballs Chen fired aimed at my body from all directions.

Undines were running around busily, and even Sylph’s wind chains were mobilized for defense.

‘It doesn’t implement magic immediately. It takes a very short time, but it needs time.’

One of the biggest drawbacks of a mage was the fact that they couldn’t cast magic immediately because of the casting process.

Chen’s maternal grandfather, Duke Austin, could use low-circle magic without casting, but Chen was different.

He is definitely a genius who reached the 4th circle at a young age, but he is not yet at the level of omitting the casting process.

Chen was currently filling the gap in casting with continuous use of magic.

It was a method commonly used by mages in one-on-one battles.

The moment he implemented one magic, he cast another magic, attacking with the next magic when the opponent defended.

‘It is necessary to destroy the magic faster than Chen expects.’

I made up my mind and quietly summoned Undairon, preparing a water storm.

The water storm is a skill that takes more time than magic, but its power is certain.

As Undairon soared from behind my back, Chen’s eyes sank.

“Already a mid-level spirit… Brother is definitely Leord. Even though he is a half-blood who inherited lowly blood.”

When Chen or Ted’s knights insulted me, they often mentioned my mother’s status.

She was definitely a noble, but a fallen noble was an insignificant bloodline to them, who had a prestigious family as their maternal relatives.

I smiled.

“Is it because of the good blood? It’s definitely a talent that can’t be compared to you.”

Chen’s face hardened.

He was an easy guy to deal with after all.

Because he couldn’t stand even a small provocation towards himself.

Chen shook his staff roughly.

“Soon, you won’t be able to use that mouth either.”

“You either.”

The moment Chen’s fire magic exploded, Undairon turned into a vortex.

Chen stepped back slightly and created a large fire magic.

‘I don’t know what kind of magic it is.’

I squeezed my mana, promising myself that I would not neglect studying magic from now on.

Since the poison occupied half of the mana circuits, the mana that could be used instantaneously was naturally about half of what it was before.

Gooooooo-!

Soon, the spirit and magic collided.

Kwaaaang-!

Undairon’s whirlwind split the magic.

Chen was startled and unfolded a shield.

Kwaaaang-!

The moment Undairon split the fire magic and collided with the shield, I quickly turned to Chen’s back with the flow of wind and earth and summoned Sylphere.

“It’s Sylphere!”

When I, who had only shown the mid-level water spirit until now, summoned the mid-level wind spirit, exclamations burst out from under the stage.

This was because summoning spirits of different attributes at the same time was proof that one had reached the realm of a master.

Of course, I was only a beginner mid-level spirit master, but my affinity ignored the stages.

Sylphere unfolded a chain of wind.

Chen, whose back was completely exposed, turned around in surprise.

Kwaaaang-!

Because of that, the shield shook, and Undairon’s water storm struck Chen’s abdomen.

“Kuh-ugh!”

Finally, a scream burst from Chen’s mouth.

At the same time, the chain of wind grazed Chen’s shoulder.

Swish-!

Chen’s arm floated in the air.

The last move went in accurately.

The mana circuits now had nothing but poison. Not even a handful of mana was left, so I was dizzy, but I stabilized my breathing with the wind breathing technique.

When all the spirits returned, I turned my gaze to the Iron-Blood Knight Commander.

“Arun Karl Leord wins.”

The Iron-Blood Knight Commander briefly declared my victory.

I approached Chen just before going down the stage.

“I will not forget the words I said on stage. Assassination, poisoning… You will bitterly regret not killing me in this place today.”

Chen seemed unable to even hear my words, watching his arm that had fallen on the stage.

He didn’t even scream, so he seemed to have forgotten the pain because he couldn’t believe the reality.

I turned around and went down the stage.

The Dull Sword David immediately approached.

“Your Highness.”

I said briefly.

“Bring Ken.”