Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes
Chapter 113: The Past of the Heavy Sword

Chapter 113: Chapter 113: The Past of the Heavy Sword

Mid Rank Professionals, even at the peak of Sixth Rank, still fall within the range of High Rank cannon fodder, expendable without a second thought.

But High Rank Professionals are different; every High Rank Professional is an absolute pillar and foundation,

If he were to break through to the Seventh Rank, even if the Mercenary Group encountered trouble, the backing White Rose Army would exert all efforts to ensure his personal safety.

What’s most critical is that in the Gloria Empire, once promoted to a High Rank Professional, one can directly apply to the Empire Family for a noble title!

That’s not just a matter of status, but rather a right to real power including a dominion commensurate with the title!

However, for someone like Jette, whose potential had already reached its limit at the peak of Sixth Rank, the probability of breaking through to the Seventh Rank was incredibly slim.

Unless one uses certain rare treasures that can boost the chances of breakthrough by brute force.

But the value of those treasures, even with all that he had saved up over the years, would not be sufficient to acquire any one of them.

As Jette was unwilling to accept his fate, someone from a certain power found him.

According to the scenes within Jette’s soul memory, that person was cloaked in a black robe, slightly thin in build, otherwise indistinguishable from an ordinary person.

However, what made a deep impression on Jette was that person’s voice.

It was a hoarse voice with a magnetic quality, somewhat androgynous in tone, and pronounced extremely clearly and correctly, carrying a strange and demonic Charm.

From his mouth, Jette learned of the merchandise he would be transporting on his next Task.

The quality was exceptionally high— Radiant Crystals, hundreds of units’ worth!

Upon learning this information, Jette’s initially vigilant mindset became incredibly complex.

What few people knew was that after his strength had completely stagnated, Jette had repeatedly applied to his superiors, requesting the resources needed for an assault on the Seventh Rank.

But each of his applications was rejected on the grounds of insufficient Contribution.

It must be understood that he was no longer young. With every passing year, the difficulty of his breaking through to the Seventh Rank increased.

Even if he managed to obtain just one-twentieth of this batch of Radiant Crystals, he was confident he could raise his chances of breaking through to the Seventh Rank from virtually zero to thirty percent.

It might not be a high probability, but it was enough for him to risk a bold gamble.

A Sixth Rank breakthrough to Seventh Rank, one only gets such an opportunity once in a lifetime.

When the synchronization of a Professional’s spiritual power with their body reaches ninety-nine percent, that is the limit of the Sixth Rank.

At this point, if a Professional wants to break through, they need to concentrate all their spirit, qi, and vigour, using a highly condensed point as a ’spark’ to ignite their entire Spirit Sea.

By using this pure Spirit Fire that burns everything, to thoroughly forge the Spirit Sea and body into one, one completes the leap from imperfection to perfection.

Sublimating out an essence of the Seventh Rank Spirit, to be reborn from the ashes.

This is an extremely dangerous process; this kind of ’burning’ not only consumes spiritual power but also simultaneously burns the upper limit of spiritual power.

If one’s spiritual power is extinguished before the synchronization with the body has reached 100%, the breakthrough attempter will completely lose their spiritual power, and years of hard cultivation will be lost in a single day.

By this time, Jette had truly been tempted, but the years of loyalty to the White Rose Army were still binding the decision in his heart.

He needed to find a reason, to convince himself.

Whatever that reason might be—

Seeing the key to Jette’s hesitation, the Mysterious person smiled inexplicably and then spoke calmly, informing him of the future destination and use of this batch of Radiant Crystals.

Smuggling them to other nations hostile to the Gloria Empire, cultivating certain favored underlings... and, helping talentless Nobles’ descendants to forcibly accumulate levels.

Listening to the Mysterious person’s deep voice, Jette suddenly felt an evil fire burning in his chest.

I have killed my way out from amongst the dead, stepping over countless corpses to climb to this precarious position.

But what was the result? After dealing with so many sordid affairs for the White Rose Army, why is it still not enough to exchange for the resources needed to attempt advancing to Seventh Rank?

Why must I, and I alone, do all the dirty and tiring work, only to be excluded from sharing the spoils afterward?

Why are those useless Nobles, who do nothing, able to enjoy resources that I, who risk my life, cannot?

Why, indeed?!

Originally, due to the existence of Prophecy Magic, even if Jette felt indignant, he still didn’t dare to make any underhanded moves.

But when that person approached him, claiming they had a way to obscure the fate of the entire affair, Jette resolved to go through with the plan.

The smuggled Radiant Crystals were to be split three to seven, with Jette taking thirty percent, while the Mysterious Man and his backing organization took seventy percent.

The Mysterious Man’s organization was responsible for planning the operation, covering up the fate of the entire affair and helping Jette escape the Empire to seek refuge in the Yiter Kingdom Federation, while Jette had to fully cooperate with their actions.

After confirming the plan, Jette steeled his heart completely.

Think about it, what did he need to do in the whole affair? Stop a major smuggling operation of strategic materials?

Oh—merciful gods, what a patriotic act of justice that would be!

If this were to spread, he might even be awarded a purple little medal by the Royal Family!①

So, I, Jette, did not betray anyone; it’s just that between the interests of the army and the Empire, I painfully chose the latter!

If the members of my Mercenary Group knew about this, surely, they would be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the Empire too, right?

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Afterward, everything went as planned and Jette took on the task from the hands of the White Rose Army.

But his goal, right from the start, was the cargoes being smuggled.

Before the operation, Jette communicated with his vice captain—the left and right arms of his leadership—as well as two of his most trusted confidants.

Then, using the excuse of changing the secret route, he led the Mercenary Group on a detour, venturing deep into Dusk Forest, camping in a canyon among the Luoxing Mountain Range.

After setting up camp, Jette announced to the many members of the Mercenary Group that they would hold a celebration party in advance, offering unlimited wine and roasted meat for the evening.

The many mercenaries who trusted Jette had no suspicions and surrounded the bonfire to drink merrily.

But what they didn’t know was that the wine had already been laced with a special, delayed-acting poison.

That night, as the mercenaries slept, the poison took effect. One after another, they died in agony in their sleep, and those few who fought on were promptly killed on the spot by Jette’s trusted men.

Using the blood and lives of these mercenaries as a price and medium, the fate of the whole affair was temporarily twisted and interfered with, preventing the White Rose Army from realizing immediately that the goods had been hijacked.

However, the Army had always been paying close attention to the ’Heavy Sword’ Mercenary Group’s movements.

Noticing that the Mercenary Group’s route was amiss, the Army immediately dispatched strong individuals to quietly investigate.

Following some minor clues, they found Jette’s body, which had been dead for some time, in a stream at the border of the Empire.

All valuables had been stripped from the body, leaving only a pair of underwear to preserve his last shred of dignity.

Ironically, the only fatal wound on Jette’s body—

Was from a dagger deeply embedded in his back—

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①: The Gloria Level Three Medal, bestowed upon individuals who have made significant contributions to the Empire

Guh——→Recommendation ticket