Reborn As The Minor Villain In A Romance Fantasy Novel - Chapter 203

Chapter 203: Devilish Man
“Where the hell…” Vanessa snarled as she crashed her fist through the chest of the last remaining monster.

The punch detonated the creature into a splattering cloud of blood, spraying the air with crimson mist.

She calmly pulled her hand back, and before a single drop could hit the ground, the blood twisted into streaks of liquid red and snaked into the bloodrop tattoo on her palm.

She exhaled irritably.

“Is Lucius?!”

Her voice cracked with a mixture of worry and anger.

It was one thing for Lucius to wander off… he did that all the time but disappearing during a monster ambush was something else entirely.

“Even the stream is saying he vanished.” Luna pushed her glasses up her nose, squinting at the P40 drone beside her. “Not only that… but the Saintess is missing as well.”

Vanessa froze.

Her eyes widened.

Her blood vapor rose.

‘Did that woman… take him to do something inappropriate? Is that why she’s not here?!’ Vanessa’s hair even began steaming slightly, little curls of blood mist drifting upward like angry incense.

But her spiraling thoughts stopped the moment she spotted Rita sitting atop a nearby boulder with her legs crossed and her hands neatly folded in her lap.

She was looking perfectly innocent.

Vanessa rushed toward her. “Hey Rita, did you see Lucius?!”

Rita shook her head.

“I think he was caught off-guard by a monster.” She then pointed toward the staircase. “Then he fell down the stairs.”

“What?” Vanessa bolted forward, with Luna, Grimm, and Erika charging behind her.

They reached the edge of the grand staircase… and there he was.

Lucius was there… trembling like a newborn deer as he climbed with shaky legs.

“How did you even get down there?!” Vanessa shouted down the steps.

Lucius raised his head.

Despite the sweat clinging to his brow, he somehow managed a smile. “I fell!”

Vanessa’s mouth twitched in exasperation. His space powers didn’t let him fly so it would make sense that if he fell.

Grimm’s hair blew backward as the oversized bunny sprinted past the girls with the speed of a cannonball and arrived beside Lucius like a loyal mount reporting for duty.

Lucius patted its side appreciatively.

‘I can’t believe that woman threw me down the stairs.’ He rubbed his shoulder slightly. ‘She could’ve just pulled away from the boulder normally, but no. Noooo. She yeeted me down the steps because she didn’t want to get caught. Pure evil.’

If it had been a lot closer to the top, he wouldn’t have minded much but she literally threw him far down.

“Thanks,” Lucius said as he carefully climbed onto the bunny’s back again.

The creature didn’t hesitate; it simply broke into a steady run, making climbing look effortless.

Once he reached the top, Lucius slid off the bunny and stretched. “Wow, you guys really did a lot of work here.”

The corpses scattered everywhere proved it.

Awakeners were already carving open carcasses and pulling out glittering mana cores, stacking them into neat little piles.

Grimm pointed proudly toward a cluster of bodies. “I killed this… and this… and this… and even that one!”

Lucius followed his finger and raised a brow.

Grimm had become quite efficient in killing, these monsters looked powerful after all.

“Nice,” Lucius said genuinely.

Before they could celebrate, Supreme Man waved him over.

Lucius sighed and gently floated toward him with his arms crossed.

Despite several battles, Supreme Man barely looked winded. Even his cape was annoyingly pristine.

‘Why do you even wear a cape when you can’t fly? Crazy.’

“What do you need?” Lucius asked.

Supreme Man grimaced and pointed toward the distant mountain where the true staircase had teleported.

“I need you to carry everybody there,” Supreme Man said. “Over to that mountain.”

Lucius blinked. “Can’t you just jump there?”

“Of course I can.” Supreme Man puffed his chest. “The distance isn’t that far.”

“Then why are you asking me?”

“I’m talking about the rest of them,” he explained, gesturing back at the tired Awakeners. “They don’t have the power to make the jump. Well… except the Wind mage, but she can’t carry everyone.”

Lucius exhaled sharply. “You’ve been using me as some kind of taxi service all day.”

“I… wouldn’t say taxi—”

Lucius smiled dangerously. “If you want me to do it, offer something good. Show me you’re not just ordering me around.”

Supreme Man stiffened. “What do you want?”

Lucius didn’t hesitate. “Your sister’s number.”

The man froze.

…

Minutes later, the entire group of Awakeners floated through the air as Lucius levitated them across the gap toward the neighboring mountain.

Supreme Man stared into the distance with a hollow expression.

‘First my crush… now my sister? What kind of devilish man is this?’ His soul was leaving his body. He was an S-rank and even he felt outmatched when it came to this guy.

Lucius, meanwhile, hummed cheerfully as he guided the group through the sky.

But then…

A wave of heat slammed into them from the right.

It was like stepping too close to a forge, the temperature spiked instantly and everyone instinctively turned to look.

A giant dragon hovered several hundred meters away with it’s wings beating slowly but somehow magnificently as well.

Its scales shimmered like molten rubies, and the very air around it twisted from the heat it radiated.

“Is that a dragon? The fuck? What is one doing on the second floor?” one Awakener whispered in disbelief.

The dragon’s chest expanded and its jaw grew wide. Its throat lit up with swirling orange plasma.

[@DebunK: WHY IS THERE A DRAGON NOW??]

[@LizardLover: I THOUGHT THIS FLOOR WAS BUG-THEMED]

[@HeatStroke: WHY IS THE SUN BREATHING AT THEM]

[@WyvernWish: THEY’RE DEAD THEY’RE SO DEAD]

[@ArcFlame: DRAGON ARC LET’S GOOOO]

The dragon unleashed its breath.

A torrent of flames… brighter than any fire magic any of them had ever seen erupted toward the hovering awakeners.

It was a living tsunami of fire, the kind of heat that could melt the world’s strongest metal.

And there was no time to dodge.

The flames swallowed them whole.

The world vanished into white-orange fire.

Lucius didn’t flinch though.

He simply snapped his fingers, bending space like a rippling sheet of water.

A barrier of distorted reality erupted around the entire group, warping the dragon flames into spirals that evaporated harmlessly into the sky.

‘Damn… am I about to get a Dragon slayer title?’