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Baek Seol-hee, who remained alone outside, closed her eyes and planted her sword into the ground, wearing the pure white uniform Jin Yoo-ha had given her.@@novelbin@@

Sssss—

She took a deep breath, awakening the long-dormant essence of ice within her.

'...Indeed, the absorption of mana slows down with the ice attribute.'

It was a curious thing.

As soon as she activated her ice attribute, the absorption of her mana slowed, and even her diminished physical abilities began to recover. Baek Seol-hee started to spread the icy mana from the tip of her sword.

Saaa—

The ground around her began to freeze over, a white frost descending upon the grass and trees around her.

The cold energy surged through the ground, spreading downward. All she needed to do was find the tree buried underground and freeze it solid.

As she continued pouring her mana into the earth, like trying to fill a bottomless pit, Baek Seol-hee drifted into thought.

A short while ago, she had harshly rebuked the Sword Sovereign for abandoning Jin Yoo-ha, but in truth, she had no right to say such things.

Despite everything, Jin Yoo-ha had found a breakthrough in the Wolyeong Sword Technique thanks to the Sword Sovereign’s training, while all she had done was hand her disciple a cursed sword, endangering his life.

Through this ordeal, she had discovered the essence of the Wolyeong Sword Technique.

'A sword that can only be completed by experiencing the fear of death…'

She couldn’t do it. No, even if she could, she had no intention of doing so.

There were many reasons she could give, but the fundamental issue was that she could no longer feel the torment of approaching death. If anything, she would accept death as just deserts if it came now.

'Because I’m a teacher who almost killed her disciple.'