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 A monster’s strength was based on the size of its core; the smaller the core, the stronger it was. The concentrated power in a larger core was weaker and thus easier to destroy. On the other hand, a smaller core was more cohesive, making it harder to locate in the monster’s body.
 Helio had explained to Yuriel once before that the toughest monster the knights had faced was one that had a core the size of a finger.
 The size of core she had seen embedded in Raphlet’s chest yesterday seemed to be around that-
 “Miss Yuriel!”
 Yuriel was absorbed in thinking about Raphlet when she was suddenly scared out of her wits.
 Helio was staring at her with a displeased expression.
 Raphlet had disappeared after Yuriel discovered the core, but he didn’t forget to entrust Helio to oversee her training the next day.
 “I came to help with your training because Commander Raphlet asked me, but what are you doing? Even if you don’t like that I’m the one teaching you today, please try to focus at least,” Helio said sharply.
 He had come to help Yuriel with her shooting drills, as she was eager to train even during their official break.
 “If you keep being unable to focus, then I’ll just leave. It doesn’t seem like you want to practice.”
 At the sight of Helio coldly saying he would go back, Yuriel quickly grabbed the end of his shirt and explained herself.
 “Ah, no, that’s not it. I’m sorry, Sir Helio. There was something bothering me… I’ll stay focused from now on.”
 Helio frowned when he saw her looking so lifeless.
 It was only a few days ago when she had exclaimed that she was no longer scared even after encountering monsters in her dreams. Helio could still vividly remember her beaming expression that day. Yet, the face she was making today looked rather glum.
 She looked troubled.
 He placed the gun back in its bag and gave it to her.
 “Sir Helio....”
 Thinking that he was going to leave, Yuriel gave him a pitiful look.
 Helio shook his head. “I’m not leaving, so you don’t have to look so sullen.”
 “Then why did you put the gun away? Were you not trying to say that today’s training is over?”
 “Well, it’s true. I am stopping training here today, but I’d like to listen to your worries. What’s on your mind?”
 Yuriel stared at him, hesitant. Even if he said that he’d listen to her worries, it didn’t mean she could just freely share what she had seen yesterday.
 ‘A monster’s core is embedded in Raphlet’s chest.’
 Yuriel didn’t want to imagine what horrible events might happen if she revealed what she had seen.
 What if Raphlet was trying to get rid of it? What if it was a secret from the rest of the knights?
 Helio crossed his arms as he stared at Yuriel, who had yet to say anything and only sighed. He raised an eyebrow when he saw her glance up at him for a second, her lips twitching, before she lowered her head back down and let out another long sigh.
 ‘What’s wrong with her?’
 When he had passed by the training grounds the other day, she looked like she was having a hard time, but her expression had been fine. Thus, it didn’t seem like the cause for her current troubled expression was because she found the training hard.
 Come to think of it, Helio recalled how Raphlet’s expression had looked somber just like Yuriel’s when he had abruptly come to find him last night.
 ‘He asked me to oversee her training because he needed to go to the alchemists’ tower.’
 Helio didn’t want to grant Raphlet’s request, but he couldn’t ignore the situation when it involved the alchemists’ tower.
 There was only one reason why Raphlet would go to the alchemists’ tower in the middle of the night. It meant that there was something wrong with the core in his chest.
 Raphlet was the alchemists’ precious test subject.
 He was the sole knight who survived without any problems after getting a core implanted into his body. He was someone who fit the descriptions of the ‘Saint’ recorded in the Book of Prophecies.
 The alchemists were able to conduct research and experiment on his body, hence they treated him very preciously, while the higher-ups at the temple shielded him because they viewed him as the ‘Saint’ in the prophecy.
 The imperial capital itself was the same. Raphlet had thrown away his title as the heir to the Mogris duchy and had come to the capital by himself. A man who was of nobility but held no greed for power. Was there anyone better than him?
 Moreover, even if he was the ‘Saint,’ they could get rid of him if he ever became a threat under the pretext of a subjugation dispatch, and he would be hailed as a hero for eternity.
 Raphlet had left for the tower, though there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with his body, and Yuriel, who had stuck to him all day long, was acting strange.
 Helio racked his brain, trying to make sense of the situation by considering what Raphlet and Yuriel’s relationship was like these days, and came to a conclusion.
 ‘Did he get caught?’
 He was certain that Yuriel must have seen the core in Raphlet’s chest.
 And Yuriel was acting like this because she had probably viewed it in a bad light and became full of worry, unable to share what she had seen.
 Helio decided to take her somewhere she could freely share what was plaguing her mind
 “Miss Yuriel, do you remember me mentioning the Book of Prophecies?”
 “Oh, yes, of course. You riled me up, saying that I wouldn’t be able to read it since it’s not something that can be revealed to civilians.”
 “I don’t think I was rubbing it in, but I guess I won’t have to explain it again since you remember.”
 “What?”
 “You’re not a civilian anymore. Follow me, I’ll take you to see the book.”
 “Right now? All of a sudden?”
 “You don’t have to if you don’t want to.”
 “Ah, no, I want to see it.”
 Yuriel forgot about her worries as she automatically replied to his unexpected offer. Helio took the lead as he gestured for her to follow him by tilting his head.
 The Book of Prophecies was held at a strictly guarded location. They had to pass through four doors, all of which had guards, before they finally arrived at the library.
 The book that Helio showed her was one that didn’t seem to be very old. Though it did look rather shabby, it didn’t look like something that was passed down through multiple generations. It looked like it was ten years old at most.
 It was all handwritten and didn’t even have a cover. It looked damaged, not from old age, but simply because it hadn’t been cared for.
 “A ‘Book of Prophecies hidden from the public’ aside, it just looks like a mess,” Yuriel said to Helio, who had put on a pair of gloves before touching the book. The book’s state was too embarrassing to even call it a collection of prophecies.
 “It’s because we didn’t know it was a book full of prophecies at first. Who would view a book filled with unrealistic nonsense to be important? Everyone thought they were just scribbles.”
 Next to him, Yuriel calmly stared at the pages as Helio carefully flipped through them, and began to think.
 Rather than a book, it seemed more like a collection of scribbles. In fact, weren’t these just scribbles?
 It was hard to make out some of the letters because there was dirt smudged on the pages here and there.
 And wasn’t that blood? Yuriel scrutinized the book, eyebrows drawn together.
 The crooked handwriting looked like it belonged to a child.
 Unable to hide her curiosity, Yuriel asked, “When did the contents of this book start being regarded as prophecies?”
 “Less than ten years ago. I believe the contents were written about a decade ago as well, but a considerable amount of events written in the book have already occurred. Its value as a book of prophecies has been more than proven.”
 “Hmm.” Yuriel nodded her head as she examined the writing. The handwriting seemed familiar for some reason. She knew someone who had terrible handwriting like the one used in this book.
 She didn’t think there would be anyone else with such awful handwriting, but the book before her proved otherwise.
 Perhaps it was because she had trained herself to read the chicken scratch of her acquaintance in the past, but she found the scribbles in the book to be easy to read.
 As Helio turned the pages, Yuriel found the words she was reading to be familiar. Some of the big incidents that Yuriel remembered reading about in the newspaper were mentioned here.
 It seemed this really was a book of prophecies.
 “Huh? Why are these pages blank?” After Helio stopped at a certain page, the pages following it were blank.
 “It looks like there was a page ripped out too.”
 There were clear traces that a page had been ripped out. It looked like it had been taken out in a hurry, as there was an uneven section with tear marks.
 Though there were some letters left on the ripped section, it wasn’t enough for one to deduce what the contents could be about.
 “Yes, and there was a big commotion because of that.”
 “You make it sound like you’ve seen it before?”
 Helio shrugged his shoulders and laughed, but didn’t answer her question. He lowered his gaze to the book. “The prophecy written on this last page has yet to happen. The prophecies are all written down in the order they occur so-”
 “This is the last prophecy?” Yuriel interrupted.
 “Well, if you say it like that, it sounds quite serious.”
 “By any chance, it’s not talking about a final end, is it?”
 Helio let out a chuckle. “If such a scary thing was written down, I wouldn’t have shown it to you, Miss Yuriel. Why don’t you give it a read yourself? They’re words fairly filled with hope.”
 Yuriel lowered her gaze, following his finger.
 “Hold a monster? What does this mean?” she asked.
 “I’m not sure. What do you think?”
 Yuriel’s eyebrows knitted together as soon as she read the prophecy.
 [Worship the one who holds a monster.] [1]
 That was the first line.
 Furrowing her brows and re-reading the line over and over again, Yuriel inhaled sharply when she came to a sudden realization.
 “Is this…”
 Wasn’t this referring to the monster core in Raphlet’s chest? It seemed to fit what the line said about holding a monster.
 Prophecies tended to be ambiguous, so it sounded quite plausible.
 Yuriel quickly read the rest. There were several lines that said to worship and protect the one who holds a monster, the ‘Saint.’
 The words expressed that as long as the ‘Saint’ is worshipped, monsters would never surpass humans.
 Yuriel was further convinced that Raphlet was this ‘Saint’ when she read the very last line:
 [The ‘Saint’ will come to Albraca on their own, so wait for that time.]
 Hadn’t Raphlet entered and joined Albraca of his own volition!?
 T/N: [1] The word for ‘Hold’ was ‘품다’ which can hold several meanings: Embrace, Carry, Hold, Bear, etc. I decided to go with ‘Hold’ because it seems to be the most flexible/ambiguous.
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 A maid who is beaten on behalf of a noble boy.
 Some memories of her childhood were cruel, but Yuriel held no resentment towards the boy. Rather, she liked it–The hand that carefully applied medicine to her wounds was always warm.
 “M-Master, stop, Raph, sa, save…ah, mm…!” “That’s why.. I told you.. to wait.. till I returned.”
 But the Raphlet that appeared in her dreams showed nothing but passion and lust.
 Prophetic dreams. The ability that was like a stigma drove Yuriel towards an unknown future.
 All I want is to be next to you.
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 What would happen, if one day fantasy collides with reality?
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 Human body with fishtail was known as mermaid.
 They were pretty and mysterious, their tears congealed to a pearl worth a city.
 Miao Miao never thought that one day she would set foot on the lake shore as a human.
 She had no desire, only wanted to be close to a man.
 Even though she was seeking her own doom, but she gladly endured the hardship.
 —— I like you, for ninety days.
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 Su Mingyue in real life: 
 Cowardly and cowardly, being bullied will only cry.
 Su Mingyue in the online world: 
 The great chivalrous man is worried about the country and the people. Give me a keyboard, I can destroy the entire planet! The scum that can’t keep up with the brain’s hand speed is all dead, you, unworthy, spray with me!
 Su Mingyue under the national husband’s Weibo: 
 I would like to be the first snowflake in an avalanche, a bowling ball in hail, and a huge wave in the tsunami, fuck, die, him!
 As a keyboard man with explosive combat effectiveness, her life is plain and wonderful. 
 Until one day, Su Mingyue received a lawyer’s warning letter, and she didn’t take it seriously. 
 Then she became the defendant. 
 On the eve of the trial, Su Mingyue appeared tremblingly in front of Demon Overlord Gu Qingfeng… 
 The man stared at her, his eyes were dark and his voice was hoarse: [Come on, do all the oaths you made on the Internet before to me! 】 
 The female protagonist is awkward, and the three views are touching. 
 The male protagonist is the flower of Gaoling, and the scum man is this scum.
 Content tags: rich family happy friends love war love and kill each other 
 Search keyword: Protagonist: Su Mingyue, Gu Qingfeng Supporting role: Other: Recommend the new book “Cottage Empire” 
 One-sentence introduction: What should I do if a man is too fierce? 
 Idea: Don’t spray people on the Internet casually
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 Even the most capable people cannot escape calamity. Zhang Ping, who dreamed of becoming the world’s best, voluntarily enters the palace to become a eunuch before his father has to resort to plundering and crime.
 How can a prince be so thin and bony, that was Zhang Ping’s first impression of Huangfu Jie.
 The prince looks at the kneeling eunuch, the scars and wounds on his body not yet healing.
 Zhang Ping’s eyes turn red—I curse your ancestors for eighteen generations!
 He is just little uglier; weirder than normal people.
 Are ugly people not human? I, Zhang Ping, swear to cultivate the world’s second best over here in the palace!
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 Xiao He casually filled out an online questionnaire and unexpectedly got a job out of it. As long as he perfectly fulfilled the employer’s requests, he could receive 30 million RMB in remuneration. The cash-strapped Xiao He’s eyes lit up, and he took the task immediately.
 His job was actually to enter the world of a patient with a mental disorder, so he could treat this patient who had a severely split personality…
 Black-bellied, violent, murderous, impetuous, gloomy, inhuman, yandere, prejudiced…various different types of personalities, strange and ever-changing mental worlds—Xiao He captured them all one by one. He just felt like he’d become completely ill!
 30 million bucks weren’t that easy to earn. By the time he earned the money, he might already be in a mental hospital.
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 He is the most pure black, and she is pure and clear white.
 From the moment he met her, he never planned to let her go. This was an obsession.
 Philosophically define it like this: a person is too focused on something and falls into a certain emotion for a long time, this complex will become tangible and bind it.
 And he has obsessions and the capital to execute them.
 So he finally made a move, broke her wings with his own hands, and kept her by his side.
 Simply put, it’s a story of a demon-like gangster who fell in love with a white and clean woman from a good family and then refused to let her go…
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 Once reborn, she became a wealthy young man who disguised herself as a man and was spurned by everyone.
 Transformed, the young man rose up, entered the military camp, was ashamed before the snow, and counterattacked in the face in minutes!
 The filthy ruffian, no matter whether she is picking up girls or flirting with men, she is able to capture even the commander-in-chief.
 One day, the subordinates came down and reported: “Report to Commander Ye, Adjutant Gu went to the bathroom to peek at the soldiers taking a bath!”
 Ye Yujin didn’t lift his head: “Who did you see, just wipe it off!”
 “Report to Commander Ye, another girl has come to ask Adjutant Gu to kiss her and hold her up high!”
 “Wait, I’ll go out myself!”
 “Report Night Commander…”
 Ye Yujin was angry: “If you don’t clean up for three days, the roof will be uncovered!”
 Gu Qiqi smiled charmingly, “Speak well, who will clean up who?”
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 After announcing it will be discontinuing all service, the internet game ‘Yggdrasil’ shut down… That was the plan, but for some reason, the player character did not log out some time after the server was closed. NPCs start to become sentient. A normal youth who loves gaming in the real world seemed to have been transported into an alternate world along with his guild, becoming the strongest mage with the appearance of a skeleton, Momonga. He leads his guild ‘Ainz Ooal Gown’ towards an unprecedented legendary fantasy adventure!
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 Chen Yan travels between worlds, ending up becoming an honorable prince in a medieval fantasy world. Yet this world was not quite as simple as he thought. Witches with magical powers abound, and fearsome wars between churches and kingdoms rage throughout the land.
 Roland, a prince regarded as hopeless by his own father and assigned to the worst fief, spends his time developing a poor and backward town into a strong and modern city, while fighting against his siblings for the throne and absolute control over the kingdom. Join Roland as he befriends and allies with witches and, through fighting and even farming, pushes back invaders coming from the realm of evil.
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 Liu Man transmigrated from thousands of years ago to the modern world. Before she transmigrated, she was completely broke. After she transmigrated, she was still worrying about her wealth. And so, for her to survive, she decided to start earning money by becoming a cyber star: trading and selling products, taking photos of her kittens, and showing off bits of her skills. One day she realized, that unconsciously, she had become one of the most famous celebrities.
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 Born in the royal family, Yan Shi has too many things that he is helpless toward.
 Doesn’t matter whether he is willing or not, he has already been dragged into the battle for the throne.
 But above him there’s a father who detests and rejects him, and below him there are brothers watching him like a tiger watches its prey.
 Yan Shi’s every step is filled with uncertainty, afraid that with one wrong move, he would lose everything.
 But just as he was about to rein in the net, his stomach actually got bigger!
 Help: We’re in the midst of fighting for the throne, what should I do with my big stomach? How do I ensure no one discovers it?
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 Yu Sheng is born with a Crow Mouth. Nothing good he says comes true, whereas everything bad he says does.
 In the last exam before summer vacation for his 2nd year of High School, “Troublemaker” Yu Sheng from the terrifying Central Third High jinxes himself into the place where the cream of the crop gathers — The Provincial Interhigh Summer Camp.
 Because of his face, he was picked to be the partner of Province’s No. 1 high schooler.
 The night before their finals, the undefeatable Young Master Yu who has never blanched before speaks up. He hurtles tonnes of tr*sh-talk at the No. 1 Home Tutor who slams the door on him—
 You were almost late to the exam!
 You almost forgot to shade your MCQ!
 You nearly got off-topic in your essay!
 The invigilators were all flocking around you!
 You can only score 50 points more than the city’s No. 2 at most!
 ……
 Later, when he outscores the city’s No. 2 by 50 points in his Sciences, Jin Linkun faces the media who swarm him and answers simply when asked the secret to his excellent marks.
 “Study hard, study smart, and have a good attitude.”
 Jin Linkun: “And also, find a little Crow Mouth to fall in love with.”
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