Novels by Freshko

However, Kevin barely heard it.Amid his fading consciousness, he only heard Ulrock's voice growing distant."Tomorrow morning, come to the greenhouse. You still cannot count the dew correctly."Kevin woke among the smell of wet earth and withered plants.The light of Planet Zora's three moons entered through the cracks in the glass of the House of Withered Plants, creating strange patterns on the dusty floor. His body felt as if it had just been struck by a war chariot, but that pain was different from usual. Not merely physical pain, but a weariness that came from within the soul—like someone who had just run a thousand miles in one night.He tried to sit up. His head spun."Do not move."The voice came from the corner of the room. Ulrock was sitting on a soil bucket, holding a steaming cup of tea. His gray robe was still worn, his hair still messy, and his blind eye still stared in an uncertain direction. But there was something different this morning. There was a deeper calm, as i

He stepped forward, drawing a vertical line in the air."Cut hunger."The line did not split Morgath's body.It split the concept of "hunger" that Kevin had just falsified.Morgath screamed.For the first time, the Mana Eater felt a hunger that turned to devour himself. He clawed at his chest, his skin drying, his undead body cracking.But Sivra intervened.Black threads appeared from his fingers, stitching Morgath's cracked body together."Do not die yet, fool."Sivra stared at Kevin."Strange child. Your soul is too full, yet your eyes are empty. I want to stitch you into a puppet."Thousands of black threads shot forward.Kevin moved his hand, creating a silver Mana blade to cut them. But the threads could not be severed. Every time they were cut, they reconnected, growing even more numerous.Aurora screamed, "Those are Soul Threads! Do not touch them! They bind memories!"One thread grazed Kevin's arm.Instantly, his vision changed.He saw Windy standing in the distance."Kevin, c

Ulrock released his grip on Kevin's shoulder, staring toward the thousands of students running toward the exit now blocked by the dark forces."Do not run, Kevin. Save them all."The sky of Horrace Academy tore like old cloth pulled forcefully by invisible hands.From the gaping rift above the arena, darkness descended not as shadow, but as something alive. It flowed, writhed, crept through the air like black oil refusing to mix with light. Every time that darkness touched the arena stone, the stone surface instantly aged, cracked, and crumbled into ash.Screams filled the entire academy."Run!""The east gate is closed!""The professors lost!""The Order of the Eternal Darkness! They really came!"Thousands of students ran without direction. Some tried to chant protective spells, but the moment their magic light appeared, the black mist immediately lashed out and ate it. The light magic that should have been defense instead turned into purple poison, turning against its owner.In the

Director Varn stared at the arena with a furrowed brow, but he could not cancel the ancient rules without destroying the academy's authority. "Rules are rules, Miss Silvermoon. We can only hope that 'Silvermoon Family' artifact is strong enough.""Begin!" the referee shouted, immediately erecting a double protective shield and leaping out of the arena as fast as possible.Agustinus did not waste time. He raised his staff made of dragon bone. *"Fallen Star Hell—Absolute Execution!"*The sky above the arena turned blood red. Dozens of giant fireballs the size of houses, compressed until they were bluish-white, fell simultaneously toward Kevin. This attack was not meant to cripple. It was meant to turn Kevin into ash.The spectators screamed. Aurora closed her eyes, unable to bear it.In the center of the arena, Kevin stood calmly. The hot wind from the fireballs burned his clothes, but his face showed not the slightest fear. His mind was empty. He was the stone at the base of the storm.

This was not merely a gardener's advice. It was the *same frequency*. It was the resonance of the same soul that had once taught him in the Desert of Fallen Stars.*Yun He once said: If the door is locked, change the shape of your body.**This man said: Do not just change the shape. Change the way you see the door.*This was no coincidence. This was no ordinary person.This was Ulrock. The last hermit. The mind-forging teacher Kevin had been searching for.Kevin did not ask, "Who are you?" He did not ask, "Are you Ulrock?"If he asked, he would ruin this moment. The old man before him did not want to be acknowledged. He wanted to be tested.Kevin swallowed the blood in his mouth. He forced himself to sit cross-legged, ignoring the pain in his head, and stared at the old man with full attention."If... if a shadow will disappear when light comes," Kevin asked quietly, his voice hoarse, following the old man's metaphorical flow. "How can a shadow avoid disappearing? Must it become darke

Kevin's victory in the first round did not bring peace, but a far greater storm.The rumor of the "illegal Silvermoon Family artifact" spread like wildfire. The Council of Teachers of Horrace Academy, feeling their authority questioned, could not ignore these accusations. They could not disqualify Kevin without evidence, but they also could not let this scandal continue.Their solution? A "Trial of Truth." An exhibition match where Kevin would not face an ordinary student, but an *Inquisitor* from the academy's special branch.Kevin's opponent was **Lysander Thorne**, a prodigy from an old noble family dedicated to the "Sacred Light of Illusion Unraveling." Lysander did not use elemental magic to destroy bodies. His magic was designed to peel away layers, destroy disguises, and force enemies to reveal their true form.---"You are not a sorcerer," Lysander Thorne said as he stepped into the center of the arena. His robe was pure white, without a single stain. His eyes were pale gold,

Carrying a firearm, Ken approached several robbers located near the elevator.Ken deliberately lowered his hat so his face would not be seen.Fortunately, the robbers he targeted did not pay much attention to Ken. They only saw him from a distance as Ken stepped toward them, but once he was near, they no longer looked at Ken.In fact, if only they had paid attention to Ken as he approached, they would have seen the difference in the skin of Ken’s hands, because Ken had the yellowish-white skin typical of East Asians, while the robbers had the white skin typical of Eastern Europeans.The robbers Ken approached had already shifted their gaze toward the hostages, so they did not notice Ken continuing to get closer and closer.For a moment Ken observed the situation around him. After he felt the situation was safe enough for him to act, Ken immediately acted.The firearm he carried had a sling, so he let the weapon hang without holding it, then both his hands immediately moved to acupress

In this rushed situation because the enemy would soon come out of the second room, Ken immediately did something he had just thought of in a second.At this moment two robbers had just been about to leave this room. The two of them were very shocked when their bodies had already met Ken in front of the doorway that had no door leaf.This position made Ken improvise.Quickly Ken immediately tapped these two people, and this tap was not just any tap.This tap immediately paralyzed these two people. They did not die, but the tap Ken made contained acupressure strikes toward their blood channels, so the two of them fell silent like dazed people.The two of them were still conscious, but they were unable to move their limbs or shout, even though Ken was already very close in front of their eyes.The acupressure technique Ken was now performing was learned from Uncle Kwee. Since long ago, acupressure had been famous in the world of Chinese kung fu.This acupressure was performed on a person

Ken reacted quickly. As soon as they appeared, his hands immediately moved toward four positions—the 4 robbers.The four robbers died instantly after their heads were pierced by white clouds that moved and destroyed their heads like bullets destroying someone’s head.Then, Ken deliberately approached the robber who was standing because Ken knew that once he shot with his white cloud, the robber would fall down and that could make a fairly noisy sound.Therefore, Ken immediately held the body of the robber he had just shot with the small cloud so that the robber would not fall to the floor.Quickly, Ken placed the body of the robber who had been standing onto the floor with almost no sound.After that, Ken immediately adjusted the positions of the three robbers who had almost fallen from their chairs after being shot by Ken.Ken’s shots using the small clouds all hit these four robbers very accurately; not one of them was able to make a sound. Their foreheads already had holes from Ken

The door on the 5th floor had only been open for a moment when suddenly the 5th-floor door closed again and the elevator immediately went toward the 1st floor.“Why?” Ken asked John McClane. It turned out John McClane was the one who closed the 5th-floor door and had previously pressed the first-floor button.“We have to save the hostages on the first floor first, including my wife and child. Please… I am afraid their time is limited,” John McClane pleaded with Ken.Ken immediately pressed the button for the 2nd floor so that this elevator would go down to the 2nd floor first.“Why the 2nd floor?” John McClane asked.“It is too risky if we go directly to the 1st floor, because there are many robbers and many hostages. As soon as we go down, we will immediately become targets.”“So what is the way?”“There are stairs from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor. We will finish them off little by little from the 2nd floor first, then go to the 1st floor.”“All right, whatever you say.”A few mom

A second after everyone in this room became very astonished and gaped upon seeing the body of the man wrapped with the bomb become frozen, suddenly Ken did something unexpected by John McClane.When everyone was still gaping in astonishment at what Ken had done, suddenly, quick as lightning, Ken had already grabbed toward 3 people.But the three people he grabbed were not the frozen person, nor the two people found carrying firearms and standing on the left.But those three people all came from the right line. Ken grabbed two men and one woman standing on the right.One of the women was one of the two women crying in fear in the last line of 4 people.Ken’s grip on those three people made all three immediately weak instantly.John McClane appeared to protest seeing what Ken did, but Ken ignored his questions.After that, with quick movement, Ken immediately removed the bomb from the stomach of the person Ken had briefly frozen.After that, Ken threw the bomb toward the ceiling of the

Because it turned out that when the man opened his shirt, there was a bomb wrapped around his stomach, while the man looked terrified.John McClane was very shocked to see the presence of the bomb. “So you are one of the robbers!” John McClane’s face tensed. He pointed his weapon toward the person whose stomach was wrapped with the bomb.“Do not shoot. If you shoot him, the bomb will explode,” Ken said behind John McClane.This made John McClane hurriedly lower his firearm. Then he told the other man, whom he had not yet checked, to join the others on the right.“Now I know who the three robbers are,” John McClane said while staring toward the man wearing the bomb and also the two men on the left.Ken did not respond to John McClane’s words; he only observed the bomb. He wanted to neutralize the bomb because even though the bomb, when it exploded, would not harm him, it was possible the bomb would harm John McClane and the other hostages, and he did not want that to happen.After all,