T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World

The head maid, personally appointed by Kurion, explained with a smile: "The nobles are deeply intertwined and closely connected. This matter arose because of you all. It would only be awkward to mention that it was the residence of a certain knight when there are criticisms afterwards."

The jailer chuckled: "Looks like we have quite a bad reputation in Anna."

"It's not a bad reputation. In His Majesty's words, it's a reputation earned by standing tall on the boundary between reality and illusion, fighting to the death."

The head maid had flowing black hair, was beautiful, and had a sweet voice. She was personally chosen by Wick to take care of the group's daily needs.

This time is different from before, when tensions are high and defenses must be taken. Given that Kurien is clearly an ally, the boundary between reality and illusion is open to enjoying the benefits of helping to eliminate the academic clique ahead of time.

After the head maid left, only the two of them remained in the hall. Mint couldn't wait to start flipping through the records about Renee.

The Grelian family is a top magical family in Anna, and Renee is the most brilliant new magical star in more than ten years. The Anna royal family has very detailed records.

The moment Renee opened her eyes to the world, she embarked on the path of a magician, a path countless people in this world yearn for but cannot enter.

At age 4, in the second stage, she told her parents that she could see strange threads flowing in front of her, sometimes visible, sometimes not, sometimes not.

The Grelian family was shocked and conducted repeated tests, only to discover that young Renee could indirectly visualize the flow of magic through her affinity for it.

This is a skill that countless advanced magicians have only just begun to grasp.

For Renee, her life was a safety net, with amniotic fluid as the minimum guarantee.

If life is a long-distance race, then she wasn't on the track from the very beginning; she was sitting in the judges' seat.

For Renee's parents, it was a true case of a mother gaining status through her daughter.

The Grelian family, a thousand-year-old magical family, cannot have everyone who is an outstanding individual.

The accumulation of knowledge provided a safety net for the family, ensuring that each generation would have one or two outstanding individuals at the pinnacle of Anna.

The family bloodline, with its average abilities and ordinary talents, ensures that everyone can embark on the path of a magician; after that, it's up to each person to rely on their own abilities.

Those with exceptional talent will receive special attention.

Renee's parents were unremarkable, marginalized members of the family, but Renee's status in the family rose overnight.

The family's prestige, the outside world's praise, and the abundance of material possessions made Renee's parents extremely strict with her education.

Renee's childhood was a constant cycle of one school assignment after another.

Whatever knowledge Renee wanted to learn, the top family scholars would personally come and explain it to her in detail.

By making promises, Grelian reached an agreement with Kurien in exchange for the support of the Imperial Academy. Renee was granted permission to audit any Imperial Academy course she wished to attend in a side room.

The scoundrel who coveted Renée, the space magic master Dussel, was hired at a high price to come to the mansion to teach her the basics and advanced knowledge of space magic since she was 9 years old.

The cost of manufacturing demonic weapons and the Suter Heart Stone, which counteracts the power of demonic spiritual corruption, both originate from this connection.

It can be said that Dussel's arrangements against the demons of the Great Snow Mountain were all based on a deal with the Grelian family, in which he taught Renee spatial magic.

Of course, the Grelian family was probably unaware that Dussel had once tried to kidnap Renee to create a more noble and powerful lineage of magicians.

Endless learning, endless knowledge—at a child's most playful age, when she yearns to connect with nature, Renee's vision is filled only with shadowy figures and countless books.

She truly loves magic, yearns for magic, and is filled with a curiosity to explore the unknown.

But she is not a puppet whose body is mechanically filled with knowledge.

When she was 10 years old, after Dussel finished teaching her spatial magic, Renee, who was already at level 4, asked Dussel a question.

"With my current abilities, how far can I tear through space and run?"

Dussel didn't understand why she asked that question, and answered frankly, "3 meters."

What if it's released continuously?

"As the distance decreases, eventually, you will be cut apart by space due to the lack of magic."

"Does having more magic power mean you can do better?"

"That depends on your understanding of spatial magic."

The fact that Dussel's conversation with her appeared in Kurien's files proves that Renee did something big.

That night, Renee stole the family potion and escaped from the family.

She could learn whatever she wanted and freely enter and leave the potion workshop, so no one ever put any guard against her.

This escape at night alarmed half of the capital city of Anna.

The entire Grelian family mobilized to search high and low for her, but she seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Ten days later, just as the Grelian family was nearing despair, Renee returned on her own, bringing back a giant python in the process.

Upon seeing this, everyone at the boundary between the virtual and the real was a little confused, but a smile played on their lips.

Renee has guts to just leave on a whim.

Even Mint pursed her lips and sighed softly, "It was quite interesting, but unfortunately it went astray later."

Not only Kurien's guards, but even the Grelian family couldn't find out why Renee suddenly ran away from home and why she plunged into the dangerous mountains to wander.

No matter how you asked, or who asked, even her parents, Renee remained silent. Only when the python was mentioned did she say, "That's my friend. It has a name and a little tail."

No one knows what Renee is really thinking. Since becoming a recognized magical genius, she has become increasingly silent, listening more than speaking.

Most of the time, her expressions only relate to magic; outside of that, she always seems to be in a daze, indifferent to everything else.

Some people think that Renee's parents are too strict with her studies and that her academic workload is too heavy.

Some believe that the family's expectations are too high, putting too much psychological pressure on the child.

With a single order from the head of the family, Renee was given the freedom to choose whether or not to study.

Her parents forbade her from interacting too much with "lowly" low-ranking mages, believing that they would influence Renee's understanding of magic.

Renee was very obedient, so she would take her python friend Little Tail with her every day to play.

That summer when she was 10, Renee played wildly and carefree all day long.

When the guard who was gathering information presented it to Kurion, he commented, "Having observed Renee for so long, this is the first time I've seen her so lively."

In contrast to Renee's liveliness, her parents seemed irritable.

He repeatedly advised Renee that "studies should be the priority, you can play anytime."

"Don't waste your talent. You are a genius born to be a part of the history of magic."

"The future magical community will surely record the era in which you lived in the longest text."

Renee never disobeyed her parents; after being called in for a talk, she would obediently study for a while longer.

Like receiving a buff, once the effect wore off, Renee returned to her own world.

"Um……"

"what?"

"What?"

The boundary between reality and illusion was blurred after only two lines of reading. Everyone's pupils dilated in shock.

No one continued reading; they looked at each other as if they had seen a ghost.

Mint, who was holding the document, tightened her grip on the neck, turned her head slightly, and pointed to the lines of text on it.

"Am I seeing things?"

Is this even text?

Why do these characters look so unfamiliar?

Renee's parents mixed a highly poisonous potion into her food and fed it to Little Tail.

The note about the inner guard was particularly glaring.

"Renée knelt beside the corpse and cried all night."

"She didn't get angry, didn't question her parents, and went back to her normal life as if nothing had happened."

Until Renee was 16 and was specifically chosen to enter the Star Speakers Academy, over the course of six years, she became the child her parents wanted her to be.

Every word and action of his was exactly the same as that of a standard genius.

Curry saw things more deeply than the interior defenders.

His annotation was...

"Now, the Grelian family has raised a monster, and they had better hope that someone will be able to put the monster back in its cage."

"Relax from spying on Renee."

Jiang Heyi felt a chill run through his body, and Bohe couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

Silence filled the room for a long time, with only the heavy breathing of a few people echoing in the room.

Fries pursed his lips: "I think I understand what Kurien means."

The blanket couldn't help but murmur, "So it wasn't that he intentionally wanted to hurt Mint, but that's what he meant..."

Zhong Zemo slammed his fist on the table, gritting his teeth: "His parents are simply insane. They can give birth but they can't raise a child, and there are clearly people in the family who understand the situation. Why didn't they hand him over to them!"

Anyone could see that something deep inside Renee had completely broken down since that incident when she was 10.

From then on, he mechanically and numbly followed the family's teachings, filling his body with knowledge.

The four Primarchs clapped their hands: "Do you think that Kurien's other meaning might be... that Renee actually wants to get closer to Mint?"

"Huh?" Orange Tea was confused. "But she chased after Mint and beat her up at the Star Speakers Academy."

French Fries seized on the key point: "Your sparring matches always end with just a point being reached?"

Now that you mention it, Mint remembers.

In every real sparring match, Renee always won by a perfectly timed move, never going too far.

In real combat, it's easiest to lose control and accidentally injure someone.

His combat ability back then was so weak that it was hard to look at. When he clashed with Renee, he was always defeated without opening his mouth, closing his eyes, spitting blood, collapsing to the ground, or even getting a scratch.

Renee's group of noble lackeys tried to humiliate her, but they were all stopped by the phrase, "Why bother arguing with a wild mage?"

It seems to be explicitly stating their noble status, but it also appears to be a unilateral attempt to resolve the conflict.

Mint got dizzy.

"Why, why?"

Zhong Zemo, as expected of a teacher, immediately grasped the crux of the matter.

"How did Little Tail of that giant python die?"

The jailer remembered something and whispered to Jiang Heyi.

"Do you remember what Candlelight said? After Anna World shattered, Renee has been looking for an opportunity to apologize to Mint."

Upon first hearing this, I could only think, "Sigh, can we reconcile?"

Now, savoring it again...

At the end of the world, Renee, who is now one of the wise men of the apocalypse, is most likely speaking the truth.

No wonder Kurien wanted Mint to win. Renee is now a ticking time bomb, but she's getting stronger and harder to contain.

As the ruler of the empire, Kurien could not possibly interfere in the affairs of others.

We can't just say outright that there's something wrong with your parenting style, that you've raised children to be monsters who are prone to turning evil and going berserk, can we?

Despite the many learned members of the Grelian family, not a single one noticed Renee's problem.

The events of 10 years ago did not completely kill the lively Renee; she simply went into hiding!

Detonating the problem early while it's still under control would only benefit the empire.

And it's best to complete this step in full view of everyone, under the watchful eyes of the public.

Mint Man was a little dizzy: "Could it be that if we defeat her, she will... go berserk and go crazy?"

The boundary between reality and illusion was blurred, and everyone's expressions varied.

It's understandable for a normal person to see Renee as a normal person after reading the booklet prepared by Curryn. That would be somewhat unfair to the hard work of the interior guards.

Renee may look like a normal person, but her heart and lungs are full of darkness, and she has nowhere to release the negative energy that has accumulated in her heart.

Chapter 382 The Night Before the Third Trial