Legendary Awakening: Strongest Class In the Apocalypse-Chapter 36: Delusional

Instinctively, Xavier crushed the shard.

He hadn’t even use much force, yet the fragment burst into thousands of fine particles that slowly merged with his body.

Boom!

It felt like an explosion went off in his head.

Information and experience he had never possessed before flooded his mind.

Practicing slashes thousands of times.

Slicing necks.

The pungent smell of blood.

The thick, metallic scent of iron.

For a moment, he felt overwhelmed. Then, just as quickly as the discomfort came, it faded, and everything felt natural—like breathing.

This was the power of an experience shard. One not could clearly distinguish whether the memories and skills belonged to someone else or were their own. It was like remembering a technique you had mastered years ago.

Without even realizing it, changes had already became apparent the way Xavier held Warden Ruinblade changed.

If before he had gripped it stiffly and with brute force, now his posture was relaxed and fluid. The change was so natural that even Xavier himself did not notice it.

The four women watched from the sidelines. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

From the brief vacant look in Xavier’s eyes, they could tell he was likely interacting with the Infinite Record.

After a while, clarity returned to his gaze, and the thick purple death-will aura surrounding him slowly faded away.

The first thing he saw when his vision refocused was Princess Evelyn, smiling at him with her bewitching face.

"Are you okay?" she asked in a gentle tone, her words filled with clear concern.

Even the mature elf, Lirin, standing beside Evelyn, wore a look of genuine worry.

With just one glance, Xavier’s expression immediately chilled.

These damned vixens.

Did they forget how they ran with their tails between their legs when he needed them the most? Was he supposed to just ignore that?

"Why are you here?" Xavier asked coldly, a deep frown on his face.

Millie sensed the shift in atmosphere.

She silently moved to stand beside Xavier, as if to shield him from any danger.

Xavier noticed this and his frown deepened. He still couldn’t understand why she had chosen to follow him, let alone protect him.

As if that wasn’t enough, the cold and aloof Jackie also stepped forward, placing herself between him and the elves like a protective wall.

Xavier wanted to lash out, but thinking about how they were still standing here without running away, he couldn’t bring himself to say those harsh words.

On the other hand, Princess Evelyn’s gaze leisurely roamed up and down his figure, as if she were examining a rare commodity. A seductive smile curled on her charming lips.

"Of course I’m here for you," Evelyn said, enunciating each word slowly.

"Here for me..." Xavier muttered, a slightly dazed look in his eyes, as if confirming whether he had heard her correctly.

The next moment, he couldn’t hold back his laughter.

"What a fucking joke. You’re here for me, you say, and I’m supposed to believe this nonsense?"

"Long-eared woman, what do you think I am? Some pushover? Some gullible brat?

Disappear before I change my mind or your fate would no different from the goblin king."

As he spoke, especially at the last line, the look in Xavier’s eyes turned especially chilling. He had no intention of entertaining these two-faced people, who changed colors faster than a chameleon.

While this exchange was taking place, Jackie’s face suddenly turned pale. She coughed lightly, a streak of blood leaking from the corner of her mouth.

"Jackie! What happened? Are you okay?" Millie asked in a panic when she saw her friend like that.

"I’m fine," Jackie replied, wiping the blood away quickly.

If anyone had paid close attention, they would have noticed how her gaze lingered on Evelyn for a fraction longer, a faint trace of shock flickering in her eyes. Then only she had started coughing.

Evelyn, meanwhile, seemed completely unaffected by Xavier’s harsh words, as if she hadn’t heard them at all. The smile on her face only grew more enchanting.

"It appears you don’t want to know about your sister’s wellbeing, then," she said softly, a hint of disappointment in her tone.

....!

An extremely suffocating silence descended on the battlefield.

For some reason, everyone present felt a chill run down their spine.

"How dare you... How do you know about my sister?"

Xavier’s expression had turned ice-cold, his voice coming out utterly frigid.

There were few things in this world that he truly cared about, and his sister stood at the very top of that list.

"How I know doesn’t matter," Evelyn replied calmly. "What really matters is—do you want to know whether your sister is safe? Or am I wrong?"

The coldness on Xavier face intensified.

Just as it looked like Xavier was about to lose control, something happened, clarity slowly returned to his eyes.

His emotions were no longer as volatile as before.

Unknown to everyone, another thin line of blood slid down Jackie’s lips. She wiped it away quietly once again, going unnoticed.

"Haa..." Xavier took a deep breath to calm himself down.

He was being affected by his emotions far too easily. He knew he had always had the problem of mood swings and sudden bursts of anger, but never to this extent.

The mention of his sister by a stranger should have angered him, yes, but not to this degree.

What changed...? he couldn’t help but wonder.

Just then, a cold chuckle echoed in his mind.

"Did you really think you could order around a seventh-sequence being and not suffer any consequences?"

He had barely heard her mocking words when something clicked in his mind.

Fragments of the scene at Fort John flashed before his eyes—the corruption test, the strange readings—and now Zerin’s smug voice.

His mood swings definitely had something to do with her.

He wanted to question her further, but now wasn’t the right time. His thoughts shifted once again to Princess Evelyn. If she knew about his sister, then she surely had a way to find her—or at least tell him if she was safe.

Of course, he didn’t doubt her words for even a moment.

In that brief instant, he considered all sorts of possibilities for how Evelyn might know about his sister. For him, these weren’t just wild guesses but potential futures that existed somewhere.

We must not forget his original philosophy: according to Xavier himself, the human mind could only imagine things that already existed somewhere in reality, if not in this then in some other. Some might say his way of thinking was delusional or naïve, that he didn’t understand how the world worked—but that was simply how he was.