Isekai Adventure in the Dimensional Cube

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In the endlessly exploding Franzel family villa, the corridor where Reiger stood was unusually silent, giving off a feeling of deathly stillness.

Reiger felt a faint magic power fluctuation, and the air around him grew unnaturally stagnant as if this area was isolated from the outside world, ensuring that no one outside would notice whatever happened here.

"Barrier Magic?"

Reiger turned his gaze towards the group of people that appeared in front of him.

The group was small, about four people, all masked and dressed in some kind of standardized swordsman attire, resembling a band of wanderers or a group of assassins. They emitted an aura that was completely out of place here.

Among the four, three had swords at their waists, while the remaining one wore a magician's robe over his swordsman's attire, making him look somewhat out of place. However, he was chanting a spell. The faint magic power Reiger had sensed came from this man, indicating that the Barrier Magic isolating them was his doing.

Then, one of the masked individuals who seemed to be the leader, spoke out.

"Reiger Brillhaut."

In a mechanical voice, he uttered those words.

"Someone wants to see you."

With one sentence, he clarified their objective.

"Me?" Reiger frowned, speaking to himself, "The target is me and not Yuri?"

No, that's impossible.

With such commotion, attacking a Marquis's home, a strategic magician, they couldn't possibly be here for him.

"I see, am I just incidental?"

Reiger realized this point.

And it was indeed so.

"Being a mere commoner, yet obstinately staying at a Marquis's home, shamelessly getting close to that lady, even deceiving her to form a friendship with you, this is a grave crime," said the other party in a cold, mechanical voice, "Be grateful, our master intends to deal with you personally, hence you will not be immediately killed by us. Surrender and you might live a bit longer."

The moment this man finished speaking, the other three masked people also chimed in.

"Surrender."

"Surrender."

"Surrender."

Like a funeral dirge, they monotonously echoed the brief phrase in a mechanical, chilling voice that sent shivers down the spine.

If it were someone else, even if they were mentally strong, they'd probably be unsettled by such a display.

Unfortunately, that did not include Reiger.

"That makes sense," Reiger relaxed his furrowed brows and said lightly, "Given what you Basolo Family have been up to in this villa, buying people everywhere, and even setting us up, how could you not know about me?"

Entities like Aquil might not know how good the relationship between Reiger and Yuri actually is, but the Basolo Family had visited the door, seemingly more than once, and their butler went around bribing the villa's servants to collect information, this tactic apart from the plotting should have provided them with quite some information about the Franzel family villa.

And how Reiger got along with Yuri, others might be unclear, but the people in this villa surely knew.

After all, during the month Reiger was recuperating, Yuri made no attempt to hide her visits, coming to see him daily. After Reiger was up and about, the two often had afternoon tea in the garden pavilion, not something the walk-in-and-out servants could fail to notice.

Now, it seemed through Yuri's father, they intended to bypass Yuri and directly tie a marriage contract. This attack might also be related to this matter. It wasn't strange for them to seize this opportunity to eliminate Reiger, who was too close to Yuri and an eyesore.

Thus, Reiger guessed he really was just incidental.

But—

"I am not interested in playing pretend games with privileged young masters."

Reiger ignored the creepy masked individuals, not at all intimidated, instead walking towards them.

"Move aside."

Reiger warned in a calm voice.

The masked individuals fell silent abruptly.

Immediately, the eerie aura they emitted turned entirely murderous.

"Whew—"

The next second, the three sword-carrying masked individuals, like spring-loaded machines suddenly activated, burst forward with accelerated speed, creating the sound of rushing wind.

At the same time, the one magician also started chanting louder, intensifying the magic power fluctuations.

The four Basolo Family assassins launched their attack on Reiger without hesitation, and from the intensity, none of it seemed like they planned to capture him alive.

In response, Reiger kept walking in the same stride, maintaining his original pace towards the forward.

Both parties moved forward and charged, naturally meeting rather quickly.

Then the three masked individuals suddenly drew their swords, bringing up three streaks of sword-light aiming at Reiger.

In that instant, Reiger's steps shifted ever so slightly, his figure blurred, and he passed through the sword-lights approaching him.

"Bang!"

One masked swordsman felt a blur before his eyes as a figure appeared in front of him and delivered a kick right on the chest, causing a blast of impact and a muffled thud.

"Cough...!"

The masked swordsman exhaled the air in his lungs, propelled by the heavy kick flying back and hitting the wall, which sent ripples across a light screen.

The light screen, indeed the barrier that isolated the area, if not for it, the masked swordsman would have certainly crashed through the wall and flown outside.

Reiger's lightning-fast strike was just that forceful.

"———!?"

The other two masked swordsmen suddenly stalled, seemingly startled by such an abrupt change.

Only the magician's chanting voice continued, and a moment later, the fluctuations of magic power began to emanate from him.

"Blindness."

"Confusion."

"Paralysis."

The opponent had cast three kinds of magic in one breath, all of which could afflict the enemy with negative statuses.

Blindness was the magic that made the enemy lose sight, unable to see anything clearly.

Confusion was the magic that made the enemy lose their reason, unable to think calmly, not even to fight calmly.

Paralysis was the magic that made the enemy's movements sluggish, as if shocked by electricity, unable to move smoothly.

These three types of magic were all combat-level magic, not very sophisticated, but when used on a swordsman without the ability to dispel curses, they were enough to infuriate any enemy.

Under the afflicted state of lost sight, lost reason, and paralysis, combined with a few swordsmen surrounding and attacking from all sides, one could only imagine how terrible and dangerous the situation was.

The other two masked swordsmen who had not been attacked yet reacted, immediately suppressing their astonishment, ignited with a killing intent, and thrust their swords toward Reiger's arms.

The two planned to pierce Reiger's arms, one from the left and one from the right, first disabling his hands, then slowly subduing him.

Though they said they wanted to capture him alive, their actions made it clear that this so-called "alive" did not mean bringing back the enemy unharmed.

If the opponent resisted, they would first chop off his arms.

If the opponent did not comply, then they would chop off his legs.

Like this, they would keep weakening the enemy's ability to resist, until the opponent completely lost the capability to resist, then they would barely keep him alive and take him back to report.

This was the method of attackers and assassins who lived in the shadows, devoid of any humanity.

Unfortunately, they had picked the wrong person.

"Clang!"

A bright silver sword quietly appeared in Reiger's hands, and with his indifferent expression, he easily blocked the two incoming swords.

That expression, that look in his eyes, that action, where was the appearance of someone who had lost sight, reason, and was paralyzed?

"What?"

Everyone, including the magician, was shocked.

They had no idea that Reiger possessed a skill called "Endless Not Seen," which provided him with the highest level of "abnormal resistance."

"Boom!"

With that, Reiger kicked up a foot, landing it squarely on the face of one of the masked swordsmen, who, with blood spurting from his face, flew backwards.

"Tsk!"

The remaining masked swordsman lost the mechanical coldness he had at the start and, like a man driven to impatience, clicked his tongue.

He subconsciously distanced himself from Reiger and set his foot down, prepared to make a hasty retreat.

However, a flash of silver made all his actions meaningless.

"Pffft!"

When the high-speed slash turned into a flash of silver cutting through the masked swordsman's body, the sound of flesh tearing and blood splattering appeared simultaneously.

"Ah!"

The masked swordsman screamed, a straight gash appearing in the center of his body, spewing out a vast amount of fresh blood.

Reiger maintained the posture of slashing from head to foot, slightly tilted his head to avoid the blood splashing onto his face.

Three masked swordsmen, two kicked flying, one chopped down, all lost the ability to fight and could not get up again.

"How can this be!?"

The only remaining magician retreated while shouting.

According to the Basolo family's intelligence, Reiger was just a cripple with even 'the gate' damaged, who had spent a month recuperating in bed and it was only six or seven days after getting out of bed. Even if there were reports claiming he was practicing sword techniques, what could he have possibly achieved in just a few days?

So, to the Basolo family, capturing Reiger was supposed to be an easy task.

Who would have thought, the assumed cripple had transformed into such a formidable monster.

"Damn it!"

The magician became cowardly, fearful.

Seeing Reiger turn his gaze towards him, the magician didn't think twice; he turned and fled.

Reiger was about to chase after him but stopped his movements.

Because he felt that the barrier enveloping the area was being dispelled at an astonishing rate.

"Bang!"

Not long afterward, the barrier shattered, reconnecting this area with the outside world.

"Boom!"

The fleeing magician also encountered the barrier disbander, and was kicked back by a maid next to the newcomer.

"Are you okay?"

Yuri appeared, accompanied by Marilyn.

"Yuri?"

Reiger was also surprised.