Chapter 78: Is it infuriating that a sister had her life taken by her own brother?

After saying this, Yuffie walked away without looking back, heading toward the brightest and largest magic circle not far away.

Charlotte wanted to reach out and stop her, but under the pressure of the True Chaos Magic, moving even a finger was incredibly difficult.

The sound she tried to make in her throat vanished under the spell’s oppression before it could be uttered.

She could only watch helplessly as Yuffie walked step by step toward the abyss of the unknown.

In the center of the massive magic circle, a boy in a formal suit lay quietly.

That was Yuri Inola, the brother Yuffie was trying to save.

It seemed that because of the frequent use of Soul-Revival Magic, the Inola family possessed many secret arts for preserving a corpse and preventing its rapid decay.

Thus, even after five years, Yuri’s body was still perfectly intact.

“Brother, don’t worry. You’ll be back right away!”

Yuffie said softly, then began the incantation for the Soul-Revival Magic.

The magical power she had stolen from the other students was entirely injected into the magic circle beneath her feet. All that was needed now was the corresponding incantation.

“Shadows return, blood flows anew…”

A current of air suddenly swirled up from the magic circle, fluttering Yuffie’s skirt and hair.

“Bones whisper, heart pulsates…”

A beam of light descended from the sky, bathing Yuri’s body.

“Cross the Canyon of Tears…”

Yuri’s body slowly lifted, floating above Yuffie’s head.

“Cross the Bridge of Oblivion…”

The surrounding hurricane intensified. Charlotte, not far away, watched the scene nervously.

“At this time, at this place—”

The previously silent night sky began to grow bright.

Countless motes of light flowed along the descending beam of light, injecting themselves into Yuri’s body.

“I command thee: Awaken!”

The incantation for the Soul-Revival Magic was completely finished.

The moment the words left her mouth, a storm of magical power converged toward Yuri’s body.

Even Charlotte and Lillian, who were suppressed on the ground by the True Chaos Magic, felt the magical power in their bodies being slowly drained by the beam of light.

Yuffie, the caster, had all the magical power in her body completely drained.

But a look of joy spread across her face, for this meant her Soul-Revival Magic had succeeded.

Her five years of effort were not in vain.

“Brother…”

With the continuous injection of magical power, Yuri opened his chaotic eyes and descended before Yuffie like an angel.

Yuffie’s cheeks were now stained with tears.

She had finally resurrected her brother.

From now on, they could live the same happy life they had before.

“Brother… Brother Yuri… you finally…”

Yuffie’s eyes were full of tenderness. She reached out her hand, intending to touch Yuri’s face.

However, Yuri suddenly extended his right hand and violently squeezed Yuffie’s neck.

Yuffie’s face instantly filled with horror. She frantically beat Yuri’s hand, trying to make him release her.

“Brother… don’t you remember me… I’m your sister Yuffie!”

“Not enough… still not enough…”

However, the only thing that came from Yuri’s mouth was a stiff sentence.

It was only then that Yuffie realized that although Yuri had been successfully resurrected, his skin was still ice cold.

His heart hadn’t resumed beating.

The reason his body could move was due to the immense magical power filling his body.

The Soul-Revival Magic was missing one final step.

And that was…

“…I need… your life!”

The caster had to completely sacrifice her own life.

Yuffie’s magical power had been entirely given to Yuri.

She had no strength left to resist. No matter how much she struggled or resisted, it was futile.

“No… no… Brother… I still want to continue living with you…”

“I don’t want to… live with you… I should have… left you behind… you’re a burden… I don’t need you…”

Hearing the broken, strained words from Yuri, Yuffie fell into utter despair.

‘Did my brother only save me on an impulse at the time?’

‘If my brother had known that saving his useless sister would cost him his life, he would never have risked saving me.’

‘He must deeply regret his choice now.’

“Yes, my life was given to me by my brother. If he wants it, he can take it.”

‘But it still hurts to hear that I’m not needed!’

“Brother, I’m sorry…”

Leaving those words, two streams of tears ran down Yuffie’s cheeks. Her struggling hands fell limply to her sides.

Her life was ultimately taken by the very brother she had fought so hard to save.

Seeing this, Charlotte and Lillian’s eyes widened in horror.

They couldn’t believe that Yuffie, the girl they had tried to stop, the girl who was willing to oppose the whole world to save her brother, had her life taken by the very brother she sought to save.

“Damn it!”

Charlotte’s rage instantly flared.

Countless feelings of hatred condensed in her heart, transforming into surging power in her body.

She began to struggle out from under the pressure of the True Chaos Magic with reckless abandon.

The True Chaos Magic did not lose its effectiveness because of Yuffie’s death.

But that couldn’t stop Charlotte’s will to resist.

Although her muscles felt an agonizing tearing pain as she struggled to stand, this pain was insignificant to a witch who was already completely numb to suffering.

“Lady Charlotte!”

Seeing Charlotte start to bleed all over from her forced exertion, Lillian cried out in alarm.

“You scumbag… is that how you act as an older brother?”

Charlotte’s eyes were bloodshot. She gathered all her strength and climbed out of the magic circle.

Then, she swung her fist down and slammed it onto the stone slab beneath her, instantly shattering it.

The magic circles were carved onto these hard stone slabs.

Destroying the stone slabs, the medium of the spell, would immediately render the magic circles ineffective.

However, hitting and destroying this hard stone slab with bare hands would normally be incredibly difficult without magic.

Yet, Charlotte, enraged and bloodshot, smashed the stone slab to pieces in one go.

Although she had broken three bones in her right hand with that punch, she felt no pain in her hand.

With the stone slab destroyed, the True Chaos Magic that restrained them also lost its effect.

But Charlotte didn’t immediately use Holy Magic to heal her injuries.

Instead, she raised her bloody right hand, aiming it at the scumbag who had just killed his own sister and mercilessly tossed her corpse onto the ground.

“She worked so hard to learn magic for years just to save her brother, and yet you took her life without permission, negating all her efforts, and you didn’t even say thank you. You don’t deserve to be her brother! You bastard, go to hell!”

The moment the words left her mouth, immense magical power surged from Charlotte’s body.

An ancient bronze gate, inscribed with ancient writing, suddenly appeared above Yuri.

The gate slowly opened. Countless ghosts and monsters reached out from the gap, wrapping around Yuri and dragging him into the gate.

Yuri’s face was filled with shock.

He tried to break free from the ghosts’ restraints, but his movements were still very sluggish, and he couldn’t use magic.

He could only watch with wide eyes as he was dragged into the gate by the hands.

Special Grade Magic—Gate of Hell!

This was a forbidden spell Charlotte had seen in the forbidden magic book Elsa had brought back.

It could permanently banish the target and their soul to the Three Thousand Realms of Purgatory.

However, the price was enormous: the caster also had an eighty percent chance of being dragged into hell with them to endure endless torture.

The Gate of Hell vanished the moment it consumed Yuri.

Seeing this, Charlotte, covered in blood, collapsed onto the ground.

‘It seems I was truly lucky to have avoided the eighty percent chance of being dragged to hell with him.’