Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110 - Her Master
Chapter 111 - Mission Complete
Chapter 112 - There’S No Helping It When The Left Hand Begins To Ache
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116 - Do You Really Think So?
Chapter 117
Chapter 118 - Golden Retreiver
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134 - Rumor Of The Counterfeit Bills
Chapter 135 - All Met His Expectations
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152 - The Princess’S Mob Friend
Chapter 153 - Evil Encroaching
Chapter 154 - Looks Like We’Re Done.
Chapter 155 - Soul Searching
Chapter 156 - Sorry, Ya Lost Me.
Chapter 157 - Action Spy
Chapter 158 - Cut Down Anything!
Chapter 159 - Beacon Of Revolt
Chapter 160 - I Can Hear Him But From Where…
Chapter 161 - My Time To Shine?
Chapter 162 - The Ringleader Is Here!?
Chapter 163 - Sigh, Really Didn’T Want To Make A Scene, Man~
Chapter 164 - The Power Of Diabolos
Chapter 165 - Where Is He?
Chapter 166 - Demon Lord Unleashed
Chapter 167 - Mordred
Chapter 168 Part 1
Chapter 168 Part 2 - What Were Ideal Powers In Shadows In My Mind? (Part 2)
Chapter 169 - In This Troop You Will Earn A Lot Of Money
Chapter 170 - The Dream Of Two Men
Chapter 171 - Mob Character’S Field Trip
Chapter 172 - Three Ojisans
Chapter 173 - Vow Of Black Rose
Chapter 174 - Don’T Upstage Me
Chapter 175 - Do Not Kick The Platform
Chapter 176 - Evil God・Instant Kill・〇〇〇 Sword
Chapter 177 - Died On The Spot
Chapter 178 - So-Called Master
Chapter 179 - The End Of Mob Character
Chapter 180 - A Small Part Of The Abyss-Like Plan
Chapter 181 - She’S The Type Of Person Who Always Exaggerates
Chapter 182 - The Other Side Connecting The Past, Present And Future
Chapter 183 - Infatuated With That Courage And Insight
Chapter 184 - We Are Friends After All!
Chapter 185 - If He Was Born Before A Thousand Years Ago
Chapter 186 - Terrible Interests
Chapter 187 - Two People With Social Phobia
Chapter 188 - Epsilon’S Secret Recipe
Chapter 189 - Epsilon In Gorgeous Disguise
Chapter 190 - Take A Walk In The Forest
Chapter 191 - Everything Is Connected, All Of Which Meets His Expectations
Chapter 192 - Let Me Show You Perfect Magic Control
Chapter 193 - It’S Not My Fault The Shot Went Awry
Chapter 194 - Great Sacrifice For World Peace And Science
Chapter 195 - The Secret One Wants To Hide The Most
Chapter 196 - A Natural Phenomenon Of Unknown Cause Or A Paranormal Phenomenon
Chapter 197 - Battle Of Darkness
Chapter 198 - Forget To Close The Door
Chapter 199 - It’S All The Americans’ Fault
Chapter 200 - Mysterious Architect Eta Lloyd Wright
Chapter 201 - The Only Food Left Is Dx
Chapter 202 - Fraudulent Company
Chapter 203 - Seems Like Never Coming Back
Categories Genre: Action, Adventure, All, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Martial Arts, Ongoing, School Life Status: Ongoing Alternative names: Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!, The Eminence in Shadow, 陰の実力者になりたくて!, ______
Total Chapters in book: 203
Estimated words: 275030 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1375(@200wpm)___ 1100(@250wpm)___ 917(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 275030 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1375(@200wpm)___ 1100(@250wpm)___ 917(@300wpm)
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I am currently absentmindedly gazing at the proceedings of the Trial of the Goddess from the audience seats.
It is still daytime, and the event has only just started. Then there are greetings and VIP introductions and parades and all that jazz. The actual Trial will begin only after the sun sets, apparently.
At the moment, I am merely a mob character in the audience seats. I look at the three VIPs in the front row of that section getting along together well and sigh.
I want to do something.
I want to do something ‘power from the shadows’-like. I’m here at such a huge event! How can I forgive myself if I just go through it all as a mere mob without doing anything?!
The most common pattern would be to hide my identity and participate in the Trial.
Like, I could display my overwhelming strength and make everyone think “who on earth is this person?!”
But unlike a tournament, each person only gets to fight once, and from my prior research, it seems that it’d be difficult to participate while hiding my identity. I did also consider the sudden intrusion pattern, but I kind of want to save that for a more important fight in the future.
While bringing up and shooting down plans in my head, the event proceeds on.
Haah, never mind. I couldn’t think of anything yesterday even with the whole day, so how can I so conveniently suddenly think of something right on the spot? I decide to continue enjoying the event as a mob, having half given up. In this world, events like this are quite rare, so it’s unexpectedly turning out to be actually quite fun. I also dabble a bit at the gambling corner and manage to earn a little bit.
Then finally the sun sets, and the long-awaited Trial of the Goddess finally begins. Gorgeous lights illuminate the entire venue as letters from the ancient language begin floating up from the ground of the fighting field.
The letters shine with a white light while deploying into a dome, which causes the volume of the cheers to go up several notches.
The way this works is that the challenger would walk into the dome, which would cause the ancient warrior suitable to them to show up. Then they fight, and all interference from outside is blocked until either one of them is rendered incapable of further combat. Apparently there are even challengers who’ve died.
Having to fight to that point means that I can’t participate as a mob, because the risk of me exposing my true strength would be quite high.
After all this and that is over, finally, the first challenger is introduced and then steps into the dome. Apparently he is some valorous guy from the Knight Order.
But there is no response.
He swears, then steps out and leaves.
That was the 200,000 Zeny participation fee disappearing into thin air. And there is even more than 150 challengers this time.
Well, successfully clearing the Trial of the Goddess is apparently an enormous honor. You would get a commemorative medal, and pretty much everywhere you go would be like “oh, you cleared the Trial of the Goddess? Alright, you’re hired!” At least, that’s what I heard.
I keep watching on as challenger after challenger keep going up, eagerly waiting for Alpha’s name to be called.
It is the 14th person who finally gets an ancient warrior to appear.
The moment Annerose, a traveller from Vegalta, the country of swords, steps into the dome, the ancient letters shine in response. Their light gathers into a humanoid shape, finally coalescing into a half-transparent warrior. According to the commentary, that warrior’s name is Bolg.
The two fight normally, then Annerose wins normally. I had held some expectations for these ancient warriors, but they turn out to be rather normal. I look forward to seeing stronger warriors get summoned next.
After that, the event continues, and I get a better bearing. It seems that Annelose was actually kind of strong. Eight people in total had summoned ancient warriors, but so far she was the only one who actually won. Which would mean that Bolg-kun was actually relatively strong.
The night grows deep. There aren’t many challengers left.
As the event gradually begins to feel like it’s ending, the name of a certain challenger is called out.
“Next is a challenger from the Midgar Magic Swordsman Academy! His name is…… Sid Kagenou!!”
Who is Sid Kagen-…… what the fuck, that’s my name!
There can’t possibly be another Sid Kagenou from Midgar Magic Swordsman Academy. But wait, I have absolutely no memory of applying for this!
“Let us greet our brave challenger with applause!”
No, wait, don’t do that!
Huge applause rises up. The cheers and whistling livens up the venue.
This is a very bad atmosphere. My face is frozen stiff as my brain whirls at full speed.
In this situation, there are really only three options.
Option 1: Give up and go fight. If all goes well, then I can finish it all as a mere mob. But if a strong ancient warrior really gets summoned, then there’s a risk of my strength getting exposed.
Option 2: Run away. All I am in the end is but a mob student. No one knows my face, so it’d be easy to slip away. However, that might cause the Church to become mad at me. They could put in a complaint with the school and get me expelled.
Option 3: Muddy the waters. Yep, this is really the only reasonable one.
I erase my presence and hide myself through high speed movement. Then in an empty place, I change into Shadow, and fly up into the air.
I am currently advocating the theory that ‘regardless of how bad a battlefield is, when an explosive explodes it can erase everything else that had happened.’
And so.
Operation Burst onto the Scene as a Mysterious Power and Muddy the Fuck out of Everything starts…… now.
I descend into the dome area, and flutter my longcoat.
“My name is Shadow…… I am he who lurks into the shadows and hunts the shadows……”
The entire venue falls into turmoil.
The ancient letters react, and begin forming a shape.
“Tonight shall be thy release……”
I draw my jet black blade and thrust it towards the night sky.
Beta’s slack-jawed face from the VIP seats is what leaves the deepest impression on me.
Total Chapters in book: 203
Estimated words: 275030 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1375(@200wpm)___ 1100(@250wpm)___ 917(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 275030 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1375(@200wpm)___ 1100(@250wpm)___ 917(@300wpm)
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