Razeal Virelan steps onto the arena floor, the weight of a thousand scornful gazes pressing against his black-clad form as whispers of his exile and alleged crimes ripple through the crowd of candidates and nobles alike. Summoning a reservoir of cold composure, he slowly withdraws his hood, unveiling royal purple hair and obsidian eyes that lock onto the elite viewing chambers, daring the Royal Family and Duke Houses to make a move. The revelation triggers instant panic among the guards who recognize the direct bloodline mark, and a Golden Knight launches a divine strike aimed at his neck, citing blasphemy and an attempted assault on the Saintess. Just as the blade screams toward him, Dorn Varkharn, the Academy Warden, intercepts the blow with a lazy greatsword swing, invoking the prohibition on killing ground. The tension escalates as Silver Knights surround them, led by Sir Radiant Knight demanding justice for the Church, but Razeal remains unmoved, calculating the pressure levels and trusting the academy's laws to shield him from summary execution. The standoff fractures when Vice Headmistress Selvara arrives, her royal authority halting the knights, followed by the descent of Saintess Selene Luminus herself, whose gentle command dismisses the clergy with a single sentence. Throughout this orchestrated storm of hostility, Razeal maintains a faint, arrogant smile, recognizing that his survival hinges not on strength but on exploiting the political deadlock between the Church, the Crown, and the Academy, proving that his mere presence can paralyze the empire's highest powers. As the dust settles, Razeal's internal monologue reveals he has already banked on this hesitation, but the system warns him that stepping through the Gates of Worth will place him directly into the protagonist's danger zone, setting the stage for a trial where luck is a currency he cannot afford.

Crossings the threshold of the Gate of Worth, Razeal is violently deposited into the Graveyard of Forgotten Stone, a desolate wasteland of shattered dragon statues that marks the deep endgame zone reserved for the novel's third arc, instantly dooming him to encounter high-tier threats without preparation. Within moments, the System finally activates the long-awaited main function, the Valley of Villey, offering access to training spaces populated by villains ranked from F to EX across infinite dimensions. Greedy for power, Razeal immediately attempts to enter an EX-Rank space, expecting a tutorial or a spar, but is met with instantaneous oblivion; the sheer density of aura and existential pressure from the occupant obliterates his consciousness five hundred twenty-one times in what feels like an eternity but passes as mere seconds outside. The System explains that he is being crushed simply by existing in the vicinity of an entity that transcends measurement, shattering his ego and forcing a harsh realization that he is weaker than background noise. Forced to retreat, Razeal pivots to an SSS-Rank space, seeking a target he might withstand, and finds Zara Ravaryrn, the Strongest Mother, seated upon a throne of black crystals. Her introduction is a chilling confession of filicide and mass murder, establishing her as a force of nature driven by twisted maternal protection, and she immediately subjects Razeal to a lethal gaze that nearly breaks his mind, testing his mental fortitude while he struggles to hide his terror behind a mask of stoic arrogance. Zara offers a deal to teach him, but the price involves a grotesque experiment that threatens to replace his skeletal structure with a substance called Obsidian Agony, leaving Razeal trapped in a dilemma where acceptance means agony and refusal means failure.

Trapped by a verbal contract under the System's authority, Razeal submits to Zara Ravaryrn's proposal, agreeing to have his bones replaced with Obsidian Agony, a material so sharp it cuts molecules and so reactive it inflicts amplified needle-like pain upon contact with any matter. The procedure begins with molten fluid injected into his skull and feet, melting his calcium structure while simultaneously forging the alien metal in real-time, a process that generates agony so profound Razeal's psyche fractures and he dies repeatedly, his consciousness resetting while the System logs massive spikes in his Pain Tolerance stat. Each revival brings no relief, only renewed torture as Zara refines the infusion, pushing Razeal to the brink of insanity until his body undergoes a miraculous adaptation, resonating with the metal due to his Absolute Dark Genius trait and nullifying the side effects. Through thousands of deaths, Razeal acquires the Obsidian Skeleton skill, gaining unbreakable bones, zero-mass mobility, and kinetic absorption, emerging from the ordeal physically transformed but mentally scarred by the memories of suffering that the System refuses to erase. Zara, satisfied with the results despite her boredom, grants him a cryptic piece of advice about trust and betrayal before dismissing him, leaving Razeal to grapple with the reality that he has become something monstrous to survive, his body now a weapon of impossible density and lightness. Exiting the system space, Razeal checks the timer and realizes he has wasted precious hours, facing a deadline to collect one thousand elemental cores for the Royal Classroom, forcing him to deploy his second cheat: future knowledge.

With only hours remaining to gather the requisite cores, Razeal abandons direct hunting and initiates a complex scheme based on his foreknowledge of the plot, summoning Kaeryndor, the spectral Warden of the Graveyard who guards the Dragon Heart, a mid-game artifact meant for the protagonist. Razeal brokers a risky Blood Spirit Contract, promising to deliver a worthy heir with both Sun God and Dragonwevr bloodlines in exchange for a pocket realm, a teleportation service, and the injection of Fervine Serpent poison into the Dragon Heart to sabotage its efficacy. He transforms the pocket realm into a glowing marble platform displaying a riddle demanding one thousand elemental cores, effectively creating a billboard that lures the protagonist, Aeron Drakenvyr, and the Saintess Selene Luminus directly into his trap. As the group approaches, Razeal hides in the canopy, observing their dynamics and narrowly avoiding detection by Selene's sensitive perception, before watching them pay the price and activate the array. They are teleported to the graveyard, where Kaeryndor manifests, his immense pressure crushing the lesser candidates while sparing Aeron and Selene, revealing his recognition of Aeron's lineage and initiating the trial. Razeal, safe in the shadows, watches the hero walk into the snare, having successfully hijacked the plot's resource flow and poisoned the well of destiny, all while maintaining his cover as a despised outsider. Just as the trial begins, Razeal is confronted by a sudden growl from a Fire Hound, reminding him that his plan relies on the hero succeeding, while his own survival depends on handling the immediate threat with his newly acquired constitution.