Chapter 70
Chapter 70
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 70
Chapter Title: The Climax of Magic
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It wasn't always visible, but when he focused for a moment, he could see that extreme point.
Cain noticed the blood trickling from Chaser's cheek turning into red sparkles and scattering the instant the shadow hands crumbled.
‘Shadow magic, blood magic, and mental magic, was it?’
The moment he recalled what Adelian had told him, a ripple stirred in the air.
Pababat!
The blood flowing from his cheek mixed with the blood of the minions killed by the golems and flew toward him in the shape of blades.
Cain transformed the sword he held into a blade whip and shot it down from midair. With a peng peng sound, the blood splattered everywhere.
“You have some annoying traits.”
Chaser furrowed his brow as he smacked away the tip of the blade whip aimed at the ebony staff with the staff itself.
This time, Chaser summoned nearly dozens of shadow hands rising from the ground, grinding his teeth as he watched Cain shatter his shadow magic with aura.
If all aura users could dispel magic like that, there wouldn't be any mages left.
‘That monstrous bastard.’
Tied down by that man, he couldn't buy the time needed for large-scale magic.
Pewit!
Cain reshaped his weapon into a bow, picked up a sword rolling on the ground amid the blood, and shot it like an arrow.
Kang! Chaser, forming hand seals, smacked away the sword. Once, twice. A third time.
As the golems clashed with the minions and rangers, more weapons littered the ground for Cain to use as arrows.
“Pierce and explode.”
Peng! Pepeng!
On top of that, Adelian's spells fired intermittently targeted only Chaser, floating alone in the air.
With their numbers dwindling, staying airborne was a blunder, not a smart move.
Kang!
He smacked away another incoming sword, but its blade snapped in half, spinning and grazing Chaser's earlobe as it flew past.
Grinding his teeth, Chaser spun his staff to condense mana, then dove sharply downward, slamming its tip into the ground.
“Dodge!”
Pabababat!
Shadow thorns erupted in a circle around him, shredding the golems charging at him.
Cain leaped into the air, stepping on a golem impaled and frozen by the thorns, switched his weapon to a greatsword, and brought it down on Chaser.
Kwang!
A massive shockwave exploded outward in an instant. The aura infused in Cain's greatsword clashed with the mana imbued in Chaser's staff, erupting and leaving fine scratches on both their faces.
―Predicting consecutive strong shockwaves. Relocating 1A Golem to another battlefield.
Seeing Cain and Chaser properly clash on the ground, Leaf issued support orders to move the golems around them elsewhere.
To prevent Chaser from preparing long incantation spells, to erode his focus.
Cain split his greatsword in half, wielding two curved swords, his hands moving in a blur. Chaser detonated the tip of his staff with mana, interrupting the flow each time.
Chaser linked incantations one breath at a time with each explosion. For one reversal.
Kagak! Kang!
Sparks flew brilliantly as the swords scraped and clashed against the ebony staff, said to be stronger than steel.
In the power struggle between two who could fell ancient trees in a single blow, the ground flipped over, shockwaves burst intermittently, slicing trees as if under magical bombardment.
“Try blocking this one.”
Grimacing, Chaser formed hand seals intermittently while resonating with his staff, mixing the surrounding bloodstains with blood from biting his own tongue.
Wung—!
Mana resonated like a typhoon raging from all directions in an instant! Casting large-scale blood magic while simultaneously infusing mental magic, ‘Indiscriminate Hatred,’ into his staff and swinging it sent a green ripple shooting out in a semicircle.
As if he'd been waiting for this, Chaser curled the corner of his mouth seeing his magic pass straight through Cain, Leaf, Luna, and Adelian standing in a line.
“All for our living god.”
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‘Two magics at once?’
One a large-scale blood magic, the other the tricky mental magic.
Air suddenly sucked toward Chaser like a vacuum, whipping up wind into a bloody storm!
“Everyone, fall back!”
Blood droplets bloomed like petals, sharpening into blades that tore through several layers of my Codex shields as I shouted.
And that green magic that had just wrapped around my body.
The moment Chaser swung his staff, I instinctively cast Aegis on Luna.
In this battlefield, the mental magic he'd use would be either rage or fear.
“Kill... I'll kill you all......”
“You fucking bastards, because of you!”
The Evil God cultists and rangers standing in a straight line with us swung swords indiscriminately at allies and foes alike before getting caught in the storm and shredded into chunks of flesh.
‘Rage, huh.’
I smirked. That most troublesome thing in large-scale wars. Mental magic that amplified or suppressed human emotions and wielded them.
‘But it's the worst matchup for us.’
Cain already had Indomitable, I had buoyancy, and Leaf was a golem to begin with.
So in our party, only Luna lacked mental resistance, but I'd just offset that with Aegis.
“Why.”
After everyone pulled back from the large-scale blood magic, Bloody Storm.
In the center of the hellish scene where those who'd lost reason to rage hacked at each other and got shredded one by one.
Chaser stared at us with eyes like he'd seen a ghost.
“Why are you all fine?”
Glaring at Chaser screaming in disbelief, I spoke to the catching-their-breath Cain and others.
“Go finish him.”
“Yes, young master!”
―As the administrator commands.
“Time to really end this.”
Stones lifted from the ground, vibrations rumbling through our soles as the Bloody Storm grew massive and barreled toward us.
Bang!
Cain reshaped his weapon into a spear linked by chains and hurled it into the storm's heart. With a sound like air tearing, the spear flew, cleaving the storm apart.
‘Dispel!’
“Is that living god truly a god?”
Cain whispered while slashing and dispelling the magic Chaser fired.
Cain handled the massive spells, Leaf body-blocked the minor ones, and when they tried to retreat, Luna seized the rear, blocking their paths and tightening the noose.
“Fools serve only dead gods.”
Cain chuckled lowly at Chaser's spat words.
The mass-produced golems handled the late-joining rangers and cultists, while I took in the entire battlefield and familiarly slotted a magic stone into the spine of my Codex.
‘This page is a waste, but......’
If I can catch Chaser, better to do it. Not for nothing that my unit's nickname wasn't stolen by the enemy.
I'd wanted it enough to use cheats as a veteran player.
“A single judgment descended from heavenly wrath reflected above.”
One of the high-class spells I'd nagged Leaf into granting.
Fury of the Heaven!
One page of the Codex vanished permanently, and simultaneously, small clouds gathered above Chaser's head with a crackling sound.
Even high-class magic took time to activate via Codex, it seemed.
About 10 seconds.
Shadows from the clouds draped over Chaser's cheek, crackling with mana flow sensed—the moment his eyes flicked upward.
“Do you have time to look away?”
Persek! Cain's aura-infused sword thrust forward, clashing with Chaser's reflexively raised staff in a sharp crack, shattering the ebony staff into pieces.
And without pause, the sword climbed over the flying shards, vertically slicing Chaser's palm, wrist, and up to his elbow as he screamed laced with agony.
“Teleport!”
Pazuzuk! Kwang!
And simultaneously, white lightning crashed down.
Aegis and shields layered on Cain's body as my vision flashed white.
The bolt striking from the sky bleached my sight white.
“...Did he escape?”
“Yeah.”
Barely blocked it. I laughed haha as Cain flicked the charred remnants of his clothes dusting off like powder.
Blood magic, shadow magic, and now lightning had ravaged everything.
Trees weren't just felled—they were obliterated, the terrain jumbled chaotically, littered with wrecked golems and corpses.
‘What a mess.’
After Chaser fled, the remaining cultists—brainwashed for info control?—committed suicide, and the rangers scattered.
―Sea-Colored Pearl, switching back to recharge mode. 1A Golem will collect debris and return via airship.
“Whew.”
As I caught my breath and cast Clean to blow away the blood and flesh from Luna and Leaf, Cain rummaged through a cultist's robe who'd taken their own life.
“Why target the Sea-Colored Pearl?”
A horn-like shape, split into two prongs, with two swords crossed stabbing downward above it, a diamond pattern between the crossed sword hilts.
Seeing the Evil God Cult's symbol embroidered small on the inside of the robe, Cain asked, and I paused before answering.
“To make their god more complete.”
On Earth, most think of gods as omnipotent.
But strictly speaking, Greek or Norse gods die, err, envy. More human-like gods exist.
The gods here were closer to that. Not omnipotent, unique, supreme beings.
‘Just outstanding existences.’
Some minor races even worshipped dragons as gods.
In that sense, the Evil God Cult sought the strongest god, gathering for it.
Sea-Colored Pearl, Essence of Fire. Orbs of storms, etc.
Mythic items laden with powerful mana and attributes.
“We'll disrupt and dismantle them one by one.”
I nodded lightly at Cain's words as he gazed at me fondly.
“You can do it.”
Not empty words. You really can. In the original, Cain reclaimed the Sea-Colored Pearl stolen during his assassin training in the sphere, but now it's in my hands.
This time, a proper ending.
I smiled and said.
“I'm hungry. Let's go eat.”