Chapter 95
Chapter 95
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 95
Chapter Title: Electrifying the Lake
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[Title: Whoa lol Feels Good]
Author: zl Supreme Storm Mage
(Fishing rod dunked in water meme)
(Merfolk floating belly-up meme)
No feeling of mana flowing through my hand whatsoever.
No flashy effects or chanting or anything.
Just dunked the rod in and they drop dead lololol insane lololol
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- Holy shit let me try that too
- Whoa lol my guts are all tingly
- Guts go boom~
- But how'd you fit grand magic into that steel thing?? What's the principle?
ㄴ zl Supreme Storm Mage: Seems like it runs on mana
ㄴ (Jaw-dropped dumb elf meme)
Everyone was cracking up at first.
No way anyone was gonna feel sorry for these weak-ass merfolk who picked the wrong moment to swarm and ambush.
When the first one bobbed up, most reactions were along the lines of "serves 'em right."
[Title: Uh Wait Hold Up]
Author: zl Supreme Storm Mage
(A few more floating up nearby meme)
I only charged it for like 2 seconds.
Just testing by pulling it out and y'all are rising?
- Uh...
- H-ha, works great haha
- If it works who cares?
But as more started popping up in droves, the mood gradually cooled off a bit.
[Title: What the Fuck Is This]
Author: zl Supreme Storm Mage
(Fishing rod guy panicking meme)
(Dozens, not a few, merfolk corpses washing up on shore meme)
Uwaaaah fuck
What is this how does this work
What am I even doing right now
Sorry!!
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- ?
- Why are they still coming up...?
- (Wide-eyed elf meme)
- You can stop coming up now?
Before long, every merfolk in the lake bobbed to the surface, blanketing the water.
An inexplicable chill and goosebumps swept through the comments in the gallery.
- Ok this is legit creepy
- Silently bobbing up like something out of hell straight-up horrifying fr
ㄴ Nah listen close you can hear the current
ㄴ (Shivering elf meme)
ㄴ Fuck is that the death sentence sound?
ㄴ That's even scarier
The current didn't spare merfolk under the water or hiding in rock crevices.
The silent lightning spreading through the pond killed everything it touched.
zl Supreme Storm Mage, Derek, finally dropped the rod he was holding.
"Is this really lightning magic...?"
He was a lightning mage, after all.
The moment it touched water, he faintly felt it.
The high-voltage energy coursing through the pond.
It was leagues beyond the magic that mimicked lightning by burning mana.
"No mana at all."
Was it because he was a grand mage?
He couldn't detect even a trace of mana energy.
It was like pure electricity.
And the moment he sensed that, a dangerous thought flashed through Derek's mind.
- Yo what's he doing
- Dude why's he staring at the lightning condenser?
- This guy's thinking something weird
Unaware that split-second moment had been memed and posted to the gallery, Derek's eyes lit up with excitement.
"The essence of grand magic is contained within..."
What was a mage?
Scholars bordering on madmen who would stake their lives for higher magic.
And lightning magic had always been treated like a half-baked field.
His own spells had so many flaws, after all.
Mimicking lightning with mana, or summoning it on stormy days at best.
"We could never truly wield lightning."
To Derek, this little steel box looked like the ideal of lightning magic research.
- Ah fuck I know what he's gonna do
That's when the illegal mage who'd been beefing with him realized Derek's state.
Crazy recognizes crazy.
- You mad bastard STOP!!!
ㄴ Why what?
ㄴ Fuck don't ask just help stop him!!!
ㄴ Idk what's up but ok
ㄴ Ground Explosion Mage you ten-disease one-god freak
ㄴ Heat Stone one-trick no-tower-virgin loser
ㄴ Lightning mage? x Bathwater heater mage o
ㄴ These fucks too harsh lololol
ㄴ Piling on now that they see an opening lol
Mages and countless kind-hearted gallers worried for him tried to talk him down.
"But maybe, just maybe, through this I could gain enlightenment."
Derek had already half-lost his reason.
A snippet of grand magic—maybe even transcendent—from the suspected Lord Judak was right there in front of him.
Shaking with tension, Derek soon murmured with a dark grin.
"Ah, I can't hold back."
His craving for magical growth overpowered his reason on instinct.
He stared at the battery connected to the rod he'd dropped in fear.
The conduit of grand magic that exterminated the pond's tiny ecosystem in seconds.
After agonizing, Derek grabbed the end...
- *Grab*
Bare-handed.
"Hk."
The instant he did, the high voltage stored in the battery surged straight into his body through his hand.
Soon, an indescribable shock ripped through him.
"Grgh, guwaaaah!!!"
His first thought was nothing.
Just a mind-numbing daze like his consciousness was flying away.
Next, barely clinging to sanity: "Fuck shoulda said no!"...
And finally, burning up his whole body's mana and lightning knowledge, he pierced beyond his walls.
"Ugh, aaaagh!"
- *Crackle... KABOOM!*
He succeeded in discharging the body-bursting condensed high voltage from his other hand.
The current from Derek's other hand merged with his mana, sharpening and amplifying.
It shot out like a single bolt of true lightning, pouring forth at his will.
It was genuine lightning, worlds apart from the third-rate spells that only faked it.
- *Sizzle...*
"Hahk, haaahk."
Amid the thick smell of ozone, he collapsed pathetically to the ground, dropping the rod in exhaustion.
But his face was flushed with ecstasy and bliss.
"Ahh... this is... this is grand magic...?"
It felt like he'd tasted a fragment of the omnipotence of his revered heart-teacher, Lord Judak.
And he instinctively knew.
That enlightenment had freed the circle binding him for so long.
"Is this the omnipotence Grand Mage Lord Judak feels every day!!!"
And in the gallery witnessing the mage's breakthrough.
As all eyes focused, Judak slowly left a chat...
- Judak* No fuck off
Judak's nth curse, too lazy to count the season.
*
Affinity alt zl Supreme Storm Mage.
This lunatic grabbed the high-voltage battery bare-handed.
And now he's spamming thank-yous on my posts like he's lost it.
- zl Supreme Storm Mage: Uw啊啊 Teacher! Master! I'll worship you as my lifelong ideal!!!
ㄴ Judak*: Don't
ㄴ zl Supreme Storm Mage: Thought you always refused but you granted me this enlightenment... Sniff...
ㄴ I'll serve as Master forever!!!
- So fucking jealous of Supreme Storm...
- Whoa mages don't teach easy normally...
ㄴ Judak's an angel? Just lets him feel high-level magic for no reason...
ㄴ Gimme enlightenment too!
ㄴ Judak*: No fuck off
Tried clearing up the misunderstanding at first.
Didn't work.
Tried cursing him out, but he tears up thanking me for the lesson.
"I'm soooo pissed kon."
Brain overheating?
Gallery speech leaking into reality.
But how many trolls had I seen as Judak?
Judak surprise-worship trolls existed even in modern times.
I calmed myself and assessed the situation.
"So the merfolk are handled now?"
The battery fishing method was insanely effective.
Turned them into dead fish before they could crawl out.
- Grroooar~
- Here's why Judak rules.jpg
- God.jpg
- Mom I wanna be Judak when I grow up! Mom I wanna be Judak when I grow up! Mom I wanna be Judak when I grow up!
The gallery was in full festival mode.
Just as I thought the merfolk issue was wrapped up.
- So what's next?
One post shattered the party vibe.
ㄴ ...?
ㄴ What?
Cold reactions poured in like ice water.
But the galler kept stubbornly pushing their point.
ㄴ Come on we're barely cleared a couple small ponds. The rifts in deep lakes and oceans are still there right?
Battery fishing had clear limits.
You could zap small ponds or polluted spots wholesale, but oceans and lakes?
Wiping out massive ecosystems with high voltage would just be handing the rifts what they want.
"Facts."
Couldn't argue.
But to the joy-high gallery, it was a buzzkill.
- ㅗ
- Everyone else fine why you bitching?
- Demon 'Market Hoarder Troll Seed'?
ㄴ No; straight up shark merfolk came from the ocean.
And catfish and giant carp from lakes but...
- Hah!!!!!
- You dare doubt Lord Judak!!!
ㄴ Judak*: Nah it's facts tho?
ㄴ Hang the troll right now?
ㄴ Fucking gross can't you read the room?
ㄴ Judak*: Told you it's facts kids
ㄴ Nah Judak go to church
ㄴ Party pooper gtfo
ㄴ Judak*: Fuck?
The gallery wouldn't accept it.
Makes sense—they'd spent half their lives as losers in a doomed world.
Didn't wanna let go of that victory high.
But truth is truth, ignore it or not.
Knights and mages still had no way to hunt merfolk hundreds of meters down.
- Sigh...
- Can't even go down there...
- Just burn 'em all?
- No underwater breathing magic?
ㄴ Fuck you think?
Didn't take long for joy to flip to despair.
Humans, life—can't breathe underwater.
But the solution was simple.
- Judak*: Then just breathe underwater no?
"If we gotta go in the water, we go."
Can't breathe?
[Category/Swimming, Water Leisure]
[Air Tank 10L] - 250p
"Problem solved."
[Item safely delivered!]
- Judak*: Turning you into merfolk lol
Underwater knight? Can't deal.
I immediately bought air tanks and gear from the shop.