Chapter 105
Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 105
Chapter Title: Seizing Dominion
‘The view I'm seeing... no, the world has changed.’
Jeon, who had awakened in his inner world, scanned his surroundings once.
He felt chills creeping over his entire body at the landscape completely different from the world he usually saw.
In the world he normally saw, using his golden eyes revealed things related to mana.
And now, a purple vision was overlaid on top of that.
With the golden hue that pierced through mana overlapping the purple that dominated the mind, Jeon could clearly discern what power composed the black fog enveloping his surroundings.
‘The black fog is the substance supplying mana to sustain the black soldiers, as well as the power that constitutes and dominates their minds.’
That meant the two mysteries Jeon possessed could influence it.
“Stop.”
At Jeon's single word, having grasped everything, the movements of the black soldiers under the black fog's control halted simultaneously.
“Huh? They suddenly stopped?”
“Did Jeon-nim... do that?”
Lena and Risar, who had been locked in a fierce battle with them, momentarily ceased fighting and turned to look at Jeon.
“What are you doing? Attack that guy right now!”
Khan personally issued commands to the black soldiers at the unbelievable sight.
But.
‘No chance.’
The black fog had already lost its dominance over the black soldiers.
And for good reason.
Jeon's purple mystery had already infiltrated the minds of the black soldiers, severing all connections with Khan.
“W-what is this...?”
Jeon nodded as he watched the flustered Khan.
“Now, the real fight begins.”
Even before consuming the Hyeon-eun-sam, Jeon had wondered if he could counter Khan's power using the purple mystery.
‘Kairon and Valkazar were both suppressed in the mental world and completely annihilated afterward.’
And now.
The moment he gained full control over the purple mystery, Jeon was convinced his hunch had been spot on.
“Everyone, attack.”
Clack, clack, clack!
The black soldiers, who had halted their movements, now turned toward Khan at Jeon's command.
Moreover, they aimed their weapons at him.
“You insolent fools!”
Khan's face twisted in fury at the rebellion of his thoroughly controlled creations.
“You dare defy me!”
Boooom!
He stomped the ground hard, unleashing his rage.
With that, the surrounding black fog rippled violently, surging outward in all directions.
Flash!
As a result, the black soldiers touched by the extending black fog even flashed with crimson glints in their eyes.
“Pathetic struggles.”
But the black soldiers under Jeon's dominance kept their blades trained on Khan, even as their eyes flashed.
“These wretched things!”
Grit.
Khan ground his teeth at the sight, then swung his hand once.
The black soldiers under Jeon's control dissolved into black fog on the spot.
In other words, he had abandoned the battle for dominance over them by cutting off their mana supply.
“What? Admitting defeat already?”
Grind!
A grinding sound came from Khan's clenched jaw at Jeon's taunting words.
Clack!
Regardless of his rage, however.
He now began moving not the simple black soldiers, but the black knights and mages he had created first.
Unlike the black soldiers that exchanged only basic commands, they had sworn loyalty to him.
He believed even Jeon couldn't handle them.
“Everyone, stop.”
Halt!
But Khan's expectations crumbled at Jeon's next word.
Even his elites halted their movements at Jeon's command.
“Not us. Attack your master over there.”
At Jeon's following words, they all turned toward Khan.
Some black mages even unleashed their prepared spells at him.
“You...!”
Whoosh!
Khan swept away the incoming magic with a swing of his hand, then dispersed even his elites into black fog.
“Giving up so quickly?”
“How in the world...?”
Jeon muttered in disappointment at the sight, while Khan stared at him with trembling eyes and asked.
“Guess they wanted to listen to me.”
Khan had asked in earnest, but Jeon merely shrugged with a casual response.
Khan clenched his fists, his body shuddering at the blatantly mocking attitude.
‘How could something like this happen...!’
Who was he?
The apostle of the Ruin Church, lord of the dead.
Wasn't he the future king destined to rule a kingdom of wraiths when the church's era arrived?
Yet in this remote mountain village, his pride was being trampled by some boy?
Rumble!
The black fog around him began to churn in sync with his agitated emotions.
“Fine. I'll just kill you all...!”
In the end, he thought killing that boy too and turning him into a subordinate would solve everything.
With that in mind, Khan moved to slay Jeon immediately.
“You're too hasty.”
But this time, Mirna stepped in to block his path.
“You think a wretch like you can stop me?”
Mirna had struggled even when he wasn't using his full power.
Now holding nothing back, Khan sneered at her attempt to block him.
“Alone, I'd struggle.”
Yet Mirna nodded in acknowledgment of his mockery.
However, there was no trace of distress on her face despite admitting the truth.
“But now, we hold the numerical advantage.”
With her words, the Silvermont mages, who had been preoccupied fighting the black hordes, suddenly unleashed their magic toward Khan.
At the same time, Mirna created silver flame petals throughout her mana field.
Whirr!
The spells from the Silvermont mages gathered toward one point, guided by Mirna's petals.
All those magics converged into a single flow, surging toward Khan.
“Such petty tricks...!”
Boooom!
Khan condensed his rising black fog into one mass to block the onslaught.
But even with a gap in skill, the advantage of numbers was not to be ignored.
Especially since they weren't scattered haphazardly but unified like a single spell under Mirna's guidance.
‘It's this mana field.’
Realizing it stemmed from Mirna's mana field, he poured even more mana into the black fog extending in all directions.
The black fog wielded by the black mage Khan differed in nature from the mana fields of ordinary mages.
It could occupy space within a mana field unscathed, and depending on usage, even push it out.
“In the end, all will kneel before me!”
Rooooar!
Khan unleashed his black fog with full fury, aiming to shatter Mirna's mana field.
“Not on my watch!”
In the sudden territorial clash, Mirna hurriedly surged her mana as well.
Urk.
“Cough!”
But her injuries were far from minor.
Forcing her mana, she vomited a handful of blood from her mouth and nose once more.
Seizing the momentum, Khan instantly shattered Mirna's mana field.
“Heh heh heh...!”
Having crushed the mana field and fully seized control of the surroundings, Khan let out a sinister smile at the situation finally bending to his will.
“Funny.”
Jeon, walking slowly from afar, countered with a sneer at Khan's laugh.
“...Insolent brat.”
Khan ground his teeth at Jeon's demeanor.
But the smile on Khan's lips didn't fade.
In battles between mana wielders, dominating space was crucial.
Within this black fog, other mages could barely cast a single spell properly.
In short, with Khan dominating the space, numerical superiority was irrelevant.
“Even if you've brainwashed my subordinates, do you think you can escape this space under my dominion?”
Clearly irked by his minions turning on him, Khan boasted while deliberately bringing it up.
“I think I can.”
When he first invaded the village, Khan had been an intimidating foe despite being the enemy.
Jeon responded leisurely to his now seemingly insignificant presence.
And with that, gold and silver began mixing around Jeon, coloring the area.
“...No way?”
The gold and silver, initially seeming confined nearby, gradually expanded before surging outward.
In that process, the black fog was entirely pushed back.
“I can use a mana field too, you know.”
Jeon's mana field shimmered with an enigmatic hue of mingled gold and silver.
Witnessing it displace the black fog, the smile on Khan's face slowly vanished.
“How can a mere 4th Circle mage...?”
Mana fields were practically the hallmark of high-circle mages.
Theoretically, a 4th Circle mage could use one if sufficiently enlightened.
But displacing Khan's black fog in the process was nearly impossible.
Mana dominance scaled with circle rank, after all.
‘Overcome circle gaps with mysteries.’
However, that was merely from a "mage's" perspective.
Mysteries held boundless possibilities.
Having strengthened his mind via self-hypnosis with the purple mystery and his mana comprehension with the golden one, Jeon's dominance over mana already surpassed Khan's.
‘In this place, I truly can do as I please.’
Having seized the surrounding space with his mana and mysteries, Jeon casually reached toward the sky.
Then, spells that had previously formed only at his fingertips or Lunareik's tip began manifesting in distant space.
Rumble! Roooar!
Thunder roared through the heavens as bundles of white lightning intertwined in the air.
And that was not all.
Roar!
Silver flames wrapped around the lightning as well, with the energy infused with golden mystery rippling within.
Ordinary magics and rune magics intertwined in midair, flashing alternately in gold, silver, and white.
“T-this can't be...!”
Khan flailed desperately, somehow gathering his black fog to resist Jeon's clearly extraordinary spell.
“Too late.”
But the instant Jeon's skyward hand dropped downward.
Kaboom!
The lightning plummeting from above tore through Khan's black fog and struck him directly.