Chapter 93
Chapter 93
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 93
Chapter Title: Chapter 93
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 93
Chapter Title: Archmage Adoris
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The Archmage Adoris was, of course, a powerhouse.
The spells he wielded numbered in the tens of thousands.
Including their branch variations, they were beyond counting.
The magic he had taught the Stryke Clan was an extremely limited selection.
He hadn't shared most spells, as they couldn't even comprehend them.
And now.
He faced someone akin to the otherworldly being he had so desperately craved.
Havel of House Banpellyon.
The one who had come to punish him.
Upon encountering him, Adoris broke into a childlike grin of excitement.
"If you utilize the Calamity within you, the world is sure to open."
His hand, covered in grayish scales, rose.
The instant it pointed at Havel.
Pahk!
Havel's head tilted slightly backward.
He had been struck without any preparatory motion whatsoever.
Elashiya, watching the scene from afar, cried out in shock.
"N-No, that's impossible!"
Magic required a flow of mana beforehand.
To manifest it in reality, one expelled mana externally and transformed it into a magical form before activation.
Yet Adoris had skipped the entire process.
The reason was simple.
Adoris cast his spells using Calamity as the foundation.
The Tower was a space blanketed entirely in Calamity.
Thus, anywhere Calamity existed, he could wield magic.
It was as if there were no preconditions at all.
"H-How is that even possible..."
Elashiya, now able to sense and trace Calamity flows, belatedly grasped it, her eyes trembling wildly.
It was the reaction of someone beholding entirely new horizons in magic.
Mages were all much the same in that regard.
Their passion for magic was always sincere.
Black smoke rose over Havel's face.
It was the effect of Adoris's spell.
But once the smoke cleared.
Havel stared back at Adoris, looking utterly unscathed.
Adoris's lips split into a wide grin.
"As expected. Befitting the Lion of the Night."
He laughed, brimming with anticipation, and swung his hand once more.
Cheeeng!
But this time, the sound was different.
Havel's hand blade had deflected the spell.
The errant magic slammed into the mountainside nearby.
Kwaaaang!
An explosion incomparable to the previous one roared out.
The mountainside crumbled, leaving a massive crater.
It was a glimpse of the devastating power in Adoris's magic.
At the same moment, Havel's leg shot forward.
He closed the distance to Adoris in an instant.
And as he swung his hand blade, Adoris's figure blurred.
Not just that.
The entire space began to warp.
The space twisted like a whirlpool, nauseating to behold.
"You possess a remarkably sturdy body."
Adoris's voice echoed from within the distorted space.
Dozens of splintered voices scattered everywhere.
"Then what if I twist you until your very form is unrecognizable?"
His eerie laughter reverberated through the space.
Flash!
Light burst forth between the rifts in space.
The light tore through instantaneously, spreading wide.
Jjanggrang!
The warped space shattered, fragments flying everywhere.
From amid the shards, Havel stepped forward, leg extended.
What met his eyes was an unexpected sight.
Adoris's legs stood upon the sky, while the ground lay above his head.
And it wasn't just that.
Trees sprouted inexplicably from the clouds.
Water flowed from somewhere, cascading down as a waterfall.
Even in the night, a sun rose from the ground, illuminating everything.
It was a bizarre realm where the rules of the entire world had been upended.
The power to shatter the world's rules.
That was magic, Adoris declared with a radiant smile.
Duduk!
The ground overhead began to crumble.
From the collapsing earth rose a colossal serpent.
The serpent slowly coiled, eventually enveloping the entire world.
It bit its own tail and began constricting.
Eternal life in exchange for a lifelong prison.
That was Adoris's decree.
"Ha."
Havel snorted at the words.
His Star Sword, now drawn, began to glow with Dawn light.
"Offering me eternal life."
As the Dawn light intensified, distortions rippled through the space.
The space could no longer withstand the output of the Dawn light.
"A worthless proposal for someone already immortal."
The day he cleared the Demonic Palace.
He had consumed the Immortality Fruit and become an Immortal.
Eternal life held no value for him now.
Immortality, after his regression, had become yet another curse.
"Hide-and-seek isn't my strong suit."
Havel raised the fiercely Dawn-glowing sword overhead.
"Can't find you, so crawl out chirping like a cuckoo."
With that, Havel's sword swung down.
Banpellyon Style Dawn Swordsmanship
Dawn Sky
The scattered Dawn light pierced the irrational space.
The radiance instantly erased the trees, waterfalls, ground, and sky.
Even the serpent devouring its tail was wiped away.
All beings touched by the Dawn light vanished utterly from existence.
The moment Havel erased everything.
Only pitch-black darkness surrounded him.
It was as if he had annihilated the world itself with Dawn Sky.
Havel stared at it blankly before letting out an empty chuckle.
"If you're going to deceive me."
The moment light enveloped his body once more.
"You should have done it properly."
Havel shot forward.
Like a bullet, he tore through the black space and emerged outside.
The black spherical space had been an arbitrary prison for him.
Outside, where Havel burst forth.
A serpent forged of lightning and flame awaited.
Absurdly massive, reaching the heavens, it bore nine heads.
But the instant Havel swung his sword.
The ensuing wind pressure obliterated everything.
Yet Adoris remained nowhere to be seen.
Havel's eyebrow twitched.
He had realized how the mage had concealed himself.
'Hidden amid the Calamity filling the Tower.'
An exquisitely cunning spell.
And yet the caster spammed offensive magic at will.
It would drive any opponent insane.
Suddenly, thunderclouds gathered in the sky, unleashing torrential rain.
Havel felt the ground tremble beneath his sodden clothes.
He turned to see a colossal tsunami bearing down.
Its height rivaled the thunderclouds—majestic beyond measure.
Havel gazed at it impassively before lowering his sword.
"I see."
He belatedly discerned Adoris's intent.
The mage sought to draw out Havel's full power.
He couldn't pinpoint the true motive.
But these indiscriminate assaults clearly aimed to force it.
Havel heightened his senses.
Several of his stats reacted in tandem.
Havel had transcended countless stats by now.
He had never relied on them before.
His power was more than sufficient, even without them—save for testing limits.
But today, he felt it fine to cross that line just a little.
First, through the Heavenly Mandate born of transcended Talent, he summoned a gift.
It birthed a new talent via Heavenly Mandate.
The talent created: Search.
Solely to locate Adoris.
To it, he added the Apex from his transcended Technique.
The instant Apex fused, the Search talent rocketed to its zenith.
As a result, Havel's senses expanded to an entirely different dimension.
Even within the Tower's Calamity shroud.
Vast and precise enough to detect beings blended seamlessly within.
Havel's eyes snapped open.
Grinning wickedly at his discovery via Search.
"There you are."
With those words, his figure vanished.
He pierced space in an instant using the light-speed of transcended Agility.
Where he reappeared.
Adoris stood with eyes bulging wide.
He hadn't anticipated Havel finding him so swiftly.
"Indeed!"
Soon, he laughed in rapture.
"I suspected special abilities, but crafting talent from Calamity! It's like magic!"
His face alight with excitement, he shouted.
"Then how about this!"
Adoris flung his arms wide to either side.
The surroundings shifted at breakneck speed.
Winter came, then spring, autumn, and summer.
The cycle repeated endlessly.
Adoris had severed the space at will.
Then twisted time's flow using Calamity.
A realm utterly befitting an Archmage—absurd beyond belief.
Attained through ceaseless study of Calamity.
But Havel had already stated it.
"Told you, I'm an Immortal."
He was unaffected by time.
Thus, even in the ceaseless torrent, Havel swung his hand blade.
Kung!
In that instant, Adoris seized Havel's wrist.
His appearance had changed dramatically.
Time's flow had bleached his scales white.
From within them overflowed pitch-black energy.
"This wasn't for your sake."
His vacant eyes flashed with abyssal darkness.
Havel slowly furrowed his brow at the sight.
In the flow of time, the Calamity essential for natural growth.
Adoris had absorbed it all.
Massive Calamity, unprecedented, poured from his body.
Warping space itself—danger incarnate.
"To shatter the world's wall, one must go this far, no?"
As Havel surmised, he sought full power.
Thus, he knew he must unleash his own in kind.
"Let's breach the wall together."
His beaming face brimmed with madness.
Suddenly, the darkness surged into Adoris's body.
It became the terminus of oblivion, devouring all.
The soundless darkness poised to swallow everything and erase the world.
Havel infused Dawn light into his drawn Star Sword.
"Yeah."
He let out a short, mocking chuckle at the window before his eyes.
The Tower itself showed momentary fluster before Adoris's rampage.
Havel's arrival had spiked the floor's overall difficulty to extremes.
Turning Adoris into a true Archmage in the process.
"I get that your madness is genuine."
He didn't know what the mage truly desired.
But one thing was certain.
Havel despised being a pawn in someone else's schemes.
"Erasing darkness is light's job, isn't it?"
The Dawn light on his raised sword grew ever brighter.
It soon erupted, bleaching the surroundings white.
The Dawn light clashed against Adoris's darkness.
Panic flickered in Adoris's eyes for the first time.
The light was too intense; the darkness couldn't advance.
His eyes bulged, locking with Havel's.
The light enveloped and shattered the darkness.
This wasn't what he wanted.
He had sought their powers' collision to explode and pierce the world's wall.
Adoris screamed in his mind.
But Havel paid no heed and simply laughed.
"Pass."
With that honest reply, the light obliterated the darkness.
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