Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 270

Magic is Useless-271

# 271

Mammon’s Tragedy 1

Consecutive impacts exploded in the void.

A powerful magic spear fell from the sky, its dark energy pouring directly onto the spire.

Each one was over 10 meters in size.

Hundreds of magic spears, seemingly capable of piercing even a dragon, rapidly descended towards the spire with immense explosive force.

The magic spears, accelerated by gravity, quickly gained speed, soon breaking the sound barrier.

콰콰콰콰콰콰콰!

It was by no means a spell that an ordinary mage could cast.

Watching the dark shower, the Trebia Estate party finally began to show signs of surprise.

“This is an incredible spell.”

“Indeed, isn’t his magic stronger than the White Lizard’s?”

“Perhaps not to that extent… but it’s truly astonishing!”

Even the 7th Circle Archmage Coneri was amazed.

“I don’t think this is the time to be merely admiring it.”

Smith frowned, looking at the magic spears falling above them.

Coneri nodded.

He quickly began casting, observing the Lich Mammon and the dark shower.

“Dual Layer of Light Barrier!”

“Dual Iron Shield!”

“Open Physical Defense!”

“Open Magical Defense!”

“Dark Magic Defense!”

“Holy Power Enhancement!”

“Multiple Magic Weakening!”

As Coneri rapidly moved his hands and waved his staff, over ten spells unfolded in an instant. He was no ordinary mage either.

However!

꽈지지지지직! 쿵! 쿵! 쿵!

Each time a magic spear collided, a barrier disappeared.

Powerful flames erupted in the void.

“Huh?”

Coneri groaned, seemingly taken aback.

The Lich’s attack power was far stronger than expected. His defensive magic couldn’t withstand it.

Coneri was slightly flustered because he hadn’t anticipated that his defenses would crumble so easily against a mere Lich, not even a dragon.

“That Lich is no ordinary foe. Vikishu! I’ll deflect everything that gets through!”

Livs stepped forward.

His magic enveloped his entire body. He stepped forward, wielding a massive axe befitting his imposing stature.

“Haaaap!”

With a single swing, the void tore. Surprisingly, the massive magic spears vanished as if exploding.

The Lich Mammon’s eyes flickered.

If he had a human face, he would have been frowning.

“Arise! Fairies of Death!”

A subspace split in half, revealing numerous ghouls. They darted their tongues, clinging to the spire.

Each one had a grotesque appearance.

With two heads, five faces, and sharp, triangular shark-like teeth, the ghouls lunged at Duke Trebia and his party.

콰콰콰콰콰콰콰쾅!

But there was something Lich Mammon had not anticipated.

He had misjudged Duke Trebia’s martial prowess.

Duke Trebia drew his sword and stepped forward. Simultaneously, the spire flashed, and countless ghouls were engulfed in light and began to melt away.

The ghouls’ long, drawn-out screams pierced Lich Mammon’s ears.

“They’re stronger than I thought. So, they faced a dragon. But this attack won’t be so easily stopped.”

Mammon retrieved a staff from the subspace. It was a shame that he couldn’t unleash even 10 percent of its original power due to the Legion, but it was still much better than nothing.

“Oh, ye forces that belong not to this world, come to me. I shall unleash your grudges with this power.”

Black mana surged towards Mammon from all directions.

The mana concentrated into his staff, and he was about to manipulate its alignment to complete the ultimate magic when-

“Unfortunately, you won’t be able to use that.”

Livs appeared before Mammon’s eyes.

“You are?”

“Me?

Mammon’s triple defensive magic was torn apart.

‘Huh?’ In that instant, he was split in half, and a far stronger and sharper energy than expected pierced inward.

“I’m the one who will cut off your head.”

The axe’s magic multiplied into ten, as if using a clone technique. Then, from ten, it increased to a hundred, lunging at Mammon from all directions.

퍼퍼퍼퍼퍼펑!

The explosion was instantaneous.

Before the axe could reach him, Lich Mammon deployed every barrier he could, but he couldn’t block all the attacks.

In an instant, Lich Mammon’s entire body was being torn to shreds.

“Kaaaaak!”

Magic surged as Lich Mammon’s skeletal mouth opened.

Unbearable rage spread in all directions.

He couldn’t bear the fact that he was being defeated by mere humans, not even his master.

Bloodshot eyes containing abyssal terror shot out from the depths of his dark gaze.

“Shit! Look at this bastard’s eyes! He’s definitely not ordinary.”

The undying berserker Livs leaped through the violently exploding gaps.

The explosions affected his body as well.

But, astonishingly, the rate of his flesh regenerating was faster than the rate at which it was being destroyed.

“Aura Immortality!”

Livs’s axe flew through the flames and explosions.

Seeing the axe approaching his neck, Mammon thought that he might be annihilated if he wasn’t careful.

“It would have been better to die peacefully…”

Mammon waved his staff, distorting space with a quick blink. But Livs, as if he had predicted it, kicked off the void and instantly closed the distance.

“You’re not ordinary foes after all.”

So Mammon decided to use the sealed summoning spell.

“Come, with the power given to me, I summon thee.”

Mammon opened his mouth wide.

Inside was an absolute space like the abyss of darkness. Just as Livs was momentarily taken aback, the darkness split in half-!

Black mist began to spew out.

Mammon’s secret magic.

It was impossible in the past, but he was able to open the gate to the Demon World after becoming a 7th Circle Master. Bored in the subspace, he initially summoned and contracted very small demonic beasts, gradually increasing their size.

And what he had now obtained was the demonic beast, Prometheus.

Although it was a mid-grade demonic beast, it was comparable to a high-grade one in terms of combat.

Moreover, a mid-grade demonic beast from the Demon World was so strong that even an ogre would be a mere snack in the Middle World [the human world].

In terms of brute force, it was almost at the 7-star level, and above all, it had absolute resistance to magic, making it even more fatal to mages.

Prometheus wrapped around Lich Mammon’s body, its hideous eyes gleaming.

The small crest on its forehead sparkled like a crown.

“What the heck is that?”

“Damn, that’s an incredible aura! That wasn’t just any Lich!”

Livs and Smith exclaimed simultaneously.

The Lich they knew was a being who cast curses from the back of the dark army. A monster with low to mid-level direct attack capabilities. They thought of it as a vile creature scheming in the shadows… but the Lich before their eyes was not simply that.

“Oh ho! It looks like a demonic beast from the Demon World?”

Coneri and Verimode also clicked their tongues.

“I was going to grant you a human-like death, but I’ll give up now. Just die, and your souls will reside in the Demon World for countless eons!”

Lich Mammon’s voice, devoid of any emotion, rang out clearly.

“Screw you.”

Verimode kicked off the spire’s wall and soared into the air.

“Let’s go together.”

The mage Coneri also flew into the air. Their time-difference attack exploded.

-Kuooh!

Surprisingly, Prometheus instantly devoured the magic power of Verimode and the mage Coneri. It didn’t end there.

It opened its massive mouth and bit Verimode’s foot as she approached.

“Keuh.”

The holy power that supported her was being sucked away.

“W-what is this!”

Verimode frantically struck Prometheus’s face.

It didn’t budge. It was converting her magic power into defense. She had never heard of such a monster.

At that moment.

Prometheus’s forehead was pierced, and the attack even penetrated Lich Mammon’s heart.

An overwhelming aura beyond imagination- an aura that exceeded even Lich Mammon’s expectations unfolded.

-Kuooh!

Prometheus, with its forehead pierced, staggered and crashed to the ground. It fell on a mansion, reducing it to rubble, and continued to twitch for a long time before stopping its movements.

Lich Mammon also suffered considerable damage.

He looked at the middle-aged man who had unleashed the astonishing aura.

“Who… are you?”

“Trebia.”

“Trebia?”

“I am Duke Trebia.”

“Duke Trebia…”

The most powerful human Lich Mammon had encountered since serving the Legion was the Archbishop of the Stonehead Church. He thought there would be no human beyond that…

He hadn’t expected there would be another such human.

Perhaps there were such humans somewhere else on the continent?

“Are you… a Grand Master?”

Duke Trebia shrugged.

“The efficacy of the Dragon Heart is indeed remarkable. It allowed me to surpass my limits in an instant. I understand why dragons are so revered.”

Trebia chuckled.

Lich Mammon looked at his pierced chest. Magic was pouring out of the hole like a waterfall. He was losing strength throughout his body. He no longer had the strength to endure.

“The gates of hell… are not opened in only one place.”

Lich Mammon left behind incomprehensible words and fell. He plummeted to the ground and exploded with a ‘펑!’ sound [onomatopoeia for a popping sound].

“Lich’s life force extinguished.”

Coneri, who had scanned Lich Mammon, said.

Then, with a look of awe, he looked at Duke Trebia. He had seen him merge with the Dragon Heart. But he had never imagined he would become this strong.

The Lich was a monster who had blocked the combined attacks of Smith, the archer called the One-Shot Killer, Livs, the undying berserker, Coneri, the 7th Circle Archmage, and Verimode, the Crazy Saintess.

To end such a monster in one blow.

This was not just amazing.

“Don’t look at me like that. If you hadn’t drawn the Lich’s attention, I wouldn’t have been able to defeat him so easily.”

Duke Trebia chuckled and gave credit to his party members.

“What exactly was that Lich?”

Smith tilted his head.

No matter how tolerant the Baroque Kingdom was of other races, it would not accept Liches. A Lich was different from humans, an existence of death. It was difficult to understand that such a Lich had appeared here to help humans.

“Who knows? If you wanted to know, you should have captured him.”

Coneri answered instead.

“Ugh, it’s impossible to capture that ignorant Lich. Anyway, what do we do now?”

Duke Trebia looked at the Bone Dragon, which was wreaking havoc in the holy city of Poman.

In the distance, he could see the Capital Defense Forces moving. Not only them, but also numerous troops defending the capital were moving quickly.

If the Bone Dragon could hold out for just half a day-

The defense forces on the border would have no choice but to withdraw their troops.

There, a vanguard of 100,000 troops was hiding.

If they succeeded in breaking through the border… the first step of the Great Unification War would begin.

“Shall we watch a little longer?”

“Let’s go back. There’s nothing more we can do even if we stay.”

At Duke Trebia’s words, the party members nodded.

It was impossible to control the Bone Dragon. All they could do was watch the Bone Dragon’s destructive actions.

If they were caught up in the Bone Dragon’s destructive actions, they would have to endure a significant loss of combat power.

“Then, let’s begin.”

Coneri tore the portal scroll.

In an instant, a portal with immense energy was created in the void near the spire.

Duke Trebia slowly walked through the air and entered the portal. The other party members also nonchalantly used air-walking and disappeared into the portal.

Soon, the portal vanished without a trace.