The Rebirth Of The Hero’S Party’S Archmage [EN]: Chapter 165

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“Ol’ pa sis, where did that tainted soul come from?”

Nariaduke narrowed his eyes as he asked, but the answer was a fireball that scorched the heavens and the earth.

But the moment it struck Nariaduke, that space-time warped, sending the attack to another dimension. Nariaduke remained standing there, unhurried.

As Nariaduke waved his fan with a flourish, a storm of poison erupted, but the moment its power manifested, it was burned to white ashes.

“……Ho-oh.”

In the suffocating atmosphere, Nariaduke, who casually shielded his eyes with his fan, was deep in thought.

‘A mature Red Dragon trapped in a human body… Did he use the same method as me?’

Just then, Millone Alter Gaumris staggered toward the red-eyed youth, Rain Ludwig.

“It’s time.”

He said, regenerating his left arm by injecting a serum syringe into the wound.

“That guy manipulates time. He just blew away ‘the time you attacked’.”

Time… The red-haired youth turned his head and saw his past self.

Visible. The unknown energy occupying Rin’s body. That’s the guy who was trapped inside the Veltar Stone in the temple earlier…

‘My old body.’

He thought he would have mixed feelings when he met him after graduating from [whatever institution or process is being referred to], but even when he faced his old body with strange eyes and wings, he felt strangely detached.

Only hatred and anger burned in his heart, deep in his soul, to the point of suffocation.

The abyssal acid rain, evaporated by the transcendent flames, began to fall again. The red-haired youth placed his hand on his chest and replied.

“This body was given a new life by Alakish with that soul, so it must look tainted.”

“Alakish… An unfamiliar name.”

“Now it’s my turn to ask the question. Was it you who lured Toureina into the abyss?”

The unnaturally calm voice hinted at the immensity of his anger.

The atmosphere quietly simmered.

As if all the oxygen had been consumed by an invisible flame, those present felt suffocated, and sweat beaded on their backs.

“Do has… How dare you look at me with such disrespect… You’re just a bug-like human?”

“I’ll give you 5 seconds to answer.”

“Time is his throne. That woman dreamed of twisted time, and this Nariaduke merely took that dream, that flesh of the soul. Little by little, very little by little… Hehehehe.”

The moment the red-haired youth’s eyes flashed, Nariaduke unfolded his fan and tore through the dimensions, pulling out a baby dragon from beyond the flames.

“Are you resentful? Ru has… Even though the power of transcendence is mixed in the soul, the root is still a worthless human… You should have subdued me instead of rambling… !”

Milia’s face paled as she realized Aki had vanished from her arms.

Aki.

She had been entrusted with that child.

“Emotions contain power… ger sas, but you always have to pay the price… That’s why the wise coldly exclude emotions… precisely design victory… and coldly use every situation… in just this way… .”

The baby dragon, held in Nariaduke’s hand, was swallowed into the abyss swirling with disgusting colors. Inside, Aki coughed in pain.

“This dragon will now slowly be swept into the storm of fate… Why do you think I didn’t do it right away, Bel has…? To use that fate valuably… .”

As Milia tried to move towards Aki and Millone towards the Holy Sword Gaumris, Nariaduke offered a bitter smile in their direction.

“If you don’t quell those disrespectful powers, I will plunge this impious being into fate right now… Is that okay…?”

“Nariaduke, you son of a bitch…!”

“You guys don’t react to anything this Nariaduke does… Al shiras… From now until the moment I approach that thing and create a new star’s body… .”

One step, one step.

The eternal ruler closed the distance with an arrogantly relaxed gait.

“This is true power… strategy. A de sebur… Now I will offer your luscious flesh to the altar of the true king… .”

The red-haired youth, who had been silently staring at the distant ancient aristocrat and his old body, suddenly lowered his head and let out a short sigh.

“No, it’s not you.”

When he muttered in an indifferent tone and raised his head again, the flower bud that had been slowly rotating in his red eyes bloomed brilliantly with seven petals.

“Your pride in your power makes your intentions too obvious. There’s no way Toureina would have been fooled by that.”

And the moment he glared at the storm of poison with those two eyes, the storm ignited with intense light and instantly vanished, and Nariaduke’s eyes widened.

“What is…? !”

When Nariaduke belatedly stretched his fan towards the baby dragon, there was no target there. There were only two women instead.

“Gaumris!”

Millone swung the Supreme Holy Sword Gaumris, fiercely burning with pure white sword energy, and collided with Nariaduke’s fan, and in that gap, Milia hugged Aki and distanced herself far away.

‘Again, time has flown away.’

But there was no way that Fei Quarier, the strongest soldier in mankind, would be defeated by the same trick several times.

He forcibly twisted the trajectory of the hammer’s power, which had been striking diagonally, reversing the flow of inertia and power.

Nariaduke, horrified by the extreme utilization of the human body, flapped his deformed wings for the first time and soared high into the sky.

“This lowly thing… .”

The storm of poison that arose from the reverberation was offset and scattered by the storm of dust as Millone fiercely struck the ground with Gaumris.

“No one can stop the storm of fate, and my feathers will lead this world from a false dream to a true kingdom!”

Nariaduke, who flew into the rain clouds, far beyond Fei Quarier’s reach, spread his three pairs of wings wide.

Then, feathers glistening with a disgusting stench were scattered widely throughout the mountains… Shockingly, the forests that the feathers touched began to melt away.

Even the Shin’aesi Scripture’s letter barrier, which Milia desperately reinforced, fluctuated painfully due to that power, and cracks began to form on the surface.

“Keuh… .”

Juliana, who was maintaining the power of the Shin’aesi Scripture, vomited blood, and Valencidice, who was bringing the few survivors into the barrier, shouted.

“It’s meaningless! Using something that strong will just blow away time! You have to use an ability that you can pour out continuously!”

The moment Rain broke the five magic circles rotating while emitting red currents on his palm.

‘Instant casting of 5 stars?’

Along with the sharp sound of the flame igniting, a fragment of the power of the transcendent soul was released.

That power, which burns everything in this world to ashes, literally turns all things into ashes.

He embodies that absolute magic power with the rune of fire and commands the field to open a blood vessel.

“Fire Field Defense Hole, First Thunder.”

As if tearing apart the dark clouds, a red flash ripped through the sky, and the next moment, with an intense light that seemed to burn the retina, flames tore through the heavens.

‘I realized it when I faced Shar’Kars. These guys, you have to finish them with all your might when they’re off guard.’

Nariaduke, who snorted at the firebolt, was about to flap his wings again and scatter feathers of corruption, but for a moment, the old god cried out in pain and his pupils shook.

“What is…? !”

The upper right wing was engulfed in a firestorm and evaporated in an instant. He definitely blew away time, but how?

“Vel Quirius.”

Ability analysis, reverse calculation verification, correction… In the phenomenon of information overload that burned the brain, blood flowed from Rain’s eyes.

‘The circle of abilities that spreads 10 meters around him, that’s the construction formula for manipulating space-time.’

The forbidden Orbios is a rune made of the 6th substance symbolizing the abyss.

Since he had seen the structure countless times in the fight against the black magicians and in the fight against Shar’Kars and had studied how to deal with it, solving the establishment equation was quite difficult but not impossible.

As a price, his brain and eyes writhed in agony as if they were burning white… Valencidice, who understood the situation, swallowed a gasp.

‘Is he controlling the space-time authority that Nariaduke is using…? ‘

Nariaduke also immediately sensed the source of the anomaly, the origin of the power that was disrupting his authority.

“Second Thunder.”

Once again, the heavens and the earth turned red… and as all the rainwater in the area evaporated, a huge amount of steam swirled hotly. In a vortex of heat so strong that blisters formed from burns.

‘What, that guy… .’

Milia, who was hugging Aki tightly and cheering excitedly, swallowed hard as she watched the display of absolute power.

‘That’s several times stronger than what several magicians were using at the same time earlier… .’

And for some reason, a lump of trembling rose somewhere in her soul. The cause was impossible to know, just like when she saw the frozen boy earlier and tears came out.

“R, R, RugabakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkKKK──────!”

When the bizarre scream of the ruler of time echoed through the mountains, some feathers rushed towards Rain, unleashing a storm of poison.

“Gaumris.”

Millone, who was standing next to Rain, planted the Supreme Holy Sword Gaumris on the ground and then unleashed its light power, clearing away the storms in succession.

“Third Thunder, Fourth Thunder.”

As if deafening, when the thunder that shook the heavens and the earth exploded, the third and fourth flashes struck the shadow of the sky in succession… .

The moment the fifth firebolt stole the light from the world, the sound of the old ruler falling from the sky and crashing into the ground echoed.

The flesh of the wings was disgustingly scattered around, and an indescribably sour stench emanated from that mass of madness.

“Ga, Gal be Cyclo, Cybia, you, you, how dare you… The mission of this Nariaduke, who must open all, all eyes──”

Rain’s eyes, looking down at his old body crawling on the ground, scorched to ashes in the flames, were eerily cold.

“──Keep barking in hell.”

The moment the red-eyed youth snapped his fingers, the sixth thunderbolt exploded.

In the explosion that tore apart the mountain ridge, the old archmage’s cracked and hoarse death throes were mercilessly buried.

Along with the formless trembling of the power disappearing, a fatal stench poured out from the huge pit created by the lightning strike.

‘Who is it?’

‘Who the hell is it?’

Only a few elders of Rivendell, two great witches, and less than ten people watched the unrealistic display of power with their minds intact and swallowed their breaths.

‘Is there a human who can handle the root rune, fire, so perfectly?’

If it were a person from 300 years ago, they might have shouted, “The Great Magician Rin has come to save us” just by looking at the back of him wearing a gat [Korean traditional hat] and holding a stone staff.

Of course, it would be a lie if they didn’t think that way too, but it was an impossible thought.

The Great Magician Rin died 300 years ago, and now his body has been consumed by the old ruler.

And according to the doctrines of the Gwangryong Orthodox Church, there is no such thing as the afterlife of the soul. Reincarnation is an idea that only heretics would entertain.

“…….”

Rain, who had been staring at the pit with a tense face, forgetting even how to breathe, finally exhaled the breath that had been stuck in his throat.

‘Did I finish it?’

The presence has definitely disappeared.

Dangerous. It feels like all the nerve cells in my head have ruptured from controlling the ancient authority with Vel Quirius.

At that time, Millone, who seemed to be reaching out to support him, stared into the smoke with doubtful eyes.

“What is that?”

He prepared for the dull pain in his brain and activated Vel Sidius again… The pain vanished in a daze of shock.

The crow’s cry that filled the mountain range began to stimulate his head with the melody of the universe.

What lay alone in the center of the pit was an unnaturally transparent frost. It was an ice of unforgettable shape.

“Is that Juyeoso Gye Daeban [a powerful ice magic or artifact]…?”

But something was different. Something fundamental. The red-haired youth doubted his eyes.

Cold sweat dripped down.

First of all, for some reason, he couldn’t interfere with Vel Quirius itself… .

‘No way.’

Inside, the being of cosmic oblivion writhed darkly and instantly recombined the body that had been burned and torn back to its original form.

‘Even Shar’Kars, who was unstable but had a body, couldn’t do super-fast regeneration right away when he was hit directly by this… .’

Frankly, he understood it theoretically (because it’s that kind of technique), but he couldn’t comprehend it beyond that.

How is that guy using that?

He thought of combining the temporary invincibility and healing amplification of Juyeoso Gye Daeban with the super-fast regeneration of an absolute being?

Crack… .

……Crack…….

……………Crack…….

In the twisted laughter of the crows from the universe, cracks began to form in the ice wall of Juyeoso Gye Daeban… .

────Pakaaaaaang!

Soon, as ice shards scattered in all directions like an explosion, the great Nariaduke, awakened from a moment’s slumber, spread a sour stench throughout the heavens and the earth.

“How can this be… .”

“Nariaduke’s body… .”

“It’s completely restored… !”

While everyone trembled in indescribable fear, Nariaduke, who was examining his body, burst into joy.

“Heu, heuheu, heuheuheu, hehahahahahaha… Ro a kusas! I despaired that I could not manifest a living body with all authority… What a wonderful mortal body… How beautiful a human body can be…!”

At that time, along with a roar that seemed to tear away the mountain range, the seventh lightning bolt struck the body of the old archmage.

He didn’t avoid it.

He didn’t manipulate time either.

Only the ice wall, which the youngest archmage and the legendary shaman had created together, was deployed again over the body being burned by the flames of transcendence… .

‘No, no… .’

It felt like he was in the middle of a nightmare.

Seeing the archmage’s body, along with three pairs of wings and a third eye, being instantly restored inside that ice coffin.

And again, the ice began to break, and with a grotesquely twisted laughter, the nightmare descended on this land again.

‘Does that mean that no matter how fatal the injury, I can’t kill him… ?’

Millone could clearly hear the echo of the end that this desperate situation implied.

‘He has transcended death with that… Now there are no loopholes… It is clear that no magic or spell is meaningful… .’

Juliana, the shaman of the star cluster, also recognized the voice of destruction whispered by this absolute madness.

‘It’s not an incomplete resurrection.’

Right here, on the Mythical Peak of the Red Rock Mountains… Nariaduke, the three wheels of time who ruled the old era, has been resurrected in perfect form.

The old god, who has lived in infinite time with the authority of immortality, is reborn to rule mankind again as he did then.

“This body will exist in infinite time as it has been… Aaaaaa, kneel before the vortex of fate… .”

While everyone, including Fei Quarier, trembled in primitive fear inherited from oblivion, flames were quietly flickering in the eyes of the red-haired youth.

‘If destruction doesn’t work, I’ll have to deal with it with binding, so I’ll have to use ‘that’ after all.’

It takes time to do that… As soon as that judgment was made in his head, he turned his body and began to run down the slope leading to the summit of Mythical Peak.

“Hehehehehehehehehe… .”

Nariaduke watched that sight, the sight of a mortal overwhelmed by fear turning his back and running away, for a long time as if he was very satisfied, and finally spread his wings and rose into the sky.

“It’s a struggle worthy of a lowly origin… Bel has… As a gift for that, I will take that impious soul and flesh without pain… Right now!”