The Rebirth Of The Hero’S Party’S Archmage [EN]: Chapter 167

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“Shar’kas, was it?”

Green lightning flashed in the thick, heavy rain that poured down at an angle. A chillingly humid rainstorm raged through the night.

“Even recalling that name is loathsome. Does that arrogant face of his remain the same?”

The two absolute beings stared at each other for a moment in that world, where the stench of the universe vibrated, before unleashing their transcendent powers.

“I’ll let you face him directly without being impatient. Arise.”

The quantity rune of the mental image barrier glowed. Countless runes floated from the magic circle, forming over a dozen ranks in pairs of four.

“Rune inscription alteration.”

The flow and respect runes burst into flames simultaneously… runes like ‘levitation’ transformed into runes like ‘explosion’ and ‘incineration,’ turning into a fiery storm with intense light.

Karenden’s method of using power, from the era when gods fought for the fate of the world, wielding countless attributes of abilities beyond their limits.

A simplified version of that power, where about a dozen spells were prepared in advance, and the appropriate form of power was granted according to the battle situation.

「───?!」

A carpet of flames laid incessantly on the ground.

Numerous fire explosions soared.

There was no gap in time between the explosions of that transcendent power.

‘If only you guys.’

An absolute storm charged through the heart of the incinerating flames, the flash of light when all things sink to ashes.

‘If only you guys weren’t here.’

A clash of power that even humans at their peak could not imagine.

‘That pathetic guy.’

In that transcendent dance, the young man busily moved through the rotting forest, avoiding the vortex of poison and releasing transcendent flames.

‘He would have lived and died several times more happily.’

The flames, filled with mortal emotions and the exaltation of the soul, burned even more intensely, scattering the heat of the ancient times throughout the heavens and earth.

That runaway power had no preparation time or power vacuum, which inevitably exists when a mortal wields great power.

Enough to make the absolute being who opposed him raise his eyebrows in bewilderment.

‘A priest of Karenden? A clone? An astonishing level. Even that troublesome bitch couldn’t wield Karenden’s power this similarly.’

In response to that power, feathers of corruption flew in bizarre, unnatural trajectories, spreading a storm of death.

‘The potential is indeed outstanding, but not enough to bury Shar’kas… what is going on?’

The red-eyed youth suppressed the twitch at the corner of his mouth and skillfully parried them with his staff.

And the next moment, he simultaneously fired five 4-star fire spells.

It seemed like he would completely burn it away with that explosive fire, but the absolute being instantly restored his body from the ice of Juyeoso Gyeodae Ban [a powerful restorative ice].

「Heu, heuhahahahaha, are you hiding your power in front of me, Bel has? How ridiculous! Unleash your full power!」

That guy, with the face of the old boy, smiled bitterly and flapped his wings greatly, diving down at a speed that surpassed the limits of human perception.

“Keuk…!”

As mud and water soared chaotically from the backlash of the rapid fall, he blocked the fan wielded by the absolute being with his staff, diverting the power to the side, and thrust out his staff.

One exchange, five exchanges, ten exchanges.

The absolute being’s movements, moving his small body like a shooting star with his huge wings and aiming for blind spots in his vision, were like a supernatural typhoon.

‘This bastard, his movements are getting faster and faster.’

Then, in the sparks of the clash, the staff that had deflected the fan made of meteorite iron deeply pierced his neck.

The absolute being’s wing claws tore the young man’s hand and back long and deep.

‘He’s starting to adapt to Rin’s body… I need to finish this quickly.’

The young man, immediately burning the skin of the area where the abyss’s corruption had begun, kicked off a rock and retreated far back. He formed a seal at the same time as landing.

“First Thunder.”

At the command of the caster, a fraction of the transcendent flame that had been waiting in the sky was released at that moment.

The blade of flame, which descended, stealing all color and sound from the yellowing mountain range, annihilated the corruption and negativity that had been eating away at the mountain of fire in one fell swoop.

Except for one place, the place where that lightning had struck.

“Time…?”

Not even 10 seconds must have passed yet, and the manipulation speed is getting faster and faster. Enough that Bel Curios cannot interfere.

By the time cold sweat flowed like rain from his forehead, Nariaduke was already behind him.

The distance was a little over one step, and at the moment when his old finger joints emitted an ominous bone sound and struck towards his heart.

「This is the period to your destiny.」

In that narrow gap of killing intent, a holy sword emitting dazzling starlight heavily cleaved.

“Gaumris!”

The young man’s bangs shook violently, and at the same time, the absolute being’s right hand was crushed by the weight and burned in the light by the special ability, light pressure.

「Holy sword, regardless of its authenticity, it is truly a troublesome thing…….」

The absolute being, spreading three pairs of wings and soaring into the sky, was struck by a barrage of fireballs above his head.

The absolute being frantically changed his flight path to avoid the first lightning strike, and blocked the second lightning strike by transferring the ground into the sky.

But the next moment, the third lightning strike hit his head head-on, and the firepower of overwhelming heat slammed his body to the ground.

Of course, the body covered in ice again began to regenerate in an instant…….

“Thanks to you, I lived.”

He takes a knee, catches his breath, and expresses his gratitude. The Fay Quarter [a group or organization], famous for his surly personality, waved his hand to skip the small talk.

“Is it a desperate struggle, or do you have a plan?”

“It’s just a desperate struggle.”

I have one.

I can’t say it because I’m afraid they’ll hear it.

When he conveyed his intentions with just his lip movements, Millone twitched the corners of his mouth and grabbed Gaumris with both hands.

“Then let’s try to struggle together. Any experience coordinating with a warrior?”

5 years. Not just a simple warrior, but a hero you guys admire, a hero.

Right, Rista Alter Shirpen.

Since I can’t say that, I just shrugged my chin to mean don’t worry.

“Then…….”

Cutting off his own words, Millone, who took a deep breath, kicked off the ground and approached Nariaduke’s eyes at a speed that surpassed his limits.

When Nariaduke wielded his fan to manipulate providence and tried to suppress the surrounding space with a storm of poison, a fireball struck slightly behind him.

It directly hit without affecting Millone, scattering the negative wind powerlessly, and shook the ground to break his posture.

Millone dug into that momentary gap.

「Huh.」

He blocked Gaumris’s slash with his fan and poured fireballs into the flight path of the guy who flew into the sky.

At the moment when the flight became slightly unstable due to the pressure and he eventually used the power of time deletion.

“Got you.”

Authority reuse cooldown.

Immediately, Millone’s Gaumris, who stepped on the true awakening and soared into the sky, was embedded in his back.

「Eueum……!」

At the same time, Millone kicked off the foothold formed with magic power and landed on the ground.

At a speed several times faster than the falling absolute being.

Even before landing, transcendent light power was concentrated on Gaumris, which was firmly held in both hands.

“Samjakbongchu 14th Style, Swaehyeong Chamcheon [a powerful sword technique].”

Did he sense the crisis?

The last lightning struck the absolute being’s body, which was trying to control his posture in the air and get out of Gaumris’s range by flapping his wings…….

Just as he was about to crash to the ground, the extreme holy sword Gaumris, which flew in, drawing a large trajectory of light, smashed the abyss’s body.

「It is a meaningless struggle.」

However, Nariaduke smiled bitterly even as his upper body was torn from his lower body by that blow.

And…… no?

In an instant, the young man realized that something was wrong enough to make his hair stand on end. Suddenly something, something changed in the blink of an eye.

「You…… are exhausted. Unlike him, this Nariaduke is gradually getting used to this body, so it is a body worthy of accepting all my gifts.」

Time flew by. But it was completely different from before, the scale of time that flew by…….

It seemed like the time to ‘recover the body with Juyeoso Gyeodae Ban’ and the time to ‘break free from the ice and bind Millone’s limbs with dark blue wind’ were all deleted.

I only closed and opened my eyes for a moment, and I thought I was controlling the authority with Bel Curios, but the situation had progressed that far.

‘Crazy…….’

Although the comparison itself is impossible in the first place, if Shar’kas had shown his sincerity from the beginning, would he have given this sense of powerlessness?

「Why does that irreverent gaze not disappear even now…… Bel has? What on earth are you looking at in the vortex of cause and effect determined before creation……?」

Millone tore off the restraints with superhuman strength and rushed in, but it was meaningless.

Because Nariaduke easily avoided the attack by flying into the air.

The absolute being, covering the area under his eyes with a fan, pointed the fan at Millone as the third eye on his forehead twisted ominously.

「Is it this forged vessel? Or…….」

Suddenly, he tore the dimension long with his fan and pulled someone from another space in an instant.

This bastard…….

The red youth’s lips turned pale.

「Is it this guy who is plotting an impudent scheme while buying time pretending to be struggling?」

Valensidice and Pipi.

Valensidice, who was reciting the incantation of the spell with five layers of magic circles rotating on the palm of his hand above the long scroll, raised his head with a start.

Even in that moment of bewilderment, it was truly amazing that he did not disrupt the flow of magic power or the texture of the incantation, but now Valensidice is…….

‘He’s completely defenseless.’

It’s like being in front of the enemy naked.

「Do not move a single finger. The moment you move, I will scatter the flesh and blood of this rude apostate on the mountain range.」

The young man and Millone, who were slowly moving, had to stop their movements immediately at that warning.

Even in a situation where Nariaduke was right behind him, Valensidice’s spirit of not stopping the refining of power was unbelievable, but…….

The red-eyed youth took a rough breath and said in an earnest voice.

“Don’t move either, Pipi.”

“Pipi, Pipi, Pipi.”

“Please, please don’t move.”

In the suffocating silence where the world was like being placed on a knife’s edge, the absolute being walked up to Valensidice with a noble gait.

Then, he lifted Valensidice’s chin with his fan, made eye contact, and gave a sinister smile.

「You are also worthy of accepting the gift of time…… a be ses…… I will take into account the momentary irreverence…….」

Then, the next moment, he grabbed Valensidice’s neck and lifted him into the air. He plunged two wing claws into his abdomen.

“Va, Valensidice!”

The area pierced by the claws, glistening with indescribably grotesque poison…… First of all, that skin gradually began to change, into feathers of a different shape.

“Damn it, Nariaduke, you son of a bitch!”

Even while spitting red blood bubbles from his mouth, Valensidice did not stop the consolidation of power, but…… if this continues, the situation was obvious.

Although the transformation speed is slower than others because he has a strong resistance to the abyss, Valensidice will eventually turn into Nariaduke’s servant, a grotesque bird.

At that moment, Pipi, unable to bear to see the situation, eventually shook off the flames with his wings and soared, and at that moment, Nariaduke was about to strike Pipi down with his fan as if it were ridiculous.

「……?!」

In the darkness, demonic energy flashed in iridescent colors, sharply tearing the space.

‘What…….’

Millone, who was the most knowledgeable about swordsmanship in this place, felt his eyes tremble.

That magical texture that sharply cuts through the atmosphere, the wave of power that separates dimensions, is not the magician’s circle or the archer’s or rogue’s heart.

Only a swordsman who handles chains can reach the pinnacle in true communication with the sword.

‘Swordsmanship? How? There is no one among the Fay Quarter who can use swordsmanship right now.’

Perhaps because the power is greatly influenced by the catalyst, that is, the equipment, unlike magicians.

According to legend, even half of that power, which is said to reverse waterfalls, did not come out, but it was enough to stab Nariaduke’s carelessness.

The swordsmanship that flashed with a ghastly color easily cut off the absolute being’s hands and wings that were corrupting Valensidice as if cutting silk.

「This is…….」

Everyone’s eyes except Valensidice were focused on the origin of the swordsmanship.

「What is it?」

The swordsman who was staring blankly at the blade with a look that seemed bewildered even to himself…… was Miria.

The bandages wrapped around the blade were not yet fully unwound, but as if proving that the single-edged sword was a demon sword, the same evil light as the swordsmanship flowed like a wave on the surface of the blade.

“Abuut-!”

And the baby dragon on his back waved his hand vigorously and affectionately at the young man.

But the young man had no time to greet him and had no choice but to shout at the top of his lungs.

“Why are you here, why are you here!”

Perhaps because he immediately judged that he had to eliminate the threat, Nariaduke immediately caused a storm of poison and tried to move in that direction.

‘Run away. A swordsman who uses swordsmanship. Why run away from someone who is more than a Fay Quarter?’

While thinking that, Millone, who felt suspicious about the fact that the level of presence was inferior to that of the owner of the swordsmanship, kicked off the ground.

At the moment when Nariaduke reached Miria’s eyes in the blink of an eye, deleting the time that the extreme holy sword Gaumris and the lightning of the bloodletting attacked him.

“Eueut……!”

He hurriedly took a stance and swung the demon sword, but perhaps because the level was far lower than that of Kashasur [a sacred object of the abyss], a sacred object of the abyss, the blade was helplessly split in two as soon as it collided with the fan.

“……No, there’s no need for that.”

Valensidice, who was coughing up blood while lying on the dirt floor, said.

On the palm of his hand, the runes of the spell and the runes of the magic circle that he chanted with his mouth harmonized beautifully.

That harmonious combination of power was soon broken with a clear cracking sound.

“───!”

“───!”

“───!”

At that moment, at that very moment, everything happened in an instant as if exploding.

First, Valensidice’s space-time black magic moved Miria to this side.

Then, the mountain range vibrated as if roaring, and vast radiance began to soar into the sky from the three peaks.

「Eueum……?!」

The streaks of light burned the dark clouds covering the sky and opened a path to the night sky, and at the same time, they combined in the sky and then plunged down the next moment.

To the absolute being Nariaduke.

When the incredibly beautiful pure blue power covered the heavens and the earth and took away the sight, I couldn’t know what was happening.

「R, R, R, RuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaKKKKKKKKKKKKKK─────!」

Only the absolute being’s screams vaguely implied the situation.

Millone, who could see through the flash with the power of the dragon dwelling in his body, saw it.

Under the hole that was nearly twenty meters wide, Nariaduke was painfully writhing, in the endless frost that covered his body no matter how much he struck and struck and struck again.

「What is it, what is this, NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU─────!」