The Rebirth Of The Hero’S Party’S Archmage [EN]: Chapter 244

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“How bland.”

Mage Slayer clicked his tongue, patting his shoulder with the flat of Mana Bane.

“Can you really hope to face Lord Zernyx’s true form when you’re already this beaten up from just this?”

Rain Ludwig’s entire body was soaked in blood, his breathing already reaching its limit.

Even the Scenery of Divine Flames was starting to falter, indicating that his mental strength was also at its limit.

His eyes still having life in them despite all this was a bit unsettling.

“Those eyes, you see, are the eyes only a heartless man who would personally kill the disciple he raised like a son could have.”

“It’s not over yet… !”

“Just give up, man. Think about it. Why would this great senior be fighting you here of all places?”

Once again, a fiery gaze flew towards him, but the citizens controlled by Puppet Possession blocked it.

“A mage is a rational being; they must view everything as a probability.”

He had freed nearly 100,000 citizens from Puppet Possession in this short time, but the population of is 350,000.

“I decided I could definitely win if I fought you here, so I called you here. I don’t fight battles I can’t win.”

You can’t see it because of the altered Scenery, but the Dragon Flames surrounding this place severely restrict the power of other dragons.

And since this Possession is currently being controlled by Ulandis, the burden on Zernyx is close to zero.

“I’ll praise you for fighting this hard in this environment. But it’s all over now.”

* * *

Suddenly, an entire building was smashed to pieces, and grotesque giants poured out from the sandstorm.

“Demons…?”

Slamming his feet on the ground to stop, Rem immediately nocked an arrow.

‘I roughly knew the enemy’s location through the wave, but demons?’

is a city located at the forefront of the Great Demon Front. There should be plenty of military power to fight against demons, but demons being here is abnormal.

“LuhaaaaaaAAAA!”

With spirited shouts, Uruk warriors charged forward, their murderous weapons spraying barbaric light and stench.

The size of their bodies and weapons, and the speed of their bodies, are on a different level from humans.

He accurately pierced the heads of the three leading ones with arrows, causing them to collapse, and caught the seven behind them, but still, this number and speed…!

“Rem!”

The Black Iron Warrior stormed onto the battlefield at that moment, piercing two Uruk warriors with his magnificent Dragonbone Spear.

“!”

The Uruk warriors momentarily faltered at the attack, taking a step or two back.

No, it wasn’t just because of the attack.

It was because of the rumors about that weapon, the Dragonbone Spear, which had spread widely among the Uruk raiders as a symbol of terror.

Whether the Dragon Slayer hated demons or just wanted to warm up, he had come to the Wastelands and massacred demons with that spear.

Moreover, 500 years ago, before becoming the Dragon Slayer, he was first called the Uruk Slayer.

“I never dreamed that the day your physique would look ordinary would come.”

“This is no time to chat. Where have all the other citizens gone?”

“Wait.”

While Bart faced off against a dozen Uruk warriors, Rem climbed onto the roof of a structure and closed his eyes.

He felt the waves, the waves of inorganic and organic matter.

First, he felt a massive wave… surrounding the center of the city, probably a plaza.

“First of all, that wave originates from the lighthouse.”

A familiar wave, Miria and Aki were moving towards it.

“Inside that huge wave, um, the energy of that flame is too strong to detect accurately, but there are a lot of people?”

“Rain is probably in there too. And what else?”

“No, and there’s a wave that seems to resonate with that wave… !”

Cutting himself off, Rem shot an arrow of mana woven in blue onto the bow.

The arrow, scattering blue light in the city’s sky, landed in the center of the commercial district.

A man was standing on the highest 5-story building on ‘Asalun’s Hill,’ the highest point in .

In his hands, he held a staff.

A staff with the faces of countless people wailing, embossed in such intricate detail that it was grotesque.

That was what was controlling the city’s survivors as puppets.

“…”

The man, so obese that it was questionable whether he could even walk, turned to look at the arrow.

Almost instantly, the structure beneath him began to move like a human, which was absurd.

It extended an arm as large as a giant to block the arrow…

“What the hell is that?!”

Yes, it wasn’t a structure in the first place.

That was a Colossus [a gigantic statue or structure].

Since the Ain artisans couldn’t handle magic, they used to make these rideable Colossi, but this one was clearly of abnormal size.

A masterpiece by the Engineer Slayer, a member of the Slayers’ executives. Moreover, the armor covering its entire body was Dragonscale.

“So, I have to take that down.”

“Geez, I feel like another round of hard labor is starting.”

“Let’s go, Rem.”

“Who said I wasn’t going?”

Bart charged forward, breaking through the Uruks’ encirclement head-on, and Rem also skipped across rooftops, assisting his breakthrough.

“Heh heh, these nobodies dare to challenge Lord Ulandis?”

The Dragonbone Spear, about to pierce the heart of an Uruk warrior, was momentarily stopped.

“Can’t do that, no!”

A girl stumbled into the midst of the chaotic battle…

“Oh, no…”

There wasn’t just one of them.

The Uruks, who revered victory, wore amused smiles on their faces.

As the Uruk warriors charged at Bart, using the mind-controlled humans as shields, Rem bit his lip.

“These bastards, really…!”

Helping Bart here won’t solve anything.

I have to hit the source.

As Rem rushed towards the Colossus, the Colossus slammed its hands down on the ground. The entire area sank, shaking the very earth, and a storm raged.

“Stone fragments…!”

Its movements were terribly slow, but its destructive power was absolute, and the aftermath of the attack soon led to loss of sight and balance.

‘The destructive power of Serwebon that I can draw out can’t penetrate that armor plate…’

It would have been different if it were our ancestor.

Right now, no matter how much I shoot, arrows that can pierce even steel will just bounce off helplessly.

“But there’s always a trick to it!”

Rem nimbly landed on top of the Colossus’s fist, which had been slammed into the ground.

“You don’t have to think about destroying the Colossus. It’ll be over if you just take out the guy in the cockpit and that guy on his shoulder!”

Although the Colossus had overwhelming power, it was just overwhelming, and its movements lacked the skill or trickery that other experts showed.

“I’m in a bad mood…”

The moment Ulandis clicked his tongue, displeased, a stream of dark magic manifested from the end of his staff and surged forward, wriggling.

“Why don’t you ride this good thing together! The ride is amazing!”

At the same time, the Colossus roughly swept its right arm with its left hand to knock off the uninvited guest.

He hastily dodged with a leap, barely landing, and then black magic poured down relentlessly…

When he blocked even that, this time the Uruk warriors began to climb up the Colossus’s arm, just like Rem had done.

“Hah, hah, hah…”

Bart’s shoulders, his black armor stained with the blood of both sides, rose and fell heavily.

With over fifty torn Uruk corpses covering the streets, the citizens were chained together and herded into one building.

Nevertheless, the number of enemies was endless… and the number of mind-controlled puppets was limitless.

“Heh, that guy’s doing useless things.”

While Rem shot down the Uruk warriors, Ulandis’s eyes narrowed playfully as he checked the situation below.

“Then this kind of entertainment would be fun too.”

The Colossus suddenly began to advance in the direction Ulandis pointed. It was the direction in which Bart had isolated the citizens he had subdued.

As various structures collapsed, sank, and twisted under its feet, he saw it in the distance.

A collapsing building.

A man hugging two children inside.

Was it because the control was disrupted while he was keeping Rem in check? More importantly, the Colossus’s foot was about to fall on top of them.

“Bart?”

The visual information was transmitted in an instant.

It only took an instant for the information to be transmitted to the brain and for the body to react to the command.

Did that instant bring back the sad tragedy of the distant past before his eyes?

“Hey, Bart! Are you crazy! Bart!”

The boxes of happiness are different for everyone.

Some people fill their boxes of happiness with success and wealth, but others fill them with just a moment of small, everyday life.

He had never wanted to become a great adventurer. He had never thought of becoming a hero.

– Uncle.

– Uncle!

– Uncle Bart!

From the moment he came to his senses, he had only wanted to protect such small happiness.

[Goooooong… !]

A creaking sound erupted from the joints of the Colossus, and for a moment, the world fell silent.

Everyone, even the Uruk warriors who were superior in strength to any other race, had enough reason to doubt their eyes.

It was only natural that they would be crushed into pieces if they were crushed under the feet of that Colossus, which was destroying stone structures like sandcastles and collapsing bedrock.

“… How is he holding on?”

The ground under its feet was deeply gouged, and cracks began to appear all over its armor, but the Black Iron Warrior was not crushed.

“The life of a person.”

Rather, wasn’t he receiving those feet with both hands?

“The beauty of life.”

In front of that warrior’s abnormal strength, the children and the father were also safe.

“How does it look to you guys… !”

As the Colossus tilted, Ulandis’s jowls shook in bewilderment.

‘A power struggle with a Colossus, what kind of ridiculous monster is this?’

What am I looking at right now?

“Euryaaaaaaaap!”

As Bart roared and lifted his arms, the Dragonscale Colossus lost its balance, floundered, and fell backward, creating a dust storm.

“Stop him!”

At that moment, as the Uruk warriors and puppets rushed in, the Dragonbone Spear, which had been thrown to the ground, began to emit brilliant flames.

“Stop that guy!”

The will of the Holy Spear Runach, entrusted by the Paladin, guides the way.

‘Snire… !’

Spinning the Dragonbone Spear around, the moment he took a stabbing stance, powerful magic began to condense onto the spearhead in the form of a sword aura.

The extreme point.

The length of the sword aura, which instantly reached its maximum output state, was three times the normal length of the Dragonbone Spear. This was already sword energy, just not emitted.

“Shoot right away, Bart!”

Wheeeeeeeek! Arrows flew in, dragging the sound of tearing through the air, and were neatly embedded in the ground and walls.

From the point of impact, green vines stretched out like spiderwebs, stopping the advance of the Uruks and puppets.

A moment was created; this time was enough. If he could use the realm of one move that Snire had shown him back then.

“Tsuaaaaaaaaaa!”

The moment he took a step and thrust the spear.

The moment the light of the sword aura reached its peak, instantly stealing the colors of the area.

The extreme point of power melted the Dragonscale armor plate in an instant and pierced the core of the Colossus.

Jjeoooooooong!

With the sound of oil splattering on an iron plate, electricity sparked in all directions from the penetration point, and the Colossus’s control system began to collapse.

“Oh, oh, damn it…”

As Ulandis, who had been thrown far away by the recoil of the Colossus falling, got up, covered in dust, something cold seeped deep into his head.

“Please promote us in hell.”

He tried to deploy a barrier belatedly to prevent fatal injuries, but the arrowhead turned into vines and pierced through the nerves of his brain.

I, me, me, I, Ulandis…

The obese body swayed several times before collapsing backward, and Bart, exhausted, dropped the Dragonbone Spear and knelt down.

‘For a moment, I seemed to be possessed by something, and I was able to use Snire’s power…’

He himself did not know what logic it was based on.

“Uncle.”

“Uncle.”

Was he hallucinating as he fell into a near-death state? No, it was too vivid to be a hallucination, and it wasn’t the voice Bart knew.

“Thank you.”

“You’re cool.”

The children the man had been hugging had already come to Bart’s side and bowed politely.

He didn’t know the southern dialect of the Republic, but for some reason, he could understand it. So he briefly fell into a daze.

It would have been nice if he could have seen this scene back then. It would have been nice if he could have heard these voices from those children.

But still, why, why, in this sorrow, did the regret that he had always carried, the regret that he had never been able to forgive himself for his entire life, seem a little lighter…?

“Yes, I’m glad you’re safe. It’s still dangerous, so go over there.”

* * *

There was a figure blocking the path of Miria and Aki, who had reached the lighthouse of Phairas without rest.

“You’ve finally come.”

The heroine, sitting on a sharp rock on the coast where the waves were breaking ominously, turned to look at them with a spirited expression.

If Miria had encountered her while performing famous subjugation missions as well as goblin extermination, her mouth might have dropped open on its own.

The supreme among current adventurers, a Diamond-ranked adventurer.

“I don’t know why only the dregs came to the most important place, but homework is good when it’s easy.”