The Return of The Mythical Archmage [EN]: Chapter 219

Wi Sang-hyun was currently panicking in real-time.

“You bastard! What kind of sorcery are you using!”

He shouted, blocking the incoming Moonbeam Bullets.

The Moonbeam Bullets that Shin Ha-yul fired were each like they had their own will, bending in dozens of directions, twisting like snakes, and surging through the sky.

That alone was surprising enough, but they even changed their trajectory two or three times.

And that wasn’t all.

The remnants of the blocked Moonbeam Bullets would gather again and be reborn as new Moonbeam Bullets.

Shin Ha-yul’s Moonbeam Bullets were no longer something that could be called Moonbeam Bullets.

They were practically a new form of magic disguised as Moonbeam Bullets.

“Well, it seems like you’re the one using sorcery, not me.”

Shin Ha-yul slammed his staff onto the ground again.

In response, the Möbius pattern floating in the air rotated violently.

As if reacting to it, the mana scattered around changed into Moonbeam Bullets all at once.

The Moonbeam Bullets flew towards Wi Sang-hyun the moment they were created.

“Tch!”

Wi Sang-hyun bit his lip and moved his mana.

There was only one way to perfectly block that attack in this situation.

‘Moon attribute magic.’

‘7th Circle, Full Moon.’

A moon appeared around Wi Sang-hyun.

The Full Moon completely enveloped Wi Sang-hyun.

Fwoooosh-!

It immediately began to emit countless moonbeams.

The Moonbeam Bullets, consumed by the Full Moon’s light, began to disappear instantly.

It was only natural.

The Moonbeam Bullets were 3rd Circle magic.

Although they contained power equivalent to 5th or 6th Circle magic because Shin Ha-yul was using them.

They couldn’t stand against the Full Moon, which was a 7th Circle magic by birth.

Especially since it was enhanced by a modified AI chip.

“…….”

“…….”

All of Shin Ha-yul’s Moonbeam Bullets disappeared.

Wi Sang-hyun’s Full Moon also disappeared, and silence fell.

Breaking through the silence, Shin Ha-yul burst into laughter.

“How is it, using an illegally modified AI? Feeling a bit better?”

“…….”

Wi Sang-hyun remained silent with a blank expression.

“Well, I guess you wouldn’t feel much of a difference with a chip of that level. Just like a treacherous lackey. If you were going to use one, you should have used a good one. What’s with that safety-focused, low-to-mid-grade modified AI chip?”

As he said.

The AI chip that Wi Sang-hyun was currently using was a low-to-mid-grade chip that had been modified with a focus on safety.

It had almost no side effects, but its effectiveness wasn’t very high either.

“That chip. You didn’t implant it to fight me, did you? Is it a chip you prepared to fight Elder Wi Sang-cheol?”

“…Tch. Fine. You’re right.”

Wi Sang-hyun smiled seriously.

Since everything was exposed, there was no need to maintain silence.

Besides, that guy was going to die here anyway.

There was no reason to keep it a secret in the first place.

“You’re surprisingly honest? Is it because the dead can’t talk, so it doesn’t matter if you tell me?”

“You know me well.”

Wi Sang-hyun prepared his magic again.

The magic he was preparing this time was also a 7th Circle magic, of course.

‘Should I target Adela? No. If I do, there’s a high chance I’ll be countered. And with that unknown beast guarding her, there’s a high chance it’ll be easily blocked.’

Targeting Adela was a bad move.

“Yeah. Good thinking. Targeting Adela won’t do you any good.”

Wi Sang-hyun’s shoulders twitched.

It felt like his thoughts had been read.

“You… can you read my mind?”

“Read your mind? Please. Your gaze was so obvious. It’s weird if I didn’t notice it, right?”

He glanced at Adela, frowned, and then focused his gaze back on Shin Ha-yul.

It was clear what he had thought about and then given up on.

“But… seeing that you can’t even handle such obvious gaze, I guess the rumors were true?”

“…Rumors?”

“Yeah. The rumor that the second son of the Shinbiwi family is a mediocre talent among mediocre talents. Or was it a dullard? You really have no combat sense at all.”

Mediocre talent. And a dullard.

At those words, Wi Sang-hyun’s reason snapped.

“…As a final act of mercy, I was going to let you go as peacefully as possible, but you’ve touched a nerve.”

“A nerve? That’s funny. Are you saying you’re a dragon or something? Ah. Well, I guess a earthworm is still a dragon, right?”

Earthworm. A worm.

It was the perfect nickname for Wi Sang-hyun.

“…Your mouth really doesn’t rest for a moment.”

Wi Sang-hyun’s expression turned even colder.

At the same time, mana began to condense.

It soon became a single great magic.

‘Moon attribute magic.’

‘7th Circle, Crescent Moon.’

Crescent Moon.

A magic that embodies the crescent moon.

If the Full Moon was a magic focused on ‘light attribute mana’ using moonlight.

The Crescent Moon was a magic focused on ‘dark attribute mana’ using its shape itself.

A huge crescent moon flew through the sky like a boomerang.

Its speed, which was not befitting its size, was noticeable.

“I’ll make sure that chattering mouth of yours can’t flap anymore.”

The crescent moon reached Shin Ha-yul in an instant.

He admitted that Shin Ha-yul’s skills were better than expected.

But he wouldn’t be able to block a 7th Circle magic.

Wi Sang-hyun was certain of that.

“Is that all you’ve got?”

But that was just Wi Sang-hyun’s delusion.

There was no change in Shin Ha-yul’s expression.

He was still confident and relaxed.

Shin Ha-yul simply extended his staff forward.

Wi Sang-hyun’s brow furrowed.

‘That pattern. Can it move too?’

At the same time, the Möbius strip pattern that had been floating above Shin Ha-yul’s head moved to the front of the staff.

The Möbius, which signifies infinity [a symbol representing endlessness or something without limit].

It rotated in an infinite orbit, befitting its name.

‘Nullification.’

And the crescent moon that Wi Sang-hyun had released shattered into pieces and scattered into the air the moment it touched Shin Ha-yul’s pattern.

Clang-!

“Magic… nullification?”

Only the remnants of gray mana were flying in that spot.

“I heard it was impossible to nullify a magic you’ve seen for the first time, how…”

“That was then.”

That was the case when he was still a 5th Circle mage.

But not now.

There were no such restrictions for Shin Ha-yul now, who had linked the Ring of Awakening.

“The me from then and the me now are quite different.”

Shin Ha-yul slammed his staff onto the ground again!

At the same time, the Möbius strip changed its position again.

From the end of the staff to the bottom.

The pattern was positioned right below the staff.

On the ground.

‘Gather.’

At that moment, the remnants of the shattered crescent moon that had been scattered in the air began to concentrate around the staff.

Mana that was recombined in an instant.

At the same time as the gathering.

“Crescent Moon.”

Shin Ha-yul murmured softly.

There was no need to say it out loud, but he deliberately chanted the name of the magic.

The reason for doing so was simple.

“You… !”

To mentally shake Wi Sang-hyun.

Shin Ha-yul grinned as he watched Wi Sang-hyun panic.

At the same time, a crescent moon appeared on Shin Ha-yul’s diagonal line.

It was about half the size of the crescent moon that Wi Sang-hyun had used earlier, and its power was less than 50%, but.

It clearly had the form of a Crescent Moon.

‘Using the remnants of my mana…?’

It wasn’t even just a copy.

That Crescent Moon contained Wi Sang-hyun’s mana.

In other words, that magic was a replica made using Wi Sang-hyun’s magic.

“A magic that nullifies magic… and then returns it as it is…?”

Wi Sang-hyun muttered involuntarily.

“Correct. You’re pretty quick on the uptake with this stuff. You’d have been better off as a scholar.”

At that moment, the crescent moon flew towards Wi Sang-hyun like a boomerang.

“This bastard…! How dare you use my magic…!”

Having his magic stolen.

It was a first-time experience, but it was a very humiliating feeling.

It felt like having his girlfriend stolen.

‘Crescent Moon!’

Wi Sang-hyun, with an enraged expression, cast ‘Crescent Moon’ again.

“Don’t think you can do anything to me with that inferior copy!”

Wi Sang-hyun’s crescent moon and Shin Ha-yul’s crescent moon quickly approached each other.

And just as they were about to collide.

“I don’t really intend to have a power struggle.”

Shin Ha-yul’s crescent moon changed its trajectory.

It was as if an airplane doing an airshow had acrobatically changed its course.

Shin Ha-yul’s crescent moon flew past Wi Sang-hyun’s crescent moon.

“Tch!”

Wi Sang-hyun twisted his body as he watched the approaching crescent moon.

‘I can’t use magic powerful enough to block that magic right now!’

He focused all his mana on strengthening his body and did his best to evade.

Whoosh-!

The crescent moon grazed his hair and passed by.

His all-out effort had paid off.

Wi Sang-hyun let out a sigh of relief inwardly.

‘Wait…’

At that moment, a warning bell rang in his head.

‘That guy can infinitely modify the trajectory of magic…’

And the crescent moon was a magic similar to a boomerang.

That meant.

‘There’s a high chance it’ll come back like a boomerang!’

Wi Sang-hyun immediately flew to the side again.

Whoosh-!

As expected, the crescent moon passed over the spot where Wi Sang-hyun had been standing.

It had returned, bending like a boomerang, just as Wi Sang-hyun had predicted.

“Huff, huff…”

Wi Sang-hyun was breathing heavily.

“They say that superhuman strength is displayed when facing death. Is it because of that? Or is it because your survival instincts are excellent…? Whatever it is, you have good instincts.”

Crunch.

Wi Sang-hyun bit his lip and got up from his spot.

And as he was about to open his mouth again, looking at the sneering Shin Ha-yul.

“Th, that Crescent Moon…”

He lost his words when he saw the second crescent moon spinning above Shin Ha-yul.

“This? It’s the Crescent Moon you just used. You saw how to make it earlier, right?”

Shin Ha-yul smiled brightly.

At the same time, the first Crescent Moon that had been returning stopped near Shin Ha-yul.

“You can… retrieve a Crescent Moon you’ve already launched, and reuse it?”

“Another correct answer.”

He muttered blankly, looking at the Crescent Moons spinning on Shin Ha-yul’s left and right diagonals.

“Amazing, right? I didn’t even know I could do this.”

The Ring of Awakening increased the efficiency of mana processing, greatly increasing the ability to utilize magic.

Now, it was not a dream to use magic that had been activated once semi-permanently like this.

“Okay, then this time it’s two. Try to block them well.”

The two Crescent Moons flew into the sky again.

Wi Sang-hyun gritted his teeth and used magic.

‘Since that guy can freely change the trajectory, using the same Crescent Moon will only repeat the situation from earlier. Then…’

Wi Sang-hyun deployed ‘Full Moon’ again.

‘I’ll erase them in an instant so that changing the trajectory is meaningless!’

As it was a wide-range technique specialized for defense, erasing two Crescent Moons of that size would be a piece of cake.

Flash-!

Moonlight poured down from the completed Full Moon.

‘Got it!’

And as expected, the Crescent Moons were engulfed by the Full Moon and disappeared in an instant.

“With that kind of sorcery, you can’t…”

He couldn’t win with that kind of sorcery.

Just as he was about to say that.

“I beseech thee—”

Shin Ha-yul’s voice rang out particularly loudly.

“!”

Those familiar words.

‘That is… that chant is…’

Words that had been rebroadcast countless times on TV, impossible not to hear.

The first activation phrase of the magic that had become the reason for Shin Ha-yul’s great rise to fame.

‘Eternal Frost!’

That guy was chanting right now.

Wi Sang-hyun became anxious in an instant.

He couldn’t let him use that magic.

He was certain that he couldn’t block that magic.

With that conviction, Wi Sang-hyun threw himself forward to counterattack.

“Don’t do anything foolish!”

Shin Ha-yul’s ‘Eternal Frost’ was a magic that used a chant.

According to what he had seen in the video, the time required for the chant was at least 40 seconds.

‘Do you think I’ll let you complete that long chant!’

He absolutely couldn’t let him complete it.

Wi Sang-hyun fired off magic that he could use quickly in succession.

At the same time, Wi Sang-hyun himself rushed into Shin Ha-yul’s arms.

Kwaaaang-!

The magic that Wi Sang-hyun had fired first hit Shin Ha-yul and exploded.

Smoke billowed up thickly.

Wi Sang-hyun cheered and threw himself into the smoke.

“To chant in a 1:1 battle. You’re an idiot!”

And just as he was about to strike a defenseless Shin Ha-yul.

“Well, I wonder who’s the idiot.”

Whoosh-!

The smoke cleared, and Shin Ha-yul revealed himself.

“Welcome to hell.”

With a clean appearance, without any traces of being hit by magic, he lowered his stance and brought his face close to Wi Sang-hyun.

And then, using his shoulder and back, he slammed into him!

‘Shoulder Tackle!’

Puh-uh-uh-uhk-!

“Cough!”

He sent Wi Sang-hyun flying.

‘The chant was a feint!’

He had pretended to chant to lure Wi Sang-hyun in.

“You bas…tard!”

To fall for such an obvious trick.

Wi Sang-hyun gritted his teeth, took a breakfall, and rolled backward to get up from his spot.

“To lure me in and then all you do is a body slam! You clumsy fool! You’ll regret missing this opportunity!”

He glared at Shin Ha-yul and desperately sneered.

“You think so?”

Shin Ha-yul was holding out his staff towards Wi Sang-hyun.

He must have already been holding out his staff right after he had sent him flying with the shoulder tackle.

“You know what? The chant was a bait, but Eternal Frost isn’t a bait.”

“What nonsense are you…”

Crack-!

At that moment, the air froze.

Centered on Shin Ha-yul, everything in the world began to freeze.

‘Kailum, unique power.’

The black light emanating from Kailum became even darker.

‘Great Memorize.’

‘Eternal Frost. Release.’

According to Kailum’s unique power, the pre-stored Eternal Frost was activated.

Crackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrack-!

On top of that, the Möbius strip was wrapped around it.

The Eternal Frost, enhanced by Kailum and the Ring of Awakening.

The Eternal Frost, which already boasted a powerful force, began to freeze everything around it with an even more powerful force.