The Return Of The Mythical Archmage [EN]: Chapter 393

The Rebirth of a Mythical Archmage-394

Tey was currently in real-time bewilderment.

‘Dissolutio, of all things.’

If he yielded the first move, he thought she would most likely use Ignis.

Among Shin Hayul’s magic, it was the most powerful, versatile, and a natural counter to dream-type magic.

That was Ignis.

‘Even if the Successor read my mind, I thought she’d inevitably use Ignis…’

His prediction was off.

He never imagined she’d think of using Dissolutio.

‘…She’s pushing herself, not very Successor-like.’

Tey’s eyes narrowed.

It was commendable that she deviated from his expectations.

But if the ‘method’ itself was flawed, it was meaningless.

‘Even if I was focused on preparing to block Ignis, to think she’d use Dissolutio, which she can’t even properly activate yet.’

Before, Shin Hayul had almost died trying to use Dissolutio.

After that, Dissolutio was practically sealed. She didn’t even glance at it.

There was no way Shin Hayul could handle Dissolutio now.

This wasn’t even a strategy; it was a desperate gamble.

‘…Should I stop her?’

He was momentarily lost in thought.

It was obvious it would go berserk, could he just watch?

Considering the danger, shouldn’t he stop her?

‘No. There’s no need to go that far.’

His contemplation was fleeting.

‘After all, this world is a virtual world made with the Phantasm Stone. Even if she gets seriously injured here, she won’t be hurt enough to leave lasting aftereffects.’

If this world were real, he would have had to stop her.

If Dissolutio went berserk, the Successor’s life would have been in danger.

But this place was a virtual world made with the Phantasm Stone.

It was a place on a strange borderline, both real and not real.

Even if something happened to her body in this place, it wouldn’t have a significant impact on her actual body.

Of course, it wasn’t that there would be no impact at all…

‘It’ll be good medicine.’

That level of injury would be a good lesson.

Tey decided to just stay still.

“All shall turn to dust and vanish.”

Shin Hayul’s incantation was rapidly nearing its end.

Only one incantation remained.

Just the activation phrase.

Shin Hayul opened her eyes, which had been closed.

“Dissolutio.”

Mana erupted like a bomb, violently spewing out.

It was a sight that looked like it was about to go berserk.

‘It’s going berserk.’

Tey thought so and was about to move to block the aftermath of the berserk magic, when.

“It won’t go berserk.”

Shin Hayul’s voice was heard.

A voice full of confidence.

Along with that voice, the rough mana expanded even more violently.

“My control is perfect.”

It was quite a bizarre sight.

The mana was moving as if it was going berserk.

But her voice was as calm as could be.

If it were going berserk, she wouldn’t even be able to speak.

And if the magic was stabilized, the mana wouldn’t be moving so violently.

What on earth was going on?

“…What did you do?”

Tey asked casually.

A stable yet unstable, contradictory appearance.

What on earth did she have to do to create such a bizarre structure?

“I didn’t do anything special.”

Shin Hayul answered from the center of the mana that was becoming increasingly violent.

“It’s just that… this is the normal state of Dissolutio.”

“…That’s normal?”

“Yes.”

Shin Hayul closed her eyes, feeling the surrounding mana with her whole body.

Rough, erratic, and chaotic mana.

If an ordinary mage saw this mana, 100 out of 100 would try their best to control it.

In fact, Shin Hayul had tried to do that before.

“Dissolutio is like a wild horse that can’t be tamed. The more you try to tame it, the more you try to put a bridle on it, the more it bucks.”

That was the mistake.

The problem was trying to forcibly calm the mana.

“This is the correct form of Dissolutio.”

Because she tried to forcibly calm it, it started to buck even more in reaction.

That was the cause of the berserk state.

“All the caster can do is create a space where this wild horse can run freely.”

Perhaps that was why her master couldn’t use Dissolutio.

He tried to forcibly suppress Dissolutio’s mana, and failed.

It must have gone berserk.

That’s why he sealed Dissolutio.

“Are you saying it’s a magic that the mage can’t fully control?”

“Yes.”

Magic means something that the mage must perfectly control.

That was common sense.

But Dissolutio was a special magic that rejected that common sense.

If you were bound by common sense, you couldn’t use Dissolutio.

“…You managed to think of leaving that mana as it is.”

Tey said with a surprised expression.

It was easier said than done.

As a mage, leaving such mana as it was, was not an easy choice.

It was like standing in front of a missile about to explode and not pressing the stop button.

“I couldn’t even imagine it until recently.”

In fact, Shin Hayul hadn’t even thought of it.

She had been convinced that she had to completely suppress Dissolutio’s berserk mana to forge it into a complete Mythic Magic.

“If it weren’t for Adela, I wouldn’t have realized it even now.”

Her thinking changed after hearing Adela’s words.

What Adela had said when she saw the green iron door leading to the training ground.

Her saying, ‘I can see the face of mana,’ gave Shin Hayul an epiphany.

“When I tried to see the mana as it was, I could see it.”

Dissolutio’s face was rough and unruly, but it wasn’t unstable.

It was just that, like a person, it had a maverick and reckless nature.

“So. I left it as it was.”

So she left it as it was.

Just as people have different ways of responding.

Mana also had to be dealt with differently according to its characteristics.

She decided to let Dissolutio spread its wings, without any restrictions.

“…That’s right. Each mana must have a different way of responding.”

Tey’s eyes gleamed.

He looked like he had gained a new realization from Shin Hayul’s words.

“I was forgetting that obvious thing. It was a blind spot.”

Tey’s lips curled upwards.

A joyful expression.

He wanted to return to Danteora right now and organize what he had just realized.

Tey’s expression was saying just that.

“Then, let’s see…”

Tey lowered his stance.

The leisure was long gone.

He would block the magic in front of him.

Tey’s eyes were shining with that determination.

“Let’s see how powerful the wild horse that even the Lord gave up on taming is.”

At that moment, the mana exploded.

It didn’t actually explode.

It was just repeating expansion and contraction as if it had exploded.

“I’m going.”

That movement was the very foundation of Dissolutio.

Like a horse rubbing its hooves on the ground before running.

It was warming up before running at full speed.

‘Run. As you please.’

Shin Hayul reached out her hand.

The mana extending from her hand created a path for the wild horse to run freely.

Kugung-!

At that moment, all the mana stopped.

Just before a horse runs.

Like holding one’s breath, focusing all senses, and a moment of silence, the sound completely disappeared along with the mana.

And.

Kiiiiiiiiing-!

The wild horse named Dissolutio began to run.

With the momentum to destroy everything in front of it.

No, it was actually destroying everything and running at full speed.

‘Phantasmal Worm.’

‘Destroy reality as a dream.’

To stop that wild horse, Tey used magic.

Phantasmal Worm.

A magic that embodies a worm that parasitizes dreams.

It was Tey’s main magic that had the effect of nullifying reality by turning it into a dream.

Most magic couldn’t penetrate that magic.

Because it was a magic that acted on concepts through the medium of dreams, those who didn’t understand the concept of dreams couldn’t break through that magic.

In fact, it had even neutralized Ray Bell Bytenner’s ‘Ignis’ in the past.

If Shin Hayul had used Ignis, she would have been helplessly neutralized.

‘No matter how great the magic is, it’s impossible to break through my Phantasmal Worm head-on.’

A groundbreaking magic that even Ray Bell Bytenner had widened his eyes at.

Tey was confident that Dissolutio would be neutralized as it was.

Pussssh-!

But.

‘The Phantasmal Worm disappeared?’

Tey’s confidence was immediately shattered.

“Dissolutio is a symbol of destruction. It lacks versatility, but in terms of power, it surpasses Ignis.”

Dissolutio. Destruction.

True to its name, the Phantasmal Worm was shattered as it was, turning into dust.

It disappeared without a trace at the moment of impact.

‘Nightmare’s Gift.’

Tey used the next magic.

By embodying nightmares in reality, it was a magic that could copy the opponent’s magic as it was.

Through that magic, he duplicated Dissolutio as it was, and made it collide with Shin Hayul’s Dissolutio.

However.

“It won’t work.”

It was meaningless.

Tey’s duplicated Dissolutio disappeared without a trace the moment it collided with Shin Hayul’s real Dissolutio.

Like sunlight erasing darkness. It was erased in an instant and disappeared from this world.

“Magic that acts on concepts cannot have any effect on Dissolutio.”

If the magic Tey used had a special advantage in ‘power,’ he might have been able to stop Dissolutio.

No matter how great Dissolutio was, Shin Hayul’s current achievement was only that of a 7th Circle Master [a high-level mage].

There was no way to break through a high-power magic that surpassed the 9th Circle [the highest level of magic].

If the opponent was Elena or Aslan, she would have most likely lost.

“Dissolutio. This magic is like a natural enemy to Tey.”

But Tey was different.

Dream-type magic was a mystical magic with virtually no power.

It was a magic that acted on the laws and concepts of this world.

With such magic, Dissolutio could not be stopped.

“It’s my victory.”

Knowing that, Shin Hayul had decided to use Dissolutio.

Although she had never tried it before, she judged that this method had the highest probability of winning.

“…”

Tey lowered his hand as it was.

“…Okay.”

That Phantasmal Worm and Nightmare’s Gift didn’t work meant that all of Tey’s magic didn’t work.

As Shin Hayul said, this match was already decided.

“I lost.”

At that moment, Dissolutio swallowed Tey.

Tey’s form, which was slowly disappearing after being directly hit by Dissolutio.

Tey slowly opened his mouth, feeling his body disappearing.

“You passed.”

The goal of the first training.

To win in a duel with a partner.

Shin Hayul had achieved that goal.

“I thought I’d lose after linking the 8th Circle. I never thought I’d lose to you in your current state.”

Tey had a look of pure joy on his face.

‘Really, there’s no time to be bored.’

Adela. Ji Sunchan. Shin Hayul.

And even Mimir.

There were so many interesting subjects that there was no time to be bored.

‘I’m looking forward to it.’

A mind turning pure white.

Beyond the fading consciousness, Tey’s anticipation swelled.

‘Judging by the incantation, it seems like she used the original Mythic Magic… the Lord’s original Mythic Magic. If she perfectly condenses that magic and uses it after improving it into Shin Hayul’s style of Mythic Magic…’

What would happen?

Surely, an absurd magic would be born.

Tey’s heart was pounding.

‘When I return to Danteora, I’ll have to push the Princess right away. Tell her to complete Dissolutio quickly.’

When he returned, he would have to push her to condense Dissolutio right away.

‘…No. Maybe I can’t do that.’

He wanted to push her, but he soon realized that he couldn’t.

‘What the Princess is researching now is also as interesting as Dissolutio… no. It’s even more interesting.’

In terms of importance and interest, what Mimir was researching now was superior.

‘Really… that’s why I can’t leave quietly.’

Tey chuckled and closed his eyes.

The end was really approaching.