The Return of The Mythical Archmage [EN]: Chapter 440

After about two minutes had passed, Jenarin collapsed to the ground as if her strings had been cut. She lay sprawled on the floor like a broken doll, completely still. Her breath had stopped.

“It took longer than I thought. Tsk. What a nuisance,” Mimir said, looking down at Jenarin’s corpse with a displeased expression. If she knew she had no chance of winning, she should have just given up easily. Because of her, she wasted two minutes.

“…….”

“…….”

The group watched Mimir, each with their own reaction. Some chuckled, some had their mouths wide open, and some nodded with a satisfied expression.

“Anyway… it’s over, so that’s good,” Mimir said, taking her eyes off Jenarin and looking at everyone. “Then let’s get out of here quickly.”

“…Get out?” Adela asked, tilting her head slightly. “Aren’t we waiting?”

“Waiting for who? The successor?”

“Yes.”

Mimir waved her hand dismissively. “I told you, it’ll take a long time for him to come out. Are we going to wait here until then?”

“…Does it take that long?”

“Yeah. It takes that long,” Mimir replied, turning to look at Mora’s relic. “Waiting around is a waste of time. It’s much better to take it and leave.”

“Even if we take it, there’s no way…”

Only Shin Hayul can touch the relic. There’s no way to take it and move it right now.

“If you do as I say, you can touch it, so don’t worry about taking it.”

“Ah.”

There’s a way. Adela nodded.

“Then…”

“Sorry, but I’ll take questions later,” Mimir interrupted. “I’ve been saying it since earlier, but we don’t have time. We need to get out as soon as possible and prepare.”

“Prepare for what…”

“I told you to ask questions later, didn’t I?” Mimir pointed at the relic. “Quickly take the relic first.”

“Ah, yes.”

Adela immediately moved towards the relic.

“Put your hand on the relic and move your mana as I tell you.”

“…Yes.”

Following Mimir’s instructions, she moved her mana and placed her hand on Mora’s relic. After a moment, she said, “…It’s done.”

“Good job,” Mimir replied. She had succeeded in taking Mora’s relic.

“Then let’s get out of here quickly. We need to return to Korea as soon as possible.”

* * *

About twenty minutes passed. They successfully escaped the labyrinth. Since they were just going back the way they came, there was no danger at all. It just took twenty minutes because the distance was quite long.

“Hoo. The outside air is nice,” Ji Sunchan said, stretching and taking a deep breath. He looked happy to be out of the dreadful labyrinth.

“Sorry to interrupt your moment, but can you use some space magic? Like I said, I don’t have time,” Mimir said, cutting off Ji Sunchan’s words with a very firm expression.

“Ah, yes,” Ji Sunchan replied, looking embarrassed. “Aslan, please.”

“…Tsk,” Aslan clicked his tongue, displeased. Adela was now able to freely control the Mana Wood [a type of magical plant] without Elena’s help, but this guy couldn’t even handle basic space teleportation magic properly. That fact was very, very displeasing. It seemed like he needed to be scolded a bit.

“You dullard…”

Just as he was about to scold Ji Sunchan, Mimir cut him off. “Aslan. Don’t make me say it twice.” She smiled brightly, her eyes saying, ‘You know?’ Aslan tried to speak, but then closed his mouth. With a very displeased expression, he glared at Ji Sunchan once more. He sighed, looking like he had no choice, and began synchronizing with Ji Sunchan.

“I will return to Korea,” Aslan said in Ji Sunchan’s voice, having finished synchronizing.

“Please,” Mimir replied. At the same time, a huge gate appeared beneath the group’s feet.

“Prepare for spatial sickness,” Aslan warned Adela and Stella briefly. After a moment, the gate swallowed the group.

‘Ugh…’ The unique dizziness that occurs when jumping through space shook Adela and Stella’s minds for a moment. After a while, they arrived.

“We’ve arrived,” Aslan announced. The group had arrived in Korea, at the Madoshin family’s mansion.

“…Hoo,” Stella took a deep breath, trying to shake off the dizziness. Next to her, Adela was also circulating her mana, similarly trying to regain her scattered mind.

“It seems like no one’s here?” Ji Sunchan said, observing the quiet atmosphere around him.

“Hmph. Stating the obvious,” Aslan scoffed, having released the synchronization and returned to his position behind Ji Sunchan. “While we were in the labyrinth, they were going to attack Veil’s base here. I’m sure I mentioned that.”

“…Ah. That’s right,” Ji Sunchan replied, looking like he had forgotten. “This time, everyone was going to participate in the operation, right? There really won’t be anyone here.”

This time, even Shin Inhyuk was going to be deployed in the operation. There would be no one left in the mansion.

“Then, should we just rest instead of reporting our return?” Ji Sunchan asked, looking at everyone, hoping for a rest.

“No. Now is not the time to rest,” Mimir said, shaking her head firmly. “Let’s go to the lab first.”

“The lab…? Why there…”

“Everyone’s deployed or whatever, Terun will still be there, right?” Terun is a researcher. There’s no way he would have been deployed.

“We can also hear about the current situation from Terun…” Mimir turned her head towards Adela. “And transfer my data to the main computer.”

“…Huh?” Adela, who had been focusing on circulating her mana, widened her eyes in surprise. “Transfer it to the main computer? Not directly to Hayul when he returns?”

“…If I could have, I would have done that.”

“…If you could have?” Adela asked, looking like she didn’t understand what she meant.

“There’s a reason,” Mimir said, frowning and clicking her tongue. She looked angry even thinking about it again.

“There’s a reason…”

“Adela,” Elena said, cutting off Adela’s words. She looked at her with eyes that said, ‘It’s okay, just do as you’re told.’

“…Yes,” Adela replied, tilting her head slightly as if she didn’t know what was going on, then nodded. She didn’t know what the situation was, but she understood that she had to be quiet for now.

“Then I’ll go to Terun.”

“Please,” Mimir replied.

Adela started walking out of the room.

“You two, follow me too.”

“…Us too?” Stella asked, having finished her preparations slightly later than Adela.

“I’m telling you to follow because I need you, so don’t talk back and just follow. You’ll find out why when we get there.”

“…? Yes,” Stella nodded, as if she didn’t know what was going on but understood. Ji Sunchan also nodded, following behind.

“Let’s go,” Mimir said. The group moved towards the lab. They used their pre-registered fingerprints and irises to unlock the security and quickly moved deep into the lab.

“…What? Why are you guys back so early?” Terun asked, as expected, waiting in the deepest part of the lab.

“Things finished a bit early,” Mimir replied.

“Really?” Terun quietly added, ‘That’s good news to hear,’ and approached the group. “Did you find what you were looking for?”

“Yes,” Adela said, taking out Mora’s relic, which she had put in her bag, and showed it to Terun.

“Oh… So this is the relic you were looking for. It’s an interesting shape,” Terun said, looking at the relic with an interested expression. “But why do you have it? No, more importantly, where’s Shin Hayul?” Terun looked around, searching for Shin Hayul.

“The successor is inside it,” Mimir answered nonchalantly.

“…Huh?” Terun asked, looking like he was hearing some nonsense.

“Something happened. It’s a long story to explain,” Mimir said, gesturing to Adela. It was a gesture telling her to go over there, towards the main computer. “I’ll tell you the details after I transfer my data link to the main computer.”

“Transfer the link to the main computer? Why…” Terun’s eyes gradually widened. He immediately understood the true meaning behind Mimir’s words. “Don’t tell me…”

Mimir nodded her head.

“How did that happen?”

“Like I said, there were some complicated circumstances. I’ll explain that later too,” Mimir sighed. At that time, Adela finished preparing to connect to the main computer. She connected the cable to her choker and infused mana into the main computer.

“I’m sorry, but once the transfer is complete, I won’t be able to come out for a while,” Adela said. A loading window appeared on the main computer’s monitor. Once that loading gauge is full, all the work will be finished.

“You know the reason, right?” Mimir asked. Elena, Aslan, and Terun nodded their heads at the same time. Since the three of them knew the structure of the choker and AI data, there was no way they wouldn’t know the reason.

“So. I’m sorry to say this, but the support will have to be handled by the three of you,” Mimir said. However, the next words that followed were something that even the three of them couldn’t understand.

“…Support?” Elena asked, looking like she didn’t know what support she was talking about.

“I’m talking about Sein Vinosh’s side,” Mimir answered, looking like she was asking something obvious.

“Is there a need to go support them? Our side has overwhelming power,” Elena asked. With Veil gone, Sein is practically invincible. There’s no reason for their side to go support them.

“That would have been the case normally. But it’s not now. A variable has appeared.”

“A variable?”

“Yeah,” Mimir frowned. “Jenarin and Hoderiam.”

“Ah!” Elena’s eyes widened like saucers. “The fact that Jenarin and Hoderiam have been resurrected means that there’s a high probability that other black mages have also been resurrected. Is that what you mean?”

“That’s it,” Mimir replied. There’s a very high probability that massive forces comparable to Jenarin and Hoderiam are left at the base.

“Of course, whether other executives have been resurrected or not, the tide of the battle won’t be unfavorable as long as Sein Vinosh is there…”

“It won’t be that favorable either?” Elena asked.

“That’s right. Elena and Aslan know, but they all have difficult powers.”

“That’s right. Except for Sein Vinosh, other people will have no choice but to struggle,” Elena’s expression became serious.

“So that’s why you were in such a hurry to return,” Elena said.

“Half right,” Mimir replied. Half was for quick support, and half was to find a way to re-link Shin Hayul and herself. Mimir had hurried her return to solve these two things at the same time.

“Anyway, I’ll leave that side to you,” Mimir said.

“Yes. We’ll do our best,” Elena nodded with a determined face.

Ding!

At that moment, the loading gauge reached 100%. At the same time, Mimir’s body began to blur. It was a change that signaled that the transfer was complete.

“Now go quickly,” Mimir said, waving her hand at the group. It was a gesture telling them not to dawdle here and go support them.

“We’ll be back,” Aslan said, having once again taken control of Ji Sunchan’s body, with a determined face, just like Elena. He immediately waved his hand and created a gate. “We’re moving out.” The gate immediately swallowed the group.

“…Please,” Mimir bit her lip, looking at the spot where the group had been standing. She resented her own incompetence for not being able to do anything.

“Hoo…” But such self-deprecation was only for a moment. Mimir immediately returned to her original confident self. “Terun. The thing I asked you to make before I left. How much is it completed?”

“Ah, that would be…” Terun opened one of the cabinets located on the wall. “It’s more than 90% complete.” Inside the cabinet was a person. A woman with striking green hair.

“Okay. It’s almost done. That’s a real stroke of luck,” a woman who looked exactly like Mimir said.