The Grand Mage who transcends by returning Episode 192
“Yo Hero….”
Dwarf Icarus looked at me with trembling eyes and said.
I quietly looked at his feet.
The wriggling shadows from before had bothered me.
“Did you find Bacchus?”
“How did this hero get here…! no report… ….”
“You don’t need to know that.”
Why couldn’t Icarus grasp my existence?
What the reason is simple.
It’s just that my actions were quick.
As soon as I made a decision, I sent three underworld guild leaders to the goal in just one day, freeing and recovering those imprisoned in the mine.
Impossible for normal people.
It was possible because of the power of the ‘saint’ and my spiritual body, who had no one to follow in terms of healing ability.
The situation would have been different if it had been delayed for just one more day.
‘I’m not an idiot, should I give you time for that?’
I quietly reached out my hand.
Those who were not the great devils and contracted with the devils under them did not even need to use a staff.
But perhaps his thoughts are a little different, and instead of running away, isn’t he taking a posture to attack?
“What are you doing?”
“haha…Warrior Yes, warrior. rather good I’ll be able to prove the power I’ve received… …!”
Saying that, he held a hammer in which black darkness was clumped together.
Hwang Seung-shim.
Funny enough, that’s exactly what he showed me now.
If it was him, he would not be easily defeated, even if the opponent was a hero.
Hoo-wook.
At the same time, the guy moved.
It moves so agilely that you wouldn’t think it was holding a heavy hammer.
‘Does he believe in the anti-life stone?’
Well, the mine where I am right now is literally a space that brings infinite power to the devil.
If it was here, he must have thought that there was enough possibility for himself.
It’s not completely unfounded confidence.
but.
“That’s the story when I became a member of the direct family of the Great Devil.”
“…?!”
Obviously, his attacks are fast and powerful.
But not enough to pierce the storm that protects me.
[Only an upper-middle-class follower is going anywhere to break through the storm.]
Set controlled the storm with a clear mocking expression on his face.
“Ugh?!”
Instead of breaking through the storm, he began to be swallowed up by it.
It’s like a swamp.
The more power you give, the deeper you get entangled and immersed.
And if you can’t escape… ….
Kwajik!
“Aagh!”
it just breaks
The right arm of the guy who couldn’t resist the storm was completely cut off.
He threw himself on the floor, clutching his arms.
From the severed arm, black darkness poured like blood.
the guy screamed
“Why why why…!! This must be a special place, but why!”
“under.”
The cynicism came out of nowhere.
“It’s been pretty badly eroded. Well, since I signed the contract voluntarily, isn’t it strange?”
“Ouch….”
Icarus growled like a wounded beast.
Of course, in my eyes, he was just a pitiful beast that couldn’t even become a beast.
cried the bastard.
“I have become stronger! It’s ridiculous that even the bravest can’t inflict a single wound!”
“Okay.”
I don’t know if it got stronger.
“Isn’t it rather weak? I don’t know, but I think it would have been more plausible before signing the contract.”
“Shut up!”
he growled.
“It can’t be! Why did I sign a contract with them!”
“I don’t know what I am.”
I have no idea.
Trying to understand the thoughts of a defector is just a waste of time.
They will rationalize that they have a good reason, but the fact that they betrayed them in the end doesn’t change.
He slowly backed away with a blank face.
It’s like you can’t accept this reality.
“Heh heh…Warrior. Is this a warrior? Damn why… ….”
Then he suddenly shouted.
“you…Do you think you can change anything! We’ve been in this city for decades… …!”
“Ah, that was a useless explanation.”
It doesn’t matter what happened to him.
I picked up an anti-life stone that was lying on the ground while I trampled on the head of the wriggling creature on the ground.
Unmatched aura.
It’s not that his confidence is unfounded.
In fact, it required a very difficult process to destroy the anti-life stone that had already been created.
It was not easy even for me to remove such a huge amount of anti-life stones in an instant.
“Laxia’s proposal must have been sweet. That’s how it is with the devil’s proposal.”
“Uh how…!”
“Shall I call you by another name? So how about Pathos?”
“…?!”
Icarus’ expression was spectacle.
I bet he didn’t know that my master’s name would come out of my mouth.
The Dream Troop Pathos.
can you not know
The dream demon unit under the direct control of the Great Devil.
Laxia was the commander of that ‘Fatus’, and at the same time, she was also the most powerful dream mage.
But I wasn’t sure.
I became convinced thanks to Icarus’ reaction just now.
“Ugh…!”
His complexion turned pale as if he realized his mistake belatedly.
It was really rude.
To the point where I wonder why he betrayed so many relationships.
“It’s a half-life stone. Drive out the demons and seal the mine. Isn’t it meaningless if you can’t use it even if there’s a lot of it?”
It is very difficult to forcibly destroy the anti-life stone.
But is there no way?
No, ‘time’ could be said to be the most fatal weakness of the Anti-Life Stone.
If left unattended in a space devoid of life, the Anti-Life Stone will naturally lose its power.
It’s not for nothing that they regularly put ‘fertilizer’ into the mine.
“Ahhh….”
The face of the guy who was blocked until the last bluff was stained with despair.
“Let me ask you one thing. Why the hell did you betray your master?”
To put it bluntly, it wasn’t just the master who betrayed.
He betrayed all the relationships I had made so far.
However, it is undoubtedly true that the beginning was a betrayal towards Daedalus, his teacher.
“betrayal?”
At my words, he giggled and laughed.
He laughed and screamed as if he had lost his mind.
“I don’t know who betrayed whom. Rather, it was the master who betrayed him. I wasn’t me!”
“Wasn’t it you?”
“To avenge my brother who died unjustly…Master promised me! I will kill them!”
The talking guy’s face was so bizarre that I couldn’t tell if he was laughing or crying.
The guy remembers.
What the teacher promised to him who was burning for revenge after losing his brother.
I will definitely help you avenge it.
“Of course I knew that Master would be with me. But it wasn’t. What the master said came now… …Let go of the damn grudge. to give up… …!”
grudge It’s also one of the emotions that the devil digs into very well.
Even before the return, there were many people who fell in this way.
At first, it was a grudge against a specific person, but later, all towards an unspecified majority… ….
A change of heart that occurred to Daedalus, his teacher.
Maybe he couldn’t see the way the student was broken from the teacher’s point of view.
“At that moment, I gave up on my master! From the moment I arbitrarily broke my promise and intervened in my grudge, I… …!”
He continued to vomit his resentment.
He said that he was a victim and that he had a good reason for betrayal.
I’ve been listening to you for a while, but I won’t listen to you any more.
“So what.”
“…what?”
“I did. You said you were crazy about revenge at some point and revealed it to people who had nothing to do with you.”
It wasn’t like I wasn’t listening at all.
Daedalus said.
In the kingdom, the disciple has become increasingly violent.
Not just against my brother’s enemies, but starting to turn against other innocent people as well.
He called it ‘madness’.
“that…!”
“Let’s say you had a problem with your master. Then what did the citizens of the other cities who were caught up in have to do with it?”
“…!”
“Honestly, it didn’t matter. I just sacrificed it because I wanted to achieve your goals.”
There is no point in trying to defend yourself with any logic.
As long as there are people caught up in what he did to get his grudges out.
And even more so if you sold your soul to that ‘devil’.
“I am…!”
“done. I’m tired of hearing it now. Among the perpetrators, I haven’t seen one who really said he was at fault.”
All I do is rationalize my atrocities with logic that is not even funny.
I shook my head and got up to pass him.
Now there’s nothing to do with this guy.
“Where are you going…!”
“Where are you going? I’m going to purify the bitches who did this.”
He looked at me as if he couldn’t understand what I was saying and asked cautiously.
“Are you sure you want to save me?”
I stopped and turned around.
I saw eyes with a shallow expectation that I might be able to live.
Momentarily, there was a laugh.
“No way. It’s just that I’m not punishing you.”
“…what?”
As soon as the words were finished, someone walked out from under the shade.
cruel eyes. A reversal hero who once won the victory by destroying the opponent’s weapon and ravaging the battlefield.
The man’s eyes widened when he confirmed his identity.
“Please don’t… …!”
“Icarus.”
Arms Shredder Daedalus.
like in the long past.
Equipped with armor and a giant hammer.
With cold eyes, he approached the old disciple.
There is no hesitation in that step.
“Why why why….”
My voice trembled.
Daedalus said solemnly, facing the image of such an old disciple.
“Pick up your weapon.”
“What are you talking about….”
“As a teacher, this is the last lesson and I will give you a fair punishment.”
With that, he raised the hammer.
A weapon he received as a symbol of a ‘warrior’ in Nidavellir.
If he held it, the meaning is clear.
For a Dwarf warrior, the only thing holding up my symbol is a duel between life and death.
“Heh heh….”
Icarus, who suddenly became a one-armed man, staggered to his feet.
he shouted, glaring at his master with bloodshot eyes.
“Are you going to punish me? you?!”
“Yes, it will.”
Daedalus answered firmly.
“You are the culprit that destroyed the city. The only one who will punish you is me, your teacher.”
thud!
The hammer hit the ground.
The mine shook as the momentum spread.
“You reached out to other innocent people in the name of revenge. I thought it would decrease if I left the kingdom and laid down my weapon, but in the end it was just my illusion.”
“What do you mean by that!”
He finally vomited his true feelings.
“Everything that had to do with it had to be eradicated! The fate of the enemy and following that relationship… …!”
“That is not even just revenge! What you were trying to do was anger and massacre!”
Daedalus burst into rage as if he didn’t deserve any more.
‘I don’t think I need to see more.’
In any case, there is no way to recover the broken teacher-teacher relationship.
Besides, I was sure.
Icarus cannot defeat his master.
He may think that he has surpassed his master through a contract, but that is just an arrogant illusion.
Quaang!
A mighty explosion erupted.
I left them behind and headed to my next destination.
* * *
The streets of Malien as we passed by were the same as usual.
That ‘usually’ would never mean anything good, but anyway, it wasn’t in a state of chaos due to disputes.
Of course, that will be over soon.
The devil in Malien is not one.
A number of dream demons must be located all over the city.
And at the center of it all.
There must be Commander Laxia.
There was no need to worry about Laxia using her powers as a dreamer and committing something extraordinary.
I’m holding mine.
To be precise, he holds the ‘anti-life stone’.
An important purpose that Laxia had been here for a long time.
Laxia, who must have come here by order of the great devil, can never be free from this ‘purpose’.
Finally I stood in front of the spire.
The oldest mining town.
top of the top.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed my presence by now, but it doesn’t matter.
“Then where?”
I calmly began to form a magic formula right in front of the spire.
Wouldn’t it be better to open it a little wider?
If it’s enough to fly a spire this size, I think it would be more colorful.
However, rather than general magic, it would be better to be ‘unpleasant’ to the devil in that spire.
then….
The 8 circles created by the Circle Expansion began to circulate violently.
I immediately floated into the air.
At the point where I could see the top of the spire, I raised my staff high into the sky.
“It’s roughly the 8th circle level.”
There was no need to use sophisticated high-level magic.
That moment.
– …uh?
While drinking wine leisurely inside the spire, I met eyes with the devil standing by the window.
The relaxed atmosphere just before disappears as if it had been washed the moment our eyes met.
Of course it was already too late.
The magic I prepared was completed when our eyes met.
“The first greeting should be fancy.”
With those words, the sacred stake that rose to the sky rushed straight toward the spire.
Wow!
“Kyaaaaaaaaaagh!”
A piercing scream followed.
The top of the spire was blown clean.
Of course, the devil in it is fine.
The demon, who had evacuated in an instant, was standing on top of a half-destroyed spire with a pale face.
“What are you…!”
Truly clichéd speech.
Replacing clichéd lines with clichés is also polite.
I opened my arms and said.
“I am a hero. Advent.”
“….”
Laxia looked at me with an expression that looked like an idiot.
