Adopting the Male Protagonist Changed the Genre - Chapter 199

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Chapter 199

“We must kill the Red Mage Tower Master right now.”

As if realizing something, Giuseppe summoned several spears and aimed them toward the ruins of the building.

As if something terrible was about to burst out from within.

“I may not know what that dark magic circle means, but I do know what they’re after.”

What the dark magic sect was after.

Make the Red Mage Tower Master immortal.

However, that was already a lost goal.

“That’s impossible.”

I tried to speak with conviction, but my voice trembled without me realizing it. I too felt a strange uneasiness.

Hadn’t Chaser said it? That immortality required the lives of hundreds as payment.

But we had removed the explosive magic tools to prevent casualties.

In other words, there wasn’t enough payment, so the dark magic of immortality couldn’t be completed.

However, instead of explaining this, I helped Giuseppe and Cheri search through the debris for the Red Mage Tower Master.

“Cerberus!”

After calling even Cerberus, who hadn’t yet recovered, to search through the debris, we soon found the Red Mage Tower Master unconscious under a massive pillar.

Giuseppe raised his spear toward the back of the Red Mage Tower Master, who looked defenseless like a child.

Though this would ignore Chaser’s intention to capture the Red Mage Tower Master alive, I didn’t stop him.

Just as Giuseppe’s spear was about to pierce the Red Mage Tower Master.

Rumble, crash!

Something like thunder roared across the sky, and black lightning fell from the slowly rotating dark magic circle.

I couldn’t tell which struck the Red Mage Tower Master first—Giuseppe’s spear or the black lightning.

Clang!

But seeing Giuseppe’s spear embedded in the empty ground, I realized we had failed.

“Where did the Tower Master go…?”

As if answering my dazed murmur, a voice came from above.

“Ahh… Finally, finally!”

The Tower Master, who moments ago had been crushed under a pillar and seemed about to die, cackled with a face full of ecstasy.

Behind him, the four-layered dark magic circle began rotating fiercely at their own speeds, interlocking precisely like clockwork.

Then, the moment it stopped moving.

Crack, crunch

The Red Mage Tower Master’s grotesquely broken limbs made crunching sounds as they returned to their proper places.

I instinctively realized it. The Red Mage Tower Master had achieved his goal.

“You must retreat.”

Cheri led me as we slowly backed away.

My heart beat ominously, but I tried to interpret the situation positively.

Cheri had already defeated the Red Mage Tower Master once before, and now Giuseppe was with us too.

So I wanted to think subduing the enemy wouldn’t be too difficult, but the Red Mage Tower Master was crazier than I thought.

“Hehe, you vermin. I’ll make you pay the price for looking down on me.”

Several dark magic circles rose around him, and his eyes gleamed with an eerie purple light.

On the surface, it looked like he had summoned dark magic circles without paying any price.

Whoosh.

But seeing his body repeatedly crumble like a sandcastle and rebuild itself, I understood.

The Red Mage Tower Master was using his own body as payment for the dark magic.

However, his immortal body perfectly restored even the flesh lost as payment for dark magic.

Only then did I understand why Chaser had called the immortal Red Mage Tower Master a disaster.

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“…Sir! Ru Sir!”

Someone’s shout awakened Chaser’s consciousness.

Chaser opened his eyes, feeling a splitting headache.

“You’ve regained consciousness!”

The first thing he saw was the face of an old mage looking down at him with tears in his eyes.

Chaser slowly recalled the situation.

That damn dark mage had thrown an explosive magic tool, and it had detonated in mid-air.

It had been so urgent that there wasn’t even time to properly draw a magic circle, so he had recklessly spread his mana to shield the surrounding mages.

He had poured out so much mana that his mana vessel was completely drained, causing him to lose consciousness…

‘At least I preserved the old men’s lives.’

Feeling relieved, Chaser barely managed to sit up and was left speechless by the scene before him.

Most of the priests who hadn’t been protected by Chaser’s magic were sprawled on the ground.

Though the Temple and Magic Tower were enemies, he hadn’t lost enough humanity to feel pleased seeing priests who had died without even a chance to scream.

The corpses that the mages had moved to one side to keep them from the rain were covered with Magic Tower capes.

Chaser pressed his forehead and asked irritably.

“The dark mage.”

“We bound him, but… he seems to be dead.”

“Ha, and they’re not even fanatics.”

What could they be so desperate for?

‘They definitely kept ranting about the world’s destruction.’

Chaser and the mages’ only goal was to capture the Red Mage Tower Master.

In short, they weren’t particularly interested in those who called themselves ‘Those Who Lift the Veil of the World.’

But as of today, Chaser had changed his mind. This dark magic sect must never be overlooked.

At the very least, he needed to find out what their purpose was.

“Ru Sir. There’s something you need to see.”

The mage who called Chaser pointed his finger toward the sky.

Chaser’s expression froze as he casually looked up at the sky. A massive dark magic circle with three overlapping layers reflected in Chaser’s gray eyes.

Chaser forgot to breathe and began interpreting the dark magic circle.

Infinite restoration of the body and suppression of aging. Brainwashing magic to protect the mind from being worn down by time, pain dulling, and various other auxiliary magics.

The result derived from this was…

“A dark magic circle of immortality.”

The mages’ eyes widened in surprise at the words that flowed from Chaser’s mouth.

“B-but that’s impossible! What that dark magic circle used as payment was at most the priests who died here.”

One of the mages immediately objected.

“That would be true if it were truly perfect immortality.”

“Pardon?”

“That is…”

Chaser frowned as he spoke.

He didn’t know who it was, but he wanted to pay his respects to whoever created that dark magic circle. The magic circle was that refined, solid, and truly genius.

That’s why he couldn’t understand it. If Chaser’s interpretation was correct, that dark magic circle had a nasty trap deliberately planted within it.

It was when Chaser narrowed his eyes to examine the magic circle more closely.

The dark magic circle spat out lightning and began slowly dispersing as if it had fulfilled its duty.

Chaser, confirming the direction where the lightning had fallen, forgot his pain and jumped up.

“Ru Sir? Where are you going! Your body isn’t fully recovered yet!”

Ignoring even the mages’ attempts to stop him, Chaser hurriedly moved.

The place where the lightning had fallen was none other than the town square where Belinda was.

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Every time the whip-like thing extending from the Red Mage Tower Master scraped the ground of the square, stone fragments flew.

It aimed for Giuseppe and Cesar, but couldn’t pierce through their swords and spears.

So while it looked like a favorable fight for us on the surface, this was ultimately a battle we would lose.

Because the Red Mage Tower Master would never truly die.

‘Once the storm completely passes, people will surely come out.’

When that happens, the casualties will become uncontrollable.

Hiding obediently within the barrier Giuseppe had cast, I racked my brain trying to find some solution.

Just then, I saw two young children running out from an alley leading to the town square.

The children who had rushed out unknowingly froze in place after belatedly taking in the situation at the square.

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