Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 194
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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 194
130. Ancient Existence (1)
I’m not sure how strong that fellow is. Since he seems to use magic, I’ll just deal with him with magic.
Well, if he’s a strong opponent, that would be enjoyable in its own way, but the important thing isn’t this guy.
It’s the fellow who’ll come out after I shove this guy into the altar.
The Ancient Existence.
Let me subdue him first and give him a thorough shake-down.
“Damn it…”
He glared at me and began rearranging his code.
Here it comes.
“Dane, be careful!”
The mana gathering around him was strong enough for my friends behind me to sense.
But so am I.
Thoom!
As I released the mana I’d gathered in my hand and rearranged my code, I heard a voice that seemed to have expected this.
“As expected, Dane is stronger.”
“I told you there’s nothing to worry about.”
Lately, I’ve been thinking this.
Even if I said I’d cover my whole body in oil and jump into fire later, wouldn’t everyone just not worry about it?
Being too good is also a problem.
“What the hell are you…”
A voice full of bewilderment came through all this.
Instead of answering, I finished my rearrangement and floated four Mana Spears in the air.
Whooom!
Four spears resonating with my mana, trembling as if they’d shoot out at any moment.
“Four, four spears at once?”
“Why, can’t you do it?”
There’s no way he couldn’t.
He could probably do it, but he couldn’t make them as quickly as I do.
He was quite wise.
“Rise up!”
He deployed defensive magic to block my spears.
Certainly, since it’s a higher-grade defensive magic chain, it should be able to block them.
But what if he gets hit by several?
Bang!
The first Mana Spear struck the defensive magic and bounced off—
Crash!
The second Mana Spear created cracks—
Crash!
“Aaaaah!”
The third Mana Spear completely shattered the wall and struck the guy who was behind it.
“There’s still one shot left.”
“Damn it!”
He seemed to be frantically rearranging his code, but my spear was faster.
Whiiiiish!
And the flying spear grazed right past his head and embedded itself in the wall behind him.
“…”
He had stopped even his code rearrangement and was completely stunned.
If he’s a fellow mage, he would know.
That I deliberately missed.
And that doing so is actually harder.
“Th, this…”
He soon drew up his mana and floated a huge fireball in the air.
He must be properly cornered.
Using fire magic in such an enclosed space.
“Yes… it’s better if we all die together!”
He seems to have gone slightly mad too.
Well, it doesn’t matter.
“Karnas.”
“Kirik!”
“Let’s have a fire duel.”
“Kiruuuuk!”
Karnas popped out with a ‘poof’ as if he’d been waiting—
“Die!”
He breathed flames toward the incoming fireball.
Whoooosh!
And finally, the fireball and flame stream met in mid-air—
I witnessed an amazing sight.
“Oh? That actually works?”
“That’s amazing!”
Karnas’s flames, the moment they touched the fireball, swallowed it whole and grew by that much.
Is it because dragon flames are a higher concept than other flames?
“Well now.”
Then what happens?
“Kirik?!”
Karnas also looked surprised, opening his eyes wide as he watched the scene.
Anyway, in the direction the flame stream had been flying, now it wasn’t a flame stream but a ‘fireball’ that was flying.
He seemed to have completely lost his will to fight.
So I moved.
Faster than the fireball.
And just before the fireball engulfed him—
I grabbed his collar and pulled him toward me.
Crash!
And the explosion that followed.
In the thick smoke, he was fortunately still alive.
Right, it would be troublesome if he died like this.
I need to shove him into the altar.
“How, how…”
Rather than the fact that I saved him, he seemed unable to believe that he survived a situation where he would have died helplessly from that fireball.
Well, I don’t think I have any obligation to explain that.
I learned one thing though.
The fact that Karnas’s flames devour other flames and make them his own.
“Now shall we have our little chat?”
“I won’t go down so easily…”
“Scroll. A good method. If only you’d used it a little faster.”
His actions are obvious.
He would have tried to escape somehow.
But it doesn’t matter.
“Go ahead and try.”
“Don’t think I can’t!”
The fellow reached into his chest and pulled out a scroll, bit it with his mouth, and tore it apart.
But nothing happened.
“Huh, what?”
From the moment I touched his body, I had been disrupting the mana flow itself.
Therefore, scrolls that require the user’s mana to be infused won’t activate.
“The scroll is defective.”
I snickered and slammed him straight into the ground.
Bang!
“Gaaah!”
Since he’s a mage, I didn’t slam him that hard, but he’s acting like he’s dying from pain.
But what can I do.
This is just the beginning.
“How many teeth do you have?”
“What, what?”
“I’m asking because I’ll pull one out each time you don’t answer.”
“P-please spare me…”
After all, nothing is of any use in the face of fear.
Of course, I won’t actually pull out his teeth.
There are plenty of simpler methods than that.
Crack.
I loosened my hands and grinned wickedly.
* * *
The atmosphere completely changed.
The three Lycanthropes who had charged at us earlier as if to kill us were now quietly huddled in a corner under Gendpu’s watch.
Actually, they no longer had any motivation to attack us.
Because the fellow who had been controlling and manipulating them had completely lost his mind.
“My dream, my dream…”
By the way, that dream refers to the revival of the secret organization.
According to what he said, after Professor Denabo was captured, secret organization branch offices everywhere were raided and reached a virtually annihilated state.
Therefore, he said he came here following information about this mountain range ruins that he had obtained by chance.
The Tears of Loksinna.
To use that as bait to revive Saul Hanston’s mana concentrate, the only thing left of the secret organization.
“Then we just need to raid that too, right?”
And Ernest made a very good suggestion. The fellow seemed to have given up and spilled everything freely.
One more thing here.
“Shouldn’t we give them a chance to tear that bastard apart? I’ll torture him just short of death and then hand him over.”
The Lycanthrope named Gagon asked very politely.
And for good reason, it was revealed that the promise that fellow Tullio had made was actually false.
It was even revealed that the ‘miracle’ he had shown the Lycanthropes was a deception using magic.
Thanks to that, they had no choice but to be angry.
After all, they had been nothing but used.
That doesn’t mean they have reason to make noise though.
“If you don’t stay quiet, I’ll throw one of you onto the altar.”
“…”
Anyway, they killed ten innocent Rangers and even tried to kill us.
I’ll think about how to deal with those fellows later.
What’s important to us is throwing this guy onto the altar and summoning that ‘existence of the ruins.’
“Ow, my whole body aches. These damn bastards…”
And now the dwarf is finally waking up.
I saw him unconscious earlier, but now he’s finally getting up and looking bewildered at the surrounding situation.
“What? What happened? Those werewolf bastards are one thing, but what are you guys?”
The dwarf growled without hiding his hostility.
I asked since I just remembered.
“Do you happen to know Bulbark?”
“Bulbark? Ah, that mutant fellow? What, do you know each other?”
Shing.
“Bulbark made this sword for me.”
“Oh ho… seems like he’s living quite well in the human world. But wait, what does that have to do with anything?”
“I’m trying to fulfill Bulbark’s request.”
When I heard the story from that fellow Tullio earlier, he said he kidnapped that dwarf just to use him to pass through this ruins.
So I should send him back.
Bulbark had said so.
If I ever meet his kinfolk, please help them.
Even if not as much as the Lycanthropes, dwarves are also a race that the Empire used and betrayed.
“So you’ll let me out of here?”
“Once everything is finished.”
“Hmm. That’s good. But, could you do me one favor?”
“What is it?”
Without even getting my consent, he suddenly approached and struck Tullio hard on the back of the head.
Thwack!
“Ugh!”
“You damn bastard.”
Considering he was kidnapped, I guess this is getting off easy.
His mouth is quite foul.
Seems like he matches Priscilla?
“Well then, let’s get to business. I’ll be over there in the corner.”
Anyway, we returned to the main topic.
“The existence of the ruins, I wonder what kind of fellow it is?”
“I don’t know, but wouldn’t it be incredibly strong?”
“Hmm. It would be troublesome if it’s too strong. Well, won’t Dane handle it somehow?”
“Professors, it doesn’t look too good to depend on Teacher Dane too much.”
Dorian spoke well.
Well, I’ll probably end up being active anyway, but it’s not good for them to rely only on me too much.
It’ll gradually improve.
Now then.
Shall we try summoning it?
“Seems like it’s time to go?”
“P-please spare me!”
“Even if I spare you, they’ll kill you anyway, right?”
I gestured toward the Lycanthropes with my chin.
Then the three fellows bared their teeth and growled.
“Eek.”
Tullio was terrified at that sight and quickly whispered in my ear.
“I-if you just spare me, I’ll do anything. Didn’t I spill all the information! I’ll do whatever you tell me!”
It was desperation itself.
But I coldly shook my head.
“I told you. Even if not me, someone will kill you anyway.”
“…”
Tullio remained silent for a while, then suddenly burst into resigned laughter.
“Hehehe… Yeah, it’s all over.”
I don’t know.
“But, you know what? Even if I disappear, our secret society won’t disappear. Someday, someday…”
Someday what.
“Rather than die at your hands, I’ll do it myself.”
The fellow climbed up onto the altar himself.
And, he left one last word.
“Anyway, you’ll never be able to control that mighty existence.”
With those words, the sound of something bursting came from his body.
He had sealed his own mana.
Blocking the flow of mana.
A famous suicide method among mages.
“Keueuuk…”
The fellow collapsed with a scream.
Good.
Didn’t dirty my hands.
It’s a bit unpleasant, but it doesn’t matter.
When the writhing body stopped, the magic circle in front of the altar began to emit light.
“Everyone fall back.”
I drew my sword and stepped back as I spoke.
Everyone drew their weapons and gathered their mana.
The Lycanthropes also prepared.
“We’ll help too.”
“Do as you like.”
Anyway, these guys are something to deal with later.
Since I don’t know what kind of existence will emerge, there’s no reason to refuse if they’re offering to help.
Kukung!
Meanwhile, from the magic circle in front of the altar, clusters of light began shooting up and gathering together.
And finally, a powerful aura could be felt.
Right.
The ‘Tears of Rokshinna’ that can lift all curses in the world and seems to have other uses as well.
It would be ridiculous to think it would be easy to obtain such a thing.
“Too… suffocating…”
Ernest’s groan came from behind.
Right, it’s suffocating.
This is like…
It feels like that stickiness we felt when climbing these mountains has taken concrete form.
Then, does that mean that stickiness was related to this ruin?
Well, I’ll know when I see it.
When that cluster of light fully gathers.
Shuuuuu…
The cluster of light was forming the shape of a person.
More precisely, it was forming the shape of a person with horns on their head.
Right, now I understand.
“To think I’d awaken again.”
A Demon.
The beings that invaded the continent in the past.
In that invasion that ended in failure, some are said to have slumbered or been sealed on this continent.
To think this was one of them.
This is interesting.
“An unpleasant smell greets me upon awakening.”
Pababababak!
It was truly in the blink of an eye.
The fellow created dozens of black arrows in mid-air and shot them toward the Lycanthropes-
“Kraaaak!”
“Aak!”
With single screams, two Lycanthropes collapsed on the spot.
Only the fellow called Gagon managed to deflect a few arrows with his claws, but already had one arrow embedded in his body.
“Now the smell is a bit less offensive.”
The fellow said that while looking toward us.
“You are humans.”
Horns on his head.
Red skin.
And even a cynical expression.
It matches the appearance of Demons I’ve seen in books.
To think I’d live to see even a Demon.
But one more thing.
There was something like a small gem embedded in his forehead.
That must be the ‘Tears of Rokshinna’.
“Right. We’re humans.”
“Not a particularly remarkable fact. I don’t know how long it’s been since I awakened…”
The fellow then suddenly tilted his head.
“Wait… you have a rather peculiar smell.”
A peculiar smell.
“Very familiar. Those who trapped me here and sealed me back then had this kind of smell.”
Ah.
Then were they people from ancient Arcana?
“It makes my blood boil.”
Swish.
A pitch-black sword appeared in the fellow’s hand.
That ability.
I need to be careful.
Whatever the conditions, to think he can summon weapons like that without any preparatory movements.
That fellow Tullio said it.
That we wouldn’t be able to control it.
If it’s a ‘Demon’, that makes sense.
But why is it.
Strangely…
Even though it’s a Demon, I don’t feel like I’ll lose?
It’s not arrogance, really.
“I’ll kill you first, then think about it.”
I smirked at the fellow who was suddenly enraged.
“Go ahead and try.”
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