The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 154

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Episode 154
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Baltar’s words piqued Yoo Sung-hyun’s curiosity slightly.
-No, I don’t need to train!!!
Leonik also rushed forward with a desperate cry.
What kind of training was this really?
Both Baltar and Leonik charged forward desperately, swinging their greatsword and sword toward Carmine.
One against two.
Yet Carmine seemed to be enjoying herself.
She ran up the wall and thrust her spear toward Baltar first.
Clang clang clang clang!!!
Feeling the powerful recoil.
Baltar retreated slightly.
Yet he flowed the spear blade aside and swung his greatsword with elegant grace.
But midway through, the elegantly swung greatsword became laden with tremendous weight, descending like a thunderbolt.
The sword strike—executed with agility and fluidity that transcended greatsword technique, combined with the crushing weight befitting such a blade—traced a blood-red crescent arc as it shot toward Carmine.
Carmine looked as though she might be cleaved in two by that crescent blade energy.
Yet Carmine simply backflipped through the air, evading the blood-red crescent.
Carmine evaded with extreme urgency.
And seizing that opening, Leonik rushed in.
While Carmine was still suspended in midair from her backflip.
Leonik’s blade flew toward Carmine.
-Take this!!!
Leonik’s battle cry rang out as his blade swung.
But Carmine caught the blood-red crescent blade energy she had evaded, using the rotational momentum generated by her backflip to wrap it with her spear.
Then she immediately redirected the trajectory of the blood-red crescent blade energy toward Leonik.
The blood-red blade energy shot forward and collided with Leonik’s navy-blue blade energy, both snarling as they clashed against each other.
Boom boom boom boom——!!!
-Damn it!
The two forces were evenly matched.
Both energies dissipated quickly.
Yet Carmine remained unscathed, thrusting her spear toward Baltar.
Whoosh!!!
The spear blade shot forward, cutting through the air sharply—too much for Baltar, who had just unleashed a major technique, to evade.
Or perhaps, when he tried to block, he recalled that earlier throw and realized he was outmatched.
Just as he was about to sacrifice his left shoulder.
Clang clang clang clang clang!!!
Fiora, who had transformed her hand into a shield, blocked the spear blade first, and behind her, Nocturnium, who had formed the Labyrinth’s wall with his hand, supported Fiora and stopped the spear blade.
“…?”
Even Carmine hadn’t anticipated this, as a question mark bloomed across her face.
In that instant, Barphor materialized above Carmine’s head and brought his massive fists crashing down in a devastating blow.
CRAAAAAAASH——!!!
A nearly flawless coordinated attack.
Yet Carmine recovered her spear in that brief moment, blocked Barphor’s assault with it, and launched herself into the air, spinning to dissipate the impact.
The air shattered with a sound like artillery fire.
But the shock that actually reached Carmine was far less severe.
Her combat sense and skill were comparable to Leonik, Fiora, and Baltar here.
Yet the sheer power she possessed transcended imagination.
Everyone waited with caution and tension.
-Whoa!? She’s incredibly strong?
Helena watched the spectacle with evident delight.
I too observed the scene with analytical precision.
She was undeniably formidable.
Especially that overwhelming technique born from her humanoid form—or rather, her humanity—proved far more troublesome than anticipated.
In terms of technique alone, her skills matched those of Leonik, Baltar, and Fiora.
But her strength surpassed the combined might of all three, making the situation precarious.
‘Would the Centipede have been like this if it possessed technique?’
No.
The Centipede’s raw power actually exceeded Carmine’s.
It had been the hidden raid boss of the previous region, after all.
In terms of physical prowess, the Centipede was certainly stronger.
But what made Carmine truly terrifying was technique layered upon that formidable physique.
It wasn’t for nothing that other players couldn’t defeat her.
A question began to crystallize in my mind.
‘Just who is this person who nearly soloed such a monster?’
I suddenly grasped how remarkable that female player listed in the Quest window truly was.
BANG!
CRAAAAAASH!
BOOM!
KABOOM——!!!
CLAAAAAAANG———!!!
While I observed.
An intense battle unfolded.
Leonik, Baltar, and Barphor.
The three pressed forward with relentless assaults.
Fiora and Nocturnium took defensive and support positions from the front and rear respectively.
And when an opening appeared, Fiora briefly took the form of a small dragon.
Everyone retreated from that spot as Fiora exhaled her breath.
Compared to a normal dragon.
It was a diminutive breath.
Yet that breath was more than sufficient to fill the entire Labyrinth Corridor.
Carmine, too, upon witnessing Fiora’s transformation into a dragon, smiled with her eyes and lips curved into thin arcs of delight.
“I wonder what it feels like to sever a dragon’s head?”
She uttered words as though possessed by madness.
Then laughed hideously.
The breath consumed her.
Roooooaaaaaarrrrr———!!!
The entire Labyrinth trembled violently as though shaken to its core.
But as the breath shot forth, melting left and right, up and down simultaneously.
The Labyrinth itself truly began to burn.
Flowing around like molten lava.
Though the floor, both walls, and ceiling maintained their forms since the breath couldn’t melt everything completely.
The walls melted like lava.
In such circumstances.
Whoooosh———!!!
Carmine burst forth from within that lava.
I wondered if she was truly human, but she was indeed human.
Her skin had melted away, revealing muscle beneath in vivid detail.
Burned skin grotesquely melted away.
Yet the muscle itself remained unmelted, maintaining its form and enduring.
With skin stripped away, the muscles appeared like fibers.
It looked extraordinarily painful.
“Kyahahahahaha———!!!”
Carmine laughed madly, her voice piercing.
And she screamed.
“The scars she gave me are gone!? Kyahahahahaha!”
Even the undead recoiled at the sight, and Leonik spoke.
-She’s insane.
Even the demon Baltar shook his head.
-She’s not normal.
The two of them, speaking thus, stepped forward to intercept the incoming Carmine.
Leonik and Baltar took their stance, while Fiora, having expended considerable strength, fell back.
Since Carmine too had sustained injuries and would have weakened, only the two of them advanced.
Barphor hoisted the exhausted Fiora onto his shoulders and moved toward the rear.
Having Fiora in the front lines would have been dangerous.
As Barphor and Fiora thus withdrew from the front.
“Kyahahaha! Come on! Come———!!!”
Carmine, bursting forth with wild laughter, swung her spear toward Leonik and Baltar.
Crimson aura coiled around the spear, and as though the spear had lengthened, Carmine’s weapon seemed to vanish for an instant before being swung.
Whoosh————!!!
The spear blade swung with such tremendous speed.
Leonik and Baltar’s eyes widened in shock.
Despite suffering such grievous wounds, they could still muster an attack of this magnitude?
In that moment of their astonishment.
Nocturnium swiftly conjured a wall behind them to help them withstand the blow.
But it was insufficient.
Kwaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
The spear blade was intercepted, yet the overwhelming force shattered even the wall Nocturnium had created, sending the two figures flying backward.
Rather than maintaining their stance and being pushed back, the two were hurled backward uncontrollably.
Nocturnium witnessed this and attempted to intervene.
But there was no way Nocturnium, unsuited for direct combat, could withstand Carmine.
Yet Nocturnium stepped forward this time to protect their master, blocking Carmine’s path.
“Uuuuugh!!!”
As they unleashed their full power.
The entire Labyrinth surrounding this area moved and grasped Carmine as if to swallow them whole.
It would be difficult to escape before destroying the entire Labyrinth!
However, Nocturnium had overlooked one thing.
Even if the entire Labyrinth constricted.
It could not contain Carmine.
-Flee!!!
-You cannot handle this!!!
-N-Nocturnium!!!
-Oh no!!!
They each cried out, and Barphor rushed forward as quickly as possible to defend.
But it was too late.
Kwaaaaaaa———!!!
A ferocious aura shattered the Labyrinth that had been holding it, and something shot through like a beam of light.
It was Carmine, wielding the spear.
“Kyahahaha! Die, die, die, die, die!!!”
With that cry, the crimson spear blade reached Nocturnium’s throat in an instant.
A blade that would sever Nocturnium’s neck at any moment.
Yet that blade had no choice but to stop before it.
Darkness deeper than the darkness of the Labyrinth itself.
An abyss appeared beneath Carmine’s feet, and Carmine tilted their head in confusion.
“What is this?”
With that questioning voice.
A hand extending from the abyss reached toward Carmine.
And enveloped them.
Yet seeing this, Carmine scoffed.
“Tch! Such trivial things….”
[Seals movement for 3 seconds with the Grasp of the Abyss.]
[Hidden Raid Boss, 『Pentasgrid’s Worst, Carmine』 attempts to resist.]
[This is an unavoidable skill.]
“…?”
And in that instant, a projectile of black energy materialized before Carmine’s eyes.
The projectile struck Carmine’s face with devastating precision.
Boom—————!!
“Ugh!”
[Critical Hit!]
Even Carmine let out a pained groan, her head snapping backward.
And when she raised it again.
A spear of teal light pierced directly through her skull.
“Aaaahhhhh!!!”
[Critical Hit!]
[Dark damage applied.]
[『Pentasgrid’s Worst, Carmine』 partially resists.]
[『Pentasgrid’s Worst, Carmine』 loses all sight and sensation for 2 seconds.]
My senses were severed.
I couldn’t distinguish heaven from earth.
It felt as though I had fallen into a weightless void.
My vision was incomplete.
With all senses blocked.
I couldn’t even tell if my restraints had been released.
Yet I could sense something.
But it wasn’t clear.
‘Am I… being slashed?’
I felt the sensation of a sharp blade cutting through me.
Was it an illusion?
No, I was certain it wasn’t.
[Using the sword skill 『Darkness』.]
[Consumed by overwhelming darkness.]
[Consumed by darkness, blocking 『Pentasgrid’s Worst, Carmine』’s sight.]
[Consumed by darkness, blocking 『Pentasgrid’s Worst, Carmine』’s hearing.]
[Consumed by darkness, blocking 『Pentasgrid’s Worst, Carmine』’s touch.]
[Consumed by darkness, blocking 『Pentasgrid’s Worst, Carmine』’s smell.]
[Consumed by darkness, blocking 『Pentasgrid’s Worst, Carmine』’s taste.]
[Consumed by darkness, blocking all of 『Pentasgrid’s Worst, Carmine』’s senses.]
[Persists while the blade is steeped in darkness.]
By now, my senses should have returned.
But they didn’t.
The inability to distinguish heaven from earth had now vanished.
Yet it remained incomplete.
As I sensed the premonition of my body moving, I felt the hostility hurtling toward me.
“Kyahahahahaha!!! So you’re resorting to such parlor tricks!!!!”
I reacted to that hostility.
Carmine, unable to feel anything, moved her body and defended however she could.
She couldn’t block all the attacks from Yoo Sung-hyun, Leonik, Baltar, and Barphor combined.
But she was blocking as much as possible.
Despite all her senses being severed.
Yoo Sung-hyun watched her performance and shook his head as if weary.
“Impressive.”
But not anymore.
Yoo Sung-hyun spoke thus and activated his swordsmanship skill.
Deeper than darkness itself, darker than the deepest black.
As I grasped the blade wreathed in the aura of the abyss.
Light returned to Carmine’s two eyes.
“Darkness itself!!!!”

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