The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 165

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Episode 165
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As if Heaven’s Judgment had descended from the ceiling.
It pierced through the ground.
A massive crater formed in the floor.
The heat radiating from it was almost unbearable.
With a sizzling sound, stone melted, and the crackling of glass breaking echoed through the air.
From within that inferno, Talonpia—fur bristling—shuddered violently and leaped from the crater.
Perhaps it was displaying its might as befits a Raid Boss Monster?
That’s what I thought.
But Talonpia’s courage faltered again, and it retreated backward, attempting to ascend back through the ceiling.
-Is Talonpia really this much of a coward?
-Nah, seems like light-attribute attacks deal critical damage to it?
-It’s instinctively terrified?
-A Raid Boss?
The viewers were astonished at this incomprehensible sight.
The skill effect was certainly impressive.
But what was even more shocking was Talonpia’s reaction to it.
Wounds that looked like severe burns covered its body.
And two of its eight legs were mangled and broken, hanging limply.
-No matter how vulnerable it is to that attribute, how powerful is this attack exactly….
-A subordinate can take damage like that?
-Wait, if that woman who looks like a maid is this strong, how powerful is that red-haired woman subordinate?
-Uh… surely that woman isn’t strong too?
-Maybe she’s a Healer or Support?
The viewers chattered among themselves with such speculation.
Regardless of their talk.
Serpina casually gestured, summoning a blade wind that struck Talonpia.
Countless blade winds transformed into sharp edges, pouring down relentlessly.
Talonpia attempted to block all these attacks by spewing venom and spider silk.
But there were far too many.
Eventually, venom and spider silk alone proved insufficient, and numerous lacerations appeared across its body.
Slash!
Slash! Slash!
Slash! Swish—!
At first, it managed to block the blade winds adequately.
But soon, overwhelmed by the onslaught, the frequency of new wounds increased rapidly.
Finding it impossible to defend against Serpina’s assault.
Talonpia coated its surroundings entirely with spider silk, forming it into a massive shield.
The sticky silk intertwined with the surrounding stalactites, creating even greater defensive strength.
In that instant, the crimson moon materialized.
“SHRIEEEEEEK!!!”
At the sight of that crimson moon, Talonpia recalled the previous attack, abandoned his shield, and dodged away from that spot.
Immediately after Talonpia vacated the area.
As expected, a beam of light erupted from the crimson moon.
However, the beam did not strike the location where Talonpia had dodged.
It was fired directly at Talonpia.
As Talonpia fled along the wall, a ferocious crimson beam entered his vision.
BOOOOOOOM——!!!
The crimson beam swept across Talonpia.
“Shrieeeee….”
He tumbled helplessly from the wall.
Thud! Crash!
Subjected to overwhelming attack power and penetration, four of his legs were now crushed.
Several viewers watching commented.
-Phase 2 incoming!
-Already?
-Less than 5 minutes into the fight and they’re taking it down with just one minion?
The Phase 2 announcement came far too quickly.
However, since Talonpia expressed his health gauge by the number of remaining legs.
The assessment was accurate.
Immediately, Talonpia’s Phase 2 warning message appeared.
He had genuinely reached Phase 2 in merely five minutes since the start.
Not by a Demon King fighting at full strength.
But by merely a single minion of the new Demon King.
The viewers themselves couldn’t fathom what to say in chat, so unbelievable was this fact.
Now the question was—how would Serpina handle the rest?
With curiosity at its peak.
Someone spoke up.
“Serpina, I’ll handle what’s left!”
A voice tinged with playfulness.
Yet it carried an elegant, refined quality.
With that voice, the red-haired minion who had remained docile until now stirred into motion.
And Serpina, the minion who had been attacking with the intent to kill Talonpia mere moments before, lowered her head and withdrew.
“Yes, understood.”
Serpina too retreated with a crystalline voice.
The viewers watched Serpina with expressions of bewilderment.
Had things continued as they were, Serpina could have finished the fight.
Yet a player substitution was being made here?
Just what power would that red-haired female minion demonstrate?
In that moment brimming with anticipation.
Helena smiled faintly and snapped her fingers.
Light spread across the ceiling, and something materialized.
Whoooosh whoooosh whoooosh.
As the light rippled, hundreds of noble and sacred spears of pure radiance appeared.
At Helena’s gesture, those hundreds of luminous spears descended toward Talonpia.
Talonpia shrieked in terror at the divine punishment incarnate—those hundreds of spears—and attempted to flee.
In that instant, Helena’s eyes darkened and deepened, and she snapped her fingers once more.
Snap!
With that sound, the shadow beneath Talonpia grew progressively darker.
It stained pitch-black like the void itself, spreading widely across the ground.
From that darkened floor, colossal spectral arms erupted, seizing Talonpia’s body and eight legs, refusing to release them.
The hundreds of spears descending from the ceiling, forged of pure light, fell like brilliant flashes.
Shwooosh shwooosh shwooosh shwooosh shwooosh!!!
Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud!!!
Hundreds of luminous spears pierced through Talonpia and embedded themselves deeply into the earth.
“SHRIEEEEEEEEK!!!”
A agonized wail tore from its form.
The moment Talonpia attempted to use its Phase Two Downgrade skill to escape.
Space tore open in the ceiling, and something erupted forth.
Through the rift in that opened space, a faint sky was barely visible.
And from that sky, a single blade descended.
No ordinary sword.
Forged of pure light.
A blade wider than a building fell toward Talonpia.
As all eight of Talonpia’s eyes perceived that blade.
Shhhhhhhhwing!
And as if pronouncing judgment upon a condemned criminal.
The blade embedded itself deep within Talonpia’s neck.
Like an executioner’s scaffold delivering divine retribution, Talonpia’s head severed and fell.
That was the end.
[You have vanquished the Raid Boss, ‘Labyrinth Spider, Talonpia’.]
[You have gained experience.]
That message reminded everyone that the raid had concluded.
Yet the viewers, unable to comprehend what they had witnessed, could only stare blankly at their screens.
-??????????
-what??????
-dead… ??????
-??????????
-what, what is this?????
-What? Subordinates like that?
A raid cleared with just two subordinates.
The Labyrinth Spider, Talonpia—it’s not exactly a formidable raid boss,
but it’s still a raid boss nonetheless.
The kind of boss that even the most talented newcomers struggle to solo.
Yet he defeats it with merely two subordinates?
It makes no sense.
Yoo Sung-hyun was already incredibly strong.
But what is this?
-Just how much stronger is the Dark Mage getting?
-If he were moderately strong, I could understand it…
-What even is this?
Everyone struggled to comprehend this unforeseen, overwhelming power.
They couldn’t even grasp the scale of it.
How could they even describe this?
If Yoo Sung-hyun had conducted the raid alone without summoning his subordinates,
they wouldn’t have been so shocked.
They would’ve simply accepted it—oh, the Dark Mage is the Dark Mage, and moved on.
But with just two subordinates.
And they didn’t even coordinate their attacks.
Even if each had fought alone, either one would have been sufficient to succeed in the raid.
How is that even possible?
Most shocking of all was the nature of their attributes.
-Wait, both of those subordinates use light attributes?
-That red-haired woman doesn’t seem to use light—more like a celestial attribute?
-And it looks like she’s also using some darkness-type attributes????
-How does that even work?
-Isn’t she a Necromancer…
A Dark Mage possesses subordinates wielding light and celestial attributes?
It’s essentially overcoming his weaknesses halfway.
In other words,
-What attribute would you need to defeat the Dark Mage?
-Light or holy, celestial types would’ve been advantageous, but now that those two exist, maybe only divine attributes work?
-Even that might not work… honestly, attacking with the four basic elements might be more efficient at this point.
Yoo Sung-hyun has become even harder to defeat.
Faced with this absurd reality,
the chat messages began to dwindle.
As before, Yoo Sung-hyun spoke.
“That concludes today’s broadcast. Thank you for watching.”
With that polite bow toward the screen, he ended the live stream.
-?????
-Hahahaha, he’s doing it again.
-Must be part of the act hahahaha.
-Wow, but today’s broadcast was really packed.
-The Demon Lord’s servants must have a huge fanbase? At least I’m one hahahaha.
-Honestly, I think the servants have more fans than the Demon Lord? hahahaha.
-Don’t say such mean things.
Once again, absurd viewers were simply spamming the chat of the broadcast with the darkened screen.
Still, this broadcast had been the same as before.
Viewers who knew to some extent moved past it cheerfully.
Others also chattered about how the Demon Lord had humanity to him.
But Yoo Sung-hyun remained unaware of such comments.
He spoke while observing his two servants.
“You both did great.”
“Hehe~ This much is light work for us.”
“It was almost disappointing how easy it was.”
Hearing the words of Serpina and Helena, Yoo Sung-hyun nodded in agreement.
He had obtained a ranged unit and tested it out.
It seemed that using it together with the other servants would be far more efficient.
In the case of Talonpia this time, she was quite fearful.
So we subdued her safely.
But with an aggressive boss like Carmine, a vanguard was absolutely necessary.
If I used them together with the other servants…
‘Could I even take down two Raid Bosses simultaneously?’
No, it seemed possible to handle even three.
“Hmm, still, compared to the previous body, there’s a sense that it falls short.”
Before testing it.
The evaluation that it was inferior to the previous body that Yoo Sung-hyun had discussed with Helena.
It was certainly true.
It was inevitable that it would be significantly inferior to Helena’s body from the past.
But what could I do about it.
“Couldn’t I create something close to Helena’s past body now?”
“Right. That’s probably true. Right now, this is actually a level that turned out better than expected.”
“That’s right~”
Serpina also nodded in agreement.
Helena’s strength to that degree was undeniable.
“But the Abyss attribute is a familiar one, so I’ll handle it well. The Celestial attribute feels a bit awkward though.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, since it’s an attribute I’m using for the first time.”
Despite that, the timing and execution were handled well.
I heard that the higher this proficiency is for subordinates, the greater their power becomes.
Yoo Sung-hyun tilted his head, thinking the power was already sufficient.
“Well, I think she’ll get stronger if she adapts more here.”
“Hm.”
She was already comparable to Dracas as it stood.
Stronger through adaptation?
Helena was truly incredible, even by my standards.
Enough to astonish even me.
It was clear that Helena would become my strongest subordinate.
So I didn’t worry about it any further.
For now, I’d set this aside and think about what came next.
Should I consider my next move?
‘Now that I’ve reached level 130, my options have expanded.’
Kah-hoo-koo’s final Treasure Vault remained unexplored.
And it was about time I ventured to another city.
The fact that my level didn’t increase even after finishing that raid suggested something.
‘I really should tackle some Quests.’
Clearing Quests had always leveled me up quickly.
I could head to another city and clear Quests there.
Or perhaps I should search to see if there was anything left to do here.
While I was deliberating like this.
Helena smiled mischievously and spoke.
“I happen to know a place.”
“A place you know?”
“Yes, that city where those cute cats live.”
“Cats, you say….”
I trailed off.
Helena smiled and continued.
“Yes, the Labyrinth Merchant Guild Headquarters.”
Perhaps Helena’s truly terrifying aspect wasn’t her strength, but her knowledge?

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