The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 230

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Episode 230
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2.
Countless celestial spears embroidered across the heavens poured down like rain.
Bathed in platinum luminescence, beautiful rays of light descended from the sky toward a single man standing on the ground below.
Yet as the man gestured upon witnessing those beautiful spears,
darkness surged from the earth, rising to meet them in kind.
The spears of darkness ascended in equal multitude, intercepting each celestial lance one by one.
Platinum aura and obsidian aura shattered into fragments, scattering light and shadow in all directions.
A spectacle both radiant and ominous.
In that instant, as brilliant platinum aura scattered across all sides, the celestial energies transformed into awls in a single moment, piercing toward the man—while his ominous dark aura exploded outward, consuming and devouring the platinum energy.
Kaboom——————!!!
The surrounding area was instantly engulfed in the explosion, and all auras vanished without trace.
Witnessing this, Yoo Sung-hyun’s brow furrowed.
On the surface, they appeared evenly matched.
But the disadvantage lay with me.
Even now, the amount of mana I had expended was considerable.
Simply summoning dozens of dark spears had already consumed an extraordinary amount.
Yet the explosion I unleashed afterward to counter the scattered aura consumed even more mana than that.
The elemental matchup was unfavorable, after all.
This weakness had emerged from that disadvantage.
Meanwhile, Helena, who wielded the celestial aura, smiled brightly and cried out.
“Impressive, isn’t it? Then shall we move to the next stage?”
Helena spoke with an exhilarated expression as if she were conducting training, then snapped her fingers.
Once more, celestial aura materialized in the sky.
Where countless spears had manifested before,
now celestial aura took the form of a blade, shooting toward me.
A single blade.
Yet in that moment, I could sense that the celestial aura contained within that blade was far from ordinary.
It was absurdly powerful.
To compare it—
‘It surpasses the aura that summoned those spears from before.’
Even combining all the celestial aura that formed those spears would fall short of this blade.
Recognizing this, I immediately calculated my response.
As I had thought before,
responding identically to the celestial spears would certainly put me at a disadvantage in the matchup.
The wisest course of action in my current state was defense.
With that judgment, I summoned darkness, forming a defensive barrier that enveloped my surroundings.
Helena smiled enigmatically upon witnessing this, her gaze fixed upon me.
Yet contrary to Helena’s mysterious smile, the celestial blade gleamed with a keen edge as it flew forward with terrifying speed, cleaving through the dark barrier that stood before me.
Shing————crack!!!
The barrier of darkness was severed so effortlessly, as if slicing through mere air.
Yet within it, there was no sign of Yoo Sung-hyun.
Helena smiled at the sight, while Blade seemed bewildered, frozen in place without the slightest movement.
Where on earth had Yoo Sung-hyun gone?
As Blade began to probe the surroundings, searching for answers.
In that instant, darkness spread wide across the ground, and something rose from it.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Darkness suddenly surging upward.
The darkness that emerged from the field of shadow began to take shape immediately.
And every single form was Yoo Sung-hyun.
Clones of Yoo Sung-hyun manifested as darkness.
It was impossible to tell which was real.
Those clones woven from darkness each carried the essence of shadow within them, appearing as if shadow itself had become tangible form.
There was no way Blade could distinguish between them.
Yet even as Blade remained frozen.
The clones moved.
My clones wielded the darkness within them, gathering the shadow essence one by one and unleashing it outward.
As the darkness essence shot forth in cylindrical columns.
Blade could not simply stand and watch.
Shing-shing-shing-shing-shing————!!!
Blade severed those essences in one sweep while simultaneously cutting down all the darkness surrounding it.
But the moment the clones were slashed apart.
The darkness that composed the clones spread outward, encroaching on the surroundings.
It began to envelop Blade like a cloth wrapping.
Layer upon layer.
The darkness accumulated in countless strata until its numbers became far too significant to ignore.
Blade could not withstand it and vanished into the darkness, the celestial essence completely annihilated.
“Phew. Caught it.”
Watching that spectacle, the clones disappeared, and I finally appeared.
I exhaled a sigh of relief at the sight, smacking my lips with satisfaction.
And seeing me like that, Helena asked with an approving tone.
“What properties of darkness did you use?”
“First, I wove the clones from darkness by using the nature of shadows, and I consumed Blade by using the void of darkness to erase it.”
I utilized various attributes of darkness.
Or should I say characteristics, to be precise?
I activated the inherent traits that darkness possessed, maximizing them in their application.
As the Lord of Darkness, I could create various forms and manipulate them freely.
But by utilizing the nature of darkness this way, I could also employ skills of different properties.
Concealment, the inherent power of darkness that hides its form in an instant.
The shadow’s characteristic of creating clones.
And finally, by utilizing the characteristic of darkness that devours all things, I overcame the disadvantageous matchup and was able to annihilate the celestial blade.
Helena nodded as if she was finally satisfied with what she saw.
“You pass!”
“Phew…”
I had truly endured an exhausting ordeal.
Training had begun on Thursday.
Now it was Monday.
Four nights and five days?
I understood the characteristic of darkness well enough in theory.
But putting it to practical use was far from simple.
Of course, merely manipulating the superficial form of darkness was child’s play.
Even now, I could easily command the small figure of darkness that Yoo Sung-hyun had created to assume various postures and move within my palm.
However, utilizing the characteristics contained within it proved extraordinarily difficult.
Moreover, I had also experimented with using the darkness within the shadow—originally my movement technique—solely as the Lord of Darkness.
That too had been quite challenging at first.
In any case.
“Phew.”
“Hmm, you’ll be incredibly skilled now, won’t you?”
“It’s still difficult regardless.”
Still, having grasped this knack.
When the Lord of Fear or the Lord of Blood faced similar circumstances, I felt I could master them far more rapidly than this time.
Having struggled this much.
I felt more accomplished than I had anticipated.
Yoo Sung-hyun spoke to Helena without showing much outward emotion.
“Thank you for helping me.”
Sincerely.
Without Helena’s rigorous Spartan method, grasping the knack might have been considerably more difficult.
Helena responded to Yoo Sung-hyun’s words with slight embarrassment.
“It’s nothing, really. Ahahaha.”
Watching Helena laugh awkwardly.
Yoo Sung-hyun chuckled and nodded.
Now that training was complete.
Should I go handle what I’d been putting off?
“Shall we visit that place from Hindel’s memories?”
Yoo Sung-hyun spoke thus and smiled knowingly.
3.
One of the luxurious Royal Palace Chambers lacking nothing.
It was a chamber so extravagantly appointed that even high-ranking nobles could not create its equal.
Every piece of furniture was pristine, and the opulent chamber was beyond reproach.
The room was also equipped with bells to summon all the maids whenever desired, along with various comfortable furnishings.
It resembled the kind of room anyone would dream of.
Yet the Young Man inside that room lay on the sofa, gazing at the ceiling with a distinctly displeased expression.
Even the ceiling of such a room was adorned with a luxurious chandelier, and a masterpiece painting—though I couldn’t say who painted it—was embedded there.
A painting that was undoubtedly a work of art.
Amid all this, the Young Man sighed and muttered to himself.
“Ugh. Confinement, they call it.”
Saying so, he sprang up from the sofa where he’d been lying.
Then, looking around the luxurious room, he muttered again.
“This is hardly a room befitting a Hero.”
The Young Man—or rather, Hero Luke—shook his head as he surveyed this extravagant, opulent chamber.
Thanks to it, I was comfortable enough.
But perhaps that was precisely the problem?
‘It’s uncomfortable.’
I would have been far more at ease in the shabby quarters of the Knights Order.
It might have been hard and physically inconvenient.
But my heart would have been far more at peace.
It wasn’t a matter of lacking sense; such was Hero Luke’s nature.
It wasn’t that I intended to train here or anything like that.
At least, that’s what I felt.
And whenever I asked when I could leave, they only repeated the same parrot-like response: wait until the Heroes’ Conference convenes soon.
They said the Sword Saint would visit me directly after the Heroes’ Conference ended.
That made Hero Luke even more reluctant.
‘Beware the Riescan Kingdom,’ was it?
Recalling those words Yoo Sung-hyun had told me.
I had asked one of the visitors who came to see me to investigate that matter.
‘I wonder if Plinky will handle it well…’
The problem was that I’d entrusted it to Plinky of all people.
After all, she often played pranks and didn’t exactly inspire confidence.
Still, Luke trusted Plinky.
Eccentric as she was.
She was certainly the type to see through a request once given.
I shouldn’t worry too much.
Above all.
‘Since it was something the current Overload said. Her eyes changed.’
Then surely she would investigate properly.
Holding onto this small faith, Hero Luke, confined as he was, gazed up at the ceiling and muttered.
“Though I’m not sure if there will be evidence.”
A world without Helena and Hindel.
The Riescan Kingdom had existed firmly even after their deaths, had it not?
In a sense, those who survived could be called the sole victors.
That was sufficient to manipulate the past.
Of course.
‘Since Overpalace is involved.’
They couldn’t achieve perfect distortion.
Even so, could there truly be any shameful secrets remaining for them?
I believe they could easily erase even such blemishes.
Yet if that were the case, another strange thing remained.
‘If that’s true, why did Overpalace leave behind the Riescan Kingdom, which could be said to have destroyed the previous Overload?’
Because I couldn’t understand that part.
It became even more puzzling.
Could it be that I’ll find nothing at all this way?
It was a somewhat anxious thought.
But I decided to search nonetheless.
With that resolve, I closed my eyes.
Around the time Luke was thinking such thoughts and growing anxious.
At a similar moment, someone retrieved a certain scroll.
A mission record from ages long past.
On that scroll, which appeared considerably aged.
Was written a mission that a certain Knights Order had once carried out.
The details of what that mission entailed were not clearly recorded.
However, retrieving another notebook-like tome that lay near the scroll, they read the writing within and murmured.
“Found it.”

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