The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 63

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Episode 63
Episode 63
My body trembles with fear, and my two golden eyes shake violently.
Yet Anemor cannot flee.
As the ruler of this realm,
I am bound inescapably to this place.
My ferocity has not vanished.
Rather,
I have simply come to realize that the enemy before me is unlike any foe I have faced—irrational and utterly overwhelming.
I want to flee.
But I cannot.
Therefore, only one choice remains.
“SCREEEEEEEEEECH——!”
Even unto death, I shall burn with defiance and advance.
I shall maintain my dignity as the sovereign of the skies and fight.
My will blazes while fear does not abandon me.
It is through fear that one grows stronger still.
Anemor was no exception.
All NPCs in the Eternal World, along with the monsters, possessed superior artificial intelligence.
It would be no exaggeration to say they possessed genuine consciousness.
Based on vast data, Anemor could judge and think.
About this irrational Death Legion arrayed against me.
I could discern their master.
The human observing the battle from the rear.
Or rather, was it truly human?
I could not determine that much.
Yet one thing was certain—they orchestrate this entire battlefield.
“SCREEEEEEEECH——!”
From the moment Anemor entered Phase Two, recovering my wings and taking flight, mere two seconds elapsed.
In that brief span, I made my decision.
My target was set.
Now came the time to act.
Then a swarm of Giant Killer Bees entered Anemor’s field of vision.
Having experienced this before, I knew well.
It was no mere swarm of Giant Killer Bees.
Though unseen and unfelt, I understood perfectly.
The presence of Fiora and Baltar approaching through the gaps between those Giant Killer Bees.
Thus Anemor roared and unleashed a skill.
“SCREEEECH——!”
Whoooosh! Whoooooosh—! Whoooooooosh——!
I spread my wings as wide as possible, summoning a fierce wind that could be called my ally.
The gust that swept in alongside the fluttering wings soon coalesced ominously, creating a massive storm.
A tempest of an entirely different magnitude from the gales I’d conjured in Phase One.
Or rather, I should call it a small typhoon—such a ferocious maelstrom that descended upon the field.
The Giant Killer Bees could no longer maintain their positions in the air.
Some Giant Killer Bees had their wings torn to shreds as they were caught in the wind.
The falling Giant Killer Bees, unable to maintain their massive forms, quickly escaped the storm’s radius.
Anemor watched the scattering Giant Killer Bees with triumphant satisfaction, then boldly stepped into the heart of the tempest.
In that instant, its form vanished without a trace.
As if it had gone invisible.
Since it couldn’t be seen anywhere.
The entire Luna Team reacted with startled alarm.
“Longfeng, can you find it?”
“…I can’t even sense it???”
“Ugh, it can go invisible too~!?”
“Damn it, how are we supposed to beat that….”
Luna immediately asked Longfeng, the rogue.
But Longfeng said he couldn’t locate its whereabouts either.
If Longfeng, who possessed the keenest detection abilities here, couldn’t find it.
Then surely Yoo Sung-hyun couldn’t either, could he?
For a moment, I wondered if I should help.
But I couldn’t afford to move recklessly.
In fact, if we moved here, we might only get in their way.
It was better to simply observe in silence.
Just as Luna Team fell into chaos.
Yoo Sung-hyun, however, snapped his fingers as if unbothered.
Snap!
Because Yoo Sung-hyun only utilized the Death Legion.
Everyone had been under a misunderstanding.
Yoo Sung-hyun’s skills weren’t limited to just the Death Legion.
As he snapped his fingers, a massive heart emanating a teal glow appeared behind his back.
The heart soon beat violently, gradually releasing a mist tinged with teal light into the surroundings.
The eerie teal-hued mist made the air around it heavy, and soon it blanketed nearly half of the Raid Field.
Then a scream erupted from a spot not far from Yoo Sung-hyun.
“Kyieeeek!”
A shriek that burst forth in shock from the sudden damage.
Anemor panicked momentarily, confirmed that its invisibility had been broken, and attempted to take flight again.
But it was already too late.
The moment Anemor’s location was found, a swarm of forty Giant Killer Bees came flying in.
Yet this time, unlike before, a green vapor was pouring from their bodies.
The moment I realized that touching it brought damage along with that acrid stench.
Anemor could discern its identity in an instant.
Poison.
A virulent toxin that bloomed from corpses.
I had to evade.
Anemor unfurled his wings with an almost instinctive motion.
Realizing he’d just used Gale Storm and couldn’t deploy it again, he attempted to conjure a vortex using the wind’s momentum instead.
A skill with knockback potency far exceeding the Phase One gust.
But perhaps because I’d focused too intently on the Giant Killer Bee?
I failed to sense Yoo Sung-hyun’s movement from behind.
With his index finger extended, Yoo Sung-hyun brought it to his lips.
The skill activated in that instant.
Ohhhhh.
Anemor felt goosebumps erupt across his entire body without warning and impulsively tried to turn and look behind himself.
Though he found it utterly repulsive to witness.
Why was this happening?
As if my body were being puppeteered, I turned to look behind me.
And my eyes met ‘that thing’s.
A silhouette—something shaped like a human, yet wrought from darkness itself.
But I could perceive it.
This was no living creature.
If a curse were to take form, would it appear thus?
Where eyes should have dwelt in that confronting gaze lay instead an abyss as fathomless as the void itself, and my vision swam as though my very soul were being drawn into that chasm.
Then it reached out toward me, and I could offer no resistance whatsoever.
Its elongated, skeletal hand clutched a cyan needle, and with a grin split wide as if savoring some delicious jest, it stitched my lips shut.
Then, as if commanding silence, it held the needle and extended its index finger toward my mouth, speaking.
—Shhhhhhh——!
Tee-hee-hee-hee-hee—!
Accompanied by that bone-chilling laughter.
The entity vanished, but Anemor realized he could no longer use his skills.
[Your skills are sealed for 5 seconds by the Lord’s Silencing Decree.]
[Raid Boss, ‘Anemor, Watcher of the Wind’ resists partially.]
[Duration reduced to 3 seconds.]
“…!??!”
Unable to even open his mouth, Anemor attempted to flee that spot in bewilderment.
But it was already too late.
Some forty Giant Killer Bees, having closed in far too near, swarmed across Anemor’s body and spread their venom.
Writhing desperately against the searing pain as though his flesh were melting away, Anemor’s eyes met Yoo Sung-hyun’s in that moment.
As if something yet remained, Yoo Sung-hyun raised his hand.
Anemor’s golden eyes trembled violently.
The fact that poison had taken effect meant the Giant Killer Bee Undead was now recognized as a corpse.
And if it was a corpse, Yoo Sung-hyun had a skill he could use.
Yoo Sung-hyun recalled that skill and snapped his fingers.
Snap!
Boom, booooom!
A torrential explosion erupted, unleashing tremendous heat and catastrophic damage.
Anemor, still dazed, somehow heard it with perfect clarity.
The sound of fingers snapping once more.
Snap!
The corpse had been torn to shreds—was there anything left to explode?
In that moment, Anemor could see it.
From the poison blooming across the scattered remains, ignition flames flickered and blazed.
I needed to escape, but my skills remained sealed.
Blindingly scorching light and heat radiated outward from my center.
Then came a deafening roar.
Kabooooom——!
The explosion swallowed Anemor mid-air, and I lost consciousness instantly, plummeting downward.
Stunned by the catastrophic damage.
But it didn’t last long.
I regained consciousness during the fall, yet my body’s condition was beyond description.
The grayish-white feathers I had once taken pride in were all burned away to ash, and between the gaps in my body lay grotesque burns where feathers had been scorched off.
Truly a hideous sight, yet such things hardly mattered.
I had to survive.
I had to soar skyward and evade the attacks.
With only these two thoughts consuming my mind, I spread my wings to take flight.
But then came a voice from behind me.
-Where do you think you’re going?
-Looks like they’re trying to escape.
Those two voices—ones I never wanted to hear even in nightmares.
Without thinking, I turned to look behind, and there stood Baltar and Spirit Barfur, soaring on wings woven from blood, with Fiora flying freely beside them.
“Screeeee!?”
I had forgotten about them in the aftermath of that tremendous explosion.
Those two formidable beings I should never have forgotten.
But no, it should still be manageable.
In the sky, I would have a slight advantage.
With that judgment, I prepared to face them without lowering my guard, when—
A teal-colored something shot up from the ground. I tried to dodge it, but Baltar and Fiora blocked my escape route.
Whoooosh!
“Screeeeeee!”
With no gap to slip through, the teal spear pierced perfectly through my chest.
Then the blooming darkness crept across Anemor’s entire body.
[Darkness damage applied.]
[Target partially resists.]
[For 3 seconds, all sight and senses become impaired.]
With every sense severed, I couldn’t even judge whether I was still flying or being struck by Baltar and Fiora.
I couldn’t tell if I was still airborne.
Or if I was being battered by Baltar and Fiora.
Yet I struggled with all my might.
Without sensation of movement, I didn’t know if I was moving at all.
But I had felt something before the senses vanished.
So I thrashed about, burning with will.
Desperately trying to minimize the damage.
After those three seconds—the longest of my existence—sensation returned.
And I felt it.
“…Screeeee?”
My proud, magnificent wings had been savagely torn and shredded.
And I could see that I’d already been falling for some time, surrounded on all sides by the advancing Death Legion.
Teal-colored eyes filled every direction. I tried to escape, but each time Spirit Barfur, Fiora, and Baltar stepped forward to block my movements, and the Death Legion surged in like a tidal wave to attack me.
“SCREEEEEEE——!”
I used a skill to momentarily push back all the Death Legion soldiers around me and tried to escape, but my wings were already torn and severed long ago.
A Wind Watcher who could no longer fly was no longer a friend to the wind.
The repelled Death Legion closed the distance again, and I could hear it clearly.
Slash! Crunch! Crunch—!
The sound of the legion’s advance.
And I squeezed my eyes shut.
Knowing I couldn’t survive this.
“Screeeeeee….”
A mournful cry echoed out.
The Luna Team watching this spectacle felt their skin crawl as they swallowed hard.
He really did it alone.
He succeeded in a Raid on his first attempt, and completely solo.
The shock that what he’d shown them wasn’t even his full power had long since faded.
That such strength was possible at this level.
That he could already succeed in solo Raids.
And how much time had passed?
When the mournful cry finally ceased.
Countless system messages appeared.
[Raid Boss, ‘Wind Watcher, Anemor’ has been vanquished.]
[Level Up!]×6
[You have reached Level 64.]
[You have reached Level 60. A new skill for 『Overload』 has been unlocked.]
[You have acquired the Legendary-grade skill, 『Torrential Blood』.]
[Contribution exists for only a single individual.]
[Classified as a solo raid.]
[You have defeated it solo.]
[Rewards have been enhanced.]
[This is your first defeat of this boss.]
[Rewards have been enhanced.]
[Defeat rewards have been granted.]
[As this is a solo raid, all rewards have been granted to the user 『Yoo Sung-hyun』.]
[As a defeat reward, you have acquired the Unique-grade set item, 『Watcher of the Wind Set』.]
[As a defeat reward, you have acquired the Unique-grade item, 『Skill Book – Summon Storm Spirit』.]
[As a defeat reward, you have acquired the Unique-grade item, 『Essence of Wind』.]
[You have defeated the raid boss.]
[You have acquired the title, 『Novice Raider』.]
[You have defeated a raid boss solo.]
[You have acquired the title, 『Prodigy Raider』.]
[You have become the first to defeat the raid boss, 『Anemor, Watcher of the Wind』.]
[You have acquired the title, 『Anemor Slayer』.]
Extraordinary rewards, all of them.
Yet as if that weren’t the main attraction, I gazed upon Anemor’s corpse.
Though no mark appeared indicating I could raise it with the Death Legion.
A mark did appear—one allowing me to transfer the corpse to the Underworld.
-Screeeee?!
Observing the spectral hawk circling the body, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the corpse itself, I smiled with satisfaction.
‘This pleases me greatly.’

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