The Mage’s Nemesis Has Reincarnated - Chapter 132

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The Natural Enemy of Mages Has Been Reincarnated – Episode 132
There are six types of dragons, each possessing distinct temperaments.
The Red, fierce and savage in nature.
The Black, shrouded in darkness and gloom.
The Green, gentle and benevolent.
The Blue, timid and fragile.
The Silver, cold and aloof.
The Gold, noble and proud.
Carrocksina, the Lich Dragon, was a Gold Dragon.
She regarded herself as the most noble and exalted being, viewing all others as inferior and contemptible.
Which is why this situation struck her as utterly absurd.
‘What did that human just say? That he would beat me?’
In over ten thousand years of existence, I could count on one hand the times a human had dared defy me.
Especially one who would challenge me knowing full well I was a dragon—such audacity was virtually nonexistent.
‘Yet he speaks such words despite knowing I am a Lich Dragon? Ha!’
I could not help but let out a hollow laugh.
But it was only momentary.
Carrocksina’s delicate features twisted into something grotesque.
She was not one to let an insult from a creature as insignificant as an ant pass without consequence.
“Human. Have you lost your mind? Do you even comprehend who I am….”
“Who are you?”
“I am Carrocksina, a Gold Dragon and a Lich Dragon! A being so far above a worthless human that you dare not even gaze upon me….”
Zeke needed no further words. He unclenched his fist and stepped forward.
“I’ve heard the name. Now let’s trade some blows.”
“You ignorant wretch!”
Carrocksina, consumed by rage, gathered her magical power.
“I shall reduce you to ash this very instant!”
But contrary to her expectations, nothing manifested in her grasp.
Not a single spark ignited, so Carrocksina’s bewilderment was entirely justified.
‘What… what is happening?’
There were several reasons magic might fail to manifest, but not this time.
The surrounding mana was abundant, and my own magical power overflowed.
‘Yet my power refuses to gather?’
This had never occurred before.
As I searched for the source of this phenomenon, I caught sight of the approaching human’s expression.
A smirk.
A mocking smile, as if he knew my power could not gather.
Only then did Carrocksina understand the cause.
‘That human… he has severed my magical power?’
Impossible.
There were no traces of Dispel on her opponent.
‘No, it wasn’t Dispel. If she’d used magic, I couldn’t have missed it.’
Dispel was ultimately magic accompanied by mana.
While reading the flow of mana like it was written before my eyes, she used Dispel?
I would have countered it immediately.
Yet without giving me a moment, she severed my mana flow.
No matter how many times I thought about it, it was impossible.
“Curious, aren’t you? Why the master of magic herself can’t use magic. How you cut off mana without a soul knowing.”
Zeke McLafflin had already closed the distance to Carrocksina’s face.
“If you’re curious, I’ll tell you. But in exchange, you have to answer my questions.”
“You’re pushing your luck, human.”
“Sounds like a no. Then I’ll make good on my promise and throw a punch.”
Zeke McLafflin raised his fist.
Carrocksina’s reaction was swift.
Whoosh!
With remarkably nimble movement, she evaded the punch.
“Oh? That’s unexpected. You dodged that?”
Though I’d held back considerably, it was a speed no ordinary human could react to.
I’d naturally expected her to take the hit and go down, so seeing her slip past it effortlessly left me astonished.
But apparently even my surprise was insulting to Carrocksina.
“Pathetic human. How dare you look down on me?”
With eyes wide open, she drew a blade from subspace.
“A sword? You know how to wield a sword?”
“Don’t underestimate me, human. What do you take a dragon for?”
“Just a lizard with a long lifespan, isn’t it?”
“You’ve insulted me again!”
This time, Carrocksina charged first.
The blue rapier flashed like lightning.
Zeke McLafflin likewise drew a feather blade from subspace and parried with ease.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
‘She’s surprisingly strong.’
Her frame appeared delicate and slender.
Yet Carrocksina’s blade carried strength that transcended humanity.
Though aura wasn’t infused into it.
‘Even without aura, she’s skilled enough to rank among the world’s strongest.’
Was it from living over ten thousand years?
With time to spare, she’d apparently honed her swordsmanship to its absolute limit.
The strength flowing from that slender frame was pure physical power, just like mine.
‘But even so, it won’t be enough against me.’
Zeke McLafflin smiled and activated his aura.
And so the battle, which had seemed evenly matched, tilted decisively in one direction.
Clang! Clang! Slash! Slash!
“Ugh!”
I had allowed the human several strikes against me.
A burning pain radiated up from my forearm.
‘This accursed human!’
Carrocksina pressed forward with renewed fury, but only opened herself to more vulnerabilities.
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
“Nngh….”
The longer I fought, the more wounds accumulated on my side.
‘Loath as I am to admit it, I cannot win with the blade.’
Carrocksina could defeat most aura users, but this opponent transcended that category entirely.
‘An intermediate aura master, or perhaps beyond.’
I could not overcome him through force.
And I could not polymorph into my true form either.
Somehow, he was blocking my mana, preventing any such transformation.
Realizing this, Carrocksina fell into contemplation.
Should I resort to the trump card I had been saving to kill him?
‘It will cost me years of my life, but… with magic sealed away, I have no choice.’
Carrocksina began chanting an incantation.
Mana blocked, magic forbidden?
Then I would simply invoke demonic sorcery instead.
With that thought, I tore open a rift in space and thrust my blade within.
And I began the incantation.
But.
“…!!!?”
Carrocksina’s eyes widened in shock.
My prided demonic sorcery—it would not activate at all.
“Something seems to be troubling you?”
Zeke approached with a knowing smile.
And he swung the feather blade.
Thunk.
Carrocksina’s arm was severed cleanly.
A sharp, searing pain shot through me.
“Ahhhhh!”
Another wave of agony followed.
As the opposite arm fell away with another dull thunk, the screams grew louder.
Fear began to seep into Carrocksina’s eyes.
“How does it feel, unable to cast magic or sorcery?”
“Nngh, nnngh….”
Carrocksina, having lost both her arms, finally turned her back.
She chose to flee on her remaining two legs.
But I had no intention of letting the Lich Dragon escape like this.
Whoosh!
I leaped forward to block her path and pierced her heart.
“Gahhh!”
Blood spilled from Carrocksina’s trembling chest.
Her eyes remained wide with disbelief.

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‘It’s absolutely impossible. There’s no way this could happen.’
Carse, the Blue Dragon, didn’t believe in Zeke McLafflin.
She had thought all his talk of historic moments and confident declarations were nothing but bluster.
Human males were the type who puffed themselves up just to boast of their strength.
Carse had seen countless humans perish after spouting such arrogance.
So how could she possibly believe?
‘Just like other humans before him, that man will burn alive in flames….’
Given the pride inherent to Gold Dragons, Carrocksina would never let a human who rashly challenged her go unscathed.
She would kill him as painfully as possible, and it would end as nothing more than a fleeting incident.
‘I’ll just continue this endless, monotonous slave existence….’
Carse sighed at such thoughts, but it was only brief.
Because Zeke McLafflin clashed blades with Carrocksina right before my eyes.
‘What, what is she doing? For Carrocksina, it would be easier to handle this with magic, so why…?’
I knew that a Lich Dragon who had lived for ten thousand years was deeply skilled in swordsmanship.
But why insist on breaking him with a blade?
‘Is she toying with him because it’s been so long since she’s seen a human?’
Yet her swordsmanship was gradually losing ground.
Eventually, she even allowed wounds to her body, her expression twisted in pain.
‘That arrogant Carrocksina actually bleeding. If things go wrong, she might even drop her Polymorph.’
But such a thing never happened.
She never used magic to its full extent.
‘…Is she playing around?’
That was the only conclusion I could draw.
There was no way the Lich Dragon who had tormented me for three thousand years would be toyed with by a mere human.
Soon enough, she would use either magic or sorcery to reduce that human to pulp.
I thought so, but when I saw Carrocksina’s genuinely flustered expression, I reconsidered.
‘Ah. She’s not choosing not to—she can’t.’
Carrocksina couldn’t use magic or sorcery for some reason.
The proof was that both her arms had been severed by the human called Zeke McLafflin.
Even if she were toying with him, she wouldn’t surrender her arms to that extent.
“Ugh, uhhhhh….”
Watching him finally display an expression of fear, Carse couldn’t help but feel a surge of astonishment within.
‘A Gold Dragon, second to none in pride, showing fear before a human….’
As the Tavern Owner collapsed with a blade piercing his heart, Carse was seized by a peculiar exhilaration.
The human had truly delivered on his promise and slain the Lich Dragon.
The dragon who had enslaved me for three thousand years had finally reached the end of his existence.
At last, liberation from servitude.
As proof, the seal that had blocked me from wielding my draconic power was completely lifted.
‘When that creature died, my strength returned to me.’
For Carse, this was a historic day.
And it was that seemingly unremarkable human named Zeke McLafflin who had made it possible.
‘Zeke McLafflin, was it? Are the descendants of gods always this formidable?’
Carse gazed intently at Zeke McLafflin with curious eyes.
All the disillusionment and contempt she had harbored toward humans before had vanished without a trace.
Her eyes were now filled only with admiration and curiosity.
It was only natural.
Among the six dragon species, the Blue Dragon was the most intensely curious creature of all.

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Shing!
I withdrew the blade from the heart and flicked the blood away into empty air with a casual gesture.
The Lich Dragon Carrocksina collapsed to the ground with a look of utter disbelief.
[Lich Dragon Defeated!]
[Main Quest Cleared!]
[You have acquired a new stat: ‘Draconic Power’.]
It had not been a difficult opponent.
Dragons, after all, are beings who rely primarily on magic.
Cut off their mana, and even the mightiest dragon can do nothing but sit idle.
‘My only concern was that the opponent was a Lich Dragon.’
A Lich Dragon is one who has sold their soul to a demon.
I had naturally assumed it would be capable of demonic arts, which my mana absorption skill could not fully block.
‘Of course, I can absorb magic. But I cannot block it entirely.’
However, upon encountering the Lich Dragon, a Quest was triggered that dispelled such concerns.
[Lich Dragon Located!]
[Sudden Quest Cleared!]
[You have gained 1,400 random stat points as a reward.]
[You have gained 70,000 5th-tier skill proficiency as a reward.]
[Skill ‘Magic Replication’ has reached 9-star achievement.]
[The number of learnable spells has increased from 8 to 10.]
[6th-tier skill awakened.]
The awakened sixth-tier skill was simply overpowered.

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