The Mage’s Nemesis Has Reincarnated - Chapter 162

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The Natural Enemy of Mages Has Been Reincarnated – Episode 162
“So you were here after all.”
I found myself genuinely pleased to encounter Lillis Lin again.
Having regretted losing track of her, I decided to use my [Earth’s Tracking] ability to trace her face.
As a result, I was able to meet her like this.
How could I not be delighted to have found my lost prey?
But I did not smile.
The surroundings made it impossible.
Dalpred Bigsland looking exhausted, and my family members trembling uncontrollably.
And even the Holy Knights lying collapsed.
It appeared a fierce battle had taken place.
‘Is Esca Robins… dead?’
Without needing to approach closely and check his breath, I could confirm Esca Robins’ death.
Had he been alive, my hunter’s senses would have detected him.
‘It’s fine. I can simply revive him.’
Dismissing the slave’s death as trivial, I turned my gaze away.
My eyes fell upon fifty Holy Knights.
‘The Archbishop certainly called quite a number.’
Not long ago, when the Archbishop had requested my protection in the Braham Kingdom.
I had imposed one condition of my own.
―The Forerunners may target my family. So, would you send some guards to protect the McLafflin Family in the Decan Kingdom?
―You’re saying you’ll let me protect you if I just do that?
―Yes. I need nothing else.
―Then so be it! It’s hardly a difficult request.
In truth, I hadn’t expected much.
I had merely called them as additional reinforcements, just in case.
‘But I never imagined he’d send this many.’
I had heard of the Holy Knights’ formidable reputation.
An armed force composed entirely of Aura Masters.
It seemed the Archbishop’s authority was sufficient to mobilize this many.
‘Esca Robins held out well nonetheless. He protected my family even at the cost of his own life.’
Though satisfied, my gaze toward Lillis Lin was far from kind.
She had killed my prized slave, wasted precious time forcing me to come here, and dared to touch my family?
My murderous gaze fixed upon Lillis Lin.
She had been struggling to transform into lightning this entire time.
But it was futile.
I was absorbing her mana the moment she gathered it.
“You won’t do. How dare you target my family?”
“You… How exactly are you absorbing mana…?”
Lillis Lin, who had only heard rumors of the Divine Descendant’s power, was bewildered by experiencing it firsthand.
“Gasp!”
But what truly startled me was my own speed.
Whoosh!
The man who had been ten meters away closed the distance in an instant.
Crack!
“Ugh!”
His front teeth shattered, blood spraying across the ground.
Thud! Thud!
The barrage of punches shattered his cheekbones, and his vision swam.
“You’re not collapsing yet.”
I seized Lillis Lin’s falling arm and snapped it without hesitation.
Crack—
“Gaaahhhhh…!”
His arm hung limp.
I did the same to his other arm.
Crack!
Then his knees.
Thud!
And the other knee.
Snap!
A sickening sound echoed as Lillis Lin collapsed like a puppet with severed strings.
“Ugghhhhh…!”
I straddled the broken form of Lillis Lin in an instant.
Thud! Thud! Crack!
No quest notification appeared to kill him.
Yet I continued to pummel Lillis Lin’s face relentlessly.
Fists driven by raw emotion.
There was no other choice—they were my family.
Though I wore a reincarnated body, they were my true parents who had cared for me for seventeen years.
“My family is not something trash like you can touch. Do you understand?”
“Ugh, ugh!”
As I transitioned from punching to strangling, Gerard rushed over frantically.
“Zeke! Stop! You’ll kill him!”
I barely managed to calm myself and turned to face my father.
Gerard’s face, which I hadn’t seen in nearly a year, looked no different than when I left for the successor’s trial.
“Father… are you hurt anywhere?”
“As you can see, I’m fine.”
“Haha, so even a teacher can be worried over by someone.”
Dalpred Bigsland approached with a chuckling laugh.
Behind him, my mother Daina’s worried gaze shone through.
“Zeke… our son….”
“I’m relieved you’re all safe.”
An unexpectedly early reunion with family had come to pass.
I wished we could sit comfortably and chat at leisure, but now was not the time.
“One moment.”
Rising from my seat, I walked toward Esca Robins.
Without being asked, Dalpred Bigsland spoke up.
“He protected us. Even at the cost of his own life.”
“I see.”
“I don’t know why he defected—he once attacked the Royal Palace alongside the Forerunners—but he accomplished something remarkable. It’s only regrettable that things turned out this way.”
“Will you tell him that yourself when he wakes up?”
“Huh?”
In my hand was a leaf of Yggdrasil, which I’d retrieved from my subspace.
I couldn’t let my 9th Circle enslaved subordinate die like this.
A Quest notification had appeared as well.
【Sudden Quest: Save Esca Robins】
└Slave No. 3, Esca Robins, has been sacrificed protecting his family.
└Save him with a leaf of Yggdrasil.
【Conditions】
└Save Esca Robins
【Rewards】
└Random stat increase of 3,000
└6th Circle skill proficiency increase of 15,000
I’d considered reviving him as an undead, but the Holy Knights were watching.
One misstep and I’d be branded a heretic.
‘The system explicitly told me to save him with a leaf of Yggdrasil.’
So I crumpled the leaf and placed it in Esca’s mouth without hesitation.
I felt no regret.
I had five of them in my possession anyway.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, Esca Robins, who had been dying, sat up with his upper body.
Dalpred Bigsland’s eyes widened as if they might burst from their sockets.
“Am I… am I seeing things right now…?”
“What happened to me?”
Esca Robins was equally bewildered.
I let out a soft chuckle and offered him a word.
“You died once.”

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“Then we shall take our leave.”
“Thank you for your assistance.”
“It was the Archbishop’s orders, so think nothing of it. We’ll be going now.”
The Holy Knights nodded in farewell, then turned and disappeared beyond the mansion gates.
‘I made the right call asking the Archbishop for help. Thanks to them, Esca got the opening he needed to counterattack.’
Beside me, watching the knights’ dignified retreating figures with satisfaction, bewildered faces appeared.
My family.
“Zeke… did those men just salute you?”
“Yes. I called them here.”
“What?”
“Is that really true?”
Gerard beside me couldn’t hide his shock either.
“How on earth did you forge a connection with the Holy Empire?”
“I’ll explain that later. First, I’d like to introduce my companions.”
“Companions?”
At my gesture, four members of my group who had been waiting cautiously stepped forward.
Peter, Mary, Carbollearos, and Carse.
“Father.”
“Peter!?”
“Our… our son!”
Christina, seeing Peter, cried out with joy and rushed toward him.
Though he had been driven away to a foreign land, a son was still a son.
“Are you hurt anywhere? Look at how gaunt your face has become.”
“I’m fine, Mother.”
“Zeke. What is the meaning of this…?”
To Gerard’s question, I answered with a smile.
“It’s a long story.”

* * *
A gathering of family members.
Zeke engaged in conversation after so long, catching up on all that had transpired.
“You sought out Peter immediately after the successor’s trial?”
“Yes. I spent two years thinking about what to do, and I became fixated on joining a Mercenary Company. But I didn’t want to go alone, so I went to find my eldest brother.”
The stories that followed were remarkable.
Standing with Hamilton, I fought territorial wars against Agos, and from that point onward, I earned renown as the Sword Mage Zeke.
My connection with the Lord of Hamilton was forged then, and I even encountered a Forerunner named Azrahil Johnston.
It was exactly as I had heard from Deporte Duke.
“How did you come to know the Holy Knights?”
“The Hormos Escort Unit, hired by the Holy Empire, came seeking me. They had heard of my reputation as the Sword Mage and wanted to recruit me as reinforcement. I accepted the proposal and was escorting them when the Forerunners attacked. Fortunately, I was able to protect the Archbishop.”
“So that’s how the connection was formed.”
“Yes, thanks to that, I was able to ask the Archbishop for a favor. I requested that he watch over my family since the Forerunners might pose a threat to us. Fortunately, the timing wasn’t too late.”
I exhaled in relief, but my face was filled with remorse.
“I’m sorry. I’ve caused you all to suffer because of me.”
“Of course you should be sorry. What is this because of you? We nearly all died!”
“Christina!”
Despite my grandmother’s complaint and my father’s attempt to restrain her, my expression remained unchanged.
I was still sorry, after all.
“It’s not wrong. This happened because I failed to properly stop the Forerunners. I truly apologize for that.”
“Don’t say such things, Zeke. How could you have stopped the Forerunners? And you didn’t do it intentionally, did you? It’s those who targeted us that are at fault.”
The family still didn’t know that I could sever magical power.
They seemed to believe I had been able to subdue the Lightning Forerunner only because he was already dying.
‘Well, there’s no need to explain. There’s nothing good that comes from revealing my abilities.’
More than that, my family showed alarm and concern at the mention of the Forerunners targeting us.
The 12 Pioneers had an image like revolutionaries who left their mark on history.
It was far removed from the image of attacking innocent families and committing kidnapping and assassination.
“Why on earth would the Forerunners do such a thing?”
“They targeted our Zeke because he was an obstacle to their plan to kill the Archbishop.”
“Now that I think about it, they attacked the family to use Zeke as leverage.”
“But what do we do going forward? If things continue like this, the Forerunners will keep attacking.”
“First, we need to relocate to prevent this situation from happening again. I know it will be inconvenient.”
“Will that be enough? What if they track down our new location?”
Despite Dalpred’s objection, I simply smiled reassuringly.
“Don’t worry. My allies and I will protect you.”
Though I spoke reassuringly, my family’s eyes still held doubt.
I realized I needed to instill trust in their hearts.
“These two people here are both 9th Circle mages. If you include Esca, that makes three.”
“What?!”
They recognized that Esca was a 9th Circle mage, but these two women here were also 9th Circle mages?
Dalpred and Gerard studied Carbollearos and Carse with keen interest.
An extraordinary magical presence emanated from both of them.
“Zeke, it seems your words were correct.”
“But is it just my imagination, or do I sense draconic power as well?”
“It’s no imagination. They are Draconians, just like me.”
“Draconians?”
Only Gerard and Dalpred knew that I was a Draconian.
But I decided to reveal it.
Right here, in front of Daina, Christina, and Deporte’s Daughter.
‘If I want them to understand the source of my power, I need to be honest about it.’
Given the rumors circulating about me being a Demon Swordmaster, I couldn’t hide this forever anyway.
It seemed far better to use the Draconian identity as justification for my abilities in this moment.
It would also serve as a convenient excuse if anything unexpected happened.
“Ha, Zeke. So there’s another Draconian besides you.”
“I was already shocked to hear there was another 9th Circle mage, but now it finally makes sense.”
“Just how many extraordinary things happened over this past year? And you’ve brought back such formidable allies…”
Everyone’s jaws hung open, but from my perspective, this barely registered as surprising.
‘If they knew I was commanding the Five Lords and the Forerunners as summons, they’d faint dead away.’
As I smirked, another question came my way.
“How did you come to meet this Esca Robins?”
I answered honestly.
I saw no reason to hide anything at this point.
“I met Esca Robins by chance while confronting Azrahil Johnston. When I realized he harbored resentment toward the Forerunners, he chose to join forces with me.”
“But didn’t he appear to assassinate the King before?”
“He wasn’t there to assassinate anyone. Esca Robins was trying to stop Rita the Wind God.”
Once I explained the full circumstances, the misunderstanding dissolved.
“Ah, so that’s how it was. We were the ones who misunderstood.”
“Thank you for standing with us, Esca Robins. It was thanks to your courage that we were able to subdue the Forerunner of Lightning.”
“Courage? You honor me too much. I simply did what needed to be done.”
Esca Robins spoke with humility, but it was the truth.
As my servant, I had merely followed my orders and fulfilled my duty.
“I will speak with my King to clear up this misunderstanding between us. Once that’s done, your name will be removed from the wanted list.”
“Thank you.”
“But Zeke, you looked like you were dying earlier. How did you manage to save Esca Robins?”
“I gave him a leaf from Yggdrasil. It’s a miraculous leaf that can even revive the dead.”
“What! Where in the world did you obtain something so precious?”
“The Spirit King gave it to me.”
“What?”
Everyone stared at me as if asking what kind of nonsense that was.
‘It’s tedious to explain, but… there’s no reason to hide my encounter with the Spirit King either.’
Zeke exhaled inwardly before opening his mouth.
There was a mountain of things he needed to say.

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