The Mage’s Nemesis Has Reincarnated - Chapter 184

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The Natural Enemy of Mages Has Been Reincarnated – Episode 184
Twelve hours earlier.
Terrible news reached the ears of the Warlords.
One of the 12 Pioneers was committing a massacre in the Ber Kingdom.
“Is that truly happening? They’re slaughtering citizens?”
-Y-Yes! Right now in the Capital, they’re killing people indiscriminately, and there’s no one who can stop them!
At the Vassal’s urgent report through the communication channel, Igret, the Warlord of Howling Winds, erupted in fury.
“That damnable Forerunner of Frozen Bonds…!”
“The one who used to stuff his face with ice cream has completely lost his mind!”
“After all that pretense about being Forerunners and whatnot, he’s finally showing his true colors!”
The Warlord of Cold Steel and the Warlord of Immortality, who happened to be present, shared his righteous anger.
“This won’t do. Forget the meeting—I’m going to take that bastard’s head right now.”
“We’ll join you. Howling Winds.”
“Let’s go at once!”
They had been in the midst of discussing how to counter the pressure from the Forerunners, who controlled the world with an iron grip.
In a twisted way, this revelation of true colors was almost welcome.
The massacre of citizens was regrettable, but it had given them justification.
Justification to kill the Forerunners.
The three Warlords rose hastily from their seats and headed toward the Capital of Ber, where the massacre was occurring.
Since they were already holding their meeting in the Ber Kingdom, they didn’t have far to travel.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
“P-Please, save me!”
“Kyaaahhh!”
What they witnessed firsthand was nothing short of pandemonium.
Chunks of ice the size of human heads were falling from the sky, randomly killing the city’s citizens.
There were so many corpses lining the streets that counting them seemed impossible.
It was only natural that Igret’s eyes became bloodshot with rage.
“Nainooooom!!! Forerunner of Frozen Bonds!!!”
“Hmm? Finally arrived? Kehehehe.”
Ethan Arctos, the Forerunner of Frozen Bonds, chuckled and stopped the massacre.
The hailstones the size of heads ceased their descent.
“Why did you take so long to show up? Do you have any idea how many people died because of you?”
“You insane bastard! How could you slaughter innocent citizens like this!”
“You were quiet all this time, but what’s wrong with your head?”
“This psychotic maniac is finally revealing his true nature!”
He threw one remark, and three came flying back at him.
The anger of the Five Warlords who witnessed the scene pierced the heavens.
Especially since they had already recognized the Forerunners as enemies and were in opposition to them.
Ethan merely shrugged with an unbothered expression.
“Don’t get so worked up. When you think about it, it’s not really my fault.”
“What?”
“I had no way to call you, so I had no choice but to resort to drastic measures. If you’d come faster, fewer citizens would have died.”
“You’re completely insane!”
“I shall sever your head and appease the spirits of the fallen!”
Three Warlords conjured Aura Blades and simultaneously struck the ground.
There was no need to listen to such absurd excuses any further.
“Summary execution on this spot!”
Three of the only five Grand Aura Masters in existence charged forward, bloodlust radiating from their forms.
It was a situation that would freeze anyone in terror, yet Ethan remained unmoved.
Unmoved and utterly composed.
‘I have a trump card, after all.’
Ethan raised a rectangular rod.
It was a suspicious weapon, but the Warlords paid it no mind.
They were mere seconds away from tearing Ethan apart.
They had absolute faith that his limbs would be shredded by their Aura Blades.
Yet all such confidence evaporated the moment Ethan pressed the rod’s button.
Zzzzzzzzzzzt—
“Ugh.”
“What, what is this?”
“Argh!”
The Warlords, who had charged forward with ferocious momentum, suddenly halted as if brakes had been applied.
The Aura Blades in their hands vanished like mirages.
The Aura that had been churning throughout their bodies retreated to their dantians and refused to emerge.
For some reason, their Aura manipulation had been completely severed.
‘This… this is bad.’
Even amid the confusion, Igret sensed it instinctively.
At this rate, they could not defeat Ethan.
The other Warlords were no fools either—they grasped the gravity of the situation.
‘That… that button he just pressed has caused something wrong with our bodies.’
‘If… if Aura cannot flow throughout our bodies, we cannot exert power beyond that of ordinary humans.’
With their Aura blocked, they were nothing more than exceptionally fit ordinary people.
Knowing this truth better than anyone, their expressions hardened.
“Look at them. Why did they charge forward only to suddenly stop? Did something happen to their bodies?”
Ethan, infuriatingly composed, twirled the rod in his hand.
“Could it be because of this? Is your Aura manipulation blocked because of this thing?”
“You… where in the world did you obtain such an object?”
“Want it back? Press the button again and it’ll be released. Want me to release it?”
Ethan spoke in a taunting manner, grinning wickedly as he waved the rod before the Warlords.
Like dangling a treat before a dog.
“Take it if you can. Here it is.”
At those words, the trembling Warlords rushed forward without hesitation.
But their speed was nothing compared to before, and Ethan had more than enough time to defend.
Crash!
“Ugh!”
“Cough!”
An ice barrier erupted from beneath the ground, forcing the Warlords to retreat hastily.
Igret managed to dodge, but the other two Warlords suffered deep lacerations across their chests from the barrier’s razor-sharp edges.
The sharpness even tore through their armor.
“Did you really think you could take it from me? Pathetic fools.”
“Ugh…”
“Hahaha, the legendary Five Warlords—the only five on the entire continent—reduced to trembling wretches weaker than commoners. So this is what it felt like for a descendant of the divine? How utterly boring. How absolutely tedious! Hahahaha!”
Ethan, intoxicated by the immense power he had gained, laughed loudly.
The Warlords had only one choice left.
Retreat.
Ethan hadn’t expected them to flee so shamelessly, and he stared at the escaping Warlords with a darkened expression.
“Hey, you cowards! You’re running from me?”
Incredulous, Ethan conjured multiple chunks of ice in the air.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Crack! Crack!
“Ugh!”
“Gasp!”
The rapidly flying chunks pierced the backs of the fleeing Five Warlords like arrows.
The impact was so devastating that the armor on their backs crumpled inward.
The fallen Warlords groaned as they struggled to their feet.
If they collapsed here, they were as good as dead.
“Idiots. Once I’ve marked you, you’re already dead. Why do you even bother struggling?”
Ethan mocked them while conjuring more ice chunks.
Crack! Crack!
Crack! Crack!
“Ahhh!”
“Ugh!”
He could kill them in one strike, but where was the fun in that?
When would he ever get another chance to toy with the legendary Five Warlords?
‘It’s like playing with insects. Hehehehe.’
Just as he had once plucked the limbs from insects as a child for amusement, Ethan toyed with them purely for entertainment.
Until Igret launched his surprise attack.
Whoosh!
The Warlord of Cold Steel, the one in the best condition, suddenly slashed at Ethan’s back with his beloved blade, Brimanta.
However.
“What do you think you’re doing?”
Not even a hair’s breadth of damage marred the dark-haired Ethan’s back—the attack was simply deflected away as though he were impervious to harm.
Ethan had activated a protective enchantment that hardened his skin to the consistency of ice, precisely for moments like this.
“A valiant attempt. To slip from my sight and launch a surprise attack in the blink of an eye—impressive, but.”
Crack!
“Gahhhhh!”
An ice spear materialized in an instant, piercing through Igret’s flank.
“How dare an ordinary human without even an aura dare face a 9-Circle mage? Hmm?”
Though suddenly classified as a mere commoner, I felt no anger.
The biting cold and searing pain made Igret’s body convulse uncontrollably.
“I suppose the test is complete. Shall I proceed with the execution?”
This slaughter had been orchestrated from the start to verify whether the aura suppressors functioned against the Five Warlords.
At this point, eliminating them all and returning posed no complications.
As I prepared to finish the matter with that thought—
Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting!
Dozens of arrows descended upon my back.
Though my ice-hardened skin left them without so much as a scratch, the nuisance was undeniable.
“What wretches are these….”
Turning my head, I caught sight of hundreds of soldiers assembled before me—a sight that could not conceal my astonishment.
Though astonishment gave way to something closer to exhilaration.
“So you bastards finally mobilize a proper military force? Ha.”
I had already annihilated the capital’s security forces along with its citizens.
This was my first encounter with an army composed of multiple aura users and battle mages.
“Come then. Let me show you exactly how—”
In that instant, I recalled two figures I had momentarily forgotten.
“Damn it.”
The Warlord of Cold Steel and the Warlord of Immortality had vanished from sight—fled to who knows where.
My distraction had afforded them the opportunity to escape.
“Did you think I wouldn’t be able to hunt you down—”
“All forces! Charge the accursed mage!”
“Raaaaahhhhh!”
Hundreds of Ber’s soldiers surged toward me.
In that chaos, Igret seized his chance and fled.
Dragging his wounded body, he made for none other than the Baiso Kingdom.
‘I m-must inform the Iron-Blooded Lord of this at once—’
Igret had nowhere else to turn for aid.

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“Gah—!”
Ethan realized Igret had fled only after he’d severed the last soldier’s breath.
“Damn it. I had them cornered and let every last one slip away.”
He’d crippled them using the Aura Suppressor he’d received from Decarabia, but while dealing with Ber’s army, they’d all escaped.
“Hell. Stella’s going to have my head for this….”
Ethan’s purpose wasn’t merely to test the Aura Suppressor—he’d also intended to eliminate Omang Sung, who’d been a thorn in his side all this time.
Letting them slip away due to his own carelessness from reveling in power was entirely his fault, with no excuse to be made.
“I have to find them. Next time, I’ll kill them the moment I locate them.”
But how was he supposed to find those who’d fled?
Moreover, now that they’d escaped the thirty-meter range of the Aura Suppressor, they were undoubtedly soaring through the air using their Aura by now.
No way to find them, no way to catch them—a hopeless situation.
Yet the answer lay closer than he thought.
‘If I massacre another city, they’ll crawl right out, won’t they?’
The image of a Forerunner he’d cultivated all this time would crumble to dust, but it hardly mattered.
Time was running out now, and Stella had ordered him to reveal his true nature anyway.
Besides, weren’t there only four Forerunners left?
It was better to accelerate preparations for the Heavenly Demon War before their numbers dwindled further.
“Which city should I visit this time…? Should I slaughter all of Ber’s citizens while I’m at it?”
As Ethan contemplated killing tens of thousands of civilians, a thrill spread across his face.
Perhaps he’d carve his name into history itself.
Ethan Arctos, the greatest mass murderer of all time.
“Just imagining it sends shivers down my spine.”
Laughing like a madman, Ethan soon changed locations.
Leaving hundreds of corpses behind.

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“If we teleport from here, we won’t be caught by the sea’s interference barrier.”
“Then let’s go immediately.”
“Yes. The coordinates are….”
Zeke McLafflin, who had arrived at the Port City at the edge of the Baiso Kingdom, received the coordinates and prepared for teleportation.
At last, the time had come to depart for the Eastern Continent.
‘Where should I go….’
Then, a Quest appeared that made him doubt his eyes.
[An Emergency Quest has occurred!]

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