The Mage’s Nemesis Has Reincarnated - Chapter 188

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The Natural Enemy of Mages Has Been Reincarnated – Episode 188
Cargast wasn’t the only one who failed to react to Zeke’s movements.
Screech!
“Ugh!”
Slash!
“Krrgh!”
The feathered blade wreathed in aura cleaved through the Lich Dragons like tofu.
It appeared as though I was slaughtering humans, but that wasn’t the case.
[Located and eliminated the source of magical energy.]
[Absorbing all magical energy possessed by ‘Karmagnus’.]
[Absorbed 3,643 magical energy.]
[Skill proficiency increased by 3,643.]
[Remaining proficiency until 9-Star achievement: 299,719/300,000]
The magical energy that rose with each kill proved they were unmistakably Lich Dragons.
‘Twenty-five of them? Child’s play.’
That was the moment I was killing the fourth one.
[Lich Dragon Eliminated: 4/25]
[Absorbed 4,028 magical energy.]
[Skill proficiency increased by 4,028.]
[Skill ‘Magical Energy Absorption’ has reached 9-Star achievement.]
[Magical energy detection and absorption range increased: 50m▶60m]
[Daily stat increase limit from magical energy absorption raised: 8▶10]
[7th-Tier Skill awakened.]
Upon reaching 9-Star, I finally awakened the 7th-Tier Skill I’d been longing for.
‘I want to check the skill details, but first—the Quest.’
Having already killed roughly half of them, I continued rushing toward my next target.
The Lich Dragons, cut off from their mana and magical energy, panicked.
They had no way to block or counter my explosive strength fueled by aura.
Everything was sealed off.
All they could do was scatter and hide like insects cowering in a corner.
“Everyone, flee!”
“S-save me! Please!”
Village Chief Eden watched the situation reverse in an instant, his mouth agape without a care for dignity.
‘Lich Dragons who fear not death… are they actually terrified and running away?’
No, more importantly—how is it possible to kill a Lich Dragon?
Why aren’t they resurrecting as they normally do after being struck by a human’s blade?
Questions piled upon questions, but one thing was certain: there was no longer any need to flee.
The tide of victory had turned because of this single human.
Completely.
Crash!
Schwick!
Zeke’s relentless blade continued its work, and before long.
[Lich Dragon Eliminated: 24/25]
Only a single Lich Dragon remained.
The survivor was none other than their leader, Carjephilos.
‘No, my brethren falling so… pathetically.’
Witnessing his kin reduced to motionless corpses struck him with considerable shock.
Though Clifford had warned him beforehand, hearing and experiencing were worlds apart.
‘I couldn’t do anything. Nothing at all.’
The mightiest Lich Dragon on this earth—beings even the dragon lords of magic feared—had been reduced to piles of meat.
Without casting a single spell.
For one who had lived his days in ordinary peace, this was a calamity beyond comprehension.
In that moment, fury surging through him, Carjephilos watched the reaper-like figure of Zeke approaching.
“Human. No—descendant of the gods! Why do you do this to us?”
“Why else would one dispose of garbage?”
“Garbage? You’ve only just met us today—what could you possibly know of us?”
“I know everything, Carjephilos.”
Carjephilos’s eyes widened in shock.
“My name… how do you know it?”
“That’s none of your concern. If you wish to live, speak. Where are the other Lich Dragons?”
At the sight of the blood-stained blade leveled at him, Carjephilos felt something other than fear.
‘This is an opportunity. If I play this right, I might escape.’
He wants information.
That meant with proper negotiation, he could save his own life.
“If I speak, will you spare me?”
“Yes.”
‘Ridiculous, you worm. You actually believe human words?’
Humans were creatures not to be trusted.
Especially not one who had just mercilessly slaughtered his kin before his eyes.
‘I’ll feed him false information and wait for my chance.’
Such was Carjephilos’s thought, but Zeke’s resolve was unwavering.
“Actually, I’ve changed my mind. I’ll just kill you.”
“What?”
Schwick!
Carjephilos’s head tumbled away like a grape from a bunch.
Though the information remained unspoken, not a trace of hesitation crossed Zeke’s face.
‘I already have the information.’
For one who could read minds, extracting information was no difficult task.
A mere few seconds was all it took to lay bare every secret buried deep within the heart.
[Lich Dragon Eliminated: 25/25 Complete!]
[Resistance Forces Dragon Rescue: 50/50 Complete!]
[Main Quest Cleared!]
Upon rescuing fifty Resistance Forces civilians, my Dragon Power stat increased by exactly fifty points.
Along with that came the rewards.
They were dragon tongue skills: ‘Self-Regeneration’ and ‘Hardened Skin’.
But that wasn’t all—the sudden quest reward arrived as well.
[Main Quest Cleared Within One Hour!]
[Sudden Quest Cleared!]
[You obtain teleport coordinates as a reward.]
Now, if I teleport to the location of these coordinates, I can cross directly to the Southern Continent.
To that very place where my family is fighting Ethan.
“I have urgent matters to attend to, so I’ll head out first.”
“Pardon? Zeke, what could be so urgent…?”
“Handle the rest yourselves. I’ll see you later on the Southern Continent, Carbollearos.”
“Ah, y-yes.”
With those words, Zeke stowed the feather sword into subspace and confirmed the teleport coordinates.
Whoooosh!
Where the light burst forth, nothing remained.
He had vanished using teleportation.
“Well, whatever it is, it must be terribly urgent. Though I suppose the silver lining is that he resolved the situation before leaving?”
Carbollearos chuckled softly, but the remaining Resistance Forces members had yet to find their composure.
They simply stared at Carbollearos and Carjephilos with bewildered expressions.
“Carjephilos!”
“Ah, Elder Karcaiden.”
As Eden approached the two men, he gazed at Zeus and Zeki, who sat nearby like criminals.
“Hanson. Treat the children.”
“Are you certain?”
“Yes. The children bear no fault, do they? In truth, our own negligence in allowing matters to reach this point is the greater sin.”
At those words, Zeus and Zeki lifted their heads and wept bitterly.
“Th-thank you… for forgiving us. Sob.”
“Village Chief… wail.”
The Village Chief, smiling with magnanimous grace, welcomed the traitorous children back into the fold.
Carbollearos gazed upon the scene with genuine admiration.
“Remarkable magnanimity. To forgive them despite their betrayal.”
“They are our people—I cannot bring myself to kill them. But I must thank you both. Had you not appeared, we would have been in grave peril.”
“I did nothing. Zeke accomplished it all.”
“Your aura suggests you are of our kind as well…?”
“Indeed. I am Carbollearos, a Gold Dragon.”
“Could it be… the ancient dragon Carbollearos who fought in the Great War three thousand years ago…?”
“You know of me, then.”
“That’s correct. At my age, who wouldn’t know of the ancient dragon who founded the Akidelphia Empire?”
“How old are you, then?”
“I recently crossed seven thousand years.”
“There is a difference between us, I see.”
Carbollearos, who was over eight thousand five hundred years old, was the elder.
“Ancient one. How did you find this place?”
“I was guided here by that man.”
Cardiplian, who had been pointed out, waved his hand with an awkward smile.
“I did volunteer to guide, but I didn’t do much. I simply found the location I remembered from before, and it was Zeke McLafflin who pinpointed the exact position once we arrived.”
“Zeke McLafflin? Who is that….”
“The human you saw a moment ago.”
Carbollearos answered in his stead, and the Village Chief’s eyes widened.
“He found our location…?”
“Yes. He said he sensed a presence nearby and moved accordingly, then pinpointed this location with perfect accuracy. I’m puzzled as to how he can read presences even hundreds of meters away….”
The more I heard, the more astonished I became.
I had cast barriers to hide us from magical detection—how could he have sensed our presence and found us?
“It was also Zeke McLafflin who suggested we rescue the dragon on the Eastern Continent. He freed me from the Lich Dragon Council, and he eliminated over fifty Lich Dragons on the Southern Continent.”
“The Lich Dragons on the Southern Continent are dead?”
“Yes. Thanks to him, countless of my kin were liberated from slavery. It’s all thanks to Zeke McLafflin.”
Karcaiden’s eyes and mouth fell open.
It was hard to believe, yet not impossible to believe.
Had I not just witnessed it with my own eyes?
The way he toyed with the Lich Dragon—a creature I thought undefeatable—as though it were a child’s plaything.
Recalling that power, I could not help but speak with reverence.
“What, what exactly is his identity?”
“He is our savior. The savior who will rescue us and bring peace to the world.”

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Clang! Clang!
Rough blades hammered relentlessly against the ice wall.
Not just one.
The Iron-Blooded Lord, the Sharp-Wind Lord, the Cold-Blood Lord, and the Warlord of Immortality.
Four Grand Aura Masters’ weapons were striking from all sides in perfect harmony.
But blades stripped of their aura were useless.
They couldn’t so much as scratch a magically-constructed wall, let alone breach it.
“Put some real effort into it. At this rate, can you even kill me by today? You’d be better off bringing miners instead. Much faster.”
Ethan, mocking them from within the ice wall, observed the situation with perfect composure.
For the four lords unable to shatter the ice, it was pure torture.
‘Damn it! I never knew being unable to use my aura would be this infuriating. This is absolutely humiliating!’
The other lords had already faced Ethan before, so they understood the terror of aura suppression well.
But for Crious, this was his first time.
The sensation of having his aura suppressed wasn’t merely inconvenient—it was deeply unpleasant.
“Is this primitive method all we can manage? Sharp-Wind?”
“Haven’t you experienced it yourself? When you can’t use aura at all, this is the only option we have!”
Hacking away like miners, applying pure physical force to pressure him.
That was the strategy the Sharp-Wind Lord had devised, and as you could see, it wasn’t working at all.
“Kuhkuhkuh, how pathetic. Four so-called continental champions join forces and can’t even break a single piece of ice? Don’t your pride sting? Hmm? Why not abandon your pride right now and flee? I’ll even give you a special five-second head start. Though it won’t get you far anyway. Kuhkuh.”
The lords being openly mocked bit their lower lips and focused solely on breaking the ice.
But contrary to appearances, shattering the ice wasn’t their only objective.
‘Only by doing this can we keep him from dissolving the ice wall.’
‘If he can’t dispel the wall, he can’t attack either.’
‘The moment we give him an opening to strike, we’re as good as dead.’
Their blade strikes carried a hidden purpose—to bind Ethan’s feet in place.
‘In this window, prepare your magic quickly! Gerard, Dalpred!’
Crious cried out internally, but the mages behind them faced their own predicament.
‘M-my mana won’t gather at all.’
‘What are we to do?’
While the lords kept Ethan occupied, the mages had planned to prepare their spells, but they too found their mana blocked.
The reason was unclear.
All they could assume was that Ethan had pressed another button, suppressing their mana as well.
Crious, glancing back, saw the mages still standing motionless and snapped at them.
“What are you dawdling for? Gerard!”
“Ah, well, for some reason my mana won’t gather.”
“What?”
“Our mana is blocked, just like yours.”
Only then did Crious grasp the situation, his face turning ashen, while Ethan burst into laughter as if the sight was hilarious.
“Puhahahaha! What’s this? I was wondering what you were relying on, and it turns out to be those idiots? Wake up. You were counting on three ninth-circle mages who lost to me? Dream on. They’re in the same boat as you. They can’t use magic either. Because of this.”
Ethan chuckled, waving the suppression device in his other hand.
“This one suppresses aura, and this one suppresses mana. In other words, whether you’re an aura user or a mage, you’re nothing but an ordinary person before me.”
“….”
The Lords were caught off guard by the unexpected turn of events.
Their sword strikes grew sluggish because of it.
“I brought three 9-Circle mages, and now they’re all useless. What should I do? Shouldn’t I call for reinforcements right now? Hmm?”
With hundreds of armies already annihilated, there was no way reinforcements existed.
Everyone simply locked their doors and prayed this calamity would pass quietly.
That was when it happened.
“Fall back! Retreat! The mana suppression likely has a limited range! While we restrain him, snipe him from outside the radius!”
At the cry of the Sharp-Wind Lord, Igret, the mages quickly withdrew.
Ethan was already smiling as if he had anticipated this.
“Did you really think I’d let you do that?”
Ethan swiftly dissolved the ice barrier and glided forward.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The Lords’ blades struck the ground where he had been, but failed to cut him down.
He merely watched the mages being caught up with hollow eyes.
“Peek-a-boo!”
“Gah!”
“Already caught? Now then, shall we stop playing and get to the killing?”
Ethan blocked Gerard’s path and conjured an ice spear in his grasp.
He intended to skewer Gerard, the father of the Divine Heir, first.
Next would be his mentor Dalpred Bigsland, the traitor Esca, an unnamed 9-Circle female mage, and Jose Deporte.
After killing them all, he would slaughter the Lords.
In that brief moment, having formulated his plan, Ethan thrust the spear forward.
“Huh?”
There was nothing in his grasp.
‘I thought I had created the spear?’
He gathered mana again and attempted to form an ice spear.
But for some reason, his mana would not respond.
‘No, surely not….’
A chill ran through Ethan as he spun around urgently.
Standing there was someone he had not anticipated.
The Divine Heir—Zeke McLafflin.

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