The Mage’s Nemesis Has Reincarnated - Chapter 189
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The Natural Enemy of Mages Has Been Reincarnated – Episode 189
‘Phew, I made it in time.’
Zeke teleported to the coordinates he’d been given.
As a result, I arrived at the location where Ethan and his family were.
I had traveled from the Eastern Continent to the Southern Continent in a single leap.
‘Fortunately, no one appears to be injured.’
Father had nearly been hurt, but by cutting off magical power early, I managed to prevent disaster.
That Ethan had earned my wrath was merely a bonus.
‘Give me the Quest already. I’m going to kill this bastard.’
How dare he endanger our family?
Did the system understand the fury grinding through my teeth?
Right on cue, a Quest descended.
【Main Quest: Prevent Ethan’s Massacre!】
└The Frost Pioneer Ethan Arctos is slaughtering innocent citizens of the Ber Kingdom and threatening your family.
└Eliminate him and prevent this needless carnage.
【Conditions】
└Eliminate Ethan Arctos
【Rewards】
└Acquire Skill ‘Glacier Path’
└Acquire Item ‘Frost Bracelet’
The moment I saw the Quest, I smirked.
‘Yes, this is what I’ve been waiting for.’
Unaware that my smile dripped with murderous intent, Ethan grinned back at me.
What was so amusing to him?
Reading his true thoughts revealed the answer.
‘That device can suppress magical power within a 30-meter radius?’
It wasn’t just magical power.
The device in his other hand could suppress aura as well.
‘So that’s how he managed to face so many people alone.’
Four individuals estimated to be Grand Aura Masters, three Ninth-Circle mages, and two Eighth-Circle mages—nine in total.
Even fighting one against nine, Ethan hadn’t sustained a single wound.
It was thanks to those devices he possessed.
The source of his confidence.
“So you’re the one? The Divine Descendant, Zeke.”
“You know my face?”
“I confirmed it from a portrait beforehand. At least I should know the face of my target before I kill him, shouldn’t I?”
“Kill me? You?”
“Heh heh, that’s right! I’ve been so eager to see you! What kind of person is this famous figure who toys with the Pioneers? And whether these devices will work on you!”
Ethan spread both arms wide as he spoke.
Rectangular controllers were held in both his hands.
A confident smile played at the corners of his mouth.
‘I’ve encountered that famous descendant of a god, but I’m not intimidated. I have Decarabia’s device after all!’
He actually considered himself fortunate.
To meet him while testing the device.
‘This was always meant to be a test to kill that bastard anyway. In a way, I’ve saved time.’
Ethan was certain of it.
With this device, he could easily kill a descendant of a god.
“I prepared a gift for you! I wasn’t sure what you’d like, so I made two!”
Ethan waved the devices in both hands, speaking as if to provoke.
“Curious what they are? Hm?”
“I know what they are. Devices that block mana and aura respectively.”
“Huh?”
‘Ah, he knows?’
How did he know?
Ethan was taken aback, but quickly regained his composure.
That wasn’t the important thing right now.
“Ha, you fool. You approach me knowing that? Have you gone mad wanting to die so badly?”
“You’re the one who’s gone mad. How dare you touch our family? Are you so desperate to walk the path to the underworld?”
“Fine, you’re angry. I understand your feelings. But shouldn’t you consider the situation before getting angry? These devices prevent you from doing anything right now.”
As Ethan waved the devices, Zeke chuckled softly.
‘This bastard is completely reassured thinking aura and magic are blocked.’
Aura and magic were indeed blocked.
I tested them just in case, but neither activated.
‘But basic skills are still functioning.’
Only aura and magic were sealed; all the skills I had learned previously operated normally.
The hunter’s senses I felt right now were proof of that.
Mind reading was still working too.
Most importantly, the source of my explosive power wasn’t aura.
It was stats exceeding ten thousand.
‘Even with aura and magic blocked, my stats remain.’
Moreover, my overall strength was amplified by the Magi, and I still had dragon tongue skills.
I had more than enough ways to kill Ethan.
Unaware of this fact, he mistook my composure for mere bluffing.
“Pretending to be relaxed won’t help. You’re already a dead man.”
“But you’re also in a state where your mana is blocked, aren’t you? We’re both ordinary people now, aren’t we?”
That was true.
Ethan’s mana was also blocked by me.
He had no room for laughter either.
Yet Ethan smiled with complete confidence.
“Idiot. Did you think I’d come without considering that? I prepared for the possibility of facing you.”
Ethan tucked the devices into his pocket, then retrieved something else from behind his back.
A crossbow.
*Click.*
“You’re as good as dead. Your entire family too.”
On the Pangaea Continent, crossbows were formidable weapons.
In modern terms, they posed a danger equivalent to firearms.
Of course, shields and armor could deflect them easily enough, but against an unprotected body, they were devastatingly lethal.
“You didn’t expect me to bring this, did you? Hehehehe.”
“Ugh… I’ve never seen such an idiot.”
“Pretending to be calm when you’re clearly flustered. Or perhaps you’re underestimating the crossbow’s power? If it’s the latter, allow me to demonstrate.”
Ethan leveled the crossbow at Zeke.
“The skill of this master marksman.”
*Twang!*
The bolt launched before he’d even finished speaking.
Had armor or a shield been in place, it would have posed little threat.
But for an unprepared civilian to evade a bolt through movement alone was nearly impossible.
The human body was neither stronger nor more agile than beasts.
Dodging a bolt traveling at sixty meters per second without using aura was extraordinarily difficult.
Yet Zeke managed it.
Effortlessly.
*Whoosh.*
“Huh, you dodged? Care for another?”
At that moment, Ethan attributed it to luck.
But then.
*Whoosh! Whoosh!*
When coincidence repeated itself twice, three times, his expression hardened inevitably.
He was evading every bolt with the most economical of movements.
“How… how are you dodging?”
“How? I just watch and move. What’s so difficult about that?”
Difficult indeed.
The words nearly escaped Ethan’s lips, but instead he fired bolt after bolt.
*Whoosh!*
‘He dodged again, the crazy bastard.’
Before becoming a mage, Ethan had earned the reputation of a master marksman, skilled enough in archery to be renowned.
Even for a novice, missing a target mere meters away was inconceivable.
‘We’re not even dozens of meters apart—how is he possibly evading?’
Zeke walked forward with a smile.
Ethan continued firing bolts to prevent his approach.
But not only did Zeke evade with animal-like instinct, he caught the incoming bolt with his bare hand.
*Snap!*
As I snapped the crossbow bolt in half, Ethan’s face went pale with shock.
“W-what? How are you moving so fast? You can’t even use an aura!”
“I can’t. But I’ve got more than enough strength to kill trash like you.”
“Y-you bastard!”
Ethan rapidly reloaded, determined to land a hit at any cost, unleashing a barrage of bolts.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
I dodged them all and closed the distance in an instant.
“This kind of dangerous weapon isn’t a toy for children to play with.”
Snap!
I swiftly snatched the crossbow from his hands and crushed it beneath my foot.
Crack!
Then I fixed him with a predatory glare.
The killing intent in my eyes froze Ethan’s entire body.
“You slaughtered innocent villagers, tried to murder my own family. You Pioneers are absolutely insane.”
“W-wait. Just hear me out. I didn’t want to do this….”
“You should be begging for forgiveness, and all you can manage is excuses? It’s pathetic.”
I let out a hollow laugh and raised my fist.
“P-please….”
Ethan tried to say something more, but he never got the chance.
Boom—!
A deafening explosion erupted with a cloud of dust, as if a bomb had detonated.
* * *
At first, Crious was consumed by worry.
Zeke’s sudden arrival was welcome, yet it filled me with dread.
The Frozen Forerunner I was facing was a monster capable of severing both aura and magical power.
That’s why I had intended to warn him to retreat.
Even we Grand Aura Masters couldn’t land a single blow—how could Zeke’s appearance possibly change anything?
But the two exchanged words, and soon Ethan produced a crossbow.
‘Why a crossbow instead of magic?’
The question arose from not knowing that magic had been blocked.
‘Zeke is in danger. I must help him immediately!’
Since Ethan had his back turned, couldn’t I approach carefully from behind?
With that thought, I glanced at the lords surrounding us.
“All of you, lend me your aid. My disciple is in peril.”
“Your disciple? Since when do you have a disciple?”
“That boy over there is my disciple. Now that his attention is divided, this is our chance. Will you help?”
“There’s no need to help.”
Watching the Cold-Blood Lord refuse, Crious furrowed my brow.
He wouldn’t help even after I revealed he was my disciple.
My face flushed crimson as anger surged within me.
“You won’t help? What kind of—”
“No, look over there. Iron-Blood.”
“Look at what—”
Crious turned my gaze, then fell silent at the sight before me.
Though the aura was surely severed, Zeke was evading the bolts with movements that defied reason.
‘How… how is this possible?’
Even for those as trained as us, dodging bolts at such close range was impossible.
We were called superhuman only because we wielded the power of aura.
But what came next was far more astonishing.
Boom—!
“Gasp!”
“What, what is that!?”
“Impossible!”
Shock flooded the eyes of Crious and the watching lords.
Dust erupted as a massive crater materialized before us.
A chasm no human strength could possibly create—all who witnessed it stood slack-jawed.
“The aura was suppressed, yet… how does he possess such power?”
“I have no idea. What in the world is happening?”
Questions piled upon questions.
* * *
My fist, thrown with all my strength, missed Ethan entirely.
Only the unfortunate ground shattered beneath the impact.
Of course, I had missed on purpose.
I needed a sinkhole for what came next.
“U-ugh…”
Ethan, buried in the sinkhole alongside me, trembled violently.
His eardrums had ruptured from the explosion that erupted mere inches away, but that wasn’t the real problem.
“M-monster… it’s a monster…”
Even with my aura suppressed, this was the power I wielded?
There was no other word for it but monster.
I found myself laughing at the situation.
“Monster? I’d call someone like you—a murderer—the real monster here.”
Ethan, deaf from the blast, couldn’t respond, but I didn’t give him the chance anyway.
Thwip!
The feather blade I’d drawn pierced straight through his heart.
[Ethan Arctos eliminated!]
[Main Quest cleared!]
[First reward: New basic skill acquired.]
[Second reward: Item granted. Check your subspace inventory.]
I killed him in one strike, and the quest completed.
But there was a reason I’d created that sinkhole to shield us from prying eyes.
“Imr Imnaij Diénai Isisir.”
I needed to use Ethan as an undead servant.
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Sovietrev
I dont like this. Zeke should’ve tortureed that basterd and played with him more