The Mage’s Nemesis Has Reincarnated - Chapter 214

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The Natural Enemy of Mages Has Been Reincarnated – Episode 214
[This… the Human Realm?]
[Can’t we go to the Human Realm if a dimensional Gate opens?]
[R-right. That’s how the Heavenly Demon War happens too.]
At the muttering Celestials’ words, Zeke furrowed his brow.
He already knew that opening a Gate would allow passage to the Human Realm.
“That method requires sacrificing the humans on the surface! I’m asking for a different way!”
[U-um… if there’s another method…]
[I don’t know…]
[P-perhaps the Heavenly Sovereign might know…]
The Heavenly Sovereign.
Just as the Demon Realm had a Demon King, the Celestial Realm had a Heavenly Sovereign.
‘If it’s the Heavenly Sovereign, they might actually know something.’
That was when it happened.
[Obtained clue for traveling to the Demon Realm!]
[Sudden Quest cleared!]
[Reward: Random Stats increased by 10,000.]
[Reward: 7th Circle Skill Proficiency increased by 20.]
The moment the sudden Quest was completed.
【Sudden Quest: Finding the Heavenly Sovereign】
└The Heavenly Sovereign may possess clues about dimensional travel.
└Go find the Heavenly Sovereign.
【Conditions】
└Find the Heavenly Sovereign
【Rewards】
└Random Stats increased by 10,000
└7th Circle Skill Proficiency increased by 20
A new sudden Quest appeared.
“Speak. Where do I go to find the Heavenly Sovereign?”
The angels fell silent.
Revealing the Heavenly Sovereign’s location to an intruder was a capital offense.
But Zeke’s blade still pointed toward them.
[G-go that way and you’ll find them.]
“Bold of you. Lying even in this situation.”
[…!!!]
The angel’s eyes widened in shock as the lie was immediately seen through.
“I already know where to go. I read your thoughts.”
With those words, Zeke severed the angels’ necks.
Shhwaaaack!
Five heads fell.
It happened in an instant.
‘In the past, those creatures participated in the Heavenly Demon War and slaughtered humans. There’s no reason to spare them.’
Though ordinary civilians bore no guilt, the Combat Angels who participated in the Heavenly Demon War were another matter entirely.
Of course, I couldn’t judge them by human standards, but even setting that aside, leaving them alive would likely expose my position.
If that happened, my search for the Heavenly King would come to nothing.
‘I can’t afford to give them even a shred of hope. I must find the Heavenly King and escape from the Celestial Realm.’
Zeke spread his wings and soared rapidly into the air.

* * *
Hebriel, the King of the Celestial Realm, was living a tedious existence.
‘I seized the throne thinking this Celestial Realm would be more entertaining than the dreary Divine Realm, but….’
All that awaited me on the throne was receiving reports on conditions in various regions, overseeing the training of Combat Angels, and engaging in political discourse.
Utterly monotonous affairs.
‘The only thing remotely interesting would be the Heavenly Demon War.’
The Heavenly Demon War, held on a cycle of three thousand years.
That war against the Demons, my primary adversaries, was the Heavenly King’s sole pleasure and annual spectacle.
When observing war through a god’s eyes, time slipped away without notice.
It was only natural—the sole battle spectacle occurring in this tedious place.
‘To think I can only witness such an entertaining spectacle once every three thousand years… Sigh.’
I wished I could accelerate the cycle, but it was impossible.
There were reasons the Heavenly Demon War’s cycle was set at three thousand years.
‘It’s because the consumption of Tera is far too severe.’
Observing the Human Realm through a god’s eyes required divine energy called ‘Tera,’ and it took three thousand years to accumulate enough of it.
Tera was an energy so difficult to gather naturally that such a timespan was necessary.
‘If I could gather it more quickly, I could shorten the Heavenly Demon War’s cycle….’
It was regrettable, but this Heavenly Demon War was more interesting than any before it.
‘Opening the Heavenly Demon War with merely fifty thousand troops? Stuel must be thoroughly insane. Or should I call her Stella now?’
I had assumed she would gather around two hundred thousand and open a dimensional Gate of that capacity, yet she opened one sized for merely fifty thousand.
Of course, the Celestial Forces, victors of the previous Heavenly Demon War, had no troop limitations, so they could field more.
‘Did she lack time to gather human sacrifices? Then why open the Heavenly Demon War so hastily? There should have been ample time to prepare.’
It was puzzling, but there was something even more puzzling.
The gravity field had been applied to the Demons, not the Celestials.
‘I never imagined Stella would prepare such an ingenious device as a gravity field. It was truly astonishing. But I cannot fathom why it was applied to the Demons….’
She had developed a device that crippled her own forces.
I knew she had lost her mind when she betrayed the Celestials and sided with the Demon Realm, but I never expected her to be this insane.
‘Or was this the scheme of the human she was dealing with?’
There was one human who appeared on the Heavenly Demon War battlefield wielding a gravity field.
He seemed like a subordinate based on appearances, but from how Stella screamed while attacking him, their relationship appeared fractured.
‘And there’s one more mystery—Stella’s death.’
Through my divine eyes, I watched as Stella suddenly vanished, consumed by flames as though she were being annihilated.
Even I, the Heavenly King, do not know how or by what means it vanished.
I can only surmise that the human Stella was facing must have employed some technique.
‘What is the identity of that human? It appears they have even reversed the gravitational field to favor the Demon Faction.’
Curious, perhaps, but it was merely a passing whim.
After all, it was irrelevant to me in the Celestial Realm.
‘Regardless, it has been entertaining. This Heavenly Demon War especially so.’
From my divine vantage point, I watched the victorious Celestial Forces advance.
To paint the finale, toward the human cities.
‘Last time they annihilated the Akidelphia Empire. Which kingdom will they destroy this time?’
I was preparing to witness the slaughter, a thin smile playing at my lips.
[Y-Your Majesty! Your Heavenly Majesty!]
At the frantic entrance of my attendant, my brow furrowed like crumpled paper.
They were interrupting my moment of pleasure.
[You fool! Did I not command that no one disturb me during the Heavenly Demon War?!]
[S-Sire, the War is not the issue now. An intruder has breached the Realm!]
[An intruder?]
An intruder capable of entering the Celestial Realm….
[Has a high-ranking Demon invaded?]
[No, Sire. It is a human.]
[A human?]
A scoff escaped my lips at once.
How could a human from the Human Realm possibly reach the Celestial Realm?
They were a primitive species incapable of dimensional travel.
[Stop spouting nonsense and get out of my sight.]
[But, Sire! I speak the truth! Even now, they massacre the Combat Angels at the gates and advance toward this very hall!]
[What?]
I thought them delirious, but the urgency in their expression suggested otherwise.
Hebriel, the Heavenly King, closed my eyes and activated the divine sight.
The omniscient gaze of a third party illuminated the situation within the Heavenly Palace.
‘It is true?’
The gates of the Heavenly Palace lay shattered, and dozens of Combat Angels, including the Gatekeeper, lay dead.
‘Where are they? The intruder….’
As I searched for the intruder’s location with my all-seeing eyes, I ceased the ability’s use.
There was no need to search—they were directly before me.
In the Throne Hall where the royal seat of the Heavenly Palace stood.
[Aahhh! Y-You! You are the one who….]
My attendant could speak no further.
Their neck severed in an instant.
Thud—
The human passed over the fallen attendant, their eyes gleaming with murderous intent as they fixed their gaze upon me.
“So you’re the Heavenly King?”

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Finding the Heavenly Palace was hardly difficult for me.
As I followed the direction the Celestial’s true thoughts pointed toward, a structure resembling a palace came into view.
‘I’ll kill anyone who gets in my way.’
I had no intention of sneaking in.
Even now, at this very moment, the Celestial Forces were marching toward the human cities to orchestrate their finale.
To stop them, I absolutely had to return to the Human Realm, and to do that, I needed to meet this so-called Heavenly King.
‘If I cause enough chaos, the Heavenly King will show himself on his own.’
With that thought in mind, I deliberately charged straight ahead.
[Stop! Who dares enter?!]
[Wait? That’s a human!]
[How did a human even get here….]
[Kill it! The very act of entering the Celestial Realm is grounds for execution!]
Without even needing to provoke them, my opponents drew their blades and rushed at me first.
I had no intention of refusing an offered battle, so I met them with my Dark Aura Blade.
Of course, they were no match for me.
Shing!
[Ughhhh!]
Slash!
[Argh!]
Every time my blade scattered its aura, the Celestial soldiers fell like autumn leaves.
Even when more Combat Angels appeared, the situation remained unchanged.
‘With the set effect that increases my attack power by 300% against the Celestial Forces, this hardly requires any real effort.’
I cut down everyone blocking my path and located the Heavenly King’s position.
I happened to see a servant running, and by reading their thoughts, I could tell.
They were running toward where the Heavenly King was.
‘If I follow that one, I’ll find it. The Heavenly King’s location.’
As expected, a structure resembling the Throne Hall appeared, and I could see a single Celestial sitting upon the throne.
‘So that’s the Heavenly King….’
The presence radiating from them was clearly extraordinary.
They were on an entirely different level from the other angels.
‘The size of those wings, and the magical power I sense—it’s no joke.’
But no matter how much magical power they possessed, they could never match me.
That’s why I allowed myself a moment of leisure.
The leisure to check my Quest.
[Found the Heavenly King!]
[Sudden Quest cleared!]
[You gain 10,000 random stat points as a reward.]
[As a reward, your 7th Circle Skill proficiency increases by 20.]
[A Main Quest has been generated!]
【Main Quest: Use the Heavenly Palace to head toward the Demon Realm!】
└You have encountered Hebriel, the Heavenly King.
└Learn the method to reach the Demon Realm from him and proceed there.
【Conditions】
└Discover the method to reach the Demon Realm from the Heavenly King
└Head toward the Demon Realm
【Rewards】
└Acquire the skill ‘Eye of Detection’
Veins bulged across Zeke’s forehead as I reviewed the Main Quest details.
‘Why does it keep saying the Demon Realm? What I want is the Human Realm!’
An incomprehensible order to go to the Demon Realm.
Naturally, I couldn’t refuse this time either, but before that, I wanted to verify something.
Whether it was possible to reach the Human Realm.
“So you’re the Heavenly King?”
[A human? Did a human really come to the Celestial Realm?]
“Save your surprise for later. I have something to ask you first.”
[Wait, aren’t you that human who was with Stella?]
As he recognized me, Zeke was taken aback instead.
‘That bastard. He’s been watching me?’
I couldn’t read the Heavenly King’s true thoughts.
But from his reaction, I could be certain of one thing.
He had been observing the Heavenly Demon War.
“How do you know me?”
[Well, I was watching. From here.]
It seemed he possessed an ability similar to the Heavenly Sight I had acquired, allowing him to gaze down upon the world below.
[Ha! I saw you activate the gravity field during the Heavenly Demon War and face off against Stella, but then you suddenly vanished. I never imagined you’d teleported here!]
Hebriel, who had been astonished, posed a curious question.
[How on earth did you do it? How did a mere human perform dimensional travel?]
‘Does he not know about the dimensional transfer stone?’
Even the king of the Celestial Realm who gazed upon the world couldn’t know everything, it seemed.
“My question comes first before I tell you.”
[You came all this way just to ask a question? Now I’m curious. Go ahead, human. Ask away.]
“I want to know the method to reach the Human Realm.”
[Hmm?]
The Heavenly King’s expression turned puzzled.
Understandably so.
A human capable of dimensional travel to the Celestial Realm was asking how to return.
In that instant, as if realizing something, the Heavenly King burst into uproarious laughter.
[Hahaha! Don’t tell me you didn’t intentionally cross dimensions? So you’ve been drifting in the Celestial Realm this whole time! Ehehehe!]
The person involved was serious, yet he laughed?
Zeke’s expression turned vicious.
“Find that funny?”
[It’s hilarious! A fool who was forcibly transported across dimensions without understanding why is standing right in front of me!]
“Tell me the method. Unless you want to die.”
[The method to return to the Human Realm, you say….]
Heavenly Palace Hebriel smirked.
[Defeat me, and I’ll tell you.]

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