The Mage’s Nemesis Has Reincarnated - Chapter 216

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The Natural Enemy of Mages Has Been Reincarnated – Episode 216
[To enter the Demon Realm, you need a special form of energy….]
“What kind of energy?”
[It’s called ‘Tara’.]
“What is Tara?”
[It is the energy consumed when wielding the special power of a god.]
“So, you possess this Tara?”
[I do….]
“And you think it’s a waste to use it for opening a dimensional gateway?”
[….]
Silence was affirmation.
Seeing him unable to hide his reluctant expression, I’d struck a nerve.
Shing—
Zeke McLafflin’s Dark Aura Blade aimed at Hebriel’s throat.
“You have no choice. Open the dimensional gateway to the Demon Realm. Unless you want to experience that kind of agony again. Or better yet, I could just kill you here. I’ve slain enough Lich Dragons to fill a truck with their corpses.”
[Y-you slew a Lich Dragon?]
“Yeah. I sever souls along with bodies.”
A matter-of-fact confession of murder.
But it was certainly persuasive.
It moved even the Celestial Sovereign’s body.
[Ah, very well. I shall prepare it at once….]
For the Celestial Sovereign, the fact that the painstakingly gathered Tara would be spent merely facilitating a human’s dimensional crossing was bitter indeed.
‘But it’s not worth more than his life.’
Just as Zeke had anticipated, the Celestial Sovereign obediently gathered his energy.
It wasn’t mana, nor the divine power he’d been using moments before.
It appeared he was drawing upon this energy called Tara.
A moment later.
Riiiiip—!
Something tore with a sound, and a hole opened in the empty air.
The expanding aperture gradually widened until it was large enough for a person to pass through.
[It is open. The path to the Demon Realm.]
“You’re certain about this? This isn’t leading somewhere else entirely?”
[I am certain. I do not speak falsehoods.]
Observing carefully, there was no deception.
My Eye of Truth confirmed it as genuine.
But since trust was impossible, I merely nodded.
“You go first. Then I’ll follow.”
[Ah, understood.]
The Celestial Sovereign stepped into the aperture.
The moment he did, Zeke followed right after.
The two of them entered, and moments later.
The rift in space sealed itself in an instant.
As if nothing had happened.

* * *
Upon the scorched earth of the Demon Realm, where flames roared skyward.
Thud!
Zeke McLafflin’s foot came down.
‘Is this the Demon Realm? It feels like I’ve stepped into a sauna.’
Before Zeke stood Hebriel, who had led the way, his expression troubled.
[I was never meant to set foot upon this land. Therefore, I shall depart at once.]
As Hebriel attempted to leave using an energy called Tera, Zeke blocked his path.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
[Why do you obstruct me? I have upheld my promise and brought you to the Demon Realm. There is nothing more between us, is there?]
“That may be true, but you still have a debt to pay.”
[A debt? What crime have I committed….]
“The Heavenly Demon War. That’s your handiwork, isn’t it?”
Zeke had reasoned it through.
If there was someone who orchestrated and allowed the Heavenly Demon War to unfold, it would surely be Hebriel, the king of the Celestial Realm.
His suspicion proved accurate—Hebriel’s shoulders flinched.
[What are you saying….]
“Playing dumb? You orchestrated and created the Heavenly Demon War. All to alleviate your boredom.”
[Preposterous. I did no such thing. Never.]
Though he feigned innocence, Hebriel did not know.
That no one could lie in his presence.
[The target you are currently observing is speaking ‘falsehoods’.]
A hollow laugh escaped Zeke’s lips as he read the message.
“You claim you never tell lies, yet here you are, doing exactly that?”
[Lies? I speak only the truth….]
“Spare me the bullshit. You bear responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of humans. You acknowledge this, don’t you?”
[I do not acknow—Kugh!]
Zeke’s lightning-swift thrust pierced through Hebriel’s heart.
“Lies to the very end.”
Hebriel’s corpse collapsed upon the Demon Realm’s earth.
As his body transformed into golden dust and dissipated, Zeke watched with cold, unwavering eyes.
[Discovering the method to reach the Demon Realm from Hebriel: Complete!]
[Traveling to the Demon Realm: Complete!]
[Main Quest cleared!]
[You have acquired a new basic skill as a reward.]
The reward was not from killing Hebriel.
Killing him wasn’t part of the Quest requirements.
‘If I let that bastard live, who knows what chaos he’ll unleash on the Human Realm. He needs to pay for the humans he’s slaughtered.’
Once I finished my contemplation, I eagerly awaited the Quest notification to appear.
Now that I understood the Human Realm was in danger, my impatience was unavoidable.
‘Come on, guide me already. Tell me what I need to do in the Demon Realm.’
The moment I pressed the system for answers, hoping that following the Quest’s instructions would grant me passage back to the Human Realm.
[A Main Quest has been generated!]
My eyes widened as the Quest finally materialized before me.
【Main Quest: Assassinate four high-ranking Demons (ranked 62-71)!】
└The Demon Realm is home to countless high-ranking Demons.
└Using the Clairvoyant Eye and Detection Eye skills, locate and systematically assassinate those who disturb the Human Realm.
【Conditions】
└Eliminate Dantalian, ranked 71st
└Eliminate Flauros, ranked 64th
└Eliminate Andras, ranked 63rd
└Eliminate Balak, ranked 62nd
【Rewards】
└Acquire skill ‘Memory Reading’
└Acquire skill ‘Burning Eyes’
└Acquire skill ‘Discord’
└Acquire skill ‘Reptile Dominion’
‘What is this? Now they want me to kill Demons?’
Demons deserved death, certainly, but this wasn’t the Quest I’d anticipated.
My only objective was to return to the Human Realm as quickly as possible.
‘Though the rewards do look quite generous… I gain a skill each time I kill a Demon…’
But how was I supposed to find these Demons?
That part was explained in the Quest details.
‘Use the Clairvoyant Eye and Detection Eye skills to find them?’
I belatedly reviewed the Quest reward I’d received upon arriving in the Demon Realm.
[Basic Skill: Detection Eye]
-Effect: By knowing only a target’s name, you can discern their location. If multiple targets share the same name, the location will be approximate.
-Special Note: Activate by closing your eyes and chanting the trigger phrase. When observing the target, additional character information appears.
‘I can pinpoint a location just by knowing a name?’
The gloves I currently wore possessed a function called [Earthen Tracking].
By visualizing a target’s face, it reads the flow of earth and reveals their location.
‘But unlike this skill, I can’t pinpoint a location with just a name.’
Considering that distinction, this was an excellent skill.
All the information I possessed about Demons was limited to their names.
The only drawback was that the skill provided only approximate locations, likely due to the possibility of duplicate names.
‘I have no choice. All I know right now are their names.’
I closed my eyes and chanted two activation words, hoping there were no duplicate names in the Demon Realm.
The Quest system said to use it together with Clairvoyance, so there had to be a reason.
‘Clairvoyance, Eye of Detection.’
The moment I activated Clairvoyance, my perspective shifted from first-person to third-person.
‘So that’s what the top of my head looks like.’
While I was making this idle observation.
[Please think of the name of the target you wish to find.]
A message appeared, so I recalled a single name.
‘Dantalian.’
Before the name even finished leaving my lips, the background shifted rapidly, and I saw the crown of a Demon’s head.
[High-Ranking Demon – Dantalian]
[Rank – 71st]
[Traits – Thought Reading, Memory Reading]
The moment I saw him, Character Information naturally surfaced in my mind.
Another function of the Eye of Detection skill.
‘I found him already?’
His location was pinpointed with perfect accuracy—confirming there were no duplicate names in the Demon Realm.
‘I’m coming for you soon, Dantalian.’
After deactivating Clairvoyance, I spread the dragon’s wings and soared into the sky, flying in the direction the Eye of Detection guided me.

* * *
‘Ugh, how much longer do I have to stay in this place?’
Dantalian sat alone in a desolate area where not a single Demon could be found.
For several months now.
‘This is all because of that Successor of God, that bastard.’
Dantalian had foolishly manifested in the Human Realm and taken a blade through the heart from someone called the Successor of God.
Returning in a near-death state, he had begun his recovery in this place where Hell Fire burned.
Any other soul would have dissolved and perished in those flames, but as a Demon, he could instead use them to heal his spirit.
‘I’m sick of this, absolutely sick of it. It’ll take several more months before my soul is fully restored.’
He desperately wanted to return to his position as legion commander, but he didn’t know.
He didn’t know that Seire, who had agreed to take command of his legion, had his very soul annihilated by the Successor of God.
Being in such a remote location, he was cut off from outside news, which made it all the worse.
And he was bored—dreadfully, unbearably bored.
“So you’re that bored?”
[Well, yes. I’m bored and—huh?]
Dantalian’s eyes, which had been answering without his own awareness, slowly turned to the side.
[Kyiiieeeek!]
The human who had brought him to this place stood before him like a ghost.
[Y-you, the Successor of God? Why are you here…? Oh, I see! I must be hallucinating…]
“You’re not hallucinating.”
Zeke approached calmly and conjured a Dark Aura Blade.
“Last time, I didn’t finish the job properly. I’ve come to complete it.”
Before Dantalian could even cry out,
Thwack!
Zeke’s blade pierced straight through his heart.
[Kugh….]
I watched Dantalian’s soul dissipate completely with cold, unwavering eyes.
‘Now, the next target is….’
My body shot upward rapidly as I confirmed my next target.

* * *
[This bastard!]
Crack!
“Ugh!”
[Can’t you do your job right?]
Balak, ranked 62nd among the high-ranking Demons, tormented a human soul today as well.
There wasn’t any particular reason for the torment.
Beating humans simply relieved some of his stress.
The reason someone of his standing in the Demon Realm felt stressed was simple enough.
‘Damn it. Why does the Demon Lord only give the interesting missions to others?’
He was bitter about being excluded from the Heavenly Demon War event.
‘Only demons ranked 65th and below are participating in the preparations for the Heavenly Demon War. No matter how I think about it, that’s unfair.’
It would have been better if he’d been included as well.
He couldn’t understand why higher-ranked demons weren’t being used.
Of course, he couldn’t exactly call rank 62 a high rank.
Regardless, here he was in this tedious Demon Realm, reduced to tormenting humans.
Crack! Crack!
[Work! Work! Get up and work, you wretched insect!]
I lashed out at the human soul indiscriminately to relieve my stress.
Watching the creature cower like a worm and tremble in agony did ease some of my frustration.
But only some, truly.
‘Damn it. Is there anything interesting to do?’
“Looking for something interesting?”
A human voice suddenly reached my ears.
I reflexively turned my head, my eyes widening in shock.
[A…human?]
I had discovered a living human.
“What? Never seen a human before?”
[H-how did you get here…?]
Even seeing it with my own eyes, I couldn’t believe it.
The living human was unmistakably evident—the aura radiating from this being bore a distinctly different hue than the translucent soul I’d just lashed moments before.
[How did a human even get here?]
“How? I flew here.”
[What?]
In the span of that bewildered instant.
Thwack!
[Gasp!]
Closing the distance in a blink, I drove my Dark Aura Blade straight through the demon’s heart.
[Rank 71 Demon, Dantalian—Eliminated!]
[Rank 64 Demon, Flauros—Eliminated!]
[Rank 63 Demon, Andras—Eliminated!]
[Rank 62 Demon, Balak—Eliminated!]
[Main Quest Cleared!]
[You have acquired a new basic skill as a reward.]
With Balak as the final high-ranking demon to fall, I swiftly cleared the Quest.
‘Now hand it over. The next Quest.’
Gazing into the void, I desperately hoped that a Quest leading to the Human Realm would finally appear.
[A Main Quest has occurred!]
The Quest I’d anticipated materialized.

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