The Mage’s Nemesis Has Reincarnated - Chapter 220

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The Natural Enemy of Mages Has Been Reincarnated – Episode 220
‘Damn it, there’s no choice but to fight?’
Watching myself approach with a terrifying momentum, Zeke steeled his resolve.
‘I must be prepared to be buried here. If I don’t kill that bastard, I die.’
I would mobilize every skill at my disposal to eliminate him.
With my own hands.
Had Zeke’s bloodthirsty thoughts been read?
Choi Kang-jun suddenly stopped in his tracks.
“Hehe, your momentum is impressive. But can you truly stand against me?”
I couldn’t afford to give him time to speak.
With that singular resolve, Zeke activated a skill he had been saving for this moment instead of responding.
【Skill Activated: Limit Release】
The ultimate skill that amplifies all skills by 11 times for twenty minutes.
And on top of that.
“Dragon Embodiment.”
As I activated Dragon Embodiment, my physique swelled and a tail and wings sprouted forth.
[Time Remaining Until Dragon Embodiment Deactivation: 109 minutes 57 seconds]
‘The duration that was originally ten minutes has extended to one hundred and ten minutes.’
Moreover, stats that should have increased by twenty percent surged dramatically by two hundred and twenty percent.
“Dragon’s Wrath.”
Adding Dragon’s Wrath, whose stat enhancement effect had increased to three hundred and thirty percent.
[Strength: 312,008 / Intelligence: 466,897]
[Agility: 312,159 / Stamina: 312,393]
[Recovery: 312,035 / Resistance: 311,320]
All stats soared above three hundred and ten thousand.
An incredible amplification effect!
Yet the opponent before me merely scoffed.
“Limit Release. I created it, and it truly is a broken skill. However….”
‘I can’t give him an opening! He reads minds!’
Zeke explosively closed the distance and raised the Dark Aura Blade.
And brought it down as if to cleave my body in two, but.
Ting!
With a clear sound, the blade struck an invisible wall and bounced back.
“Let me teach you here that the truly broken skill is Ability Absorption.”
A sudden surge of power erupted from Choi Kang-jun’s body.
‘Dangerous!’
Zeke attempted to evade upon sensing the crisis, but even with three hundred and ten thousand agility it was futile.
Boom!
Zeke’s brow furrowed naturally as he was sent flying by the explosion.
【Skill Activated: Fortitude】
‘A single blow triggered Fortitude?’
The skill that activated automatically whenever I felt a powerful external stimulus had just triggered.
It was difficult to imagine just how devastating that damage had been.
‘Actually, this works out perfectly. I’ve gained extreme defensive power for 33 minutes.’
As Fortitude activated, another skill automatically triggered alongside it.
【Skill Activated: Berserk】
Berserk—a skill that increased all stats by 50% for 3 minutes.
‘Thanks to the 11-fold amplification, it increases all my stats by 550% for 33 minutes.’
As a result, all my stats had skyrocketed to 2 million.
A stat threshold that had long since transcended human limitations.
Yet even that was nothing but a drop in the ocean compared to me, who had been tempered through ability absorption.
Ting! Ting! Ting! Tiiing!
Even against Zeke McLafflin’s wild, indiscriminate swordplay that was difficult to follow with the naked eye, I stood at ease.
Since the invisible barrier blocked everything even when I remained still, I felt no sense of danger whatsoever.
“I showed you a glimpse of my power even though you seemed incapable of understanding any explanation, and yet you still harbor hope in that mind of yours. The vain hope that you might somehow win.”
“Shut up! If I could just tear down this barrier…!”
“You think you could wound me? Doubtful. Is it even possible? I suspect you couldn’t inflict a single scratch even if you spent your entire lifetime trying.”
I lifted a finger, my expression dripping with ridicule.
Energy gathered at my fingertip, then pierced through Zeke McLafflin like lightning.
Or rather, it nearly did.
Had he not managed to activate a skill just in time.
Tiiing!
“Interesting. You blocked it with the Protection of the Earth skill. Quite impressive.”
To the untrained ear, it sounded like praise, but Zeke McLafflin knew better.
‘He’s completely mocking me.’
From the moment he could read thoughts, he must have known.
That I would block it with the Protection of the Earth skill.
And yet he still puts on this show of admiration?
What else could this be but mockery?
‘I need to empty my mind as much as possible.’
“That way you can exploit an opening in his defenses. That’s what you’re thinking, isn’t it?”
My face twisted with contempt as I openly read his thoughts and sneered.
I’d never seen my own face look so insufferably arrogant before.
‘Empty the mind. Face him with no-thought, no-self. Purely on instinct.’
Zeke McLafflin, who had been striking the invisible wall, suddenly created distance between us.
“Breath of the Dragon.”
A massive fan-shaped surge of energy shot forward.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Throne Hall trembled and came close to collapsing, but it wasn’t over yet.
In his draconic form, the Breath of the Dragon had no cooldown.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The dragon’s breath, unleashed in relentless succession, reduced the Demon King’s Castle to rubble.
There was no existence that could survive an attack amplified elevenfold.
Or so I thought.
“You’ve turned my dwelling into this mess. Where am I supposed to sleep now?”
Choi Kang-jun, his face unmarred by a single scratch, spoke with a smug grin.
“Ah, that’s right. I could use you as a sacrifice and return to Earth?”
“Serpent Hell.”
The moment the incantation left Zeke McLafflin’s lips, darkness engulfed the surroundings.
Hiss… hiss… hiss…
One by one, serpents emerged from the shadows.
Their numbers easily reached over a hundred.
He had drawn the opponent into his unique barrier, teeming with writhing snakes.
“Still don’t understand? Parlor tricks like this won’t work on me.”
Before the serpents could even strike, Choi Kang-jun swept his hand through the air.
The darkness shattered like glass, and the barrier dissolved.
“Mana Gun.”
Regardless, Zeke McLafflin immediately summoned an enormous cannon and aimed it.
Blast!
Energy that reversed the opponent’s mana struck Choi Kang-jun directly.
Yet again, he remained unscathed.
“How would that work on someone without mana?”
“Dragon Fear.”
Zeke McLafflin’s attacks came relentlessly, one after another.
[The target has resisted Dragon Fear.]
No matter what method was employed.
[Telekinesis does not affect this target.]
[Sonic attacks are ineffective against this target.]
[Mutation does not work on this target.]
[Soul strikes do not affect this target.]
[The future cannot be read for this target.]
Nothing worked against Choi Kang-jun.
His thoughts could not be read, and future sight held no power over him.
“No matter how much you struggle, it won’t work. Still don’t get it? Or do you, but you’re doing it anyway because you have no other choice?”
“That’s right. You’ll never die by my hand. Perhaps instead….”
Zeke McLafflin raised his hand.
Had he noticed the intention to end his own life?
In that instant, Zeke McLafflin’s hand was seized in mid-air.
So that creature possessed a telekinesis skill as well.
“Now, now. You mustn’t take your own life. That would be a terrible, terrible thing to do.”
“Ugh….”
I couldn’t move an inch under the creature’s telekinetic grip.
Here I was, with over two million in Strength stat, yet utterly powerless.
‘Damn it. At this rate, he’ll have his way….’
Choi Kang-jun approached at a leisurely pace, closing the distance until he stood face to face with Zeke McLafflin.
Close enough to touch with just an outstretched hand.
Choi Kang-jun patted Zeke McLafflin’s shoulder—a gesture meant as consolation, though it offered none—and spoke.
“Don’t feel too wronged. At least you’re not dying at the hands of some fool—you’re dying by your own hand. By your future self’s hand.”
“You’re not my future. You’re nothing but a psychopath from another dimension named Choi Kang-jun.”
I growled, but even that posed no threat to Future Choi Kang-jun.
To him, it was merely the cute antics of a lion cub.
“Don’t worry. You only need to endure a little pain.”
Choi Kang-jun began preparing to activate a skill.
“With this, we can become one. Finally, we’ll return home.”
His hand touched Zeke McLafflin’s head.
In that instant.
“Aaaaahhhhh!”
A searing pain, as if my skin were being torn from my body, coursed from the crown of my head to the tips of my toes.
“Just become my sacrifice quietly.”
“Ahhhhhhh!”
I couldn’t hear his words anymore.
Only agonized screams escaped my lips.
“With this, I can finally go to Earth….”
Future Choi Kang-jun’s eyes widened in sudden shock.
A humanoid hologram had abruptly materialized beside Zeke McLafflin.
“You, you are…!”
“Ugh….”
Choi Kang-jun yanked his hand from my head in astonishment, and I forced myself to regain consciousness, turning my head to look.
What came into view was a humanoid hologram with no eyes, nose, or mouth.
[Greetings, everyone. Can you see the hologram clearly?]
“You, you’re Creator God El….”
‘Creator God?’
At Choi Kang-jun’s words, I regained my senses and turned to face the hologram.
The hologram didn’t respond to Choi Kang-jun’s words—it had been pre-recorded.
[This hologram’s activation was contingent on two conditions: Future Choi Kang-jun meeting Past Choi Kang-jun, and Past Choi Kang-jun facing mortal danger. Since both conditions have been met, I can confirm that the two individuals before me are indeed Choi Kang-jun.]
“What, what’s happening? I killed you back then—how are you still…!?”
[Future Choi Kang-jun must be quite flustered right now, I imagine? It’s obvious, really. A god you thought you’d killed has appeared as a hologram.]
El made a gesture that resembled a smile.
[How could the Creator God be harmed by the very system he created? It defies all logic, yet you believed it without question… Committing nothing but massacres has made your mind simple, Future Choi Kang-jun.]
“You, you bastard…!”
Choi Kang-jun’s hand lunged toward the hologram.
Boom boom boom crash!
Dust scattered with the explosion, but the hologram remained unscathed as before.
[You’re under a grave misunderstanding if you think absorbing my abilities meant destroying my physical form. As a spiritual entity, I cannot be annihilated merely by the loss of flesh, can I?]
“You, insane! So you’ve been deceiving me all this time!? Pretending to be dead?”
[You must be curious about what happened. Future Choi Kang-jun. Then allow me to reveal the truth.]
The Creator God, still smiling, continued.
[Creating the fraudulent ability of power absorption was my greatest mistake. I attempted to rectify it, but the system had already fused with the soul—too late. All I could do was send the soul of the human possessing power absorption to another dimension.]
Thus, Choi Kang-jun, reincarnated on Pangea, grew his abilities by indiscriminately slaughtering people.
[Honestly, I thought he would adapt well to life on Pangea upon reincarnation. But watching him strengthen himself through the murder of innocent people, I realized this was wrong.]
I wished to stop Choi Kang-jun, who grew unstoppably powerful and shook the Pangaea Continent, yet constraints bound me as a god.
[I cannot directly intervene in the human world. It would be simple to destroy him by crushing his skull or unleashing natural disasters, but my nature forbids such actions.]
Eventually, I devised a method to stop Choi Kang-jun, and the method I chose was to feign death before him.
[I pretended to die by your hand and seeped into the system. Like a virus, you might say. And I granted you partial authority to control the system. Hoping you would find the Choi Kang-jun of the parallel world.]
The Creator God, reading Future Choi Kang-jun’s desperate longing to return to Earth, was certain he would seek out his past self.
[When the two of you met and the conditions were fulfilled, I arranged for it to trigger in hologram form. And I synchronized the two souls whose wavelengths matched perfectly, so you could consolidate all the immense power you’ve accumulated.]
“Consolidate? What do you mean, El! Explain so I can understand….”
[It seems you don’t understand, so let me explain simply. In other words….]
The hologram’s gaze shifted between the two of them as if observing both, then it laughed.
[All the abilities Future Choi Kang-jun possesses will transfer to Past Choi Kang-jun.]
“What…?”
[Right now, in fact.]
In that instant, the constraints binding Zeke McLafflin’s body shattered.
Simultaneously, Future Choi Kang-jun’s pupils trembled ceaselessly.
System Messages scrolled across his vision at a speed impossible to follow.
[Soul wavelength matched.]
[Synchronization complete.]
[Transmitting skill ‘Iron Skin’ to the designated soul.]
[Transmitting skill ‘Formless Touch’ to the designated soul.]
[Transmitting skill ‘Formless Barrier’ to the designated soul.]
[Transmitting skill ‘True Intent Piercing’ to the designated soul.]
[Transmitting Awakened Skill ‘Power Absorption’ to the designated soul.]
[Transmitting skill ‘Dimensional Movement’ to the designated soul.]
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…
…
With each message that appeared, Choi Kang-jun’s abilities drained away one by one.
Those abilities were being transmitted to none other than Past Choi Kang-jun—Zeke McLafflin’s soul.
[You have acquired the skill ‘Intangible Barrier’.]
[You have acquired the skill ‘True Heart Piercing’.]
[You have acquired the awakened skill ‘Ability Absorption’.]
[You have acquired the skill ‘Dimensional Shift’.]
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…
…
After acquiring tens of thousands of skills, Zeke stared at the hologram with a dumbfounded expression.
The hologram seemed to be gazing back at him as well.
[Now you can win, can’t you? Past Choi Kang-jun?]
Past Choi Kang-jun—Zeke turned his gaze and spoke.
“Indeed.”
His eyes fell upon his future self, who had been stripped bare in an instant.

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