The Return of the EX-Class Wizard - Chapter 136

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The Return of an EX-Rank Mage Episode 136
The interception was brief.
A white magic circle. A beam of white light. And penetration.
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One of my
specialties is penetration, you see.
Blood sprayed.
Right beside Antonio.
Down the cheek of Spain’s advisor, something hot streamed.
“Kyaaaaaaah!!”
A scream erupted.
The Real Madrid Lord was dead.
Some gasped in shock while others stumbled backward.
“A, a person is dead!”
“The EX-Awakener killed Antonio!”
“This is terrorism!”
The Norwegian representative bolted from his seat and kicked his chair aside, while the French representative trembled as he dropped his coffee cup.
“Security team! What are the security teams doing!”
“Lock the doors!”
“No, open the doors!”
The conference hall descended into chaos.
Some collided trying to escape. Others retched in corners.
Someone took an elbow to the jaw and fell flat.
Several huddled under tables, trembling. Others pulled out their phones.
“Healers! Call the healers!”
“It’s useless. His head’s already been pierced through.”
Through it all, Kowalski calmly surveyed his surroundings.
A person was dead, certainly, but was this level of panic necessary?
He positioned himself beside Choi Kang-mok.
“These are Europe’s representatives? How embarrassing.”
To him, a veteran of the field, the various Lords were nothing but hothouse flowers.
Choi Kang-mok gazed at his surroundings with a hardened expression.
Even if it was self-defense, the sensation of killing still felt uncomfortable.
Foster stepped beside Choi Kang-mok and spoke quietly.
“That stern expression suits you well. Leave what comes next to me.”
Foster on the right, Kowalski on the left.
With Choi Kang-mok at the center, the three walked toward the door.
And the Naples Lord Spaloti cautiously followed behind them.
“Stop right there!”
“Murderer, halt!”
Choi Kang-mok turned around.
The Lords whose eyes met his fell silent.
“Gasp.”
They had just witnessed with their own eyes exactly how Antonio died.
If they moved carelessly, a hole might appear in their own heads instead.
And so Choi Kang-mok calmly walked out of the conference hall.

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The footage was released worldwide.
[Wow, this is absolutely insane;;;]
I can’t even imagine how this turned out, it’s so dog-eat-dog lolololol
└He actually did it;;
└Killed the Spain Lord right in the European summit hall and just walked out??
Even if I wrote it as a novel, people would criticize it for lacking plausibility lol
It’s more than just a simple display of force. It’s a scene that will go down in modern history.
Overall, reactions from Asia were favorable or bordering on awe.
Asia, once dismissed as a backwater in Tower civilization.
Among them, East Asians cheered at the shocking actions of the EX-Rank Awakener.
Meanwhile, anti-EX-Rank sentiment exploded across the Western world.
[This is terrorism. Why aren’t they sanctioning him?]
└If an individual with such power exists, democracy becomes meaningless
└All of Europe was mocked on live broadcast
└The EX-Rank Awakener should be designated a ‘global security threat’
└If emergency measures aren’t taken now, who knows where he’ll strike next
└Murderer OUT
Even so, England and Poland issued statements of support.
Foster spoke firmly.
“We judge this matter as self-defense. The Spain Lord’s revolver was loaded with magical bullets containing an ‘instant death’ attribute, and the EX-Rank Awakener’s response was a rational choice for his own survival. Had he not been an EX-Rank Awakener, he would be dead by now.”
Kowalski and Poland also issued official statements.
“Antonio’s actions were a clear preemptive strike and a disgrace to all of Europe. He did not fall to the EX-Rank Awakener’s overwhelming power—he collapsed by his own arrogance. We must reconsider what justice truly is. And we must face the reality of who the real danger was.”
Some European nations protested, claiming it “contradicted the European Union’s joint position,” but England and Poland seemed prepared to bear the cost.
And the Seoul Guild added an official statement.
“Real Madrid has yet to apologize. The EX-Rank Awakener’s warning remains in effect.”
A Lord’s death? That was self-defense.
But an apology had yet to be received.
The Vice Lords of Real Madrid clenched their teeth.
“We cannot kneel to brute force.”
They knew it clearly.
The opponent already possessed transcendent power.
Yet ‘submission’ was not among their choices.
“A Lord has been assassinated. Bowing our heads would be abandoning Spain’s dignity.”
“Self-defense? That’s absurd. Antonio had loaded rubber bullets.”
“Destroy the Tower? Real Madrid doesn’t kneel to such threats!”
That was the atmosphere inside.
…Except for one person.
Bessius, Real Madrid’s Archmage.
“Wait, Antonio was clearly in the wrong, wasn’t he?”
Evidence had even come from the Incheon Lord.
In fact, Bessius himself had once tried to kill an EX-Rank Awakener.
Everyone knew Antonio was desperate to kill an EX-Rank Awakener.
“Idiots.”
Bessius defected.
Actually, it started the moment the Real Madrid Guild headquarters was destroyed.
“That bastard’s magic is beautiful.”
An area-of-effect spell that pierces through 1,000 kilometers of physical space?
And he calls it a “snipe”?
He’s absolutely insane. That’s what makes it so artistic.
“I’d call even my parents’ killer ‘brother’ under such circumstances.”
What’s one dead Lord?
If you’re going to kill, you have to be prepared to die—that’s how the math works out.
So Bessius betrayed Real Madrid.
He released to the media documents titled [Fifty Efforts Real Madrid Lord Antonio Made to Kill an EX-Rank Awakener….]

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Bessius’s sudden action flipped public opinion on its head.
Those who had been spouting nonsense about fabricated evidence had no choice but to fall silent before his data.
Choi Kang-mok felt slightly displeased.
“Bessius, all of a sudden?”
However, Christine knew him relatively well.
“He seems to have fallen for your meteor magic.”
“Ah.”
Now it made sense. I understood. My mood even improved.
Kang Hye, listening from beside me, opened her mouth without thinking.
“Wait, that actually explains it… no, never mind.”
Kang Hye decided not to nitpick anymore.
The world of mages was something… profound and strange.
If I tried to understand it, my brain would short-circuit.
Christine casually continued the conversation.
“Still, you’ll give him a mock battle, right?”
“Of course.”
Since he’s fallen for magic, I should give him a proper thrashing with magic.
With admiration in every blow.
Around that time, the Majorca Lord secretly visited Christine’s villa.
“This is the local intelligence report from Spain.”
The Majorca Lord was a triple agent.
Pretending to be on Choi Kang-mok’s side while pretending to be on Spain’s side while actually being on Choi Kang-mok’s side.
“What’s interesting is that the Barcelona Lord is favorable toward the EX-Rank Awakener.”
Real Madrid and Barcelona had been fierce rivals since before.
Recently, they had joined hands and established themselves as the two pillars leading Spain, but the reality was slightly different.
“Barcelona has promised to make an official declaration of support at an appropriate moment.”
And in the end, the Real Madrid Vice Lords never apologized to Choi Kang-mok.
Choi Kang-mok issued multiple warnings through the Seoul Guild.
[I will attack the Real Madrid Tower in 10 hours.]
[In 9 hours…]
The warnings continued.
In one corner of the Real Madrid conference room, an official cried out.
“You must apologize now. This warning is real! You need to seize the opportunity while it’s being given!”
“Quiet. You don’t even know what diplomacy is.”
The official was expelled.
Real Madrid’s choice was to maintain solid defense and heightened vigilance.
[Honestly, they weren’t prepared for the guild headquarters to be blown up]
└ They created a smokescreen like they were coming to Majorca and launched a surprise attack
└This time will be different
└Why would the Seoul Guild issue warnings by the hour? It’s just bluffing lol
Come on, try it. Do you really think Reale would succumb to force?
[3 hours later….]
[2 hours later….]
[1 hour later….]
The Seoul Guild continued issuing warnings every ten minutes.
The world’s gaze fixed upon the Real Madrid Tower.
[10 minutes later….]
And at the appointed hour.
I had given them ample opportunity. Now it was time to act.
“I’ll use a sniper spell.”
Choi Kang-mok truly unleashed an energy floor panel—meteorite transformation upon the Real Madrid Tower.

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Boom—!
A black shockwave engulfed the earth.
The very ground upon which the Real Madrid Tower stood tall.
A dark magical domain began spreading across it.
Vast darkness, as if ink had been spilled, rippled outward in concentric circles.
Journalists swarmed in, and Bessius rushed over in a single stride.
“Wow….”
The entire tower fell within the spell’s radius of effect.
“Truly, no trajectory, no orbit, nothing at all.”
The magic appeared ‘suddenly’.
A realm of roiling violence where energy bolts thrashed wildly.
Cracks began forming across the ashen tower’s surface.
“Beautiful. Magnificent.”
Bessius could not tear his gaze away.
Wounds were appearing on the tower’s exterior, which missiles could not even scratch.
The vibrations beneath my feet were extraordinary.
It was as though every pillar of the tower was being obliterated.
The ground trembled.
Something massive seemed to grip the structure and wring it.
Fragments torn from the tower scattered chaotically through the air.
[!Real Madrid Zone Emergency Notice!]
[A portion of the Real Madrid Tower’s system has been destroyed.]
It was quite similar to Naples.
Only the damaged sections differed slightly.
[The exit system has ceased functioning.]
Entry remained possible.
But exiting was impossible.
The Tower had effectively become inaccessible for entry.
[Automatic Restoration System activated.]
[Estimated Restoration Time: 28 years]
[Restoration will proceed sequentially from the 1st Floor.]
The world reeled in shock at what a single individual had accomplished.
[Is this really possible…?]
└If you can enter but can’t exit, who would go in?
└So the Naples Tower malfunction really was caused by an EX-Rank Awakener
└Wow… truly overwhelming power
└Absolutely insane lol;;;;
[But how do we even restore this?]
└Needs a ton of Diamonds and growth materials
└Naples gets help from the EX-Rank Awakener so it recovers quickly anyway….
└But would the EX-Rank Awakener help Real Madrid?
└I wouldn’t help either;;;
└Destruction is unique to them, but so is restoration—truly a radiant god-like EX-Rank being;;;
And shortly after, shocking news arrived.
Barcelona’s Guild members arrested all of Real Madrid’s Vice Lords.
Behind it was Bessius’s decisive support—or rather, betrayal.
Subsequently, the Barcelona Lord used a special ability to accelerate the Tower Integration vote.
And the Majorca Lord took the lead in persuading the other Lords.
Giving up one EX Layer, and how Majorca was transforming in the process.
-It is time to abandon pride and choose the future. We do not bow our heads to an individual. We are merely conforming to the direction of history. If we do not abandon our pride, we will be left behind. If we surrender only our pride, we can enjoy prosperity beyond what the previous era offered. The EX-Rank Awakener is more generous than we think. It is not yet too late.
As a result, Barcelona was designated as Spain’s representative Tower.
And the Barcelona Lord made an official announcement.
[We offer our sincere apologies to the EX-Rank Awakener.]
And Spain’s unconditional surrender was declared.

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