The Return of the EX-Class Wizard - Chapter 141

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The Return of an EX-Rank Mage Episode 141
Kang Pal-do had achieved another magnificent leap forward.
[Subscriber Count: 5,000,000]
It felt like only yesterday he was stuck at 900,000.
But after breaking through the million mark, his growth had become explosive.
Kang Pal-do searched for his own name across various portals, savoring his ascension to major content creator status.
“Hm?”
Several conspicuous posts were beginning to appear on various online communities.
[Is Kang Pal-do = The Right Hand of an EX-Rank Awakener?]
└Pretty much confirmed
└Isn’t this the EX Awakener’s strategy?
└Strategy? What strategy?
[Think about it. He provides top-tier Tower runs to low-level Awakeners, grants benefits to Inventory Awakeners, nurtures Mages in hellish difficulty, creates jobs for miners, and now uses YouTubers instead of major media outlets. But he blows the head off Antonio, a lord of the establishment. What could it mean?]
└A revolutionary comrade against vested interests?
└The phrasing is funny, but the logic checks out
└Doesn’t everyone except the top 1% have to praise the EX Awakener?
The EX-Rank Awakener was not sympathetic to the establishment.
One could see this truth in how he treated Europe, the center of the world.
He intended to completely overturn the existing world order. Truly the thinking of an emperor for a new age!
And his trumpet, his herald—was that me?
“Hehehehe.”
At this point, wasn’t I practically a major independent media outlet?
Kang Pal-do assessed himself with some objectivity.
“Seoul Guild, Boddari Union, London, Saudi Arabia, New York—those are organizations, so I’ll exclude them.”
So as an individual?
At this level, I truly deserved to be called the “Right Hand,” didn’t I?
“Of course, there are some irritating aspects….”
Having my luck mined away constantly was naturally unbearable.
My quality of life had plummeted.
But the social status, fame, and honor of my current self—an EX-Rank Right Hand and a 5-million-subscriber YouTuber—were incomparable to who I’d been as a 900,000-subscriber content creator.
“I’ll settle accounts over the distortion of my broadcast later.”
Choi Kang-mok possessed a bizarre ability.
There had clearly been content stating “we agree on no-item combat,” yet it had somehow been corrected on its own.
It had been subtly altered to read “we agree on item combat.”
“When you think about it… isn’t there only me who can even call out an EX-Rank Awakener on something like this?”
Suddenly, pride swelled within me.
I had become an extraordinarily special person.
He devoured chocolate cereal.
“If he’s going to treat me with such special consideration, I can’t just sit idle, can I?”
Where there is gain, there is loss; where there is loss, there is gain.
“I should give her this, at least.”
A stroke of luck—a Luck Orb that had manifested by chance.
I’d woken up to find it resting on my abdomen.
“If I just keep it….”
My body trembled involuntarily.
If I left it as is, Raymond would definitely seize it from me.
Better to give it to Choi Kang-mok instead.
[Choi Kang-mok]
I dialed his contact number.
Now that I thought about it.
“I actually have an EX-rank Awakener’s personal contact information?”
It felt like being chosen by fate itself.
I felt a little happy.
-Yes, well, it’s nothing major. I’ve also been recognized as something like his right hand, you know? Please check the system mail. I’ve attached something, and I hope you’ll like it. Oh, and please don’t tell Raymond that I gave it to you. Absolutely not.

* * *
Seoul Guild Headquarters.
A new guest had been invited to the mansion where Choi Kang-mok and Christine typically stayed.
It was Bessius.
Bessius immediately drew out his magic staff.
Hahahahaha
And once more.
[hahahahahahahahahaha]
A Creation-rank mockery spell. The full package, complete with sparkling effects.
When there are two losers, the mockery doubles.
“Lee Kang-nam, Christine. Both of you gathered here, huh? Hahahaha!”
Christine, who would normally have been furious, felt no anger today.
Today, she had the composure to endure it.
“Yeah, you’re 0-20.”
“….”
“Look at that losing streak stench from the mock battles~.”
Christine pinched her nose and continued.
“Misuse [Void Veil] and it counts as a losing streak. What a fantastic skill!”
“I lost to Choi Kang-mok, not to you.”
Once again, a cheerful chime!
[hahahahahaha]
“Either way, you lost to me, didn’t you? You’re a loser, aren’t you?”
Lee Kang-nam let out a hollow laugh.
These two are world-ranked rankers?
‘I knew about Christine’s Korean proficiency, but….’
She speaks Korean better than Koreans do.
She’s mastered every community term and slang, understanding far more than Lee Kang-nam himself.
But Bessius?
‘Is the translation pendant really this powerful?’
He must be speaking in Spanish.
How does the translation come through so vividly?
Lee Kang-nam stood between the two of them.
“The reason Choi Kang-mok called us here is… well, to establish gatekeepers.”
“Gatekeepers?”
Choi Kang-mok intended to accept mock battles freely.
Mock battles were conducted in a manner nearly identical to real combat.
Excluding actual battles, they were the most efficient combat training available.
However, accepting every challenger was practically impossible.
“First…”
Lee Kang-nam bit his lip.
While he was certainly a top-ranked awakener within Korea, the truth was he fell slightly short compared to these two world-class rankers.
“I’ll take the first gatekeeper position. Choi Kang-mok designated it that way.”
Bessius nodded.
“Right. Since you’re the weakest.”
“Yeah. But here, I could probably knock your head clean off.”
As Lee Kang-nam raised his massive fist, Bessius stepped back several paces and twirled his staff with a flourish.
hahahahaha
Lee Kang-nam didn’t bother responding and continued.
“Next comes…”
“Next is obviously her. Christine.”
“No, it’s you. Bessius.”
“What?”
Bessius couldn’t accept it.
He’d beaten Christine in recent mock battles, hadn’t he?
So why am I second?
“Christine is the final gatekeeper.”
Christine was satisfied while Bessius bristled.
“No way. I can’t accept that.”
“Christine is stronger.”
“But I won against her?”
“You caught her off-guard with the Void Veil, but Christine’s fundamentally stronger. Choi Kang-mok himself said so after fighting her directly.”
“What are you talking about? Where’s Choi Kang-mok? Get him here!”
At that moment, Choi Kang-mok opened the front door and appeared.
Perfect timing. Mayo was with him.
-This is amusing. You’re only arguing about the order.
-He’s accepting the gatekeeper role quite naturally.
-Indeed, this is how you manage slaves 🙂
“Bessius. I’ll give you a chance for revenge.”
[A ‘Mock Battle Request’ has arrived from ‘-‘.]
“This time it’s a real no-item match, right?”
“Yes, let’s do it that way.”
Kang Pal-do was invited once again.

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[Bessius VS EX-Rank Awakener Revenge Match LIVE]
And Bessius cried out once more.
“You bastard, you tricked me again!”
“I’m not sure what you’re talking about.”
The chat was filled with laughter.
Haha, here we go with the excuses again.
And lol, we have all the evidence, what more do you want?
-You need that level of shamelessness to reach that position
Just look at how he betrayed Spain and immediately naturalized in Korea lol
Wow, this guy’s actually pretty funny lol
Once again, the match proceeded with items.
He’d been deceived by False Distortion once more.
Bessius, who never imagined that someone of the caliber of a New Era Emperor would use the same trick twice, laughed in disbelief.
“But you underestimated a world-class ranker.”
Tricks? They weren’t exclusive to EX-rank Awakeners.
At least in terms of experience, Bessius himself held a significant advantage.
He’d come this far as a mage, a class disadvantaged in direct combat.
He had his own methods.
“You won’t be able to use magic for five minutes.”
Just as Choi Kang-mok had obtained ’20 Wins’ by disrupting the system, Bessius also had a trick or two hidden away.
‘Tch, I was originally saving this for Christine.’
For five minutes after the mock battle begins, the opponent’s magic is sealed.
The activation conditions are extremely stringent.
One of them is that you must suffer at least 10 defeats to the same person within 30 days.
“A mage who can’t use magic. That should be easy to handle.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
Choi Kang-mok raised his staff.
“I’m quite skilled with physical magic as well.”
I had considerable expertise in physical magic.
Hadn’t I cleared Labyrinth Stage 30 by wielding my staff?
Seventeen shadow leopards had become sacrifices to my magic.
“And this isn’t magic.”
-I will restrain Bessius’s movements.
–
-So you can’t escape. I’ll bind you beautifully myself. Your arms, your legs, your voice—nothing will let you slip away from me.
–
We
should stay bound together like this until the very end.
Mayo’s support added to the assault.
Christine had executed a flawless restraint.
Bessius was bound in the same way.
Crack!
I swung the Mythic-rank staff.
Clang!
Bessius’s necklace shattered.
It had absorbed the damage instead and been destroyed in the process.
The strange part was that it flashed with light and the necklace regenerated itself.
“Wait, hold on! I heard rumors that you had a Mythic-rank staff!”
“That’s right.”
Bessius was left speechless.
The higher the performance, the more delicate a staff becomes.
The stronger it is, the weaker its durability.
Yet he was swinging it around like a club?
And claiming it was powerful enough to shatter the Guardian’s Necklace in one blow?
“Hey, aren’t you worried about breaking that thing?”
“It won’t break.”
The Motive Force Buffer Module always did its job well.
Originally developed to absorb the impact of motive force, it also protected against minor physical shocks like these.
Crack!
Clang!
Once more, the necklace shattered and regenerated.
I felt a slight frustration.
‘If it were non-physical magic, it would be destroyed in one hit.’
That necklace had some kind of resurrection setting applied to it.
If it were non-physical magic, fundamental destruction would have occurred.
Without fundamental destruction, this was somewhat inconvenient.
“Still, a mage should be able to handle various branches of magic.”
Crack!
Clang!
“You’re really going to break that staff. Do you have any idea how durable this necklace is? And! Do you actually think a mage’s power can destroy it?”
Crack!
Clang!
“And calling that magic is a bit much….”
Crack!
Clang!!
[The ‘Amulet of Protection’ has been destroyed.]
“Damn it, how is this happening?”
But Bessius wasn’t simply taking the blows either.
He had no intention of continuing to dance to the tune of this madman who insisted that swinging a staff constituted magic.
‘I’ll settle this with Energy Bolt.’
A human. And a ‘mage’ at that.
No need for grandiose spells.
Whether it’s a bullet or a cannonball, a direct hit ends it.
‘Energy Bolt.’
I decided to layer it multiple times and detonate it around Choi Kang-mok.
Capturing an EX-rank Awakener famous for Energy Bolt with Energy Bolt itself?
That’s certainly meaningful enough.
[Skill, Energy Bolt (A)….]
[Skill, Energy Bolt (A)….]
Basic magic. This can be cast without incantation.
Even with limbs bound, it works.
It’s no different from doing simple arithmetic in your head.
[Skill, Energy Bolt (A)….]
[Skill, Energy Bolt (A)….]
Energy Bolts materialized around Choi Kang-mok.
Like an energy floor with undefined boundaries.
Dozens of Energy Bolts swept around Choi Kang-mok.
‘What?’
In that instant, a golden shield formed in the empty air.
‘What is that?’
Choi Kang-mok’s new power.
‘Mystery’ began to shine.

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