The Return of the EX-Class Wizard - Chapter 190

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The Return of an EX-Rank Mage Episode 190
The Writers found themselves consumed by grave deliberation.
How could they possibly control this anomalous magical entity that defied all convention?
Worse still, it was approaching their creations at a terrifying pace.
Some of the more timid Writers had even abandoned their work entirely.
Yet there existed those who burned with creative fervor all the more fiercely when faced with adversity.
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A boss wielding mere physical force would prove useless against him. The destructive power of this magical entity transcended all conventional limits.
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How could they possibly contain Choi Kang-mok?
After endless deliberation, they selected the 70th Floor boss.
An anomaly must be countered with an anomaly.
Fighting fire with fire, as they say.
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After weighing the risks, we ultimately decided to deploy the Necromancer.
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The Necromancer is a Spirit Entity.
While their own physical prowess is not particularly formidable, they possess an array of diverse abilities.
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When selected as a Tower boss, their powers reach their zenith.
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Rather than deploying the true form, we present something ‘other’ as the boss.
This ‘other’ can be a living creature or an inanimate object.
For instance, we could make an excavator the boss itself.
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The true form gains a dramatic enhancement in perceiving danger and evading it.
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Direct combat with an anomalous magical entity is perilous.
The Writers judged that deploying a Spirit Entity as a proxy—having it face the magical anomaly—would prove far more advantageous.
Some Writers within the open worldview take this unprecedented difficulty level of the magical anomaly with utmost seriousness.
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Conventional methods cannot suffice against a magical entity.
Thus, we have….
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Two days prior.
The Spirit Entity had found the safest place.
A location the 70th Floor conquerors could never discover.
Thanks to an unknown force (author’s correction), its abilities had grown far more potent.
It hid its form outside the Tower. Even beyond the dimensional boundary itself.
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Find the safest place.
The safest place within Brain.
It was somewhere within the consciousness of the ‘Patriarch’.
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Foolish and simple-minded.
Infiltration proved remarkably easy.
I burrowed into the sleeping Smattu’s body and concealed myself within his consciousness.
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I am safe.
Yet I was not.
Instinctive danger signals screamed warnings.
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Why?
The cause remained unknowable.
It was simply far too perilous.
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I must escape.
The Spirit Entity was not a creature of reason.
Instinctively. As naturally as breathing, it sought the safest sanctuary.
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There.
A place to hide my form—a ‘corpse’.
The elder among the miners who had grown close to Choi Kang-mok.
The body of the Elder Miner.
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That place is safe.
The instinctive judgment was also rational.
So long as no one exhumed the Elder Miner’s corpse, discovery was impossible.
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No. There exists an even more exquisite place.
Something radiant approaches.
Should I seize it, I could be reborn as the ultimate Spirit Entity.
‘Survival’ itself was walking toward me.
How could this be? The Spirit Entity wasn’t perplexed.
Humans and concepts operated on different planes.
What mattered was that ‘survival itself’ was drawing near.
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If I consume that, then I…
I could become something far greater.
Evolution into a new form of existence.
The Spirit Entity was certain.
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Wait. Not yet.
It’s drawing closer.
Just a bit more. Just a bit more.
Three steps more.
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Now.
I’ve seized it.
Survival itself.
Some called him the Lucky Mine—Kang Pal-do.
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Brilliant. Radiant. Magnificent.
This body is now mine.
I shall now evolve.
“Damn, damn it!”
Kang Pal-do shook his foot desperately.
But the grip on his wrist was iron.
It wouldn’t release.
Through his wrist, something alien seemed to be forcing its way into his body.
“Get out, get out of me!”
Like something cold and viscous being forcibly injected through a syringe.
This was dangerous.
His survival instinct screamed in alarm.
He didn’t know what it was, but if this took hold, he would die.
Even when he’d ventured to the Dragon Palace, even when he’d deliberately sought out this place—never had he felt such a certain premonition.
A future of certain death crystallized before him.
“This is insane, what is this, no!”
Meanwhile, for the Spirit Entity, it was equally shocking.
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He appears weak.
His willpower seems fragile.
Yet the infiltration won’t proceed. Why?
The will to live is extraordinary.
It is survival itself, pure and unfiltered.
The more I observe, the more I covet this flesh.
The Spirit Entity drew upon even deeper reserves of power.
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Accept it. You are mine.
The Elder Miner, buried beneath the earth, rose to his feet.
He embraced Kang Pal-do, then swept his legs out from under him.
“Now even corpses are defying me?!”
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You are mine, I tell you.
Thud!
The Elder Miner’s fist crashed against Kang Pal-do’s face.
It was a resounding blow.
Kang Pal-do’s head snapped to the side.
“Get out! Get out! Get out! You zombie bastard!”
Kang Pal-do thrashed without yielding.
The Spirit Entity struck back without hesitation.
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You are mine.
I will break your will and make you my own.

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Kang Hye swallowed hard.
‘The rush is building.’
Not only had I resolved the issues surrounding Iraq’s reconstruction in one fell swoop, but I’d also acquired the Brain Dimension.
‘Though the process was a bit suspicious.’
As if aggro had been deliberately drawn.
Like begging, please just kill me already.
They gathered willingly on the Plains.
They’d essentially provided an EX-rank mage with the perfect battlefield.
‘Red Cat is suspicious.’
But it didn’t matter.
Suspicious or not, as long as they’re on my side, it’s fine.
‘My brother treats himself like the master and me like the butler….’
But they’re cute, so it works out.
Being a butler to an adorable cat suits me surprisingly well.
I need to find more delicious rubies for them too.
‘I should watch the broadcast for a bit.’
I’m a devoted viewer of Kang Pal-do’s streams.
Chatting anonymously and getting my “Kang-mok fix” had become part of my daily routine.
Especially after achieving something like this.
What kind of clever comments would fuel my excitement? My heart was racing.
“Huh?”
But something seemed off.
“Brother. Look at this.”
It was a live stream.
A corpse was beating Kang Pal-do senseless.
“Wait, isn’t this the place we passed through?”
Outside Red Cat’s pantry.
More precisely, it was near the location I’d marked.
“So this corpse is….”
It seemed to be the Elder Miner the miners had mentioned—the one killed by Smattu.
I tilted my head in confusion.
They resurrected the corpse? Is there a necromancer involved?
For the record, I don’t particularly like necromancers.
I’ve developed the impression that they’re all like Jo Ju-won.
On the broadcast, Kang Pal-do cried out.
-P-please, save me!
The Lucky Mine wouldn’t collapse from something like that.
Though it would probably hurt.
‘I need to go check it out.’
Who dares lay a hand on my precious Lucky Mine?
But then, Kang Pal-do’s body began to fade.
“Brother! The Lucky Mine is disappearing!”
“Yeah.”
“Is it… is it being destroyed?”
“It’s nothing like that, so don’t worry.”
Choi Kang-mok remained unperturbed.
He understood this phenomenon well.
“It seems Professor Raymond summoned it again.”
A Lucky Mine that walks to me whenever needed.
And it even crossed dimensions to do so?
No matter how I think about it, that’s impressive.
“But the broadcast isn’t turning off.”
On the screen.
The ‘corpse’ muttered in an incomprehensible language.
It was a language humans could not decipher.
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You think you can flee from me?
The Spirit Entity immediately found the fugitive’s physical form.
It had escaped across dimensions to somewhere.
The Spirit Entity clenched its fist tightly.
‘Something’ was caught.
Kang Pal-do’s ability—the ‘broadcast’—was seized.
This ability belonged to Kang Pal-do, and thus it would return to him.
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I will follow.
The corpse’s form crackled and blurred at its edges.
Then darkness.
The broadcast cut off.
Choi Kang-mok sensed it instinctively.
‘That’s no ordinary creature.’
It had forcibly seized Kang Pal-do’s ‘broadcast’.
The broadcast persisted for over ten seconds without the streamer.
‘Using that as a basis to track Kang Pal-do…’
It wielded such an ability within the Brain Dimension?
I have a feeling.
A 70th Floor boss. Or something of equivalent caliber.
‘I must pursue it.’
Oh no.
That’s where Professor Raymond is.
Choi Kang-mok hastily sent a system message.
His fingers moved with urgency.
[Professor]
He deleted it.
[Master]
Surely you wouldn’t ignore your disciple’s earnest plea.
[There are armed robbers attempting to seize the Lucky Mine.]
What if it’s the 70th Floor boss?
If an enraged Raymond kills it, that would be catastrophic.
I’m not sure if NPCs get registered in the Hall of Fame, but this is dangerous.
There’s a possibility I could lose first place.
First place across 69 consecutive floors as the ‘Mage’—if that record breaks?
‘That can’t happen!’
[You absolutely cannot kill them.]
How could I phrase this so Raymond would listen to me?
The mage’s brilliant mind raced furiously.
[I’m requesting you capture them alive. If those armed robbers are marked as dead, it may cause minor complications in future magical research budget allocations. I’m heading there now. Please wait just a moment.]
It bordered on coercion, but there was no choice.
‘He’s far greater as a mage than I am.’
Except in combat, he surpassed me in everything. It meant he possessed diverse tools at his disposal.
He would be far superior at subduing that ‘something’.
Choi Kang-mok quickly returned to Earth.
‘Let’s move fast!’
Fortunately, he hadn’t heard any news about the 70th Floor boss being defeated yet.
Breathing heavily, he entered the Ayla Magic Research Institute.
He went straight into the professor’s laboratory.
“My proud disciple! You’ve arrived?”
Raymond’s presence wavered.
Like Kowalski, the national hero of Poland.
“Professor?”
Kang Pal-do, bound to the operating table, screamed at the top of his lungs.
“Brother! This bastard is absolutely insane!”
Kang Pal-do had seen it.
Oh, such a fascinating spiritual entity exists?
I must experiment with it.
In that very moment, he accepted the Spirit Entity into his own body.
“To think I would obtain such an alluring vessel.”
Raymond clutched his face and wept.
“Now I no longer need to hide.”
The entire laboratory trembled violently.
The crystal spheres embedded in the walls and ceiling shattered of their own accord, along with the LED lights.
In that instant, the laboratory’s boundaries dissolved like melting wax, and the space expanded in all directions.
It transformed into an endless obsidian plaza with no discernible end.
“How repugnant, my challenger.”
Raymond laughed with a grotesque cackle.
“I shall accept your challenge.”
The invitation card in Choi Kang-mok’s inventory tore itself apart.
The Spirit Entity that had consumed Raymond’s body revealed its true nature of its own volition.
[You have been forcibly entered into the 70th Floor of the Tower (South Korea).]
[Objective: Eliminate ■■.]
The objective materialized with crystalline clarity.
[Objective: Eliminate ‘Spirit Entity-Raymond’.]
The boss battle had begun.

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