The Return of the EX-Class Wizard - Chapter 191

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The Return of an EX-Rank Mage Episode 191
“This is troublesome.”
A boss battle against the entity possessing Raymond’s body.
I hadn’t anticipated this.
‘He willingly surrendered his body?’
That’s what a true mage does.
Admirable.
Kang Pal-do shouted again.
“Raymond is absolutely insane!”
It wasn’t merely about today’s events—he seemed to be venting emotions he’d been harboring all along.
Seizing the moment.
‘The broadcast is still running, isn’t it?’
Choi Kang-mok spoke solemnly while remaining vigilant toward Raymond.
Countless viewers would be watching.
“Do not mock the Professor’s dedication and passion for magical research.”
That should suffice as befitting a true mage.
And I issued a warning.
“Cut the broadcast.”
“Why!”
“People will be hurt.”
Atublang, the Barbarian Warriors commander who had invaded Earth, had his brain destroyed merely by ‘watching’ the footage.
A boss battle with Raymond could result in unforeseen catastrophes.
This situation was beyond control.
Yet Kang Pal-do refused to yield.
“I’ll handle it myself!”
Uuuugh!
He drew upon his power.
His face flushed crimson, as though he were straining in a bathroom.
Soon, his eyes gleamed with golden light.
‘What?’
At the moment Kang Pal-do’s form began to shift slightly.
Raymond’s form changed as well.
Kang Pal-do’s AI narration described this situation with precision.
[The Spirit Entity’s possession of Raymond’s body initiated a transformation into an eagle through the mysteries of transmutation magic.]
Not an ordinary eagle.
It was the triple-headed bald eagle that I had marveled at greatly.
An eagle that spoke with three distinct voices.
[One head is fire, another is water, and the third is wind.]
Kang Pal-do exclaimed.
“It’s transmutation magic! The insane Professor used transmutation magic!”
A combat mage eagle that wielded three elemental attributes.
That was exactly what Raymond looked like.
However, Choi Kang-mok was not particularly impressed.
‘Is that supposed to be magic?’
I had grown considerably by now.
I had developed the eyes to distinguish the genuine from the false. Eyes that could discern true magic.
“That’s not transformation magic.”
No.
Why was that Mine spreading false information to the viewers?
When it comes to magic, one must be decisive and precise.
“It’s enhancement magic.”
Only the shell is transformed.
Three elemental attributes? An illusion.
“Not a combat mage eagle. Just a combat eagle.”
Of course, magic was being used to maximize the body’s physical capabilities, but ultimately this was a boss type that fought using ‘flesh and blood’.
Magic was merely employed as an auxiliary means for enhancement.
In that sense, it was difficult to call it orthodox magic.
I found Kang Pal-do’s transformation far more intriguing than this half-fraudulent magic.
‘His irises are completely golden.’
Even with my current structural analysis and computational abilities, I couldn’t fully comprehend that ability.
Yet I could sense it roughly.
‘He’s artificially mining the luck buried within his body and applying it to the broadcast?’
He had scattered that luck—survival itself—across the broadcast.
So that viewers wouldn’t suffer ‘damage from viewing’.
‘That’s closer to magic, actually.’
Multi-layered survival magic?
Or perhaps composite protection magic?
‘This is worth researching.’
Mayo made a chirping sound.
-If I could graft that ability onto myself, all my defensive capabilities would increase exponentially.
-Both shields and ally-foe identification would be honed to their limits.
-I’d like to dissect that Mine’s belly.
Then, the eagle’s body vanished.
‘Blink!’
My primary movement magic.
The concept was so familiar I should have been able to react… but I wasn’t.
‘Too fast.’
Moreover, it wasn’t even Blink.
He had come flying through pure physical ability, but it was so fast that it merely felt like Blink.
-I have failed to repel it with ally-foe identification.
The eagle’s flight speed exceeded the rate at which friend-or-foe identification could be applied.
Crash!
The shield’s durability dropped by 25 points in a single strike.
-The target’s movements are too rapid for interception, sir.
Choi Kang-mok bit his lip.
‘Another fast one.’
The worst possible matchup. I’d experienced something similar before.
The ‘Flame Legion Commander’ affected by the Requiem effect had tormented me in the same manner.
This one was far stronger than that.
‘In the end, the solution was to increase agility.’
Facing it with a faster body would be more efficient.
But was that truly the answer? That was the question.
‘If I feed EX Coins to Mayo and hold out, I can buy some time to think.’
I needed time to contemplate.
A voice reached my ears.
“Why are you standing idle? Come at me.”
The eagle, now transformed into something resembling a beam of light, descended from all directions.
Crash! Crash! Crash!
I couldn’t react to the simple body-to-body collision attacks.
My eyes could barely follow it.
Yet unleashing an area-of-effect magical attack felt somewhat awkward.
‘I can’t destroy Raymond.’
Perhaps this was Raymond’s new lesson for me.
Until now, I’d relied far too heavily on Mayo for defense.
While attending to the shield’s durability recovery, I focused my mind.
In that moment, the Red Cat perched on my shoulder let out a meow and hurled itself forward.
“What, what is this?”
Kang Pal-do was slightly startled.
The voice of the red cat that had suddenly appeared before him rang out.
-Mine. I command you to embrace this body.
“Hey, did you just speak?”
Amber eyes gleamed with light.
-Insignificant mine.
With a light kick of its hind legs, it settled onto Kang Pal-do’s shoulder.
The speed was too swift for Kang Pal-do to resist.
Kang Pal-do reflexively reached his hand toward the Red Cat’s back.
The fur appeared so incredibly soft that he couldn’t help but touch it.
-Have you lost your mind!
The Red Cat swatted Kang Pal-do’s arm away with its front paw.
Kang Pal-do’s shoulder dislocated.
“Aaahhh!”
Red Cat paid no mind to Kang Pal-do’s safety.
Choi Kang-mok was the master. His family were merely servants. This was just a mine.
“Cursed feline.”
Still, the viewers’ reactions were favorable.
But why was something so small so impossibly heavy?
It felt like a massive lead weight had been placed upon my shoulders.
Far too heavy.
-I command you to look ahead.
-If shrapnel scatters, we’re all finished.
Focus, Lucky Mine.

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This battle—how was I to fight the eagle?
What method existed to eliminate only the Spirit Entity without ‘destroying’ Professor Raymond?
With each passing moment, the eagle’s movements grew more refined.
It meant the fusion between the Spirit Entity and Raymond was becoming more perfect.
Each collision drained 40 points from my shield, forcing me to continuously expend EX coins.
Mayo was growing considerably irritated as well.
-Cursed bird-brained wretch.
-One day, I shall boil you into a stew and devour you.
-Now, it is time to unleash my culinary magic.
For the first time in ages, Mayo’s form crackled with energy.
Mayo’s mind had become unstable.
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Pulverized flesh, yes, hehehehe, shred it all, mince it, brew it into broth. Eagle stew, it’s been so long. Crush. Destroy. Boil! Ahh, how beautiful!
Meanwhile, the eagle began employing an ever-widening array of techniques.
Its three heads spoke in different voices as it hovered in the air.
“I am a mage.”
“I am a mage.”
“I am a mage.”
Followed by the beating of wings.
Hundreds of wind-aspected blades surged toward me.
‘Blink.’
Slower than the eagle’s flight speed, so evasion was possible.
I manifested an exceedingly small ‘energy platform’ in the void.
It was magic I had instinctively deployed in the urgency of the moment.
‘This works?’
Since I could now manipulate the form of energy bolts with complete freedom.
My ability to control energy platforms had increased exponentially.
I unfurled and fixed an energy barrier roughly the size of a human face in mid-air, and it became a trap in itself.
‘Huh?’
The wind blade collided with the energy barrier and dissipated.
‘Did I… just cast a defensive spell?’
No matter how I looked at it, it was definitely a defensive spell.
[Skill: Energy Barrier (Creation) activated.]
Currently equipped with the Mythic-rank staff Excalion.
During boss battles, there is no mana consumption.
With my current proficiency, I could maintain approximately five energy barriers deployed simultaneously.
‘An excellent defensive spell!’
I minimized the range and damage to the extreme and spread them around me.
By restricting the eagle’s movement route, I could block both physical attacks and magical attacks like that.
“Interesting magic you’re deploying?”
-Tch, damn these fake
us
like creatures.
I found a moment of respite.
Mayo calmed down again.
-Thanks to the defensive spell. I can focus on combat again now.
-Your magical skill grows stronger with each passing day, I see.
Mayo glanced at Red Cat, who had fled to the Lucky Mine.
-I trust your magic one hundred percent.
-Unlike a certain red traitor who ran away for their own survival.
Meanwhile, Choi Kang-mok focused on the defensive spell.
Before long, the number of simultaneously deployable energy barriers had increased to seven.
Seven mines were now laid around Choi Kang-mok.
Mines that would certainly ‘shatter’ anything that touched them.
Kang Pal-do shouted triumphantly.
“Am I slower than you? Nope, I just need to immobilize you~!”
Meanwhile, the eagle’s magical attacks became increasingly diverse.
It was beginning to evolve from a combat eagle into a combat mage eagle.
“Rise forth.”
Rocks erupted around me.
Massive boulders with sharp, pointed ends.
Several of them collided with the energy barriers and shattered.
“Ugh! Damn it! Why are they flying at me!”
Red Cat stepped on Kang Pal-do’s head and leaped away, dodging the incoming boulder.
But Kang Pal-do was not so fortunate.
His lower body was crushed beneath a massive rock.
“Aaaaaargh!”
The viewers were also somewhat taken aback.
-Kang Pal-do?
-He’s taking that hit?
-His lower body must be crushed… isn’t this actually dangerous?
-EX-rank Awakener is busy dealing with the eagle right now, so this time it might really be dangerous…
The threshold of some kind of ‘enlightenment.’
Something hovering just beyond grasp, a method to perfectly suppress the magical eagle flickering at the edge of consciousness.
‘There must be a way.’
What is it? This method trembling like an afterimage within me—what is it?
It appears and disappears, visible yet invisible.
The moment before a mage discovers the solution.
Choi Kang-mok heard Kang Pal-do’s scream.
‘What?’
I saw Kang Pal-do pinned beneath the rocks.
He looked in terrible agony.
“This bastard?”
Daring to assault my mine?
Enlightenment exploded alongside the surging rage.
‘You’re finished.’
Choi Kang-mok, the magical anomalous entity.
Phase 2 initiated.

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