The Return of the EX-Class Wizard - Chapter 211

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The Return of an EX-Rank Mage Episode 211
I can feel it.
Though it hasn’t yet taken a precise form, something carrying the principles of ‘spatial liberation’ is unfolding.
With my intellect rising, Mayo’s abilities have developed significantly.
The coverage area has expanded tremendously.
-Should I push it back with friend-or-foe identification?
“No.”
Because I’m spiritually bound strongly with Mayo, I can sense it too.
This is indeed a crude level of spatial liberation.
‘They’re showing me this?’
Spatial liberation is something even Raymond acknowledged in me.
This level is rather troublesome.
‘I’m not even curious.’
It’s been a long time since I felt magic without being intrigued.
It feels far too familiar.
This was thanks to experiencing a 3rd Section-class mad scientist.
I’ve become quite accustomed to the fusion of magic and scientific civilization.
Perhaps because it was a form of magical attack, I could clearly sense the ‘hostility’ or ‘intent to attack’ that the Arcian Empire citizens spoke of.
Here, there was a point worth finding interesting.
‘Ah. So that’s how it is.’
Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times.
I understood it all at once.
‘No wonder there was confusion.’
They mistook defensive magic for assassination magic, and now I see why.
If one suddenly used defensive magic without these warning signs, there would certainly be grounds for mistaking it as assassination magic.
-It’s remarkable that you hold the magical perspective that defensive magic can be expanded and transformed into assassination magic.
-Defense and assassination may appear to be at opposite extremes, but in reality, they can be interpreted as possessing duality like two sides of a coin. 🙂
I nodded.
Of course, the essence is defensive magic, but magic is inherently free and possesses boundless expandability, doesn’t it?
Perhaps I could even expand it toward assassination sniper magic by combining it with sniper magic.
I elevated my senses and pinpointed a more accurate location.
‘Somewhere above Seoul. The direction the hostility is aimed at is….’
South Korea Guild Headquarters.
The deduction wasn’t difficult.
“They’re launching a retaliatory attack?”
The one who broke wind gets angry.
The ones who destroyed someone else’s home are retaliating?
Well, how convenient.
I can get some practice in.
“I’ve been lacking in training anyway.”
The reason I only attacked seven ‘front-line command posts’ wasn’t due to limited firepower, but rather my reluctance to display ‘imperfect defensive magic’ to the world.
Having already suffered an intelligence scan, I couldn’t afford to showcase subpar magic.
With a universal-scale announcement broadcasted, far more eyes were now watching.
I had begun to notice the scrutiny of others—particularly that of cosmic mages.
I needed practice, so I decided to start with something easier to defend against.
‘Since I don’t even need to use dimensional displacement.’
Defending Korea from within Korea?
That drastically reduced the difficulty.
‘Perfect for practice.’
The still-incomplete ‘crude missile magic circle.’
Mayo would pinpoint its origin.
In other words, it was akin to locating the missile launch site.
“What matters most to a mage is repetitive mastery.”
I swung my staff, which gleamed with brilliant light.
I converted magical power into physical force.
Second defensive magic deployment complete.

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Returning home after my expedition to Arcsia, I sensed something.
Again, the power of an EX-Rank Awakener was perceptible.
This time, within the same dimension. Moreover, within South Korea itself.
The power felt far more distinct and tangible.
“I was planning to rest for a moment.”
I couldn’t ignore this.
I hastily turned on the broadcast.
It was a grueling pace, but manageable.
After all, broadcasting took priority over health, didn’t it?
I launched the broadcast drone that Kang Pal-do had summoned via skill.
“There’s definitely something there.”
What could it be?
I couldn’t discern it even with observation.
I called Miner 2.
“Hey, Choi Kang-mok.”
After hearing a brief explanation, Kang Pal-do nodded.
“It appears defensive magic has been deployed over Seoul.”
It wasn’t visible to the eye.
Being the power of an EX-Rank Awakener, I could only sense it.
“Look.”
I maneuvered the drone closer, directing it toward the ‘physical force.’
Thwack!
With a soft impact, the drone vanished.
“Cough!”
Kang Pal-do spat blood.
‘Insane.’
I let my guard down.
Novices at construction sites don’t have accidents.
Veterans who’ve been rolling around for ten, twenty years—they’re the ones who cause accidents by ignoring safety protocols.
‘I was far too careless.’
The drone was, in essence, an avatar.
An incarnation connected through skill.
Riding that incarnation, only a fraction of the damage transmitted back.
This damage transfer phenomenon normally occurs without issue.
The amount of damage transmitted is negligible, so usually nothing happens at all.
“I’m pressing the emergency bell.”
A mine-exclusive emergency bell.
Pressing it summons Raymond at will.
“Raymond. Restore me!”
“What happened?”
“I was hit by defensive magic.”
Kang Pal-do lost consciousness.
Raymond thrust his hand into the unconscious Kang Pal-do’s abdomen and pondered.
“Hmm, he avoided a fatal wound.”
He discovered one remarkable fact.
“He survived because the magic lacked killing intent!”
If this had been assassination magic? Attack magic?
This mine would have died instantly.
Because there was no aggressive intent, the mine could survive.
Raymond’s gaze deepened.
“If executed properly…”
He recalled the theory of an ultimate advanced defensive spell.
Could the same magic harm one person while leaving another unscathed?
Like how a medicine specialized for a certain disease acts only on that disease.
If he blended the subtleties of defensive magic into attack magic just right, he could strike only enemies while sparing allies.
“Indeed… my student is quite the shy one.”
Growing so diligently as a practical combat mage, yet vehemently denying being one.
So bashful, yet genuinely humble.
No wonder the universe loves him.
“Let me think.”
He examined the Muckberrylist.
This ability had considerable connection to Mayo’s Friend-or-Foe Identification…
Among the Professors of this Muckberrylist, who would prove most beneficial to my disciples?
At that moment, the intermediate-rank mage Owen arrived, his head gleaming brilliantly.
Incidentally, he had deployed a “shining magic” upon arrival. The reason remains unknown.
“Professor! Is Kang Pal-do unharmed!”
Owen was both a fan and viewer of Kang Pal-do.
Owen’s mouth fell agape.
He stood there chuckling, his hand thrust into Kang Pal-do’s abdomen.
In his right hand, he clutched a peculiar memo.
“What is this madman doing….”
What was Kang Pal-do doing instead of saving him?
As a fan, I wanted to say something, but….
“I should leave.”
If that lunatic miner Raymond caught me, there would be no escape.
In any case, I had confirmed Kang Pal-do’s survival, so that sufficed.
Time to flee.

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Kang Pal-do had been struck by “a mere fragment of defensive magic devoid of malice.”
A genius among geniuses, overflowing with survival-specialized fortune—from the perspective of luck itself, such a prodigy had been reduced to this state.
“Krraaaagh!”
“Grraaagh!”
The Arsia Liberation Army members associated with the “missiles” collapsed in unison.
“M-my hand!”
“M-my legs are disappearing!”
Their bodies pixelated and vanished.
As a fraction of that formidable physical force was transmitted, their bodies shattered.
The majority of those involved with the missiles perished.
Nothing occurred in the skies above Seoul.
Orelli, one of the Arsia Liberation Army’s three commanders, bit his lip.
“This cowardly bastard… he laid a trap!”
It seemed he had deliberately orchestrated this situation.
They called him an emperor on Earth, yet his perceptiveness was extraordinary.
‘So this is how he traced our movements.’
The absence of intelligence about us had now become certain.
After all, he had employed the inefficient method of reverse-tracing the launch point to “attack” this location.
He reasoned as a rational and sensible mage would.
‘To deliver damage of this magnitude, the output would need to approach near-infinity.’
Even an EX-rank awakener would be straining considerably.
He urgently contacted the other two of the three commanders.
Now was the moment.
Now was the perfect moment to exact revenge on the Korean Guild.
“The EX-Rank Awakener is operating at excessive output levels. We must strike now to demonstrate that the Arsia Liberation Army remains strong and show Arsia’s unwavering will for independence.”
The two commanders who heard the explanation agreed.
“I am deeply grateful for Orelli’s dedication.”
“I support Orelli’s decision.”
Another ‘Origin Point’ manifested above Seoul.
It delighted Choi Kang-mok.
Crude in execution or not, a target was still a target!
‘Time to practice.’
Third-tier defensive magic deployment complete.
Magic that has been fully comprehended grows stronger with each use.
“Gaaaahhh!”
“Kughhhh!”
Even the two commanders directly involved perished.
Now the Arsia Liberation Army had only one commander left.
This sparked division within the Arsia Liberation Army.
“Isn’t this Orelli’s scheme to seize power?”
“Cowardly. Betraying comrades like this?”
“The other commanders are dead, so why is Orelli perfectly fine?”
Reasonable suspicion took root, and Orelli’s position grew precarious.
From Orelli’s perspective, it was a grave injustice.
‘He calculated all of this!’
With merely a few assassination spells, he was methodically annihilating the Arsia Liberation Army.
‘He induced internal collapse—far more devastating than simple elimination. Truly, the Emperor of Earth deserves his reputation as a strategist.’
No.
Choi Kang-mok’s defensive magic had simply grown stronger.
The efficiency improved slightly, and consequently, the damage transmitted increased marginally.
“I cannot bear this vile stigma.”
He was a proud commander of the Arsia Liberation Army.
Better to die than to become a traitor who sold out his nation and betrayed his comrades.
By any means necessary, he had to kill the EX-Rank Awakener.
That was the path to serving his homeland.
‘But how?’
Missile strikes were impossible.
He was a monster far too specialized in the ‘assassination magic’ that traveled through Origin Points.
‘Our missiles merely provide the environment for his assassination magic to unfold.’
There was the slimmest glimmer of hope.
‘If we don’t provide an Origin Point, he cannot pinpoint our exact location.’
‘So there is still time.’
There was no time.
Choi Kang-mok had already pinpointed the location.
I merely needed practice to demonstrate a ‘more refined defensive spell’.
Orelli looked up at the ceiling.
‘What… huh?’
He felt nothing.
Magically, there was nothing at all.
Yet something was strange.
A very quiet storm seemed to be approaching.
Then, peculiar characters began to materialize in the empty air.
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[Magical Anomalous Entity. 4th-Tier Defensive Spell Deployment Initiated. Orelli intuited the ‘defensive spell’ in a bizarre manner.
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It was the Writers.
Writers converging on a universal scale had activated the open-world setting.
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To Orelli, standing at the precipice of complete destruction through defense, they made a proposal: Ally with us. The Magical Anomalous Entity cannot be confronted by conventional means—it is a
boss monster…
a creature
… a magical calamity.
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The building began to crumble.
The 4th-Tier physical force defensive spell had finally deployed.
As the magic matured, the ‘pure destructive velocity’ actually slowed considerably compared to before.
Because its essence is a defensive spell, after all!

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