The Return of the EX-Class Wizard - Chapter 91

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The Return of an EX-Rank Mage Episode 091
“I’ve been given a chance to change my class.”
“Change your class?”
Like most people, Choi Kang-chul was a relatively ordinary awakener and showed little interest in his system class or anything of that nature.
He harbored no particular ambitions—he simply hoped his stamina might improve somewhat.
But this situation was different.
“I went to check on Lee Tae-gwang’s condition, and a class succession notification appeared.”
“Class succession?”
Class succession.
For Choi Kang-mok, an EX-rank awakener, it was a particularly familiar mechanic.
“So the Occupying Lord had a succession setting as well.”
“Apparently. If I don’t make a decision within twenty-four hours, the opportunity passes to someone else.”
Here lay the dilemma.
Occupying Lord. It was certainly an enticing class.
Perhaps it could even prove more beneficial to my younger brother, an EX-rank awakener.
“If this fact becomes known, my life will become far busier.”
The Occupying Lord was a heritable class?
That fact alone would send assassins across the entire nation into a frenzy.
There was a high likelihood I would neglect my duties with the EX-rank Dedicated Team.
“Brother, I have a good idea.”
“A good idea?”
“What if you took over the North Korean Towers?”
“….”
“The Seoul Guild is understaffed anyway.”
With current personnel, managing Seoul alone was already stretched thin.
North Korea’s management had been delegated to the existing North Korean Guild members.
Even that was precarious.
“If you took charge of Pyongyang, I’d gain a reliable backer I could trust. The Seoul Guild Master might give me some pointed looks, but that’s something we can work out.”
Choi Kang-chul pondered a moment longer before speaking.
“That’s good too, but what about taking Shenyang first?”
“Shenyang all of a sudden?”
“The entire Lord’s Forces surrendered. Managing it should be easier.”
Management wouldn’t be difficult.
I could simply delegate it to the existing Lord’s Forces.
Choi Kang-chul became more assertive.
“I should send a message to Beijing too. They need to understand what happens when you touch an EX-rank awakener.”
Everyone knew Beijing was behind Shenyang.
They simply denied it officially.
“I won’t officially acknowledge it either.”
“….”
“Those Beijing bastards must be seething, right?”
The Magic School had crumbled, but the Tower still stood.
In the Tower Civilization era, losing a Tower to another nation was a matter of national humiliation.
Choi Kang-chul began to grow increasingly excited.
“If we take the Shenyang Tower… wouldn’t the system recognize the borders as our territory?”
“…I suppose so?”
My older brother rarely expressed emotions, so this was somewhat unfamiliar to me.
“Then we’d be expanding our territory peacefully, legally… wouldn’t we?”
“…Yeah, I guess that’s how it works.”
Choi Kang-chul clenched his fists tightly.
“And you’re saying you don’t know anything about this.”
“Huh?”
“Just thinking about it would make anyone furious, right?”
“This is good. Really good.”
A new Occupation Lord had been born.
His name was not disclosed, only his affiliation: Seoul Guild.
He declared himself a ‘Feudal Lord’.
The first Feudal Lord in Tower Civilization history.
The first thing he did was set his ‘headquarters’.
He chose the (former) Pyongyang Tower.
Now he had become both the Lord of Pyongyang and the Feudal Lord of Seoul.
[Breaking News: Feudal Lord Declares Conquest War on Shenyang]
The existing Shenyang Lord’s Forces chose not to resist and conceded defeat.
The Shenyang Tower became the (former) Shenyang Tower, and China lost one Tower.
[The Shenyang region within the nation (China) will be integrated.]
[Shenyang Region ▶▶▶ South Korea Region]
The same judgment was rendered as when the Unified Korea was declared.
The system incorporated Shenyang within South Korean borders, and physical barriers were erected at the boundary.
[Wait… isn’t this the first conquest in five thousand years?]
└A tearful documentary on national pride begins
└We gained land without spilling a single drop of blood?
└This is the system’s conquest war… a civilizational shock
└History books need to be rewritten lol
└The first Occupation Lord of the Korean Peninsula is a Feudal Lord lol
[But is this really okay?]
└Isn’t this basically a conquest war?
└China won’t just sit still, right?
└Nope, they can’t cross the border
└If they don’t sit still, what can they do~ what can they possibly do~
└The Shenyang residents are about to stage a coup
Experts unanimously expressed concern about chaos in Shenyang.
The possibility of riots was also raised.
[? Living in Shenyang right now and it’s surprisingly quiet. Taking selfies with the Taegeuk flag lol (photo attached)]
└Shenyang’s current state is more peaceful than Seoul
The drop rate for Ma Jeong-seok feels like it went up 3 times.
└I’m from Shenyang too, hope property values go up with this
In reality, the atmosphere resembled that of the North Korean period.
There was some extreme resistance, but overall the merger proceeded smoothly.
Most importantly, the Occupying Lord minimized the tribute ratio, maximizing benefits for the residents.
[Breaking News] Occupying Lord: “The Shenyang matter is unrelated to EX-rank Awakeners.”]
Beijing had claimed the Shenyang matter was unrelated to them.
└Beijing: “Not us”
└Seoul: “Not us either^^”
└Is this really a mirror match lolol
└Mirror therapy really works in reality too
└Nonsense reversed is the truth that makes people come to their senses

* * *
Intermediate Mage Owen possessed a gleaming bald head.
Hair loss from a magical experiment, but he didn’t mind much.
Baldness? Just a common side effect for mages.
But this situation was different.
“Why did a professor-rank mage appear in a dimension like this?”
“No, why is a professor-rank mage showing up in a dimension like this?”
This dimension was still in the 50s.
In terms of the Tower as a whole, I was barely at the toddler stage of exploration.
The dispatch of a professor-rank mage to such a place defied common sense.
Normally, only assistant-rank mages were sent to such locations.
“I thought I’d be the strongest here….”
Isn’t it the way of the world that a fox becomes king where there are no tigers?
But here, the tigers appeared earlier than expected.
Dimensions where professor-rank mages appear generally reach the 90s.
The appearance of such high-level personnel in the 50s meant something was going on.
“Normally there would need to be special conditions or something….”
From what I’d heard in passing, there was a rumor that a professor-rank mage had been invited to Shenyang recently.
If that were true, it meant something extraordinary was hidden in Shenyang….
But that professor suddenly appeared here?
I looked around and understood.
“Well, with facilities of this quality….”
This place had numerous NPC-exclusive zones.
A magical library where knowledge updates in real time.
A deep experimental zone capable of adjusting the flow of space and time to a certain degree.
A dimensional observation chamber specialized in observing the universe and multidimensional spaces.
An alchemy-specialized workshop operating ultra-high-temperature mana furnaces, and so forth.
It was a national research institute-level facility on the 90th floor range.
“Is this really possible on Earth…?”
The problem was that my contract was only for one month.
“If there are professors here, then I…”
I could easily be outcompeted.
“I need to make an impact.”
My employer.
In other words, I needed to make a good impression on the institute director.
“Hmm.”
My current assignment was “mana barrier research.”
Of course, I was conducting research, but this alone wasn’t enough to stand out.
I needed something more proactive, more visible results.
“But surely they’re not creating mana barriers just to clear the 40th floor range?”
That was a primitive technique used hundreds of years ago.
“Anyway, I need to work on my social skills.”
Owen began contemplating how to impress Choi Kang-mok, the institute director.
Right now, I needed political acumen more than magic.

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The conquest of Shenyang.
These few words alone shook the entire Chinese continent.
Especially the Lords of major cities, including Beijing, vehemently opposed the move.
[This is an invasion without justification. Seoul must immediately return Shenyang.]
Seoul swiftly issued a counter-statement.
[This incident is unrelated to Seoul. It is merely the unilateral action of the Occupying Lord.]
The Korean government itself refrained from directly stating that Shenyang was Korean territory.
The System had simply made that determination.
[This is a new form of warfare. The Occupying Lord is planting sweet illusions in the minds of Shenyang’s citizens. For now, he touts civilization and benefits, but soon his true nature will be revealed.]
Led by Beijing, countless Lords and government officials throughout China condemned the action fiercely.
Yet there was nothing they could practically do.
The borders were completely sealed, and the citizens of Shenyang’s response was not unfavorable.
In the conference hall, Beijing Lord Zhang Ping slammed the table.
His face had flushed crimson, like an iron plate heated in a furnace.
“Those traitorous bastards from Shenyang have crawled back into Shenyang territory?”
“Yes. It appears they have been delegated administrative authority by the Occupying Lord.”
“Slaughter every last one of those bastards.”
….
The borders were sealed.
There was no one of sufficient skill in Shenyang itself to threaten the Shenyang Lord’s Forces.
“The Lords of other small and medium cities near Shenyang are growing restless.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“It is that….”
Low-level Awakeners of Shenyang, miners, mages.
All of them now had access to South Korea’s infrastructure.
The world’s finest Tower at the lower levels, the Golden Labyrinth, the Seoul Mine, even the Pyongyang Magical Research Institute.
[Aren’t those garbage cities better off being conquered?]
└Busan even had its second golden age lol
└222 Pyongyang too
China went so far as to publicly execute several high-ranking Guild officials to prevent internal unrest.
“Is there any way to reclaim Shenyang?”
“…There is not.”
Beijing Lord bit his lip and spoke.
“Shenyang without the Magic School is worthless anyway… we don’t need it.”
“Indeed. It is merely a region with ongoing maintenance costs.”
Shenyang without the Magic School was no longer Shenyang.
“Let us consider it a victory simply to have purged those traitors.”
Within China, the narrative spread that “Shenyang is now a worthless garbage region.”
[Yeah~ that trash map lol you guys take it]
└Mental victory mode activated lol
└But what does Shenyang have besides the Magic School?
└It was always a third-rate city. Without the Magic School, it’s just empty land
That was the prevailing opinion within China.
[Doesn’t occupation have restrictions and cooldown timers?]
└lol even the Occupation Lord is ridiculous. Why did he have to take Shenyang of all places
└Just passing by as a political science student, but the losses outweigh the gains. This is the academic community’s lunch break
└One more narrow-minded Lord added~
└Pyongyang’s probably going to fall into a losing strategy soon too. Prophecy coming true~
Around that time, intermediate-rank mage Owen set foot on Shenyang soil.
His bald head gleamed, and he wore a coat slightly longer than usual.
At his side was his employer, Choi Kang-mok.

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