The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 409

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Chapter 409
Chapter 409
The Hidden Crystal Palace.
Once soldiers of the Zulia Kingdom, they had been resurrected in bodies of crystal.
Yet their condition could hardly be called normal.
For reason had abandoned them entirely.
Only one thing remained within them.
Unwavering loyalty to the Queen.
They sang her praises and moved at her command.
That was all.
And yet.
To such beings.
A shimmering veil descended.
The Beast Realm’s sovereign.
The Celestial Fantasy Dragon’s Spirit Realm mist enveloped them completely.
They had paused momentarily in response to the enemy’s assault, but now they stood immune to all attacks.
Fear held no purchase over them.
Thus, following the Queen’s command, they moved to strike down the intruder—
“Your Majesty!”
“How did you—!”
The intruder had vanished.
Where the intruder had stood, the Queen now remained.
How was this possible?
Surely just moments before, the Queen had been behind them.
Had the intruder employed some stratagem?
As confusion gripped them—
“Behind you.”
The Queen before them provided the answer.
The Crystal Soldiers turned naturally.
And indeed, as the Queen had said—
“The intruder!”
“What treachery is this!”
“How dare you assault Her Majesty!”
The intruder stood at their rear.
The Crystal Soldiers hastily reformed their formation.
Shield-bearers positioned themselves before the intruder while archers and mages retreated behind for protection.
Being seasoned warriors, they restructured their ranks with remarkable speed despite the chaos.
Then.
“What are you doing! With the intruder before you, why do you face away from me!”
The intruder spouted nonsense.
How dare you imitate the Queen.
For those whose minds held nothing but loyalty to the Queen, there was no greater source of fury.
“Cut down the intruder!”
“Bring the intruder’s head to Her Majesty!”
Without hesitation, the Crystal Soldiers rushed toward the intruder.
They swung swords, thrust spears, fired arrows, and cast magic.
All manner of crystal weapons assailed the intruder.
“Come to your senses! I am not an intruder!”
“You still impersonate Her Majesty!”
That was right.
The illusion magic that Celestial Fantasy Dragon had unleashed this time.
Its effect was remarkably simple.
It swapped the existence of Mir and the Queen.
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“What, what is this? How did you do that? Why are they attacking their own boss?”
“Illusion magic.”
“Illusion magic? Wow, you can use illusion magic too? That’s incredible!”
An attack borrowed from Celestial Fantasy Dragon’s power.
That illusion magic proved remarkably effective.
I had initially thought that since these Crystal Soldiers were little more than golems, illusion magic might not work on them.
Fortunately, the illusion magic worked far better than expected.
Perhaps they still retained some semblance of reason despite their appearance.
Or perhaps Celestial Fantasy Dragon’s illusion magic was powerful enough to affect even golem-like monsters.
It had to be one or the other.
In any case, thanks to that.
“Come to your senses! I am not an intruder!”
I had gained considerable time.
The Queen was too preoccupied with being attacked by her own soldiers to think clearly.
Even as she took their blows, she seemed unable to counterattack against what she believed to be her own soldiers, merely bewildered.
I wondered if the soldiers might land a fatal blow against the Queen.
‘She’s quite durable.’
The defensive crystal barrier the Queen had created.
It was as solid as the one that had blocked the Dungeon’s Entrance.
It was so resilient that even when the Crystal Soldiers wielded their force-imbued blades and cast crystal magic, not a single scratch appeared.
Setting aside other matters, the blade force of a Crystal Knight was quite formidable.
The fact that even that couldn’t penetrate suggested her defensive capabilities exceeded my expectations.
I considered pressing forward alongside the Crystal Soldiers against the Queen.
‘The illusion magic’s duration isn’t as long as I’d hoped.’
Celestial Fantasy Dragon’s mist.
That illusion magic was powerful enough to make targets wander eternally.
However, that only applies when the Celestial Fantasy Dragon continuously maintained the mist in the Spirit Realm.
The dimensional gate to the Beast Realm had long since closed, and with the Celestial Fantasy Dragon’s breath stilled, the mist would undoubtedly disperse soon.
The queen also seemed to have no intention of attacking her own soldiers.
If I dragged out time like this, the soldiers would regain consciousness and the same situation would repeat.
Therefore.
‘First, the chandelier.’
The object protecting the soldiers.
I decided to deal with the chandelier first.
The ceiling where the chandelier hung was as high as the vast chamber itself, but I had no need to use flying equipment like the Wings of Icarus or Talaria.
[ The set effect of ‘Purple Mechanical God’s Dominion’ activates. ]
After equipping the Purple Mechanical God’s Dominion set and activating its set effect.
– I activate the skill ‘White Fish Swimming’.
I use White Fish Swimming enhanced by that ability.
Recently, I had traveled to all manner of professional guilds and learned every occupational skill available.
Among them were countless movement skills, and all of them had been absorbed into White Fish Swimming.
Therefore, if I concentrated White Fish Swimming’s power entirely on ‘leaping’.
Whoosh!
A leap nearly approaching flight becomes possible.
Having leaped impossibly high—so high it seemed beyond human capability—I managed to barely grasp the crimson chandelier.
Then, pulling myself up onto the chandelier.
I attempted to cut the cord suspending the chandelier, but.
Ting!
‘As expected, it won’t work.’
The cord remained uncut.
Despite being clearly thin, the blade wouldn’t bite into it at all—it appeared to be in a state of perfect immunity to physical attacks.
Since this was a chandelier that blocked fire properties, I tried using water magic, the opposing attribute to fire.
‘That doesn’t work either.’
No matter how powerfully I struck with water magic, it merely flowed away futilely.
Next, on a whim, I attempted fire magic.
Whoosh!
‘It works.’
Surprisingly, fire magic proved effective.
The moment I confirmed this, I began preparing my magic.
“Kyaaaagh! No! That chandelier is a treasure of our Zulia Kingdom!”
Then the queen, discovering me, grew furious and attempted to raise her crystal staff, but.
“How dare an intruder speak of Zulia Kingdom’s treasures!”
“I will not forgive this!”
“Come to your senses, my jewels! The intruder is not me, but that creature!”
“Did you truly think someone with such a dark appearance could impersonate our beautiful queen!”
“Protect the queen!”
“My precious gems, please….”
Though the Crystal Soldiers couldn’t land meaningful attacks on the Queen.
They were capable of blocking her assaults.
Since they recognized me as their Queen, they threw themselves forward to intercept her staff at any cost.
In that window, I completed my spell incantation.
– I activate the 7th Circle fire magic ‘Flare’.
Unlike Inferno, a large-scale area spell, Flare is a powerful single-target fire magic of concentrated intensity.
A spell that unleashes ultra-high temperature flames upon an opponent—Flare itself.
Downward.
Toward the crimson chandelier beneath my feet, I unleashed it.
Craaackle!
An enormous inferno.
As a single-target 7th Circle spell, its destructive force transcended imagination.
The chandelier touched by Flare began to liquefy and melt in an instant.
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
The Queen responded with fury, employing crystal magic.
“Protect the Queen!”
“My gems, please! Please! The intruder is not me—it’s that one!”
“Nonsense!”
Each time, the Crystal Soldiers interfered or threw themselves forward to absorb the crystal magic in my stead.
Extraordinary loyalty.
Thanks to them, I maintained the spell without interruption.
As a result, the crimson chandelier dripped and melted away.
Thud.
It fell to the ground.
I managed to hold on by grasping the rope attached to the chandelier.
The consequence was.
Uuuuung—.
The Crystal Soldiers’ bodies shimmered red once before vanishing.
I hadn’t confirmed it yet, but I could sense it.
The fire attribute immunity had completely vanished from the Crystal Soldiers.
Now I could deploy Inferno and incinerate them all.
But I did not.
And for good reason.
‘The Queen is affected as well.’
The red shimmer just now wasn’t limited to the Crystal Soldiers.
The Hidden Crystal Palace’s boss monster.
The Queen’s body also shimmered red before vanishing.
The Queen possessed fire attribute immunity, and the chandelier’s destruction was proof that her immunity had been completely stripped away.
But at the same time.
‘Another barrier appeared.’
The Crystal Queen’s body was surrounded by a rainbow of multicolored barriers.
Among them, only the red one had vanished.
Having conquered countless dungeons in First and defeated numerous boss monsters, I could sense it instinctively.
I understood without needing to think.
‘To damage the Queen, I need to destroy all the chandeliers.’
The moment this realization struck me.
Rather than deploying Fire Storm to melt the Crystal Soldiers.
– Activating skill ‘White Fish Swimming’.
Whoosh!
Using White Fish Swimming, I leaped toward the next chandelier.
This time, I seized the blue chandelier.
Accordingly.
– Activating 7th Circle water magic ‘Sea Blaster’.
Like Flare, this 7th Circle water magic unleashed a concentrated water cannon with pinpoint precision.
I unleashed the Sea Blaster.
Naturally, the blue chandelier shattered helplessly under the water cannon’s assault.
Whooom—.
A thin blue defensive barrier peeled away from both the Crystal Soldiers and the Queen’s body.
Now that I had grasped the Queen’s weakness with certainty, I began systematically destroying the chandeliers one after another.
– Activating 7th Circle wind magic ‘Sonic Buster’.
I shattered the white chandelier with 7th Circle wind magic that triggered a wind explosion.
– Activating 7th Circle earth magic ‘Earthquake’.
I manipulated the range of Earthquake, the magic that triggered tremors, to focus the seismic force directly on the brown chandelier, shattering it to pieces.
As I destroyed each chandelier one by one.
“Kyaaaaaaagh!”
The Queen’s anguished scream from below grew increasingly piercing.
The more I destroyed, the more desperately the Crystal Soldiers surrounded the Queen, attempting to protect her from me.
“Jewels! Think about it! Those chandeliers are treasures of the Zulia Kingdom! National treasures, no less!”
“You came knowing about them? Could it be you came to steal the chandeliers?”
“Jewels, think about it! If I were you! If I were the Queen, how could I be destroying the national treasures of the Zulia Kingdom!”
“That’s… ”
“Think about it, my jewels!”
The mist was gradually thinning.
It was proof that the Celestial Fantasy Dragon’s mist was losing its power.
Correspondingly, the Crystal Soldiers were regaining their senses.
The illusion hadn’t completely broken yet, but as it weakened, they seemed to be accepting the Queen’s words.
At this rate, the illusion would dispel soon.
Therefore, I moved faster.
I destroyed all the multicolored chandeliers that controlled the various elemental attributes.
For anyone else, it would have been impossible, but as the All Master who had mastered magic of every attribute and wielded weapons of every element, it was within my grasp.
“Come to your senses, my precious gems!”
“Y-Your Majesty?”
“What in the world is happening….”
Moments later.
By the time the Crystal Soldiers regained consciousness.
“… The last one.”
I stood atop the grandest chandelier in the hall.
Perched upon the colorless final chandelier positioned directly above the Queen’s head.

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