Episode 149 – Archmage vs Mage Tower Master (Iri’s point of view)

Power and power, magic and magic, life collided with life. Whistle… it wasn’t. Because Master was pushing back little by little. Master’s status as a wizard was far higher. Because he was a master of all types of magic. In comparison, the magic of Tristan could only handle the magic of the earth. In terms of rank, Master’s side has the upper hand without question, but…

In combat, it was different. If Master is a master of the ten swords of fire, water, ice, lightning, earth, wood, wind, steel, light, and darkness, the ten attributes of magic… Tristan will forge one sword of earth magic to the limit. He was a well-honed master.

“Why is that, Archmage? Your hand stopped and the chant stopped. Didn’t you kill me? Surely that’s all you have as a ‘man’?”

“Shut the fuck up…”

It seemed that Master had injured his left arm and was unable to use his power. At a time like this, it would have been nice if there was at least one contract with the King of Spirits… That damned little god was still refusing to give me back the contract, making excuses like this.

“Is this movement an Eastern jujutsu… But it’s not meaningless to use that kind of skill.

“Tsk… The Horn of the Thunder Dragon…”

“You’ve got a long window.”

Before Master finished the chant, he swung his rock arm. Master was in a hurry to block or avoid the attack, so he couldn’t even attack properly. Giving up magic and avoiding attacks with bare hands, or blocking the attack with the armor of the rock.

It looked like this… I had never seen it before returning. Gaius, Lord of the Mage Tower of the Earth, I met him before returning, but I didn’t know he was this strong. I just know that he was a horseman when he was young. Of course, even then, I always held weight and acted like the owner of the mage tower. I’ve never seen a sign of the way I am now. What the hell happened to change like that?

The Black Round Table I killed were just those involved in Master’s death. I thought it was just an assassination organization related to pagans… What the hell is this monster?

After I started my research… I just made a barrier that couldn’t be invaded from the outside, and I’m stuck in the lab, so I don’t know what happened.

Suddenly, I remembered the conversation the little boy had with God.

[No matter how much you turn back time, regrets remain. Even if you turn back time like crazy for one purpose, in the end there will be something you didn’t save or get. And… the guy called fate is not so easy. If you avoid one catastrophe, you will be returned with two or more catastrophes.]

[You say it as if you’ve experienced it many times?]

[Oh, I’ve only seen such a person once. There is no one other than him who can overcome the fate of regression and achieve his goal. Well, in the end, he also left regrets.]

[Simple. It’s something I have to do when I’m stronger than that person. If you overcome the fate of returning without leaving any regrets or anything behind…]

[Don’t be ridiculous, kid. If that human waved his hand just once, your world would crumble like a biscuit.]

[what…]

[Don’t underestimate fate. This is not a benefit for you or anything. The return I will give you is a punishment bestowed upon you.]

It meant something like this. No matter how you try to evade fate… The damn bastard called fate twists everything to see the predetermined ending. I couldn’t change it and it was punishment to just watch it…

It’s the same. Who would be watching? Even without a contract with the Spirit King, I am strong.

“A bullet of fire———”

At that time, a bullet from a stone came flying, just as Master had suffered. Tristan again ricocheted off the nearby rocks, aiming for my thigh. My mind was dizzy. Because of the pain, I almost had to break the brothel.

“You dared to get involved in a ‘man’ game. Your liver has gone overboard. Even a god shouldn’t get involved in a man’s match. Besides, you know my skills and yet you fight, you’re not rational, you’re not like a ‘wizard’.”

It hurt. I’m going crazy and I think the chant will be cut off. Even if I give up now… damn it. It’s just that this isn’t pain. Master’s cold body, the callous gazes of others, my father who was indifferent to me, and the relationship between my mother and father who were rough because of Master’s death… Compared to those things, this is not painful.

“Cut the wind and go on.”

The bullets of fire destroyed the rock armor he was wearing.

“Good job Airi!”

Master didn’t miss the chance and kicked the guy’s ribs with his foot. Because of the pain, the rock arm he wielded turned to dust and disappeared. When that arm that was getting in the way disappeared

“Twin-brained dragon’s horns, pierce the enemy!”

Lightning in the form of twin dragons cut off Tristan’s right arm and pierced his chest. There would be no one who could survive a spell like that.

“Thanks to your apprentice, you saved your life, Archmage. Can you still call yourself a ‘man’?”

The guy was alive and well. The arm of the rock was regenerated again to stop the bleeding of the severed arm. However, there was blood flowing through his chest, but he didn’t mind.

Master ignored this and said,

“To wake up after getting hit by that… You can’t believe you have a special constitution like that bastard Pellinore?”

“no.”

Tristan said, correcting his slightly crooked sunglasses.

“This is the spirit of a ‘man’. Did you think that it could be stopped just by having your arm cut off and your chest cut off? Did you think that you could stop my proof with just that?”

“Since before, you’re a man, you’re proof, you’re talking bullshit…”

“You can think whatever you want. Archmage, I don’t want you to understand. It would be greedy even for a ‘man’ to want the person to take my life to understand.”

“What about this? I have no intention of dying.”

“Yes, when our interests do not match, we fight right and wrong with a life-and-death struggle. That is ‘man’.”

“Ah, so you seem to have forgotten how to communicate?”

“There is no more conversation I want to have with this rotten world. And since the number just now may be interrupted… Let’s speed it up a little more.”

After saying that, he stood up and fired the boulder bullets again. Of course, this time it was shot and ricocheted. It was close to impossible to avoid the bullets that ricocheted at high speed from front to back, left and right, and did not know when to aim for him. Of course, Master focused on the sound of the bullets bouncing and avoided them by a single piece of paper… but the ricochet continued and continued to aim for Master’s body.

Besides, that wasn’t the only thing that was targeting Master’s body.

“You seem to have forgotten my arm, Archmage.”

It was impossible to avoid all of them, let alone attack, the bullets flying irregularly from the front, left, and right, and the rock arm that would die in one shot if hit. If it weren’t for those rocks scattered around… but Tristan is no fool either. If I destroy a rock once, it will respond immediately.

Earth magic boasted the highest hardness among magic. It must be close to impossible to destroy all the rocks scattered in this valley with my current skills at once.

“…But fuck the impossible.”

If he was going to give up on the grounds that it was impossible in the first place, he would not return.

“Bullets of fire…”

“Another vulgar thing is the fight between ‘men’…”

“Cut the wind and go on.”

You don’t have to destroy all the rocks. The core rocks that are the core of the ricochet have already been identified. So… just destroying them is enough.

Thanks to this, the ricochet stopped, and one of Tristan’s numbers was sealed. But a problem arose. I was only focused on attacking, so I didn’t pay attention to the rock arm he wielded.

Wedge liquid! A heavy shock wrapped around my whole body with the sound of cutting the wind.

“Iri!”

“Master, don’t approach me.

Tristan was furious. yeah this is what i was aiming for The most frightening thing about this guy was his coolness and composure. Even though the bullets he fired in advance moved frantically back and forth, he calculated the angles in advance and moved accordingly, pressurizing Master.

“It’s pitiful, Archmage. You can’t even save a weak disciple from me…”

“Shut up, this fuck!”

“The weak cannot protect those they love. The weak simply hold on to the corpse and make promises to themselves. The weak do not deserve to be called teachers. The weak do not even have the right to have disciples. A young and powerless archmage. W… Such a person ‘doesn’t even deserve to be called a man.’

Master seemed shocked.

This dog …

I spoke in a low voice that only he could hear.

“Then you are not a man either.”

“what…?”

“Now I just remembered… Our master is the one who would sacrifice his life to save me… but you are the heartless master who killed his student.

He succeeded in drawing out Tristan’s wrath even more.

“Archangel, you will lose all your precious people today. Your pupil will die by my hands, and your fiancée by my friend Kei. Watch the scene helplessly and blame your own weakness.”

“That’s crazy. Do you think that Glaceon is easily searched for? She’s a bitch who will pop out of her belly even if she’s swallowed by a dragon. And Master has the greatest talent of all time…”

“Who lowered that standard of talent?”

“What?”

“I will deny everything and prove it. Even if it means denying magic, the world, and God!!!”