Chapter 103
The place I arrived at, piercing through space, was a vast plain.
The only thing visible in the seemingly empty plain was a house made of wood.
A house that looked suspicious at first glance.
“That’s it.”
I could tell immediately.
A wooden house that blatantly reeked of a trap.
I checked if the guy from earlier was lurking around, but no one was nearby.
I also tried sensing if anyone was inside the house, but I couldn’t detect anything.
It felt as though something was blocking my senses, making it seem invisible.
To be precise, the area around the house gave off a blurry, undefined feeling, rendering it undetectable.
‘Where the hell did that guy go?’
I thought he’d be waiting for me right after crossing over, but that wasn’t the case.
I had prepared for an immediate attack upon arrival, yet the surroundings were completely empty.
‘Still, I can’t believe everything is playing out exactly as I predicted.’
As the situation calmed down, I had a moment to reflect on what had just happened.
After that nameless guy disappeared, Ordin and the O’Neill Kingdom soldiers immediately turned their focus to me.
Their transition was astonishingly swift.
Though I had anticipated it, their fury toward me exceeded expectations.
“Good grief, it’s been years already.”
Grumbling to myself, I slowly made my way toward the wooden house.
At any rate, thanks to Professor Amilion, I escaped that situation unscathed.
Now, the important thing was Elaine.
The reason I risked exposing myself as the leader of the Black Shadow Corps in O’Neill was all to rescue Elaine.
The most critical goal had not yet been achieved.
Clenching the Black Shadow Sword tightly in my hand, I took another step forward.
Even without the quest, I would’ve gone to rescue Elaine. Fortunately, there was a quest involved as well.
Every condition to give it my all was perfectly in place.
Fwoosh—
‘Wind?’
As I heightened my focus and advanced step by step, an artificial wind blew from the front.
The sharp wind swept across my body thoroughly as it passed by.
Suspicious at first glance.
The moment I sensed the strangeness and stopped moving.
Boom—
With a sound I had grown accustomed to hearing, someone appeared in front of me.
A man cloaked in a white robe.
The very guy who had fled from me earlier.
“You’re finally here?”
“…Why is the Black Shadow Corps interfering in our matters? Starting from the hourglass incident.”
“Oh. So, you know about that?”
The White-Robed Man muttered in a low voice, as if talking to himself.
It seemed the hourglass theft was well-known among their ranks too.
“So, you were involved in what happened to the Third Elder.”
“You’re quick-witted.”
I didn’t bother denying his words.
There was no one around to overhear, and whether this man knew or not made no difference to me.
“Here to get revenge?”
“I have no interest in such petty emotions. However.”
“However?”
“You’ve disrupted a significant portion of our plans. That must be compensated for.”
Unlike earlier, when he had fled with his tail between his legs, the man now exuded confidence.
I didn’t know the source of that confidence, but I had never lost in terms of self-assurance either.
“You’re the one who’ll be paying.”
“What.”
“You kidnapped an innocent student, didn’t you?”
“Heh. So that girl is precious to you…”
Shing—
Before he could finish speaking, I swiftly charged at him.
The man seemed completely unprepared for my attack, but my sword didn’t reach him.
As if expecting this, a powerful barrier unfolded around him.
“Impatient, aren’t you?”
The man’s voice carried a mocking tone as he blocked my attack.
As if he truly believed he had perfectly defended himself with just one barrier.
“You’re the one who’s hasty.”
Vmmm—
The sound of space trembling resonated, and the area around my sword began to vibrate subtly.
A unique phenomenon triggered whenever spatial movement occurred.
Whoosh—
“Huh.”
“You’re quicker than you look.”
“W-what?”
The man stumbled backward, muttering in a voice full of panic.
Though it seemed my sword was stopped by the solid barrier, it pierced through regardless.
I had hoped to strike him down while he was off guard, but unfortunately, his movements were surprisingly agile.
Even earlier, I had noticed how nimble he was for a mage.
‘Man, this is tougher than I thought.’
It wasn’t merely about wielding a sword; I was opening the space around the object I held.
This technique demanded an absurd level of concentration.
In the midst of battle, it wasn’t something I could use recklessly unless there was a clear opening, like just now.
Hop— Tap—
Still, showing him that I could bypass his barrier was a worthwhile move.
The fact that barriers were useless had been planted into his mind, and now he would be even more cautious.
Judging by how he hastily retreated, my prediction was spot on.
“Urgh.”
The groan that escaped his lips coincided with my second charge.
Vmmm—
When I suddenly appeared in front of him through Spatial Movement, he reacted violently.
Crackle—
Jumping back with a large leap, the man cast a spell at me simultaneously.
‘This is…’
I felt a distinctly familiar energy emanating from the magic he used.
It shared the same properties as Randgar Bayel’s black mana.
However, whereas Randgar’s attacks felt rough and crude, this one was different.
It was clean, cold, and orderly.
Vmmm—
Recalling my battle experience with Randgar, I didn’t recklessly try to cut through the man’s magic.
Instead, I reached out, opened a space, and sent the magic to another dimension.
It was the right choice.
Up close, I could tell that his magic, like Randgar’s mana, was not something that could be directly confronted.
“You truly are someone capable of defeating the Third Elder.”
“The Third Elder?”
“Yes. The fool who got taken down in Crescent.”
“Ah, so Randgar was the Third Elder? Then, does that make you the Second Elder?”
“I am the Nameless First Elder.”
“Oh, really? Does being the First Elder mean you’re the strongest?”
“The number of an Elder has nothing to do with strength.”
“Really? Then it’s possible you’re weaker than Randgar.”
The First Elder seemed unwilling to exchange more words with me and stepped back.
Before I realized it, the First Elder was floating in the air.
As he began to gather mana at his fingertips, preparing something, I refocused my attention.
According to his words, the numbers didn’t correlate with strength, but my instincts told me otherwise.
This First Elder was not someone to be underestimated.
The speed at which he gathered and redistributed mana was on a completely different level than Randgar.
While Randgar had been skilled enough to be chosen as Crescent Academy’s Vice Principal, he wasn’t on this level.
Mana gathered in both of the First Elder’s hands, each forming into a different shape, and soon began to move.
‘Is he casting two spells simultaneously with both hands?’
That’s impressive.
‘This won’t be easy.’
Such thoughts came naturally to me.
***
‘What kind of technique is this?’
Kilbis had already known the leader of the Black Shadow Corps used unusual abilities.
But he hadn’t expected them to be this unpredictable.
Swoosh—
Feeling black mana rapidly gathering in both his hands, Kilbis pondered.
The abilities the Black Shadow Corps’ leader had shown so far.
Spatial Movement, executed with incredible speed, and the ominous sword he wielded.
And that technique from earlier—Kilbis couldn’t even begin to guess what it was.
It wasn’t about cutting through a high-grade barrier but simply ‘passing through’ it.
It felt like a form of black magic completely beyond the reach of ordinary mana.
‘No wonder the Third Elder fell.’
Kilbis thought seriously about this.
As the Nameless First Elder, Kilbis served the Founder and the Nameless Demon with utmost loyalty.
But before all that, Kilbis was a mage.
A world-renowned prodigy, no less.
For a mage like him, encountering new magical discoveries was thrilling.
He had never seen anyone use Spatial Movement magic so quickly and precisely, let alone a technique like this.
As a mage, Kilbis felt his blood boiling with excitement.
He desperately wanted to uncover the principles behind the Black Shadow Corps leader’s techniques.
‘If I use the preparations I’ve made, I can push him to his limit.’
Even while creating two distinct spells with both hands, Kilbis was already strategizing.
As everyone expected, Kilbis had lured the fight to this location as part of a larger plan.
The wooden house behind him was, in fact, his research lab and hideout.
Kilbis had risked exposing everything by bringing his enemy here for one reason.
He felt unbeatable when fighting in this place.
As a natural-born mage and researcher, Kilbis differed from the other two Nameless Elders.
He always acted alone.
Kilbis operated freely, without subordinates, using not just the wooden house but the entire surrounding plain as his research lab.
Clench—
As Kilbis tightened his fists, two distinct spells formed completely in his hands.
One was a small sphere of black mana, and the other was a mist.
Swoosh—
‘Let’s test how far he can go.’
Kilbis hid the black sphere in the widespread mist and hurled it toward the Black Shadow Corps leader.
The sphere flew directly at its target, who stood idly on the ground below.
However, Kilbis’s gaze wasn’t focused on the Black Shadow Corps leader.
Instead, he looked at the hundreds of magic circles hidden throughout the area.
These were spells he had inscribed during his research and training.
Even if he activated only a few dozen, it would be enough to kill that man.
‘I’ll uncover all your abilities.’
But Kilbis had no intention of ending it so easily.
Slowly and methodically, he planned to push the Black Shadow Corps leader to his limits, uncovering everything he could.
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