Book 16 Chapter 20

Chapter 84

'Seokjang… is he a mage capable of close combat like me?'

Dazeserus swallowed dryly, watching the mage who had instantly vaporized his partner with a single blow and was now charging straight towards him.

'Yes, this is the one. The one who is said to be the strongest mage of this generation, the one who caused Lord Zernix's downfall and angered Lord Kishua!'

This brat will now assume that I will finish Ludwig as quickly as possible.

"Get out of the way!"

He'll see that as an opening.

"Get out of the way if you want to live!"

But there's no way there isn't a recoil after using 5-star magic. I'll feign finishing Ludwig and then cut him down.

"Get out of the way? Don't make me laugh! I, Dazeserus of Paewoo, neither avoid nor hide!"

However, Rin… ran past Dazeserus, who was taking a sword stance, without stopping.

P-p-p-p-p-p-boom!

But the cave floor where his foot had landed immediately rose up like a barrier. Was this for visual disruption?

'This is interesting. I thought he chose close combat, but it was a stratagem for disruption?'

But you don't know the power of my holy relic.

'I will cut down the past where you just passed by me. My victory, youngest Glados (4-star) in history!'

However, at that moment, a being appeared, shattering the barrier into countless fragments… watery hair fluttered dazzlingly.

The woman's gaze was murderous!

She also ran past Dazeserus. Naturally, the holy relic's slash target changed from the boy to the woman. But no problem.

'I just have to kill them in order.'

The holy relic's blade cut through the heart of the past hero, that is, Rista.

No, it should have cut.

But the blade was stopped in front of her heart. What in the world! Was the wrist holding the holy relic not gripped by her hand?

'What?'

What happened?

So fast that she could interfere with the past?

Is there a human being capable of reacting to the action of cutting the past?

'That's impossible. Why else is it called a holy relic?'

But it was possible.

For what was before Dazeserus's eyes right now was the youngest Faequarius in history, and one of only two individuals in Faequarius history to be called a hero!

If he had accurately grasped the opponent's identity, he would not have attempted close combat, which goes against the fundamental nature of a mage.

"I'm kind of busy right now?"

Rista Alter Shirpen grasped the hilt of the holy sword that had shot up above her shoulder, and… time shattered into exactly 12 fragments.

In those 12 fragments, Dazeserus received exactly 12 death-dealing attacks…

Before the [King's Flesh] could even stitch together and regenerate his shattered body, it was brutally torn off by a gauntlet-clad hand.

'Ah, my, this is the end of me, who dreamed of reaching the pinnacle from a collateral family…'

Dazeserus's consciousness vanishes, and his magic power disappears.

Pop…!

The Page family's sealing magic, a soap bubble, burst. Juicy, who was on the verge of death due to erosion by the abyss, was finally freed and gasped for breath.

"Juicy, are you okay?"

As Leonia urgently ran over to check her condition, Juicy reviewed what had just happened before her eyes and thought this:

"Should I quit being a mercenary? Yes, I'll quit. It seems like the world will be peaceful with just those two, even if ordinary people like us don't fight."