“The power is enormous, but the attribute is light anyway, right? “Then you can reflect it.”
It’s the first artifact I’ve seen, but it’s Reppenhardt, a demon lord in name. The activating principle of the Sword of Disconnection was immediately recognizable as soon as I saw it.
A method of splitting a target by generating a flash of extremely high heat, but the medium that delivers the destructive power is ultimately light. In other words, if you respond by scattering or reflecting the light, you can defend yourself with this cheap(?) magic.
“… … .”
Jade was shocked and couldn’t keep her mouth shut. Even the sword of severance can be blocked? That rugged monk is showing more sophisticated magic than he is, a magician of the 7th circle. His head was dizzy.
‘Am I crazy, or is the world crazy? … .’
Reppenhardt rushed towards Jade with terrifying force. Activating Blink Boots in succession to increase the distance, Jade continued to shoot magic and swing the Sword of Severance. Sparks, electricity, cold air, and disks of light were shot out one after another.
However, Reppenhardt continued to block the magic and persistently tracked Jade by reflecting it with the black reflect mirror of disconnection. Later on, he didn’t hesitate to do strange things, probably because he got tired of destroying them one by one.
“Hey, dispel punch!”
For whatever reason, he casts dispel magic on his fist and begins to pummel the magic activated with it one by one. It was a magic I had never heard of before.
‘No, where on earth do they teach something like that?’
In fact, Repenhardt, who was very excited about using magic, had inadvertently developed a new spell, but Jade could not have known about it.
Anyway, Jade was running away like crazy. Neither magic nor the sword of severance worked, so there was only one thing he could trust now. I was breaking out in a cold sweat and kept activating my Blink boots.
pop! pop! pop!
Reppenhardt frowned as he watched Jade pull away as soon as she got caught.
‘Ah, those Blink boots are a pain in the ass. It wasn’t a big deal before.’
There was no problem when dealing with those Blink boots in my past life.
The assassin who used blink boots at that time was fully armed with more artifacts than Jade is now, but he was not a difficult opponent at all for Repenhardt, who was already a 10th circle wizard.
‘I can easily deal with it with just one AMP shockwave, but I can’t use it… … Tsk.’
Circle 10 ultimate spell, AMP Shockwave (Arcane Magic Pulse Shockwave).
This spell, created by Reppenhardt himself, had the power to stop all magic weapons within a set radius by interfering with the flow of the world’s mana, its source.
Although it had the disadvantage of not being able to distinguish between enemy and enemy, no matter whether it was an ordinary magic tool, a Silver Age relic, or an ultra-advanced artifact, it could not escape the influence of this spell. It was a magic so powerful that it even caused Magrim, the Underworld Sun, to pause. Afterwards, a horrified Reppenhardt immediately restarted it.
No matter how many incredible Silver Age artifacts you are armed with, one hit of that magic will just sink you. So at the time, it was really easy to take out the assassin. Although I was unable to find out who was behind the captured assassin’s suicide, I remember happily retrieving the artifacts he had and handing them out to Siris and Tashid.
‘Well, when Siris used it, she complained that it had a lot of weaknesses, but when I actually deal with it, it’s really annoying… … huh?’
Reppenhardt’s expression, which had been grumbling, suddenly brightened. Now that I think about it, those Blink boots definitely had a weakness. No, there were a lot!
“Hmm!”
With a repentant smile, Reppenhardt launched himself into the air. Aiming for Jade’s head, he delivers a long kick. This time, using Blink Boots, Jade jumped over the space 20 meters backwards.
At that moment, Reppenhardt stabbed the ground deeply with his foot outstretched.
“Avalanche Kick!”
Kwaaaaang!
The castle wall was half destroyed and the earthen piles vibrated all at once and spread out in a large circle. A merciless wave of the earth, just three meters high, began to cover the southern wall of Hundargad, raising dust. Jade, who had just moved to a new location, opened her eyes.
“Oops!”
A huge tsunami of dirt surges across the field of vision. I didn’t even have time to use Blink again. In an instant, a pile of dirt swept past Jade.
Kwakwakwakwa!
Reppenhardt, standing at the center of the ripples, grinned.
“If they show up here and there, they’ll be wiped out completely, right?”
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“Ugh… … .”
Jade, buried in a pile of dirt, wriggled and tried to get up.
It was truly a miserable sight. His clothes were torn to shreds and he was covered in dirt from head to toe, making him literally look like a beggar.
Of course, that doesn’t give me any sympathy. Reppenhardt quickly approached and immediately swung the capital.
The golden auror’s blade severed both of Jade’s ankles. A desperate scream erupted.
“Ugh!”
Jade rolled around on the floor, bleeding. Although he was in truly cruel hands, Reppenhardt remained calm.
“I need to stop using these annoying boots first.”
Jade raised her head, sweating profusely from the pain. She said as he stuttered with an incredulous look on his face.
“Ugh, ugh! I never thought I would use this method… … .”
I’ve used Blink boots several times, but I never knew they had this weakness. Until now, when dealing with Auror users, victory or defeat was almost decided once the distance was widened and magic was fired.
Although their power is strong, Auror users have a lower ability to respond to various situations compared to wizards. When multiple magics are applied in combination, it is difficult to escape with aura alone. In fact, wasn’t Leffenhardt at a loss for a solution until he started using magic?
Of course, if that’s all it takes, as time goes by, the Auror user will somehow find an opportunity to counterattack. However, what flies towards the stranded opponent is the flash of inability to defend, the sword of severance.
All of the Auror users Jade faced had to fall helplessly in front of the deceptive performance of the two artifacts that allowed movement and attack without delay. As a result, no opponent had been fighting long enough to realize Blink Boots’ weakness.
Reppenhardt made a shocked expression.
‘No, actually, this is a method you often used with Siris… … .’
In her previous life, Jade used to limit her movements by lightly applying various wide-area magic whenever Siris used her blink boots. She only applied it slightly.
In short, can we say that he fell victim to his own tricks?
“Ugh… … .”
Jade’s complexion gradually turned pale. Blood was continuously flowing from both her cut ankles.
If left like this, she would die from excessive bleeding, so Reppenhardt thought about it for a moment and then unleashed his aura to stop the bleeding on both of Jade’s ankles. Actually, I was planning on leaving him to die like this, but… … .
‘It’s a bit uncomfortable to do that.’
It wasn’t that Jade was a talent worth letting die.
Unlike Cyrus and Karsas, Jade was arrogant and cruel by nature. I heard that even in his past life, he only acted good on the outside, calling himself a light mage, but behind the scenes he committed all kinds of evil deeds.
Killing Siris was an incident from her past life, and even if we assume that Jade of this era is not guilty, her current impression is not enough to make her unlikable at all.
What I was concerned about was the sword of disconnection and the blink boots.
‘If these Blink boots were originally Jade’s… … Was the assassin from his previous life related to the Arkwright family?’
Although he was easily defeated thanks to the AMP Shockwave, the assassin’s equipment was actually unusual. Even Reppenhardt, who was famous as a dungeon explorer at the time, were objects with advanced powers that he had never seen before. By researching it, it was possible to create a new 10-circle magic, so it was definitely not an item that a single assassin would possess.
So at the time, I thought it was strange and did some research.
However, because the assassin committed suicide, there were too few clues, and since no such incident occurred again, the full story was never found out. Since there is no law that requires a person who discovered an amazing artifact to present it at a conference, I just assumed that he secretly kept it and carried out an assassination business.
However, I found a clue again, transcending time and space. Moreover, unlike then, this clue is still alive.
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‘Good. I’ll have to take him to the camp and interrogate him in earnest.’
Repenhardt grinned, looking down at the squirming Jade. He has an excellent torture method, the ‘Jim Unbreakable Special Beating Performance’, that can make even the strongest of minds open their mouths.
‘As a bonus, you can beat up this obnoxious Jade as much as you want, so you kill two birds with one stone.’
Have Leffenhardt’s evil thoughts been conveyed?
Jade groaned and came to her senses.
“Ugh… … .”
“I won’t kill you. “I have a lot to ask about this and that.”
I wake up to the cold voice of the other person. Jade urgently searched inside her arms.
‘I have to run away… … .’
As a rule, Eun’s assassins who failed their mission committed suicide, but fortunately, he had a strong background.
Jade trembled with her hands and took out a small feather. It was the Feather of Return, an artifact that would allow one to move ‘at least once’ over pre-designated coordinates, no matter how far away the space was.
It is a rare and precious item, one of the few within the Silver Sage that has a monopoly on all kinds of ancient relics, and in fact, it is a taboo relic that Jade’s status cannot dare to touch. He had secretly obtained it through his older brother, Guardian Arclight.
‘Damn, I never thought I’d use something like this because I only have three… … .’
Gritting her teeth, Jade activated the Feather of Return.
Faaah!
A light flashed and the jade in front of me disappeared.
“What is this again?”
Besides Blink Boots, were there any other artifacts with this kind of power? Surprised, Reppenhardt looked around.
But Jade was nowhere to be seen. Even if she widens her sensory area and searches for it, she cannot detect it at all within a radius of 100 meters.
“It’s not a large-scale facility like Daiman Terminal, and it’s a portable, long-distance spatial movement artifact… … .”
Leffenhardt exclaimed in admiration. Even in his previous life, he had never seen anything like that.
“There is no way that small feather has the capacity to specify all two-way coordinates and connect space… … Well, the portal didn’t open, you just disappeared, right? So, rather than folding and connecting space like Daiman Terminal, is the method cutting out the space around the caster through dimensional transformation and sending the entire space into the mana flow? But in that case, there is a problem with the caster’s stability… … No, that can be handled with survival magic. Still, there will be problems converting horsepower… … .”
Leffenhardt worked hard to piece together a hypothesis in his head. Even though the Feather of Return is a transcendent artifact, he is also the ultimate mage of the 10th circle, and was able to grasp its principles quite closely.
Suddenly, Reppenhardt clicked his tongue.
‘No, now isn’t the time to worry about theory, right? ‘What are you doing now that you missed Jade?’
Thinking that someone might be a wizard, I looked at a strange magic tool and immediately became interested in it. Feeling a little self-destructive, Reppenhardt stopped his thoughts and looked around him. I was wondering if Jade might have left another clue.
Sure enough, I saw a small bag and a metallic substance half-buried in a pile of dirt that had fallen far away. It seems that he was probably caught in the Avalanche kick and spilled it.
Reppenhardt, who picked up the metal, frowned.
It wasn’t something I had seen before.
‘This… … .’
A silver emblem with various divine beasts elaborately crafted between giant trees.
‘It looks just like the one that came out of the arms of that assassin in my past life.’
Another commonality was discovered. Moreover, this emblem was not the Arklight family crest. In that case, Leffenhardt would have already been recognized from his past life in the first place.
‘What on earth does this have to do with anything?’
The more and more questions I have, the more I wonder. I once again felt sorry for Jade, whom I had missed. There was more than one thing I wanted to ask.
‘I guess I’ll have to investigate the Arclight family separately.’
But this time, unlike in my previous life, there are clues left. Reppenhardt took the emblem with him, thinking that he would have to gather some information when he returned to the White Kingdom. And I opened his pocket too. Because there might be some clues in here.
In an instant, his eyes widened.
“Oh! “It’s a gold coin!”
Yellow gold was shining all over the pocket. Even though the weight was reduced with infinite pockets, it was so heavy that it seemed to weigh tens of thousands of coins. Considering that they are all gold coins from the Kingdom of Crovence, it appears that they are probably a commission money Jade received from Baron Chetas.
“Did you invest this much money just to catch me? “You have a lot of money, Baron Chetas.”
A pleased smile appeared on Repenhardt’s lips. The regret of missing Jade disappeared.
“Isn’t this enough to make up for a lot of the country’s shortfall in finances? “I think Carol will like it.”
Fortunately, the famine in the Kingdom of Crovence ended and grain prices stabilized again. But even so, the County of Antares was currently full of money in one way or another.
The number of people of different races rescued so far has gradually exceeded a thousand. The number of humans who came as subordinates was also hundreds. There were many refugees who came to escape the poor harvest. As the population increases so much in such a short period of time, production cannot keep up with consumption.
Charles handled the administration competently, and the County of Antares was still a fiefdom rather than a country, so Reppenhardt’s personal funds were used to make up for the shortfall, but it was true that money was gradually running out.
There was a need to secure enough financial resources to at least last until the different races settled down and established a production system.
This was the reason why Reppenhardt took part in this war even though he was busy. If you take over the Barony of Chetas, especially the trading city of Jarud, you can make up for a lot of your finances.
“Now that I think about it, what was the situation like?”
After packing the bag of gold coins in his arms, Repenhardt turned his gaze toward Hundargaard.
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The morale of Baron Chetas’ army also rose briefly as the wizard Jade defeated the swordsman of the new moon. However, the morale soon fell to the bottom again when the wizard was defeated by the King of Powers.
That legendary warrior, King Gwon, was a more fearsome being than anyone had heard of.
From the moment it appeared, it was beyond common sense. Flying over the castle walls on a catapult? How is it possible for a human body to do something like that?
