NOVEL NEXT chapter 25
25 – Unexpected Encounter (5)
Arken, the magician who is opposing me by showing the evil magic of black in front of me right now.
I had no choice but to swallow my saliva while watching Arken like that.
Because, objectively, the magician called Arken was quite a strong enemy.
‘Arken is quite strong.’
I remember fighting Arken when I was a student at Magic Academy.
In the mock battle at the academy, he already knew that a man named Arken was a great wizard.
Even then I won, but I could never underestimate the wizard Arken.
A structure where 1st and 2nd place can change at any time, I have acknowledged the skill of a man named Arken from before to some extent.
‘I’m much stronger than before.’
However, such a mage was opposing me while learning black magic.
As if the three years of his time had never been wasted, his current strength has changed incredibly compared to the past.
Arken, who trained with the determination to beat me, couldn’t help but be a little scared when I saw him like that.
Perhaps if time had passed normally, I would have been defeated by him.
Because the three years he spent was not light.
‘Still, it’s definitely not the level of a warrior’s party.’
But as expected, it wasn’t that I felt defeat right here and now.
When Arken was training and learning black magic for three years, I wasn’t just playing around.
I was always with the warrior party. While staying with them, they faced strong enemies together.
Besides, before I came here, I had experience fighting a saint called a warrior’s party.
My experiences like that are definitely not something to belittle.
No matter how strong Arken is, he can’t compare to the warrior party.
I was the one who suffered to death on the way here, so if I had suffered more than Arken, I would have suffered less.
So I had no choice but to predict victory in the battle against him.
“Keugh…!”
“Are you thinking of doing more?”
And my prediction turned out to be very accurate.
The battle between me and Arken The battle ended sooner than expected.
Arken’s black magic, which clashed with my magic, began to be pushed back by my magic.
There, Arken used various black magic, but each one was blocked by my magic.
No matter how much he polished up his black magic, unfortunately he couldn’t reach me.
The difference was gradually widening, and the difference was now clearly visible.
Soon, Arken’s black magic was completely pushed back, and he was knocked down.
It was my clear victory in the battle of magic, and being pushed back by magic in the battle of wizards means defeat.
I urged the fallen Arken to surrender.
“Whoop whoop…”
But Arken started to laugh as if he enjoyed the situation.
Arken slowly staggers from his seat, at first I wondered if he was laughing out of his mind, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
His eyes weren’t the ones that had given up on the game yet. As if the fight wasn’t over yet, he prepared to fight with me again.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Well, I knew that magic like this wouldn’t work.”
He started to develop the magic in the room.
It was a very complex spell, one I had never seen before. He’s probably thinking of using some pretty advanced magic.
But none of the magic was particularly scary. The moment the magic unfolded, I just had to destroy his magic circle itself with magic.
“Shall I tell you that? Why did I study dark magic? It’s because of this.”
“…!?”
But his magic circle couldn’t be broken. Why doesn’t it break? My magical power is much stronger than Arken’s. If I could cast magic, I could probably break his magic circle, but it wouldn’t break.
I started looking for the reason, and I was able to find the answer without much difficulty.
The magic doesn’t work. In this space, magic itself could not be activated.
“Magical Nullification Space?”
Then why doesn’t it activate? I started thinking about the reason, and I was able to find the answer.
In the first place, I’ve heard that there is such a magic among the magics called black magic.
A magic that can create a space that nullifies magic itself.
Perhaps this spell he just performed was such magic?
“Yes. That’s right. That’s why I learned dark magic. This is my strategy to defeat you.”
As expected, it seems to have been the correct answer.
Archen took off his top and clenched his fists.
His body was armed with fairly well-trained muscles. I thought this strategy was the real strategy he had prepared.
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The most important thing before setting up a strategy is to know your opponent and know yourself.
That’s why Arken studied Xerath, and he was able to objectify the man named Xerath.
“I won’t be able to beat you with pure magic skills.”
No matter how you think about Xerath who objectified like that, he was really a monster.
It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a monster that is still growing.
He did not see any possibility of catching up with him even if he practiced for several more decades. That’s why it was close to impossible to defeat him purely with magical abilities.
Xerath had no choice but to realize that. And he was angry, but he had to admit it. He himself cannot defeat Xerath with magic.
“But what if we sealed our magic skills and fought?”
That’s why he learned black magic. There is magic that can nullify magic among black magic, and if you implement that magic, you can create a space where you can nullify magic, albeit in a limited way.
Xerath was a really ridiculous mage. You will never be able to attack him with your magic skills.
However, conversely, the way to attack him was very simple. What if he seals his magic skills? If so, it might be quite possible.
Originally, he would never have been able to capture Xeras, but if he did this, the possibility would surely open up.
“Don’t think it’s mean. This is a strategy in its own way.”
If I won, it didn’t matter at all how I did it.
The original Archen would never have used this method. It was because his purpose in the first place was to overcome Xerath with magic.
But now the method didn’t matter to him anymore. The resentment and tenacity to beat him only focused on the result.
For him now, only the goal of defeating Xerath was important. So he took off his shirt and prepared for martial arts. He plans to defeat Xerath with the martial arts he has trained along with his training in black magic.
There is no point in discussing lethality on a battlefield like this. A perfect strategy to catch him off guard, he prepared to defeat Xerath with certainty.
“Hmm… It’s a martial art. It’s been a while.”
But what the hell is this? Like himself, Xerath threw off his shirt. And he started getting into a fighting stance.
What the hell am I doing right now? Could it be that you’re a wizard and you’re trying to do martial arts? Arken was slightly surprised by Xerath’s idea.
Still, it was only for a moment that I was surprised. He thought that Xerath’s actions were nothing more than the desperate efforts of a person driven to the edge of a precipice.
No matter how hard he is, he won’t be able to defeat himself.
Basically, he is already in a state of training. In addition, it was a body that had learned martial arts.
No matter how genius he was to such a person, there was no chance that Xerath, who had never learned martial arts with the body of an ordinary wizard, could win.
With that in mind, he set aside his bewilderment and prepared for his victory.
‘But what kind of situation is this?’
However, it went quite differently than he expected.
Zerath took off his top, his body was similar to his own, no, even better than that.
His body looked like that of a skilled fighter.
“How did you train your body?”
What the hell is that? Even if he trained his body to defeat Xerath with this black magic, Xerath’s case was different.
Could it be that Xerath trained his body because his plan leaked out? No, it never could have been.
Even if that were the case, a body like that was not something that could be built in a short period of time.
The current situation was a situation that made no sense, so Arken was embarrassed and had no choice but to ask Xerath.
“Isn’t that obvious?”
Zerath answered Arken’s question as if he were asking something like that.
“Because Master said that. The most important thing for a mage is stamina.”
He said something quite absurd now.
Stamina is the most important thing for a wizard, what kind of nonsense is that?
Of course, the important things for a mage are intelligence and mana…