Chapter 388 - The Clash 2 (1/2)

The sparks from the sword outshone the sun.

The huge flames which seemed to burn away everything got torn apart by the purple lightning as if hundreds of swords were falling.

However, the black flame wasn’t dying down either.

And Luke, on the other hand, was constantly using Thunder Bringer and bit his lip.

‘Arsene! I will get rid of you!’

When Luke, well, Saymon had first met with Arsene, he was the Meister of the Veritas Magic Tower.

Arsene was a man with whom Syamon couldn’t compare himself as he was a newly taken wizard into the Magic Tower.

There was a tremendous gap between his skills or status, and there was no contact between the two men.

The ones who always persecuted him or used him as a slave were the senior wizards, so Saymon never really held any bad feelings about him.

Rather, he used to respect Arsene.

Putting in constant effort, he actually wanted to be like Arsene, one of the greatest talents in the Empire.

However, seven years later, his respect for the man disappeared, as Arsene had stolen the most important person for his self-growth.

Later, when he learned of Katarina’s death, Saymon ran out to Arsene asking why such things had been done.

However, instead of feeling remorseful for what had happened, Arsene’s words were rather unpleasant.

“You must be the wizard whose eyes met with that wench. How dare a man who can’t even level up to my toenails think of messing with my work!”

Arsene had summoned up mercenaries and beat Saymon till death.

It didn’t end with that, he had even destroyed his magic circles.

That was the most tremendous shocking thing for Saymon, the one who believed in Arsene’s character and fame.

After his magic circles were removed, he was kicked out of the magic tower, Saymon slowly had resentment and hated speaking up about Arsene.

“I will never forgive you!”

“If the God is on your side, I will be holding hands with the devil!”

He had so many hopes of punishing the man.

Even after Rakan died and 500 years later of his transmigration, it continued.

“Cheeky. Brat! How. Dare. You show. Up. And spew. Nonsense!”

As Luke continued to approach the Magi flames, Arsene developed another dark magic.

“Dark Hole!”

At the fingertips of Arsene, the energy of abyss floated and headed towards Luke.

‘This is the absolute extinction of dark magic!’

Knowing what power the Dark Hole held, Luke hurriedly cast Blink.

When the Dark Hole had lost its target, it flew straight to the mountain which was in its path.

Kun!

“Th, that can’t!”

The top of the mountain disappeared in an instant as if it got erased.

Luke and the Zegal clan along with Moon were astonished with what had happened.

It wasn’t just destruction.

It was a situation where extinction could happen, as the space got distorted and everything close to it disappeared without dust.

“It won’t make any sense to hide from that!”

“Is there any way to stop it?”

“We just need to pray that the attack doesn’t come over to our side.”

But the one that was shocked was Luke.

He knew about Absolute Extinction.

Because it was written at the end of the ancient dark magic book he had obtained during his Saymon days.

However, Luke hadn’t mastered Dark Hole even after building up a 9th circle dark magic.

It was because, it needed too much power, and the repulsive effect on the caster was too great.

‘At that time, I used it just once and my organs felt twisted. The artifacts which were protecting my body all went broken instead.’

How could Arsene manage to master something that Luke didn’t even touch?

The answer was simple.

‘Well, this isn’t the magic which a living person can cast. He could be able to use it because he is neither alive nor dead.’

“What. Is it? Said. That. You would. Kill. Me. Now. You want. To run? Now that. You. Are here. Got. Scared?”

At the mockery from Arsene, Luke just stared at him.

It was definite that he had rushed towards him without thinking.

When he realized that his archenemy had appeared close to him, he had forgotten the fact that there was a 500-year-old Lich, an immortal, and the wizard who had reached both white and dark magic of 9th circle.

But the situation had already passed.

‘In my current state, I reached the 8th circle with white and dark magic, and by mastering the Gold Sword, I did reach Sword master.’

He was a Rune Master and could use both magic and sword at high levels, which made him realize something.

The fact that if the two levels were synergized, he could achieve something great.

‘Of course, both are in the 9th circle. And he is one level higher than me…’

However, the problem was that the gap between the 8th and 9th level magic circle was huge.

If the former was a Sword Master, the latter was like a Sword Sage level.

The synergy created by the combination of the two forms of magic could be hardly imagined.

Moreover, the 9th magic circle wasn’t the end of magic.

It was said in the past that a dragon race could use up to 10th class, and the Ancient Dragon could go up to the 12th circle.

Nevertheless, the reason why the 9th level circle was considered as the highest was because of the limited duration of the human span, but the magic of the above 9th circle could be imagined.

But, what if there were difficulties?

Something Arsene made by himself?

‘Even if he is Arsene, he might not have gone past the 9th circle of white and dark magic. However, he has been accumulating magic power for 500 years, so it wouldn’t be weird if he had a lot of magic power.’

“Kul. Kul. Kul. What. Are. You. Thinking. About? Thinking. About. How you. Should. Try. To. Beat me?”

Arsene asked with a relaxed face.

He wasn’t in a hurry.

Although Luke did have strong abilities than he had expected, Arsene could hurt himself with his strength.

However, Arsene had no intention to kill, he just wanted to get rid of the man who tried to kill his undead.

After much pain and frustration, he knew that Arsene had decided to make undead because of his state of neither living or dead.

‘There are things I care about.’ Thought Luke.

His face changed.

With large horns and scales protruding, resembling the demon transformation.

Magi waves could be detected in the purple aura shed by Luke.