Genius Prismatic Mage Chapter 307

#307. City of Giants (2)

Nell used the broken axe handle as support to raise her trembling body.

Three eyes, filled with confusion, stared at the white-haired boy standing at the bottom of his vision.

I couldn't believe it.

Here, the warriors who have been given the important task of guarding the square are the elite of the Giants, each capable of taking on dozens of wizards from other races.

Those people are just one wizard.

And that too from a young human.

What was even more surprising was that, despite the fierce fighting, the boy was still breathing without a trace.

“Kum, where did you go?”

“Who are you?”

Ray and Nell spoke at the same time.

Aurea, who had moved her wings and flown away, landed on Nell's nose and answered him while pulling at the area under his eyes.

“Listen to me. I told you. Maybe this is the person we’ve been waiting for!”

“Orea, if you mean the rainbow, that is impossible. The rainbow has abandoned us.”

Avoiding Nell's large, thick hand that was slowly approaching her, Orea moved from the bridge of her nose to her earlobe.

And shouted into the ear.

“Abandoned! Be careful what you say! I didn’t abandon it! It just ran out of energy and left us for a moment! Ha, there’s something I have to deal with right away, so let’s talk about that later! Those who want to wake up Khum have entered this city! They passed by this square not too long ago!”

Nell answered, frowning slightly as the sound rang in her head.

“No way. Since the sealing of Khum, no intruders have been detected in this city.”

“How frustrating! I guess I fooled your superior senses and got in! How much time has passed since the seal was made! How much must the magic of the outside world have developed in that time! Isn’t that right?”

Aurelia's heated voice.

But Nell didn't seem to take it seriously.

“What Orea said is true.”

“… … .”

Nell turned her gaze to Ray.

“A man who is trying to break the seal of Khum has entered this city. There is not enough time to explain everything now. I would like you to tell me where the Khum that was here went.”

The moment their eyes met, Nell felt a strange sense of foreboding and a thrill.

“Really. I don’t have time for this.”

Those feelings were amplified the moment he saw the red-haired girl standing next to the boy.

Nell staggered with a groan.

"this…."

“Do you understand now? What do the possibilities that have appeared before you mean? If we don’t make the right choice right now, we might live through another era of regret.”

Aurelia circled around in front of Nell's eyes.

Nell, who had been clutching her head in agony, opened her mouth after quite some time.

“…Orea, I will consider you as a minimal sign of faith. At least you are not a being who would have frivolous thoughts.”

According to the subsequent explanation, the seal of Khum gradually weakened in power over time.

That's why the Kum that was in the square was moved to another location.

“It was an inevitable choice to amplify the power of the seal again and fill in stronger restraints. This square could not accommodate Kum, whose body was starting to grow again.”

“Where did you move it?”

In response to Ray's question, Nell raised her finger and pointed somewhere.

“North, underground cavern.”

The party headed straight to the northern part of the city.

Nell decided to follow the fallen giants and join them.

Ray felt a sense of discomfort as he passed between the huge buildings, and he let it out.

“The emotional traces left by Indiago. They continue along the path we are taking now.”

"what?"

“There is no trace of wandering anywhere else. This means that Indiago headed straight north from the plaza to the Great Cave.”

“But how do you know where Khum’s sealed place is?”

Veronica's urgent question.

After a moment's thought, Ray answered.

"…emotion."

"emotion?"

“There is a high probability that Kum and Indiago’s emotions are resonating. They both have the same sense of determination.”

Indiago was heading towards the seal of Khum, guided by her instincts, the resonance of emotions.

The emotional traces that became more colorful as they got closer to the Great Hollow were proof of this fact.

The seal is weakening.

Indiago, who harbors the same sense of determination as the being that led the old era to destruction.

It was clear that if we didn't hurry, we would face irreversible consequences.

“I’ll go first.”

"okay!"

“Okay, wait a minute─! Gyaak!”

Ray threw the Orea that was hovering over his head at Veronica and started running at full speed.

Then, I frowned at the throbbing pain in my head.

All sorts of unidentifiable memories were randomly popping up in my mind.

Fairies, giants, elves, spirits, dwarves.

Blue forests, wide fields, clear skies… .

Those memories felt like my own, but at the same time they didn't seem to be my own.

It seemed as if it would jump out from the foggy haze, but it never revealed its clear outline.

But since there was no time to think deeply right now, Ray kept running, trying to push away the memories.

Before long, we emerged from the city and found a massive steel door sitting on the wilderness floor.

“… … .”

It was open.

The emotional traces left by Indiago also continued downward.

Hit the button!

I ran straight down the stairs.

The scenery that appeared at the end of the long, slanted passage was a vast underground space with lava flowing everywhere.

All around were sharp, glowing rocks, and below, steep cliffs centered on a huge pit.

It is said that this place was originally used as a training ground by giants of old.

Woof!

Ray wrapped his skin in mana to block out the burning heat.

I closed my eyes.

I concentrated my mind along with my breathing.

When I opened my eyes again, the emotional traces left by Indiago became clearer.

A stream of misty, blue mana continued down a spiral path along the cliff.

And at the end of it.

'I found it.'

There was Indiago and Dr.

With a burning sense of hostility, Ray leapt into the pit.

Crackle! Crackle!

The intense friction caused my clothes to catch fire, but I didn't care.

Because right now all my attention was focused on one man.

'Indiago.'

The boy had been longing for this moment.

A murderer who controlled the golem and took the lives of the Guldari children and Niles.

Just the moment when I can give him my just retribution.

How much anger and regret did you feel when you missed an opportunity the other day due to lack of strength?

'I won't miss it this time.'

Never, ever again.

At that moment, a question suddenly appeared in the boy's mind.

What happens after you get your revenge?

What happens next?

What kind of emotions remain when the anger that boiled like lava cools?

Emptiness? Relief? Feeling helpless?

It was a problem I had no idea about.

For a moment, my mind was shaken.

But I had no intention of letting that influence my actions.

Because revenge was a promise and an oath to myself.

Crap!

The metal blooming in the air took the shape of a spear in the boy's hand.

The sharp tip was aimed downwards, and as the distance narrowed, details began to come into view.

Indiago's complexion was not good.

The doctor watched Indiago as he stopped in his tracks, staggering along, and when he did so, he followed him.

And at that moment, there were only about 10 meters left between us and the enemy.

The doctor raised his head.

He extended his palm towards me as if he had been waiting.

Gooooooo───!

A ray of crimson mana rushing forward.

It was already predicted.

Even though I had high-powered stealth magic wrapped around my body, I didn't think the enemy would notice the surprise attack and just take it easy.

Ray stepped onto a platform he created in the air and twisted his body to avoid the beam.

Boom!

The beam flew backwards and exploded on impact with the cliff, and Ray used all the momentum he had gained from his fall to slam his spear down on Indiago's head.

Dismissed!

What was heard was not the sound of flesh-piercing impact, but the sound of things with strong durability colliding.

Ray bounced off the dark blue shield and somersaulted to land in place, gaining some distance.

It was a path leading down into the pit.

“Can you do it?”

“… I can handle a guy like that.”

Indiago, who had been humming softly to the doctor, stepped forward and continued speaking.

“You’re really persistent. I didn’t think you’d follow me this far.”

His cold voice, combined with his cynical gaze, gave me a freezing sensation.

Ray didn't answer.

I was just quietly examining the power.

'Six rings, six circles.'

During the final battle with the Dawn Society, Indiago absorbed the life force of 70 to 80 Dawn Society members and rose to the 5th Circle in one go.

But now it has become 6 circles.

… there must have been help from the doctor, and there must have been countless sacrifices.

Another thing to note was that the pure white glowing mana was clinging to the rings and blood vessels, eating away at Indiago's blue mana.

Ray had an intuition about its identity.

'The light of artificial sun.'

Mana that holds light has the property of purifying and extinguishing mana that has become cloudy and dark in color.

During the final battle, Indiago was hit directly by the light of the artificial sun, and it seemed that the aftereffects still remained on his body.

Then, feeling Ray's gaze, Indiago spoke.

“Are you seeing the mana flowing within my body?”

“… … .”

“I heard from the doctor that you can see mana. Even in very low concentrations, untyped mana. How do you feel? How did you feel when you saw my six rings?”

“I don’t understand why you want to become so strong.”

“Heh, heh heh heh, I don’t understand why you want to become stronger.”

Indiago, who had been laughing, suddenly became serious and spoke with a cold face.

“You guys with talent like yours will never be able to understand the feelings of someone like me, even if you spend your whole life with them. Do you know what my first feeling was when I discovered the traces of the magic you used to defeat the golem under the bridge?”

“I’m not really curious.”

“Shut up and listen. That was an inferiority complex. The long remaining traces of magic were so beautiful that it was impossible to close my mouth, and they showed off their owner’s potential. Infinite potential that even I, whose growth limit was 3 circles, could not dare to dream of.”

There was silence for a moment.

The heat of the lava flowing everywhere was gradually warming my body and mind.

Soon, Indiago's cynical voice echoed through the space.

“Isn’t that funny? A man of his age being jealous of a child? But that’s how I’ve lived my whole life. Born into an environment where everything was taken away from those who were weak, I’ve lived my whole life constantly jealous, envious, and hating others. Struggling desperately in the mud to get to the top, and if necessary, killing all those who were better than me.”

Ray could infer from Indiago's words that he too was from the slums.

Also, what kind of wish was made by completing the rainbow?

“I also grew up in the slums.”

“Unlike me, you were born with a natural talent for magic.”

“Feeling inferior to others does not give you the right to take someone else’s life without just cause.”

“That’s funny. You say things without even trying to put yourself in the other person’s situation.”

A gloomy blue mana that resonated with Indiago's emotions began to float around like fog.

Colorful balls of light also began to float around Ray.

“You can't understand me.”

“I have no intention of understanding.”

At that moment, the area was covered in light as the two wizards clashed.