Dark Mage Vol 1 Chapter 9

Right at that moment, a fierce shout exploded from behind the orcs.

“Stop the parlor tricks, human.  Despell Magic.” (TLN: Author wrote it as Despell instead of dispel)

Accompanied by a windy sound, the flames on Shrekheimer’s two hands extinguished.  After Blindness was dispelled, the orcs were barely able to escape from being blinded.  After the orcs escaped danger, they started to glare at Shrekheimer with murderous intent.  A low and rough sound came forth.

“Chu-ee-eek(TLN: sound effect), kill the human!”

Couple dozen battle axes were aimed at Shrekheimer’s whole body.  Shrkehimer was able to evade using Transfer s.p.a.ce, and he retaliated quickly.  He was in such a desperate situation that he didn’t even have time to think about the being who dispelled his magic.

“Critical Wounds”

As expected of a high level priest, Shrekheimer instantly casted magic over half the orcs.  After the incantation ended, all the orcs threw down their axes and started rolling the ground.

“Kueh-uh-uh.” (TLN: orcs going omg that hurts)

The orcs were rolling on the ground while twisting their whole body and blood could be seen slowly seeping out of their bodies.  There were a lot of orcs that were not moving, and it seemed like a good number had already died.  After breathing a sigh of relief, he motioned towards the frightened trainees to evacuate.  He checked to see if the trainees were able to exit through the back door before turning his head towards the location where he thought the existence who dispelled his magic was.

“Who are you?  Could you come out?”

The orcs weren’t able to come to their senses until now.  The old priest Shrekheimer was too strong a being for them to handle.

“You are very good.”

Accompanying a cold voice, one shadow entered through the door.  He was a lad with black hair and he looked very icy.  His face looked like it was chipped from ice, but there was a lot of beauty contained in there.  The odd thing about the lad was there wasn’t any emotion in both his eyes.  After watching the emotionless eyes, Shrekheimer was able to know instinctively that he wasn’t human.

“Who, who are you?”

The lad did not respond to Shrekheimer’s questions.  The lad glanced at the orcs squirming on the ground, and he lightly swept his hand out once.

“Kuuuuuu.”

Accompanying a short moan, the orcs stood up in place.  They raised their battle axes toward Shrekheimer, who had given them pain.  After watching these figures, Shrekheimer knew why the orcs were call the embodiment of revenge. Orcs were natural-born warriors, and they were not afraid of death.  Unexpectedly the lad, who had freed them from the magic, held them back from charging forward.

“Stupid b.a.s.t.a.r.ds.  I’ll be this person’s opponent.  Go confront the other humans.”

“Chu-eek.  Understood.”
The orcs were very afraid of the lad, and they ran out of the cla.s.s room with their head politely pointed downwards.  Shrekheimer could do nothing even after seeing this.  He realized the opponent must be formidable since he was able to dispel his magic with a light hand gesture.  After the orcs left the room, the lad turned his head toward Shrekheimer.

“You want to know what I am?”
“….”

“I’ll make it easy for you to understand.  We came here, because we want to punish the existence called humans.”

“Humans?”

“Yes.  They are filled with pride, and their greed causes endless amount of trouble.  At every opportunity, they try to conquer other races.  We came here to annihilate the race called humans off of Truvania continent”

It was a speech that shouldn’t have come from someone who looked like a human.  Shrekheimer, who was listening to him, couldn’t believe it.

“Why?  Don’t you have the appearance of a human?”

The lad tilted his head.

“This appearance?  It has no meaning except to easily deceive you all.  You can say I chose this appearance to hasten the demise of your race?”

“b.a.s.t.a.r.d.”

Shrekheimer couldn’t endure it any more, so he sent a pre-emptive attack.  He didn’t know what his purpose was, but under his directions, the orcs had killed countless trainees under him.  He couldn’t stand losing his pupils, so Shrekheimer’s rage ignited.  His hand flashed with light, a lightning bolt formed on his hand, and flew towards the lad.  It happened in a blink of an eye.

Pah-ji-ji-jik. (TLN: Pzzzt/electrical attack sound)

However, Shrekheimer’s great strike disappeared in futility.  The moment the lightning bolt hit the lad, his whole body was surrounded by a formless energy and it blocked off the entire attack.  After confirming, Shrekheimer could only be surprised.

“Force shield?  He exhibited such high level magic without vocalizing an incantation?  You, what is your ident.i.ty?”

Shrekheimer’s face suddenly stiffened.  Suddenly, the lad’s figure made him think about a particular being.
It was a being that was said to be the origin of magic.  With oppressive strength and wisdom, Dragons boasted the strongest battle ability in this continent.   If only they had a higher population, Dragons would easily be in charge of the Truvania continent.  He couldn’t confront this strong and intelligent being by himself…  If it was a dragon then it could polymorph into human shape easily, and have enough power to do so.

“D, Dragon?”

The lad smiled when he heard the very shocked Shrekheimer stutter.

“You guessed it. Yes.”

“H, how?  I heard that dragons do not interfere in other race’s business…”

Suddenly, the lads eyes started filling with murderous intent. Shrekheimer’s back broke out in cold sweat, who was just looking at him.  His gaze was that powerful.

“Humans, I scoff at your shallow self-conceit.  It isn’t enough for you to struggle to live in those small bodies, but you tried to take the life of a being above you…  From now on, humans won’t even be able to think about acting recklessly.”
“What, What do you mean.”

Shrekheimer spoke carefully one word after another.  He suspected this lad was a black dragon.

“We didn’t care when those in your race called dragon slayers started killing a few of our young ones.  We considered those of our race, who were killed, careless and foolish. However, you humans acted with reckless bravado that was boundless.  You dared invade our lair and even hunt down Dragon Lord Chronos-nim’s hatchling…”

Booom!

Shrekheimers vision darkened after hearing his words.  The event that he was most worried about had happened.

‘It finally has happened.’

After the church’s power had fallen to the ground, the human world had become very chaotic for a while.  Quietly among the skilled knights, there were many past unbelievers that were ready to connect their belief to a goal.  They devoted themselves to grow their skills, and they were impatient to prove their skills.  After the war with the Army of Darkness had finished, they tried to show off their skills through hunting monsters.  Therefore after the war had ended, most had taken up hunting monsters, and of course this had included dragon hunting.  The knights and magicians, who were confident in their own skills, formed parties, and they searched every inch of the Truvani continent to capture a dragon.  Shrekheimer knew the situation up until there.  However they had killed a Dragon Lord’s hatchling…
The devastated Shrekheimer’s ears continued to pick up the lad’s voice.

“After the hatchling was lost, our Lord Chronos decided to punish the wicked existence called humans.  We will start the punishment according to his will.  Starting from the main headquarters of the Belhazel church, the war dedicated to destroying the humans will begin.  The war will continue until the seed of humanity is dried up on the Truvania continent.”

‘The water has already been spilled’

Shrekheimer took deep breaths, and he calmed his heart.  Looking at the situation, the battle with the dragons could not be avoided.  However he wasn’t afraid in the least.  He deeply believed in the latent energy of the humans, who had destroyed the Army of Darkness.  Shrekheimer thought that the dice had already been thrown, so he started gathering mana into his two hands.

“First I will apologize instead of those who had murdered the hatchling.  However, I absolutely cannot agree with the idea of drying up the seeds of humanity. ”

After mana had gathered, Shrekheimer’s hands started burning with flame.

“You probably recruited the trash orcs to fill your ranks, but you guys won’t be able to fulfil your dream.  The latent energy within the humans is strong, and it was enough to defeat the Army of Darkness called in by the Demon King.  You won’t be able to win against us by teaming up with the orcs.”

A mysterious smile floated up on the lad’s face.  It was an expression that could definitely be seen as a sneer.

“Foolish.  Are you talking about that single battle where you had defeated Naidelhark?”

“It was only one battle, but Naidelhark has never shown his figure afterwards. It is proof that he had lost all his strength.”

The lad started laughing as if Shrekheimer’s confident att.i.tude was dumbfounding.

“You are dumb.  The Dark World’s undead army is an existence that does not have a real body.  If Nidelhark is able to rest and regain his demonic powers, he can revive the soldiers he had lost at the battle of Ikarot in a blink of an eye.  Each races’ scattered burial mounds are able to provide a supply of soldiers of darkness…  You, humans, overlooked this and now you have made the mistake of losing Nidelhark.  You didn’t even realize what a critical mistake you had made.”

Shrekeimer’s face started to fill with bewilderment.

“What in the world do you mean? ”

The lad’s voice started to change gradually.  Accompanying this, his body started expanding rapidly.

“I’ve delayed too much time.  I’ll have to speed up my business and return.  I’ll just tell you the conclusion.”

The lad that had a somewhat beautiful appearance, but that started disappearing.  Instead a large scaly dragon with a black l.u.s.ter started showing up gradually.  Shrekhimer could not believe his words, so he stood there dumbly watching the dragon while his expression lost all traces of blood.  Finally the full figure of the dragon appeared, and inside Shrekheimer’s brain, one thread of sound resonated.

-Know this one thing.  Human.  After Nidelhark was defeated, he tried to gather his underlings at the Felucia mountain range.  At that moment, it was Lord Chronos-nim, who resisted against him.  He managed to capture Nidelhark and seal him.  He did this to rescue the Truvania continent from the tide of darkness.  However you, shallow humans, committed the sin of killing his hatchling, while being ignorant of his kindness.

The dragon looked squarely at Shrekhimer with his seemingly burning eyes.

-Your destruction has been decided.  It is the same with the humans across the ocean at the Arcadia continent.  Under the command of the red dragon Belkiss-nim, we have come here.  The first thing we will do is to steal your Tablet of Oath.  All the dragons that follow Chronos-nim has come here, so none of you will able to block us.  In the past you had done the same thing to the orcs, so we will steal your Tablet of Oath and return it to the orcs.

Shrekheimer’s blood started draining from his face after hearing the dragon’s words.

“This is the end! Human.”

The black dragon poured acid breath towards him, but Shrekeimer’s hands filled with blinding light as if he didn’t want to lose yet.