The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 178: The Calamity In Eastaria Continent (1)

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 400,000 (+4,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 500,000 (+7,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 1,000,000 (+10,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 700, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -Appraisal -Evil gaze -Strengthen -Leap -Basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Reo Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia -Slime Soul Diversion -Slime technique: Split -Tarot Emperor -Master of The Dragon King, Atlas]

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“[Thorn of Malavama]!” (Druid Oz)

Huge black thorns appeared and thrust the demonic sphere from the royal throne room grounds.

But just like the demon inside the demonic sphere, Druid Oz also has a blackish-red flower below him, ready to devour him.

“Die!” shouted the voice from inside the demonic sphere.

The blackish-red flower turns into a form similar to a huge venus flytrap and ate Druid Oz.

“Ren!!!” (Charnia and Claria)

But.

“You’re sure not easy to kill, huh, magician… You’re dangerous indeed…” said the sinister voice.

Flower warp.

It’s Druid Oz’s ability to teleport to a place where he had planted his flowers. But unlike spatial teleportation, [Flower Warp] has several conditions.

(The flower needs to be fully-bloom, I need to focus on the place where the flower existed but it’s not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that it drains lots of nature mana every time I used it…) (Druid Oz)

“Who are you, demon… You know me…?” Asked Druid Oz as he furrowed his brows.

“Yes, yes. Of course… You’ve made so much trouble for us, after all…” Answered him.

Slowly, the demonic mana that surrounds the demonic sphere starts to dissipate. Slowly, the being inside the demonic sphere reveals himself as the demonic sphere begins to fade away. A small boy, wrapped in a red cloth.

His eyes are filled with malice, his expression and presence are like the incarnation of evil itself. With his blonde hair and his red eyes, he looked just like a foreigner with rare eyes at the first glance, but when Druid Oz see that expression and the aura he’s emitting.

“You… You’re not one of the 72 demon kings, aren’t you…?” (Druid Oz)

“Me? Of course… They’re too noble… arrogant… foolish… I am not like them. Let me introduce myself, dear, our mortal enemy. I am Quarta. A new demon king. And we will bring this world into far greater darkness…” (Quarta)

“N-New… Demon King…?” Muttered Druid Oz in shock as it’s the first time he heard such statement.

(Technically speaking, his strength is on par or maybe stronger than the Demon Kings at the 65th rank below… But it’s impossible… New demon kings…? What is…) (Druid Oz)

“What a pleasant thing to see your doubtful and confused face, magician,” the self-proclaimed new demon king Quarta suddenly said.

“You… What are you… What are all of you planning…?” (Druid Oz)

“And why should I answer that question of yours, magician? Well, it will be fun if you know about it, but the master will definitely be mad since you’ll definitely interfere and destroy his plans. I’m so sorry, I can’t tell you anything,” said Quarta as he shrugged.

“T-The ‘master‘…?” Druid Oz muttered as he stared at the demonic boy before him.

“HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You’re missing a huge thing, here, magician! The extinction of this world… It’s coming… The flame of hell will soon consume and devour this world as well!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” As if he just lost his mind, Quarta laughed heartfully as he slowly floats into the air.

Whoosh!

The prime minister, Allomere, dashed and slashed the head of the demon called Quarta in a flash. His move is skillful and precise, but…

!!!???

“HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Not so easy, Owls!!!” Mocked Quarta as he once again laughed heartfully.

Druid Oz clearly saw Quarta’s head got slashed by Allomere’s claws, but once again, just like when Druid Oz used the [Thorn of Malavama] spell to kill him, it is as if Allomere’s claws slashed a void of nothingness. Not even a single scar or wound could be seen on Quarta’s body.

(Instant Regeneration? No, then Teleportation? But it’s too fast, there is no way I didn’t catch and sense any movement or any strange mana fluctuations if he did use the spatial magic… Then…) (Druid Oz)

“Don’t any of you realize, already? The amount of demonic mana floating in these sacred lands of the Owlfolks? Well, I guess it’s enough self-introduction. Farewell-” (Quarta)

Just before the self-proclaimed demon disappeared, Allomere, The Galhala King, The Galhala Queen, Claria, and Druid Oz once again attempted to strike him to at least make him leave the place with a scar.

!!!!???

There’s no communication. No signal or hint gave towards each other.

But at that moment, they have the same thought.

The Galhala King, The Galhala queen, Allomere, and Claria slashed every part of the self-proclaimed new demon king, Quarta. While Druid Oz.

“I-Impossible… The demonic mana…” (Quarta)

Druid Oz isolates the entire castle with his nature mana and cleanses all of the demonic mana that existed inside it. By spreading his summoned roots across the royal castle, Druid Oz built a barrier without the self-proclaimed demon and the Owlfolks noticed.

“While you’re busy showing off and blabbering nonsense, I’ve finished analyzing your skills and your presence, demon. There are no strange movements, no unusual mana fluctuations, and no signs of runic or magic circles used,” (Druid Oz)

“The reason why there are no strange mana fluctuations is that the demonic mana didn’t even move since the beginning. You’re not teleporting nor warping. That body of yours is just an illusion. That’s why-” (Druid Oz)

Tap!

With a single tap of Druid Oz’s staff, countless steel vines appear from below him and thrust all of the points on Quarta’s body which didn’t get slashed by the Galhala King and the others.

(They must be roughly assuming the same thing as I am, it’s very fortunate that they are very experienced as they read the flow of the battle in such a short moment) (Druid Oz)

Crack!

One of Druid Oz’s vines finally hits and breaks something.

“You bastard…” Swore Quarta as his face and body parts start to distort.

“It seems that your real body is that magic core alone. And an artificial one even less. Yet you’re proclaiming yourself as a new demon king?” Mocked Druid Oz.

“I see… As the master stated… You are indeed dangerous…” Quarta that just starting to distort and fading suddenly stopped distorting. The body that is just an illusion steadily regenerated.

(H-He didn’t die?) (Druid Oz)

“Your observing skills are terrifying indeed, but the way you proceed on making a plan that goes very smooth according to the image inside your head in such a short moment is far more terrifying. No wonder you’ve managed to hinder the destruction of this world for so long, magician,” Praised Quarta.

“….” Without answering, Druid Oz’s head once again drills back in quick-progressing thinking. Numbers of equations and possibilities appeared inside Druid Oz’s head at a magnificent speed and are getting eliminated one by one in the same manner.

“The way you cold-headedly think and plan in every moment… And that pair of eyes…” Quarta slowly approaches Druid Oz.

Claria, Allomere, and the Galhala King tensed up when Quarta approached Druid Oz. But at that moment, Druid Oz finally realized the puzzle he’s been missing.

The demonized Owlfolks.

The number of demon kings the real Oz had killed.

The meeting with the demon emperor.

“Baal,” (Druid Oz)

“Hm?” Quarta’s eyebrows flinched when Druid Oz stated the demon king’s name.

“Baal. The ranked 1 demon king. Isn’t he the one you called master?” (Druid Oz)

“Hm~ What made you think so?” Asked Quarta as he regained his poker face.

“Nothing special. The strength of the demon kings is quite different from the one written in the history books and documents. They are supposed to have more strength since the difference between a normal magic beast and a demon being is significant, to begin with,” (Druid Oz)

“As a summoner I know, the strength of my summoned beast and my comrades are similar to the demon kings I’ve killed. But it didn’t make sense since the records said that it needs 4 or 5 normal [King] ranked magic beasts to be able to fight on par with a demon [King],” (Druid Oz)

(Indeed… How idiotic… There is no way that I could kill the demon [King]s that easily while holding back… The thought crossed the original’s mind once, but I don’t remember arriving at this conclusion yet. But I didn’t know whether Slime, Demon, Lich, and the others had arrived at this conclusion too or not…) (Druid Oz)

(Indeed…) (Druid Oz)

“They might be just clones…” (Druid Oz)

(But it still hasn’t answered the real objective of the demon emperor yet. That feeling when meeting him, now that I think about it, the hostility that the rank one demon king, Baal emitting from the recordings Lich sent me…) (Druid Oz)

(Ugh… I didn’t have enough data. Slime holds the most data and information so I’ll just report it to him and let him conclude the conclusion since our thoughts are the same…) (Druid Oz)

“You… Are made by him, don’t you?” (Druid Oz)

“And your purpose on going here is the same as mine… It’s to uncover the seal of the demon emperor, isn’t that right?” (Druid Oz)