The Mage Who Devours Disasters
A pillar of black-red fire rose from my left hand.
At the same time, the armor vibrated.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaah!
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Heavenly Demon Aura.
As that overwhelming pressure spread in all directions.
“Ki-kieeek?”
The special effect of the Heavenly Demon Armor.
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The wolves charging toward me came to an abrupt stop.
The monsters retreated.
The tips of the ice soldiers’ spears began to tremble.
“Grrrr…… Yelp!”
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An impossible scene unfolded before my eyes.
And that wasn’t all.
It was instinctive fear.
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Ssssssshhh!
The snowflakes turned into white vapor before they could even touch me.
The snowstorm falling from the sky began to evaporate above my head.
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Land Where Hellfire Boils.
Black flames erupted from the cracks in the asphalt.
The ground began to boil.
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The rules created by a god were crushed by the power of an even stronger god.
The domain of ice was erased.
And in its place appeared the domain of brutal, savage heat.
The moment that Authority activated, the laws of this area changed completely.
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Kieeeeeeeek!
The flames opened a path with every step I took.
One of the ice soldiers that failed to escape brushed against the flames.
I began to walk.
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Everything happened in an instant.
And at the same time, it burned.
Kyaagh!
Along with a scream, the monster’s body began to melt.
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The flames swept across nearby trees and buildings.
But there was something even stranger.
Fwoooooosh!
Because Hellfire was a flame that burned not only matter, but also souls.
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The flames targeted only the monsters.
But the trees did not burn.
The signs did not melt either.
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‘The path has opened.’
The fire ignited only where my killing intent was directed.
Only those creatures born from the disaster turned into black ash and disintegrated.
3 kilometers.
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But there were no longer any obstacles.
It wasn’t a short distance.
I calmly walked across the red carpet created by the flames.
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And finally.
In the very center of the city.
Like lesser monsters witnessing the procession of a Demon King.
The monsters pushed aside on both sides trembled as they lowered their heads.
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The source of the cold.
A thick wall of transparent ice.
Unlike the others, the entrance to this place was completely blocked.
I arrived in front of the largest building.
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I smiled faintly.
‘So this is where you were hiding.’
I placed my left hand against the ice wall.
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A hole opened.
The magical ice, supposedly harder than steel, began to melt like sugar touching boiling water.
Heat exploded from my palm.
Fwaaaaaash!
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A passage large enough for a person to walk through.
Only the cold filled the surroundings.
An empty lobby.
I entered immediately.
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I saw a man sitting on a chair made of ice.
His eyes were closed.
And at the center.
As if he were meditating.
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“……How noisy.”
I confirmed the man’s face.
Perhaps he sensed my presence, because he slowly opened his eyes.
A voice filled with irritation.
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I stopped dead in my tracks.
‘I know that face.’
And at that moment.
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The sound of my bones creaked inside my clenched fist.
Crack!
Without realizing it, I ground my teeth.
It was a face I knew far too well.
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The name left my mouth as if I were spitting it out.
“……Kim Insu.”
A name impossible to forget.
A name I must never forget.
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It felt as though my blood were flowing backward.
A feeling of betrayal pierced through me.
‘So it was you?’
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One of the 500 elites who ran alongside me toward the highest floor of the tower within humanity’s last resistance force.
He was my companion in my previous life.
And not just any companion.
Kim Insu.
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‘Now I understand.’
At last, all the pieces fit together.
Although Kim Insu was eliminated during the early stages of the tower.
Memories of the past flashed through my mind like a movie.
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There, we suffered irreparable losses.
A hellish labyrinth ruled by snowstorms and extreme cold.
The 27th floor of the tower.
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— Ah, my mistake! apple My side got breached!
Far too serious to have been an accident.
— Sorry, Jeongseok! palette My cooldown got messed up!
And it was all because of Kim Insu.
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Back then, I thought he was simply incompetent or unlucky.
‘It was intentional.’
But.
Three companions died because of just one of his “mistakes.”
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And during the most important battle against the 27th floor boss.
He subtly destroyed formations and blocked his allies’ escape routes.
At every crucial moment, he ruined everything.
He disappeared.
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We thought he had died.
He was declared missing.
We never found his body, but surviving in that chaos seemed impossible.
After the fight, he never returned to us covered in blood.
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From the very beginning, there was no way he could have died.
No.
But he was alive.
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Because he was the owner of that floor.
The killing intent within the armor roared like a storm.
I slowly began to approach him.
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Instead of answering, I looked him directly in the eyes.
Kim Insu frowned.
“Who are you? anchor How do you know my name? atom And that temperature—were you the one who caused all this?”
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And slowly opened my mouth.
“……!!”
“You are ‘Caligo,’ aren’t you?”
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The owner of the 27th floor, the God of the Snowstorm, Caligo.
Kim Insu was Caligo’s avatar.
His reaction confirmed it.
‘……Hah.’
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I hoped it wasn’t true.
At the very least, I hoped it wasn’t them.
Damn it.
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Humanity’s final hope.
I hoped there weren’t spies from those bastards among them.
The last resistance force.
But everything had been twisted from the start.
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Then what about the others? echo What about the Sword Emperor? shadow And the Great Sage?
There was no way to know.
‘So it was doomed from the very beginning.’
Kim Insu was an avatar.
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I knew we couldn’t win.
We had only been dancing in the palm of their hands.
But this meant that from the very beginning, we had been fighting a battle that was impossible to win.
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“Who the hell are you?”
Kim Insu opened his mouth.
His face showed obvious confusion.
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“I understand how you know my avatar’s name, but how do you know the name of my original body? aluminum I’ve never told anyone. admire No one should know it.”
“What faction do you belong to?”
Factions.
His eyes narrowed.
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That faction nonsense again.
They’re obsessed with factions and affiliations.
Kim Yuhwan, the lesser god of earthquakes Kartal, said the same thing before he died.
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Because that defines their hierarchy and their order.
I raised my left hand.
Wooooooong!
It wasn’t even worth answering.
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Kwaaaaaaaaaah!
The Authority, Land Where Hellfire Boils.
The black-red flames ignited once more.
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The marble floor began to melt and flow like lava.
The ice chair evaporated instantly.
Explosive heat engulfed the entire lobby.
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Kim Insu’s eyes filled with horror.
“……?!”
He hastily unleashed a wave of cold, but it was useless.
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No.
Fwoosh!
It was being devoured.
Everything it touched was erased.
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Kim Insu stepped back.
“That’s impossible! antenna How can a mere avatar erase my domain?!”
“T-this is…… domain overwriting?”
My Hellfire consumed his cold and expanded its territory.
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“……What?”
I smiled faintly.
“Thank you.”
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I clenched my fist.
“That I have to kill all of you.”
“Thanks to you, I was able to confirm something.”
Kim Insu’s face twisted.
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If this continued, he would die.
He had sensed the danger.
Instinctively, he understood that too.
“You damned bastard……”
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“Do you know how much effort I invested in this avatar? anxiety I’m not going to let trash like you destroy it.”
As he stared at me, he muttered.
He ground his teeth.
“From what I can see, you’re not normal. admire Did you feed your avatar nectar? ability You stuffed it with divine power like a lunatic.”
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Golden light began to flow from Kim Insu’s body.
But I had no intention of correcting him.
Wooooooong!
A misunderstanding.
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It was similar to my Descent.
Mine was a bright and pure gold.
But different.
His was a murky, dull yellow.
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A gigantic spear of ice appeared.
“Die!”
Kim Insu extended his hand.
Booom!
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A spear of absolute zero capable of freezing even the soul, loaded with divine power.
To my eyes, it looked motionless.
‘Slow.’
But.
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My physical abilities were already far beyond human.
The absurd stat increase from the Heavenly Demon Armor.
I charged straight forward.
I didn’t dodge.
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“W-what the hell?!”
Kim Insu’s eyes looked ready to burst out of their sockets.
Craaaash!
I shattered the ice spear with a single punch.
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The distance closed instantly.
Fragments of ice flew everywhere.
Without stopping, I lunged for his throat.
Whoosh!
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The shield tore apart like paper.
Kim Insu raised an ice shield.
Craaaash!
“Khgh……!”
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Boom!
Then I slammed him into the ground.
I smashed through the ice fragments and grabbed his neck.
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Kim Insu coughed up blood.
I mounted him.
“Kuheok!”
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I raised my right hand.
Wiiiiiiiiing!
The golden runes spun frantically as they shone intensely.
It was time to devour.
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He realized that it wasn’t a simple offensive skill.
“Y-you…… that hand……”
Kim Insu looked at my right hand, and all color drained from his face.
He understood.
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“No! arena D-don’t come closer!”
It was the power of a natural predator capable of threatening his very existence.
But the pressure of the Heavenly Demon Aura crushed his limbs.
He struggled desperately.
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Without a trace of emotion, I placed my palm over his face.
A bloodcurdling scream erupted.
“Aaaaaah!”
“Enjoy your meal, Caligo.”
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Everything was being absorbed.
It wasn’t simple pain.
“M-my power……! matrix My connection to my original body……!”
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Even the divinity of the original body that existed on the 27th floor of the Tower of Asgard.
Not just the avatar’s mana.
As if I were drinking it all through a straw, ripping it out from the roots.
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He was aging rapidly.
Kim Insu’s face began to shrivel.
“W-what the hell are you?! apron How can you devour divinity?!”
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His life force was being exhausted.
He begged.
“Stop! arrow Please! arena Forgive me! sphere I’ll give you anything you want!”
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A miserable and cowardly plea.
I smiled coldly.
Exactly like when he betrayed us and ran away in my previous life.
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“Leave everything behind and disappear.”
I tightened my grip.
“No.”
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What had once been Kim Insu.
The golden vortex finally calmed down.
Kwaaaaaaaaaah!
The existence that had been Caligo’s avatar disappeared without a trace.
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[You have devoured the disaster, the lesser god of Snowstorms, Caligo.]
Ding!
Only gray ashes remained floating in the air.
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After fire and earth, I had now obtained ice as well.
Perfect.
[You can now permanently use the Authority, Extreme Blizzard.]
[You have absorbed his divinity.]
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That meant I now possessed the three great elements of the natural disaster system.
And then.
A series of messages began to fill my vision.
‘Perfect.’
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Originally, everything was supposed to start now.
Episode 2.
[Warning. crystal The mana concentration in this region has exceeded the critical limit.]
[Regional Episode 2, “Frozen Daegu,” has begun.]
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Ding!
[The main boss “Caligo” has been eliminated.]
But.
The scenario where the army of ice summoned by Caligo would seize the city while people desperately fought to survive through fear and cold.
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More accurately, it ended before it could even begin.
[Episode 2, “Frozen Daegu,” has ended.]
It ended the very moment it began.
No.
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The snowstorm that had been raging wildly came to an abrupt stop.
I looked out the window.
As soon as the source of the disaster disappeared, the changes in the outside world happened immediately as well.
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The city went from winter to summer in an instant.
Even the system seemed confused and remained silent for a moment.
The black clouds vanished, and the bright summer sun illuminated the city once more.
The ice soldiers and snow wolves wandering the streets collapsed and melted into water.
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[Unable to measure.]
[Calculating completion time.]
Then, along with a shrill alarm, new messages appeared.
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[Unable to calculate contribution.]
[Time required: 0.00 seconds.]
[System error.]
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But the system was absolute.
I had handed in the answer sheet before they even distributed the exam, so the system had no reason to grade it.
It was the obvious result.
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Even if an error occurred, it was obligated to grant a reward corresponding to the result.
[You have set an impossible record.]
[The system directly awards Rank 1.]
[Although the completion was abnormal, the result is clear.]
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Hidden reward.
[110. amateur A hidden reward is granted.]
As always, extraordinary rewards are only given when you do what no one else can.
[Rolling dice (1~110).]
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And then.
I looked expectantly at the next message.
‘……Jackpot!’
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The moment I confirmed the reward, I clenched my fist tightly.
Craaack!
Because it truly was a reward worthy of being called “hidden.”
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