The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 120: Retaliation (End)

[ 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 -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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“THAT GOBLIN BASTARD!!!!!!!!” A thunderous roar together with intense heat suddenly appeared, shaking the whole capital of Baal’s kingdom.

Different from before, the heat is even hotter than before. The ice that is freezing half of Baal’s royal capital city melts even faster than before. He could melt it and save his citizens easily with one of his powerful spells, but the meteors that are coming towards him swiftly as they split the air, carrying a terrifying moment.

Baal’s element is fire, facing several meteors that contain intense heat, great momentum, and a great force, his choices are limited. Baal didn’t become the 1st ranked demon king amongst the 72 great demon king for nothing. For the one who rules at the top, next right just after the great demonic emperor, Baal has the strength to face any opponent.

In this case, Baal that had a monstrous power is currently troubled just showed how great Gurolf is in both wit and power. After a long time, it’s the first time Baal felt anger and frustration because he couldn’t do anything to his enemy.

(The way he chooses his spells, no, since the beginning he started a conversation with me, he had already started to plan this…) (Baal)

“HAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!” The rage inside him burst in a form of laughter.

“Interesting!! Very interesting!! Demon King Magic: [Frodora]!!!” Baal shouted as he pointed his finger towards the meteors that are slowly falling towards him.

[Frodora]

It’s one of Baal’s trump card that consumes a considerable amount of his mana each time he chants the spell. 15 huge fire swords, matching with the 15 meteors’ size appeared above Baal.

“I admit. Forcing me to use one of my trump cards could be considered as my loss!! I’ll pay the interest double next time we meet, goblin!!!” Baal unleashes even more of his mana and the 15 huge swords flew towards the falling meteors at tremendous speed.

BOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The shockwave coming from the collision is powerful, giving a huge sound of an explosion and a powerful wind that could send a normal person to fly.

The huge swords destroyed the meteor together with its momentum, but Bal knew that it’s not the end.

“[Demon Barrier],” (Baal)

A red barrier made by Baal’s tremendous mana covered his capital completely, but because of the capital’s size, the barrier became thinner as he had used a considerable amount of mana to destroy the meteors.

“Tch! Hm?” Baal noticed a change at the barrier.

Multiple colors suddenly appeared and reinforce Baal’s barrier. When Baal spread his senses, he immediately knew who are the ones that reinforced the barrier together with him. They’re the generals that had fought together with him for hundreds of years, after all.

“You’re all late, fools!!!” Baal let out a harsh scolding.

“Please forgive our incompetence, my king. We never thought that there will suddenly be an intruder that even we couldn’t sense. Before we could notice, all of us got trapped by a forbidden curse that forced us to get frozen for several minutes-” (One of Baal’s generals)

“I know,” (Baal)

“Eh?”

“I said I knew, and I forgive all of you. It’s not unexpected since the enemy is indeed strong,” Baal answered coldly towards his generals that seem to be confused as they usually got scolded every time they made a mistake, and they thought they’ll get a severe punishment because of this incident.

(I see… When he first appeared from that dimensional rift, that goblin indeed praised my amount of mana. Does it mean he immediately measures the mana not only me but everyone here too in a split moment?) (Baal)

“And he managed to confine my generals with curse spells from such a distance and a short moment, huh. What a terrifying enemy,” Baal muttered to himself with a volume that low enough for him only to hear.

The debris from the wrecked meteors fell from the sky but blocked by the barrier made by Baal and his generals. But since the barrier only covered the capital, the cities outside the capital, and some other regions got destroyed by the debris of the meteors.

Baal stares at his capital, together with his generals, Baal had blocked melted the ice Gurolf summoned to froze half of Baal kingdom’s royal capital. Looking at his capital’s state that had become a mess, Baal accepted the reality.

“This couldn’t be described with anything but a defeat, huh…” (Baal)

Luckily, his citizens that lived at the capital mostly possess a great amount of mana and born naturally strong, so only several of them died because of Gurolf’s forbidden ice spell. Baal walked to enter his imperial castle that had got half-destroyed, but stop half-way.

“Summon our soldiers, Ziegnel,” Baal calls out his general.

“What should I tell-” (Ziegnel)

“SUMMON THEM NOW!! WE’RE-” (Baal)

Boom!!!!

An explosion cut Baal’s sentence, drawing all of their attention towards the source of the explosion. The gate of the capital had been destroyed, and countless figures, clad in black, bringing the sinister aura of death slowly entered his capital.

“Undead!!!”

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“Is it really fine for us to enter the demon realm now, my king?” Paimon asked Demon Oz again. She’s still anxious that Demon Oz might get ambushed by several demon kings at the same time.

“It’s fine… They should be in great chaos right now,” Demon Oz answered indifferently.

“This is…A throne room…?” (Demon Oz)

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“Strong! They’re too strong!”

“What with these undeads!? They move too swiftly!!”

“Retreat!! They’re too many!!”

“AAAAAARGH!!!!!!”

*Sound of Crows*

The demons got overwhelmed by the horde of undead that attacked them out of nowhere. Their number is huge, their movement patterns are totally different from the usual undead, and their strength is even stronger than some of the demons.

Even though the royal demon soldiers are strong, a sudden attack by a countless undead that fights irregularly is still too much for them. There is a reason why Gareth’s undead kingdom has the greatest military power amongst the other kingdoms under the flag of the Great Tarot Empire.

While other kingdoms had summoners on their ranks too, their number is too little as the talent to become a summoner is quite rare. But not for the undead kingdom, summoner class could be considered common for the undead, as every high-ranked undead always have some high-leveled undead servants and undead guards summoned by themselves.

Without neglecting other affairs and other military sections they have, Gareth cultivates the potential of the undead summoners his kingdom possesses and finally managed to see the fruits of it.

A normal [Baron] ranked undead summoner could summons at most 100 normal pawn undead soldiers while summoning 10 [Rare] ranked undead guards at the same time. But as Gareth trained them and managed to have 200 of the royal undead summoners of his kingdom reached the [Duke] rank, they could now summon even further more than a normal [Baron] ranked undead soldier could.

But undead summoners under Gareth is not a normal one, Gareth didn’t train them with ascending their rank as a sole purpose. Gareth skillfully trains them to handle their mana more efficiently so they won’t lose the control of their summoned undead easily and decrease their mana loss. By giving a training routine where they empty their mana every day, they possessed a bigger amount of mana than other undead. 

And lastly, the reason why the undead moves differently from the normal undead movement patterns is because all of the undead summoners also got lectured the ways to be a general, military tactic and strategies, and skillful martial art movements.

The most important thing for an undead summoner is their imagination that will affect how their summoned undead moves. If an undead summoner imagined a summoned pawn undead to slash someone with a sword, they’ll slash it with a simple slash. But if the summoner has considerable knowledge of martial arts and fighting, and knew the specs of their summoned pawn soldiers, they could control their summoned pawn soldiers to move like a skillful fighter. And if their summoning skills are greater, their summoned undead could possess their knowledge of martial arts and move skillfully and independently without having the summoners to exhaust their mind.

With the lessons of military tactics and strategies, the summoners could control their army of undead even greater. Not only Baal’s territory but other demon kings’ territories are also in a great pinch because of the sudden attack of the undead.

There is also one key to why the summoners could control their undead army more easily without having to watch them directly.

They summoned undead hawks that observe each and every battle they fought. Giving the sight for their summoners.

At the undead kingdom of the great Tarot empire, Gareth watched how the battle unfold with his eyes as his mouth’s corner curled up a little when he saw the fruits of his subordinates’ hard work.

“Let the demons feel the fear of death…”