I Am The Anti-Mage

Chapter 83: Warlord: Intertwine

Ji-woo didn’t want any longer to bother with those two kids. He said his last words to Jo-hyun. “Thank you for the bandages. I’ll return this favor in the future if fate allows it.”

Ji-woo bowed and walked away from Jo-hyun and Min-ho.

Jo-hyun wanted to interject but got stopped by Min-ho’s loud voice.

“Go home, brat! Don’t get too cocky and wander around just because you’re a hunter!”

Ji-woo chuckled and walked away, leaving Jo-hyun and Min-ho behind while waving his hand in the air. He didn’t mind insults and rude behavior. It still hadn’t crossed his bottom line because he could ignore it.

Jo-hyun stared at Ji-woo’s back with an expression of missing something fascinating. The fact that Ji-woo had no Mana and her Mana injection failed was really interesting. Just like when she first learned about magic. And knowing something new had always caught her eye since she was a child.

Jo-hyun smacked Min-ho on the back and reminded him of his manners.

“Could you be a little nicer when you say something? Your words are so rude to that man.”

“Be gentle when you hit me! Also, that man? He’s just a brat!”

Jo-hyun snorted on the side. “I don’t think so! I think he’s the same age as us.”

Min-ho didn’t have anything to retaliate and just grumbled beside Jo-hyun. The two then left the place where the level-4 Portal Gate had existed before. Even though neither of them knew and only Jo-hyun noticed the Mana explosion because the Portal Gate was closed. Things that never happened before. After all, it was indeed an unusual Portal Gate.

Jo-hyun and Min-ho met a middle-aged man who came to a small village before they returned. Min-ho stopped the middle-aged man who was wearing sunglasses.

“What are you doing here, sir? You should not be here and go to the evacuation site instead. There are Red Gates everywhere. It’s dangerous out here.”

The middle-aged man was Ma Dong-seok. He came to the abandoned small village to inspect the tier-4 Portal Gate. He looked around for a moment then asked Min-ho.

“Were the two of you the ones who closed the Portal Gate that was here?”

“Huh!? What are you talking about it? There is no Portal Gate here. Well, civilians get prohibited from roaming under the current situation. Go to the Busan evacuation site.”

Min-ho was unable to sense the Mana in Dong-seok. And he tried to push Dong-seok away. But, Dong-seok didn’t budge. He was confused as to why he couldn’t move an ordinary man.

However, different from Min-ho, Jo-hyun had a better perception of Mana. Even though it was faint, she clearly sensed the Mana from the middle-aged man in front of them, and the man was probably a hunter.

“Min-ho~ya. Stop it! I think that guy is a hunter.

“Sir, pardon our impoliteness. We are from the Demigod and the Artates guilds. I am Bae Jo-hyun, and this is Choi Min-ho. May I know who you are, sir?”

Jo-hyun bowed and showed her courtesy to Dong-seok. Min-ho also took a step back to observe the middle-aged man.

There was silence for a moment, and Dong-seok finally broke the silence. But with his strength and pressure.

Jo-hyun and Min-ho came to their senses after they saw and felt Dong-seok’s Mana Presence. The two people present were suffocating and suddenly felt a burst of pressure. They couldn’t help but feel their heart pounding because of the high pressure of life gradation.

Min-ho, in particular, as an A-rank hunter, tried to withstand such a Mana Presence might be too much for him. In fact, he and Jo-hyun struggled to hold their ground against that powerful Mana Presence.

“Kids. I’m the one that is asking. Not the other way round. Did the old guys from your guilds not teach the two of you manners toward someone older?!”

The ground cracked, and debris was floating around with the severe wind pressure.

Both Min-ho and Jo-hyun couldn’t handle the pressure any longer and fell onto their knees.

“I said. What are you guys doing to the Portal Gate over here?! I’m really in a foul mood right now. Maybe I should start a bloodbath with your lives.”

Jo-hyun cast a magic spell despite being under pressure. “Magic of Fire, Flame Burst!”

A big burst of fire shoots toward Dong-seok. However, he just raised his hand, and the enormous flames instantly tamed in his hands. He played with the big fire and then split it into his hands and turned the flares into two sword shapes.

Dong-seok withdrew his Mana Presence and kicked Jo-hyun far back. That attack was enough to make her lose consciousness.

Min-ho was furious and didn’t stay still after the Mana Presence was gone. He jumped and launched a lightning punch toward Dong-seok.

Dong-seok slashed the flames-shaped sword to collide with the lightning punch.

Boom!

Min-ho was thrown further than Jo-hyun and fell deeper to the ground. His entire body got covered in wounds and blood.

One strike. And that was enough to overthrow an A-rank hunter to nothing.

Dong-seok sighed. “It looks like I got the answer I was hoping for it. The two of them have nothing to do with the Portal Gate here. With just this much strength, it’s impossible to close the Portal Gate and exit the dungeon.”

Dong-seok got lost in thought. He expected the one that closed the Portal Gate had already left, and these two hunters didn’t seem to know about what was there. The two were unlucky to be there, and he saw them at the scene, causing the misunderstanding.

“Since the situation is like this, should I kill the two of them now?”

Suddenly, there was another voice that interrupted Dong-seok’s action.

“Sir, please show some mercy. It seems they are not related to the Portal Gate here. Both are important hunters in their respective guilds. Especially Miss Jo-hyun, she is our S-rank hunter.”

“If they died, the Demigod and Artates guilds will try to find their body and the cause of their death.”

Dong-seok turned around after hearing those words and looked at the two hunters who accompanied him from Seoul earlier. He took a deep breath and replied with an even more terrifying aura.

“Demigods or Artates, I can flatten them if I want. Do you two think I’d be afraid of that!?

The two hunters felt their lives got threatened even without Dong-seok’s Mana Presence. They sweated profusely and immediately knelt to the ground.

“Sir, we didn’t mean it that way. Please, spare our lives!”

Dong-seok then got distracted before he could make a move. He reached his hand into the pocket of his black coat. And he took out a small, transparent ball. After he stared at it for a moment, he let everyone go.

“Go and bring those two kids back with you guys. I’ll be back later on my own terms. I have my own business.”

The two hunters gulped and immediately took Jo-hyun and Min-ho. They quickly left the small abandoned village in a hurry.

Alone, Dong-seok raised his hands and created a small half-sphere spot with the Earth. Within it, the darkness that enveloped him instantly got dispelled as the transparent ball glowed red and gave rise to the figure of a Dark Elf.

“One of the unrestricted doors is gone.”

“I know.”

“Tell the others to guard and monitor the other doors from your side. I don’t want another accident to happen!”

“Alright. Then what about the other one?”

“Just wait. The Great Warlock will lift the restrictions on another door later. And I’ll let you know when it gets done.

“Also, I caught a glimpse of the person who caused this plan to get delayed. His appearance and height are the same as yours, only slightly thinner. More importantly, he has no Mana at all.”

Dong-seok frowned. That person must be Asian because the impression was the same as him. However, the thing without Mana was a bit difficult for him to comprehend.

Universe Gateway was absolute. No creature without Mana could wander inside the Portal Gate.

“Is that possible!?”

“I just asked a Dwarf, and he said there is an existence cursed with Mana. That human power is equal to or above us in general, even though the one that I beat inside the door is weaker. However, no one knows about the future. It’s better to be careful than not.

“Try to find that human. Kill, if necessary! I have a bad feeling about the existence of that human. An uncertain variable.”

“Yes. I will remember that.”

Dong-seok put the transparent ball back into his coat after the Dark Elf’s projection disappeared. He erased the small earth half-sphere spot. And then, he contacted the others and told them the current situation. He also commanded them about the new task of supervising the Portal Gates, whose location he would announce later.

Now, Dong-seok and the others’ vacation was over. They needed to speed up the stalled final gate plan. It also meant the fate of humanity had just got delayed. But, it was still on their demise path. The intertwined between the two worlds would cause the Earth to collapse.