CHAPTER 122: IF I DIE, I’LL BE DEAD!

Hearing Varnak’s mockery, Lucien remained indifferent to it and continued using chantless magic to create ice spikes while using up his mana to recreate those shattered magic barriers.

In his eyes, Varnak was just a clown. Among the three who besieged him, Varnak was the weakest, and even the Ancient Space Dragon is stronger.

If not for Xalvureth attacking him and the Ancient Space Dragon sealing the space and preventing the usage of space magic, Lucien would have already teleported near Varnak and killed him.

As for why Varnak was merely on the defensive rather than joining Xalvureth in attacking Lucien, he knew that if Lucien was pushed into a corner, it would be him who’d be the one to be dragged down along with Lucien’s death.

Xalvureth alone was powerful enough to stalemate Lucien, so their tactic revolved around wasting Lucien’s mana. As long as Lucien’s mana was completely depleted, then no matter how powerful his last resort attack would be, it wouldn’t be enough to kill any of them.

Because of that, Varnak could only continue taunting and mocking Lucien while burning and melting all the ice spikes that Lucien kept bombarding towards him.

Since he couldn’t attack Lucien, he could only resort to verbal attacks in order to annoy Lucien and ruin his mental state.

Fortunately, Lucien was already used to distractions, and he had fought even far worse clowns in the Otherworld. Varnak’s mockery was already selectively ignored by him as he focused his attention on maintaining the magic barriers and supply of chantless magic ice spikes.

The stalemate persisted for another ten minutes.

The Death Grip had become pale and no longer pitch-black, unlike before. It had undoubtedly used up most of its power, and even Xalvureth was no longer as calm as before.

However, Lucien’s situation was far worse as the magic barriers were even dimmer, with only a few layers protecting him.

At the cost of approximately consuming 40% of their energy reserves respectively, the two Demon Kings and the Ancient Space Dragon managed to render Lucien with only 10% of his mana reserves left.

’Fuck! Where is the Sword Saint and those other SSS-rank Awakeners? Don’t tell me they’re still being held back by other Demon Kings?!’

’If they don’t come here and assist me, I’ll really die at this rate. Don’t they know that my death will put Earth in an even more perilous state?’

Lucien wasn’t narcissistic or self-important, but what he thought was merely the truth. Even in previous wars against the Demon Kings, Lucien would also save other SSS-rank Awakeners, and the others did the same.

Especially an SSS-rank Awakener like him, who was one of the top five strongest, his death would mean that there would be one less powerful SSS-rank Awakener in the human race.

If that were to happen, it would be exaggerated to say that the Earth would be doomed, as his death alone wouldn’t warrant such a consequence. However, the death of a powerful SSS-rank Awakener like him would increase the disadvantage of the human race.

Because of that, infighting between SSS-rank Awakeners was very rare since, as much as possible, other SSS-rank Awakeners would mediate the conflict.

Unless it was a grudge of killing one’s parent, stealing one’s wife, or something similar, internal conflict wasn’t allowed. Even war between opposing empires, etc., could allow the death of SS-rank Awakeners but never SSS-rank Awakeners.

Knowing how valuable each SSS-rank Awakeners, Lucien was surprised why the Earth Will sent him on such a suicidal mission.

Because of that, he couldn’t help but complain, ’Earth, are you leaving me to my death or not? How come there are no reinforcements yet?!’

’At this rate, I’ll die if you don’t notify the other SSS-rank Awakeners. No matter how powerful their enemies are, it shouldn’t be compared to how perilous my situation is!’

’Also, don’t forget that I truly have no Revival Coins left! If I die, I’ll be dead!’

If it were him being besieged during an Otherworld Mission, then he wouldn’t complain. After all, the Earth Will wasn’t his nanny, and it was normal to die on an Otherworld Mission.

But let’s not forget that it was the Earth Will who requested him to take on this defense mission. It was one thing if he was only asked to deal with one or two SSS-rank Demon Kings, as he still had confidence he could delay them.

But with the SSS-rank Ancient Space Dragon blocking his escape, he really would die on this battlefield, and no one wanted to die. He had recently used his Revival Coin in a recent Otherworld Mission, as he had fought against a Magic God just to test how powerful he truly was.

Although that led to his death, it had widened his horizons and allowed him to perceive just how huge the gap between SSS-rank and X-rank was. The gap between the two was even wider than the SS-rank and SSS-rank.

After all, there were extraordinary existences among SS-rank Awakeners who could temporarily possess SSS-rank Awakener power, but no one could touch the power of X-rank.

The Earth Will couldn’t be unaware of his usage of the SSS-rank Revival Coin. Because of that, Lucien couldn’t help but blame the Earth Will for sacrificing his life, and he wanted to demand an explanation for it.

However, despite his complaints, he never planned to desert the battlefield as his moral compass was still impeccable.

As a pure mage who would even waste one life of his just to fight a Magic God to see the wider horizon of the magic path, Lucien didn’t mind sacrificing his life just to protect Earth.

His only regret was that he was only 1137 years old and he would die so young without even becoming a Magic God.

Noticing that the Earth Will remained silent, Lucien cursed it again in his heart for being so ruthless, but he still resigned to his fate.

Determination flashed in his eyes as the air around him became colder, literally.

Taking control over the right to use the surrounding ice elements and mana, Lucien held his SSS-rank magic staff as he decided, ’I’ll use the remaining 10% mana reserves I have and the surrounding mana to use an SSS-rank Forbidden Magic Spell to bring one of them down with me to the afterlife!’