Reincarnation Of A Swordsman: The Omni Mage-Chapter 232: Conflicted Kingdom

"Woah!" Kyle exclaimed after reading the spell’s description. The spell was perfect, but he could only see its full potential when he uses it.

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"This would be nice," he muttered before closing his eyes for a moment or rest and opening it less than a minute later.

"Okay. Time for the next spell."

He reached for the book again, turning the page to the next Tier-2 spell.

[Do you want to learn the Tier-2 spell: Chaotic Mirage?]

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Kyle was confused and excited from the spell’s name, but he didn’t conclude on that, instead choosing to study the diagrams first.

The diagrams showed distorted shapes — multiple versions of a caster flickering like a mirage. The description read: "Harness the chaos to fracture perception. Create false images to deceive, disorient, and overwhelm."

"A spell that creates illusions?" Kyle said with intrigue. But as he read further, he realized this wasn’t just a simple illusion spell.

"Mirages are reflections of chaos energy. They’re unstable but can briefly interact with the physical world. This isn’t just deception, it’s disorienting the enemy while using the false images as decoys and shields."

Kyle exhaled slowly. "This one’s going to be tricky."

Unlike Void Rend, this spell required him to fragment his own chaos energy into multiple pieces, each imitating his movements. The challenge lay in maintaining control over the fragments while keeping his real self concealed among them.

He closed his eyes, drawing on the chaos within. This time, instead of focusing on a single point, he let the energy expand outward, imagining it splitting into several tendrils.

The first few attempts ended in failure, with the energy dispersing uncontrollably, but he kept on following the book’s steps and after several attempts, he managed to create one flickering mirage — a faint, translucent image of himself — but it vanished almost immediately.

"No. Focus. Don’t force it. Let the energy flow naturally."

He tried again, guiding the chaos energy outward. This time, instead of trying to shape it directly, he let it ripple and fracture on its own. Slowly, faint images began to form around him, shimmering, distorted versions of himself.

Three… four… five.

Kyle opened his eyes and stood, watching the mirages mimic his movements. He waved an arm, and the illusions followed suit, flickering but synchronized.

"Not bad," he said with a grin.

Then, with a flick of his hand, he sent the mirages forward. They darted ahead, distorting the air as they moved. When one collided with the wall, it exploded in a burst of chaotic energy.

Kyle smirked after seeing the result.

"Now this… this is incredible."

[Congratulations! You have learned Tier-2 spell: Chaotic Mirage]

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[Chaotic Mirage (Lv 1)]

[Splits chaos energy to create up to five unstable illusions of the caster. These illusions mimic movements but cannot interact with the environment. Lasts 10 seconds or until destroyed.

Cost: 60 MP per activation]

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Kyle exhaled, exhausted but exhilarated. "Two Tier-2 spells in one session," he murmured, glancing at the timer.

[Rest Time Remaining: 1:24:35]

"Still enough time to recover," he said before letting himself collapse onto the floor. "I’ll be needing enough rest for the final floors."

’System, wake me up in an hour!’

***

[BZZZZZZZZZ!!]

The system’s alarm flared loudly within Kyle’s head the moment an hour passed. It only took Kyle some seconds before he could no longer handle the relentless disturbance and eventually opened his eyes.

"Damn... It’s an hour already?" he asked to no one in particular as he rubbed the remnants of sleep away from his eyes.

[0:24:25]

A quick glance at the room’s timer was all that he needed to confirm that the System was right.

’Time to get to work.’

Kyle stood up and began stretching his limbs before running across the room. He had made sure that he woke up early so that he could warm up before it was time.

After running several times across the room for some seconds, he sat down on the floor and began practicing the control of his new spells.

***

[0:00:30]

With 30 seconds left on the clock, Kyle stood from his sitting position. He hadn’t perfected his control in any way for the spells to be a game changer, but to some degree he could cast them.

[Chaotic Mirage] was quite difficult for him to cast and not only would he need absolute concentration to do so, he would need some minutes before he could give shape to his mirage which was very unpractical in a battle.

On the bright side, he had mastered [Void Rend] to a degree since the concept was a bit similar to [Chaos Whirlpool], but that didn’t mean he was near to the level of spamming it at will, but he was getting there at least.

’I wish I had a Lightning Spell book too,’ Kyle couldn’t help but let his thoughts trail off to what that could mean for him.

"Welp, I’ll get some when I return to the academy, or from the village even... I just need to clear this Tower first."

[0:00:00]

The moment the timer reached all zeros, Kyle heard the demon’s voice announce:

[Prepare yourself for the final 10 floors, with increasingly greater difficulty]

[To proceed, channel your mana into the Ascension Orb. The 31st floor awaits.]

He glanced at the crimson orb which he had refrained placing in his inventory and picked it up, before channeling his mana through it like he has done almost thirty times already.

The orb glowed up radiantly and it only took a few seconds for its effect to be made known.

Kyle’s surroundings dissolved into an endless expanse of shimmering whiteness, the familiar walls of the resting chamber fading into nothingness. For a moment, there was silence until the new world came into view.

Kyle soon found himself standing in the middle of a bustling city, which was a far cry from the quiet chambers and arenas he had grown accustomed to in the Tower.

The air was filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread, the tang of iron from a nearby blacksmith, and even the faint stench of refuse from an alley.

Kyle turned around to understand where he was. "What is this?"

[Thirty-First Trial: The Shattered Kingdom

Navigate the conflict tearing this kingdom apart. Choose a side, or forge your own path. Your actions here will affect your future trials.]

"Conflicts? This doesn’t feel like a trial. It feels like…"

It was at that moment that it occurred to him that they were people moving around him but paying him no attention.

’No way these people are real?!’

Kyle tried to see whether they were formed from magic or something, but he could sense no magic signatures, they were all real people.

’Inspect!’

[Random Human]

[Affinity: None]

Almost everyone Kyle used [Inspect] on showed the same result and he wasn’t too surprised. The only point that impressed him was that this could be a magic world.

’Perhaps this is just a city in Zekkoa or something.’

Kyle finally had enough of talking and decided 49 go check for himself if these people were real.

He stepped toward a nearby stall, where a burly man was selling bread.

"Excuse me," Kyle said with some hesitation.

"What is it?"

"Uh… nothing," Kyle said quickly before stepping back. Thankfully, he blended in perfectly with the crowd and he didn’t face any complications.

’Things would have been awkward assuming I had decided to wear the [Veil of Silence] or any one of those robes.’

Kyle’s thoughts were interrupted when he heard a far cry some blocks away from him. He joined the rest of the people and sprinted forward to see the building commotion.

"Enough of your nonsense, Haron!" Kyle heard a guard bark the moment he approached. "Go back to your farm and be grateful for the protection we provide!"

"Protection? Is that what you call this? Letting us starve and rot while the nobles grow fat off resources they refuse to share?"

A murmur of agreement rippled through the crowd that head arrived as they supported what the man had said.

"You have no idea what you’re asking for. You think life beyond the barrier is simple? You’d be dead in minutes without us!" another guard added.

’Barrier?’ Kyle wondered what they meant but kept silent and listened.

Haron didn’t look fazed by the guard’s words and instead spoke louder.

"You think we’re children? That we can’t handle the risks? The truth is, the kingdom doesn’t want us to have what they have — power. They hoard it all for yourselves while we live like cattle!"