The Shepherd Alone on the Hill is a Genius Wizard-Chapter 92: Wasn’t What Pyromancer Folk Hated Most (2)

While retreating like that, he absorbed power from the Mimicker holy relic, and when he turned his head, he saw the Baraha noble called Rei walking over.

The burning fortress cast shadows on his face while emitting flames from behind.

"Surely all talks with your side should have been finished. Is interfering with our ceremony now the will of your house, Zahar?"

"Think whatever you like."

Judging by how they spoke, it seemed there had been some understanding between the two houses of Baraha and Zahar.

Perhaps they had agreed to hand over some tangible or intangible assets in exchange for not interfering even when pursuing into their territory, or something trivial like that.

If not that, it could be something darker.

For example, perhaps the same god’s shadow loomed over Zahar as well, or different gods stood behind each house and had reached some sort of agreement between themselves...

Even while thinking various things internally, Turan’s face showed no sign of wavering as he spoke dismissively.

Unlike Rei, whose face twisted at the provocation from a noble clearly much younger than himself.

"What are you counting on to act so cocky? You must know that we Baraha are your natural enemy. Are you perhaps the heir?"

Light and fire were both elements that were natural enemies to Zahar’s stealth abilities.

To begin with, the Zahar bloodline itself wasn’t particularly excellent in this kind of direct confrontation.

No matter how talented a wizard Turan might be, it was difficult to fight head-on with a combat-specialized wizard who possessed stronger power.

Even if there was water around like when fighting Solif it might be different, but especially not in this situation without it.

However, there was no trace of fear in Turan’s eyes as he looked at his opponent.

"I’m not the heir, but I can still beat someone like you."

The moment Rei, provoked by those words, shot out a sphere of flames containing immense magical power, Turan stomped the ground hard and a huge wall rose right in front of him.

Despite being at a disadvantage in magical power, the stone wall he created withstood the fireball’s explosion without trouble.

"Wasn’t what pyromancer folk hated most meeting stream bloodline or earthkeeper by the water?"

And what Turan had just absorbed was the earthkeeper bloodline’s power.

The one possessed by the army commander he had killed in the western plains.

While immense heat could melt even earth and stone, it was different with land imbued with the power of a house that ruled the earth.

When Turan threw a stone with his sling for a counterattack, amusingly, it too was affected by the earthkeeper bloodline and shot faster and stronger than usual.

"Kuk!"

In the moment Rei covered his face in shock at the sudden attack, something green that slipped out from his chest deflected the stone instead.

A small shield about the size of a palm that he had seen earlier.

That defensive magic tool circled around Rei confidently, as if certain it could deflect any attack.

"Damn it...!"

Perhaps because he hadn’t blocked it himself, Rei cursed while rubbing his face that he had almost been hit.

Judging by his reddened face, he seemed to feel shame and anger at the fact that he had been afraid.

When he stretched his hand toward Turan, dozens of arrows made of light shot out immediately.

Originally, attacks that materialized light were among the simplest magic that knights commonly used, but when used by a noble with a light-controlling bloodline, it too became a fearsome weapon.

To this, Turan again stomped his foot to make spikes shoot up, shooting down the incoming arrows one by one.

While both handled physical forces, earth magic was more defensive and slower, whereas light was offensive and faster.

During this exchange, Turan allocated some of his slightly surplus attention to take out fire soul and blow it with wind magic.

Having naturally passed by the shield, it caused a violent explosion the moment it reached around Rei’s body.

"Ugh!"

While this kind of attack was difficult to harm a high noble’s body, it was enough to temporarily impact their sight and hearing.

There was no need to explain how significant an effect that would have in this kind of exchange.

Not missing the moment when he covered his face, Turan’s earth spikes pierced through Rei’s feet and legs.

The green shield could only block so much, it couldn’t stop all attacks while completely stationary.

"Aaaaagh!"

Rei screamed in pain.

But befitting a high noble who had lived hundreds of years, even then he continued endlessly shooting light arrows, forcing Turan to defend.

When he tried to send fire soul flowing with wind magic again, surprisingly this time the powder exploded the moment it left his hand.

Turan groaned softly as he received light burns on his hand.

"Ugh..."

"Whatever trick that was, it won’t work twice!"

Being focused due to combat, he seemed to have noticed this side sending and detonating the black powder and immediately prepared a countermeasure.

Moreover, perhaps because he was half pyromancer bloodline, his speed at causing flames was far faster.

To this, Turan gave up on using more fire soul and engaged honestly in a magic duel.

By transforming the earth to create more spikes forcing the opponent to move, while simultaneously shooting down incoming arrows.

The stones he threw in between were defended by the green shield, but this too was largely poisonous in the big picture.

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Originally, all magic tools use their owner’s magical power as driving force.

Considering that magic tools that block automatically like that consume more magical power, there was no need to say who was at a disadvantage.

"Huff, hah..."

His ragged breathing and cold sweat were indicators showing that he was consuming magical power too quickly.

The problem was that Turan too had almost used up the earthkeeper bloodline’s power.

When Turan, who had used up all his earthkeeper power, retreated first, Rei realized his advantage and his face lit up.

"Haha... you tried pretty hard but it’s still difficult, isn’t it?"

"Not really."

Contrary to his words, Turan too had consumed quite a lot of power from the continuous exchange.

Though he still had more leeway than his opponent, considering he needed to go help Solif’s fight afterwards, wasting too much wasn’t good.

In fact, the other side immediately figuring out how to counter the fire soul was somewhat outside his calculations.

If not for that, he would have ended it faster - perhaps this was worthy of a great house’s wizard.

Taking advantage of the brief lull that had formed, Turan took out the Mimicker holy relic from his chest and absorbed a second power.

"What’s that? A magic tool?"

"Something similar."

Though his intention to buy time to recover physical and magical power was obvious, Turan played along.

He too needed time for the heterogeneous magical power to settle in his body.

After a while, confirming the magical power had completely settled in his body, Turan raised light and fire in both hands.

"What...?"

Rei expressed bewilderment at this incomprehensible action.

Light and fire - weren’t these two types of power what Zahar nobles, who specialized in stealth, detested?

Of course, the opponent had just shown the power of a skilled earthkeeper bloodline noble out of nowhere, but still, these weren’t weapons to use against him with the sun bloodline.

As if answering such doubts, Turan combined the light and fire dwelling in both hands into one.

Two types of power that didn’t mix at all, as if they existed in different phases.

Before long, what had merged into one as if distorted took the form of a shining ring behind Turan’s back.