Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

*crack…*

Mirena broke Zevien's wooden dagger as the merchant, and the other two escorts glanced at Mirena after hearing the sound.

"This dagger is too crude. Let me carve a proper one for you, and then I will enchant it," Mirena said as she pointed her hand at a tree and conjured a metal whip with her magic to break a branch before pulling it towards her.

After five minutes, she carved a decent dagger with her magic enchanted knife and passed it to Zevien.

Zevien grabbed the dagger and saw two magic sigils inscribed on it.

"One of the sigils is a sound transmission sigil. Pour mana and see what she has to say," Tarto said.

"Nice work, miss Mirena. It seems you are already a tier-2 Enchanter," Zevien smiled before pouring mana into the dagger.

After pouring the mana into the sound transmission sigil, he heard her voice in his head, 'you are lucky that you decided to inform me of this before Yenil and Zon. First, those will not join this plan. They are relatives of this merchant, and they likely know what is inside. So, we two will work together and kill them.

'If you are the type that doesn't like needless and enmity-less killing, then no worries; I am also like that. But none of those three are innocent because they have already stained their hands with the blood of innocent people.

'Yesterday, Yenil and Zon raped a pregnant village woman and killed her husband. That woman told me about this before taking her own life suddenly. Since then, I have been following them to get a chance to kill them.'

Zevien's eyes twitched as he felt angry. But he remained calm and asked Tarto, 'is she telling the truth?'

"She is," Tarto nodded while caressing his whiskers.

'Well then, no need to wait anymore,' Zevien's eyes glinted as he turned towards Zon, "hey Zon, check out this dagger. Miss Mirena really did a great job."

Zevien threw the wooden dagger toward Zon, which he caught.

Mirena's eyes bulged as she thought that Zevien had betrayed her. But in the next second, she saw what Zevien did and sighed relief.

Zevien shot his dagger toward Zon swiftly and pierced his head right when Zon tried to look at the sigils of the wooden dagger.

Instant kill due to the surprise attack on the defenseless Zon.

Mirena quickly jumped up and created a shield in front of Zevien because Yenil pointed his hand at Zevien and released a thunderbird.

Zevien's Somatic Sadness barrier came one second late, but Mirena's barrier saved him from injuries.

"Thanks," Zevien said before flying up and dashing towards Yenil while releasing a Nyxite Claw.

"Bastard!" Yenil shouted as he used a barrier spell to block but the Nyxite Claw passed through the barrier. Not expecting this, Yenil canceled his offensive-type spell that he was going to use right after the barrier spell and used a shield-type spell but couldn't do it in time as the big dark claw cut him into three pieces.

On the other hand, Mirena also finished off the merchant.

*Neighh….Neighhhhh…*

The horses went crazy with panic and were scared due to the energy fluctuations, but Mirena quickly calmed them down.

"Meow~ you have to be careful with the Nyxite Claw spell," Tarto said as he appeared on Zevien's shoulder for everyone to see. Mirena also noticed the cat speaking and was surprised.

"What do you mean?" Zevien asked.

"The Nyxite claw can pass through any non-magic object several times according to your will. But it still slightly weakens when passing through them. Just slightly, like 10% less power after passing through ten non-magic objects."

Tarto jumped towards the carriage storage before he continued speaking, "however, this rule is a bit different when passing through magical things like barrier-type spells or magic items. It can only pass through a barrier, shield, or magic item once. It won't pass through the second time, even if you will it. Even if there is a one finger's distance between the first magic shield and second magic shield, the Nyxite claw will pass the first shield according to your will, but it won't pass through the second shield."

"I see," Zevien nodded.

*Sparkle!! Crack…*

Mirena and Zevien saw Tarto breaking the storage with a wave of his paws. All the layered magic spells were destroyed in a matter of seconds.

"W-wow….," Mirena looked at Tarto and the cracked open storage with an amazed expression.

"I want all magic crystals, that magic sword, and that magic leather armor. The rest of the things are yours," Zevien said as he looked at Mirena with a smile, "deal?"

Basically, Zevien asked for two-thirds of the share.

"Fine," Mirena nodded, "you had more contribution anyway since I wouldn't have been able to open this storage box even after killing them."

Zevien wore the leather armor and hung the sword with its sheath at his waist before taking all the magic crystals and putting them in his bag. The crystals were just finger-sized, so they were easily stored.

"I should buy a storage ring. I have enough money to buy tons of them now," Zevien muttered as he flew up and moved in a random direction to find another town as he couldn't go to the previous town after this incident.

Mirena also took her share of things from the box before riding away on a horse.

…

However, just five minutes after Zevien and Mirena left, a middle-aged man arrived there riding a horse. When he saw the mess and broken storage, he started sweating and activated a ring on his third finger before speaking, "Sir Leon, you were right! Something happened here. Y-your brother is dead, and those two nephews, Yenil and Zon, are also dead."

In response, the middle-aged man heard a frightening cold voice, "what about the storage box?"

"It's b-broken."

"What!? How? What about the other two escorts?"

"No sign of them here."

"This can't be. They can't break the storage with their meager power. Return to the town and find information about those two escorts."

...

"Zev, you might want to return to the previous town where you took this task," Tarto suddenly said to Zevien as he was flying in a random direction.

"Huh? Why?" Zevien casually asked while checking out the sword. When he infused some mana in the sword, he got information about it in his head.

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[Carhon Sword]

-Tier: 2

-Effect: It can enhance earth-type spells' effect and physical strength of the user by 5%.

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"Because in that town, you also roamed and met with Henry," Tarto answered nonchalantly, "I think you should know what I mean unless you've turned stupid."

Zevien halted in the air as his face changed, "no…no way."