Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

The next day, in the morning, at 4:30 sharp,

Zevien and Vernisia woke up quickly as they went to sleep early last night. They freshened up in the shower and wore their battle outfit before entering the Violet Spectrum magic labyrinth.

After they completed some tasks in the kingdom's adventurer's guild, Zevi

After seeing their descriptions, Zevien decided to establish a magic quest among them called [Call of the Night]. They had to complete some steps before finally establishing this magic quest.

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[Magic Quest Established: Call Of the Night]

-Task: Find the ancient Night Temple and kill the evil people there who are plotting a sinister scheme that will result in a massacre.

-Reward: A random chain and 20,000 gold coins from the Tsaarin Kingdom after they get the proof of this scheme.

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"20,000 gold coins?" Vernisia was surprised. "Since there's such a high reward, then…"

"Yep. High reward means high risk. Haha," Zevien said as he moved slightly to sit comfortably on the big branch of a giant tree two kilometers away from the Tsaarin kingdom's capital.

"But how do we find this Night Temple? Just finding it will going to take some time considering that it's an 'ancient' temple, which means that not many people would know about it," Vernisia said.

Zevien nodded as he smiled wryly. "It's not even on the map. Well, let's start by asking around."

"I'll go check the kingdom's library while you ask around here and in the surrounding old villages. If one of us finds the location, we'll meet up after calling," Vernisia suggested. She felt that the library of the kingdom might also contain some information.

"Good idea," Zevien nodded with a smile as he pinched her cheeks. "As expected of my Verny."

"Give me a kiss instead," Vernisia pouted cutely.

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After three hours of struggling, they finally found the ancient Night Temple's location.

"This should be it," Zevien whispered as he pointed at a cave entrance with a broken wooden gate structure. This cave was very deep in a forest 10 kilometers west of the kingdom. It was located at the end of the forest that was blocked by mountain ranges, and this cave, which was situated on the mountain wall, leads into a mountain.

"We should lure them out and fight instead of going inside the cave, which is their turf," Vernisia said.

"Yep. But you hide here carefully while I'll go and inspect it first," Zevien said with a grin as he had absorbed some blood of a tiny lizard and used <Blood Morphing Art> to transform into a palm-sized lizard.

"Throw me towards that cave," Zevien said.

Vernisia was slightly speechless. "It feels weird seeing you in this lizard form."

"Cough… just throw me quickly, haha."

Vernisia wryly smiled and picked up the lizard-like Zevien before throwing him towards the cave.

Zevien landed inside the cave entrance and moved deeper into the passage. After he took a turn in the passage, he arrived in a large cavern hall with a black stone temple and four people sitting at a table outside the temple. They were discussing something, but Zevien focused himself on their powers.

'Hmm, from the slight magic readings I can sense, they feel like 3rd class magicians,' Zevien thought after focusing on them.

Several seconds later, he soon came out of the cave and transformed back, but he had also absorbed vampire blood, so he just reverted to it and unfurled his vampire wings before flying toward Vernisia slowly.

"They are discussing something, but our task is to kill them. So, here is the plan; I will revert back to lizard form and stand at the corner inside the cave's entrance while you make some noise to attract them outside. Once they come out and see you, I will attack them from behind," Zevien said with a serious expression. "Be sure to use <Roving Aegis Guard> right away."

"Got it," Vernisia nodded as she felt this plan was good.

Zevien went back to the cave's entrance slowly and turned into a lizard.

After seeing that Zevien was ready, Vernisia used her A-rank spell, Split Mana blade, and released a slash into the cave to create some sound.

Vernisia quickly hid amidst the leaves in the tree after that and waited. Soon, one person came outside. 'Only one came out? Oh well, this is good as well,' Vernisia thought before she released <Shadow Bind Hex> towards the middle-aged man wearing a black robe.

The man sensed mana and immediately erected a barrier around him out of caution. "We are under attack!"

Soon, the remaining three people rushed out. The middle-aged man also found Vernisia and waved his hand to use a magic spell that conjured a spinning black shuriken that flew towards Vernisia quickly.

Vernisia was ready for the attack, so she used the <Roving Aegis Guard> spell in full overflow-cast by consuming 15,000 mana.

*Crrrrrrrr…*

The Shuriken cracked the shield, but it disappeared soon as it ran out of power.

"Attack her! We must not let her escape!" the raspy voice rang out from one of the four men.

However, before they could attack, Zevien reverted into his humanoid form and quickly released four <Blackout Bubbles> towards them.

Four black bubbles appeared in front of Zevien before they flew towards the four people from behind. However, they sensed some energy and erected a barrier to block whatever was coming from behind.

But Zevien grinned as the head of a cannon barrel appeared in both of his hands, and he consumed a total of 30,000 mana to release two cannon balls of <Ruination Mist Cannon> from his hands.

*Boom! Boom!*

"Arghhh!!!"

"T-this? My skin! My skin!"

Vernisia also didn't hold back as a cold light passed through her eyes. She used <1st style of Primal conjuring: Water Terror Fish> twice at the same time as two fishes flew towards the chaotic misty area where four men were suffering from Zevien's devastating attack.

*Shrrrrrrrrr….*

The fishes also joined the fray as they exploded into whirlpools that shredded the four people even further. They wanted to escape, but the whirlpool pulled them into the center forcefully. They could normally escape, but with the sudden attack from Zevien, they already suffered injuries.

Despite trying their best to reinforce their body with Reinforce-type magic and using other methods, they still couldn't escape death.