I’m a Mage Too

Some said that when God closed one door for you, He opened a window for you.

Kyle did not know whether this was compensation from the goddess of fate. He had only just learned that his time was running out, yet an idiot sorcerer had come knocking, bringing warmth and benefits.

It would have been one thing if he had merely come to show off the superiority of being a sorcerer and using magic, but he had chosen this exact moment to court death—Sorcerer Bru, unconscious within the Mirror Dimension, had the word "miserable" written all over him.

"Let me see what spells you’ve mastered…" Kyle rubbed his hands together and stared at Sorcerer Bru as if he were looking at a naked goddess, his eyes glinting with an eerie green light.

His gaze and thoughts fell eagerly upon Sorcerer Bru. In an instant, over a hundred uneven white-green cards sprang into view.

Among them, four blue Ability Cards stood out clearly, their interwoven glow filling his vision with blue light.

"Four?!" Kyle was stunned. It was the first time he had seen someone other than himself possess so many blue Ability Cards.

But then his eyes widened even further. A purple Ability Card emerged last from Sorcerer Bru’s body, radiating purple light as it floated proudly above the four blue cards—

Intermediate Mirror Dimension: Enter a Mirror Dimension in another dimension. Purple Ability Card.

Using a Sling Ring, one can enter another dimension that coexists with the real universe. The Mirror Dimension exists, yet remains unnoticed by others.

The scenery within the Mirror Dimension resembles a mirror image of the real world, but anything that happens there has nothing to do with reality. Inside, one can secretly observe people and events in reality, avoid danger, and create a home-field advantage in battle (with limited control over certain forms of the Mirror Dimension).

Activate the skill to forcibly pull oneself and any living beings within ten meters into the Mirror Dimension at will (with humans as the standard, up to ten people).

Skill cooldown: three hours.

Note: Once the Mirror Dimension suffers a certain degree of damage, it becomes difficult to maintain its stability, allowing trapped creatures to escape back into the real world.

Current status: Can be extracted. Requires possession of a Sling Ring artifact.

"Too bad. It’s only a skill-type Ability Card." Kyle could not help frowning, but quickly relaxed again.

There was nothing to regret. Sorcerers themselves did not possess constitution-type Ability Cards above the green tier. Otherwise, they would not be called "sorcerers."

The other four blue Ability Cards were identical, all spell skill-type Ability Cards.

Portal Spell: Can open a circular spatial portal. Blue Ability Card.

Using a Sling Ring, imagine a destination in one's mind (accuracy must exceed 80%), then stand still for three to five seconds and draw a circle with one's hands to open a small portal connecting two locations for ten seconds.

Teleportation range is limited to the distance of one planet (with Earth as the standard). Outer space is subject to additional restrictions.

Current status: Can be extracted. Requires possession of a Sling Ring artifact to use.

"This spell…" Kyle’s eyes lit up. Once he mastered this Portal Spell, ordinary means of transportation like cars and planes would instantly seem rather primitive and useless.

Wait, there was a matching one too!

Kyle’s breathing quickened. His eyes darted over as his gaze rapidly settled on the second blue Ability Card.

Mastery of Fixed Portal Construction: Master the construction technique for fixed portals. Blue Ability Card.

Master the technique of constructing permanently fixed portals, which can be activated to eternally connect two different locations.

Each fixed portal can only be permanently bound to one location (limited to Earth).

When a fixed portal opens, another void gateway opens at the destination. When the fixed portal closes, the void gateway loses its connection and disappears.

Current status: Can be extracted.

"Mirror Dimension, portals, fixed portals… Is this an entire set of benefit cards for shrinking the distances across Earth and planning space?" Kyle clicked his tongue in amazement. When he looked at Sorcerer Bru again, even that arrogant, haughty dark face seemed much more pleasant.

What a good man! Knowing that he needed to speed up his preparations for Earth, he had hurried over to deliver a series of space-related magical techniques.

The other two blue Ability Cards were the basic sorcerer spells: Mana Shield Technique and Mastery of Artifact Usage.

"Your spells are all mine!" Kyle suppressed his delight, sat down beside Sorcerer Bru, and began copying and extracting the one purple and four blue Ability Cards one by one.

For blue Ability Cards, the extraction distance limit was one meter, and the reading time was half an hour.

Kyle had never extracted a purple Ability Card before, but now he knew—the extraction distance limit remained one meter, while the reading time for the card lasted a full three hours!

Still, Kyle was more than willing to spend three hours obtaining the extraordinary spell that allowed him to enter the Mirror Dimension.

During those long hours of card extraction, Sorcerer Bru woke several times through sheer force of will. Yet before he could even open his eyes, another punch landed on the back of his head and knocked him unconscious again.

By the time Kyle had obtained all five spell cards, Sorcerer Bru’s head was covered in bumps, swollen as though it had grown a whole size larger.

"Oh, right. I almost forgot the Sling Ring."

Kyle slapped his forehead lightly and reached out to remove the strange ring worn on Sorcerer Bru’s left hand. It was dark black, required three fingers to wear, and was five times larger than an ordinary ring.

This thing was like a switch for beginning magic. It could connect a person to nature and draw out the latent mana in the body. Without it, even someone who had mastered spells could not use them.

"Time to head back." Kyle pondered for a moment, then remembered something else and crouched down to strip Sorcerer Bru of his magical artifacts and equipment.

Private belongings could not be extracted, so he could only take them by hand.

Tribunal Scepter, Wato Wand, Leaping Boots…

These artifacts were of extremely little use to Kyle, though fortunately, they could serve as blue-tier sacrificial material cards.

Five minutes later.

Sorcerer Bru groaned in pain. Feeling the strange chill over his body as his senses returned, he jerked awake and sat up on the overturned skyscraper. He looked down at himself in confusion and discovered that all his artifacts, along with his clothes, had been stripped away, leaving only a pair of boxer shorts.

"You’re awake?" Kyle glanced at Sorcerer Bru. He had just converted the last piece of loot, the sorcerer’s robe, into a card. Stroking his chin in satisfaction, he said, "Let me think about how I should deal with you."

He personally preferred killing Sorcerer Bru, but if Master Gu Yi found out, the relationship between them would inevitably turn stiff.

"I’ve got it." Kyle’s lips curled upward. With a wave of his left hand, canned food and rations for ten people materialized in a pile on the ground. He said, "I’m leaving these for you. Hopefully, Master Gu Yi notices that you’re trapped in the Mirror Dimension before you finish all the food and comes to take you out."

"What are you talking about?" Sorcerer Bru scrambled to his feet in panic and hurriedly tried to persuade him. "Without me, you can’t leave this place at all!"

"Who says?" Kyle put on the Sling Ring on his right hand. Before Sorcerer Bru’s blank stare, he rotated both palms. Brilliant sparks began to appear, spinning into a wheel in the air before him and opening a portal to the real world.

"How is that possible? You can use magic too?" Sorcerer Bru was dumbfounded, questioning both his eyes and his entire worldview.

"Sorry, but I’m actually a mage too."

Kyle smiled and stepped into the dazzling portal of spinning sparks.

Sorcerer Bru stood there in a daze. By the time he came back to his senses, Kyle had already completely left the Mirror Dimension.