episode_0262

‘… … This is… … .’

Tifa checked her body in confusion.

I don’t know why… …but right now, ‘power’ was overflowing within my body.

To be exact, it’s like a strange energy that you vaguely feel while practicing.

It felt like the source of an inexplicable power that was so close to his hand but yet so elusive had now seeped into his body and was running wild.

A refreshing feeling like you’ve never felt before.

Tifa swung her axe lightly.

I can fight with this.

My body felt as light as a feather, as if the groaning and pushing I had just done was a lie.

okay.

-I can’t die in a place like this!

“와라, 이 개새끼야!!!”

“Tch!”

The two men’s weapons clashed again.

If there was one silver lining for THAAD, it was that this time, thankfully, the weapon wasn’t literally torn apart.

However, just by dividing the sum a few times, you can easily notice the difference in skill. It’s the complete opposite of what happened just now.

Can’t win… can’t win!

If this woman had this much power, this was a fight she simply couldn’t win.

Saad adjusted his posture once more and looked at Tifa in front of him.

She was holding a gleaming axe, and a blue aura surrounded her, as if she was wearing armor that glowed with light.

The sight was as if the knight prophesied in the Book of Revelation, spoken of by religious zealots during the peaceful times of the old continent, had appeared.

At the same time… … Sade was instinctively seized by an emotion he had never felt before on the battlefield.

–horror.

It was a feeling of fear.

It has been said that the moments when humans feel fear are extremely diverse –

The most foremost of these was the fear felt when encountering an unknown being.

That’s exactly how THAAD feels right now.

Wouldn’t it be normal to feel fear when you suddenly see a human being flashing blue?

‘What… What is this? This b*tch… What the hell is going on?!’

Sade turned his horse’s head and tried to retreat, but-

“Haaat!”

Crunch!

The horse he was riding died when its head was cut off… …and he fell off the horse.

“Eww!”

Even as he rolled around on the ground, Sade desperately tried to figure out how to survive.

It would have been easy to become helpless from fear, but my survival instinct was much stronger.

‘I have to escape somehow… … !’

If you run away, you can save your life.

Since I’ve fallen off my horse, I can’t quickly disappear from sight… … But this is a battlefield. If I can just get between the soldiers, I can somehow take advantage of the chaos and survive!

Why did the woman who was fighting him suddenly become stronger as if she had awakened? How should our military deal with her? These are questions that can be thought about many times over if only it can save one’s life.

While SAD was thinking like that-

Tifa, as Tifa, began to seriously test this ‘power’ that she had become aware of.

‘I think I can send this power… out… … .’

It wasn’t a question of theory. It was a matter of instinct.

Just as she breathes from the moment she is born, and asks for food whenever she is hungry – from the moment Tifa received this power into her body… …she began to use her abilities so naturally, as if she had known how to do it from the beginning.

‘If you do this… … !”

Hwaaak!

This time, the axe he was holding began to burst into flames.

The flame clearly reaches the hand holding the axe… …and yet the hand doesn’t get hot at all.

I don’t know exactly what this power is, but… …

I felt like my body was getting stronger, I was no longer in pain, and my body was feeling fine.

at that time.

Only then did Tifa see the figure of Saad running away in panic.

“Where are you running away to… … !”

Tifa instinctively reached out to the fleeing Saad.

It wasn’t like she was trying to do anything.

But – the unknown power she had recognized, ‘Mana’, was circulating within her body, and once it was fully activated –

Her gestures could not be just ‘simple gestures’.

Swish!

“Haaat!!”

The ball of flame hanging from the tip of Tifa’s weapon flew to where THAAD was at her will.

Sade, who had been running away, instinctively looked back at that very split second.

–ah.

A mass of flames, as if by magic, flew straight towards his face.

At this moment, Sadd felt again the sensation Tifa had felt just a moment ago.

Die.

If you get hit in the head with that flame… …you will definitely die.

It was not something that could be avoided, but it was something that could not be avoided. Before the thought circuit could function properly, he would die.

At this very moment, what THAAD can sense is… … Yes. That flame is very similar to ‘magic’.

And, there is something called magic on this continent.

“Magic, s… … !!!”

Kwaaang!

A huge ball of flames blasted by Tifa hit Sadd’s face.

And then… …something that had been THAAD’s body fell limply to the ground.

Sad Astron.

He made a name for himself under Karelia, but after being abandoned by his lord, he formed a mercenary group.

For a man who had lived for so long, eating the blood of countless people, and buried it in his weapon, it was an extremely vain end.

If a third party were to see it, they might call it a blessing to die so painlessly and instantly on the battlefield.

Tifa rode her horse and approached him.

… … dead. Since there is no human who can survive with his head blown off, he must be dead.

I don’t feel any pity or guilt. In the first place – this guy was trying to kill me. If I hadn’t been able to use this magical power – it would have been me, not this man, who would have fallen and become a bleeding corpse.

‘……for a moment.’

okay.

magic!

Only then does Tifa vaguely realize that her power is ‘magic’.

If the wizard hadn’t appeared on the continent – Tifa wouldn’t even know what this power was, but hadn’t one already appeared in Serpina’s army?

Then… …was the sensation I felt just the mana I had only heard about?

Tifa turned her head and looked at the place where the soldiers were gathered.

I noticed that there were perfect opponents for using magic… … scattered all over the place.

“――!!!!”

Tifa roared as if she was going to tear the sky apart.

And then… …he again accepted the source of power he had just felt – mana – into his body.

You feel an overwhelming energy seeping into your body, as if you were being reborn.

I will definitely bring victory to Lunalien in this battle.

And, the world of the Lunalian Army, with my own hands… …!!!!

She – on horseback, charged straight towards the soldiers.

and……

* * *

“Oh, it’s a wizard… … !”

“Run away! The wizard can’t win!”

‘A wizard… …?!’

Vanessa looked once more toward where the loud noise was coming from.

Kwaaang!!!!

… … Certainly, as if by magic or something – something was exploding.

How could such a huge explosion be artificially caused? At least, there was no other way than what she thought. If it was a wizard who had appeared on the northern continent, then it would be different.

However, what we see before our eyes now is a stark reality.

And there was no way that the wizard who was under the Serpina Army would have come to help the Lunarian Army… … In the end, there was only one conclusion left.

‘There was a wizard… … … !!’

Vanessa, completely transfixed, loses her composure for the first time – the kind she never lost at any moment, even when she begged her master to kill her.

‘Fuck… … !’

The thing that scares humans the most is the unknown power. Vanessa knew that fact well.

So, these soldiers are running away without even knowing that they are breaking military law!

Because I don’t know how wide the range of that power is. Because I don’t know at all how deep the depth of that power is!

As a soldier, it was the worst, but as a living being, he made a very rational choice, so he shouted in order to calm the soldiers down.

“Everyone, everyone, calm down! It’s an enemy trap! Even if he’s a wizard, he’s just one general! He won’t be able to defeat us, who have the upper hand in numbers!”

Vanessa’s screams reach no one here.

Kwaaang-!

Beyond that, the sound of something exploding continued to be heard.

No matter how many troops you have, if you don’t have the will to fight, you can never win.

It was just as impossible for ten thousand men who were prepared to die to win as it was for fifty thousand men who were just trying to save their lives to win.

Yes. Even if it’s a 5-fold difference – we can still catch the enemy who has lost the will to fight and is retreating. Let alone our advantage, which is barely 2-fold!

‘Lunarien, you’ve been aiming for this from the beginning, interceptor unit… …!’

The two mercenary groups were just a smokescreen.

The plan was to make the wizard appear and confuse us, and then catch us… … !!

“Fuck, fuck… … !!!”

Vanessa… … bit her lower lip so hard it almost bled and turned her head away.

As long as the soldiers’ front lines were retreating… … there was no way he, the Chief of Staff, could be captured.

All she could hope was that even THAAD would come to his senses and lead the soldiers… … But soon enough, she couldn’t help but realize that he had gone to a place where he would never be able to fulfill her wishes.

“… … !!”

It was not only the Karelian military that was surprised.

Jinor, who was coordinating this situation, was also startled by the sudden appearance of the wizard and looked towards where the interception team was.

‘This can’t be happening… …!’

At first, when the mercenary group arrived as reinforcements, I thought my reasoning was roughly correct.

Although the number of mercenaries was not as large as he had thought… … he had simply thought that if his inference was correct, he would somehow be able to find a breakthrough in the battle.

That doesn’t mean a wizard will appear.

That too, I never thought for a moment that a general in our military would awaken as a magician.

A sense of discomfort that comes from things going so well, and to the point where they fit the Lunalian Army’s circumstances.

If God really exists, wouldn’t it be a situation where we feel as if we are receiving overwhelming love from the Creator?

Genor was certainly a wise man. His vast experience and bearing made him the greatest strategist on the continent.

Even so, he was also human. When he witnessed something beyond imagination, he felt awe, and the emotion beyond that was fear.

As soon as he realized that the emotion he was feeling right now was ‘fear’, the sentence sent by that man – the real ‘strategist’ of the Lunarian army, whom Lunarian trusted with all his heart, came to mind.

[Go to Lunalian Inian.]

‘!!!!!!’

Swen… … really knew.

Lunalian Iniangi is the monarch who will unify the continent.

At least now that I had witnessed this situation… … it was now truly foolish to doubt his words.

Of course, I had originally trusted his words and that was why I had come all the way here, but seeing the evidence with my own eyes was bound to be a different experience.

‘Lunarien is… … the woman who will become the new emperor of the continent… …!!’

Jinor realizes.

In those red eyes… …the lives of all the people of the continent are at stake.

* * *

――Battle results.

The 200,000 troops of the Karelian Army, whose morale was completely low and who were unable to respond properly, were overwhelmed by the Lunalian Army.

This was one of the most unusual battles that had occurred in the Southern Continent – no, in the entire continent.

And from this battle onwards-

The Karelian army began to take the path to complete ruin.