Episode 592: Reinforcements (2)
Jeopuk. Jerk.
The son-in-law became quiet at the appearance of Loteron.
The wizards of the New Magic Tower who had made a deal with Nikolai wondered why the author was here with wide-open eyes.
The appearance of Loteron gave them quite a shock.
“I promise that if you step down now, I will avoid the worst situation.”
Loteron spoke in a humming voice from inside the iron mask.
“Lord Loteron. “This is none of your business.”
The person who answered those words was Geoffrey, the team leader of the War Mage unit that currently leads the wizards.
He, who had long sideburns and beard, spoke in a strong tone because he did not want to show Loteron that he was intimidated.
“We are currently executing official duties to catch the criminal who attacked the Magic Tower. So please step aside.”
Jeffrey’s tone was polite, but his tone and facial expression were not.
The reaction that Loteron appeared here was rather annoying.
It is absurd to welcome Loteron, who is in the opposite faction.
“okay. Because I am carrying out official duties. “It’s only natural since the magic tower was attacked.”
“yes. So, could you please step aside?”
“But don’t you think something is strange?”
Loteron said while looking around.
“There are some faces I haven’t seen before.”
Loteron looked at all the people gathered around him through his iron mask.
It wasn’t just war mages from the Magic Tower who were dispatched.
There were also some people who were not part of the Magic Tower. No matter how I looked at them, they only seemed like people doing dirty work.
“Besides, what are these automatons? “Did our God’s Magic Tower make things like this?”
“…This is a newly created automaton. “It was recently completed, and I had the opportunity to bring it to see its effectiveness.”
“Trial operation. “Not bad.”
Loteron shook his head.
“But no matter how you look at these automatons, they seem to have gone far beyond the existing regulations.”
The automatons standing around like mannequins were excessively armed.
“Surely there was an agreement regarding this within the Magic Tower? Don’t say no. “I know the entire rule book by heart.”
“That’s…”
“Besides, you’re bringing an armored suit that hasn’t even been released yet. They say they’ll catch the criminal who attacked the magic tower, but isn’t that strangely excessive? As if…”
“As if?”
“It’s as if they are doing their best to erase their own shame.”
“You are talking too much!”
A war mage shouted angrily at those words.
That passionate voice was full of anger and hostility toward Loteron.
Jeffrey raised one hand to stop his subordinate and opened his mouth.
“Lord Loteron. “No matter how much of a Lexus you are, it’s hard to ignore what you just said.”
“Is it difficult to overlook it?”
“yes. That is an insult to us now. Or are you deliberately causing trouble like this because we are from a faction that is opposed to you?”
“Slander… slander…”
Loteron muttered as if it was absurd, and Geoffrey continued the trend.
“Besides, Lord Loteron appears alone in this situation. Isn’t the timing the same for you? “It only looks like they are blatantly blocking us and protecting that warlock.”
Jeffrey had a wry smile on his face.
“Otherwise, you were part of that group too?”
At those words, intense hostility erupted and took over the entire space.
A mixture of magic and deadly hostility threatened to crush Loteron and Geoffrey like a mountain.
Inside, Loteron was still standing calmly.
“That’s a really interesting thing to say.”
Loteron looked around.
It was difficult to find one that did not contain hostility among the gazes directed in this direction.
Their intentions were obvious even without looking. He must be planning to use this opportunity to implicate himself as a traitor to the Magic Tower and deal with it.
Loteron is usually the opposing faction and has a lot of power.
Since he found fault with everything and held back in meetings, it was natural that the resentment was wide and deep.
So, we decided that we have enough power in this position and are trying to get rid of it.
Loteron has now entered the den of the wolf group on his own feet.
“okay. “It would be easier for me if it came out like this.”
When I heard the story from Ludger in advance, I was skeptical.
But after seeing it like this, I felt like I knew for sure.
“I was hoping to at least not cross the line.”
Intense magical power began to arise around Loteron’s body.
The magic power soon transformed into something like a huge person, appearing behind Loteron and folding his arms.
Loteron is a 6th rank wizard and uses special type magic.
Thanks to his magic, all the war mages prepared for battle.
“There will be a fierce fight from now on.”
Loteron gave a low warning to Cravat behind him.
“I don’t have the power to protect you too. “If a fight starts, take cover or run away immediately.”
“Thank you for warning me, but aren’t you ignoring me too much?”
Cravat did not hide his displeasure, as if he was offended.
“In the first place, I was planning on taking care of everything here even if they didn’t help me.”
“Then that’s a relief. “I hope it doesn’t grab your ankle.”
“It’s you.”
A wizard wearing an iron mask and a warlock wearing a goat bone mask stood side by side.
“Wipe them all away!”
At Geoffrey’s command, the automatons pulled out blades from both hands and rushed towards the two.
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“There’s no need for me to worry about that. Rather, you would do well to worry about yourselves.”
“under! You have to show off your bravado in moderation! What are you doing! “If you insist on drinking punishment, I have to deal with it!”
As if they had been waiting, the War Mages activated their magic.
At the same time, the test subjects cleverly surrounded Ludger and attempted to attack him from all sides.
A joint project with no gaps at all.
Ludger looked at this and infused magic into the sword stick hanging at the end of his arm.
Inside the shadow mask, his blue eyes burned strongly.
“The punishment will be for you to drink.”
Magical power surged from the tip of the sword stick and began to retain its properties.
Damn it.
Countless ice grew and took over the space, following the trajectory of the body being swung in one rotation.
Some of the test subjects that rushed at it without knowing what to do were caught in it and suffered severe frostbite on their arms or legs.
The war mages who saw this shot fire magic.
Falling rain of fire.
A flying spear of fire.
Waves of flame rippling across the floor.
In the meantime, Ludger’s sword dance still did not stop.
When the sword stick, which contained the energy of cold, lightly hit the floor, water overflowed as if the underground water had burst.
Ludger grabbed the water with the hand that was not holding the sword stick and pulled it out with force.
Sigh.
What was pulled out was a whip made of water.
Hoodger swung his whip. The trail of water left in the air instantly extinguished all approaching flames.
The war mages saw that and tried to respond. But Ludger moved faster than that.
Squeeze!
The magical power of the cold energy contained in the sword stick changed to lightning properties.
The shape of the horse power with the sword stick also changed into a curved, single-edged road.
As the lightning bolt swung, an intense electric current swirled and spread in all directions.
“You crazy!”
“What happened to the magical power conversion speed?”
The War Mages tried to respond again, but Ludger created new magical power as if to mock them.
The whip of water disappeared and what was held in my empty hand was a spear burning with flame.
When the spear of flame was thrown into the air, it exploded and split into hundreds of pieces, showering the surrounding area like hail.
It was different from the fire rain magic used by war mages.
Although it was a wide-ranging attack, each of those flames had enough power to burn and kill a person.
Some of the war mages practiced defensive magic.
However, some veterans rushed towards Ludger as if they were showing off.
They blocked the falling flames with protective artifacts and, like Ludger, wielded weapons containing magical properties.
“I thought you were the only one who could use the Southern Kingdom’s magic!”
Kaang!
The wind sword wielded by the War Mage collided with Ludger’s lightning path.
The wind’s magic swirled fiercely and began to chip away at the roadway.
It is closer to a drill than a sword.
Since he was wielding a small whirlpool in his hand, its power was absolutely extraordinary.
“It looks like you learned something, but that’s not enough to deal with us!”
“Then how about this?”
Ludger took away the power that had been applied to the lightning’s path.
The War Mage’s center of gravity collapsed. The balance was disturbed and there was a gap. What the Mage saw was the blade of the sword stick approaching like the teeth of a comb.
Suddenly!
A neck that spins and gets cut off.
Ludger did not stop there and threw a back kick at the War Mage who was surprising him from behind.
Quang!
Holding a rock shield in both hands, he blocked Ludger’s steps, but gritted his teeth at the impact shaking the shield.
‘what! A kick with a bare foot has such power!’
When I tried to step back and reorganize, the shield stopped moving as if it was caught on something.
Only then did the War Mage realize that what looked like black claws was grasping the shield and not letting go.
“Crow’s feet?”
The Ather Nocturnus in Ludger’s feet sharpened its feet and grabbed the shield like an eagle catching its prey.
The War Mage, who was trying to retreat, ended up being pushed forward by the pulling force.
And what was waiting was Sword Stick’s execution platform.
Another life was lost, but Ludger did not stop.
This momentum further spurred the movement.
When Ludgar stretched out his arm, a long shadow, like a demon’s hand, grabbed the war mage’s leash.
Crack!
Another War Mage has been defeated.
Amid the rain of scarlet flames swirling around, the black shadow monster flickered its eyes to find its next prey.
At that sight, the other War Mages had goosebumps running down their spines.
“I’ve never heard of a fighting method like that!”
“You’re a complete monster!”
Ludger was a wizard and a knight, but at the same time he was also like a beast that moved instinctively.
The nature of magical power and fighting methods that change the world, even the anomalies that sharply catch the opponent’s wits.
At the same time, the attack is so lethal that a single blow will definitely end the opponent’s life.
It was like a fighting technique honed only to kill someone.
Due to that fear, the war mages froze, meaningless even though they were called experienced veterans.
There were people who moved in that situation, and they were Nikolai’s test subjects.
The test subjects caught the falling rain of fire with their bare bodies.
The special material coat could not completely block the rain of fire, but the strong body was able to withstand it.
Kaang!
In response to the attacks coming at the same time, Ludger spread the cape on his back like a wing and swung it like a weapon.
Some of the test subjects blocked their wings with weapons in their hands.
At that timing, a test subject burrowed under the cloak and attempted to target Ludger from his blind spot.
If only Ludger’s legs hadn’t waited before that.
Kwasik!
Ludger’s legs, clad in Ather Nocturnus, had become like a crow or an eagle.
Even the test subject had no ability to withstand it, as his head was trampled with such force.
The test subject fell to the ground, leaving a trace of red blood.
Just when I thought I had eliminated one, the test subject whose head had been blown off grabbed Ludger’s ankles with both arms.
“hmm?”
The moment I wondered what this was, the subject’s body swelled and exploded.
Kwaaaaang!
The war mages had to deal with the aftereffects with defensive magic due to the intense explosion that shook the surrounding area.
“Is the Lord dead?”
Considering the power of the explosion just moments ago, it seemed difficult for even the monstrous Ludger to withstand it.
Wasn’t that also an explosion that occurred at close range?
However, when the smoke from the explosion cleared and the sight of Ludger was revealed, the faces of the war mages were filled with despair.
“You were okay in that explosion?”
“How can you do that?”
Ludger was fine.
Even though he was hit right in front of an attack with that much power, he was still fine.
“Did they even plant a bomb inside their body?”
The vitality of the test subject moves even when its head is blown off, but I never thought it would have a powerful bomb hidden inside.
But unfortunately, such a typical explosion did not work on Ludger.
The surviving test subjects saw Ludger like that and rushed at him with their weapons in hand.
“Everything is vanity and vanity.”
Ludger once again used the magic he had used a moment ago.
Ludger’s body became blurred, as if an afterimage remained, and the subjects’ weapons passed through his body as if lightly penetrating it.
Even the test subjects who make the best judgment about killing the enemy under any circumstances seem to have difficulty understanding this phenomenon, and there is a momentary gap in their movements.
“If I’m given time, normal physical attacks won’t work.”
Real magic that flows naturally only when attacks do not contain mana or aura.
It was an attack that was inevitable for anyone seeing it for the first time.
Ludger’s sword stick shone with sharp anticipation.
The test subjects’ heads were blown off and their hearts were torn apart.
