239 – One Shot (2)
The magic in this world is divided into five colors.
Fire red, water blue, wind green, earth yellow, lightning purple. Most wizards tended to specialize in their unique color at the time of birth, and it was no different in the case of the great mage.
Why did Farad Alexei have the nickname ‘catastrophe’?
Although he is a great mage whose existence alone is a disaster itself, the reason Farad Alexei was given that reason was because his magic, compared to other great mages, was closest to the form of disaster people imagined.
Golden mana sprang from the half-destroyed cathedral and ran down the street. A yellow mana that uses the power of the earth.
It was a color full of perceptions that it was less ugly and crude than other colors, but that was just a prejudice babbled by those who hadn’t seen a mage who had mastered yellow mana.
“─!?”
The first to notice the change was Car No. 4 Belonging to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 1st Armored Division, which had approached the cathedral closest.
The ground shook. At first, the tank commander, thinking that the building weakened by the artillery fire, was about to collapse, ordered the driver to reverse, but the tank did not move as if it were stuck to the ground.
“What are you doing! Move!!”
“I am unable to move the tank!! The orbit won’t move!!”
“What are you saying!?”
The chariot commander, who became desperate, kicked the driver’s shoulder and urged him fiercely, but he couldn’t make it go wrong.
“You must have been fine just a moment ago?!”
The orbit wasn’t even attacked. It wasn’t that the ground had receded and got stuck in the mud. No, if it was like that, the tank commander would have been able to understand the reason without difficulty.
However, the current situation did not move the orbit at all.
It was at that time that I felt that the situation was going to take a strange turn.
Thinking that he might have stepped on a special mine, the tank commander tried to stand up, but his buttocks stuck together and he didn’t fall.
Feels as if gravity is squeezing you.
A moment before the commander’s face turned pale due to an inexplicable phenomenon, the ground near the cathedral was greatly twisted.
“Da, da, land!!”
The strata rising upward as if cut with a knife. The bricks and asphalt were torn like pieces of paper, and the immobilized D’Nur tram disappeared as if it were being pulled into a collapsed building.
As if a ghost snatched a living person, Car No. 4 Was swallowed up inside the cathedral and stopped responding.
The commander of the 1st Battalion, who watched the whole scene from not far away, radioed in fright.
Accordingly, Major General Olena, the commander of the 1st Armored Division, who knew of the Grand Mage’s existence in advance, ordered all troops to retreat.
A huge earthquake struck the area where the cathedral was built, and most of the tanks of the 1st Battalion were crushed by collapsing buildings or driven into the abyss.
Advanced yellow magic.
Round Earthquake.
A magic that turns the ground upside down by causing an earthquake in a huge circular area using the caster as a standard.
A magic that boasts enormous destructive power has arisen from the hands of the great mage of calamity. I had no reason to watch it, and I had no intention of watching it in the first place.
To overthrow the ground of the city itself was not that difficult for a great mage.
“Aagh!!”
“Run!! Escape, …… !!.”
“This is the 2nd company commander, the tank can’t maneuver! There is a mage, there is a great mage!!”
An armored unit that bounced bullets over trenches and unilaterally slaughtered infantrymen with tank guns.
A cavalry unit like that was being slaughtered unilaterally by just one person.
And Farad Alexei, the great mage of calamity who accomplished all of this, had a relieved expression on top of the leaning spire of the cathedral.
“I mean, it bothered me a little from before. It’s science and technology, and it’s just that a guy who has just entered the path of development is taking over the position of magic.”
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A great mage who previously reigned as an object of overwhelming fear. Even the emperor of an empire was in a position where he had to bow his head at times.
However, after the goddamn meeting of grand mages was created, the grand mages came under control.
Achievable through effort to shear flesh and bone along with overwhelming talent—.
Farad has always been unable to understand why the greatest of men are controlled by those lesser than themselves.
But what can I do?
Nationalism has already been strongly imprinted in the minds of the ignorant people, and even a great mage could not change the trend of the times.
“However, it is possible to give variations to the flow.”
Farad said that and raised his hands high into the sky. It seemed to the naked eye that nothing was happening.
Uh uh uh uh ─.
Instantly, the deep howling of the ground enveloped the entire city once again.
In Farad Alexei’s spell, the role of the magic circle was replaced by an underground canal beneath the city.
There is no need to draw or deploy a magic circle.
If you only knew the structure of the artificially dug underground canal, you could use it as a catalyst for the spell and use powerful yellow magic without any preparation.
“Huh!!”
Parad grabbed both of his raised hands and struck the air.
Kung, kooung.
Two buildings collapsed with a vibration that even shattered the foundations of the buildings. It blocks the path of the tanks that are urgently retreating, and attacks the infantry scattered in all directions in confusion.
Overwhelming fighting power that no weapon dares to surpass.
A magical power that turns even first-class mages, who are the best among battle mages, into rubbish scattered on the floor.
It is not for nothing that the Great Mage is evaluated as a strategic weapon and a force capable of dealing with the Corps alone.
And at this point, most of the Uk ranian troops who had entered Stalina had no choice but to notice the Archmage’s presence.
They are warriors who have built up combat know-how by continuing the war for about two years, including the civil war.
They knew better than anyone how terrifying mages were, and they knew how they fought.
The battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Regiment, 27th Division, which opened the front for Stalin, was the same.
“Commander of the 3rd company! Get out of the building! Right now!!”
“But, battalion commander…… !!”
“Come out if you don’t want to be left behind!!”
“Now, wait a minute! There are still soldiers up there!!”
“3Rd Company Captain—!!!!”
Kurrureu, quadrupeduk!
Quaaang!!
The officer who went in to rescue the soldiers who had not yet escaped was buried in the building.
Although he was a battalion commander who witnessed the whole scene before his eyes, he cannot afford to be sad about the loss of his competent subordinate.
“The 3rd company…… , Commanded by the 2nd platoon commander. Hurry up, move the remaining survivors quickly!!”
“Mom, Mom!”
“You didn’t say that the f*cking great mage was coming! Where is the Sonny Zeppelin, or at least the armored forces!”
“Asshole, didn’t you see it earlier?! Even the cavalry guys are after them all! They were all swallowed up by the ground!!”
Abigyuhwan.
As predicted in advance, the order to retreat was issued almost simultaneously with the appearance of the great mage, but the situation on the battlefield could not always be resolved.
The cavalry units panicked and left their tanks and started to run away, and the scattered infantry rushed out into the square, not knowing what to do, trembling.
The ground suddenly rose or sank, making roads that were perfectly usable just a few minutes ago impassable.
Buildings that were used as landmarks and locations collapsed and became unrecognizable.
The naturally distributed tactical maps also lost their function.
A literal disaster.
The city, devastated by the ongoing war, was completely destroyed by the touch of the great mage.
“Let’s go south for now! Everyone retreat!”
“Sorry!! Sorry…… !!”
“You bastard…… Go quickly…… !! To me, to my wife…… Please tell me this…….”
Now all they could do was survive somehow.
At the command of the battalion commander to abandon the arsenal and all comrades and flee, the soldier who tried to save his comrades burst into tears.
What was held in his hand was a small pendant that his colleague looked at every break. It must contain family photos.
The soldier ran behind his friend who answered in a faint voice. His eyes blurred. I couldn’t tell if it was because of the tears or the thick dust that had risen from the collapse of the building.
But as if they were laughing at such a sacrifice.
Deed deed deed deed!
The ground he was standing on began to shake.
The soldier stopped his running leg. The battalion commander, who was desperately retreating with his soldiers at the front, just stared into the air with a helpless look on his face.
“Oh, Lord… ….”
The city hall building was collapsing. Bricks from the leaning building fell like rain, casting huge shadows on the faces of the survivors of the 2nd Battalion.
I can’t survive.
It is annihilation.
Having made that decision, the soldier held his friend’s keepsake in his arms and closed his eyes tightly.
And that moment.
Kiiiiing, Kagagak!!
A sharp sound, like scratching iron, pierced the ears of the members of the 2nd Battalion. When I carefully opened my eyes, the trajectory of the falling building debris was reversed.
Intense scent of mana felt immediately.
In that fleeting moment, the 2nd Battalion Commander felt like he was dreaming.
He was the one who reached the position of lieutenant colonel in turbulent times.
His class may be an infantryman, but as he had operated magic soldiers under his command, he could immediately realize that the sound he had just heard was the noise made when mana collided with mana.
Kwaaang!!
Jet-black figures finally appeared against the background of dust rising from the collapsed city hall building on the other side.
The person who appeared between them was a face that the 2nd Battalion Commander couldn’t help but know.
“What are you doing! Don’t run fast!”
“…… Corps commander?”
“From now on, I am in charge of this place. Start regrouping on the south Heidharfen pontoon bridge and follow the division commander’s orders!”
Enoch Levandel and the 8th Assault Magic Infantry Battalion have arrived on the front lines.
The corps commander moved his gaze toward the cathedral, exhaling a sharp murderous intent.
“Because the great mage has to deal with the great mage.”
