Chapter Chapter 104: RIP the saddest of pandas. The internet will mourn for you. (2/2)

-Elemental Roar.

With the shouts of a hundred, it fell down onto Arucia’s main base.

…They’re not going to die, right?

#3 Their story: A certain villain boss’s story.

I looked up into the sky.

A ball of light had begun to drop on us.

Grit.

I found myself grinding my teeth without thinking.

I had never expected the current emperor to be this decisive in his actions.

How many students were here right now?

There were at least a hundred. There could even be more than a thousand.

And these were Arucia and Marcis students as well.

It might have been a different story if this had been Mercaria’s main abse.

Because if it had been Mercaria’s, the vast majority of whose students were commoners, they could use them as a sacrifice to annihilate the anti-empire army.

But Arucia and Marcis were schools where the students were mostly the scion of nobility.

And yet, they abandoned them?

“Incredible.”

His decisiveness was praiseworthy, even as an enemy.

Even if defence and teleportation spells were casted throughout the imperial festival grounds, a blast of that level would vaporise everyone before you could be transported out.

Now how will the empire’s emperor deal with the aftermath of this ludicrous stunt?

Will he admit that he did it?

Never.

Massacring the children of nobles right in front of his people.

Even the emperor of the Karuan Empire, with its absolute imperial rule, had his limits for what would or wouldn’t stand.

Then, as our doing?

He could do that.

The anti-empire army’s suicide attack.

And at the same time, keeping a tighter leash in his court.

It would not be weird for him to take this opportunity to accuse the nobles that opposed him to be part of the anti-empire army and have them all executed.

Or he could claim that this was a declaration of war by an enemy country that low-key opposed him.

How cold-hearted he was!

How cruel he was!

How evil he was!

Was this the emperor of the world’s strongest superpower nation?

To use his own people, these young students as a sacrifice, and eliminate his enemies!

“Kghh… emperor! Do not take our power lightly!”

I circulated magic power through my entire body.

Although I had no talent for the sword, I had plenty of talent for magic.

And the talent to be an archmage at that.

The anti-empire army was an organisation that were formed of the descendants of the royalty of the countries conquered by the empire.

I, who had honed my skills with countless magic tomes smuggled away before the empire brought those nations down, was proud of my power that not even the Head of the Magic Tower would be able to match.

“O mana.”

As I focused on the magic power within my body, the air began to shake.

It was a sign that the magic in the atmosphere was submitting to me.

But…

“How strong.”

Because I was dominating the magic in the air, I knew.

I could not dominate the mana around that giant mass of light.

No, there was no mana around it at all.

That was a light of destruction that even vaporised the magic of its surroundings.

This was impossible to do on my own.

“All magicians of the anti-empire army. Use all your power, and stop that magic!”

I gathered magic power in my voice and spread it through the entire castle.

One my one, I could feel the presence of other magicians.

There were some that even deserved to be called archmages, and there were also others that would be called high-rank magicians no matter what kind of Magic Tower they entered.

Our power was that of one of the top ten Magic Towers of the continent or greater.

That was the combat power of the mages of the anti-empire army.

“O Great Magics! Accept my will and protect me from my enemies!”

This was not the empire-style magic bombardment created by the empire.

Simply the pure, overwhelming force of magic brought on by the power of elementals.

And so I also began to resist with magic.

Stack layers and layers of magic barriers, as thick and strong as I could.

Stack them again, and again, and again, and again.

This was done not just by me, but all the other magicians of the anti-empire army.

The transparent magic barrier was getting so thick we could almost see it with our naked eyes.

And then, our barrier met the barrage of the imperial army.

“Kuhk!”

“My lord!”

A massive shockwave rocked through my organs.

It is impossible. It is inevitable. So give up here, was what the magic was saying.

“Kuhuk… not… not yet!”

But I could not be defeated here.

The grudge of the anti-empire army was far too deep to end right here, right now with just a single bombardment.

“O great… power of magic!”

I sent another magic barrier imbued with my will into the sky.

My organs were already a mess.

Blood kept on running up my throat and into my mouth, but the taste of blood sharpened my mind even further.

‘Even if this is my end.’

I could not let this be the end of the anti-empire army.

“This, is my full power, emperor!”

I had prepared myself for death long ago.

One layer, and then another.

As the number of magic barriers shrank, so too, did the mass of light gradually get smaller.

“This is my victory… emperor.”

And the moment I let myself smile at the sight of the diminishing light.

“Damn you all, is this really all you idiots have? I didn’t want to say this as well, but listen up, you fucking solos! That asshole Nerkia even went and seduced Lady Ariiiiiiiiiiiiiss!”

From somewhere distant I heard a very angry voice.

Judging by the names I just heard, one of the important members of the summoner’s school Yugrasia, the daughter of the Letia family apparently liked the Yugrasia student council president.

‘Why?’

Just why was I hearing such a thing in the middle of that fiendish emperor’s bombardment?

And.

-We’re going to kill you, Nerkiaaaaaa!

At the same time I heard a scream close to despair.

“What?!”

Why was it that the dying mass of light started to get larger again?

#4 Their story: Aris ril Letia’s story.

“Damn you all, is this really all you idiots have? I didn’t want to say this as well, but listen up, you fucking solos!

That asshole Nerkia even went and seduced Lady Ariiiiiiiiiiiiiss!”

..Now what manner of bullshit is this?