Chapter 52: ~A battle without resistance.~ (2/2)

“I see that! Stop wreaking havoc in my city!” He screams at me and starts to search through the rubble.

“But the one who created this destruction was you. My men have orders to bring you quietly to me. I am trying to do this as peacefully as possible.”

He pulls his cane out of a pile of bricks and wood. “I don't care! Stay on your own continent! Why do you have to bother my peaceful life as the headmaster!”

The sounds of explosions start to erupt around us as the fight for the city starts. My army was well instructed to strike at everything that could organize a mentionable defence. “You became even grumpier since our last time. Waking you up from your sleep was never a good idea.”

“I have a right to be angry!” He thrusts a hand at me and a shower of icicles shoots in my direction.

A wave of my hand melts the icicles away like they never existed. Then I am suddenly lifted from the ground by an invisible force and slammed into the remains of a close wall. The wall breaks down on top of me and I am buried under rubble. No harm done. I formed a barrier about one centimetre above my skin.

I will let him vent his anger until he is tired. The bricks are easy to shove aside because the pile above me isn't very high.

Sagittarius assists me by blowing everything away with an air fist spell. I cling to the ground in order to not share the same fate. “You are overdoing it a little old man!”

“I am overdoing nothing! I doubt that I even scratched you until now!” He strikes his hand towards the ground and I feel like the gravity just increased tenfold as I am pressed to the ground!

“How do you like that!? I designed this spell especially to bypass the barrier defence of an immortal.” He starts grinning.

Okay. I think I may not be able to keep taking all the hits. “Sagittarius … you are making me mad. Do you really think that this much could hold me down?”

I release my power and a wave of pure mana erupts from my body, blowing Sagittarius and the last remains of his house away. After getting up, I follow the old archmage.

“Sagittarius? Where are you hiding? I am sure you aren't defeated just because I showed you my whole glory.” I skip a little while walking into the darkness of the night. Away from the lights on the street.

“Sagittarius?” Did I blow him too far? It would be a pain to search for him. The sounds of battle are drawing closer while I look around and I see some frightened civilians running on the street.

Then the night is torn apart by arcs of lightning. I find Sagittarius standing about ten metres to my side while throwing thunder bolts at me. But all of them bend shortly before reaching me. The air is reeking of ozone.

“~Hahaha.~ Such a basic mistake. You got the wrong polarity on your spell.” I point a finger at Sagittarius. “Please don't die, it's hard to control this.”

A flash of white light tears through Sagittarius and destroys a few buildings behind him. I am actually quite happy with the collateral damage. I managed to cast the spell without obliterating a huge part of the city.

But Sagittarius' body simply vanishes. I look around to find out what happened.

“That was just a distraction!” A voice comes from directly behind me and a lightning strike hits my position, directly from the sky.

My shield wavers a little, but it's fine. I sigh. “It's okay. You have proven that you are strong.” I wave my hand and the image of Sagittarius disperses.

“You shouldn't fight it Sagittarius. It's actually very hard for me to control my power. So it would be nice if you don't push me over the edge and I end up ~obliterating~ your city.”

“It's infuriating to be defeated by someone like you! You have no control over your magic! You just use raw power and that's it!” Sagittarius appears three metres in front of me.

“~You are too harsh!~ My barrier is very good! And I am handicapped by my mana pool. In order to cast a neat little spell like you, I need to manage to pick up a grain of sand on a beach between two fingers. And that without picking up any other grains with it.” I wriggle my body a little.

“Urgh. I give up. Not even my gravity magic worked.” Sagittarius sits down on the ground while the sounds of battle around us are getting quieter.

Suddenly Tjena appears beside me and kneels down. “My Empress, the city fell with almost no resistance! We are busy with cleaning up the last defenders.”

“Already!?” I call out in amazement.

“We found almost no military personnel here. There were just a few at the headquarters of the Inquisition.” Tjena answers.

I look towards Sagittarius, who looks grumpily to the ground. Then he starts to mumble. “That stupid Norent Grant took almost all of our experienced forces to assist the campaign against Sarn. I warned him! But he paid no heed. Babbled something about the will of the gods and that Phenex wouldn't be able to attack anyway!”

It takes me a second to think about the implications.

“~Good for us.~”

“Bad for Sarn!”

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