Fled Without Realizing I Had Prevented the Apocalypse

When it comes to deploying magic, what influences it most is indeed emotion.

Basically, since magic is the manifestation of human imagination, magicians are naturally bound to be affected by emotions.

Sadness, anger, joy.

Even these three well-known emotions are enough to significantly influence magic, which is why the concept most emphasized for magicians was equanimity.

By controlling emotions, one can deploy magic more easily.

This is why there are rumors that magicians are generally cold and eccentric.

Moreover, if one enters the ranks of superhumans, they become insensitive in most situations, so it could be said that they always had an innate disposition as magicians.

However.

Kwagwagwang-!!

Sometimes, intense emotions can draw out even more powerful magic.

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There is a custom in the North.

A custom of burying the dead bodies on the battlefield so that honorable warriors who died in war can feel the battlefield even from where they’ve departed.

In reality, rather than burying, it was closer to leaving them outside so they could continuously feel the bloody scent of the battlefield.
This was also related to why the people of the continent sometimes called the warriors of the North barbarians.

However, for the warriors of the North, it was an honorable custom.

That’s why.

Kwagwagwagwang-!

Lightning strikes down. The light descending from the sky burns their allies. The sight of them disappearing without even leaving corpses behind was reminiscent of divine punishment.

However, that is not divine punishment.

Although it came down from the sky, it was not punishment sent by the heavens.

“Attack.”

It was a scene created single-handedly by one magician standing before them.

As the magician moves his finger, huge lightning falls from the sky.
Every time lightning falls, their comrades die.

“It’s an attack!”
“The enemy has attacked!”

Warrior chiefs, startled by the sudden attack, reinforce their bodies with magic power, and archers who were positioned in advance shoot arrows.

Shamans handling Northern sorcery weave their techniques, and dozens, hundreds of spear tips are aimed at the magician who suddenly appeared on the warriors’ battlefield.

It was an immediate response.

Although they were on standby to enter the battlefield, the fact that they could move at such speed despite being attacked meant that the vanguard of the North was not simply an army that only knew how to stand still.

Even those who were attacked smiled seeing the immediate response and attacks poured towards the lone magician.

However.

Pajik.

With a small noise, the sight of all their poured attacks disappearing into a flash of light.

“……”

It was a sight that even the warriors of the North, who had seen many things, could not help but be silent at.

An ability that makes everything disappear upon contact, regardless of whether it’s a physical attack or formed by sorcery.

If it were a scene created by using a technique the moment attacks were poured, it might be understandable, but the warriors of the North, who had killed numerous magicians, couldn’t even understand what the magician before their eyes had done.

Even the shamans, who had concepts similar to magic, grasped the scene created by the magician before their eyes, but knowing doesn’t mean understanding.

They only recognize the fact that it’s a scene created by a transcendent.

“Don’t, don’t be afraid!”
“The enemy is just one! No matter how high-ranking a transcendent, it’s just one person!”
“Remember that we have a 7-star warrior, Lord Lycan, by our side!!”

The warriors come to their senses at the magic power-infused shouts bursting from all directions from the warrior chiefs.

The glimpse of transcendence they momentarily witnessed was fatal to those who hadn’t built up their ranks.
If they weren’t awakened like this, they would be instantly enthralled.

“Form a defensive formation!”
“The opponent is at least 7-star. Warriors who haven’t reached 4-star, put down your weapons and take up shields!”
“The goal is to maintain the status quo! Drag out time as much as possible to finish preparations!!”

The warriors move in unison at the shouts of the warrior chiefs.

Although they were once enthralled by the glimpse of the transcendent, once freed, the warriors can unfold the movements ingrained in their minds.

It’s unclear how far the transcendent before their eyes can go, but judging from the scenes shown so far, it’s a level that ordinary warriors cannot resolve.

So they had to buy time along with the warrior chiefs.

Their leader.

The 7-star warrior and the Khan’s third arm.

Until the White Wolf, Lycan, finishes his battle preparations.

‘Fortunately, the legion is adept at this kind of experience.’

Holding out against a transcendent.

Ariaka, the staff officer attached to the 5th Legion, thought that their legion was more proficient in defense than offense.

In fact, the warriors composing the 5th Legion had more experience facing transcendents compared to other legions and were those who had returned alive from facing them.

With such experience, they are naturally adept at dealing with overwhelming individuals.

In fact, in actual battles fought in the North, the 5th Legion succeeded in not only buying time against a 7-star warrior but even gaining the upper hand.

The reason they could stand at the vanguard was also because of the judgment that they could gain the upper hand against the Empire’s transcendents.

Moreover, their legion commander and leader, the White Wolf, was someone who knew about the Empire’s transcendents better than others.
No matter how powerful the transcendent before their eyes is, there’s no way the 5th Legion would crumble.

With such thoughts, Ariaka conveyed strategies to the legion’s warriors.

“Although he’s a 7-star magician and blocks all our attacks, it won’t continue indefinitely. If we keep pouring attacks continuously, eventually the barrier will be breached.”

Transcendents are literally beings who have transcended humans, but the 7-star warriors they had faced before also had limited stamina and magic power that could be depleted.

To begin with, infinity is a concept that exists but doesn’t exist.
At least as long as they exist in the world borrowing human bodies, it was close to a predetermined result that couldn’t be faced.

“Therefore, maintain distance from the magician. Half of the shamans, watch for lightning coming down from the sky and disrupt its flow, while the other half work with the warriors to break through the magician’s defense.”

Infinity doesn’t exist in the world, and even transcendents are finite.

Therefore, if given time, even a seemingly solid barrier will naturally unravel.

It was nearly impossible to constantly maintain a barrier thick enough to block all their attacks.

“The moment you confirm the magician’s defense is breached, warrior chiefs, charge.”

What makes magicians threatening is that they deliver explosive power from a distance unreachable by warriors.

So, if they could just reach them, magicians weren’t such fearsome beings.

To begin with, close range was the warriors’ domain.

Kung!
Kwang-!

“Keuuuk…”
“Hold on!”
“The bastard’s lightning is getting weaker!”

The shamans bite their lips. The eyes of the shield-bearing warriors are bloodshot. Heat swirls around the arms of the warrior chiefs continuing their attacks.

The surroundings resound as magic power clashes with magic power. The wave created as legion-scale warriors clash with a single transcendent.

Warriors with weak mental strength began to collapse one by one, but Ariaka didn’t change his strategy.

Pueong-!

Because the transcendent’s barrier, which had been blocking all their attacks, was gradually dispersing.

The shaman’s curse, which originally couldn’t approach without leaving a trace, was now turning to ash. And gradually leaving a form behind.
Moreover, the approaching distance was much longer compared to before.

Pisik.

As the distance that kept increasing like that finally grazed the transcendent’s cheek.

“Charge.”

Ariaka ordered the charge as if he had expected it.

Inwardly judging that the transcendent’s magic power had finally been depleted.

“Charge!!!”
“Revenge for the warriors!”
“An honorable death!!”

The legion advances, filled with fervor.

Perhaps because they had been hit by the transcendent’s lightning for quite a long time without any gain, the warriors’ eyes were filled with venom.

The heart to take revenge on the transcendent who mercilessly killed their comrades.

That anger seemed to overcome even fear.

As they entered the transcendent’s domain for the first time, taking advantage of the weakened barrier.

Pajik.

The warriors’ vision turned black.

It wasn’t that they couldn’t see ahead. It wasn’t simply that night had fallen. It was a shadow that appeared as light was blocked by something.

However, since there was no structure itself that could create shadows in this vicinity, the warriors reflexively looked up.

And then they faced it.

Kwarurururung!!!

The massive black cloud covering above their heads.

The black cloud that even obscured the sky was spread across the entire battlefield.
The clear blue sky was nowhere to be seen, and only blue light peeked through between the black clouds.

However, the reason the warriors were bewildered wasn’t simply because of the cloud’s size.

“Is that… all technique?”

The voice of a warrior who glimpsed part of the black cloud trembles.

The fact that the ink-colored cloud endlessly flashing while covering the entire battlefield was actually a result created through someone’s magic power.

And there’s only one transcendent on this battlefield with the power to summon clouds of such size.

“We, we need to run…!”

The moment a warrior who finished judging instantly takes a step to escape from this massive cloud.

Kwagwagwagwagwa!!

The entire cloud that had been dyed black simultaneously emitted blue light.

After the entire battlefield was filled with blue light like that, Ariaka could grasp only one fact.

The fact that 60% of the 5th Legion’s warriors who had set out to pursue the transcendent before their eyes.
All of those personnel were annihilated by the lightning that came down from the sky.